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Netflix has set an October 29 release date for their Colin Kaepernick-centered series Colin in Black & White.

As previously reported, the limited series, which follows Kaepernick’s journey to becoming a civil-rights activist and professional football player, focuses on the athlete’s young-adult years growing up in a mixed-race household after being adopted by a white family. Seventeen-year-old Jaden Michael will play Kaepernick as a teen, while Nick Offerman and Mary-Louise Parker will star as Colin’s parents.

In other news, Power universe creator Courtney A. Kemp is officially bringing her talents over to Netflix. According to Variety, Kemp has signed a multi-year creative partnership with the streamer where she will develop new projects via her End of Episode production banner.

Finally, DeVon Franklin is taking on a new project centered on relationships. Deadline reports that Franklin is developing a romantic comedy for Amazon based on Michael Todd‘s New York Times bestseller, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex. The book, which spent 13 straight weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and debuted at No. 1 on Amazon, is described as a guide to “finding lasting love and sustaining a healthy relationship.” Casting details have yet to be announced.

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The pandemic has delayed Venom: Let There Be Carnage again.

According to Variety, the release of the upcoming Venom sequel starring Tom Hardy has been pushed back due to the rise in Delta variant COVID-19 cases.

The film, which was also delayed several times during the pandemic, was most recently set to open in U.S. theaters September 24. It’s now scheduled to open on October 15.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage, directed by Andy Serkis, once again stars Hardy as the titular character, otherwise known as Eddie Brock.  Naomie Harris plays the Spider-Man villain Shriek and Woody Harrelson, who made an uncredited mid-credits appearance in the first film, stars as Carnage.  Michelle Williams will also reprise her role as Anne Weying, the ex-fiancée of Eddie Brock/Venom.

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Get ready to relive a national scandal with FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story.

The series has debuted its first full-length trailer, showing Clive Owen as President Bill Clinton, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky, Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton, Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp, and Annaleigh Ashford as Paula Jones.

Impeachment: American Crime Story follows the story of Clinton’s affair with White House intern Lewinsky in the mid-’90s, his subsequent denials of the affair, and the impeachment proceedings that followed. It’s told mostly through the perspectives of Lewinsky, Tripp and Jones.

In the trailer, we even get a peek of Owen as Clinton uttering the president’s infamous line, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

Impeachment: American Crime Story premieres September 7 on FX.

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The first trailer has been released for Introducing, Selma Blair, a Discovery+ documentary about actress Selma Blair‘s battle with multiple sclerosis.

The trailer shows raw and emotional moments of Selma dealing with symptoms of the illness and treatments for it, including chemotherapy. We see glimpses of the actress at some of her lowest points, as well as more joyful times spent her 10-year-old son, Arthur.

“I always thought I was on a reality show,” Selma says at the beginning of the trailer. “Like, I was in a documentary but only God would see it…and disapprove.”

The Cruel Intentions actress revealed her diagnosis in 2018. Earlier this week, she showed her love and support for her The Sweetest Thing co-star Christina Applegate after Applegate revealed her own MS diagnosis.

The Mayo Clinic describes MS as “a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord.”  Currently, there is no known cure, but there are treatments available that may alleviate some of the symptoms.

Introducing, Selma Blair will open in select theaters on October 15 and launch on Discovery+ on October 21.

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The Home Alone franchise will be back this holiday season.

A new adventure comedy, Home Sweet Home Alone, is set to debut exclusively on Disney+ November 12, 2021.

Following in the footsteps of Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McAllister is Max Mercer, a young boy who’s accidentally left behind while his family goes to Japan for the holidays. He must protect his family home from a trespassing married couple determined to steal a priceless heirloom.

The film’s cast includes Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Archie Yates, Aisling Bea, Kenan Thompson, Tim Simons and Pete Holmes.

The original Home Alone movie came out in 1990. Home Sweet Home Alone will be the sixth movie in the franchise.

 

 

 

 

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The CW’s live-action Powerpuff Girls has suffered another setback.

After the network decided to redo the initial pilot, Entertainment Weekly confirms that one of the stars — Chloe Bennet — has exited the project.

