Idris Elba Strikes Film, TV Deal With Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy is back on U.S. soil.

Ariana Grande is taking her signature winged liner look to the next level in a new video with drag superstar, Gottmik.The  contestant gave Grande a inspired «draggy drag» makeover, with products from her r.e.m. beauty line.After jokingly trying to film a standard beauty-YouTuber intro, Gottmik gets going on Grande's eyes, throwing on a high-ponytail wig before creating a smoky winged-eyeshadow look on the «Positions» singer.«I'm sorry.

Justin Bieber is newly 28 and he celebrated the affair with a lavish, super cool birthday party in the backyard of his $25.8 million Beverly Hills mansion! The “Peaches” singer, who reached his 28th on Tuesday, invited guests to the backyard of his home, where his pool was decked out with numerous inflatable toys and another area contained a balloon arch with a giant ball pit.

Lizzo is feeling good as hell! The 33-year-old “Truth Hurts” singer opened up about her plus-sized figure and how she feels she’s redefined beauty standards in our society. “Okay, we all know I’m fat,” she said with a sigh during her interview with People. “I know I’m fat. It doesn’t bother me. I like being fat, and I’m beautiful and I’m healthy. So can we move on?”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN and Fox News Channel are fierce rivals, and their anchors regularly take pot shots at each other. But there is at least one thing on which they agree: how much a new subscriber to their streaming outlets ought to pay.CNN will charge $5.99 per month for its new CNN Plus, a subscription-video streaming outlet that is expected to launch in late March, according to a person familiar with the matter, confirming information previously reported by The Los Angeles Times.  That is the same monthly fee sought by Fox News for its Fox Nation outlet.

Addie Morfoot ContributorHBO Documentary Films has acquired the rights to Academy Award-nominated documentary short “When We Were Bullies.” Directed by Jay Rosenblatt (“Phantom Limb,” “Human Remains”), the 36-minute short is a meditation of a Brooklyn schoolyard incident that occurred between the director and his fellow fifth grade classmates 50 years ago.“When We Were Bullies” was, until now, the only Oscar nominated short docu to not have a distributor. Fellow nominee “The Queen of Basketball” was distributed by New York Times Op-Doc while Netflix is behind three of the nominated short docus: “Audible,” “Lead Me Home” and “Three Songs for Bashir.”“When We Were Bullies” premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for a jury prize.

Wilson Chapman editorKirk Baily, the actor best known for his role as dim-witted camp counselor Kevin “Ug” Lee on the early Nickelodeon sitcom “Salute Your Shorts,” died Feb. 27 in Los Angeles. His domestic partner, Ranjani Brow, confirmed that he died after battling lung cancer.

Less than two weeks ago, Dmytro Pidruchnyi was competing at the Winter Olympics in Ukraine’s national colors. Now he’s wearing a military uniform and ballistic helmet.

Marilyn Manson has sued Evan Rachel Wood for defamation over her sexual abuse allegations against him, which Manson claims are a "malicious falsehood." In the complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday and obtained by Variety, Manson — whose legal name is Brian Warner — alleges that Wood and "her on-again, off-again romantic partner" Ashley Gore have "publicly cast" him as a "rapist and abuser — a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s successful music, TV and film career." The filing goes on to claim that Wood and Gore impersonated a FBI agent "by forging and distributing a fictitious letter from the agent, to create the false appearance that Warner’s alleged ‘victims’ and their families were in danger, and that there was a federal criminal investigation of Warner ongoing." It also alleges that Wood and Gore "provided checklists and scripts" to accusers and "made knowingly false statements," including that Manson "filmed the sexual assault of a minor." Manson has requested a jury trial and is also alleging intentional infliction of emotional distress, violation of the Comprehensive Computer Data and Access Fraud Act and impersonation over the internet. Marilyn Manson has sued Evan Rachel Wood for defamation over her sexual abuse allegations against him, which Manson claims are a "malicious falsehood." (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage for Disney Pictures) Representatives for Wood and Gore did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.

Pat Sajak is stepping up for the contestants on Wheel of Fortune.

Hilary Duff is giving a glimmer of hope that the “Lizzie McGuire” reboot could still happen.

Fontaines D.C. have reacted to winning Best Band In The World at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: “About time!”The Irish band beat out Amyl & The Sniffers, Ben&Ben, Bring Me The Horizon, CHVRCHES, Glass Animals, HAIM, Måneskin, Nova Twins and Wolf Alice for the trophy.In their acceptance speech, they gave props to CHVRCHES and Robert Smith for their performance of The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ earlier in the night, and poked fun at the government: “We’re gonna party like Number 10 tonight!”Speaking to NME in the winner’s room at the O2 Academy Brixton on March 2, frontman Grian Chatten had a succinct response to their win: “About time.”He added: “We’ve never really won an award before, so I don’t know, I’ve never seen people so elated in my whole life.”Carlos O’Connell quipped: “We had to keep telling ourselves we were the best band in the world from the moment we started.

