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As the song theft legal battle over Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ continues to go through the motions, her legal team are keen to block two of the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses and limit the testimony of a third. The experts, you see, lack expertise.

William Earl Variety will host three parties, in addition to its interview and portrait studio, at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. To kick off the festival, Variety will celebrate its Billy Eichner cover story with a cocktail party for his film “Bros” on Sept. 9. Universal’s romantic comedy, featuring an all-LGBT cast, will premiere at TIFF. Skyy Vodka is the premier partner of the party and will provide a custom cocktail for guests to enjoy. On Sept. 10, Variety and Chanel will bring back their celebration of female filmmakers with a private, invite-only dinner with top talent, filmmakers and executives. Chanel has partnered with TIFF to create the Chanel Women Writers’ Network, an alumnae program and extension of Share Her Journey’s annual TIFF Writers’ Studio. The Chanel Women Writers’ Network reinforces the brand’s commitment to championing women in the arts and creating opportunities for their artistic and professional development.

EXCLUSIVE: Jaclyn Smith has signed with BRS/Gage Talent Agency for theatrical representation.

is. That’s why acting jobs are called roles.”Maher pointed out that Leguizamo has played a Columbia American, a Venetian, a French little person and an Italian plumber when he is none of those things.

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Mitchell (Mudbound) and Bartosz Bielenia (Corpus Christi) have joined Jacek Braciak (Leave No Traces) for historical action title Scarborn, based on the story of Polish general and revolutionary war hero Tadeusz Kościuszko who is best known for fighting at George Washington’s side in the American War of Independence. 

include Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Diane Keaton, Steve Martin, Jane Fonda, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Al Pacino, the late Sean Connery, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro and more. The award is the highest honor an individual can receive for a career in film and is bestowed on creatives who have “greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture.” Held on Thursday, a taped special of the event will premiere on TNT next week, June 16, at 10 p.m.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe highly-anticipated sequel to the 1986 “Top Gun” movie has taken off around the world, bringing a new audience as well as fans of the original into movie theaters. “Top Gun: Maverick” opens with a sequence that pays homage to the first film visually and sonically as the music launches into Harold Faltermeyer’s famous “Top Gun” anthem.Editor Eddie Hamilton, who locked picture back in July 2020, breaks down how he helped edit the opening scene.In the first frames of the film, Hamilton had marks to hit as the film paid homage to the original through score, music and cinematography.

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's middle daughter, Maggie, prefers a life out of the spotlight but couldn't help but share some news recently which garnered much support from her famous family. The 23-year-old shared an incredibly rare social media post with her followers after a dream' encounter.MORE: Tim McGraw reveals traumatic injury at the hands of wife Faith Hill Taking to Instagram, Maggie - who earned her master's degree from Stanford University last year - posted a photo at the U.S Capitol Building and a gushing message.  WATCH: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's love story revealed "As many know, I listen to the musical Hamilton every single day," she wrote alongside the photo.

Wilson Chapman editorThe Bipartisan Policy Center, the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate is launching a series of debates between leading U.S.

Carson Burton Vineyard Theatre has announced the casting and design team for the upcoming premiere of “Lessons in Survival: 1971.” Carl Clemons-Hopkins will play novelist James Baldwin alongside Theatre Award Winner Crystal Dickinson as renowned poet Nikki Giovanni.“Lessons in Survival: 1971″ follows a 1971 interview of Baldwin conducted by Giovanni. Their conversation on America’s first “Black Tonight Show” proved to be a profound dialogue on race and liberation in America.

Chance The Rapper has performed new song ‘Child Of God’ on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert – watch the moment below.Chance’s latest single arrived last month (March 24) and features Moses Sumney on vocals.In the video for the new track, Chance is seen rapping in the same room from his 2021 music video, ‘The Heart & The Tongue’. In the background, artist Naïla Opiangah paints on a canvas behind him.

the vacancy left by retiring Judge Benjamin Davidian, reports The Press Democrat. She follows in the path of Alameda Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski, who became the first openly transgender judge in the state after she was elected to her current position in 2010. Kolakowski later praised Murdyk’s appointment on Twitter.“Andi Mudryk is a great appointment and will be a wonderful judge,” Kolakowski tweeted.

