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ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- Bad Robot Productions, the TV and film company headed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams, along with the Katie McGrath JJ Abrams Family Foundation, have pledged to donate $10 million over five years to a number of organizations “committed to anti-racist agendas.” “Enough is enough. Enough police brutality. Enough outsized privilege. Enough polite conversation. Enough white comfort,” began the lengthy statement posted to […]

Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Production on Mission: Impossible 7 was moved from Venice, Italy to Rome to try to avoid the spreading COVID-19 pandemic, before it was shuttered altogether in February. But Tom Cruise has a plan to get production back on track -- according to one of his co-stars. Simon Pegg, who plays agent and tech genius Benji Dunn in the franchise, tells Variety the "plan" is to […]

Photo by Noam Galai/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- (NOTE LANGUAGE) A tweet regarding the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer led Lea Michele to sound off on it -- but then prompted her former female co-stars to sound off on her.  In response to Lea's comment supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, Samantha Ware -- who appeared with Michele in Glee's sixth season -- posted, "LMAO remember when you made my first television […]

Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Hulu(NEW YORK) -- Forget COVID-19, George Clooney thinks America’s greatest pandemic is racism; and the cure is to vote. In response to nationwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd while in custody of Minneapolis police, Clooney wrote an essay published by The Daily Beast on Monday. "How many times have we seen people of color killed by police?" he began. "Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Laquan McDonald.  There is little doubt that George Floyd was […]

ABC, ABC/Lou Rocco (LOS ANGELES) -- Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have spoken out about how the Black Lives Matter movement opened their eyes about their white privilege.  Specifically, how their worries regarding their children's safety pale in comparison to that of black and minority parents. In an open letter to fans on Sunday, the parents of three confessed that they're "ashamed" to have only noticed their privilege recently. "We've never had to worry about preparing our kids for different rules of law […]

Netflix(OKLAHOMA) -- If you thought the Tiger King drama was over, think again.  A judge ruled on Monday that Joe Exotic's nemesis Carole Baskin is now the owner of the zoo he founded. TMZ obtained copies of the court ruling where a federal judge ruled that Exotic's attempts to transfer ownership of his Oklahoma sanctuary to his mother and Jeff Lowe in 2016 was fraudulent. In order to satisfy a previous $1 million ruling in favor […]

Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Turner(LOS ANGELES) -- One of Jennifer Aniston's most famous portraits is heading to the auction block for COVID-19 relief.  So, if you're a fan of her black and white nude portrait that she shot in 1995, you're in luck. Aniston revealed on Instagram over the weekend that the man who shot the renowned photo, Mark Seliger, is the one who organized the auction.  "My dear friend @markseliger teamed up with @radvocacy and @christiesinc to auction 25 […]

iStock/oatjo(LOS ANGELES) -- Hollywood on Monday submitted its plan for restarting in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which shut down production in March.  A copy of the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee Task Force guidelines, obtained by Deadline, include, among other things, limiting face-to-face contact with others and regular, periodic testing of the cast and crew.  Along with procedures of cleaning, protection and prevention that other industries have already began implementing as America […]

ABC/Craig Sjodin(NEW YORK) -- Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter to apologize for what he called a "moral failure" of not speaking out soon enough about the death of George Floyd. Floyd, a black man, was killed one week ago today in Minneapolis after a white police officer placed his knee on Floyd's neck during an arrest, while Floyd repeatedly declared that he couldn't breathe.  His death sparked ongoing protests nationwide.  "We spoke out […]