Scrubs and Cougar Town to Reunite at ATX Television Festival

Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) said it himself in the Better Call Saul Season 5 premiere during a rant about his new clientele: Criminals gonna criminal! It's built in to his business model; Albuquerque's scummiest can't help themselves from being scummy because it's in their DNA.

Long before she was a wife and mom of three on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Eva Marcille was taking the modeling world by storm as the Cycle 3 winner of America's Next Top Model in 2004. Now, some 16 years later, Eva reunited with ANTM creator Tyra Banks when the two were guests on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on February 23.

Eddie Murphy reunited with his ex-wife, Nicole Murphy, 52! The 58-year-old, and his former wife of 13 years, came together again to support their oldest child, Bria, 30, at her art exhibition in Los Angeles on Feb. 20 — and the pair couldn’t have looked prouder of her! Along with her family, Bria’s opening was also attended by Beyonce‘s mom, Tina Knowles, 66, and Will Smith‘s son, Jaden Smith, 21.

Just hours after Soulection released a flyer and lineup for its upcoming Lovers and Friends Festival on Tuesday (Feb. 18), former Bad Boy artists Mase and Lil Kim publicly rescinded their commitment to perform.

Oliver Stone will serve as jury president of the international competition at the inaugural Red Sea Film Festival, set to take place in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah next month.The Platoon and Wall Street director will oversee a jury that will be focused on "original, daring productions by emerging and established voices," the festival said, adding that there would be an emphasis on features from the Arab world and the "Global South," meaning emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Latin America

The bombshell news about the resignation of the governing board of the Cesar Academy, which distributes France’s equivalent of the Oscars, was greeted with relief within the French film world on Friday.

By Nancy Tartaglione, Patrick Hipes

The board overseeing the Cesar Academy, which distributes France’s equivalent of the Oscars, has revealed that it will resign following the Cesar Awards ceremony on Feb. 28. As a result, Alain Terzian, a French producer who presides both the Cesar Academy and the Association for the Promotion of Cinema, is also expected to resign. Other members who will resign include Danièle Thompson, Philippe Labor, Margaret Menegov and the former Cannes president Gilles Jacob.

Laura Chinn has signed an overall deal with Lionsgate Television.

Stormzy is to headline the Reading and Leeds Festivals in England.

Faced with mounting pressures within the French film industry and threats of a boycott, the board of the Cesar Academy (France’s equivalent to the Oscars), has vowed to reform its functioning and its corporate leadership with the help of a mediator.

The rapidly gentrifying, hipster-approved Eastside neighborhood of Los Angeles has recently attracted a huge swarm of successful showbiz players, many of them relatively young and lured in by the superior real estate bang-for-buck — versus the perilously pricey Westside — as well as for the area’s close proximity to a bevy of trendy shops and man bun-mobbed restaurants.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Filmmaker Tabitha Jackson has been named the incoming director of the Sundance Film Festival, succeeding outgoing director John Cooper.

The Sundance Film Festival awards are underway.

If you care about cinema, you take the Sundance Film Festival for granted at your peril. Yet despite some early-in-the-festival grousing (“Oh no! The first day has gone by without a masterpiece!”), this was the sort of year that didn’t allow one to take the festival for granted.

By Jake Kanter