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Warren Wilson, a pioneering Los Angeles broadcaster and former Ktla reporter, has died at age 90. Wilson died on Friday, September 27, in Oxnard, California, his son Stanley said in a statement. The son of North Carolina sharecroppers, Wilson was a broadcast journalist for more than 40 years and ranked as one of Los Angeles’ first Black broadcasters when his career got going in 1969, according to the Los Angeles Times. He spent 21 of those years at Ktla. Wilson covered the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel, the 1992 Rodney King riots, and the O.J. Simpson trial, amid other major events in the city. And for his coverage of the 1992 riots — which were sparked by the acquittal of the police officers charged with excessive force in the videotaped beating of Rodney King — Wilson earned a Peabody Award. “He was brave,” Ktla reporter Eric Spillman said. “During the riots, Warren went down to the South L.

For 35 minutes in the middle of its nine-episode run, Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story does something special.

The fifth chapter, titled “The Hurt Man,” was written by series co-creator Ian Brennan and directed by Michael Uppendahl. It’s a single-shot conversation between Erik Menendez (Cooper Koch) and his attorney Leslie Abramson (Ari Graynor). The camera begins several feet behind Abramson and inches imperceptibly closer to Erik as he recalls his history of sexual abuse at the hands of his tyrannical father, José (Javier Bardem).

It’s a stunt, but the entire show is a stunt, so why quibble? The writing is precise, uncomfortably explicit and haunting. The formal simplicity serves its purpose, building breathless tension and putting a spotlight on Koch, who strips himself emotionally bare. We see the impact that the expurgation of these memories is having on Erik and, because we cannot see Abramson’s face,...

1992, directed by Ariel Vromen, takes us back in time, when protestors took to the street after the court acquitted the police officers who used excessive force on a man named Rodney Glen King. The real-life incident that took place on March 3rd, 1991, was captured on camera, where police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department were seen thrashing the man in the most brutal manner. Still, the jury acquitted the men of all charges, and that caused an uproar in society, and especially in the black community. So, let’s find out what happened in 1992 film and how our protagonist found himself stuck in the middle of a perilous situation.

Why was Antoine angry with Mercer?

Mercer had just been released from prison, and he had gotten conditional custody of his son, Antoine. Antoine’s mother and grandmother had passed away after they met with an accident. 1992 did not reveal the details of that accident,...

Jane Wells. (Courtesy photo)

CNBC’s Los Angeles-based correspondent Jane Wells is retiring from the financial news channel after nearly three decades.

Wells announced her impending retirement on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, where she has posted tens of thousands of updates to her more than 113,000 followers since 2008.

Her time on X is eclipsed by her 26-year career at CNBC, where she worked on enterprise stories from the news channel and its associated online platforms, including her recurring series “Strange Success.”

During her time at CNBC, she also served as a fill-in talk show host for talk radio station Kfi (640 Am) and founded her own talent and production firm, Wells Media.

Two years ago, Wells also founded her own Substack newsletter called “Wells $treet,” where she covers “business with a dash of snark — even rich people can be dumb, amirite?”

Her other TV experience include reporting...

“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is an ominous retelling of the infamous crime. Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the second in their “Monster” anthology for Netflix follows brothers Lyle (an incredible Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (an outstanding Cooper Koch). Having endured emotional, physical and sexual abuse — the series argues — at the hands of their father, José (Javier Bardem) and mother, Mary Louise, aka “Kitty” (Chloë Sevigny), the pair murder their parents in cold blood. Chronicling the brothers’ upbringing, the murders and everything thereafter, the series is overlong and exhausting. The show attempts to unpack the circumstances that led to the crime while highlighting Erik and Lyle’s trauma. But in the end, the narrative feels futile and bizarre.

“Menendez” opens in October 1989, two months after Kitty and José’s deaths. Riding in a limo as Kenny G’s “Songbird” plays on the radio, Lyle and...

Linda Deutsch, the Los Angeles-based special correspondent for The Associated Press whose 50-year career with the news service included covering many of the most attention-getting trials in Hollywood history, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at her Los Angeles home surrounded by family and friends. She was 80.

