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Amy Schumer, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo have joined more than 200 US actors, directors, producers and writers in signing an open letter calling for a change to gun portrayal in Hollywood films and TV shows.This year has already seen over 250 mass shootings in the US, with recent events in Buffalo and Uvalde provoking further debate in a country where more than 40,000 people are shot and killed with guns every year.The newly published letter from the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence – also signed by Shonda Rhimes, J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, Judd Apatow, and Jimmy Kimmel, among others – attributes the problem to “lax gun laws” and politicians “more afraid of losing power than saving lives”, but notes that representations in film and TV can play a part.It's up to us to make sure senators #DontLookAway from our country's gun violence crisis.

Chris Hemsworth is more than happy to return to the “Star Trek” universe.

Hollywood creators want to model a better culture around guns.

The Motion Picture & Television Fund on Friday said it will continue its yearlong centennial celebration with “100 Years of Hollywood: A Celebration of Service,” an event June 18 in West Hollywood that will feature musical performances and tributes. Jodie Foster, Harry Northup, Yvette Nicole Brown and more are set to appear at the event at The Lot at Formosa, along with musical guests set to include Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, Tori Kelly, and Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies.

When voters go to the polls Tuesday for Los Angeles’ primary election, they are likely to advance two mayoral candidates to the general election: Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) and developer Rick Caruso.

no one leaked the news of Teddy’s return — or anything else for that matter.What we do know is that “West Side Story” Oscar winner Ariana DeBose is joining the cast in a, you guessed it, super-secretive recurring role. Saturday’s panel also revealed the Season 4 logline: “A dark odyssey about the fate of sentient life on earth.”And some great key art:Westworld was created for television by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy, who are executive producers with Alison Schapker, Denise Thé, J.J.

$43 million domestically on a reported $120 million budget. So maybe Abrams has a new approach that garnered Apple TV+’s attention.Fitzgerald is a veteran of Abrams’ “Westworld” and created the terrific new “Perry Mason” for HBO, which Martinez also worked on.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA “Speed Racer” live-action series is in the works at Apple with J.J.

Jeffrey Katzenberg has donated $600,000 to an independent committee backing Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor, as polls show the California congresswoman facing a tight race against billionaire developer Rick Caruso.

The ATX TV Festival will close June 4 with a panel featuring the executive producers and stars of HBO’s Westworld.

Newly minted Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) joins the cast of HBO’s Westworld as a recurring guest star for the upcoming eight-episode fourth season, which premieres June 26 and will be available to stream on HBO Max.

“Westworld” is adding a new face to its Season 4 cast — “West Side Story” star Ariana DeBose.The actress, who picked up the Supporting Actress Oscar earlier this year, has joined the HBO show as a recurring guest star. No details were immediately available about her character.She’ll join returning cast members Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul and Angela Sarafyan.

J. Kim Murphy Ariana DeBose continues to go west. The “West Side Story” star has joined HBO’s “Westworld” in a recurring guest role for the science-fiction series’ upcoming fourth season.The nature of DeBose’s role remains a closely guarded secret, as do most of the details surrounding the plot of the new season.

After the teaser for the new season of Westworld leaked, HBO made it official and opened it up for everyone.

UPDATED, 12:02 PM: Vice President Kamala Harris’ office said today that she has tested negative for Covid, six days after a positive test.

Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for Covid, the White House said on Tuesday.

Jennifer Garner became a household name thanks to her starring role on Alias. In the two decades since, she’s played a variety of unforgettable parts in beloved projects.

Ellise Shafer Standing onstage at the El Rey Theatre in March, Gracie Abrams seemed genuinely shocked at the turnout for the first of two hometown shows in Los Angeles on her “This Is What It Feels Like” tour. She blushed and stumbled over her words, rattling off a list of thank-yous and interacting with fans in side conversations, as if she weren’t one of the fastest-rising singer-songwriters in her generation playing a sold-out show.Abrams started that performance full of nerves, she tells Variety in a Zoom call from Long Pond Studios in upstate New York, where she is currently working on new music with Aaron Dessner, guitarist of the National (and, over the last couple of years, a primary Taylor Swift collaborator).

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterFive candidates took the stage for an L.A. mayoral debate last week, but as far as Hollywood is concerned, there might as well be only two.Karen Bass, the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, is the favorite among the industry’s Democratic donor community, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and J.J. Abrams.

Star Wars director J.J. Abrams.According to reports in The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Deadline, Abrams and his Bad Robot Productions company are developing a scripted series for Netflix about the Bono-fronted band.There are reports that the script for the show is being written by Anthony McCarten, the scrip-writer behind Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody.As per The Hollywood Reporter, U2 are “expected to be involved and sanction the project.”NME has reached out to representatives of Abrams and Netflix for comment.Last November, U2 guitarist The Edge revealed that the band were working on a new album.The update came shortly after the four-piece released the track ‘Your Song Saved My Life’, their first new material in two years.Their most recent studio album, ‘Songs Of Experience’, came out back in 2017.

U2 may be getting its own television series from Bad Robot.

Netflix is in early development on a scripted series inspired by the rock band U2, sources close to the project confirmed to Deadline. It hails from J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot Productions, and Warner Bros. TV, where Bad Robot is under a deal. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody) is attached to pen the series.

Imax Corporation and Bad Robot Productions, together with Glen Powell, Zipper Bros Films and Dolphin Entertainment, said Friday that they’ve commenced production on The Blue Angels, a documentary project chronicling a year in the cockpit with the exclusive aviator team.

“The Blue Angels” will follow the newest class of the storied Navy and Marine Corps flight squadron through intense training and into a season of heart-stopping aerial artistry, and the veterans on the team who, this year, will take their final flights. It will mark the first time the iconic blue and yellow F/A-18 Super Hornets will be featured in Imax.

Star Trek 4 is apparently coming – and the stars had no clue.

Following a successful reboot of the franchise, Paramount has been trying for years to get a fourth “Star Trek” movie together. Previous incarnations attempted to bring back the cast led by Chris Pine as James T.

Zack Sharf Paramount confirmed this week that “WandaVision” director Matt Shakman will head into production on a new “Star Trek” movie later this year with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho and Simon Pegg reprising their roles for a fourth go-around on the big screen. For Quentin Tarantino fans, the news is the latest reminder that the Oscar winner’s “Stark Trek” movie remains dead. At least for now.Tarantino fans were sent into a frenzy in late 2017 after it was announced that Paramount and “Star Trek” producer J.J.

franchise begins to materialize.On Tuesday, producer J.J. Abrams revealed the news that a fourth film was in the works during the Paramount Investors Day Presentation.Paramount is in talks with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Karl Urban and Simon Pegg, to reprise their roles as, respectively, Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Sulu, Bones and Scotty.«We are thrilled to say that we are hard at work on a new  film that will be shooting by the end of the year,» Abrams said, according to Variety, adding that the movie «will be featuring our original cast and some new characters that I think are going to be really fun and exciting and help take  into areas that you’ve just never seen before.»The cast first came together  — along with the late Anton Yelchin as Chekov — for the first time in 2009's, which both reset the universe's continuity and, through time travel, blended the universes of the multiple timelines.The crew reassembled in 2013 for , where they faced off against Benedict Cumberbatch's super-soldier assassin Khan, and for a third outing in 2016's, where they matched wits and brawn with Idris Elba's ruthless warlord Krall.Abrams told investors, «We’re thrilled about this film, we have a bunch of other stories that we’re talking about that we think will be really exciting, so can’t wait for you to see what we’re cooking up.