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 Paris Jackson  some O‘Keeffe’s Working Hands Hand Cream because the girl’s blistered fingers are in need after playing guitar. The 22-year-old model, actress, singer, and musician took to social media to share her cracked hands, earning among her followers the status of a rockstar.The second child and only daughter of  Michael Jackson  and Debbie Rowe recently released a music video for “Eyelids,” a song from her 2020 debut solo album Wilted.

 Jimmy Fallon  and  Nicole Kidman  are the celebrity host-guest combo of our dreams. Ever-since the pair’s  awkward date/not date story  was unveiled in a now-iconic moment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the internet has been hungry for more of their late night chemistry.

 Salma Hayek  ushered in 2021 with the perfect song. The 54-year-old A-lister celebrated the start of January on the beach with live music.

trend on the popular social media video sharing app Tik Tok, users have been coming out as bisexual by playing the popular 2012 indie rock hit “Sweater Weather.”Influencers including James Wright, Nessa Barrett, and Anna Shumate have each used the song to come out as bisexual to their millions of followers.The trend is part of the reason there has been a massive increase in streams for The Neighborhood recently, with “Sweater Weather” notching a record 5 million daily streams from October 23 to

Jake Kanter International TV EditorCineflix Rights CEO Chris Bonney is to retire in mid-2021 after leading the UK-based sales house for the past eight years.Bonney will be in place as Cineflix Rights hires a successor, but said he is leaving the industry after a 35-year career to “move to a new phase in life” in which he will play golf and travel the world.Bonney has grown Cineflix Rights into the UK’s largest independent distributor, boasting a catalog of more than 5,000 hours of content and

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNominations for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards are set to be revealed Tuesday beginning at noon ET/9 a.m. PT in a livestream by awards organizer the Recording Academy.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Pete Davidson is taking on an iconic film character, James Stewart’s George Bailey. The Saturday Night Live actor and Maude Apatow (Euphoria), who recently starred together in The King of Staten Island, are reuniting for Ed Asner’s one-night-only live virtual celebrity table read of the 1946 holiday classic It’s A Wonderful Life, in which Aparow will portray Violet Bick.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: A clip from an online audition shared recently by actor Lukas Gage quickly went viral and made waves in Hollywood.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsJoe Biden, despite Donald Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the results of the 2020 Presidential election, is still the president-elect. While the former reality television star continues to spew widely-disputed claims about voter fraud on social media, Trump’s far from alone in his efforts.On Monday late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers took shots at the president’s legal team.

Erik Pedersen, Nellie Andreeva The remaining five episodes of HBO’ freshman drama Industry will be released on WarnerMedia sibling HBO Max this Friday, Nov. 27, making the entire season available to binge over the holiday weekend.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsThis post contains spoilers for the latest episode of Dancing With the Stars Season 29.Dancing With The Stars has named its newest Mirror Ball champion on Monday night.

David Robb Labor EditorThe SAG-AFTRA Foundation has passed the $6 million mark in COVID-19 emergency relief aid that’s been distributed to more than 6,500 of the union’s members and their families in need. That’s according to the latest update from Foundation president Courtney B.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorJust hours after it was announced that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will gather on Wednesday to discuss further possible COVID-19 restrictions including a broad shutdown, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti took to the mic.“This pandemic at this moment is threatening to spiral out of control,” said the mayor.He said the number of hospitalizations related to the virus was up 50% in the past week.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticUPDATED with timeline: The 73rd annual DGA Awards, which will take place on April 10, 2021 much later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic that has pushed back the annual awards season, has unveiled its key dates and timelines for its 2021 edition.It comes after the Directors Guild settled on the ceremony’s 2021 date back in July.For the Television, Commercial, and Documentary categories, nominees will be announced on March 8, the guild’s

David Robb Labor EditorOscar-nominated screenwriter and The Comey Rule writer-director Billy Ray is urging WGA West members to mobilize through the guild’s political action committee to “rid the Senate” of GOP incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in next month’s dual runoff races in Georgia.Loeffler and Perdue “are fairly loathsome,” he said today in a mass email to the guild’s members.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Young actor Lucian-River Chauhan is set to play opposite Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer in Amazon Studios’ sci-fi thriller Invasion,  which is being directed by Michael Pearce.The film, written by Pearce and Joe Barton, follows two young brothers who go on the run with their father, a decorated Marine (Ahmed), who is trying to protect them from an unhuman threat.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVTNT is developing drama series Fire Season.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Joy Blake (First Kill), in Fire Season a group of strangers are forced together in a real-time escape from a deadly wildfire.Blake is executive producing with the Nacelle Company’s Brian Volk-Weiss, Matt Ochacher, and Michael Pelmont.Blake most recently served as co-executive producer on the Fox sci-fi drama Next.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorA recent movement toward unionization by workers at media brands and cultural institutions continued today as staffers at Film at Lincoln Center voted 29 to 4 in favor of forming a guild.The National Labor Relations Board election included workers in film programming, development, communications and public-facing theater operations.According to a news release from organizers, four additional employee ballots were set aside due to eligibility questions.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsDirector of the Los Angeles Department of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer said that she and members of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors will gather on Wednesday to discuss further possible COVID-19 restrictions.Pressed on what a new stay-at-home mandate from the county could contain, Dr.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticOver three weeks after he was declared the winner of the 2020 election, Joe Biden’s transition to the White House has finally officially started.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorCindy Holland, whose departure from Netflix after an 18-year run this year highlighted the changes rippling through the streaming giant, has joined the board of a newly formed entity called Horizon Acquisition Corp. II.The November 17 appointment was disclosed Monday in an SEC filing.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Brian Cox (Succession), John Malkovich (The New Pope), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Queen’s Gambit) and Harry Hamlin (L.A.