Her death was announced by the AP. Deutsch had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2022. Although she underwent successful treatment at the time, the cancer returned this summer, according to the AP.

In her long career covering courts for the AP, Deutsch penned articles about such major criminal and civil cases as the murder trials of Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Phil Spector and the Menendez Brothers. She covered trials involving Michael Jackson, Patty Hearst, and the police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney King, among many others.

Deutsch’s courts career began with the 1969 trial and conviction of Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Sen.

In recent years, Labor Day weekend’s reputation as a box office dead zone has been upended by strong showings from films like “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and “The Equalizer 3.” Unfortunately, for 2024, standard perception prevails with a predictably lackluster showing.

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.) opens next week to a projected $100 million+ debut, starting what looks like an improved rest of the year compared to the final four months in 2023. For now, it’s tread water time, with the late summer’s best doing best (and in some cases holding extremely well).

The weekend’s total of $86 million was down only $6 million from last year despite the boost from the Denzel Washington sequel ($35 million). Key was the sustained strength of previously top titles. Still #1 “Deadpool & Wolverine” (Disney) fell only 17 percent ($15 million), now about $600 million. Two Universal hits already on PVOD did even better. #5 “Twisters” actually...

“Deadpool & Wolverine” notched a major box office milestone, surpassing $600 million in domestic ticket sales. It’s one of 16 films in history to reach that benchmark.

The Marvel superhero sequel hit this achievement during the otherwise desolate Labor Day weekend, in which “Deadpool & Wolverine” ruled over the box office in its sixth outing. The R-rated film, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, collected $15.2 million over the weekend and an estimated $19.5 million from 3,630 theaters through Monday’s holiday. “Deadpool & Wolverine” has claimed the No. 1 spot for five out of the past six weekends and ranks as the second highest-grossing movie of the year with $603.8 million in North America and $1.25 billion globally.

Labor Day isn’t a holiday that’s known for bringing people to the movies, but this weekend was among the most sluggish of the year. Summer season ended with domestic revenues down 14.3% from 2023 and 26.6% from 2019, the last pre-covid year,...

Scott Eastwood is a thief looking to score during the 1992 Los Angeles riots in the 1992 movie. The actor reveals his favorite films are heist movies which is why he agreed to star with his friend Tyrese Gibson, and how he prepared to play a character from South Central Los Angeles. 1992 is now in movie theaters.

Synopsis: In 1992, Mercer (Tyrese Gibson) is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son (Christopher A’mmanuel) amidst the turbulent 1992 LA uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son (Ray Liotta and Scott Eastwood) put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum, from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise in Los Angeles and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when they collide in this tense crime-thriller.

“1992” is a new live-action drama feature, directed by Ariel Vromen starring Tyrese Gibson, Scott Eastwood and the late Ray Liotta, releasing August 30, 2024 in theaters:

“…set in 1992, during the first night of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, amidst killing, looting, chaos and arson, Mercer endeavors to restore his life and relationship with his son during the unrest following the ‘Rodney King’ verdict.

“Then in another part of town, a father and son confront their troubled relationship by planning a perilous looting heist at Mercer's workplace, as the two families cross paths…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

There are moments in Ariel Vroman’s historical drama-heist thriller “1992” that speak volumes, but one that stands out comes from the late Ray Liotta. “1992” was the actor’s last film, and his performance is first rate and terrifying.

Liotta plays Lowell, a safecracker about to steal millions of dollars in precious metals from a factory on April 29, 1992: the day the Los Angeles Uprising began. As the streets fill with righteous anger and windows shatter and fires burn, this career criminal and abusive father, literally en route to commit a felony, looks out at the Black people raging against generations of injustice and — oblivious to any irony — declares that their grievance “doesn’t give them the right to do this. That’s other people’s property.”

Calling a heist movie something like “1992” is a gutsy move, because it tells the world that you’re not just making...

Set amidst the racial tensions of 1992 Los Angeles, the film 1992 follows two families as their lives collide during the city’s darkest hours. Former gang member Mercer is trying to steer his son Antoine towards a better path, keeping him close as riots erupt in the wake of the Rodney King trial.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, father and son Lowell and Riggin have never seen eye-to-eye. When Riggin hatches a scheme to rob the factory where Mercer works, anger and conflict are set to reach a boiling point.

