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Annie, are you okay? You look like you might faint after producer Graham King turned up at CinemaCon to surprise the crowd with a first look at Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic, Michael. Said to be an emotionally intense depiction of the King of Pop, Michael is positioning itself as a Huge event film. JoBlo’s editor-in-chief, Chris Bumbray, is in the crowd and says Michael will surely be controversial.

During his presentation, Graham said he knows everyone has an opinion about Michael Jackson, for good or ill. However, he did change the world of pop music forever, and his controversy made him a fascinating subject for Fuqua’s film. Graham also said Jackson was an enigma, but behind everything was a man with a very complicated, difficult life.

Michael contains 30 songs from Jackson’s legendary catalog. Next, a trailer played for the crowd, showing Jaafar Jackson as the Gloved One.

Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic, Micheal, is one of the most anticipated film projects in recent memory. Bringing the King of Pop’s story to life on the silver screen is a Herculean task, and you need shining stars to help it burn bright on screens. Today, Lionsgate and Universal Pictures International announced new vital roles for the forthcoming film, including actors to play La Toya Jackson, Dick Clark, Diana Ross, and more!

Per today’s official press release courtesy of Lionsgate and Universal Pictures International:

Larenz Tate plays Berry Gordy, the Motown Records founder and impresario. Gordy is the man who redefined American music by developing and giving a national platform to such acts as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Diana Ross & the Supremes, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight and the Pips – and the Jackson 5 – to name a few.

Kat Graham plays the legendary Diana Ross,...

The central joke surrounding Dr. Zoidberg (Billy West) on the sci-fi sitcom "Futurama" was established early on. Set in the early years of the 31st century, "Futurama" features a rogue's gallery of aliens, robots, mutants, and talking severed heads living alongside its relatively recognizable human characters. Zoidberg is a bipedal lobster-like alien who regularly issues drugs and surgically slices into the employees of Planet Express. In some of Zoidberg's first scenes, way back in 1999, he can be heard saying things like "Now open your mouth and let's take a look at that brain" or diagnosing his human patients with strange, fish-sounding diseases like fin fungus. He can sever and reattach limbs without much issue, although he doesn't always put them in the right place.

The gag, of course, is that he's a bad doctor. Being a space alien — specifically a Decapodian — Zoidberg doesn't seem able to grasp the biology of the mammals he works with.

Tucker Carlson officially broke his silence after his ouster from Fox News this week, posting a video on Wednesday night from an undisclosed location. Or, as Seth Meyers referred to it in a thorough roasting on Thursday night, “what I can only assume is a secret lair at the base of a volcano, or a fake doctor’s office from a low-budget porno.”

The “Late Night” host joked that the video from Carlson came off as nothing more than a “proof-of-life video,” then proceeded to tear it apart.

“Seriously, why are you zooming in from your sauna?” Meyers mocked. “That place looks like the Unabomber’s hideout if he updated it and put it on Airbnb.”

Meyers then homed in on the “carefully planted details” in the background of the video, including the globe sitting on the shelf behind Carlson, which the host assumed is meant to make viewers think “This motherf—er is worldly!

This TV genre suffered a scandal in 1950s that nearly wiped it off screens, but endures as one of the most popular programming types today. Now, the history of these shows finally has a physical home of its own.

What is… the game show?!

The first quiz show launched on radio in 1923; now, nearly 100 years later, the National Archives of Game Show History has launched at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y. Veteran TV producers Bob Boden (“Funny You Should Ask”) and Howard Blumenthal (“Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”) have co-founded the archives and will curate the collection.

Boden and Blumenthal are aiming to acquire materials and records from game show professionals, such as producers, performers, directors, designers, writers, executives, and staff members. They’re looking for items like scripts, set designs, props, technical plans, marketing materials, creative plans, production plans, and more. The...

Photo: 'Carmen Sandiego'/Netflix ‘Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?’ Opening up the computer and popping in this favorite game is a treasured childhood memory. As a child of the 90s, I spent many hours playing as a secret agent for the mysterious A.C.M.E. organization, hunting down the operatives of an agency named V.I.L.E. which was headed by the elusive Carmen Sandiego. So, like many other millennials, I was thrilled to hear that the red-coated villainous would be given new life in a Netflix animated series. Except for this time, she’s not only the main character - but she’s also the good guy. Related article: LatinX Representation in Cinema: A Brief History of the Overlooked Related article: Hulu Continues it’s Animation Domination with ‘The Mighty Ones’ ‘Carmen Sandiego’ - Thirty-six Years of History Carmen Sandiego didn’t start out as a hero.

Britt Allcroft, creator of the worldwide children's programming franchise Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, on Monday announced the launch of her new independent production company, Britt Allcroft Prods., in Los Angeles. British-born Allcroft said she has set up the company to create and produce a variety of television, film and theater projects, the first of which is the children's live-action adventure TV series Scoobs. Scoobs, which is being launched at MIPTV in Cannes, is targeted for kids ages 6-10 and follows the adventures of a kids scuba-diving team nicknamed the Scoobs. The series was created by Allcroft, David Kuehler and Greg Lee. Kuehler is the director of Project Platypus, a product-development initiative within the girls division at Mattel, and Lee was a writer, contributing producer and host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS children's show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Allcroft also is a best-selling author featured on the New York Times children's best-seller list for Thomas and the Magic Railroad.