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Discovery has announced its creating a documentary series about one of Hollywood’s messiest divorces.

Johnny vs. Amber is a two-part series about the mega-hyped relationship, and eventual acrimonious split, of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

Each episode of the two-show series will see the situation from both sides. “Depp’s film will portray that he found himself married to a Machiavellian liar who would stop at nothing to protect her image,” Discovery says, “While Heard’s film explores how she married the man of her dreams only to see him turn into a violent drug-fuelled monster.”

The series will feature footage from the lawyers involved in the divorce, from people close to the pair, and from Depp and Heard’s own text exchanges. Viewers will also “examine extensive footage and audio recordings filmed by the couple themselves.”

Depp and Heard met on the set of 2011’s The Rum Diary, and married in Los Angeles in February 2015. They split a year later, and their divorce saw each star leveling abuse charges against each other.

Johnny vs. Amber will be available to watch on Discovery+ later this year.

Clare Laycock, head of entertainment at Discovery, said in a statement, “The series provides an in-depth insight into the epic battle that powered #JusticeforJohnnyDepp and #IStandWithYouAmberHeard fan campaigns and the very public High Court case that gripped us all.” 

Laycock called it a, “multi-layered story into something both engrossing and horrifying.”

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Ready, set, binge! Here are some of the new titles available to stream this weekend:

Netflix
Tiger King (Season 2): Learn new secrets and revelations about America’s most notorious big cat owners when the hit show Tiger King continues with its second season.

Tick, Tick…Boom!: Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his directorial debut with his adaptation of tick, tick…BOOM!, an autobiographical musical about Jonathon Larson, the creator of Rent.

Cowboy Bebop: Based on the beloved anime, watch the new series Cowboy Bebop about bounty hunters outrunning the solar system’s most dangerous criminals.

Hulu
The Great (Season 2): Find out what happens when Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own in the second season of The Great.

HBOMax
King Richard: Experience the life of tennis patriarch Richard Williams in the new film about the man who raised two of the most gifted athletes of all time: Venus and Serena Williams.

The Sex Lives of College Girls: Follow four roommates as they live out their hormone-fueled lives in this new comedy series from Mindy Kaling.

Amazon Prime Video
The Wheel of Time: The fantasy series is based on the wildly popular novels by Robert Jordan.

Apple TV+
The Line: This four-part docuseries examines the case of U.S. Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who “stood accused by his own platoon in the biggest war crimes trial in a generation.” 

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It appears that Scarlett Johansson‘s post-lawsuit settlement statement about ABC’s parent company Disney wasn’t just the standard Hollywood make-nice.

At Thursday night’s star-packed American Cinematheque tribute to the actress at the Beverly Hilton, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige revealed that Johansson is working on “another non-Black Widow-related top-secret Marvel Studios project with her as a producer.”

As previously reported, Johansson sued Marvel Studios’ parent company Disney over the decision to simultaneously release Black Widow on Disney+ and in theaters. She alleged the decision cut into the movie’s box office earnings potential, and therefore her bottom line as a producer. When the case was settled in September, ScarJo had said she was looking forward to “continuing our collaboration in years to come.”

On the red carpet Thursday evening, Johansson reflected to The Hollywood Reporter about the “surreal,” situation. “I feel mostly very fortunate that nobody will have to go through what I went through and that it’s made…a positive impact in the industry and hopefully for artists and creatives’ lives and livelihood,” she said.

At the event, Johansson was feted by many of her Marvel movie co-stars and director Jon Favreau, who praised her work ethic after he cast her in the Black Widow role. Jamie Lee Curtis and Scarlett’s twin brother, Hunter, also heaped on the love.

Chris Evans noted he’s known Scarlett for 20 years, saying she’s like his older sister, “even though I am technically older.”

He joked, “…there’s just no one else in the world that I would rather annoy. I don’t know what it is…I see her focusing trying to think about the day and I just want to start singing show tunes six inches from her face. I can’t help myself.”

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The days are getting shorter, but luckily as we head into the holidays, Disney+ already has a full slate of seasonal goodies for you to unwrap on those cold winter nights.

Have a movie night with friends and family with the newly released Home Sweet Home Alone, starring Archie Yates, Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, and Aisling Bea, or spend a weekend binge watching all of The Simpsons’ Christmas specials.

Marvel Studios’ latest show Hawkeye debuts on November 24, with a decidedly “Christmas in New York” settling. Classics such as The Nightmare Before Christmas, Home Alone and The Santa Clause are also available to watch on Disney+, and there are even holiday-themed episodes of throwback shows like Kim Possible and Even Stevens to check out this season.

