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The Tupac Tapes With Angie Martinez was recorded at the height of the East Coast-West Coast feud.

“La Bola Negra” continues to take the world and audiences by storm. Starting next month, fans can step inside the world of the film. The immersive exhibition celebrating Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s film, “Love Leaves A Legacy: Creating La Bola Negra,” opens at NYA Studios East in Hollywood and is presented by Netflix and […]

Incompetent direction almost kills the Christmas spirit but American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino Taylor brings down the house Thanksgiving is right around the corner, which means Christmas creep is in full effect and the floodgates holding back the seasonal tide of holiday movies have opened to fully drown yuletide junkies in cheer. Among the first out of the gates is Netflix’s The Gospel of Christmas, brought to you by the maker of A Madea Christmas. Instead of Tyler Perry in drag, reluctantly upholding the role of family linchpin, this time it’s Durrell Babbs – AKA the R&B stalwart Tank – playing Isaac, a secular musician who is forced into ministry when his pastor father charges him with resurrecting a sister congregation that’s become a blight in a New York neighborhood defined by immorality and anomie. ( East New York, maybe.) The 103-minute feature is both a ploy to horn in on Hallmark’s well-established territory and a proper return to Perry’s roots in gospel musical theater – but with considerably more money behind it and greater latitude to bend the usual chestnuts on faith and family toward his Old Testament-facing sermons. Continue reading...

The actress previously starred in another Shondaland series, 'How to Get Away With Murder.'

Karla Souza (How to Get Away with Murder, 56 Days) has been cast as a lead in ABC’s new Grey’s Anatomy spinoff set in West Texas. She is the first actor to join the untitled 20th Television studio series from executive producers Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Meg Marinis, and Ellen Pompeo. Created by Grey’s Anatomy […]

The “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff set in West Texas has cast Karla Souza in a lead role, Variety has learned. The spinoff was originally announced at ABC in May. It was intended to launch during the 2026-2027 broadcast season, but was recently delayed to the 2027-2028 season after it did not receive a California TV tax […]

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Long (Dodgeball) and Katy Mixon Greer (American Housewife) will star with Banks Pierce (The Pitt) in family film Slater’s Gold. Also starring are Kate Wilson, Henry Heffernan, Keith Rushing, Brooke Lyons, Harrison C. Thomas, Todd Terry and Glenn Morshower. The film from writer, director and lead producer Micah Lyons (Bad Men Must Bleed) […]

Netflix will continue to stream a Russell Brand stand-up special after the comedian was convicted of rape and sexual assault. Russell Brand: Re:Birth, the 2018 original comedy show filmed in front of a live audience at the Hackney Empire in East London, will not be removed following internal discussions at the streamer. During the special, […]

The 'East of Eden' actress opens up about how she's become "more confident in the way that I can protect myself" when working in Hollywood.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Will Yun Lee has been cast as Peyton Burnes in White Lightning Lullaby, an upcoming crime thriller written and directed by John Hensley (Nip/Tuck). Flintlock Pictures and Rabbit Foot Film are producing the film, which is currently in production in Texas. White Lightning Lullaby follows a dirt-track racer turned ex-con who, in an […]

Ella Langley has the Hot 100 record with “Choosin’ Texas.” What about Billboard ’s other multimetric song surveys?

The private actor enjoys life with his horses in the Texas Hill Country, removed from the show-business fray. But he’s back on TV for the first time in decades, in “The Lowdown.”

Donnie Dunagan, who voiced the young Bambi in Disney’s 1942 animated classic during a brief Hollywood career as a child actor, has died. He was 92. Movie historian Tom Weaver said Dunagan died November 4 but did not provide details. Born on August 16, 1934, in Texas, Dunagan moved with his family to Memphis, where […]

Langley’s smash extends its record No. 1 run as Jackson’s ‘80s classic howls to a new high at No. 2.

Creative Artists Agency has signed actor Costa D’Angelo, Variety can reveal exclusively. D’Angelo can currently be seen as Young Adam Trask in Netflix’s limited series “East of East,” alongside Florence Pugh and Christopher Abbot, who plays his older counterpart. Other cast members include Mike Faist, Hoon Lee, Robert Morgan and Christopher Sommers. D’Angelo’s big break […]

MS NOW is adding to its ranks, with Abby Livingston joining the network as political reporter. Livingston most recently was at Puck, and previously spent more than a decade covering Capitol Hill and campaigns for The Texas Tribune and Roll Call. She started her career at NBC News, and also worked at National Journal and […]

An impromptu song by a Texas rapper has helped immortalize the frisky nickname of Senator-elect James Talarico.

