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“Army of the Dead,” Zack Snyder’s Netflix zombie movie, was the most-viewed movie on streaming platforms for the second week running for the period in late May, according to Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 lists.For the week of May 24 through May 30, “Army of the Dead” was watched for 786 million viewing minutes. That was good enough to top all other streaming movies and landed it second place among all streaming titles, placing only behind “Luther” in terms of original titles for the week.

Josh Duggar is living in a secluded area in his home state of Arkansas as he awaits his upcoming child pornography trial, an eyewitness with knowledge of the area reveals to Fox News. The former television star has been living at a home with the Reber family, who were described in court as "family friends" of the Duggars.The Rebers agreed to house Duggar ahead of his currently scheduled July 6 trial date.

festival, which has faced criticism in recent years for its lack of female representation. Only one woman has ever won the Palme d'Or in its 73 years: Jane Campion for "The Piano" in 1993.

The 74th Cannes Film Festival has a slate of films. It has a starting date, July 6, an end date, July 17th, and its 2020 jury President Spike Lee is vaxed and ready for la Croisette.

The 74th Cannes Film Festival unveiled its jury which includes five women; a majority in the nine-person group including President Spike Lee.

Cannes 2021 will make history, as for the first time the festival’s jury will be majority female.Among the jurists are actress-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, French actress-director Mélanie Laurent, French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop, Austrian director Jessica Hausner and French singer Mylene Farmer.Director Spike Lee will preside over the jury, which includes Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho, South Korea’s Song Kang-ho, and French actor Tahar Rahim.More to come…

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the jury for the competition, which will be powered by a majority of women, including American actor-filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, French actor-helmer Mélanie Laurent, French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop, Austrian director Jessica Hausner and cult French singer Mylene Farmer.Spike Lee will presider over the jury which will also include French actor Tahar Rahim, Brazilian helmer Kleber Mendonça Filho and South

Scarlett Johansson, whose long awaited solo Marvel movie Black Widow finally hits theatres and Disney+ next month, is being feted this Fall as the 35th recipient of the American Cinematheque Award. After going with a virtual presentation last year for 2020 honoree Spike Lee, the organization returns to normal with its November 18 ceremony taking place at the Beverly Hilton where it was held last in 2019 when Charlize Theron was the recipient.

K.J. Yossman “Boardwalk Empire’s” Jack Huston will star in a new action/thriller series inspired by “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Alexandre Dumas’ timeless novel.

The Cannes Film Festival has revealed its official poster for the 74th edition, putting jury president Spike Lee front and center (check it out above and scroll down for the vertical version). Lee re-upped this year after having been due to preside over the jury for the festival that was canceled in 2020. Cannes runs from July 6-17 on the Riviera.

Manori Ravindran International EditorCannes Film Festival jury president Spike Lee is the star of the event’s 2021 poster.Organizers released the image for the festival’s 74th edition on Thursday, listing the various reasons as to why the acclaimed director was chosen as the face of the festival:For the immense impatience to finally find ourselves again in the Cannes setting : the seaside ,the palm trees and the silver screen, just like a blank page, that will welcome the films of the Official

The other films that will be featured in the showcase are Spike Lee’s acclaimed Brooklyn dramedy “Do the Right Thing,” Denzel Washington’s adaptation of August Wilson’s “Fences,” Gina Prince-Bythewood’s debut film “Love & Basketball,” Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy threequel “Barbershop: The Next Cut,” David Oyelowo’s directorial debut “The Water Man,” and Kasi Lemmons’ biopic “Harriet” starring Cynthia Erivo in an Oscar-nominated performance as Harriet Tubman.

Broadway received the musical equivalent of an engraved invitation last night when Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Jimmy Fallon in a star-packed stage-themed production number on The Tonight Show, with the two, alongside Jimmy Smits, Olga Merediz, Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth and Christopher Jackson, heralding the industry’s imminent return.

Although many may know Anthony Ramos from playing John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in the Tony award-winning Broadway force known as Hamilton, the actor and musician has been working and grinding appearing in features such as White Girl, Patti Cake$, Monsters and Men, Trolls World Tour as well as TV series Will and Grace, Elena of Avalor, and the Netflix adaptation of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It.

Jack Black has gone viral on TikTok after crashing a high school graduation photoshoot in Los Angeles.A photographer, going by the name Visionary Daniel, posted a video of Black on Instagram and TikTok, explaining how the School of Rock star stumbled into the ceremony at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.“We found Jack Black during a graduation shoot,” Daniel wrote in the caption of the video.

Antonio Ferme editorMSR Media announced that Malin Åkerman (“Watchmen”), Connie Nielsen (“Wonder Woman”), Philip Winchester (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) and Jack Donnelly (“Atlantis”) have been cast in the upcoming romantic comedy film “A Week in Paradise.”The film will follow Maggie (Åkerman), a film star who escapes to a tropical hotel in Nevis after discovering her film director husband (Donnelly) got his new leading lady pregnant.