Ahmaud Arbery Update: Father & Son Arrested & Charged with Murder

Joe Otterson TV ReporterBill Lawrence is staying put at Warner Bros. Television, with the TV writer and producer inking a massive five-year deal sources value at nine figures, Variety has confirmed.WBTV would not comment on the financial terms of the deal.

Anna Marie de la Fuente New York and L.A.-based indie distributor 1091 Pictures, known for such hit releases as Taika Waititi’s “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” Spirit Awards winner “Christine” and knockout comedy “The Overnight,” has swooped on rights to all English-speaking territories for psychedelic thriller “To the Moon.” The drama, sold by Yellow Veil Pictures, marks the directorial debut of actor Scott Friend (“The Dark End of the Street”), who also wrote and plays a lead role in it.The film, which bows its first poster in Variety, premiered last year at the online film festival Nightstream, and was in selection at the 2020 U.S. in Progress industry showcase organized by Wroclaw’s American Film Festival, which later hosted the film’s international premiere.

Luke Bryan is getting advice from special sources ahead of his Las Vegas residency. ET's Rachel Smith spoke with the 45-year-old country star ahead of his residency at Resorts World Las Vegas, and Bryan revealed that his fellow judges, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, offered up some words of wisdom to him before the start of his shows.«Katy, I’ve been talking to her… She said, 'It's just a big, big stage,'» Bryan said of Perry's advice, after she had her residency at the same venue last year.While Bryan appreciates the heads up about the stage size, his turn at Resorts World Las Vegas will be much different than Perry's, which he classified as more «theatrical.»«I don’t take myself very seriously, to just stand there and try to be real theatrical,» he explained.

Zack Sharf Kevin Smith isn’t happy with the Academy for snubbing “Spider-Man: No Way Home” in the best picture race. Despite earning critical acclaim and being one of the highest-grossing films ever made with over $750 million in the U.S. and over $1.7 billion globally, the latest “Spider-Man” film earned just a single Oscar nomination.

EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent Spirit Award nominee Kali Reis has inked with ICM Partners and Authentic Talent and Lit Management for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: The Fosters alumna Shi Ne Nielson has booked a heavily recurring role on the fourth season of The CW’s Charmed reboot. Nielsen will play Roxie, the mercurial owner of the Blue Camellia, a mysterious bar with an emotional history that caters to a dangerous collection of magical miscreants. Part fixer, part-confidant to those who drink at her establishment, part heartbroken hero…Roxie is the keeper of many secrets…including her own. She’ll play a central role in the action and drama of Season 4 as the Charmed Ones bring her deeper into their lives and their hearts. The question is…can they trust her? Based on the original series, Charmed is from CBS Studios in association with Propagate Content, with executive producers Jeffery Lieber, Nicki Renna and Joey Falco, Kevin Dowling, Jennie Snyder Urman, Ben Silverman , Brad Silberling, Howard Owens, Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro. Known for her recurring roles on The Fosters and Chasing Life, Nielson recently guest-starred on MacGyver, S.W.A.T., and The Rookie. She’s repped by BRS/Gage Talent Agency.

It’s not only Pete Davidson who has to watch out if Kanye Wet rolls up to 30 Rock.

EXCLUSIVE: Larry Teng has been tapped as director and executive producer on CBS Studios’ CW pilot Walker: Independence, executive produced by Jared Padalecki. The project fall under Teng’s overall deal with the studio.

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Julian Higgins’ feature directorial debut God’s Country, starring BAFTA and Emmy winner Thandiwe Newton (Westworld, Crash), on the heels of its debut at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It will release the film won in a bidding war in theaters this fall.

Bill Lawrence, the top comedy showrunner at the moment amid the enormous critical and commercial success of Ted Lasso, is staying put at Warner Bros. TV Group through 2028. After lengthy negotiations, Emmy winner Lawrence, who had a little time left on his current overall pact at the studio, has closed a blockbuster new five-year deal for his Doozer production company, I have learned. Noone is commenting but sources value the pact at more than $100 million, catapulting Lawrence in the very top tear of TV showrunners.

EXCLUSIVE: Emerging filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun, whose narrative feature debut We’re All Going to the World’s Fair premiered in the NEXT section of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, has signed with CAA for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: When Calls the Heart‘s Chris McNally has landed heavily recurring roles on two series — Paramount+’s upcoming Grease prequel Rise of the Pink Ladies, and season 2 of Netflix’s Firefly Lane, opposite Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke.

Jennifer Lopez‘s new movie Marry Me is now in theaters and streaming on Peacock!

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is calling for Georgia to institute a hate crimes law after the shooting and murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.

The social justice arm of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company on Sunday called on Georgia officials to take quick action in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who authorities say was killed by two white men as he ran through a Georgia neighborhood. Musicians Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Alicia Keys, Mario “Yo Gotti” Mims, Robert “Meek Mill” Williams and two attorneys signed Team Roc's open letter published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and directed at state officials.

Shawn Jay-Z Carter and Alicia Keys have signed an open letter calling for justice in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.

The stars have signed an open letter from Jay-Z's Roc Nation demanding justice

Many Roc Nation artists, including Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Meek Mill, Yo Gotti, and more are using their platforms to fight for justice for the shooting killing of Ahmaud Arbery by releasing an open letter to government officials in Georgia, where the tragic incident took place. The letter is demanding a quick trial and conviction of father and son, Gregory and Travis McMichael, who claimed they shot and killed Ahmaud because he matched the description of a criminal in the area.

This Friday, May 8 would've marked Ahmaud Arbery's 26th birthday.  And though he's no longer with them, the Arbery family is finding comfort in the fact that Georgia state authorities arrested suspects Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34, just the day before. For months, the family had been holding out hope that the two men would be arrested for allegedly shooting Ahmaud, an unarmed man who was jogging through the Satilla Shores neighborhood, on Feb.

Beyoncé has joined the rising chorus of artists and activists paying tribute to Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old man who was allegedly killed while jogging by two white men in Glynn County, Georgia, in February.

We’re one step closer to getting justice for Ahmaud Arbery!

By J. Kim Murphy

Celebrities are publicly sharing their outrage at the fatal shooting in Georgia of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man.

Celebrities are publicly sharing their outrage at the fatal shooting in Georgia of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man.

Celebrities are publicly sharing their outrage at the fatal shooting in Georgia of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man.

Ahmaud Arbery went out for a jog on Feb. 23 and didn’t come back alive.

As national outrage grows over the alleged killing of 25-year-old jogger Ahmaud Arbery at the hands of a father and son in Brunswick, Georgia, artists including T.I., Common, Ciara, Jermaine Dupri, Justin Timberlake and many more have tweeted demanding justice in what some have described as a modern-day lynching.The anger has been flamed by a graphic video of the alleged killing, shown from a vehicle following Arbery as he jogs down a rural road toward a pickup truck parked on the side of the road.

LeBron James is speaking out following the death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery on February 23.

Twitter wants justice for Ahmaud Arbery after a video allegedly showing the 25-year-old’s fatal shooting started circulating on social media this week.

LeBron James, 35, was upset and angry on May 6 when he took to Twitter to tweet about racism and the recent death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, an African American man who was killed by a white man named Travis McMichael while jogging in Georgia in Feb. New graphic video of the terrible incident surfaced online this week, which can be seen here, and it’s most likely what prompted the Los Angeles Lakers player to tweet about the young man’s sad death when he did.