‘SWAT’ Co-Creator Vows to Do Better ‘Onscreen and Off’ to Address Race and Policing Issues

The family of late rocker Tom Petty is taking legal action against the campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump after Petty’s 1989 hit “I Won’t Back Down” was played at Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday.

Tom Petty‘s family is calling out President Donald Trump.

Tom Petty‘s estate has issued a cease and desist order to Donald Trump’s election campaign after Petty’s 1989 song ‘I Won’t Back Down’ was used without permission at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 20.A statement posted to social media by Petty’s family after the rally said, “Trump was in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense behind.“Tom Petty would never want a song of his used for a campaign of hate.

Mamma Mia! director Ol Parker is teaming with Concordia Studio — the recently launched outfit from Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King — to adapt and direct the book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together, by author Jon Mooallem. Concordia acquired the rights to develop and produce the feature film adaptation of the book that dramatizes the impact of a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska on March 27, 1964.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor Terry Crews has said the future of the comedy will be shaped by recent and ongoing discussions about police brutality in the US.The show, focusing on an oddball team of detectives in Brooklyn, New York, will acknowledge and learn from the Black Lives Matter protests and marches taking place around the world.In an interview with Seth Meyers, the talk show hosts asked whether the global outrage will impact the next season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.“Definitely.

Selma Blair has shared her “grief and concern” following the shocking death of George Floyd.

Michael Bublé offered to match his fans' donations to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) up to $100,000 after he watched the video of the unlawful murder of George Floyd, a black man who was killed by police in Minnesota last week."Along with the rest of the world, I watched in horror as a policeman literally took the breath out of George Floyd. This is not the kind of world I want my children to grow up in.

The 46-year-old died on May 25

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of journalists who have been targeted and attacked while covering the protests that began after George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody.

Seth Rogen has torn into commenters on his Instagram page objecting to his support for the Black Lives Matter movement’s campaign to end state violence against African-Americans.

Seth Rogen has torn into commenters on his Instagram page objecting to his support for the Black Lives Matter movement’s campaign to end state violence against African-Americans. The Knocked Up star shared his outrage at the death last week of 46-year-old African American man George Floyd, after a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, knelt on his neck for eight minutes, and vocally backed Black Lives Matter in a follow-up post on Monday.

By Nellie Andreeva