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Here’s the full list:

Movies and specials

‘Twas the Night
12 Dates of Christmas
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa — premiering Nov. 19
Babes in Toyland
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Christmas…Again?! — premiering Dec. 3
Cloud 9
Cool Runnings
Decorating Disney Holiday Magic’
Disney’s A Christmas Carol (2009)
Disney Channel Holiday House Party
Disney Channel’s Epic Holiday Showdown
Disney’s Fairytale Weddings: Holiday Magic
Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special — premiering Nov. 26
Ernest Saves Christmas — premiering Nov. 26
Frozen
Frozen 2
Full-Court Miracle
Good Luck Charlie: It’s Christmas!
High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Home Alone 3
Home Alone 4 — premiering Dec. 17
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist — premiering Dec. 17
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Ice Age — premiering Dec. 3
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas — premiering Nov. 26
Jingle All The Way
Jingle All The Way 2
Life Size 2
Mickey & Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas — premiering Dec. 10
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas
Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish
Santa Buddies: The Legend of the Santa Paws
Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
Snow Buddies
Snowball Express
Snowglobe
The Christmas Star
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Disney Holiday Singalong
The Mistle-Tones
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause 2
The Santa Clause 3
The Search for Santa Paws
The Ultimate Christmas Present
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
Togo
Toy Story: That Time Forgot
While You Were Sleeping
Winnie The Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year

Disney+ Originals premiering during the holiday season

Hawkeye — premiering Nov. 24
Arendelle Castle Yule Log: Cut Paper Edition — premiering Dec. 17
Godmothered
High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special
Home Sweet Home Alone
LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
Noelle
Once Upon a Snowman
Arendelle Castle Yule Log

Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special
From Our Family to Yours
Olaf’s Frozen Adventure
Once Upon a Snowman
Pluto’s Christmas Tree
Prep & Landing
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa
Puppy for Hanukkah — premiering Nov. 19
Santa’s Workshop
The Small One

The Simpsons Christmas episodes

“Bobby, It’s Cold Outside”
“Grift of the Magi”
“Holidays of Future Passed”
“I Won’t Be Home for Christmas”
“Kill Gil, Volumes I & II”
“Marge Be Not Proud”
“Miracle on Evergreen Terrace”
“She of Little Faith”
“Simpsons Christmas Stories”
“Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire”
“Skinner’s Sense of Snow”
“The Burns and the Bees”
“The Fight Before Christmas”
“The Nightmare After Krustmas”
‘”Tis the 30th Season”
“‘Tis The Fifteenth Season”
“White Christmas Blues”

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If busting makes you feel good, then you’re in luck this weekend — Ghostbusters: Afterlife opens in theaters.

It’s directed by Jason Reitman, son of Ivan Reitman, who directed and produced the original films, and his dad couldn’t be more proud.

Jason tells ABC Audio, “I think most parents had this dream that their child will one day want to work with them and pick up what they’ve built over their lifetime. And my father built Ghostbusters, and I think it was his dream that I would one day work in the shop behind the counter.”

The film is also about family — specifically, Egon Spengler’s — which Jason describes as “three generations of a family reckoning with itself as these young kids find a proton pack and Ecto-1. And in uncovering them, figuring out their new adventure, their legacy.”

Jason made it very clear to his dad that he wanted to make his own film, which was fine with Ivan, who encouraged him to make a Ghostbusters for a new generation.

“Anything new, my father was thrilled about,” notes Jason. “Oddly, it was when I would echo the past and lean into the nostalgia that my father’s back would get up and get uncomfortable.”

At the same time, Jason and co-writer Gil Kenan “felt this responsibility to simultaneously look forward, but also give people who have always loved this franchise another moment with characters they love [and] all the equipment…the music, the sound effects, the ghosts…that we’ve been wanting to see again.”

Father and son did have one major disagreement:

“If my father had his druthers, there’d be a lot more slime in this movie, I will say that,” Jason admits. “And I perhaps should have conceded just to make him happy.”  

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King Richard, the highly anticipated story of Venus and Serena Williams and the plan their father, Richard Williams, had to make them tennis champions hits theaters today.

The film stars Will Smith as the title character and Reinaldo Marcus Green, who directed the film, tells ABC Audio that his movie explores how Richard is a complicated man.

“Look, nobody’s perfect. But I think there is no doubt that that man loved his kids and gave a tremendous amount of time and commitment to their story and to who they are as a family,” he explained.

Venus and Serena’s mother, Oracene Williams, is played by Aunjanue Ellis and she shared the movie is a powerful story about love and family and she hopes it will inspire others. 

