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Best known for the television comedies “Black-ish,” “Grown-ish,” and “Mixed-ish,” writer, producer, director, and actor Kenya Barris has had a strong run looking at Black and multiracial families through a comedic lens. He’s done that on the big screen before with the modern version of “Cheaper by the Dozen,” but he really pluses the entire idea with his latest comedy, “You People,” which features an all-star cast for Netflix.

Keenan Cahill, the YouTube phenom best known for his lip-sync collabs with stars ranging from Katy Perry to Justin Bieber and 50 Cent, died in Chicago on December 29, his family has confirmed in a message posted to his official Facebook page.

It has been a very tough year for so many in the entertainment world and beyond.

This is a case for the FBI — or at least Andy Cohen. Heather Gay reveals her black eye to her Real Housewives of Salt Lake City costars in Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek of the Wednesday, December 21, episode — and attempts to dodge questions about how the injury went down on their San Diego girls’ trip.

The first full trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer film has dropped. Cillian Murphy stars in the epic thriller based on the creation of the first atomic bomb. Watch the clip in the video posted above.

“To be honest, the idea of freedom scares me:” Produced and presented by filmmaker Roman Coppola (“Mozart in the Jungle,” “A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III,” and a regular Wes Anderson co-writer), eight different filmmakers come together to collectively direct “The Seven Faces of Jane,” in which the titular protagonist (played by Gillian Jacobs, who also directs) undergoes a series of life-altering changes, as she drives away from her “mundane life into an exciting odyssey on the road.” The idea is essentially a cinematic exquisite corpse, the game invented by French surrealists, where one person writes a fragment of a sentence, the next person reads some of it, and tries to add onto it from there; essentially an experimental game of passing the baton with art.

While DCU fans wait for Michael Keaton‘s brief return as Bruce Wayne/Batman in “The Flash” next year, there’s some other news on the Keaton front.

EXCLUSIVE: Till‘s Jalyn Hall will play another important Black American historical figure after booking a guest-starring role playing the young Martin Luther King Jr in Genius: MLK/X, the upcoming fourth installment in the Disney+/National Geographic anthology series.

Michael Keaton, James Marsden, Marcia Gay Harden, Suzy Nakamura, Joanna Kulig, Ray McKinnon, John Hoogenakker, Lela Loren and Al Pacino are starring in the noir thriller Knox Goes Away, which Keaton is directing. Principal photography recently wrapped on the project.

Keeping it in the family. When Prince William proposed to Princess Kate while on a trip to Africa in 2010, he did so with his late mother’s sapphire engagement ring.

Looks like a good old fashion cash grab celebrity endorsement has become a bit more fraught when it comes to the digital marketplace nowadays.

BMG has acquired a whole stack of rights in relation to the catalogue of guitarist Peter Frampton, covering his solo material and work with artists including George Harrison, BB King, Buddy Guy, Carly Simon, Harry Nilsson, Donovan, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ringo Starr, Diana Ross, Herb Alpert, Dionne Warwick, Steve Miller and more.“I am so pleased to join the BMG family”, says Frampton. “As an artist-first company, I trust BMG will care for my legacy and that my songs are in good hands”.BMG’s President Of Repertoire & Marketing, Los Angeles and New York, Thomas Scherer adds: “From his incredible early rise of success to [70s supergroup] Humble Pie, his countless collaborations to achieving global stardom as a solo artist, Peter Frampton is one of the most inspirational and tireless musicians of his time”.“We are proud a legendary artist of his calibre entrusts BMG as the custodians of his most treasured works”, he goes on.

In his first major foray into TV, Jake Gyllenhaal is in negotiations to star in and executive produce Presumed Innocent, Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series from David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV where the company is based.