Concord Theatricals Acquires Licensing Rights to ‘Slave Play’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Vanessa Bryant continues to advocate for her late husband Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old Gianna Bryant following their tragic deaths in 2020. As fans of the famous family already know, Gigi was following in her father’s footsteps and was already a promising basketball prospect in her own right.

Serena Williams is prepared for all outcomes. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the icon and professional tennis player discussed the possibility of retirement and why her father played an important role in her mindset to always have a plan for the future.Serena Williams’ daughter Olympia Ohanian shows off her impressive backhandSerena Williams stopped Ashleigh Barty from retiring with one simple text messageA post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams)“I am prepared for that day, I’ve been prepared for that day for over a decade,” said Williams.

Naomi Osaka is the world’s highest-earning female athlete. The Japanese tennis player appeared in Forbes Magazine’s ranking this past Thursday, earning $57.3 million in prize money and endorsements over the course of the past year.Naomi Osaka acknowledges young fan after winning her first 2021 US Open matchNaomi Osaka’s dream car is the girliest, most glamorous, and magical ride everA post shared by 大坂なおみ (@naomiosaka)The Forbes list showed that the top-earning female athletes were all tennis players, with Osaka occupying first place by a significant margin, followed by Serena and Venus Williams in second and third place, earning $45.9 million and $11.3 million, respectively.

ScHoolboy Q has discussed how the game of golf changed his “mental” and has taught him a lot about life.Since the release of his last album, 2019’s ‘CrasH Talk’, the TDE rapper has been heavily involved in the sport, and more recently he’s been enjoying his time as a player in the 2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California.Speaking in a new interview during the competition, Q (real name Quincy Hanley) talked about how golf has impacted him.“Coming where I come from, the life that I had, I never thought about playing golf, and I got into it and it changed my mental,” he said. “It let me learn myself as a person, like this is why certain things in my life are going bad or why certain things are going good because of the attitude thing, you get what I’m saying? It fixed my attitude in life, it fixed a lot of things about me in life.”ScHoolboy added: “Life is a golf game – some good shots, some bad shots.

NME at the BRIT Awards 2022, Lola Young told us about the inspirational amount of female talent in today’s music, what to expect from her “indie” sounding debut album, and trying to run into Adele. Watch our full video interview with Young above.The South Londoner was at the ceremony where she was nominated for the Rising Star Award following the success of her 2021 EP, ‘After Midnight’ and the release of singles, ‘Fake’, ‘Ruin My Make Up’ and ‘Woman’.

A proud support system! As Shaun White made his Beijing Olympics debut in the men’s snowboarding qualifying round, girlfriend Nina Dobrev had a pair of special guests watching the event with her.

Machine Gun Kelly and Willow have shared a video for their new collaboration, ‘Emo Girl’ – you can watch it below.The track is the latest preview from Kelly’s forthcoming new album, ‘Mainstream Sellout’, which is set for release on March 25 and was previously titled ‘Born With Horns’.In the new video, Travis Barker – who has produced Kelly’s upcoming new album – stars as a tour guide for a group of young kids on a field trip to a museum. Once inside, the visiting students find themselves watching MGK and Willow perform via a number of screens dotted around the building.“I fell in love with an emo girl/ I’m in love with an emo girl/ I fell in love with an emo girl/ All I want is an emo girl,” the pair sing on the song’s energetic chorus.As the clip comes to close, both the kids and Barker find they’ve morphed into emo rockers after absorbing the electric energy put out by the pair.You can watch the Drew Kirsch-directed video for ‘Emo Girl’ below:‘Emo Girl’ marks Kelly’s first new single of 2022, and follows on from his August single ‘Papercuts’.

Men below.The movie is the latest from director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), also starring Rory Kinnear (No Time To Die) and Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), and is due to arrive in UK cinemas on May 20.The official synopsis for Men reads: “In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her.“What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in Garland’s feverish, shape-shifting new horror film.”In the trailer, Buckley’s character is scene walking through countryside, peering into tunnels, and repeatedly spotting an eerie figure in the distance.Watch the the trailer for Men below:The new trailer arrives the day after Buckley received her first Oscar nomination, making the Best Supporting Actress list for her performance in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter.Meanwhile, A’Ziah King, who wrote the 2015 Twitter thread that inspired A24’s 2020 film Zola, recently criticised the production company after being excluded from the film’s awards recognition.

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Even the GOAT needs a break. Serena Williams has thought about when she will walk away from her tennis career.

Back on the dating scene! During a recent conversation with his Vanderpump Rules costar Lala Kent, James Kennedy detailed his attempts to live his “best f–king life” since ending his engagement to Raquel Leviss.

