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On Monday March 24 2025, CBS broadcasts The Late Show With Stephen Colbert!

Jake Gyllenhaal; Roxane Gay Season 10 Episode 92 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” promises an exciting mix of entertainment and thought-provoking conversation. Scheduled to air on CBS, the episode features actor Jake Gyllenhaal and writer Roxane Gay as special guests. Fans of both guests can look forward to a lively and engaging show.

Jake Gyllenhaal, known for his diverse roles in films like “Nightcrawler” and “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” will likely share insights about his latest projects and experiences in the film industry. His charisma and talent have made him a favorite among audiences, and his appearance is sure to bring energy to the stage.

Roxane Gay, a prominent writer and cultural critic, is recognized for her powerful essays and books that tackle complex social issues. Her unique perspective and sharp wit will add depth to the conversation.

As the social media platform Bluesky continues to attract millions of followers, many of whom are fleeing Twitter after its toxic slide under new ownership and following the re-election of Donald Trump, an unexpected ambassador for the fledgling rival has emerged: Flavor Flav.

Since joining Bluesky two weeks ago on Nov. 8 with an initial post announcing, “I’m here,,, letz get this party started,!!,” Flav has become something of a town crier for the platform that may rival Twitter after a series of changes have turned it into what some describe as a cesspool of misinformation and forced exposure to right-wing accounts and media. According to a Nov. 13 post by Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, the site had 6 million users in late August, nearly 11 million in late October and hit 15 million users on Nov. 15.

Flav, the clock-necklace-sporting founding member of the seminal rap group Public Enemy who plays comic foil to Chuck D’s angry,...

The documentary “Survivor Made” lives up to its name. The film is made by domestic abuse survivors, for survivors. And because they know better than anyone the importance of sharing within a community, the filmmakers have taken a unique step in releasing it.

“Survivor Made,” which is directed by Drew Denny, is rolling out this month in special screenings across the country and will be made available for Tvod rental on November 22. But more importantly, the film will be offered for free to those in need or are unable to afford the rental price, and survivors will be able to watch it anonymously if they’re in unsafe situations at home.

To champion the film’s message, IndieWire can share exclusively that Padma Lakshmi is joining “Survivor Made” as an executive producer. She joins fellow EPs Roxane Gay, Alok Vaid-Menon, Debbie Millman, and Nava Mau, all of whom are likewise outspoken survivors of gender-based violence.

The Black List, the company behind the annual list of best unproduced screenplays, is expanding into fiction, launching initiatives focusing on unpublished manuscripts, the company announced on Wednesday.

Writers will have the opportunity to showcase completed novels on the website, pay for feedback from the organization’s readers and submit manuscripts to various fiction programs. The former director of writing programs at the Center for Fiction Randy Winston will oversee the organization’s expansion into fiction.

The Black List noted that the goal of the initiative is to bridge the gap between early-career writers and the publishing arena.

Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard told the New York Times in an interview that the lack of visibility “has really negative consequences for the writers who are trying to get their work to somebody who can do something with it, but also for the publishing industry itself, because it’s...

The Black List – the company behind the annual list of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays — is expanding into fiction, launching several initiatives focused on unpublished manuscripts. In today’s announcement, The Black List said the goal of the expansion is to bridge the gap between early-career writers and the established publishing industry.

Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard said of the new efforts, “Expanding into fiction is a natural progression. Right now, there are brilliant writers around the world who don’t have access to high-quality, accountable feedback, and whose work goes unseen for reasons entirely unrelated to how good it is. That’s a massive market failure, and it changes today.”

Similar to The Black List offering professional feedback on unproduced screenplays, writers can now submit novels for paid feedback from the company’s readers, as well as create a free profile that showcases their completed works.

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Over three months before the 20th edition of The Black List hits inboxes all over town, the Franklin Leonard founded platform is broadening its horizon into novels.

“The Black List’s core mission has always been discovering, supporting, and amplifying exceptional writing–providing it with the platform and visibility that it deserves based on its merit,” said Leonard today of the move into fiction with manuscript submissions and connections to the world of adaptation for TV and film. “Expanding into fiction is a natural progression.

“Right now, there are brilliant writers around the world who don’t have access to high-quality, accountable feedback, and whose work goes unseen for reasons entirely unrelated to how good it is,” the Black List CEO adds. “That’s a massive market failure, and it changes today. I have no doubt that The Black List will find exceptional manuscripts that will become enormously popular published...

Jon Stewart will be off The Daily Show this week after contracting Covid, and Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta will step in as host.

The show announced Monday that Stewart “recently tested positive for Covid-19, therefore he will not be hosting this week and will return on Monday, August 12.” . Scheduled guests this week include author Roxane Gay, actor, former Daily Show correspondent Ed Helms and comedian Hannah Berner.

