The "Righteous Indignation" of 'All In': 'THR Presents' Q&A With Janelle Monae, Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortes

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJanelle Monáe pays tribute to legendary Black female entertainers in Ralph Lauren’s fashion film for its spring 2021 collection.The 20-minute “Casablanca”-inspired movie, which premiered on Thursday night on ralphlauren.com, features the song “Dorothy Dandridge Eyes.”“Dorothy Dandridge, Josephine Baker, Ella Fitzgerald — we love you,” Monáe says mid-song.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNatalie Portman and Sophie Mas’ MountainA production company has set a first-look TV deal at Apple.News of the deal comes a week after it was reported that Portman had signed on to star in the Apple series “Lady in the Lake” with Lupita Nyong’o. Portman is also an executive producer on the series, as is Mas via MountainA.

For the second week running, a large group of California’s most-populous counties are moving from the most restrictive Purple tier of Governor Gavin Newsom’s reopening program to the less restrictive Red tier.

Oscars nominations have been announced with Nomadland, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Mank among the contenders.This year’s ceremony has been delayed until April 26 due to the coronavirus pandemic.Actress Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas announced this year’s contenders.You can watch the reveal ceremony below: The Best Original Song and Original Score categories were announced last month with Janelle Monáe, Trent Reznor, Celeste and more receiving mentions.Despite some social

The 2021 Grammy Awards were handed out in a hybrid-live ceremony in Los Angeles. In awards handed out before the telecast, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Megan thee Stallion, Justin Bieber, Beyonce, Blue Ivy, Fiona Apple, Body Count, “JoJo Rabbit,” Tiffany Haddish, Rachel Maddow, Billie Eilish, The Strokes, and Brittany Howard, were among the early winners.

Is now when the fun begins? After a historic two-month pandemic-related postponement, the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards are about to be announced. It’s been a strange campaign with no official in-person screenings, virtual Q&As, and almost every major contender already available on streaming or PVOD.

Dalian Wanda, which acquired AMC Entertainment in 2012, surrendered control of the struggling exhibitor as it issued and sold tranches of new stock to raise cash — diluting the stake of the Chinese conglomerate.

Janelle Monáe dropped by Tuesday’s episode of Global’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to perform her new song “Turntables”. The track was written for “All In: The Fight for Democracy”, a documentary about Stacey Abrams and voter suppression in the United States.

Television creator Eric Kripke had been a longtime fan of Garth Ennis' comic books —The Boys among them — but it was his love of another one of Ennis' properties, Preacher, that paved the path to his eventual Amazon show. When he heard that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were turning Preacher into a television series at AMC, Kripke was filled with envy, he recalled during a recent THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media.

Chris Willman Music Writer“Turntables” is not, as you might guess from its placement in the documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” a song written to extol vinyl. It uses that film’s exploration of the historical and recent suppression of Black voters’ rights in Georgia as a launchpad to explore “what’s goin’ on” in a nation still not done turning away from racial inequities.

Got a new agenda,With a new dream,I’m kicking out the old regime,Liberation, elevation, education.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always writer-director Eliza Hittman and its star Sidney Flanigan sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss their acclaimed film in a THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media. Newcomer Flanigan stars as Autumn, a pregnant teenager in small-town Pennsylvania who is seeking an abortion.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorJanelle Monáe knows the tables have turned and a new era has evolved with the 2020 elections that saw Democrats win the White House and Georgia flip the Senate in the runoffs. “The Georgia that went out and voted is not Georgia in the ‘50s or ‘60s.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Mia Galuppo sat down with director Lee Isaac Chung, editor Harry Yoon and composer Emile Mosseri to discuss their A24 film,Minari, in aTHRPresents Q&A powered by Vision Media. Mosseri was brought in by producer Christina Oh, the two having worked together on The Last Black Man in San Francisco.

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAs Oscar season gets into high gear – nomination voting opens March 5 — Variety has partnered with Women in Film to celebrate artisans and women behind the camera.Over the next week, Variety will roll out one-to-one conversations with “Mank” costume designer Trish Summerville, “One Night in Miami” cinematographer Tami Reiker ASC, “Promising Young Woman” makeup head Angie Wells, singer and songwriter H.E.R and artist Janelle Monae.

DEALSUniversal Music Publishing has signed Julia Michaels to a global publishing deal. She has written for artists including Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Janelle Monáe, Dua Lipa and Britney Spears, as well as being a successful artist in her own right.