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Taika Waititi Set To Create "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory" Netflix Series
Oscar-winning director, Taika Waititi is set to produce a “Charlie & The Chocolate Factory” animated Netflix series. Netflix has announced that filmmaker, Taika Waititi will be curating two animated renditions of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory for the world-renowned streaming service. Waititi has directed a plethora of films but is probably most known for directing films like Thor: Ragnarok, Boy, Hunt for Wilderpeople, and What We Do in the Shadows. The 44-year-old recently took home the Oscar Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Jojo Rabbit and just wrapped up filming Searchlight Pictures’ soccer comedy Next Goal Wins, featuring actors Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss, Armie Hammer,...
Kim Kardashian Calls Attention To Clemency Petition Of Death Row Inmate, Julius Jones
Kim Kardashian West reminds her millions of followers that Julius Jones has still not been granted clemency. For a while now, Kim Kardashian West has been leveraging her voice to advocate for the wrongfully-accused. She went as far as pursuing a law degree in order to gain a better understanding of the system she is working within and the power she has to change it. She is now calling attention to the case of Julius Jones, a death row inmate in Oklahoma. On Saturday (Mar. 7), Kardashian tweeted a video produced by The Black Wall Street Times based in Tulsa. “It features men...
Ben Affleck Confirms McDonald’s Monopoly Movie With Matt Damon Is Still Coming
We’re still waiting on this true story. McScam, the Ben Affleck produced film starring Matt Damon about the real-life Mcdonald’s Monopoly scammers is still a go. In a recent interview with Collider, Affleck confirmed that the project is still in the works. The movie has been in development since 2018. “We’ve gotten a new draft, that’s really good,” Affleck explained. “Hollywood’s a weird place, because the person who was running the studio when they bought that script, just left that job. And the studio that was going to make it got bought by another studio.” Affleck is referring to the...
Cardi B’s "Invasion Of Privacy" Becomes First Female Rap Debut To Chart For 100 Weeks
Cardi B’s “Invasion Of Privacy” – the longest-charting female rap debut ever – just achieved another milestone. It has been almost two years since Cardi B shook the world with the release of her debut album, Invasion Of Privacy. The songs on there hold up to this day and the charts reflect that people are still feverishly bumping them. In January, IOP became tied with Lauryn Hill’s classic, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, for the longest-charting debut by a female rapper. At that point, both albums had spent 91 weeks on the Billboard 200. The following week, Cardi became the sole holder of...
Record Store Day Highlights Include Eminem, Summer Walker, Billie Eilish & More
Tyler, the Creator, Summer Walker, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib are just a few of the artists set to release special edition vinyls for Record Store Day this year. News of this year’s Record Store Day comes after we learned from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) that last year, vinyl record sales were set to top “traditional” CDs for the first time in 30 years. We have all watched vinyl records steadily grow in popularity over the past few years, so it’s no surprise many of us are excited about the new and exclusive releases coming up. Our generation grew up...
Dolly Parton Wants To Recreate Playboy Cover For 75th Birthday
Dolly Parton revealed that she’s dying to recreate her iconic Playboy cover from 1978 to celebrate her 75th birthday next year. Dolly Parton is itching to bust out the bunny ears and recreate her iconic 1978 Playboy cover in honour of her 75th birthday next year. The country music icon paid a visit to Australia’s 60 Minutes this week, where she was asked what she’d like to do once she reaches that 3/4-century milestone. Her answer? “I plan to be on the cover of Playboy magazine again!” she exclaimed. “I thought it would be such a hoot. If they’ll go for it. I don’t know if they will.” Dolly became...
10-Year-Old Playing "Fortnite" With Toy Gun Arrested On Felony Charge
A nerf gun gets you a felony these days. Some things, you just can’t make up. One angry mother, Stefanie Carpenter, took to social media to share her story after her son was charged with a felony for using a toy gun. Carpenter says that she waited 217 days to have the Class 5 felony charge of menacing expunged from Gavin’s record before coming forward with her story. As reported by Fox News 21, On July 24, Gavin and his friend were playing outside his grandparent’s house before a planned sleepover that night. The two kids began to play with orange-tipped...
Italy Quarantines 16 Million People Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
Italy is taking extreme precautions due to the coronavirus. An outbreak of the novel coronavirus has forced Italy to quarantine approximately 16 million people. Last month, government officials of the highly-populated area of Italy’s Lombardy region were forced to quarantine approximately 50,000 people after confirmed cases of the virus sky-rocketed from five to more than a hundred in less than three days. The Italian coronavirus outbreak allegedly began in the city of Codogno after a 38-year old man, known as ‘patient zero’ had been diagnosed with the disease. Now, Italy has become Europe’s most contaminated country on the continent with government officials taking...
Tom Hanks Fights Nazi Submarines In First "Greyhound" Trailer: Watch
World War II from the seas. Another year, another Tom Hanks “Inspired By A True Story” film. This time around, Hanks is battling with Nazi in World War II. The trailer for Greyhound, a war epic based on true events, touched down this weekend. The Sony Pictures film looks like it is packed with action, with Hanks leading a group of ships across the Atlantic Ocean. According to Variety, the studio announced that the film has pushed its release date back five weeks from May 8 to June 12, 2020. The plot of the film follows Hanks’ Capt. Ernest Krause, who must...Recent Posts
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