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Will Smith has been tapped to headline France’s Positiv Festival next year. The actor-rapper will perform July 31 at the Roman Theatre of Orange located in southeast France, organizers announced Tuesday. It will be his first performance in the country.

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Smith, who gave listeners Nineties hits like “Men in Black,” “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It,” and “Summertime,” has begun to carve his way back into the music business. Smith gave a rare performance at the 2024 BET Awards in June,...

Benny Medina, the American record executive and talent manager, had a rather extraordinary upbringing. His rags-to-riches story was TV material and Medina realized this along with his business partner Jeff Pollack. Medina and Pollack developed the concept which later went on to become NBC’s top hit and a culturally iconic show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Will Smith and James Avery in a still from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Credits: NBC

While Medina was about to pitch the concept to producer Quincy Jones, he met actor Will Smith during the taping of a show. Medina and Smith immediately hit it off and the record executive decided that Smith would be perfect to play the main character. As the idea progressed, some elements of Smith’s life were incorporated into the show including the title.

Who Is Benny Medina, The Record Executive Behind The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air? Benny Medina | Credits: Angela George,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pulled back the curtain on the films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature categories for the 97th Academy Awards next year.

The list includes 31 toon features, 169 docs and international pics from 85 countries. Preliminary voting for the 97th Oscars runs December 9-13, and all three shortlists will be revealed December 17. The Oscars will be handed out Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

Here are the animated, documentary and international features eligible for the 2024 Oscars:

Best Animated Feature

Art College 1994

Captain Avispa

Chicken for Linda!

The Colors Within

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

Despicable Me 4

Flow

The Garfield Movie

Ghost Cat Anzu

The Glassworker

The Imaginary

Inside Out 2

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Kung Fu Panda 4

Living Large

Look Back

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Mars Express

Memoir of a Snail...

A total of 31 animated features, 169 documentary features and 85 international features are eligible for Oscar nominations this season, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed on Thursday.

In the animated feature category, high-profile studio films like Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Universal/DreamWorks’s The Wild Robot and acclaimed indies like Memoir of a Snail are joined in the running by longer shots like The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, a film jettisoned by Warner Bros. that wound up with the distributor Ketchup Entertainment.

The documentary feature race, meanwhile, includes titles that have dominated at the doc community’s precursor awards, including Nat Geo’s Sugarcane, Netflix’s Daughters and MTV’s Black Box Diaries; two that count Malala Yousafzai as an executive producer, Apple’s Bread & Roses and The Last of the Sea Women, and two that count Jennifer Lawrence as an EP,...

“Sugarcane” earned a leading five nominations, followed by “Soundtrack to Coup d’Etat” with four for the 40th annual International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards. These Oscar precursors will be celebrated in a ceremony on Dec. 5 at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. See the full list of nominees below.

Among this year’s IDA nominees for Best Feature, only “Sugarcane” was also nominated for the top prize by the Critics Choice Documentary Awards. Nominees in Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short categories have been selected from the shortlists previously announced. IDA members will have access to view each of the nominated films and can begin voting on November 19, 2024.

IDA has been an inconsistent, but important precursor for the Oscars. Last year, only one of the IDA top 10 went on to contend for Best Documentary Feature: “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” lost that Oscar race to “20 Days in Mariupol.

“Sugarcane,” the documentary about the mistreatment of Indigenous children in Canada, has received the most nominations at yet another awards show for nonfiction features, picking up five noms to lead the field at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards.

In nominations announced on Tuesday, the film by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie was nominated in the Best Feature Documentary category, as well as for its directing, cinematography, editing and musical score. It had previously led in nominations at the Cinema Eye Honors and Critics Choice Documentary Awards as well.

“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” received four nominations, while “Black Box Diaries” and “Queendom” each received three.

In the Best Feature Documentary category, those four films were nominated alongside “Agent of Happiness,” “Dahomey,” “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” “No Other Land,” “Seeking Mavis Beacon” and “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin.”

Additional nominations were made in the episodic series,...

Sugarcane earned a leading five nominations as the IDA Documentary Awards announced its nominees today, followed closely by Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat with four.