Recalling one of her “favorite scenes” in King Richard where “Will says to Venus that she’s not just representing her, she’s representing…all the little black girls in the world,” Ellis gets emotional and shares, “I mean, that’s the movie for me.”

It’s not all rainbows and blue skies though, viewers will also see that life wasn’t easy for the family. 

“We see that struggle play out for them early on in the film,” says Green. “Five girls living in one bedroom, five girls taking a really tiny VW bus, five girls hanging posters and picking up balls and what that’s like as a family.”

Ultimately, Green says it was important to make a story about an inspirational African-American family who loves and supports each other.

“There’s a huge generation of kids out there that need to see themselves, should see themselves, are worth it,” he declares. “And I think stories like this tell us that we’re worth it. And it’s through hard work and dedication, not through anything else.” 

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Queen Sugar creator Ava DuVernay has announced that her OWN series will end after its next season. The finale of season six aired Tuesday night.

“Queen Sugar being my first series where I’ve had to consider when I’m done, I’ve had to push myself to say, ‘Do you have anything more to say that needs to be said with these characters?'” the two-time Emmy winner told Deadline. “I’m so proud of what we’ve done and I’m proud that I’m brave enough to walk away.”

In other news, Halle Berry revealed that she shot the fighting scenes in her new movie Bruised with broken ribs. In the film, which marks her directorial debut, the Oscar winner portrays MMA fighter Jackie Justice.

“I knew if I told [producers] this happened, they would shut down and I would probably lose my funding,” the 55-year-old actress told USA Today. “I took a bunch of Advil and I just acted as if it wasn’t happening.” When Halle broke her ribs while shooting John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum in 2019, production shut down for eight weeks. Bruised streams November 24 on Netflix.

Finally, former Basketball Wives star Tami Roman said Wednesday on The Real that she’s willing to allow her husband, Reggie Youngblood, to father a child with another woman.

“A baby for me right now would just not be the thing to do,” she said. “So what I offered him was an opportunity for us to take a break for a year or two and let him go find someone to have a child with. And then when he has his bab, we could get back together.”

Tami continued, “He’s an only child, and he does not have any children, so it’s really more for him than it is for me.”

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Paramount+ has dropped a sneak peek at South Park‘s Post Covid “exclusive event,” and there’s some time-shifting involved. 

According to the teaser, Kyle and Stan are now adults, looking back at the madness of the pandemic days. 

“What will the future hold?” a legend asks menacingly.

Kyle rings up Stan and asks him, “You remember when we were little, as friends we said we’d always be there for each other when things got bad?”

To which Stan replies, “What do you mean, what’s happened?”

South Park: Post Covid streams exclusively on Paramount+ on Thursday, November 25 — Thanksgiving Day.

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What seemed apparent — albeit no less confusing — has “officially” come to be: Page Six says Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are “officially dating.”

The publication had initially said a connection “sparked” between the pair when she hosted Saturday Night Live in October. 

Since then, the 41-year-old entrepreneur reality star and the 28-year-old tattooed SNL funnyman had been spotted out together in New York City — and, yes, even on Staten Island, where Davidson lives.

Page Six reports that Davidson traveled to Los Angeles on Tuesday to celebrate his birthday with Kim, and he also hung out with Kim’s momager, Kris Jenner, and Flavor Flav, who posted pics of a get-together on his Instagram.

Oh, and Kim, Pete and Kris were wearing matching outfits in one of the photos — from Kim’s SKIMS leisure line, with Davidson rocking some of Flav’s trademark neckwear.

In an accompanying caption, the hip hop legend referred to Davidson as his “adopted son,” and wrote to the birthday boy, “I never took a clock off my neck to give to someone and you will be the last person I do this for.” Flav added, “it lookz real good on you.”

 

 

 

 

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The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted show on U.S. television, and while it’s been renewed for two more seasons, longtime showrunner and executive producer Al Jean has been thinking about the end. 

Deep breath, Simpsons fans: “Nobody’s going, ‘Let’s wrap it up,” Jean tells Digital Spy. “No one.”

That said, Jean explained setting the final episode where the first one took place, at a school Christmas pageant, would be the “perfect” capper. “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” the series’ first full-length episode, aired December 17, 1989.

“I just thought that the beautiful thing about that would be that the whole show would never have an end. It would be a loop, and you’d never go,” said Jean, explaining, “In animation, you don’t want characters to age and grow. You want them to be the same, you know, Bugs Bunny that he always was. So, I thought that would be a perfect end to the show.”

Jean says, “Fortunately, we are not tasked with coming up with an ending any time soon.”

He also allows of his ideal closer, “[I]t might be like the ‘Heisenberg principle‘, in that now that I’ve stated it, it’s less likely to happen.”

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