It was announced earlier this year that Stewart would return as host the Comedy Central late-night show one night a week through the 2024 election cycle. Stewart hosts on Monday nights, with the rest of the week handled by its correspondents, who include Desi Lydic, Kosta and Ronny Chieng.

His return came eight years after he stepped down from hosting the show, which revolutionized late-night television and brought through the likes of Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Samantha Bee and Steve Carell.

As part of his deal,...

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show won’t have Jon Stewart behind the desk this week.

The show said Monday that Stewart “recently tested positive for Covid-19, therefore he will not be hosting this week and will return on Monday, August 12.”

Michael Kosta, one of The Daily Show’s correspondents, will instead host the program all week. Scheduled gusts include author Roxane Gay and actor and former Daily Show correspondent Ed Helms.

Stewart returned to The Daily Show earlier this year, striking a deal with Comedy Central to host on Monday nights, with members of the show’s team hosting on other nights. Ratings have improved for the program, and not only on nights where Stewart hosts.

While the Covid production protocols that had been in place since 2020 have largely been loosened, the virus has still kept some talent off the air in recent months. Late last year, for example,...

For over a decade, Black Twitter served as a cultural hub and megaphone for the community. People gathered to joke and organize, find solidarity, and drive change. But with Twitter’s decline, this important online haven has faced erasure. Enter director Prentice Penny’s three-part documentary for Hulu. Black Twitter: A People’s History sets out to document this digital movement before its potential loss, capturing both its lighter and heavier moments.

Penny guides viewers through Black Twitter’s rise and evolution. We hear from journalists, comedians, and scholars about those early years. When hashtags like #UKnowUrBlackWhen took off and users flocked in bigger numbers than other sites. How it became a space to openly discuss pop culture and politics within the community. Figures like April Reign explain how platforms like Twitter enabled new forms of activism around issues like #OscarsSoWhite.

Woven throughout is necessary context on the offline realities that shaped experiences online.

The Signal Awards, which celebrates excellence in podcasting across multiple industry-vetted categories, has announced that 13+ year industry veteran and former On Air Fest Co-Creator Jemma Rose Brown will serve as its new General Manager.

In her role, Jemma will lead all strategic business efforts for the awards program and carry out its core missions to honor excellence in podcasting and enable discovery within the industry. The 3rd annual Signal Awards winners will be announced on October 15, 2024, and the awards ceremony will occur shortly after. The Signal Awards have quickly become the industry’s most sought after award, with over 2000 entries last year alone and more than 130,000 podcast fans voting for the Signal Listener’s Choice award.

The Signal Awards tapped Jemma from creative agency work x work, where she’d previously served as the longtime Director of both the agency’s strategic operations and On Air Fest, the premiere creative festival for podcasters.

Now that nearly two years have passed since W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner served a nine-month sentence for cannabis possession at a Russian penal colony, she has begun speaking out about the suffering she experienced while behind bars. In a New York Times interview, Griner said she felt dehumanized when a guard fastened a chain to her handcuffs, treating her like a dog, and how, in another instance, doctors forced her to undress so they could photograph her nude. In her darkest moments, she contemplated death by suicide.

Exclusive: Nrdc (Natural Resources Defense Council), the Black List, the Redford Center, and the CAA Foundation today announced the recipients of the 2024 Nrdc Climate Storytelling Fellowship and the Hollywood creatives who will mentor them. Along with new partner NBCUniversal, the organizations also announced the opening of the submission window for the 2025 cycle of the fellowship.

Now in its fourth year, the first-of-its-kind fellowship supports screenwriters in the revision of their feature or television screenplays that reflect our climate and environmental crises and engage with its impacts.

2024 Fellows, Mentors and Projects

Out of a record-breaking 456 submissions, Elizabeth Chatelain, Marcus Tappan, and writing pair Sasha Stewart and Casey Rand have been selected for their unique and captivating portrayals of the climate crisis. Each fellow, or writing team, will receive a $20,000 grant and be paired with an entertainment industry professional who will provide mentorship and creative support to further develop their screenplays.

This...

Taylor Swift, Timothée Chalamet, Ryan Gosling, Olivia Rodrigo, Barbie, Saltburn, Sydney Sweeney and The Hollywood Reporter are among the nominees for the 28th annual Webby Awards, which honor the best of the internet.

Organizers said they received 13,000 entries from more 70 countries around the world this year, with PBS leading the nominees with 20 mentions, followed by Warner Bros. Discovery (18), Audible (16), Netflix (14), CNN (13), Paramount (11), iHeartMedia (11), The Washington Post (11) and MTV Entertainment (11). Awards are handed out across categories encompassing overall website, video, advertising, media and PR, apps and software, social media, podcast, games and AI, metaverse and virtual.