Black Box Diaries, My Sweet Land, and Queendom earned three nominations apiece. Also earning multiple nominations were Agent of Happiness, No Other Land, Seeking Mavis Beacon, and The Remarkable Life of Ibelin – each with two nominations.

Sugarcane’s nods came for Best Documentary Feature and Best Director, recognizing the work of Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, as well as nominations for cinematography, editing, and score. The National Geographic documentary investigates the systematic abuse of Indigenous children who attended a so-called “Indian Residential School” in British Columbia.

‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’s recognition came in the Best Documentary Feature category, as well as Best Director for Johan Grimonprez, Best Editing, and Best Writing. The film from Kino Lorber looks at how the U.

Sugarcane leads the International Documentary Association’s 2024 IDA Documentary Awards nominees.

The film about the abusive legacy of Catholic-run Native American missionary schools racked up five nods, including for best feature.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat scored four nods and three titles — Queendom, Black Box Diaries and My Sweet Land — landed three nominations apiece.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Queendom and Black Box Diaries are up for best feature alongside Dahomey and double nominees Agent of Happiness, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, No Other Land, Seeking Mavis Beacon and The Remarkable Life of Ibelin.

And the directors of Sugarcane, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Queendom, Black Box Diaries and No Other Land are all up for best director.

This year’s IDA Documentary Awards nominees were selected from more than 700 entries from 77 countries, both up from last year, and, in the feature and shortlist categories, were chosen from shortlists announced on Oct.

In 1967, Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage, a photobook examining life under apartheid in South Africa, was published. Fifty years later, 60,000 of Cole’s unknown negatives were uncovered, including photographs from his years as an exile in New York City. Much happened in those intervening years, both in South Africa and in Cole’s life, and Raoul Peck’s Ernest Cole: Lost and Found focuses primarily on filling in the blanks in that stretch of history.

The documentary divides its attention between exploring South Africa’s social and political unrest under apartheid and the reverberations of its eventual abnegation, examining many of Cole’s newly discovered photographs, and detailing the man’s life from the late ’60s until his untimely death in 1990 from cancer. It’s a lot to cover in under two hours, and Peck never quite finds an effective way of weaving the disparate threads together, leaving the...

National Geographic’s “Sugarcane,” a film about abuse and missing children at an Indigenous boarding school in Canada, leads this year’s nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors awards with six. Cinema Eye recognizes excellence in the artistry and craft of nonfiction filmmaking. “Sugarcane” will face off against “Black Box Diaries,” “Dahomey,” “Daughters,” “Look Into My Eyes,” “No Other Land,” and “Soundtrack to Coup d’Etat” for Best Feature. See the full list of nominees below.

In 2023, four of the five eventual Academy Award nominated Documentary Feature films were nominated by Ceh earlier in the season, including the Oscar winner “20 Days in Mariupol.” Last year’s Ceh winner “32 Sounds” failed to earn a nomination from the Academy. The last two films to win the Oscar without first being recognized with a nomination by Ceh were “My Octopus Teacher” in 2020 and “Free Solo” in 2018.

Cinema Eye will return to...

Sugarcane, the story of sexual abuse and disappearances at a school for Indigenous children in British Columbia, leads the nominations for the prestigious documentary-focused Cinema Eye Honors awards with six. Four films are next with five noms each: Dahomey, Eno, Frida and No Other Land. See the full list below.

Sugarcane, Dahomey and No Other Land will vie for the marquee Nonfiction Feature prize along with Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Look Into My Eyes and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. This is the first year that the named nominees in the Nonfiction Feature category will include the entire creative team: directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, composers, sound designers, visual designers and significant on-screen participants.

The producers of Sugarcane, No Other Land, Hollywoodgate, Mistress Dispeller, Porcelain War and Union are up for the Production prize. The Cinema Eye winner in that category has gone on to take the Documentary Feature Academy...

Sugarcane, the Nat Geo documentary feature about abuse and forced separations in a Canadian Indigenous community, landed a field-leading six nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors, the organization, which celebrates nonfiction work made for big and small screens, announced on Thursday.

