Saturday, January 21, 2017

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from January 15th to 21st, 2017 - Update #36

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POLITICS - From YahooNews:  Watch "Women's March" live on Yahoo.

From YahooNews:  The #WomensMarch has pioneers from generations ago.

From YahooNews:  Journey of 12 women to #WomensMarch.

From YahooCelebrity:  Celebs join #WomensMarch.

From TheWrap:  The women of the film industry take time out from the 2017 film festival to protest strump for #WomensMarch

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BLM - From DemocracyNow:  Another Democratic presidential administration has come to an end, and Leonard Peltier still denied clemency.

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INAUGURATION:

POLITICS - From Esquire:  A visual comparison of attendance at Obama's first inaugural concert and Trump's - not even close.

From YahooNews:  Watch the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the Confederate State of America and wannabe CSA state live on Yahoo.

From Vox:  The site's staff annotates Trump's inauguration speech 

From BET:  Spike Lee was going to use a Chrisette Michlele song on his new Amazon series, but he dropped it when he learned that she will perform at the Trump inauguration.

From USAToday:  Thousands arrived in Washington D.C. yesterday in defiance of President of the Confederate States of America Trump's inauguration.

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POLITICS - From NBC:  President Obama commutes Chelsea Manning's (formerly Bradley Manning) sentence.

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COMICS-FILM - From THR:  "Black Adam," the Shazam villain that Dwayne Johnson will play in a DC Comics movie for Warner Bros. will get his own film.

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TELEVISION - From TheWrap:  Author Neil Gaiman will adapt the novel he wrote with Terry Prathett, "Good Omens," into a TV series for Amazon.

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OBIT - From Deadline:  The actor, Miguel Ferrer, has died at the age of 61, Thursday, January 19, 2017.  He was the son of Oscar-winning actor, Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney (and was therefore a cousin of George Clooney). Of late, he was known for his role on NCIS: Los Angeles.  Many probably remember Miguel for his role in the original "Robocop."

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TELEVISION - From TheWrap:  It's official - NBC is bringing back "Will & Grace" for a 10-episode run in the 2017-18 season.

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TELEVISION - From EW:  "Saturday Night Live" cut a Donald Trump-Rick James sketch that was part of Dave Chappelle's SNL hosting gig.

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MOVIE - From THR:  The Tupac Shakur biopic, "All Eyez on Me," lands at Lionsgate and gets a release date of June 46, 2017, which would have been Tupac's 46th birthday.

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MOVIES - From TheWrap:  Kenya Barris, the creator of the ABC TV series, "Black-ish," is joining NBA superstar Blake Griffin to remake the 1991 Wesley Snipes-Woody Harrelson film, "White Men's Can't Jump" (written and directed by Ron Shelton).

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MUSIC - From YahooMusic:  Country music legend Garth Brooks explains why he is not performing at President-elect Trump's inauguration.

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MOVIES - From YahooMovies:  The delectable Tom Hardy says that gaining 30 pounds to play "Bane" in 2012's "The Dark Knight Rises" continues to take a toll on him as he ages.

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MOVIES - From YahooMovies:  A photographer captured Margot Robbie's stunning transformation into infamous ice skater Tonya Harding for the biographic film.

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TELEVISION - From FlickeringMyth:  The episode count for the final season of "Game of Thrones" is not set, and HBO plots spinoffs.

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MOVIES - From SlashFilm:  The website offers news on sequels, including "10 Cloverfield Lane" and "Fantastic Beasts."

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BLM - From YahooNews:  Young Black activists relate to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who shifted from dreamer to radical.

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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo:  The winner of the 1/13 to 1/15/2017 weekend box office is "Hidden Figures," with an estimated take of $20.4 million.

From YahooMovies:  3 new release are box office flops, misses, or bombs (you choose):  Ben Affleck's Live by Night, "Sleepless" (starring Jamie Foxx), and Paramount's "Monster Trucks."

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POLITICS - From RSN:  Civil Rights legend, Congressman John Lewis told NBC's Chuck Todd of "Meet the Press" that he does not see President-elect Donald Trump as legitimate.

From RSN:  The "Women's March on Washington" (Saturday, Jan. 21st) is looking to be one America's biggest protest marches ever.

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TELEVISION - From TVLine:  Breaking Bad's baddest adversary, Gus Fring, is back.  Giancarlo Espisito reprises the role in "Better Call Saul."  Although Fring was killed in "Breaking Bad," "Saul" is a prequel to the Emmy-winning series.

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CELEBRITY - From YahooMovies:  Mark Hamill records Donald Trump's anti-Meryl Streep tweets as "The Joker," a character he brought to life in the classic animated series, "Batman: The Animated Series."

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CELEBRITY - From NYTimes:  Did you know FOX News has settled another sexual harassment complaint brought against Bill O'Reilly?

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COMICS - From ScreenRant:  DC Comics reveals another costume redesign for Superman.

From ScreenRant:  The narrative of Netflix's "The Defenders" starts a few months after Netflix's "Daredevil" Season 2.

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COMICS-TV - From YahooNews: How Marvel's "The Defenders" landed on Netflix.

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COMICS - From BleedingCool:  Donald Trump attacks Congressman John Lewis and turns the biographical graphic novel series that Lewis co-created, March, into Amazon's bestselling book.

TRAILER:

From YouTube:  This is supposedly the last official trailer (#2) for the latest Wolverine movie, "Logan."


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