The Hollywood Reporter landed three noms this year, including best website/mobile site in the category of general desktop and mobile sites, entertainment. THR’s other two noms were for video content, including one for “Drama Actors Roundtable: Pedro Pascal, Evan Peters, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris & More” (general video, interview/talk show), moderated by Lacey Rose,...

If you think about it, there’s no better place to premiere “Black Twitter: A People’s History” than at South by Southwest.

The three-part Hulu and Onyx docuseries based on Jason Parham’s similarly titled “Wired” story exists at the perfect intersection of entertainment, internet, and culture — just like SXSW itself.

“When I read the article, it was not only was only something that I love, that I participated in, but I saw the power of it,” director Prentice Penny told IndieWire during the conference. “It was sort of feeling like the way my mother talks about the Civil Rights Movement. That’s what I felt like was happening on Black Twitter.”

Along with being an active platform-formerly-known-as-Twitter user, Penny (whose profile welcomes users with the subhed “Fux Yo Blue Check”) was itching to do something different after “Insecure” — something that scared him.

“When Sarah Amos and the team at...

Prentice Penny had just wrapped the fifth and final season of Issa Rae’s Insecure and was awaiting its release on HBO when Wired senior writer Jason Parham published his definitive “A People’s History of Black Twitter” in July 2021. The three-part, 9,821-word series chronicles the evolution of the nebulous and influential collective of Black users on the platform now known as X, from an inciting event (the hashtag #UKnowUrBlackWhen) to its growing influence and respective backlash through the present.

For Penny, a multihyphenate talent whose work on such series as Insecure and Girlfriends had been elevated and celebrated by Black Twitter, adapting Parham’s articles into a colorful visual history through the documentary medium seemed like an exciting new challenge after spending much of his two decades in TV predominantly in the narrative comedy space with shows including Scrubs, Happy Endings and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

The result is Hulu’s...

A frank but endearing documentary makes for a convincing indictment of the corporate machine that says big is bad

Film-maker Jeanie Finlay paints a warm and generous portrait of a sympathetic subject: the American fat activist, podcaster and bestselling author Aubrey Gordon who became a viral sensation for her blog Your Fat Friend, in which she railed against the cruelty – sometimes unintentional and sometimes not – of people who can’t help deriding people like her. Her sprightly, witty, unrepentant arias of complaint earned her a fanbase that included Roxane Gay, James Corden and Adele. But it also got her trolling and vicious abuse.

Gordon tells us of a lifetime enduring cringe-making euphemisms and condescension, as well as taking on the insidious diet industry, which has now rebranded itself the “wellness” industry; she makes a fierce and persuasive case that the diet/wellness racket is a corporate machine that promotes anxieties...

In the Know is a comedy series that combines stop-motion animation with genuine interviews with real-life stars. The show follows the exploits of Lauren Caspian, the third most popular NPR host, and the chaos behind his talk show. The creators aimed to create a blend of workplace comedy and interviews, with an eclectic range of guests chosen.

In the Know is a new comedy that follows the exploits of the third most popular NPR host and the behind-the-scenes chaos behind his show. Part stop-motion and part live-action talk show, the Peacock series features genuine interviews with a myriad of real-life stars. In the Know comes from the minds of The Office's Zach Woods, comedian and Ucb veteran Brandon Gardner, and Mike Judge, who's known for creating iconic animated series like Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill.

Alongside his creative role in the show, Woods stars as lead character Lauren Caspian,...

Zach Woods and Brandon Gardner are doing great things. As director and writer, respectively, they've made two of the best shorts in recent years, with the hilarious yet touching David and the immensely moving and tense film, Bud. They have a way of combining absurdity with quiet sincerity, and if you're not laughing, you're feeling something mysterious and complicated inside. And now they've teamed up with animation legend and satirical mastermind Mike Judge for the Peacock comedy series, In the Know.

Through stop-motion animation and live-action interviews, In the Know follows the small radio team crew of the titular fictional talk show, hosted by Lauren Caspian. Each brief episode follows the office's dynamics and is interspersed with interviews that Woods conducts in character as Lauren. He speaks with a broad cross-section of interesting people — Kaia Gerber, Jonathan Van Ness, Ken Burns, Finn Wolfhard, Norah Jones, Tegan and Sara, Nicole Byer,...

Finn Wolfhard is awkwardly interviewed by animated host Lauren Caspian in this clip from Peacock's In the Know. In the Know is an adult animated comedy series featuring stop-motion animation and live-action interviews with guests. The show aims to start funny, scary, and friendly conversations and centers around the character Lauren Caspian.

NPR host Lauren Caspian has Finn Wolfhard audition for an interesting new role in this exclusive clip from Peacock’s In the Know. The Stranger Things and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire star is put on the spot by the animated host, voiced by Zach Woods, who offers Wolfhard the chance to audition to play a young Lauren Caspian in a potential biopic. You can check out the charming new clip from In the Know below:

Alongside the new footage, you can also check out the official synopsis for In the Know below, which offers a better idea of what...