The former Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actress had been set to play Blossom alongside Dove Cameron’s Bubbles and Yana Perrault’s Buttercup.

EW reports that Bennet had to step away due to scheduling conflicts after it was decided the pilot would be reworked and reshot. Casting for a new Blossom will begin this fall.

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Cake Boss star Buddy Valastro is almost completely healed from a freak bowling accident that nearly cost him the use of his right hand.

Speaking to ABC Audio, the acclaimed baker assured, “I would say that I’m about 90 percent back with my strength and my dexterity… So I feel pretty confident that I’m as good as I ever was!”

Valastro, 44, was injured last September and required multiple surgeries to repair the damage caused by a malfunction in his personal bowling pinsetter machine. Before he began filming the third season of the Food Network show Buddy vs. Duff, Valastro thought his cake-making days were finished.

“Laying in the hospital, I said to myself, ‘I don’t know if I’m going to be able to make these cakes again,” he revealed. “We started filming in April.  Before then, I could not bend my [middle and ring] fingers… So, the doctor went in and released the tendons and cut out scar tissue so that I could do it.”

Because he went into this season not knowing “what my capabilities were going to be,” Valastro said he didn’t “really care about winning or losing.  I just want to be able to make cakes… So the fact that I was able to was amazing.”

Now that he’s back to creating jaw-dropping cake creations that can “spin,” and “jump” or “fly,” Valastro is thrilled he is once again inspiring the next generation of bakers.

“No matter how crazy it was or how outlandish or what it took to [make these cakes,] I always took the challenge because I always thought, ‘Hey, there’s a little kid out there who’s going to be inspired from what I’m doing,” he grinned. 

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Kim Kardashian had nothing but kind words for ex Kanye West when sharing the important life lessons he taught her during their nearly 10-year relationship.

Speaking with Kristen Bell and Monica Padman on the We Are Supported By… podcast on Wednesday, the former reality TV star revealed how West taught her the value of standing up for herself.

“Being in a relationship with Kanye for a decade, someone that absolutely didn’t care about likability factor or what any of perception of him was as long as he was true to himself… that taught me so much in the best way of just being me and living in the moment,” said Kardashian, 40.

Kim admitted that, prior to dating the “Stronger” rapper, she “used to be such a people pleaser.”  Now, she understands the value of putting herself first because “You don’t have to please everyone.”

“You have one life and you’re living it for you,” she expressed. “That taught me to just be more confident in myself and truly not care as much of what other people thought.”

Kardashian and West began dating 2012 and wed in 2014.  They share four children together: eight-year-old North, five-year-old Saint, three-year-old Chicago and two-year-old Psalm.

The couple went their separate ways earlier this year, with Kim filing for divorce in February.  However, the two reportedly remain amicable, with the Keeping Up with the Kardashian alum most recently supporting her ex in Atlanta, where he’s currently living as he finishes his 10th studio album, DONDA.

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Paging Dr. Ellis Grey.

In an announcement that’s sure to delight Grey’s Anatomy fans, Deadline confirmed that one of the medical drama’s original stars, Kate Burton, is returning for the 18th season.

Burton played Ellis, the domineering and intimidating mother of Ellen Pompeo‘s Meredith Grey, who lost her battle with Alzheimer’s during the third season of Grey’s.  Following Ellis’ death, she regularly appeared in flashbacks, dream sequences and in episodes exploring alternate realities. Her most recent appearance was in 2019, when she appeared to Meredith in a dream during the episode “Blood and Water.”

It is unknown what purpose Burton will serve in the upcoming season, but the outlet confirms she will star in multiple episodes.

Pompeo’s Meredith was haunted by several familiar faces in the last season, during which she battled COVID-19 and saw a slew of familiar faces as she faded in and out of consciousness.

Most famously, Patrick Dempsey returned as her late husband, Dr. Derek Shepherd.  In addition, T.R. Knight and Chyler Leigh reprised their roles as George and Lexie, respectively.

Filming for Grey’s Anatomy season 18 is currently underway, with a premiere set for September 30 on ABC.

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