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NFL legend, Super Bowl champion and Fox Sports and ESPN football analyst Reggie Bush has signed with A3 Artists Agency. Bush retired from the NFL after 11 seasons in 2017 and away from the game has appeared on TV shows like the Mike and Molly comedy and in national TV commercials.

The embattled Chateau Marmont is facing yet another discrimination lawsuit as a celebrity-fueled boycott gains steam.

Everyone connected with Thomas Vinterberg's Oscar-winning dramedy Another Round has a drinking story. For Emil Goll, lead singer of Scarlet Pleasure — the band behind the song "What a Life," which plays over the film's final, climactic dancing scene — it was his first time being full-out wasted with fellow band member Joachim Dencker, or as the Danes call it, "druk," the movie's original title.

Three years after Frances McDormand brought the concept of an inclusion rider public during her 2018 Oscars acceptance speech, a reimagined version of this tool to guarantee inclusive hiring on film and television productionshas been launched.

The true pleasure ofThe Outside Storydoesn’t come from its heartwarming message about community or its nostalgic rendering of a mask-less, pre-pandemic New York City, but from Brian Tyree Henry’s exceptional performance in his first big-screen lead role. A few years ago, Henry awed viewers as Paper Boi, the moody, low-key rapper in Donald Glover’s FX hitAtlanta.

After a year in which COVID-19 stay-at-home orders limited options for consumers, giving a boost to streamers like Netflix and Disney+, 2021 may see subscriber churn become a bigger issue amid gradual reopenings. Last May, 14 percent of respondents to a Deloitte Insights survey said they had “canceled” or both “added and canceled” a paid streamer.

Caitlyn Jenner might not be Hollywood royalty, but the former Olympic gold medalist, who also sired household names like Kylie and Kendall, is the biggest celebrity so far to unveil a run in California’s recall election. Recall backers have submitted 1,626,042 valid signatures, surpassing the 1,495,709 threshold needed to trigger a special election, the secretary of state’s office disclosed April 26.

Jay Gatsby will soon be singing a new song. Florence Welch, the Grammy-nominated British singer-songwriter known for the ethereal baroque pop of Florence and the Machine, will tackle a stage adaptation of the classic F.

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Joe Rogan's assertion that young, healthy people should skip the COVID-19 vaccine is bad advice,Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease doctor said Wednesday. Fauci was a guest on NBC's Today show where he called the recent comments by the comic-actor "incorrect." "You're talking about yourself in a vacuum," Fauci said of Rogan, who made the vaccine comments on his Spotify podcast.

When Ewan McGregor met Halston executive producer and director Daniel Minahan to discuss starring in the Netflix series, he was not familiar with the 1970s fashion revolutionary. "To find out that he was so massively famous in his time," says McGregor, "and I had never heard of him — that didn't make much sense to me.” McGregor was quickly brought up to speed, however, by Minahan, who had been trying to turn Halston's life into a project for nearly 20 years.

Principal photography on Emily, the biopic of famed Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë, has begun in the U.K., with a first look of Sex Education star Emma Mackey in the lead role released, alongside new casting additions and a number of key international sales.

Discovery, led by CEO David Zaslav, reported that it has reached 15 million paying subscribers worldwide to its direct-to-consumer services, includingDiscovery+. In late February, the firm said it had reached more than 11 million paying streaming subscribers.

Music-streaming giant Spotify said on Wednesday that it ended the first quarter with 158 million premium, or paid, subscribers, hitting the high end of its forecast range, and 356 million total active monthly users, "within our guidance range but modestly below our internal expectations." The figures were up from 155 million premium users as of the end of 2020 and 345 million total users.For the first quarter, Spotify management had predicted monthly active users (MAUs) to grow to 354-364

Leslie Jones is bringing her enthusiasm for film and TV to MTV as the host of the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards. The comedian is set to emcee the awards show, which is set to return live from Los Angeles next month after last year's edition of the show was replaced by a best-of special due to the coronavirus pandemic.

All hail the marmalade-loving bear from darkest Peru! Citizen Kane has been knocked from its throne at the top of Rotten Tomatoes’ list of best reviewed films and replaced by Paddington 2.

Audio entertainment giant SiriusXM, the home of Howard Stern, said on Wednesday that it added self-paying subscribers in its satellite radio unit during the first quarter, but its user count dropped due to a decline in promotional customers. The company added 113,000 net self-pay subscribers in its Pandora music streaming business,ending the first quarter with 6.4 million total users, compared with nearly 6.3 million as of the end of 2020.

