‘Spider-man: Far From Home’ has debuted a new trailer ahead of the July 2nd release; Check out the new trailer below ONLy if you have seen Avengers Endgame!
Comedic actress Erica Ash, probably best known for her role on Starz’ hit show Survivor’s Remorse, has decided to try her hand as a stand-up comedian and she jumped on stage for the first time last Thursday at The Comedy Store during the Crack ‘Em Up Comedy Show!
Word is, she’s seriously jumping into this as she has booked a couple of upcoming gigs.
This is a look at her on stage;
Erica will also be performing on stage at The Flappers Comedy Club this Wednesday with comedians Tony Roberts and Taccara Williams.
Next month grown-ish returns to Freeform for the second half of its sophomore season, and it looks like Zoey Johnson (Yara Shahidi) is a repo victim!
When the show went on its midseason break, we saw Zoey essentially cut off financially by her father Dre (Anthony Anderson) after having a very unsuccessful semester at Cal U.
On June 5, when the show comes back, it looks like Zoey is still going through it.
grown-ish follows Zoey (Shahidi), Dre (Anderson) and Rainbow’s (Tracee Ellis Ross) popular, entitled, stylish and socially active 17-year-old daughter from black-ish, as she heads into her freshman year of college. Shahidi is also joined onscreen by series regulars Trevor Jackson as Aaron Jackson, Jordan Buhat as Vivek Shah, Emily Arlook as Nomi Segal, Francia Raisa as Ana Torres, Chloe and Halle Bailey as Jazz and Star Forster, Deon Cole as Charlie Telphy, Luka Sabbat as Luca Hall and Diggy Simmons as Doug.
Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland and E. Brian Dobbins are executive producers of the series. ABC Signature Studios produces grown-ish.
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If you are into horse racing, the Superbowl of the event every year is the Kentucky Derby, and this year, on Saturday, there was a disqualification! The horse named Maximum Security initially won but was later lost the title.
Today, after millions of dollars lost, an appeal filed with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Monday regarding the disqualification of Maximum Security — the horse who initially won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, has been denied.
After many posts by several actors over the years stating that a fourth Friday film was coming, we actually think that Ice Cube gave the best answer to the question because he was on cable television in front of millions (promoting his Big 3 Draft) and was asked if the Friday film was coming, and his response;
Told y’all it’s coming… #Friday pic.twitter.com/p15BEBBnFn
— Ice Cube (@icecube) May 3, 2019
Mo’Nique came back in fighting form thanks to ads developed by Donald Glover for Adidas to promote his new “Nizza” shoes. The series of ads showed Mo’Nique roasting the living daylights out of Glover, taking him to task for being all manner of bougie. If you’ve been like many out there who have been wondering how the commercial came about, Mo’Nique has now provided the details.
In an interview with Complex, she said the opportunity came after Glover’s creative team reached out to her via her husband and manager, Sydney Hicks.
“Well, Fam Rothstein, who is one of Donald Glover’s teammates, and a sister named Sylvia, they called and spoke to my husband, who everybody knows is my manager,” she said. “They spoke to Sydney, and when I say it was a beautiful negotiation? It was the way it’s supposed to be done. It was professional people dealing with professional people, and we made something beautiful. I wish every deal and every phone call could be the one that came in from Fam Rothstein and Sister Sylvia. I wish they could be that way because it makes it so much easier.”
Mo’Nique continued, saying how respected she felt by Glover’s team. “I remember at the end of the shoot, I asked Donald if could I talk to him and his team, and it was one of those moments that brought tears to my eyes to say to those brothers, ‘This is how it’s supposed to be,'” she said. “And to treat a Black woman with such respect and honor, that for me goes down in my history book, to say there are still those out there that treat us with the respect we’re supposed to be treated with. They’re still out there and I know it seems like we got to dig deep, but dammit his name is Donald Glover.”
Let’s hope that the good time Mo’Nique had with Glover means there could be more projects between the two creatives in the future.
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Disney has finalized its deal to sell 21 Fox regional sports networks to Sinclair Broadcast Group in a transaction valued at $10.6 billion. Byron Allen, the entrepreneur behind Entertainment Studios, has teamed with Sinclair as an equity partner in the newly formed Diamond Holding Group.
The agreement covers outlets serving major markets around the country. The RSNs have local rights to 42 professional teams, including 14 Major League Baseball teams, NBA teams and 12 NHL teams. Last year, the 21 channels delivered $3.8 billion in revenue across 74 million subscribers.
“This is a very exciting transaction for Sinclair to be able to acquire highly complementary assets,” said Chris Ripley, president- CEO of Sinclair. “While consumer viewing habits have shifted, the tradition of watching live sports and news remains ingrained in our culture. As one of the largest local news producers in the country and an experienced producer of sports content, we are ideally positioned to transfer our skills to deliver and expand our focus on greater premium sports programming.”
The deal, which still requires regulatory approval, promises to vault Baltimore-based Sinclair to a new level of activity on the cable side. The company has been steadily building up its sports assets which at present include the Marquee Sports Network venture with the Chicago Cubs, the Tennis Channel, Stadium, Ring of Honor Wrestling and high school sports programming that airs on its 170-plus TV stations.