Among the noms for Sugarcane is one for best nonfiction feature, a category in which it will compete alongside Mubi’s Dahomey and the U.S.-distributor-less No Other Land, which both garnered five noms, and MTV Docs’ Black Box Diaries, Netflix’s Daughters, A24’s Look Into My Eyes and Kino Lorber’s Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.

This is the first year in which the nominees for best nonfiction feature will include the entire creative team behind each doc — the directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, composers, sound designers, visual designers and significant on-screen participants.

The audience choice award, nominees for which were determined by more than 30,000 votes from nonfiction lovers around the world,...

The Canadian film “Sugarcane” continued its impressive awards-season streak on Thursday, leading all films in nominations for the 18th annual Cinema Eye Honors.

The film from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, which looks into cases of abuse and forced separation in an Indigenous community, received six nominations, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. Mati Diop’s “Dahomey” and Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor’s “No Other Land” received five nominations.

“Sugarcane” is now the only film of 2024 to be nominated in the top nonfiction category at the Cinema Eye Honors, Critics Choice Documentary Awards and Gotham Awards, and also to be included on the International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards long list and Doc NYC’s short list of likely awards contenders.

Nominees in the Outstanding Nonfiction Feature category were “Sugarcane,” “Dahomey,” “No Other Land,” “Black Box Diaries,” “Daughters,” “Look Into My Eyes” and “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.

Julie Delpy’s Meet The Barbarians will open the 21st edition of the Seville European Film Festival on November 8. The Spanish festival turns the spotlight on European films during this year’s awards season.

Meet The Barbarians is a satire about the arrival of a group of refugees in a village in Brittany.

The official selection includes 19 titles in competition for its top award: the Golden Giraldillo, named after the statue that crowns Sevilla’s Cathedral, La Giralda.

The prize comes with €40,000 for the Spanish distributor of the winning film or €20,000 for the company that submitted the film to the...

The 15th annual Doc NYC festival unveiled the titles in its Short List sections, an early precursor lineup in advance of the Oscar nominations next January in the categories of Best Documentary Feature and Documentary Short.

America’s largest documentary festival, based in the Chelsea and Greenwich Village neighborhoods of New York City, launches on Nov. 13 with the opening night premiere of “Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story.”

The titles in the Short Lists include Benjamin Ree’s “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,” Raoul Peck’s “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” Carla Gutiérrez’s “Frida,” Mati Diop’s “Dahomey” and “No Other Land,” directed by a four-person collective of Israeli and Palestinian artists.

Additional films, nearly all screening with filmmakers in person for Q&As, include “Will and Harper,” about the friendship between Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, “The Last of the Sea Women,” produced by Nobel Peace Prize winner...

Sean Paul says he usually writes songs for women, but when Will Smith called him to collaborate on a song for Bad Boys: Ride or Die, he needed him to turn up his inner bad boy.

“He sent me the song with him on it already and basically asked me to do a verse, and I went in. I usually don’t do badman lyrics, I’m more for the ladies, but the movie is called Bad Boys,” the Grammy-winning reggae-dancehall artist tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The track was dope and it’s definitely reflective of Run Dmc, [LL Cool J’s] ‘Rock the Bells,’ old-school hip-hop with that energy.”

Smith and Paul join forces on the beat laden track “Light Em Up,” one of the 10 songs on the soundtrack accompanying the film that opened to a victorious $56.5 million at the domestic box office.

Paul, 51, recalls meeting Smith earlier in his career: In the...

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival was officially closed yesterday, on May 25, 2024, as the prizes for the movies and the actors were awarded at the closing ceremony. It was a very exciting and content-filled event, and we have also reported on numerous movies that had their premiere at Cannes, some of which were received well, while others… not so much. But, naturally, everyone wants to know who won and who lost at Cannes, and that is what we are going to report about in this article.

The article will be divided into two main sections. The first one will list all the juries at Cannes, since they are the ones who chose the winners at the film festival, so we think that it is only fair that you know who picked the winners. After that, we are going to list all the winners in each of the categories.

As we have said,...

In “I Am Not Your Negro” (2016), his profound and lacerating portrait of James Baldwin, the director Raoul Peck traced the haunted connection between two things: Baldwin’s staggering perception of what it was to be Black in America, and the depth of Baldwin’s struggle with melancholy, self-doubt, and his merciless ability to see truth. For Baldwin, the personal and political came together in uniquely despairing and revealing ways.