In the Know is coming to Peacock later this month. In the meantime, the streaming service has released a trailer teasing the new stop-motion comedy. The series will take viewers behind the scenes of a fictional NPR radio program, In The Know.

The voices of Zach Woods, Mike Judge, Caitlin Reilly, Charlie Bushnell, J. Smith-Cameron, and Carl Tart star in the series with Kaia Gerber, Jonathan Van Ness, Ken Burns, Finn Wolfhard, Norah Jones, Tegan and Sara, Nicole Byer, Roxane Gay, Mike Tyson, Jorge Masvidal, and Hugh Laurie playing interviewees.

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In The Know — Pictured: Mike Judge as Sandy — (Photo by: Peacock) Lauren Caspian is NPR’s third most popular host. He’s a well-meaning, hypocritical nimrod, just like you and me. He’s also a stop motion puppet. Each episode follows the making of an episode of Lauren’s show In the Know, in which Lauren conducts in-depth interviews with real world human guests. Lauren collaborates with a diverse crew of NPR staff. They are also puppets and nimrods. Guest Interviewees Include Kaia Gerber, Jonathan Van Ness, Ken Burns, Finn Wolfhard, Norah Jones, Tegan and Sara, Nicole Byer, Roxane Gay, Mike Tyson, Jorge Masvidal and Hugh Laurie The Series From Zach Woods, Brandon Gardner and Mike Judge Premieres January 25 on Peacock.

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Peacock has unveiled the trailer for In The Know, an adult animation series which combines stop-motion animation and live-action interviews, from Zach Woods, Mike Judge and Brandon Gardner.

Co-created by Woods, Gardner and Judge, the public radio parody chronicles the making of NPR’s fictional “third most popular host” Lauren Caspian’s radio program, where he conducts in-depth interviews with guests, including Kaia Gerber, Ken Burns, Finn Wolfhard, Norah Jones, Mike Tyson, Hugh Laurie, Jorge Masvisdal and more.

In one interview Caspian asks Hugh Laurie, “what should we do about Meghan Markle,” to which an emotionless Laurie responds, “I don’t know that any action is required.”

Caspain also tells a befuddled Jonathan Van Ness that he’s a sapiosexual who “once got an erection by reading Plato’s The Cave.” Other guests include Norah Jones, Nicole Byer, Roxane Gay, and Tegan and Sara,...

Mike Judge and Zach Woods take on the well-intentioned, if not slightly delusional, airwaves of public radio in the new trailer for the upcoming semi-animated series, In the Know.

The show centers around Lauren Caspian (voiced by Woods), public radio’s third most popular host, whose self-absorption and haughtiness are matched only by the dulcet tenor of his voice. Each episode centers around Lauren’s in-depth interview program, which will feature real-life celebrity guests.

The clip offers a glimpse at Lauren’s ridiculous interview style, like when he asks Tegan...

What’s going on with NPR’s third most popular host? “In The Know” combines puppetry, stop-motion animation, and live-action interviews. The series may be unique in its execution, but the celebrity interviewee segments harken back to traditional talk shows. ‘Know’ interviewees include Kaia Gerber, Jonathan Van Ness, Ken Burns, Finn Wolfhard, Norah Jones, Tegan and Sara, Nicole Byer, Roxane Gay, Mike Tyson, Jorge Masvidal and Hugh Laurie.

Continue reading ‘In The Know’ Trailer: Peacock’s First Adult Animated Series Stars Zach Woods As An “Nimrod” NPR Host at The Playlist.

Peacock's first adult animated comedy series, In the Know, features intricate stop-motion animation and live-action interviews with a star-studded lineup of guests. The show follows the making of Lauren Caspian's radio program, where he conducts in-depth interviews with real-world human guests, including Kaia Gerber, Ken Burns, Finn Wolfhard, Norah Jones, Mike Tyson, Hugh Laurie, and more. In the Know, will premiere on January 25, 2024, on Peacock.

Peacock has today debuted the official trailer and revealed the star-studded live action guest interviewee lineup for In the Know, which will premiere exclusively on Peacock from January 25, 2024. From Zach Woods, Brandon Gardner, and Mike Judge, In the Know is Peacock’s first adult animated original comedy series which blends intricate stop-motion animation by ShadowMachine with live-action interviews with a variety of guests including Kaia Gerber, Ken Burns, Finn Wolfhard, Norah Jones, Mike Tyson, Hugh Laurie, and more.

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Peacock has unveiled the trailer for In the Know, the NBCUniversal-backed streamer’s first adult animation series.

And, it’s awkward.

The cringe cartoon comedy from Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head) and Greg Daniels (King of the Hill) aims at laughter from uncomfortable interviews with live guests like Hugh Laurie, Tegan and Sara, Mike Tyson and Jonathan Van Ness.

