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Courtesy of Netflix(LOS ANGELES) -- Netflix is bringing black narratives to the forefront. In a tweet on Wednesday, the streamer announced they were standing behind the black experience. "When we say “Black Lives Matter,” we also mean “Black storytelling matters,” the tweet read. "With an understanding that our commitment to true, systemic change will take time – we're starting by highlighting powerful and complex narratives about the Black experience." Netflix then tweeted they have […]

Vertical Entertainment(NEW YORK) -- The new thriller Inheritance, starring Lily Collins and Simon Pegg is now available for streaming on demand. In the film, Patrick Warburton plays Collins' father, a powerful man whose death leads her to face down his mysterious past, and a dark secret he's been hiding.  Without giving too much away, it's a VERY dark secret, and her inheritance is something no heir would want. "He's complicated," […]

Mathew Imaging/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) -- It’s been a rough month for Days of Our Lives star Judi Evans, who contracted COVID-19 while in the hospital recovering from a serious horseback riding accident. Howie Tiger Simon, a rep for the 55-year-old actress gave an update on her condition in a Facebook post on Monday, reporting she experienced “mild” coronavirus symptoms -- like fever, body aches and a cough -- but ”nearly had both legs amputated on two different […]

Photo: Linda Kallerus/Copyright © 2020 CTMG, Inc. All rights reserved.(LOS ANGELES) -- While COVID-19 caused movie theaters across the world to close their doors and Hollywood to come to a screeching halt, Selena Gomez will be ushering the summer blockbuster movie season next month with The Broken Hearts Gallery. Variety reports that Gomez served as executive producer of the romantic comedy, which is slated to hit theaters  July 10.  That date puts it a full […]

iStock/Evgen_Prozhyrko(LOS ANGELES) -- The Paramount Network announced on Tuesday that it has canceled its long-running reality series Cops after 32 seasons. The move comes in the wake of nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd while in police custody. "Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return," a network spokesperson said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. The show's 33rd season, […]

Photo by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- In response to a petition made by 12 Years A Slave screenwriter John Ridley, HBO Max has removed Gone With the Wind from its streaming catalogue. The classic 1939 film has long-been criticized for its somewhat romantic reimagination of the antebellum South.  However, Ridley's June 8 op-ed to the Los Angeles Times reinvigorated calls for the film to be removed. "It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the […]

Lars Niki/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- It's taken two decades, but Queer Eye's fashion expert Tan France is officially a U.S. citizen. France, who was born and raised in England, announced the news on Instagram, posting photos of himself taking the oath of citizenship. He wrote, "A few minutes ago, I officially became an U.S citizen!! For me, this is monumental. It’s something I’ve been working […]

ABC/Mike Rosenthal(LOS ANGELES) -- Ellen Pompeo is no stranger to speaking up against injustice, so it's no surprise that she was out and about over the weekend participating in protests. What may come as surprise though, is the drastic difference the Grey's Anatomy star noticed between the Black Lives Matter protests and others.  "I’ve been to other protests. I’ve never seen police with machine guns [there]," she explained in an Instagram […]

Sergei Bachlakov/The CW(LOS ANGELES) -- Hartley Sawyer has been fired from CW’s The Flash over a series of racist and misogynistic tweets he posted prior to joining the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The tweets, mainly written between 2012 and 2014, make references to sexual assault and contain racist as well as homophobic language. While Sawyer's Twitter account has since been deleted, screenshots of the old posts have circulated online […]