Stretching across the course of one fateful night, we see how each relationship reflects the broader upheaval facing the city’s black community. Mercer strives to guide Antoine to a future free from violence, battling his son’s desire for revenge. In the other family, Lowell seems poised to betray his sons at any moment. Behind the thrills of...

The heist movie genre has seen many films set in different places. Ben Affleck’s The Town was set in the middle of a Red Sox game, Oceans Eleven heist was during a boxing match in a casino, and the latest from Lionsgate 1992 puts a heist in the middle of the Rodney King Verdict protests. The Tyrese Gibson-led film sees him play Mercer, a fresh out-of-jail employee who finds himself and his son in the middle of a heist.

1992 Review

I remember seeing this trailer at the end of last year and being intrigued by the premise. Heist movies are one of my favorite genres, and if done right, they can be instant classics. With 1992 set amid the uprising protests post-Rodney King verdict, the film’s tone is strong and has an unwavering message that is heartbreaking at its core.

It’s both daring and insane to deliver...

Chicago – Tyrese Gibson is taking this one personally. Originally from the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles, Gibson is the lead role in the film “1992” (in theaters on August 30th). His character Mercer went through the Watts Uprising in 1965, plus he and his son must navigate the Rodney King Uprising in 1992.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

In that year, Mercer Bey (Gibson) is desperately trying to rebuild his life and relationship with his son (Christopher A’mmanuel) amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son (Scott Eastwood) put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a precious metals heist from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise in Los Angeles and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when they collide.

Tyrese Gibson in ‘1992’

Photo credit: Lionsgate

The film – co-written and directed by Ariel Vromen – delivers on several levels, and has...

From executive producer Snoop Dogg, 1992 is a tense crime-thriller that follows Mercer (Tyrese Gibson) as he desperately tries to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son (Christopher A'mmanuel) amidst the turbulent 1992 L.A. uprising following the Rodney King verdict.

Across town, another father and son (Ray Liotta and Scott Eastwood) put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise in Los Angeles and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when they collide in this action-packed new movie from filmmaker Ariel Vromen (The Iceman).

Earlier this month, we had the good fortune to sit down with Eastwood to learn how he approached playing a character who operates in shades of grey and what he enjoyed about exploring the complicated family dynamic of the crooks who embark on this heist.

The actor also reflects...

From executive producer Snoop Dogg, 1992 is a tense crime-thriller that follows Mercer (Tyrese Gibson) as he desperately tries to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son (Christopher A'mmanuel) amidst the turbulent 1992 L.A. uprising following the Rodney King verdict.

Across town, another father and son (Ray Liotta and Scott Eastwood) put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise in Los Angeles and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when they collide in this action-packed new movie from filmmaker Ariel Vromen (The Iceman).

Earlier this month, we caught up with Fast & Furious and Morbius star Tyrese to discuss what proves to be perhaps his most dramatic role to date.

During our conversation, the actor talks about how his own, real-life experiences of the 1992 Los Angeles riots impacted his approach to playing...

Suicide Squad was released in August 2016, just a few short months after Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hit theaters. Zack Snyder's movie had a huge opening weekend (despite negative reviews), but a shocking second-weekend drop sent Warner Bros. into panic mode.

As a result, Suicide Squad received a drastic overhaul with the addition of colourful graphics, catchy pop songs, and a "happy ending" in place of the original, much darker dynamic between The Joker and Harley Quinn.

While the #ReleaseTheAyerCut movement has never been quite as popular as #ReleaseTheSnyderCut - which ultimately led to Zack Snyder's Justice League dropping on HBO Max - a great many fans are desperate to see David Ayer's original version of Suicide Squad.

The filmmaker continues to talk about that on social media and has shared several glimpses of what might have been.

We recently sat down with Scott Eastwood to discuss...