In The Know — co-created by Zach Woods (Silicon Valley, The Office), Brandon Gardner and Judge — blends stop-motion animation with live-action interviews of guests like Kaia Gerber, Ken Burns, Finn Wolfhard, Norah Jones, Nicole Byer, Roxane Gay and Jorge Masvidal.

The semi-animated series’ interviewer is Lauren Caspian, “NPR’s third most-popular host,” according to a Peacock synopsis, a stop-motion puppet and intellectual blowhard forever embarrassing himself on air in front of real world guests.

“I’m sexually attracted to ideas. I once got an erection from reading Plato’s The Cave,...

Exclusive: Writer, director and comedian Rochée Jeffrey has signed with Independent Artist Group for representation.

A writer on Showtime’s Golden Globe-nominated comedy series Smilf, as well as Hulu’s Woke, BET+’s Bigger and Freeform’s Grown-ish, Jeffrey additionally served as a co-executive producer on the latter.

Boasting multiple TV projects in development at Netflix with Imagine, Roc Nation, and Tomorrow Studios, she most recently co-created, co-wrote and directed the Audible narrative podcast series Yes We Cannabis. Sam Richardson, Method Man, and Tichina Arnold star in the series, launched back in August, which is produced by Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video.

A graduate of the 2022 WGA Showrunner Training Program, Jeffrey has also completed fellowships with Sundance, Women In Film, Film Independent, and the Viacom Emerging Directors Program. Among her upcoming projects is Not Your Average Queen, her first feature as a director, which will be produced by Valerie Steinberg. Killer Films,...

The Hollywood Reporter thanks the following 322 members of the global film community — listed alphabetically — for taking the time to cast a ballot to help us determine the 100 greatest film books of all time.

Seth Abramovitch

The Hollywood Reporter journalist/It Happened in Hollywood podcast host

Jo Addy

Soho House group film and entertainment director

Casey Affleck

Oscar-winning actor

Rutanya Alda

Author/actress

Stephanie Allain

Filmmaker

Victoria Alonso

Filmmaker/executive

Tony Angellotti

Publicist

Bonnie Arnold

Filmmaker/executive

Miguel Arteta

Filmmaker

Chris Auer

Filmmaker/film professor

John Badham

Filmmaker/film professor

Amy Baer

Executive

Matt Baer

Filmmaker

Lindsey Bahr

Journalist

Ramin Bahrani

Oscar-nominated filmmaker

Cameron Bailey

Toronto International Film Festival CEO/former film critic

John Bailey

Cinematographer/former Academy president

Bela Bajaria

Executive

Sean Baker

Filmmaker

Alec Baldwin

Oscar-nominated actor/author

Tino Balio

Author/film professor

Jeffrey Barbakow

Executive

Michael Barker

Executive

Mike Barnes

The Hollywood Reporter journalist

Jeanine Basinger

Author/film...

In the divorce battle shaping up between Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner, Jessica Chastain appears to have planted herself on Team Sophie.

As more details emerge about the split between the Jonas Brothers singer and the “Game of Thrones” star, one point of contention is where their two children will be residing, with Turner claiming that Jonas is refusing to relinquish their passports so they can live with her in the U.K.

On Friday, Chastain appeared to weigh in on the matter when she reposted an X (formerly Twitter) post from writer and professor Roxane Gay.

Read More: Sophie Turner Suing Joe Jonas, Accuses Him Of Refusing To Send Their Daughters Back To England Amid Divorce

“The way Joe Jonas miscalculated his popularity with his transparent attempts at PR manipulation, particularly when the North remembers is Fascinating,” Gay wrote. “And holding the children’s passports to keep them from their mother?...

Ariana Grande, Guillermo del Toro, Padma Lakshmi, Roxane Gay, Gabrielle Union, Sandra Cisneros, Amanda Gorman, Margaret Cho and Ron Perlman are among the signatories of an open letter calling on creative communities in Hollywood and beyond to leverage their voices to stop book bans.

Upwards of 175 actors, musicians, authors, comedians, reality stars, models, media personalities, academics, activists and more have signed the open letter spearheaded by Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton and published Tuesday via public advocacy organization and political action committee MoveOn Political Action.

LeVar Burton

The letter encourages signatories and readers to address challenges at the local level across U.S. school districts, while calling out book bans as “restrictive behavior” that is “antithetical to free speech and expression.” It also underscores the “chilling effect” these bans can have “on the broader creative field.”

“We cannot stress enough how these censorious efforts will not end with book bans,...

Exclusive: José Andrés, the celebrity chef whose World Central Kitchen provides meals to those affected by disasters, has penned his own graphic novel.

Andrés has teamed up with Tko Studios to publish Feeding Dangerously: On the Ground with José Andrés and World Central Kitchen.