Not in her wildest dreams! Jennifer Lopez admitted that she was surprised to find herself back together with Ben Affleck more than 15 years after their initial breakup.

It’s not all fun and games! Naomie Olindo broke down what it’s really like to film Southern Charm and the toll it took on her body ahead of season 8’s premiere.

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Rolling her eyes at the haters. Travis Barker’s 16-year-old daughter, Alabama, clapped back at trolls after posting a TikTok with her father.

Caroline Polachek has returned with a brand new single – you can watch her video for the atmospheric ‘Billions’ below.The track is the former Chairlift singer’s first solo material since 2021’s ‘Bunny Is A Rider’, while she teamed up with Charli XCX and Christine & the Queens for ‘New Shapes’ late last year.Speaking of the new track, which premiered on BBC Radio 1 this evening (February 9) and was produced by Polachek and Danny L Harle, Polachek said: “The overabundance of this world overwhelms me. Sometimes it seems like ultimate tragedy, the earth being pillaged and destroyed for it.“Sometimes it seems pre-human, beyond morality, sublime.

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Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are officially divorced.A judge on Tuesday signed off on the former couple's final divorce settlement, this according to . Fox and Green initially struck their divorce settlement back in October.

Jabari Banks is lacing up his sneakers and stepping into the role of Will for the new Peacock original series,, based on the hit '90s sitcom,. Banks chatted with ET's Denny Directo about getting the blessing of the OG lead of the show, Will Smith.  “He's my hero, man, and he's been such an inspiration for me and the show has been such a defining show for my life,” Banks tells ET.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaKiersey Clemons will star in 141 Entertainment’s “Susie Searches,” a darkly comic thriller from Sophie Kargman. “Susie Searches” centers on Susie (Clemons), an awkward college student who seizes the opportunity to bolster her popularity and her under-the-radar true-crime podcast by solving the disappearance of a classmate.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Films has nabbed North American rights to South African Oliver Hermanus’ “Moffie,” a queer war film that is set against the backdrop of a South African border war. The indie studio will release the film in April 2021.Hermanus directs the film and adapted the story from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical 2006 novel with Jack Sidey.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDramatists Play Service, the theatrical publishing and licensing house, has reached a deal to be acquired by Broadway Licensing. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of March 2021.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaClayne Crawford and filmmaker Robert Machoian will re-team on “The Integrity of Joseph Chambers,” a drama about a family man who must learn to hunt in order to provide for his family. The film is Crawford and Machoian’s second collaboration, following “The Killing of Two Lovers,” a marital drama that premiered to smashing reviews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaUniversal Filmed Entertainment Group has renewed its first-look deal with Working Title Films, the producer of many of the studio’s most beloved movies. The pact extends one of the longest-running and most fruitful collaborations in the entertainment business, one that has resulted in such hit films as “Billy Elliot,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Les Misérables,” and “Love Actually.”The new agreement extends the partnership through 2025 and keeps the company’s leaders, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, in the fold for five more years.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaCast and crew members were sent home this week due to a coronavirus scare on the Los Angeles set of “Bullet Train,” the upcoming Brad Pitt action-thriller.The move was made after an asymptomatic crew person tested positive for COVID-19. In accordance with union protocol and out of an abundance of caution, the handful of cast and crew who had contact with the crew member went home and continued to be tested.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJerry Bruckheimer’s first-look deal with Paramount Pictures is set to expire in February and will not be renewed.That makes the superstar producer of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise a free agent. Bruckheimer first signed a pact with Paramount in 2013, leaving Disney where he had been housed for two decades.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPaul Schneider, Shantel VanSanten, Kevin Corrigan, and Moises Arias will round out the cast of “American Murderer.” They join previously announced stars Tom Pelphrey, Ryan Phillippe, Idina Menzel and Jacki Weaver in the story of a charismatic con man turned party king who bankrolls his high living through a series of scams.The film is written and will be directed by Matthew Gentile, and is based on the true story of Jason Derek Brown. When Brown’s funds run low, he plots an elaborate scheme, one that makes him one of the FBI’s top ten fugitives.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaUli Edel will direct “Shadow Song,” the story of the bond between a Chinese music student and his Jewish classmate.The film is a feature-length version of the 2017 short “A Children’s Song” and boasts a screenplay by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs (“Chocolat”). Edel is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker who previously directed “The Baader Meinhof Complex” and “Houdini.”The feature film will be produced by Sid Ganis and Nancy Hult Ganis at Out of the Blue Entertainment, and The H Collective’s Kent Jianhui Huang and Mark Rau, who was recently named CEO of THC Germany.

Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris will donate a collection of 15 plays by Black playwrights to 53 libraries and community centers across the country, a donation made in lieu of sending Slave Play scripts to Tony Award voters.