“1992” is a new live-action drama feature, directed by Ariel Vromen starring Tyrese Gibson, Scott Eastwood and the late Ray Liotta, releasing August 30, 2024 in theaters:

“…set in 1992, during the first night of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, amidst killing, looting, chaos and arson, Mercer endeavors to restore his life and relationship with his son during the unrest following the ‘Rodney King’ verdict.

“Then in another part of town, a father and son confront their troubled relationship by planning a perilous looting heist at Mercer's workplace, as the two families cross paths…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Wanting to even deeper into sports stories than TV broadcasts are able? The best sports documentaries have you covered, giving cinematic sweep and depth to athletes and their stories (both in the arena and out). Whether it’s football movies or movies about combat sports or sports movies for those who don’t like sports there’s some inherent alignment between athletic competition and film and TV storytelling. Documentary filmmakers have been able to look beyond the kineticism (or capture it even more dynamically) to present stories that look at the psychology and the struggles of athletes, and the cultural significance of their careers. Here are the 17 best sports documentaries ever made.

With editorial contributions from Brandon Latham.

Ken Burns’ “Baseball” (1994) Ken Burns with Ted Williams when producing ‘Baseball’Courtesy Everett Collection

Ken Burns has a weird tendency to turn over his entire documentary to one particular talking head, whose...

Ron Shelton's "Dark Blue" was a victim of impossible expectations. James Ellroy wrote the screenplay in 1993 (then titled "The Plague Season"), envisioning Kurt Russell in the role of racist LAPD Sergeant Eldon Perry. The story takes place in a jittery city awaiting the riot-inciting verdict of the Rodney King trial. We know what's coming in the macro, but the micro tale of Perry and his partner Bobby Keough (Scott Speedman) being forced to frame a couple of ex-cons for murders committed by informants loyal to their corrupt superior Jack Van Meter (Brendan Gleeson) could break either way. This being Ellroy, the master of corrosive neo-l.A. noir, we're expecting everything to go down twisted. But with the riots looming, Perry and Keough's errand feels destined to get extra messy.

Given its long road to a greenlight, "Dark Blue" acquired the aura of a passion project for Ellroy. And since he tended to spin sprawling,...

Forget the culture wars of today for a second. In the early '90s, one of the biggest political stories of the era was about a perceived pop culture war –- one that involved America's then vice-president and a fictional TV character. George H.W. Bush's vice president Dan Quayle seemed to almost single-handedly keep the media cycle in business thanks to a number of high profile verbal gaffes, which only seemed to escalate ahead of the 1992 presidential election. He famously spelled potato wrong during a children's spelling bee appearance on the campaign trail (a gag that turned up in an episode of "The Simpsons"), and earlier in the administration had misattributed the Holocaust to America, But none of his statements put him on the spot quite like the time he messed with "Murphy Brown."

"Murphy Brown" may not have a pop culture stronghold these days –- the wildly popular...

"You know what scares me? I don't want you to grow up to be like me." Lionsgate has unveiled an official trailer for a movie titled 1992, from director Ariel Vromen. The title is a reference to the 1992 L.A. uprising after the Rodney King verdict – it's set on the very first night of the riots. This is also Ray Liotta's final film appearance and the film is dedicated to his memory. A shopkeeper must save his son from criminals intent on steal from his factory during the 1992 L.A. uprising after the Rodney King verdict. Tyrese Gibson stars as Mercer, a man trying to restart his life and reconcile with his son, played by Christopher A'mmanuel. Mercer faces another father and son, played by Ray Liotta & Scott Eastwood, who aim to steal catalytic converters from his workplace. He shows up and tries to stop them while reconnecting with his son.

Lionsgate’s 1992, the upcoming action-crime thriller starring Tyrese Gibson and directed by Ariel Vromen (The Iceman) and co-starring Ray Liotta in one of his final film roles, will be released in theaters on August 30, with the legendary hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg boarding the film to executive produce through his Death Row Pictures banner. The announcement was jointly made today by Adam Fogelson, chair, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, as well as Gibson and Snoop Dogg.