Peck’s new documentary, “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” could be considered a companion piece to that earlier monumental film. No, it isn’t as powerful. But it, too, is the penetrating portrait of a Black artist — the photographer Ernest Cole, who was born in 1940 in Eersterust, South Africa, and who beginning in the late ’50s took his camera into the streets to chronicle the evils and everyday experience of life under apartheid. He escaped the regime and came to New...

In his critically acclaimed documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck surveyed James Baldwin’s legacy and its contemporary resonance through the writer’s own words. Working from one of Baldwin’s unfinished manuscripts, Peck wrote a screenplay that Samuel L. Jackson then read over archival images and videos. The Haitian filmmaker returns to this speculative mode in his most recent feature, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, a propulsive and weighty documentary about the South African photographer who chronicled the inhumanity of apartheid for the world.

Premiering at Cannes as a special screening, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found is an introspective memoir punched up with the elements of a thriller. The discovery of a trove of Cole’s photo negatives in a Swedish bank safe inspired Peck to reappraise the photographer’s legacy. This project comes on the heels of a minor renaissance for Cole, whose 1967 book House of...

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, directed and written by Raoul Peck and narrated by Lakeith Stanfield, invites us into the life and voice of one of South Africa’s influential yet unsung heroes of photojournalism and activism. Through words and imagery, this documentary introduces the world to Ernest Cole, a pioneering freelance photographer whose work captured the brutal realities of South African apartheid and the enduring struggle for freedom.

Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, born in 1940 in Eersterust, Pretoria, began his career sweeping floors in a Johannesburg photography studio. He finally broke through when hired by famed Black outlet Drum magazine in the late 1950s. Cole’s lens was unflinching, and his images of the oppressive apartheid state quickly made him a target for the South African government. Through his pictures, he chronicled how racism existed in every facet of daily life and how the intense subjugation forced the Black people...

Apartheid saturated the foundation of Ernest Cole’s young life like poison. Born in Pretoria, Cole lived through the casual horrors of baasskap, a violent philosophy that advocated minority white rule in South Africa, and chronicled it from behind the lens of his camera, which he started using at a young age. He saw his neighborhood be demolished for a white housing development. He was present at the Sharpeville Massacre, where 69 Black protestors were killed for demonstrating against racist pass laws. Cole furtively photographed life under apartheid while freelancing for various newspapers and eventually smuggled the evidence out of the country when he fooled the government into believing he was mixed race instead of a native Black African.

Not long after arriving in New York in the mid-’60s, Cole acquired a deal with Random House to publish a book of his photographs. House of Bondage quickly became the definitive...

Exclusive: Dafne Keen (Logan) and Samantha Lorraine (Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado) have been tapped to star in Night Comes, a survival horror thriller marking the feature directorial debut of actor Jay Hernandez (Suicide Squad).

Hailing from Impossible Dream Entertainment and the Canadian production and financing outfit Big Picture Cinema Group, the film unfolds against the backdrop of a cataclysmic event that threatens to engulf humanity. Two sisters manage to escape the horror only to find themselves thrust into a perilous struggle for survival, tasked with a mission that holds the fate of mankind in the balance.

Hernandez teamed with Jason Bourque and Nancy Isaak to write the film, which draws inspiration from such popular genre titles as Birdbox and The Descent. Impossible Dream partners Shaun Redick and Yvette Yates Redick will produce alongside Big Picture...

The Cannes Premiere section stocked up on films from France with Alain Guiraudie’s Misericorde among the mix, the Out of Competition section added a Canuck oddity from Winnipeger Guy Maddin and co., the Midnight Section Screenings landed Nicolas Cage starring The Surfer by Lorcan Finnegan and Sergei Loznitsa once again drops a docu film on the Croisette with an item in the Special Screenings section. Here are nineteen titles that dropped this morning:

Cannes Premiere

“C’est Pas Moi,” Leos Carax

“En Fanfare” (“The Matching Bang”), Emmanuel Courcol

“Everybody Loves Touda,” Nabil Ayouch

“Le Roman de Jim,” Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu

“Misericorde,” Alain Guiraudie

“Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot,” Rithy Panh

Out Of Competition

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” George Miller

“Horizon, an American Saga,” Kevin Costner

“Rumours,” Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin

“She’s Got No Name,” Chan Peter Ho-Sun

Midnight Screenings

“I, the Executioner,” Seung Wan Ryoo

“The Balconettes...