The book, which comes out November 8, is co-written by Andrés and Steve Orlando and illustrated by Alberto Ponticelli.

It tells the origin story of Andrés and his non-profit World Central Kitchen as they traverse the globe serving meals to communities affected by natural and man-made disasters. World Central Kitchen has served more than 300M meals worldwide.

For each book purchased directly, Tko Studios will donate $5 to World Central Kitchen to support their work and also made an initial donation of $100,000. It is available now for pre-orders.

Tko Studios was founded in 2018 by author Salvatore Simeone and TV showrunner and filmmaker Tze Chun, and has published graphic...

Get ready to howl at the moon. Out today from indie publisher Tko Studios is Lonesome Days, Savage Nights: The Manning Files Vol. 2, a continuation of hardboiled crime thriller with a supernatural twist.

The graphic novel follows the exploits of a private detective who also happens to be a werewolf. Or rather, private detective Stu Manning discovers how being a werewolf can make his job easier and more complicated at once.

Best-selling creator and Bram Stoker Award nominee Salvatore Simeone (Lonesome Days Savage Nights) and artist Szymon Kudranski (The Punisher) returns to the world of “Stu Manning, the hard-luck private detective with a beast of a secret. After the loss of his love Audrey and defeating a massive crime ring, Stu is back to wandering the streets of Central City at night — keeping his inner monster’s thirst for blood in check. But when tech giant and billionaire-owned Rush Corp arrives,...

When Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls reality show, championing body positivity and inclusivity, captured an Emmy last year, perhaps more notable than its upset win was the entertainer’s emotional acceptance speech.

Calling the trophy for outstanding competition series “nice” after beating out extremely popular TV programs like RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Voice, The Amazing Race and Top Chef, Lizzo said: “When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media, someone fat like me, Black like me, beautiful like me.”

She closed her speech by pointing to her cast of plus-size female dancers of color, who cheered loudly from their seats. “One year ago these women were filming this television show that would change their lives forever. They are Emmy Award-winning superstars who are going on a world tour. Make some noise for my Big Grrrls. I love you guys so much.

The 2023 Tribeca Festival has revealed its opening and closing night and centerpiece selections, as well as more gala events.

The festival will kick off on Wednesday, June 7, with the North American premiere of the documentary Kiss the Future, which follows underground musicians and creatives through the siege of Sarajevo and the 1997 U2 concert celebrating the liberation of the Bosnian capital. The movie is produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Sarah Anthony.

“We are grateful to the people of Sarajevo and to U2 for giving us the opportunity to help tell this special story,” Damon said in a statement. “Though this event happened almost 30 years ago, we feel it has strong relevance to today’s world, serving as a powerful reminder that human creativity can provide a powerful antidote to even the most horrific of situations.”

In a separate statement after the selection was announced, U2’s Bono said, “We...

The Hollywood Reporter’s Blackfamous Roundtable has won a Webby Award.

THR was honored with the award in the diversity, equity and inclusion, social video category.

The roundtable featured a conversation with Loretta Devine, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Larenz Tate and Lynn Whitfield, moderated by THR editorial director Nekesa Mumbi Moody. The group opened up about the power and privilege of being legends among Black fans and how the new Hollywood landscape is making entertainment both less segmented and less intimate.

The Webbys ceremony, honoring the best of the Internet, will take place May 15 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York, with Roy Wood Jr. returning as host. The show is known for limiting winners to five-word acceptance speeches.

Nominees were announced April 4, with the winners being revealed April 25. Apple, Rihanna, Discord, Serena Williams, Selena Gomez, BTS, former President Barack Obama, Doja Cat, Steph Curry, Nike, Lizzo and...

Exclusive: The Natural Resources Defense Council, The Black List, The Redford Center and the CAA Foundation have announced the opening of submissions for the third cycle of their Nrdc Climate Storytelling Fellowship, for the year 2024.

A first-of-its-kind program supporting screenplays or pilots that engage with climate change in a meaningful and unique way, the fellowship has thus far supported half a dozen writers through grant funding and mentorship from creative professionals, as well as script feedback from Nrdc’s team of climate experts. For this cycle, Nrdc will also cover the cost of one month of hosting and one evaluation on the Black List website for all qualified screenplays.

“The fellowship is part of Nrdc’s Rewrite the Future program, which helps Hollywood tell stories about climate change and environmental justice,” said Nrdc director of entertainment partnerships and fellowship founder Katy Jacobs. “We want to support great stories that engage...

Harry Styles, Post Malone, Lizzo, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, the cast of “Ted Lasso” and the web series that gave us a kid loving corn are among the nominees for this year’s Webby Awards, recognizing the best internet content and creators.

The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced the nominees on Tuesday, the result of nearly 14,000 entries from 70 countries.