Starring Tyrese Gibson, Clé Bennett, Dylan Arnold, Christopher A’mmanuel, Michael Beasley, Ori Pfeffer, Tosin Morohunfola, Oleg Taktarov, with Scott Eastwood, and Ray Liotta in one of his final film roles, 1992 is directed by Ariel Vromen from a screenplay by Sascha Penn and Ariel Vromen and a story by Sascha Penn. It is produced by Ariel Vromen, Andreas Rommel, Maurice Fadida, Sascha Penn, and Adam Kolbrenner.

In 1992, Mercer (Tyrese Gibson) is desperately trying to rebuild his life...

In 1992, Mercer (Tyrese Gibson) is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son (Christopher A'mmanuel) amidst the turbulent 1992 LA uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son (Ray Liotta and Scott Eastwood) put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum, from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise in Los Angeles and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when they collide in this tense crime-thriller.

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It’s been over two years since we sadly lost Ray Liotta, but the iconic actor did leave a handful of unreleased projects behind, including 1992, an action-crime thriller in which he stars alongside Tyrese Gibson and Scott Eastwood. Lionsgate has released the first official trailer for 1992, which features an intense final performance from Liotta.

Tyrese Gibsons stars in 1992 as Mercer, a man desperately trying to rebuild his life and relationship with his son (Christopher A’mmanuel) amidst the turbulent 1992 L.A. uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son (Ray Liotta & Scott Eastwood) put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum, from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise in Los Angeles and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when they collide.

Directed by Ariel Vromen, the film also Clé Bennett,...

Ray Liotta in 1992Screenshot: Lionsgate/YouTube

An actor can’t control what may become his last performance. One of the final films of the late Ray Liotta happens to be 1992, a boilerplate crime thriller set against the backdrop of the riots that took place in Los Angeles that year. On the one hand,...

Lionsgate’s 1992, the upcoming action-crime thriller starring Tyrese Gibson, directed by Ariel Vromen (The Iceman), and co-starring Ray Liotta in one of his final film roles, will be released in theaters on August 30, 2024.

Legendary hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg is boarding the film to executive produce through his Death Row Pictures banner. Adam Fogelson, chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, Gibson, and Snoop Dogg jointly made the announcement today.

“1992 was a life-changing time for me, from ‘Deep Cover’ to ‘The Chronic.’ But as things in my life were coming together, everything in LA was coming apart. 1992 is a heist movie that really captures all of that,” said Snoop Dogg.

“This movie is about an LA moment. Ariel made an outstanding film that depicts this moment in time. From my first encounter with Tyrese in Baby Boy to the performance in 1992, I had to be a part of this. And it’s...

Lionsgate has set a release date of Labor Day weekend, August 30, for the action crime thriller 1992, which is one of Ray Liotta’s final film roles. The Emmy-winning actor co-starred in the movie opposite Tyrese Gibson. In addition today, Snoop Dogg boarded the movie as EP through his Death Row Pictures banner.

1992 joins other wide entries on August 30: Sony/Blumhouse’s horror movie They Listen, Showbiz Direct Distribution’s Dennis Quaid title Reagan, and Roadside Attractions’ Jason Patric thriller City of Dreams.

Here’s the 1992 poster that dropped today.

Liotta died in May 2022 at the age of 67 from heart and respiratory issues. At the time, there were several projects he had already shot, i.e, Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear and the Apple TV+ series Black Bird. Liotta received a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Limited Series Emmy nom for Black Bird; previously, he won the Drama Guest Actor Emmy in 2005 for NBC’s ER.

Lionsgate is going back to the early 1990s this summer, with help from Tyrese Gibson and Snoop Dogg.

The company announced Monday that it will release director Ariel Vromen’s crime thriller 1992 in theaters Aug. 30. Snoop Dogg has boarded the feature as executive producer through his Death Row Pictures production company, with Gibson (known for the Fast & Furious franchise) starring alongside Scott Eastwood and the late Ray Liotta in one of his final movie roles.

As seen in the trailer below, 1992 stars Gibson as Mercer, who is attempting to restart his life and patch things up with his son (Christopher Ammanuel) at the time of the Los Angeles uprising over the Rodney King verdict. Meanwhile, Mercer is about to encounter a father and son (Liotta and Eastwood) who are aiming to steal catalytic converters from the factory where Mercer works.