Prepare for a riveting episode of “The First 48” as they unravel the mystery in “Lost and Found,” airing on A&e at 8:00 Pm on Thursday, December 7, 2023. The chilling discovery of a woman’s lifeless body in her car on an overgrown lot sets the stage for an intense investigation. Detective Glenn Barton takes center stage as he meticulously traces the victim’s final steps in a race against time to uncover the truth behind her mysterious death.

“Lost and Found” promises to keep viewers on the edge of their seats as Detective Barton delves into the gritty details of this perplexing case. The episode not only explores the harrowing crime scene but also dives deep into the intricate web of clues, attempting to piece together the puzzle of who or what is ultimately responsible for the tragedy. With every revelation, the suspense heightens, making this installment of “The First 48...

Eve Hewson is one of the most talented and beautiful actresses working in the film industry. The Irish actress began her career with a 2005 short film titled Lost and Found, and after that she made her feature debut with the 2008 film The 27 Club. Hewson’s first major role was in the 2011 drama film This Must Be It and recently she starred in Apple TV+’s musical drama film Flora and Son. So, if you love Hewson’s performances here are the 10 best movies and shows starring Eve Hewson that should be on your watchlist.

10. Behind Her Eyes (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Synopsis: Simona Brown plays Louise, a single mother who has an affair with her psychiatrist boss David (Tom Bateman). Her life takes a strange turn when she later befriends his wife Adele (Eve Hewson), and she finds herself caught in a web of secrets and lies where nothing is what it seems.

Jorja Smith stopped by The Tonight Show to perform two of her songs, “Falling or Flying” and “Little Things.” Appearing with a live band, Smith gave the tracks an emotive, soulful vibe, combining them into one longer performance.

“Falling or Flying” and “Little Things” come off Smith’s recent sophomore LP, Falling or Flying, which dropped in September. The album follows her 2018 debut, Lost & Found, and was made with producer duo Damedame* in her hometown of Walsall.

“I don’t slow down enough,” Smith explained of the LP in a statement.

The projects will be pitched at South Asia’s largest film market.

India’s Film Bazaar market has revealed the 20 projects selected for this year’s Co-Production Market.

The invited titles originate from 11 countries and will be pitched to producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents at Goa’s Marriott Resort from November 20-24.

The line-up includes projects from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the US, UK, Singapore, Germany, France, Poland, Luxembourg and Israel.

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Titles include The Distant Near, directed by UK-based Polish director Rafael Kapelinski who won a Crystal Bear at the...

India’s Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest film market, has selected a range of projects from around the world for its annual co-production market.

The 20 selected projects are from 11 countries, most are already structured as co-productions, and they are all South Asian-themed. From Israel, the Hebrew-language “Raju” by Dror Sabo (“Dead End”), will be produced by Lee Yardeni for My TV Productions (“Nevelot”). Rafael Kapelinski, director of Berlinale winner “Butterfly Kisses,” is at the market with English, German and Hindi-language Germany-India-France-Poland-u.K. co-production “The Distant Near,” produced by Katharina Suckale for Bombay Berlin Film Production (“Loev”).

Hindi-language Germany-Luxembourg-France co-production “Kohinoor,” by Udita Bhargava (Berlinale selection “Dust”), will be produced by Martin Lehwald for Schiwago Film (Berlinale winner “Styx”). Fresh off Busan’s Asian Project Market, feature debutant Aakash Chhabra’s Hindi-language “I’ll Smile in September” will be produced by Sanjay Gulati for India’s Crawling Angel Films and...

Chicago – The City of Neighborhoods is Chicago, and director/co-writer Haroula Rose (with co-writer Coby Goss) has constructed a modern issue “dramedy” set there entitled “All Happy Families,” which has its World Premiere at the 59th Chicago International Film Festival on October 12th, 2023. For tickets and info, click Families.

