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Getty(LOS ANGELES) -- On the heels of its decision to pull the 1939 film Gone with the Wind from its lineup over its depiction of slavery and the post-antebellum south, HBO Max is rereleasing the film with a special introduction, according to Entertainment Weekly. The introduction will be delivered by Jacqueline Stewart, host of Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies and professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. The streaming service decided to […]

ABC/Eric McCandless(LOS ANGELES) -- While children were eagerly counting down the days until the start of summer vacation this year, so were their parents.  With schools closed due to COVID-19, many adults were tasked to juggle their children's education on top of their careers and other responsibilities. With most school's wrapping up for summer break this week and next, parents all over are throwing their hands up in celebration.  One such parent is Sarah Michelle […]

AMPAS(LOS ANGELES) -- After years of being criticized for a lack of diversity in both its membership and in the films that are nominated for Oscars -- captured with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has announced a series of initiatives aimed at inclusion and diversity.  In addition to behind-the-scenes strategies like unconscious bias training for its Board of Governors and term limits for […]

Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)(HAWAII) -- Pierce Brosnan and his family have spent their time in quarantine at a family home on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, but he revealed that no matter how beautiful his surroundings are, the "awful threat" of COVID-19 is still "looming." The 67-year-old former James Bond series star revealed to Parademagazine, "I lost two friends to COVID-19," adding, "they were friends of 45 years, and I am godfather […]

Robert Pattinson and John David Washington in "Tenet" - Melinda Sue Gordon/©2020 Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LOS ANGELES) -- This summer movie season was supposed to begin May 1, with the release of Marvel Studios' Black Widow film.  But thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the closing of theaters worldwide, that and other would-be event pictures were postponed, or released early via streaming. But as pandemic numbers stabilize in some […]

L-R - Clarke Peters, Delroy Lindo -- David Lee/Netflix(NEW YORK) -- Delroy Lindo and Jonathan Majors play father and son in the Spike Lee-directed Vietnam vet drama Da 5 Bloods. Lindo, who plays Paul, a vet who suffers from severe PTSD, tells ABC Audio that Lee gave him freedom to develop his troubled character. "Spike did not give me any specific direction, which is really the way that we have always worked," Lindo says. "Obviously if I made […]

ABC/Craig Sjodin(NEW YORK) -- Matt James will be the next guy looking for love on The Bachelor -- and for the first time in the show's 18 years, the guy with the roses is an African American.  James was revealed this morning on ABC's Good Morning America.  The 28-year-old is a real estate broker, entrepreneur and community organization founder, who was originally cast as a suitor on Clare Crawley's season of The Bachelorette, production of which has been delayed […]