Vromen (The Iceman) directed the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sascha Penn.

The art exhibit Giants, curated from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, will be displayed internationally on a global museum tour. Curated by Kimberli Gant, the exhibit opened at the Brooklyn Museum in February 2024 and will next appear at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art.

In a statement announcing the global run, Keys and Beatz — born Kasseem Dean — shared: “Our mission has always been about making art accessible to everyone and showcasing these Giant artists. We realized quickly that meant this collection had to travel to communities...

The source material for FX’s sports drama series Clipped, which is “The Sterling Affairs” podcast by ESPN, did a fantastic job getting into the past details of Donald Sterling, focusing on his rise to power and the various controversies linked to him. Therefore, it was perhaps only a matter of time before Clipped took a similar step, going back into the past years and presenting the earlier accusations of racism against the Los Angeles Clippers owner. This week’s episode 4 does exactly so, as we are given an insight into each of the main characters’ pasts in an effort to explain some of their thoughts and decisions in the present time. Instead of just focusing on the Sterlings, though, the series also gives enough space to its two other central characters—Doc Rivers and V. Stiviano.

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What were the Rodney King riots?

Clipped episode 4 follows a set...

“Comedy is what takes us away from all the pain and all the hurt and all the turmoil that goes on in life. It takes us away from that, even if only for a brief second, a brief moment.” Maybe you wouldn’t expect this level of depth from a man who’s made a career of being silly. Something else you might not expect? Even 30 years into his comedy career, he was still possessed by a nervous energy before getting on the stage for his 2016 special. So much of what has made Martin Lawrence successful is his ability to channel that nervous energy into something great and, more importantly, something funny.

But what drives that energy? For Martin, it may be the very pain, hurt, and turmoil he’s trying to help us escape. Despite his success, Martin’s life has been marked by challenges, from a difficult childhood to high-profile controversies.

It’s not every day that you come across someone whose IMDb profile starts with the title of Executive Producer. But not everyone is Little Marvin, the creator, head writer, and executive producer of “Them.”

Little Marvin knew he wanted to be a showrunner from the moment he learned the word, describing it as a “wonderful combination of things” that spoke to his obsessive nature and interest in every aspect of filmmaking. He worked as a creative executive, in marketing and advertising, “telling stories through brand building,” he told IndieWire.

“I loved the life, I loved what I was doing, and I felt very creatively fulfilled,” Little Marvin said. “But there was always this nagging dream that I had, like, ‘Okay, this is great, but what you really wanted to do was tell stories in this way.’ So four or five years ago, I just bit the bullet, quit my...

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The majority of the new FX miniseries Clipped takes place in 2013 and 2014, during a tumultuous basketball season where Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was forced to sell the team after recordings of his inflammatory, racist comments went public. One episode, though, rewinds to earlier points in the lives of the story’s key figures, including a flashback to the terrible day in the spring of 1992 when four...

The Crow Photo: Miramax Alex Proyas’ 1994 movie The Crow is arguably most remembered as the film in which Brandon Lee—son of legendary martial arts movie star Bruce Lee—was accidentally shot on set during filming, dying hours later in a hospital at age 28. But The Crow is so much more than that,...

The CrowPhoto: Miramax

Alex Proyas’ 1994 movie The Crow is arguably most remembered as the film in which Brandon Lee—son of legendary martial arts movie star Bruce Lee—was accidentally shot on set during filming, dying hours later in a hospital at age 28. But The Crow is so much more than that,...

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films making noise in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track. So we’re going to do the hard work for you.

For this edition, we’re looking at India – but no, not Bollywood. India’s regional film industries are thriving, especially those in its Southern region. Today’s pick, The Goat Life (Aadujeevitham), is currently the third highest-grossing Malayalam language film of all time and one of the highest-grossing Indian films of the year. A gritty survival drama, The Goat Life has been banned in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman for its visceral portrayal of the immigrant experience.

Name: The Goat Life...

