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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
EMMYS - From Deadline: The winners at the 2024 / 51st Daytime Emmy Awards have been announced. ABC's long-running soap opera, "General Hospital," won four awards, including "Outstanding Daytime Drama."
NETFLIX - From Deadline: Writer-director Tyler Perry has set the cast for "Straw," his latest film for Netflix, the streamer announced on Wednesday. Taraji P. Henson is set to star alongside Sherri Shepherd, Teyana Taylor, Glynn Turman, Sinbad, Rockmond Dunbar, Mike Merrill. and Ashley Versher.
From Deadline: Netflix has released the first images, title and voiceover cast for Aardman’s new Wallace & Gromit movie, "Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl." The release date is this winter 2025 on Netflix, but the movie will debut on the BBC this Christmas.
TELEVISION - From Deadline: The CW has cancelled its drama, "All American: Homecoming" after three seasons. That leaves the original series, "All American," as the sole remaining scripted series began on The CW before Nexstar bought the network.
MOVIES - From Collider: Elle Fanning is in negotiations to star in "Badlands," the next film from the Predator-Prey franchise. There apparently also a direct sequel to the 2022 film, "Prey."
STREAMING - From THR: Oscar-nominee Paul Giamatti has signed onto starring in a TV series based on director Eli Roth's "Hostel" film series.
TELEVISION - From Deadline: The hit British TV series, "Ghosts" (2019-23) begat the American hit, "Ghosts" (CBS, 2021-present). Now, there is to be a German television adaptation. The six-part series will join a French version that is also being developed.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Neve Campbell says that she has returned to the "Scream" franchise for "Scream 7" because the studio came back to her in a "respectful way."
STREAMING - From Variety: The site offers the 20 best movies coming to streaming in June 2024. Among them are Netflix's "Hitman" and "Origin" at Hulu.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 5/31 to 6/2/2024 weekend box office is Sony Pictures' "The Garfield Movie" with an estimated take of 14 million dollars.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Billy Zane releases the first images of himself as legendary actor, Marlon Brando from the biopic, "Waltzing with Brando." Directed by Bill Fishman, the film is set in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Actress Lily Tomlin says that she has mixed feelings about Jennifer Aniston's remake of the 1980s film, "9 to 5," the legendary comedy that starred Tomlin alongside Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton.
DISNEY/TRAILER - From Deadline: Disney has provided a first look at "Moana 2," as well as a teaser trailer. The film, which stars Dwayne Johnson and Auli'i Cravalho, is due Nov. 27th, 2024.
OBITS:
From Deadline: American film producer and screenwriter, Stephen J. Rivele, has died at the age of 75, Friday, May 17, 2024. Rivele shared a "Best Original Screenplay" Oscar nomination with Oliver Stone and Stephen Wilkinson for Stone's 1995 biopic, "Nixon." Rivele also co-wrote the biopic "Ali" (2001), and he was one of the writers and producers of "Birth of the Dragon" (2016).
From THR: British-Canadian stage, screen, and television actor, Alan Scarfe, has died at the age of 77, Sunday, April 28, 2024. He may be best known in the U.S. for playing bad guys in action films and for his appearances in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Star Trek: Voyager". Scarfe appeared in such films as "Street Justice" (1987), "Iron Eagle II" (1988), "Double Impact" (1991), and "Lethal Weapon 3."
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POLITICS -
From YahooNews: In case you were wondering, even after being convicted of 34 felony counts in New York yesterday (5/30), Donald Trump can still run for President of the United States and he can still vote for himself in Florida.
From Truthout: On Thursday afternoon (May 30th, 2024), in "The People vs. Donald Trump" — the New York-based trial featuring, for the first time in United States history, an ex-president in a criminal proceeding— a jury of the former president’s peers delivered a unanimous verdict: that he was guilty of all crimes he was accused of committing. Trump becomes the first former President in US History to be convicted of a crime.
From NBCNews: Outside the courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial, legendary Oscar-winning actor, Robert De Niro, clashed with Trump supporters.