The It girls are better off red.Tress trendsetters like catwalk queen Kendall Jenner, 26, and screen gems Zendaya, 25, and Sophie Turner, 26, are turning heads with crimson-colored locks. “Red hair is bold, different, and a redhead is typically the only redhead in the room,” Manhattan-based hair colorist Jenna Perry, 35, told The Post of the sizzling swing toward scarlet.

Brix Smith was at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 to accept the Music Moment Of The Year award on behalf of Liam Gallagher for his “absolutely fantastic” free gig for NHS workers.The Fall legend was speaking to NME in the winner’s room after accepting the award for Gallagher, who was unable to attend the ceremony at the O2 Academy Brixton.Gallagher, Smith revealed, DJed her wedding in Italy 22 years ago with Alan McGee as a wedding present.“I’m a big fan of his,” Smith said of Gallagher. “I’ve known him for a long time and what he did for the NHS was absolutely fantastic.“With the years that we’ve been through, the last two years and what’s going on now, there’s definitely one thing that will keep us united and uplift us, and that’s music,” she said.Smith added: “Music can help us get through anything, it really really can. So what he did for the NHS and the care workers was an amazing thing and I hope to continue doing things with my music to get us through these hard times ahead of us now.”Smith also talked about her upcoming solo album ‘Valley Of The Dolls’ and the “all-female supergroup” she formed, featuring members of My Bloody Valentine (Deb Googe on bass and Jen Marco on keys and guitar) and Deux Furieuses.

BandLab NME Awards 2022, Robert Smith gave NME the lowdown of The Cure‘s next album and exclusively told us the title. Watch our full video interview with Smith above.Having long teased the band’s long-awaited “merciless” new record – having told us that two new albums were on the way back at the last NME Awards back in 2020 – Smith tonight revealed that one of them would be “real very soon”, as well as sharing more about its sister record and his anticipated solo album.“So I’ve been working on two Cure albums, and one of them is finished,” Smith told NME. “Unfortunately, it’s the second one that’s finished.

Sydney Sweeney is gearing up to walk down the aisle!

Well, this looks intriguing!

Why didn’t Pete Davidson just have his team run his Instagram and turn off the comments??? This and much more on our latest podcast! CLICK HERE to watch this episode of The Perez Hilton Podcast with Chris Booker!

Khloe Kardashian, 37, was a little “sleepy” on March 2 but made sure to take the time to work out. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star shared new black and white clips of herself working up a sweat in a gym to her Instagram story and looked incredibly fit. The beauty had her hair down and showed off her plump lips while looking at the camera in one clip.

The Searchlight series The Dropout drops on Hulu tomorrow, March 3, at an intriguing time, close to two months after Therano founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty on four out of 11 federal charges, specifically charged with defrauding investors.

Fox Audio Network, which combines all of Fox’s news, sports and entertainment podcasts, has inked a comprehensive advertising and distribution deal with Megaphone, a Spotify company, as the exclusive hosting platform for its growing slate.

EXCLUSIVE: In a pre-emptive sale, Sony’s Screen Gems tonight acquired the spec thriller Delilah from screenwriter Harrison Query and his writing partner, Tommy Wallach. The script is in the vein of Gone Girl and has a strong female lead. Screen Gems is fast tracking.

Idris Elba has released a new song, “Paradise Circus – Gospel 21”.

Idris Elba has shared a new end of year freestyle called ‘Gospel 21’ – watch the track’s video below.Sharing news of the new record on Twitter, the talented actor, writer and musician said he penned ‘Gospel 21’ on New Year’s Eve and has only now decided to release it.“I wrote this on 31 December 2020 and decided to put it out now,” he wrote. “Forget all the maybes, bring on the ‘might as wells’.”Recounting some of the terrible things that happened in 2020, Elba looks forward to a better future – one that sees him “take [his] dreams and just run” – and he encourages everyone else to do the same.The track is also accompanied by a video directed by “Idris Elba & friends”.

Everyone’s getting into the 100 Most Anticipated Films action, only with Netflix, they really have the volume and muscle to back it up. In a huge flex this morning, the streaming service/burgeoning movie studio revealed a video that boasts a new movie EVERY WEEK on Netflix for nearly the entire year.

Netflix has just released the full slate of movies they will be releasing in 2021 and they’re promising a new movie every single week of the year.

Idris Elba got Emmanuel Macron to make a big pledge.

Naman Ramachandran British star and producer Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and BAFTA-nominated producer Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures are entering a multi-year joint venture to work together on select future film and TV projects.Thykier was BAFTA-nominated for “The State” and “Trash.” Archery recently completed production on fantasy series “Fate: The Winx Saga” for Netflix, the third season of Sky Atlantic’s top-rated “Riviera,” and John Madden’s feature “Operation Mincemeat,” starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Kelly Macdonald.Green Door’s comedy series “In the Long Run” had a successful run on pay TV operator Sky, and the company’s Netflix-acquired feature film “Concrete Cowboy” is due a Spring 2021 premiere.

Golden Globe-winner Idris Elba and Riviera and Kick-Ass producer Kris Thykier are entering into a joint venture that will see their respective production companies, Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Thykier’s Archery Pictures, working together on multiple film and TV projects.