Chance The Rapper has shared the video for his new song, ‘Child Of God’ – watch it below.Chance’s latest single arrived earlier this week (March 24) and features Moses Sumney on vocals.In the video for the new song, Chance can be seen rapping in the same room as that for his 2021 music video, ‘The Heart & The Tongue’.In the background, artist Naïla Opiangah paints on a canvas behind him. The pair met during a trip to Accra, Ghana and have recently opened a contemporary art project together called ‘Child Of God’ at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art.You can watch the video here:Chance took to Twitter earlier this week (March 20) to hint that new music was on the way. He shared a cryptic post that read: “My mind is decided” alongside a release date.Chance has been hinting at his return for some time in a series of Instagram posts where he’s shared images from apparent writing and recording sessions.He also shared a snippet of some new political music earlier this month, in which he rapped about the death of the first US President George Washington.The track began with a symbolic narrative based around Washington’s death and his ownership of slaves.

Chance The Rapper has shared a snippet of political new music, which hears him rap about the death of the first US President George Washington.The track begins with a symbolic narrative based around Washington’s death and his ownership of slaves. “George Washington died at the dentist getting fillings/ He had slave teeth by the hundreds but bacteria by the millions,“ Chance raps.

Editor’s Note: Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel’s new book Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy includes a chapter on Fan Bingbing, one of China’s biggest global stars who disappeared from public view in 2018 shortly after she was cast to star in the female action spy movie The 355. In the excerpt below from the Penguin Press book, Schwartzel takes readers from Cannes through Fan’s house arrest — where she was “watched constantly, even while taking showers” — to her eventual reappearance (albeit via greenscreen and with a body double for The 355) as she had become what Schwartzel calls “the most famous chicken used by Chinese authorities to scare the monkeys of its entertainment industry.”

Researchers have spent more than 30 years and billions of dollars studying HIV (seen in closeup) and various vaccines, with little success. But, the first doses of an experimental HIV vaccine using the same messenger RNA technology in the highly effective COVID-19 vaccines have been given to clinical trial participants. Photo: iStock.

Researchers have spent more than 30 years and billions of dollars studying HIV (seen in closeup) and various vaccines, with little success. But, the first doses of an experimental HIV vaccine using the same messenger RNA technology in the highly effective COVID-19 vaccines have been given to clinical trial participants. Photo: iStock.

Biotechnology company Moderna announced it has been working with the scientific not-for-profit partnership, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), to develop the HIV vaccine. Moderna said it has administered the first doses of the trial vaccine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University. ANNOUNCEMENT

Outlander is set to return to our screens in just over a month and fans are beginning to get just a little excited.

George Washington’s original Mount Vernon estate has sold for a whopping $50 million, marking the highest residential sale to hit the D.C. region ever.And it seems we can now understand what the first U.S.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor“Hamilton” Tony nominee Christopher Jackson has signed a first-look deal with CBS Studios to produce across all platforms, including broadcast, streaming and premium cable.“I’m looking forward to continuing my partnership with CBS in this new capacity,” Jackson, whose work as George Washington in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” earned him Tony and Grammy nominations in 2016, tells me exclusively.

NEW YORK -- Minnesota's Congressional delegation on Monday is introducing a resolution to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to pop superstar Prince, citing his "indelible mark on Minnesota and American culture,” The Associated Press has learned.The medal is one of the nation's highest civilian honors and past recipients include George Washington, the Wright Brothers, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Dalai Lama.“The world is a whole lot

marketing efforts, news reports and broker braggadocio touting the home as “Grace Kelly’s townhouse” in order to drum up the price — there is no evidence that the princess of Monaco, nor any of her famous friends ever owned or even lived at 51-53 E.

Reimagining the founding of America as a bro-fest that takes every historic moment from the last 250 or so years and crams them together, forgoing any sense of temporal progression or reason, Matt Thompson’s animated film“America: The Motion Picture,” now on Netflix, is an occasionally funny, but ultimately overlong slog that never really is as clever as it thinks it is.

Michael Nordine authorAmerica’s creation myths may not be entirely rooted in fact — few of us still believe the story about George Washington chopping down that cherry tree — but they’re considerably less outlandish than “America: The Motion Picture,” an animated comedy in which our first president is a chainsaw-wielding freedom fighter who founds America to avenge the murder of his best friend, Abraham Lincoln.

EXCLUSIVE: An intriguing package is about to be shopped for a series commitment, an hourlong drama on the contradictions that were part of the first term of George Washington. Antoine Fuqua is aboard to direct a pilot and be executive producer with series creators, vet Blue Bloods EP/writer Brian Burns and William N.

To help usher in a (mostly Covid-free?) 4th of July weekend, Netflix has something special lined up: an animated film that’s an R-Rated take on the American Revolution. “America: The Motion Picture” offers a radically different take on the familiar history of America’s inception as a country.

After seemingly leaving the DC superhero world behind and doing another zombie film to recalibrate himself, it appears that filmmaker Zack Snyder has a lot of unique ideas for films that he’d like to make in the future. We’ve already heard about his idea for a “300” sequel and a reimagining of the Arthurian Legend.