Carrie Underwood is giving her fans a gift this holiday season, and it's bigger than My Gift, the country singer's first Christmas album. The American-Idol-winner-turned-mega-songstress is getting her own Christmas TV special that will be made available to stream on HBO Max sometime this holiday season. A specific premiere date has yet to be announced, but the plan is to record the special this fall. Underwood will perform in front of a live orchestra and choir as she sings " Read More...
And so, after all the advance jungle drums, Cast Away is not about how Tom Hanks lost weight to play Chuck Noland, a FedEx employee marooned for four years on a South Sea island when his delivery plane crashes in a storm — although his physical transformation is indeed impressive. It’s not about whether the power of a survivor movie is diluted by such recent, high-intensity exposure to the Survivor TV series — although both suspenseful sagas demonstrate how to start a fire and spear a fish. Read More...
Meet the Carters, the family at the center of Angie Thomas’ searing and topical YA novel, The Hate U Give. The story, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, is coming to life on the big screen as the first photos of the assembled cast emerge at the start of production in Atlanta. “No lie – I got teary-eyed when I saw this,” Thomas tweeted. Shooting began Tuesday with Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games) playing the lead role of Starr, a 16-year-old girl who’s from a low-income neighborhood but attends an elite prep school in the suburbs, only to be torn between two worlds when she witnesses her unarmed friend shot to death by a police officer. Read More...
