The USFL, Long After Notorious 1980s Meltdown, Will Attempt 2022 Comeback With Fox Sports

SZA is set to debut new material from her long-awaited second album during a livestream performance. 

EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to director Mattie Do’s sci-fi thriller The Long Walk, which had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Do’s third feature film will now get an early 2022 U.S. release.

Naman Ramachandran Altitude Film Sales has taken worldwide sales rights, excluding Australia/New Zealand, for “Wolf Creek 3,” the latest instalment of the Wolf Creek franchise, and will introduce the project to buyers this week at the Virtual Cannes Market. Altitude will also distribute the film in the U.K.

Dawson’s Creek writer Heidi Ferrer has died at the age of 50 after a 13-month long battle with Covid-19.The American writer died by suicide at home in Los Angeles, California on May 26 after she struggled from the devastating after effects of a bout of coronavirus. Heidi's husband Nick Guthe confirmed the news of her death to Deadline.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorVice World News is launching a news series about trans issues from around the world.“Transnational” will feature trans correspondents reporting stories from Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom. The series will premiere on June 24 on Vice’s YouTube channel and social platforms.“When trans people watch this show, we want them to feel seen.

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EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Powell, co-creator of Inside Amy Schumer, and Aaron Augenblick, producer of Ugly Americans and The Jellies, are launching kids animation producer Future Brain Media.

Country star Jason Aldean's wife took a subtle shot at Kamala Harris' controversial Memorial Day tweet this week after the vice president faced backlash. Brittany Aldean took to Instagram to share a series of photos of her family's gathering in honor of the significant holiday, showing "stars and stripes" balloons and an American flag waving in the wind.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe United States Football League, that mid-1980s counterpart to NFL play, is returning.The league will relaunch in the spring of 2022, with Fox Sports signing on as a broadcast partner and minority stakeholder in the company that owns the new sports entity.Longtime sports fans may recall an era when the New York Generals, Memphis Showboats and Houston Gamblers took to the field for three seasons between 1983 and 1985.

William Earl Variety and NBCUniversal will host an immersive virtual experience highlighting programs from across the company’s television portfolio including Bravo, NBC, Peacock, USA Network, SYFY and Universal Studio Group. The custom 3D event will kick off with a special preview night for a select audience, followed by the public from June 7-28.

Rory Cochrane (White Boy Rick), Danny Burstein (Evil), Austin Aaron (13 Reasons Why), Ta’Nika Gibson (Iron Fist), Edwin Hodge (Mayans MC), Terence Davis (Twenties) and Ja’Quan Cole (Wu Tang: An American Saga) have joined the cast of Adam McKay’s Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. McKay’s Hyperobject Industries is producing.

Nintendo has announced the release dates for the next instalments of Pokémon games for Nintendo Switch.Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl – remakes of the Diamond and Pearl games released for Nintendo DS – will launch on November 19.The announcements arrived today (May 26) with little fanfare via Twitter unaccompanied by any new information of trailer, other than that the games were available to pre-order (US retailers only).Fans will however be able to pick up both Brilliant Diamond

Dry Cleaning have unveiled their full list of tour dates across the United States, United Kingdom and Europe supporting their latest album ‘New Long Leg’.Prior to the album’s release in April via 4AD, the band announced 2022 dates for the UK and Ireland. Now the London group have revealed that the tour has expanded to include shows in the US and Europe.The tour will now kick off in November 2021 at Los Angeles venue Teregram, continuing through the month in select US cities.