“It’s always been amazing to be able to work with Eminem for promotional and programming content on various ESPN properties over the years,” ESPN music director Kevin Wilson said in a statement. “To be able to work on this video together with his team – not only featuring our team’s great UFC coverage but also debuting it exclusively on ABC, is just invaluable.” … [Read more...] about Eminem Debuts ‘Higher’ Video Ahead of UFC’s Poirier vs. McGregor 2 Event
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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Team On The Power Of Music: “The Blues Is America” – Contenders Film
“I’ve always wanted to play human beings,” she says, “and I think I’ve spent a better part of my career having to do the classics, and having to really work hard to imagine myself in [plays by] George Bernard Shaw or Shakespeare, or Eugene O’Neill or any number of great playwrights. It’s always me taking everything that I’m about—my Blackness, my womanhood, my memories—and trying to fit a square peg into a round hole… But I don’t have to really work at that part of it with August. August already speaks to my soul. August begs me to give him my Blackness, to give him my womanhood and my memories—all of the things that make me me.” … [Read more...] about ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Team On The Power Of Music: “The Blues Is America” – Contenders Film
Screech Actor Dustin Diamond Thinks Moldy Hotel Rooms May Have Caused His Lung Cancer
After revealing the stage 4 small cell carcinoma diagnosis and receiving chemotherapy, Dustin Diamond's representative says the actor is struggling to come to grips with his current situation. The type of lung cancer that he has is normally caused by smoking, but he claims he never smoked. Since the start of Diamond's career, he has done a ton of traveling, which sometimes put him in questionable hotels for the night. According to Roger Paul, "Dustin believes some of these spots might have had mold or asbestos ... which he could have breathed in, causing his cancer." … [Read more...] about Screech Actor Dustin Diamond Thinks Moldy Hotel Rooms May Have Caused His Lung Cancer
Suicide Squad: Amanda Waller Will Be A Brutal Badass
"Listen, she gets to use a gun. It's my fantasy. Now, I would never do that in life, but when I get a gun on a set, it does something to me." Amanda Waller was originally created for DC Comics by John Ostrander in 1986. In Suicide Squad, she will form a top secret government program that consists of the world's deadliest super villains as they are tasked with an impossible mission. In exchange, they will receive their freedom. The film will arrive in theaters August 2016, following next year's first DC Movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. While it hasn't been confirmed, it is expected that Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor and Ben Affleck's Batman will both show up for at least a cameo in Suicide Squad. … [Read more...] about Suicide Squad: Amanda Waller Will Be A Brutal Badass
Michael B. Jordan Praises Tessa Thompson Ahead of Directing Her in Creed III
Tessa Thompson is clearly very comfortable with the idea of Jordan sitting in the director's chair for Creed 3, with the actress recently promising to "give him a lot of crap" for his victory as People's Sexiest Man Alive. "I haven't talked to him about it because I'm gonna pretend it hasn't happened," Thompson said. "We're gonna make another Creed very soon, and I don't need the sexiest man alive to...you know what I mean, I just don't need it. I don't need any of it. It's too much for me to shoulder. It's too much for me to handle." … [Read more...] about Michael B. Jordan Praises Tessa Thompson Ahead of Directing Her in Creed III