The Berlin Film Festival's planned in-person event this summer is in doubt amid new coronavirus pandemic restrictions set out in Germany's recently updated Infection Protection Act. The changes "now make the planning of the Berlinale Summer Special a bigger challenge," organizers said in a statement on Wednesday.

Small Axe, Steve McQueen's landmark anthology series about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s, leads the pack of 2021 BAFTA TV and BAFTA TV Craft award nominees.

Sony's annual resultswere buoyed by stellar early sales for its PlayStation 5 games console and brisk business for its music unit. The company's film division saw its full-year profit rise, but earnings fell in the final quarter of the fiscal year ended in March compared to the same period a year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

DJ Khaled announced Tuesday that his 12th album, self-titledKhaled Khaled,will be released on Friday, April 30, via We the Best Music, Epic and Roc Nation. "ALBUM 100% DONE! ITS TIME," Khaled shared on his socials with the alarm-clock emoji.

Emily Vespa is joining Kovert Creative as the latest hire in the firm's talent department. The hiring brings Vespa — previously known by maiden name Emily Yomtobian — back into the industry full-time after taking a breather to focus on family after marrying celebrity photographer Jeff Vespa.She will focus on personal talent representation at Kovert, where she's reunited with CEO Lewis Kay with whom she worked at PMK*BNC.

Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham's reunion crime flick Wrath of Man is headed to China. The MGM-produced movie will open in the world's largest theatrical market on May 10, three days after its North American opening.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is scheduled to appear as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday evening, despite an online backlash. On Tuesday, a letter was posted to the website Common Cause, the political watchdog group, addressed to host Jimmy Kimmel and the production team of the ABC series.

People will think "what I tell them to think," Charles Foster Kane famously declared in Citizen Kane. And for decades, many critics and film scholars thought Orson Welles' 1941 film was hands-down the Best Movie Ever Made.

Tia Carrere, along with Eugene Cordero of Star Trek: Lower Decks and WandaVision actor Asif Ali, have joined the cast of Easter Sunday, Amblin Partners’ family comedy starring Jo Koy. Jay Chandrasekhar, the director of cult comedySuper Trooperswho in recent years has been working on TV’sThe GoldbergsandFresh Off the Boat, is helming the feature, which is casting up as it heads toward a May production start.

AMC Theatres is backing away from its plan to authorize 500 million new shares of the company's stock. AMC had sought shareholder approval for the plan, which would have nearly doubled the total number of shares on the market if all 500 million were issued.

YouTube continues to grow at a torrid pace, with any sign of pandemic slowdown seemingly behind it. The Google-owned video platform brought in more than $6 billion in advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2021, according to the quarterly earnings report of parent company Alphabet.

Recording engineer Al Schmitt died at the age of 91 on Monday, according to the his family. With 20 Grammy wins for his work with everyone from Ray Charles to Paul McCartney to Natalie Cole to Steely Dan, Schmitt won more Grammy Awards than any other engineer in music history.

Reese Witherspoon’s Reese’s Book Club has launched LitUp, a writers' fellowship for unpublished, underrepresented women, HelloSunshine announced Tuesday. LitUpaims to help elevate, mentor and champion first-time authors to ensure diverse stories are recognized and read by all.The new fellowship will be powered by The Readership — a pay-it-forward platform on a mission to raise up diverse voices.

Travis VanderZanden is ready to fly the very fancy coop. Though it's been barely six months since the Bird founder paid "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah $21.7 million for a snazzy Bel Air mansion, the scooter king is flipping the contemporary estate back onto the market.

Malibu real estate recorded another record year in 2020, with a 104 percent jump in single-family home salesand a 36 percent increase in condo sales from 2019, with a median listing price of $3.2 million, according to Realtor.com. As inventory remains low and prices high, agents have noticed an increased interest in other beach areas, including these alternatives: UNDERSTATED IN PALOS VERDESThe Palos Verdes peninsula sits an hour south of Malibu, on the southern coast of Los Angeles County.

The black eyeJamie Kennedy sports inRomeo + Juliet was real, and he feared it would cost him his role in the 1996Baz Luhrmann classic. The comic-actor shared a few interesting behind-the-scenes stories when he recently went through the opening of the film on his YouTube channel.

Chinese pop music superstar JJ Lin has signed with UTA for U.S. and European representation in all areas.

Dan Le Batard's radio show finally has a new home. Sort of.

Booksmart starKaitlyn Dever will join the Julia Roberts and George Clooney starring rom-com Ticket to Paradise. The Universal project, scheduled for a Sept.