Plot: Set in 1991 Los Angeles, the story centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve, who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken. Navigating a tumultuous time in Los Angeles, with a city on the razor’s edge of chaos, Dawn is determined to stop the killer. But as she draws closer to the truth, something ominous and malevolent grips her and her family…

Review: The first season of Them debuted on Prime Video close to the one-year mark after Covid-19. Marketed as the small-screen continuation of Jordan Peele’s brand of big-screen horror, the series blended social commentary, political relevance, and disturbing imagery as it chronicled the Emory family’s move to Southern California. Led by a great performance by Deborah Ayorinde, Them (subtitled Covenant) was almost too violent for its own good. While I enjoyed the first season,...

If you've seen the trailers, then you know Them: The Scare will surely be unlike anything else on television.

The black horror anthology returns for a second season on Prime Video, with a new story and landscape at the forefront but the same scares the first season evoked.

TV Fanatic was lucky enough to participate in the Them: The Scare press day, where we chatted with series creator Little Marvin and Deborah Ayorinde, who returns to the series in a new role.

While the first season, Them: Covenant, was set in 1953 and followed a black family moving from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in Los Angeles, this season takes place in 1991.

The story stays in Los Angeles but changes the timeframe, introducing a new set of circumstances for the new cast of characters.

Little Marvin, the mastermind behind the innovative series, was inspired by many things when creating this universe.

The horror anthology series “Them” returns for its second season titled “Them: The Scare” on Thursday, April 25 on Prime Video. After exploring the effects of living in Los Angeles on Black people in the early 1950s, Season 2 jumps to 1991 amidst the social unrest in the city. A Black LAPD detective is searching for a killer only to find that there might be something far more malevolent at play. Don’t miss a second of “Them: The Scare” with a 30-Day Free Trial of Amazon Prime Video.

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The second season of “Them” returns to Los Angeles after Season 1 — subtitled “Covenant — took place in 1952 in Compton. Now, in 1991, homicide detective Dawn Reeve is investigating the brutal murder of a...

Them has never shied away from exploring some of the darkest parts of America’s history. The first season of this anthology series was centered around the Great Migration of the 1950s and virulent racism in suburban America, and now the second season (all episodes drop on April 25 on Prime Video) focuses on Los Angeles circa 1991, in the direct aftermath of Rodney King’s assault at the hands of the LAPD. This is where we find Detective Dawn Reeves, as she wrestles with racism and misogyny from her colleagues, familial turmoil, and most terrifyingly, a malevolent entity terrorizing Los Angelenos all over the city — with her loved ones potentially the next targets. Family Ties Much of what drives Them: The Scare is Detective Reeves’ fierce devotion to her son, Kel (Joshua J. Williams), and her mother, Athena (Pam Grier), particularly in the face of grounded and supernatural threats alike. The...

In the early 1990s, two events shook America to its very core: the Rodney King incident and the trial of O.J. Simpson. Both cases provoked intense outrage, talked about justice and race, and ultimately had a significant impact on the American legal system.

Simpson’s arrest and murder trial in Los Angeles still bring back vivid memories, nearly thirty years later. Blood stained his glove, minute-by-minute coverage aired on national television, and he was the target of a police chase in a white 1993 Ford Bronco SUV.

In other words, his ‘trial of the century’ will also endure in the memories of numerous Americans since it exposed the significant disparities between Black and White Americans. The 76-year-old football player-actor passed away on April 10.

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Meanwhile, the Rodney King incident in 1991 involved four White police officers brutally beating an unarmed African American man in Los Angeles. The incident...

The episode of Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? covering Candyman (2021) was Written by Emilie Black, Narrated by Adam Walton, Edited by Jaime Vasquez, Produced by Andrew Hatfield and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Legacy sequels, recently they’ve been the talk of town, for better and for worse. The recent Halloween trilogy seems to be beloved by some and hated by others, the new Exorcist sequel underperformed both in box office and public opinion, yet these types of sequels are not stopping anytime soon. One that seemed to go over mostly well with a decent box office, mostly good reviews, and generally happy fans was the 2021 release of Candyman (watch it Here). Of course, plenty didn’t love it or thought it was trying too hard, but overall, it did ok and brought plenty of new ideas to the table while respecting the original. A lot,...

