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Britney Spears is officially stronger than she was yesterday. The iconic pop star is getting her own Lifetime movie, it was announced Wednesday. Directed by Leslie Libman (“Manson’s Lost Girls”), the telepic will chart the singer’s rise to fame, and will also focus on the peaks and valleys that occurred throughout her career, in front of the cameras and… […]

Christoph Waltz is in early negotiations to star in James Cameron’s “Alita: Battle Angel” with Robert Rodriguez directing the ambitious adaptation of the popular manga series. Waltz would join Rosa Salazar in the movie with Salazar portraying a 26th century cyborg who’s rescued from a scrapyard and reassembled. Her character Alita, who only remembers her… […]

After focusing on TV work in the past year, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” director Rupert Wyatt has found his next film. Wyatt will direct the sci-fi pic “Captive State,” which he co-wrote with his wife Erica Beeney. Sources tell Variety a competitive auction is underway, with a mix of studios and financiers currently chasing the property. The parties involved… […]

Prince’s Paisley Park will be opening for touring as of Oct. 6, and tickets will go on sale on Aug. 26. Paisley Park was Prince’s private estate and production complex. The mansion contains living spaces, offices, a performance space and two recording studios. Paisley Park, which was named after Prince’s song of the same name, first started building… […]

The United Talent Agency has signed lifestyle, beauty and fashion YouTuber Alisha Marie. Alisha Marie can currently be seen as a featured performer on the “Girls Night In” tour, which features an all-female cast of digital influencers. She began her YouTube career 5 years ago and has garnered over 4 million subscribers and over 15 million… […]

After a heated bidding war, TriStar Pictures has landed the film rights to Heather Anne Thompson’s “Blood in the Water,” which chronicles the 1971 Attica Prison riot. Sources say several studios were in the mix for the property which hit shelves Aug. 23. Sony will handle distribution. The story chronicles the infamous prison uprising that… […]

It may not be entirely fair that “UnReal” and “Mr. Robot” are yoked together, at least in the minds of some TV critics and drama aficionados, but more than the proximity of their mid-2015 debuts unites them. Both dramas engendered a lot of buzz by doing smart and provocative things with very tricky premises. Neither… […]

As if record-breaking gold medals aren’t enough, Michael Phelps has added the title of reality show co-host to his list of accomplishments. Also in today’s TV news roundup, Bella Thorne is signed on to executive produce a Lifetime movie, starring Cierra Ramirez and Gregg Sulkin. GREENLIGHTS Lifetime has greenlit TV movie “Drink, Slay, Love,” which is… […]

Ariana Grande has been slapped with a lawsuit over her 2015 song “One Last Time.” Grande is being sued by Alex Greggs who claims that “One Last Time” copied a 2012 single he wrote for Skye Stevens titled “Takes All Night.”  David Guetta, who wrote “One Last Time,” Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk, Universal Music Group and Republic Records are… […]

No theater producer or creator likes to face the critics. Even worse? Seeing their Broadway baby, the show they’ve slaved over for years, rated with a number. Which means that Show-Score, the website that’s gaining traction as the Rotten Tomatoes of theater, still faces some hurdles in the theater industry. Operating on the review aggregator model made familiar… […]