Styles nabbed a nomination for his commercial for AirPods, Trevor Noah for his segments filmed between the scenes at “The Daily Show” and BTS fans for their YouTube uploads called #MyBTStory. Lizzo got one for her hosting her show “Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Grrrls,” in which she hunts for dancers.

Doja Cat’s reluctant social video for Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza — “I like my pizza with refried beans/Peep my ad/ Search YouTube/This ain’t even Mexican food” — was nominated for best advertising partnership,...

Thank goodness that when Jamie Morton discovered his dad had started writing embarrassingly bad erotica, he decided to share it with the world. This resulted in My Dad Wrote a Porno, a weekly podcast series in which he read a chapter of his father’s steamy Belinda Blinked novels aloud, capturing the hilarious reactions of his friends Alice Levine and James Cooper.

When it began in 2015, the podcast renaissance was only just beginning, and you could argue that My Dad Wrote a Porno’s runaway success – sparking world tours, a HBO special, and a whopping 430 million downloads – had a hand in bringing the podcasting industry to its current dizzying heights.

Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and after six wild seasons the show released its final episode in December 2022. For some, it remains unbeatable, but here are some excellent – and often equally cringey – comedy podcasts to fill...

Following on the heels of runs by Ta-Nahesi Coates and John Ridley, Eve. Ewing is slated to be the next writer for Marvel’s Black Panther. The announcement was made on yesterday’s Today Show, revealing the cover and design sheet for the latest Black Panther #1. Coming this June, T’Challa returns in the new solo ongoing comic book series by writer Eve L. Ewing and Stormbreaker artist Chris Allen.

Banished from the throne and a fugitive in his own homelands, T’Challa still can’t leave Wakanda without its sworn protector. A king without a crown, he finds new purpose lurking the streets and shadows of the Wakandan city that bears his father’s name, Birnin T’Chaka. New direction, new villains, new creative team – get in on the ground floor of Marvel’s next smash hit! Get a first look at the revamped design for T’Challa now.

Exclusive: CAA has signed actress and producer Kate Mara for representation.

Mara perhaps is best known for her Emmy-nominated work as Washington Herald reporter Zoe Barnes on David Fincher’s political thriller series House of Cards, which became a Netflix signature drama and was the first title to be produced by a studio for the streamer.

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She more recently exec produced and starred opposite Nick Robinson in the FX limited series A Teacher, adapted by Hannah Fidell from her 2013 film, which landed an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best New Scripted Series.

Mara also was a series regular in the first season of Ryan Murphy’s FX series Pose,...

Exclusive: The three recipients of the 2023 Nrdc Climate Storytelling Fellowship have been chosen and they have some heavy hitters in their corners as mentors.

With their projects on the climate crisis, Marlee Fox, Quinn Garrett Martin and Joshua Ravenwood were the successful applicants out the 348 submissions last year for the CAA, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Black List and Redford Center backed program. You can learn more about the recipients and their respective And Away, This Light of Mine and S.O.S. Scoundrels of State features below.

Designated to focus on the consequences and looming and currently catastrophes of our injured natural environment, the projects from Fox, Martin and Ravenwood were judged in no small part on how “compelling, constructive and inclusive” they could be in spotlighting the climate crisis.

“Investing in stories that show the diverse faces and impacts of a climate-altered world is crucial for us to...

In a letter addressed to The New York Times, celebrities and LGBTQ+ organizations are calling for an overhaul in the publication’s approach to covering transgender people, calling their current practices “dangerous.” Gabrielle Union, Judd Apatow, Tommy Dorfman, Jonathan Van Ness, Margaret Cho, Jameela Jamil, Lena Dunham, Joey Soloway, Wilson Cruz, and more are among the signees.

“The Times has repeatedly platformed cisgender (non-transgender) people spreading inaccurate and harmful misinformation about transgender people and issues,” the letter published by GLAAD reads. “This is damaging to the paper’s credibility. And...

While filming The Whale, Darren Aronofsky’s divisive new drama about a morbidly obese man, Hong Chau did something many would consider unforgivable: she smacked Brendan Fraser. Playing the caregiver to Fraser’s ailing Charlie – a man so stricken with grief that he’s eating himself to death – Chau wanted to convey someone at the very end of her tether. In a moment of improvisation, she slapped Fraser’s arm. It made Aronofsky wince. He cut the cameras and took Chau aside.

“That was the one time he objected to an instinct I had,” the 43-year-old star of The Menu and Downsizing says today. “He was like, ‘No, I don’t think we want to be hitting him on screen – that’s really a terrible thing to do’. And I was like, ‘I agree. It is a terrible thing to do’.”

For Chau, it didn’t just demonstrate her willingness to go to difficult,...