This comic drama involves a dysfunctional whose youngest son Graham (Josh Radnor), an eternally aspiring actor in Chicago who’s stuck in a funk and living in his family’s crumbling two-flat. When an old college crush (Chandra Russel) comes looking to rent the first floor apartment, while at the same time as his TV star brother Will’s (Rob Huebel) returns home, Graham is faced with a problematic dilemma and returning parents (Colleen Camp and John Ashton) in the mix.

’All Happy Families,’ by Haroula Rose (left inset) with Coby Goss (right), at the 59th Ciff

Photo credit: Chicago International...

Jorja Smith Isn’T One to blindly follow her intuition. Sure, her gut has led her to some very good decisions, like the one she made in 2015 to move to London and pursue a career in music shortly after graduating high school. Within just a few years, the British singer and songwriter had star-making guest appearances with Drake and Kendrick Lamar, a coveted spot on the short list for the Mercury Prize, and a Best New Artist nomination at the 2019 Grammy Awards, next to acts like Dua Lipa and Luke Combs.

In Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel, All of Us Strangers was a ghost story of a son reconnecting with his long-dead parents while navigating romance in the current era. In adapting this weird story for the screen, writer-director Andrew Haigh made some changes, largely making the main character gay, not heterosexual, and letting the ghostly elements disappear into a feeling that this is all happening in the present day, even if son and parents are essentially the same age.

The film traverses two eras through the eyes of one man, Adam (Andrew Scott), a lonely 40ish screenwriter who is dealing with midlife issues when a man from the same apartment complex comes knocking one day. Harry (Paul Mescal) is a more freewheeling and sexually comfortable soul who is looking for a more conventional gay relationship when he is thrust into Adam’s complicated world. And for Adam, that means an odd...

Stars: Elvis Stojko, Paige Foskett, Jacqueline Godbout, Aaron Heels, Kenneth Bemister, Liam Seamus Murphy, Steve Kasan, Thomas John Scott | Written by Angela Cavallin, Ryan Kobold | Directed by Lee Foster

As In Its Wake begins Pastor Kurdt Waidmann is having a crisis of faith and asks God for a sign. He no sooner finishes than he gets the news that one of his parishioners was killed by a hit-and-run driver right outside the church. That probably wasn’t the sign he wanted, but The Lord works in mysterious ways.

In a restaurant, four friends Amy (Paige Foskett; Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities), Laura, Tim and Manny are trying to figure out what to do with their weekend.

At a nearby table, three businessmen Mitch, Sean, and Sam are doing the same. Until Sam decides to start trouble. But, before he and Tim can start throwing punches a familiar face appears and defuses the situation.

Jorja Smith announced her upcoming second record, falling or Flying, set to release on Sept. 29. Her new album marks her recent return to music with singles “Try Me” and “Little Things” and follows her 2018 debut, Lost & Found.

The album was made in collaboration with producer duo Damedame* back in her hometown of Walsall. A press release describes the forthcoming record as “a sonic and an emotional tour of where she’s been, and what she’s been about” in the two years following her third EP, Be Right Back,...

Aisha Hinds and Ryan Guzman in the “Pay it Forward” season finale episode of ‘9-1-1’ (Photo by Jack Zeman © 2022 Fox Media LLC)

Fox’s 9-1-1 season six finishes up with an action-packed episode 18, “Pay It Forward.” The season six finale marks the final episode to air on Fox, with 9-1-1 making the jump to ABC for season seven. (9-1-1: Lone Star will remain on Fox.)

Episode 18 will air on Monday, May 15, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

The cast is led by Angela Bassett as Athena Grant and Peter Krause as Bobby Nash. Ryan Guzman plays Eddie Diaz, Aisha Hinds stars as Henrietta ‘Hen’ Wilson, Oliver Stark is Evan ‘Buck’ Buckley, Kenneth Choi is Howie ‘Chimney’ Han, Corinne Massiah plays May Grant, Gavin McHugh is Christopher Diaz, and Jennifer Love Hewitt is Maddie Buckley.

“Pay It Forward” Plot: A series of freeway car accidents leads to a catastrophic...

Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall in ‘The Equalizer’ season 3 episode 17

Robyn delves into her father’s murder case on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode 17. Directed by Darren Grant from a script by Joseph C. Wilson and Rob Hanning, episode 17 – “Justified” – will air on Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Justified” Plot: When a note McCall receives leads her to the location of her late father’s car, she must revisit the past to uncover who was behind his carjacking and murder nearly 30 years prior.

Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall and Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 6 Episode 16, “Lost & Found.”] Unfortunately, but predictably, it’s not going to be an easy path to an engagement for Chimney (Kenneth Choi) and Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) on 9-1-1. At one point in the latest episode, Chimney and Hen (Aisha Hinds) end up in the back of Athena’s (Angela Bassett) patrol car! First, Chimney struggles to choose the right ring, leading to him wondering if it’s a mistake. (He remembers how things went with Tatiana.) Hen reminds him that he has something special with Maddie. He leaves the store with a ring. But everyone chimes in once he shows it to the rest of the 118. Buck (Oliver Stark) is excited to be family officially and thinks he should be his best man. (Hen has thoughts.) Bobby (Peter Krause) offers to officiate and host. Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody) brings up wedding customs. Eddie (Ryan Guzman) asks about his ...

The 118 give Chimney suggestions on how, when, and where to propose to Maddie on Fox’s 9-1-1 season six episode 16. “Lost & Found” will air on Monday, May 1, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

The cast is led by Angela Bassett as Athena Grant and Peter Krause as Bobby Nash. Ryan Guzman plays Eddie Diaz, Aisha Hinds stars as Henrietta ‘Hen’ Wilson, Oliver Stark is Evan ‘Buck’ Buckley, Kenneth Choi is Howie ‘Chimney’ Han, Corinne Massiah plays May Grant, Gavin McHugh is Christopher Diaz, and Jennifer Love Hewitt is Maddie Buckley.

“Lost & Found” Plot: The 118 race to rescue two roommates desperately trying to find a needle in a haystack at a landfill, and help a woman whose nightmare dream suddenly becomes a painful reality. Athena and Maddie team-up to find a missing boy in a crowded mall; Chimney debates if the time is right to propose to Maddie.

Angela...

Hey, "9-1-1" fans. It's that time again. We are back in your faces to let you know that the Fox people have another new episode all queued up and ready to play for you guys next Monday night, May 1, 2023. This next, new episode will be the 16th installment for 9-1-1's current season 6, and we've got some new spoiler scoopage for it. The wonderful Fox people were so very nice enough to supply us with an official description for this new episode 16 by way of their official episode 16 press release synopsis. So, we're going to certainly dig into it right now. Let's go. To start, there's an official title to go along with this new episode 16 of 9-1-1 season 6. It's called, "Lost & Found." It sounds like episode 16 will feature some very intense, dramatic, suspenseful, action-filled and interesting scenes as two roommates get desperate. A woman's nightmare comes true. A boy goes missing.

Donal Logue as Colton Fisk in the “Love Hurts” episode

Donal Logue returns to guest star as Colton Fisk on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode 16. Directed by Christine Moore from a script by Joe Gazzam and Ashley Charbonnet, episode 16 – “Love Hurts” – will air on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Love Hurts” Plot: When Fisk (Logue) tasks McCall with tracking down an ex-MI6 agent (guest star Andrew Stewart-Jones) in Paris with whom she had a past relationship, she must convince him to help her track down a crucial document that his friend was hiding.

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The team helps out a victim of domestic abuse on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode 15. Directed by Richard Lyons from a script by Rob Hanning and Vanessa Herron, episode 15 – “No Way Out” – will air on Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“No Way Out” Plot: Aunt Vi enlists the help of McCall and the team when she realizes her masseuse is a victim of domestic abuse. Also, McCall trains Dee on situational awareness and Dante goes against orders by chasing after the man who shot his friend Manny.

Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah and Queen Latifah...

Jorja Smith is back with her new song “Try Me.” Listen to the track below.

Featuring a thumping drum beat from production duo Damedame*, “Try Me” marks Smith’s first new solo song in two years. On the track, the English singer stands up for herself with lyrics like, “Go ‘head try me/ ‘Cause I’m safe behind these walls/ Think you can take me through the fog where I’m no challenge.”

