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HBO Max orders ‘Young Love’ based on ‘Hair Love’

By Reel Chicago Jul 7, 2020 0 Comment

HBO Max has ordered a 12-episode season of the all-new, 2D animated series, Young Love, based on the characters introduced in the Academy Award®-winning short film,&...

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Chris Rock to host ‘SNL’ season premiere

Chris Rock will take the stage in Studio 8H as host of Saturday Night Live’s 46th season premiere on Oct. 3. This will mark Rock’s third appearance as host. Rock became a cast member of the popular sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1990. He and other new cast members Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider […]

New town. New lies. And they’re coming to HBO Max

New town. New secrets. New Little Liars. A new generation of Pretty Little Liars is coming to HBO Max, which has given a direct-to-series order for the new Max Original drama Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, from executive producer/writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and co-executive producer/writer Lindsay Calhoon Bring(Chilling Adventures of Sabrina). Twenty years ago, a series of tragic […]

Protests rise after Breonna Taylor announcement

Six months after Louisville police shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her home during a mismanaged no-knock raid, a grand jury has decided to only bring criminal charges against Officer Brett Hankison, one of three officers who fired their weapons that night. Those charges are not directly related to Taylor’s death, but rather for firing […]

Zack Snyder to film new scenes for ‘Justice League’

Francis Ford Coppola tinkered with the Godfather and Apocalypse Now forever. George Lucas made Star Wars Episodes 4-6 barely recognizable from when the films were first released. And now we have Zack Snyder and Justice League. While few would put Snyder on the same pedestal as Coppola or Lucas, the director, like them, is still […]

BBDO, Street Grace use TikTok to stop predators

Dedicated to their mission of ending the sexual exploitation of minors, Street Grace, along with creative partner BBDO, is meeting young people on the one platform where they are spending more and more of their time: TikTok. With many families spending much more time at home, and online, and with societal pressures amassing, the threat of human trafficking has heightened. In the first […]

ARRI introduces four new Signature Zooms lenses

Responding to market requests for high-quality zoom lenses to match and accompany the Signature Primes, ARRI has announced four new Signature Zooms designed for universal usage with any large-format or Super 35 camera. They offer a fast stop of T2.8 across all four lenses, what’s billed as unrivaled focal length range, absolute image consistency, HDR […]

Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ pushed to 2021

There will be no I want to Live in America being sung this year. Steven Spielberg’s big screen remake of West Side Story has been delayed a year from Dec. 18 of this year until Dec. 10, 2021, Disney announced on Wednesday. The studio also pushed back Black Widow from Nov. 6 to May 7, […]

Disney Pushes back ‘Black Widow’ to 2021

Disney has announced they are pushing the theatrical release date of Scarlett Johansson and Marvel’s Black Widow, as well as the other movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, back to 2021. The film was previously scheduled to be released on Nov. 6 but will now open May 7, 2021, the slot previously held by Shang […]

Oh f#ck John Cena’s ‘Peacemaker’ coming to HBO Max

HBO Max is set to explore the origins of the Peacemaker character, the master of weapons from the highly anticipated upcoming The Suicide Squad film, in the new Max Original action-adventure-comedy series Peacemaker. The network has given a straight-to-series order of eight episodes for the first season of the show. John Cena will reprise his role from The Suicide Squad movie to star in the series, and the film’s […]

AFI announces closing film, ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’

Our friends at The American Film Institute (AFI) announced that the 34th edition of AFI FEST presented by Audi will close with the World Premiere of Showtime Documentary Films’ My Psychedelic Love Story. The film is directed by Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris and explores the dark side of the Timothy Leary saga, and how his […]