Peter White Television EditorTokyo Vice, the upcoming HBO Max drama series exec produced by Michael Mann, has found a Japanese partner.Premium pay-TV broadcaster Wowow has come on board the project as a co-producer, taking all rights for Japan.This comes as the show, which Mann is directing the pilot, returns to production after the COVID-19 shutdown, this week.The deal was struck by Endeavor Content, which is producing and handling international distribution, with Wowow’s Kayo Washio, who runs

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorThe seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic came home to California Governor Gavin Newsom this weekend when he and his family had to quarantine after his children were exposed to the virus. The governor said his entire family had tested negative.

Peter White Television EditorMegan Suri, who starred in Fresh Off The Boat, has joined Netflix comedy Never Have I Ever.Suri joins the series, which stars Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, as Aneesa, a new Indian student at Sherman Oaks High, whose confidence and radiance will pose an immediate threat to Ramakrishnan’s Devi.She previously starred in ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat, playing Preity Zinta’s daughter in what was planned as the backdoor pilot for The Magic Motor Inn.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorFormer champion Ken Jennings will be the first of several guest hosts on Jeopardy! when it resumes production at the end of the month. It will be the first episodes shot on the game show since longtime host Alex Trebek died earlier this month after a long fight against pancreatic cancer at age 80.Jennings earlier this year claimed the title of Jeopardy!’s “Greatest of All Time” in a series of primetime matches.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorJoe Rohde, a 40-year veteran of Walt Disney Imagineering, will retire on January 4 after a career designing a range of popular attractions at the company’s parks and resorts.Rohde confirmed the news in a lengthy Instagram post. (Read it below.) After turning 65 in September, Rohde said he decided “this strange quiet time seems like a great opportunity to slip away without too much disruption.”Disney’s theme parks have had a tumultuous 2020 due to COVID-19.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorStocks in U.S. movie theater circuits AMC and Cinemark staged rallies today after more positive COVID-19 vaccine news as well as a new financial lifeline for Cineworld.The UK-based Cineworld, parent of Regal Cinemas, said it secured a $450 million credit facility and an overall infusion of $750 million.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic(UPDATED with Michigan Governor reaction) Donald Trump has proven a loser yet again today as Joe Biden’s massive victory in Michigan received official certification from state officials.After introductory discussion and then hours of comments from the pubic and passionate county clerks, Michagan’s four-member Board of State Canvassers on Monday voted 3-1 to confirm the President-elect’s nearly 155,000-vote victory in the Lake State in the November 3

David Robb Labor EditorCraig Miller will receive the WGA West’s 2020 Animation Writers Caucus Animation Writing Award in recognition of his distinguished career and contributions to the animation field.

Peter White Television EditorFormer ESPN star Jemele Hill is moving into scripted television and has teamed with Gabrielle Union to develop a half-hour comedy series about Black women with financial independence.New Money, which is based on a story from Hill and The Undefeated journalist Kelley Carter, who run Lodge Freeway Media, is in development at Showtime.The series is produced by Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions and Sony Pictures TV, where Union’s firm is under a first look deal.Being

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorYoung Rock, the upcoming NBC series inspired by the life of Dwayne Johnson, has started in on production in Queensland, Australia, Universal Television said Monday. The division of Universal Studio Group is producing the series, which will chronicle Johnson’s formative years.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Sam Pollard has been tapped to direct The League, a documentary centered on the tumultuous journey of Negro league baseball.

Dino-Ray Ramos editorEXCLUSIVE: Sundance Institute has named the talented group of filmmakers that have been selected for the third class of Momentum Fellows.The full-year program is a new collaboration with NBCUniversal that gives customized creative and professional support for mid-career writers and directors from underrepresented communities who are poised to take the next step in their careers in fiction and documentary filmmaking.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorToday we learned why Bad Bunny missed Sunday night’s planned performance at the American Music Awards. The reggaeton star’s rep said today that he has tested positive for Covid-19.The Puerto Rican rapper, whose real name is Benito Martínez Ocasio, had been scheduled to perform “Dákiti” — the international hit single he recorded with Jhay Cortez — during the trophy show but canceled without offering an explanation.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorNeil Patrick Harris will be joining in on the fun with Lionsgate’s Nicolas Cage action satire The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The Emmy and Tony winning actor will star alongside Cage, who plays himself, as well as already announced cast Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish and Sharon Horgan.