Jerusalem-based director Muayad Alayan’s drama “Conversation With the Sea,” about an elderly Palestinian man who is suddenly ordered by an Israeli court to pay a large social security debt pertaining to a long deceased son, will soon get its Middle East launch at the Doha Film Festival. After playing positively in Venice and Toronto, “Conversation […]

The publisher is the first company to surpass the 40% market share milestone, with a big assist from Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas."

James Earl Jones theatre, New York City A ‘mostly true’ tale of 19th-century sisters running from the law is underserved in a production stuffed with superfluous showboating The new retooled musical Wanted, from writer Angelica Chéri and composer Ross Baum, opens with a blare of excitement: a Greek chorus of sorts, clad in billowing white garments like spirits from the great beyond, lay their scene in 1890s Texas. There, we meet two Black sisters, Mary and Martha Clarke, who will become wanted criminals. The tone of Baum’s music is portentous, its volume high, suggesting that an epic journey is about to unfold. What ensues from there is, sadly, not quite as suspenseful, moving or grand as advertised. Chéri based this “mostly true” story on two of her great-great aunts, daughters of an emancipated sharecropper whose absent father was white. Mary and Martha are light-skinned and thus figure they can pass in the white world, at least long enough to earn some money that might allow their mother, Tallulah, to buy the cotton-field land she’s been working for decades. It’s a dangerous gambit, and soon devolves into a gun-wielding crime spree in which the sisters rob various deserving targets. But that potentially invigorating spree is reduced to a mere montage, a quick flurry of activity that saps these daring acts of their inherent tension, of any true sense of risk. Despite its dynamic subject matter – marginalized people violently asserting themselves in a repressive time and place – this is a dismayingly tame production, albeit a more muscular one than was staged at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse in 2024. Continue reading...

The musical, rooted in the writer Angelica Chéri’s family lore, follows Black twin sisters who pass for white and become vigilantes in 1890s Texas.

One of the most beautiful things about legends and myths is they often stem from the truth. Written by playwright and lyricist Angelica Chéri and directed by Stevie Walker-Webb, the new Broadway musical “Wanted” is inspired by Chéri’s great-great aunts, Mary (Solea Pfeiffer) and Martha Clarke (Liisi LaFontaine). These Black women living in post-emancipation Texas […]

Hollywood heavy hitters turned out to witness Saturday Night Live history on Saturday as comedian Druski became the fist digital creator to host the venerable NBC late-night sketch program. Durski’s Eddington co-star Emma Stone and newly elected Texas Senator James Talarico were expected to join the host for the curtain call at the end of […]

The best boxers in the world travel to Texas for the Most Valuable Promotions boxing event. For the main event, American Alycia Baumgardner (18-1-0) takes on Turkish boxer Elif Nur Turhan (14-0-0). The unification title bout is scheduled for 10 rounds. Nur Turhan’s IBF championship belt is on the line, so the winner will receive […]

SNL booking comedian Druski post-midterms felt misbegotten in low-energy episode failing to capture historic ‘blue-nami’ Four days after the historic “blue-nami” midterms , Saturday Night Live opens at Democrats’ headquarters, where party leaders Hakeem Jeffries (Kenan Thompson) and Chuck Schumer (Sarah Sherman) celebrate, even as they vow to hold on to power in spite of the wishes of their energized base. Their toast is interrupted by the man responsible for Republicans’ shellacking, Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson). The president, who is “now lame duck”, accepts the results, “which is scarier in a way”. But he’s also resigned to focus on the ballroom , even as he laments having to work with millennial Democrats (this leads him down a long diatribe about the show New Girl). We get quick walk ons by a defeated JD Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and extra-aggro Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost), only for Trump to get a taste of his own medicine when James “Telefreako” Talarico interupts him. Texas’s new senator-elect speaks to one of the big issues of the day: “It’s clear people want something new, they want something different. I’m talking, of course, about SNL’s cold opens. How many of these Trump freezes are they gonna do?” Continue reading...

The Democratic senator-elect from Texas popped up to turn the tables on the show’s Trump impersonator, James Austin Johnson, in an episode hosted by the comedian Druski.