This week’s Quantum Leap took a break from the ongoing mystery of Ben’s three-year disappearance to focus on an impactful story about racial injustice.

Wednesday’s harrowing episode found Ben in the body of a young man named Danny, who worked at his father Jin’s shoe store and was planning to leave the family business after enlisting in the Marines.

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“Quantum Leap” is traveling back to the 1992 LA riots in Wednesday’s new episode.

In an exclusive clip shared with TheWrap, Ben (Raymond Lee) lands in the body of 18-year-old Daniel Park, a first generation Korean American teenager working at his father’s shoe store in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. Jumping to 1992 alongside Magic (Ernie Hudson), the pair learn they have been transported to the day when all four officers involved in the beating of Rodney King were acquitted of assault, with three of the four acquitted of using excessive force.

“I remember watching the riots on TV — how unfair that verdict was to the Black community and how angry people were over it,” Ben told Magic as he realizes his new surroundings. “I remember the rooftop Koreans trying to protect their businesses … I can’t possibility be here to stop all that right?”

Instead, Magic informs Ben that amid the riots prompted Daniel’s father,...

To briefly look back: on March 3, 1991, a man named Rodney King was pulled from his car by several L.A.P.D. officers following a high-speed chase on the 210 freeway in the San Fernando Valley. He was pushed to the ground and beaten savagely by the cops. The beating was captured on video and proliferated on local news broadcasts as yet another example of police brutality, especially as it was directed toward L.A.'s Black community. It should be noted that Darryl Gates, the local police chief, had been a key player in Operation Hammer, a dramatic push to aggressively militarized the Los Angeles Police Department. Under Gates' rule, complaints about police brutality rose 33% for a five-year period beginning in the mid-'80s. Hate and violence ran rampant in the police department, and it was allowed to go unchecked for years. 

The cops who beat up King were arrested and put on trial for using excessive force.

Donald Trump’s team was aware that, if he refused to leave office after the 2020 election, it could spark a mass wave of civil unrest. But the man Trump sought to appoint as attorney general had an easy answer for that, according to the new indictment of the former president: invoke the Insurrection Act.

The indictment lists six as-of-yet unindicted co-conspirators. Co-Conspirator 4 is described as “a Justice Department official who…attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.

I remember her hands trembling. They did not tremble. She was not afraid. She was too fired up, too righteous, too right to know fear in that moment.

My memory is tainted by the ensuing smear campaign, a campaign that did not end until today, when Sinéad O'Connor died at the infuriatingly young age of 56 -- and I'm probably a fool to believe this denigration will cease just because she's not around to defend herself anymore. I've never seen a popular musician face such unremitting scorn. Not even close. But O'Connor -- contrary to the narrative seared into our psyches by a media that could not bear her scorched-earth declaration that the Catholic Church is, charitable works be damned, a factory of institutionally abetted child abuse -- never stopped speaking her truth. That continues to be our truth and our shame.

That she did so with a shaved head, which...

Billy Joel has apparently been waiting for someone to come along and update his 1989 single “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” In an interview with BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball following his headlining performance in Hyde Park last weekend, Joel praised Fall Out Boy for their recent take on the song.

“Everybody’s been wanting to know when there’s going to be an updated version of it, because my song started in ’49 and ended in ’89 — it was a 40-year span,” Joel told Ball. “Everybody said, ‘Well, aren’t...

In 1989, Billy Joel released his eleventh album Storm Front which featured his third single that would reach number one on the Billboard Top 100 charts, We Didn’t Start the Fire. We Didn’t Start the Fire was a unique tune in which the lyrics were composed entirely of a laundry list of subjects that dominated news headlines spanning from 1949 to 1989 (which was also Billy Joel’s lifetime at that point). The pop culture hit would address topics such as Beatlemania, the Berlin wall, the Ayatollah, Ho Chi Minh, Catcher in the Rye, The King and I, the crack epidemic and much more.

The song would spawn parodies for use in movies and TV, but there hasn’t been a genuine updated cover until now. The band Fall Out Boy has just released their version with headlines from the last thirty years filling out the lyrics. This single will reportedly be...