Black Panther has proven himself to be an iconic tent pole of Marvel Comics, and the hero's main comic book will be authored by a Black woman for the first time ever. Notably, Black writers have only had the ability to direct the flagship Black Panther title for less than thirty years. Even still, it is shocking to see that 2023 marks the first time a Black woman gets to take the reins of this franchise. The current Black Panther title will reach its conclusion after its next couple of issues, and the future of Wakanda's protector remained completely blank until earlier this week.

An exclusive report from ComicBook.com on Wednesday confirmed that the Black Panther ongoing title will relaunch this June. Alongside some promotional art from Razzah, the article also detailed the new creative team working on the book. Known for her work on Ironheart and the ongoing Monica Rambeau: Photon limited series,...

Eddie Murphy referenced the slap of the year in his acceptance speech at the 80th annual Golden Globes ceremony Tuesday night.

The comedian was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award, which recognizes “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.” He began by thanking his girlfriend and his ten children. At the end of his speech, Murphy gave a word of advice to “all the new up-and-coming dreamers and artists” out there.

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“I want to let you know that there is a definitive blueprint that you can follow to achieve success, prosperity, longevity and peace of mind,” he said. “It’s a blueprint and I’ve followed it my whole career.”

The audience listened intently, waiting for a serious, weighty piece of advice from the Hollywood icon. He continued: “it’s three things.”

“Pay your taxes, mind your business,” he said. “And...

Adele has led messages of support to Megan Thee Stallion after Tory Lanez was found guilty of shooting her at a party.

On Friday (23 December) afternoon, a jury ruled that Tory – real name Daystar Peterson – had shot Megan outside a party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills house in 2020.

The Canadian rapper was convicted of assault and weapons charges and faces more than 20 years in prison.

Following the verdict, social media was flooded with messages of support for Megan, while also lamenting the struggle she had been through to be believed by her critics.

On stage at her Las Vegas residency on Friday night, Adele sent love to the rapper.

“Someone said, ‘Why doesn’t Adele have back-up dancers?’ and then someone made a video of ‘Water Under the Bridge’ with Meg Thee Stallion doing the dance to it. Remember that?” Adele said, with the audience cheering at Megan’s name.

“The Whale” director Darren Aronofsky doesn’t understand some of the criticism surrounding the film.

Brendan Fraser has largely received praise for his portrayal of 600-pound character Charlie, who is confined to a wheelchair, in the movie.

However, some have called the film “fatphobic”, with writer Roxane Gay even saying it was “exploitative” and “at times, cruel” in a New York Times article.

Aronofsky told Yahoo! Entertainment of any criticism: “Actors have been using makeup since the beginning of acting — that’s one of their tools.

“And the lengths we went to to portray the realism of the make-up has never been done before. One of my first calls after casting Brendan was to my makeup artist, Adrien Morot. I asked him, ‘Can we do something that’s realistic? Because if it’s going to look like a joke, then we shouldn’t do it.'”

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Trevor Noah is saying goodbye to The Daily Show after seven years.

The comedian gave a tearful goodbye to his fans in his final address at the desk, thanking everyone who has ever watched the Comedy Central show and giving particular praise to Black women for their support.

“I’m grateful to you every single one of you. I remember when we started the show, we couldn’t get enough people to fill an audience,” he said, noting that’s how comedy has always worked.

“Then I look at this now and I don’t take it for granted ever. Every seat that has ever been filled to watch something I’m doing is always appreciated because I know the empty seat that sits behind it,” he added. “Thank you to people who watch, the people who share the clips, everyone who’s had an opinion, everyone who’s been kind enough and gracious enough,...

This article contains spoilers for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."

It seems like we have this same exact conversation every time a new Marvel movie is released. We hear that an LGBTQ character is appearing in a film and anticipate them being an integral part of the plot, even if their powers aren't directly tied to their sexuality or gender. However, almost every single time this happens, they turn out to be easily discarded or ignored altogether. Perhaps they pull their partner in for one quick kiss, shot at a distance, and that's all you really see of them. It begs the question, why even say that a character is LGBTQ if you're not going to feature them at all?

It turns out that you'll have to ask that question again after you see "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." While it probably isn't surprising that the Dora Milaje officer Ayo (Florence Kasumba...

A Russian appeals court upheld Brittney Griner‘s nine-year drug smuggling sentence.

President Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement, “the President has demonstrated that he is willing to go to extraordinary lengths and make tough decisions to bring Americans home.”

The White House has made little headway, however, since Griner was arrested in February at a Moscow airport for her alleged possession of vape cartridges containing hashish oil.

In August, she was sentenced to nine years in Russian prison after being convicted of possession and smuggling of cannabis oil.

Sullivan called Griner’s latest court appeal “another sham judicial proceeding,” and said that “Brittney should be released immediately.”

The Women’s National Basketball Players Association released a statement Tuesday on Twitter supporting Griner.

“Brittney has repeatedly taken responsibility and made clear that she never intended to break Russian laws,” the statement said. “This appeal is...