The Texas senator-elect also took a shot at the show's reliance on James Austin Johnson's Donald Trump impression in his surprise appearance as he stood in front of the comic.

Following a busy cold open that saw Texas Senator-elect James Talarico overshadow Donald Trump and a monologue crashed by his future movie co-star Emma Stone, “SNL” host Druski — who made history as the first digital content creator to preside over the show (who had yet to achieve crossover success, a la Issa Rae and […]

The incoming Texas lawmaker embraces Trump's insulting nickname after his resounding win

Newly elected Texas Sen. James Talarico crashed this week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open — in order to ask the question on everyone’s mind: How many more of these “Donald-Trump-freezes-the-action-to-ramble” cold opens is “SNL” going to do? Responded “Donald Trump” (James Austin Johnson): “Infinity!” Talarico popped up near the end of the cold open to […]

Out of a week that saw MAGA’s political fangs knocked out by a big blue sock to jaw in the midterms, Saturday Night Live tonight leaped into the ring and started swinging from the cold open get-go. In fact, they went Texas BBQ hot with newly elected James Talarico showing up. The Senator-designate mocked his […]

The Longhorns and the Tigers face off today in a game with big playoff implications

If you grew up in the 80s and early 90s, you may have listened to freestyle music, also known as Latin hip-hop, born after the disco era that dominated the airwaves from New York to Miami, Los Angeles, Texas, as well as Philly and Boston, to name a few areas. Among the genre’s biggest fans […]

One of the newest rivalries in college football is between Virginia Tech and SMU in the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference). The Virginia Tech Hokies (6-2) vs. SMU Mustangs (6-2) at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas. The game happens on Friday, Nov. 6, with a start time of 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. You […]

The Grey’s Anatomy franchise is leaving California for the first time in its 23-year history. ABC’s upcoming spinoff set in West Texas will film in Albuquerque, New Mexico after its application for a California tax credit was rejected twice. Following the delay as ABC and producing studio 20th Television were navigating the tax incentive system, […]

Leo Reich can’t seem to shake London. Born and raised north of the river, the 28-year-old comedian, actor and writer moved east a few years ago — and it’s probably the furthest he’ll venture from home. “I wish I could be one of these people who’s like, ‘I’m going to go live in Spain for […]

Weta FX CEO Daniel Seah laid out all the reasons why Taiwan is the perfect base for the Oscar-winning VFX company to explore the East Asia market, following its announcement of a partnership with Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA). In addition to its central location, just a few hours flight from most cities in the […]

She brought the Tour Ma Vie to Dallas one day after the midterm elections.

Late-night hosts discussed Democrats’ runaway success, while Trump shirked responsibility for Republican losses Late-night hosts reacted to Democrats ’ rout of Republicans in midterm elections across the country as Donald Trump blamed everyone but himself. Continue reading...

"Last night Americans treated Donald Trump like he was the East Wing of the White House," Jimmy Kimmel quipped

Johnson composed the musical scores for 67 episodes and five movies.

Tuesday’s election results were a shocker, by both the number of seats that Democrats flipped in the House and the Senate and the scale of their victory. James Talarico won his race for U.S. Senate in Texas by double digits, after weeks in which prognosticators warned that his campaign against Ken Paxton would come down […]

On the ground at the scene of the biggest electoral coup in the history of the Lone Star State

The near future-set political thriller which depicted Texas and California as wartime allies is being hailed as predicting the midterms.

From memes to TikTok videos, some released by the candidates themselves, Ella Langley's hit song has yet again taken on a new meaning

The Tejano superstar defeated Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz in Congressional District 15.

Nathan Johnson was just elected as Attorney General of Texas, but long before that, he was a composer who scored the anime series “Dragon Ball Z.” “If you grew up watching ‘Dragon Ball Z,’ you might know me better than you think: I composed the musical scores for 67 episodes and five movies and had […]

Texas made history Tuesday night when James Talarico became the state’s first Democratic Senator since 1988, defeating Republican Ken Paxton. The flip may have come as a shock for many, but Red, White & Royal Blue fans saw it as a prophecy coming to life. In author Casey McQuiston’s popular 2019 novel and Prime Video’s […]

"I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!" the president claimed in one post on Truth Social.

Why Talarico and Hinojosa managed to flip both Texas’ U.S. Senate seat and governor’s mansion.