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Shaquille O’Neal’s second act has been full of surprises. The NBA legend and cultural icon has served as a sheriff’s deputy, reserve officer and honorary U.S. Marshal, at one point helping the Justice Department track down internet predators online; earned two master’s degrees and a doctorate; accumulated (and sold) 155 fast food franchises and 40 […]

The Writers Guild of America East has struck a partnership with the AI shielding tool Cloak, a service that aims to help writers safeguard their work from training AI models. The partnership will provide WGAE members with free access to Cloak, while non-WGAE members can pay $10 for Cloak once they register their script with […]

“Deadstream” helmers Joseph and Vanessa Winter are set to direct horror-thriller “Future Me,” based on a viral Reddit short story by Daria Vasileva. The film is the first title of a multi-picture deal between L.A. and UAE-based production company Longevity Pictures, indie genre label Spooky Pictures and Abu Dhabi’s Image Nation Studios. Originally published in […]

“MobLand” actor Mandeep Dhillon has started production on short “The Things I Want to Do to You,” which she wrote and will star in. Directed by BAFTA nominee Lynette Linton, the psychological drama also features “Bridgerton” star Golda Rosheuvel and “The Game’s” Scott Karim. It’s produced by Katie Glaister under Dhillon’s production banner Hazy Plant […]

Streaming guide JustWatch Group set its 30 major content partners for its Advertising-Based Video on Demand streaming service, JustWatch TV, which launched Tuesday. Cineverse will serve as the content partner in the U.S. alongside Leonine Studios in Germany, SND in France and Altitude in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The companies join previously announced partners […]

Daniel Kaluuya will make his New York stage debut in “Grass,” a new play from Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. “Grass” traces a mother and son’s surreal, sprawling road trip through the American South marked by fantastical encounters with historical and allegorical figures. A press release describes “Grass” as “equal parts fantasia, memory […]

The Writers Guild of America East is seeking to help its members make it more difficult for their work to be ingested by artificial intelligence models. The union has just begun offering members free access to a software called Cloak, which renders documents “unreadable” by AI models while preserving the formatting. Writers can upload a […]

It is a star-studded lineup for the Critics Choice Association’s ninth annual Celebration of Black Cinema & Television. Debbie Allen, Chris Rock, Quinta Brunson, Jaafar Jackson and Chiwetel Ejiofor are among this year’s honorees for this year’s event, taking place November 16 and highlighting standout performances and work, both onscreen and offscreen, from the Black […]

EXCLUSIVE: LOL: Last One Laughing has found its referee. Nick Kroll will host the U.S. version of the hit international comedy format for Amazon. Kroll, who starred in The League and created series including Comedy Central’s Kroll Show and Netflix’s Big Mouth and Mating Season, will also exec produce the series. He joins the likes […]

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek are making their Metropolitan Opera debut with an imaginative, moving adaptation of George Saunders’s ghostly novel.

“Mayor of Kingstown,” the Taylor Sheridan-created crime series starring Jeremy Renner, will return for its fifth and final season on Jan. 15. Accompanying the news, Paramount+ released 15 photos from the season, which picks up “in the wake of Tracy’s murder and the vengeance visited upon Callahan by Mike (Renner) and Kyle McLusky (Taylor Handley),” […]

Look out, Clayface, because Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes are out for blood. And not the Theranos kind. Like box office blood. After overperforming to $15.6M No. 2 opening, The A24 Gen-Z skewing feature documentary, You Can See Everything, won Monday with $2.57M, clocking Paramount/Legendary/Capcom’s Street Fighter to second with $1.9M. The less than $10M […]