For Disney, the sale fulfills a commitment made last year to the Justice Department to divest the Fox RSNs in exchange for receiving approval of the $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox, which closed in March. The pricetag Sinclair is paying for 21 of Fox’s 22 RSNs is believed to be less than the channels were valued in the larger Disney-21st Century Fox deal. But Disney had a 90-day deadline to divest the channels. It began the sale process last fall but the final list of bidders was short.
Disney is believed to still be finalizing the terms of the sale of its majority interest in the YES Network, which carries New York Yankee games in the team’s hometown market, to the team (which already owns the remaining stake) and Sinclair. Amazon is said to also be a partner in the YES transaction.
“We are pleased to have reached this agreement with Sinclair for the sale of these 21 RSNs, subject to the conditions of the consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice,” said Christine McCarthy, Disney’s senior exec VP and CFO.
Allen will become an “equity and content partner” in the Diamond Holdings venture. Allen has also expanded his cable holdings in recent years from the niche outlets launched by Entertainment Studios to include the Weather Channel. Sinclair said Diamond Holdings will be given a $1.4 billion cash influx for operations from a combination of cash on hand and Sinclair debt that the company said was already “fully committed.” An undisclosed source of private equity will add $1 billion to the purchase price with the remaining $8.2 billion coming from debt taken on by Diamond Holdings.
Sinclair is adding to its considerable debt load in taking on the RSNs. But given the circumstances that Disney faced, Sinclair likely calculated that it was a chance to grab the channels at a bargain price.
“This acquisition is an extraordinary opportunity to diversify Sinclair’s content sources and revenue streams with high-quality assets that are driving live viewing,” Ripley said.
“We also see this as an opportunity to realize cross-promotional collaboration, and synergistic benefits related to programming and production.”
Sinclair’s reputation for driving hard bargains with MVPDs on retransmission consent deals for its TV stations has made the company a pariah in the cable industry. ACA Connects, the trade organization for small cable operators, was quick to voice its opposition to the sale on Friday.
“If approved, the transaction would allow Sinclair to raise prices to millions of consumers, including those served by ACA Connects members,” the org stated. “Big 4 broadcast network programming and RSN programming are both critical for ACA Connects members. By jointly negotiating these assets when they serve the same market, Sinclair can raise prices to cable operators for both offerings.”
Sinclair’s pact with Disney for the RSNs comes nearly two years to the day that Sinclair reached a deal to buy Tribune Media. But that transaction was scuttled by regulatory opposition and concerns that Tribune’s 42 stations, many of them in large markets, would give Sinclair too much sway over dozens of local TV markets.
The RSNs set to change hands are: Fox Sports Arizona, Fox Sports Detroit, Fox Sports Florida, Fox Sports Sun, Fox Sports North, Fox Sports Wisconsin, Fox Sports Ohio, SportsTime Ohio, Fox Sports South, Fox Sports Carolina, Fox Sports Tennessee, Fox Sports Southeast, Fox Sports Southwest, Fox Sports Oklahoma, Fox Sports New Orleans, Fox Sports Midwest, Fox Sports Kansas City, Fox Sports Indiana, Fox Sports San Diego, Fox Sports West and Los Angeles’ Prime Ticket.
Debuting today, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah‘s Roy Wood Jr.’s new digital original series The Night Pigeon tells the hilarious story of a black superhero with minimal powers fighting the biggest villains in his community, The Gentrifiers. The first episode, Too Late To Be Great, follows Luke Rage (Roy Wood Jr.) and Night Pigeon who fight crimes that the more bougie superheroes can’t be bothered to deal with. They find themselves in a sticky situation after saving a bodega from an armed robber. Roy Wood Jr. writes and stars in the digital series, which is a continuation of his comedic superhero universe started with the successful sketch The Avenging Ones.
Following the series premiere, new episodes will be available Saturday 5/4 and Sunday 5/5 at 12pm ET on the Comedy Central YouTube Channel.
Emmy-nominated GLOW star Betty Gilpin has come aboard the Netflix original film, Coffee & Kareem, along with Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor (The Babysitter, Meet The Blacks), RonReaco Lee (First Wives Club, Survivor’s Remorse), and up-and-comer Terrence Little Gardenhigh (Speechless, Just Roll With It). They are joining previously announced stars Taraji P. Henson and Ed Helms in the comedy, which is being directed by Michael Dowse.
The pic is based on Shane McCarthy’s 2014 Black List script. It centers on a Detroit cop who reluctantly teams with his girlfriend’s 11-year-old son to clear his name and take down the city’s most ruthless criminal.
Helms and Mike Falbo are producing via their Pacific Electric Pictures Co banner. Sanford Nelson, Jordon Foss, Linden Nelson, Don Foss, and Dan Clarke will serve as executive producers.
Gilpin, who will next be seen on the big screen in Universal’s A Dog’s Journey, is repped by ICM, Anonymous Content, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman. Bachelor, who also co-stars in Netflix’s upcoming McG-directed film, Rim of the World, is repped by UTA, Christina Bachelor, Adam Kaller, and Duncan Hedges. Repped by APA, AGS Media and Stone Genow, Lee appeared opposite Sanaa Lathan in Nappily Ever After, which was released via the streamer. Gardenhigh is with The Osbrink Agency and Management 101.
Source: Deadline