In a statement, Smith said the single was inspired by “putting yourself out there, in front of a world that has many opinions, as it only ever used to be me really being my own critic.” She added, “This is the first time I’m putting stuff out there that I can connect with right now.”

The accompanying Amber Grace Johnson-directed music video was shot in Marseille, France. In the clip, the song’s lyrics are...

Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall and Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani in ‘The Equalizer’ season 3 episode 14

CBS’s The Equalizer will return from a three-week break with season three episode 14, an episode that finds McCall investigating the murder of a congresswoman. Directed by Christine Moore from a script by Vanessa K Herron and Kim Rome, “No Good Deed” airs on Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“No Good Deed” Plot: When a Venezuelan migrant is accused of murdering a prominent congresswoman whom he and his wife were staying with, McCall and the team work to uncover whether or not he was involved.

The 10th episode of “How I Met Your Father” Season 2 had Sophie and Robert connect on a deeper level and want to spend more time with each other. They plan a weekend getaway so that there is more intimacy between them, which will allow them to understand each other better. Jesse is still hung up on Sophie and mad about the fact that she looks happy with Robert. Ellen tries her level best to help him, but Jesse’s mind is too fragile to be dating anyone new. Sid and Charlie, though, take up the skincare regime seriously after having one look at Robert, who, according to them, looks young for his age. Lastly, Val has a date with a guy way younger than her, and he ends up proposing to her, and she accepts. Will Sophie eventually fall in love with Robert, or will there be a deal breaker...

Donal Logue returns to guest star as Colton Fisk on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode 13, “Patriot Game.” Directed by Geoff Shotz from a script by Joseph C. Wilson and Rob Hanning, episode 13 will air on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Patriot Game” Plot: After an operative kills all but one of the employees at a marine biology research group, McCall and the team join forces with Colton Fisk (Logue) when they discover a connection between the murders and a secret CIA program he was involved in.

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A man comes to, confused about why he’s in a dumpster with a gun on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode 12. Directed by Tamika Miller from a script by Joe Gazzam, “Lost and Found” is set to air on Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

Corey Cott guest stars.

“Lost and Found” Plot: When a man claiming to have lost his memory wakes up behind a dumpster with a gun in his hand, McCall and the team follow a trail of clues to help uncover his whereabouts the night before.

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Hey, "The Equalizer" fans. We've got more great news for you guys in this article. CBS will be serving up another brand new episode of The Equalizer next Sunday night, March 19, 2023. That's right, guys. This next, new episode will be the 12th one for The Equalizer's current season 3, and we're here to tell you all about it. We were able to dig up an official spoiler description for one of episode 12's main storylines from CBS'official episode 12 press release description. So, we're going to definitely see what it has to say right now. Let's get into it. First thing off the bat is the official title for this new episode 12 of The Equalizer season 3. Yep, it has one, and it's called, "Lost And Found." It sounds like episode 12 will feature some very interesting, intense, dramatic and possible action-filled scenes.

Barcelona-based indie sales outfit Filmax has taken international sales rights to Jorge Dorado’s noir thriller feature “Objetos” (“Lost & Found”), starring “Money Heist” actor Álvaro Morte.

Filmax is launching the film onto the market with a first promo at this year’s European Film Market.

Shot October-November at several locations in Spain and Argentina, including Madrid and Jujuy, the film is currently in post-production.

“Lost & Found” is produced by Cristina Zumárraga and Pablo Bossi at Tandem Films, the Madrid-based production company, whose recent titles include award-winning comedy “Rosa’s Wedding” and toon feature sales hit “Turu, the Wacky Hen.”

A Spain-Argentina-Germany co-production, “Lost & Found” also teams Spain’s Setembro Cine (“A Fantastic Woman”), Argentina’s Pampa Films (“Chinese Take-Away”) and In Post We Trust (“Unknown Origins”), plus Germany’s Rexin Film, with the participation of Spanish pubcaster Rtve, Amazon Studios and Germany’s Zdf.

Written by top Spanish scribe Natxo López,...