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The show follows the real events of 1986 nuclear disaster, image via HBO
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Chernobyl declared best limited series at Golden Globes

Chernobyl has been awarded the Best Limited TV series at the 2020 Golden Globes. The show is just five episodes long and follows the real-life events of the 1986 nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl. The show was critically acclaimed for its production quality and historical accuracy. The show also received overwhelmingly positive audience reactions upon release.

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Mon Jan 06 - LadBible
A growing list of Hollywood stars is donating to local fire services in Australia in relief efforts during the country's catastrophic fire season. Image via Jeff Kravitz.
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Hollywood celebrities follow Pink's lead to donate to Australia's fire relief efforts

Hollywood stars and native Australians Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban are the latest in a growing list of Hollywood celebrities such as Hugh Jackman and Nick Kroll to pledge donations for local fire services working to manage the catastrophic fires that have ravaged southern Australia this year. The couple has pledged 500,000 USD to the cause, and urged others to join in the donations.

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Sun Jan 05 - CNN
American pop star Pink promises half a million USD in direct donations to Australia's fire services. Image via Getty Images.
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Pink donates half a million dollars to fire relief in Australia

American pop star Alecia Beth Moore, better known by her on-stage persona Pink, recently expressed deep concern on Twitter for the families affected in Australia's catastrophic fire season this year, which has killed 23 people and destroyed 1300 houses with no signs of slowing down, and has pledged 500,000 USD to the cause, to be donated directly to local fire services in Australia.

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Sun Jan 05 - CNN
The show was originally canceled in 2014, image via Disney
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 gets a final release date

'Star Wars: The Clone Wars', a fan favorite animated series that takes place between the second and third Star Wars episode, is finally getting its seventh season. Disney has announced that fans will be able to watch the new season on February 17th on Disney+. The show has not had new episodes since 2014.

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Sun Jan 05 - Toonado
Little Women was the runner up for best movie, image via Neon CJ Entertainment
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Korean film 'Parasite' has been declared best film of the year by American critics

The National Society of Film Critics has announced its annual awards, naming Parasite the best film of the year. The voting took place in New York and LA, with 38 different critics placing their votes. Parasite also managed to get the best screenplay award but the best cinematography award went to 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'.

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Sun Jan 05 - Variety
Justin Bieber celebrates new year by releasing new single 'Yummy' dedicated to wife Hailey Baldwin. Image via Rolling Stone.
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Justin Bieber releases new single 'Yummy' after 4 year hiatus

Canadian singer and model Justin Bieber announced a hiatus from music in 2015, after the release of his popular album Purpose, citing mental health reasons. The pop star recently announced his return to the music scene with the release of his new single 'Yummy' to commemorate the new year, dedicated to his wife and longtime girlfriend Hailey Baldwin.

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Sat Jan 04 - CNN
Photographer sues Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop for 150,000 USD, claiming copyright infringement. Image via Getty Images.
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Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop sued for 150,000 USD for copyright infringement

Photographer Larry Singer has filed a lawsuit against Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop for copyright infringement, stating the company used his photograph of the Fort Lauderdale house in an online city guide published on Goop's website. Singer has claimed damages of up to 150,000 USD along with any profits Goop made from his work.

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Sat Jan 04 - EOnline
The third season of the show is still several months away, image via BBC
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BBC has green-lit Killing Eve's fourth season before third season premiere

BBC America has announced that 'Killing Eve' will be getting a fourth season, thanks to the incredibly high ratings of the first two. The third season is going to air in several months sometime in the Spring. The show will get a new head writer for the fourth season but the new writer has not been announced yet.

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Sat Jan 04 - HollywoodReporter
Rapper Post Malone has gotten a new face tattoo to commemorate the new year. Image via TMZ.
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Post Malone sports new face tattoo to celebrate New Year's

The popular singer-songwriter and rapper Post Malone is known for sporting 52 tattoos all over his body, including several on his face. To celebrate the new year, Malone has recently posted pictures on his Instagram of his new face tattoo, which is in the shape of a medieval gauntlet.

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Fri Jan 03 - CNN
2019 has been a good year for women in film making, image via Entertainment Weekly
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Women directed more top grossing films in 2019 than ever before

According to a new study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative more female directors made top-grossing films than ever before in the history of cinema. Around 10.6% of the top films of the year were by women, which is still a minority of cases. These low numbers are often attributed to the lack of opportunities for women in Hollywood.

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Fri Jan 03 - Variety
The show will be set 20 years in the future, image via The CW
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The CW has begun production on a female led Arrow spin off show

The CW has shared an official description of the new Arrow spin-off show that will star Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy, and Juliana Harkavy. The show will follow three superheroines who are attempting to solve a kidnapping case and is set 20 years in the future. It will take place in the Arrowverse and will likely feature Green Arrow in the first episode.

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Fri Jan 03 - Deadline
Letters between T. S. Eliot and muse Emily Hale to be revealed by a library for the first time. Image via Princeton University.
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Library releases 1000 letters between T. S. Eliot and muse Emily Hale

In 1965, Emily Hale, the mysterious muse of pioneering post-modernist poet T. S. Eliot, famous for his poems The Wasteland and Four Quartets, donated over a 1000 letters between her and Eliot to a library on the condition that they be released 50 yeas after their deaths, a period that was completed in 2019. Eliot scholars are excited to find hitherto unknown details about the artist in the correspondences.

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Thu Jan 02 - GlobalNews
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed an upcoming movie will have the first transgender Marvel superhero. Image via New York Film Academy.
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Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirms transgender superhero is coming

During a session at the New York Film Academy, Marvel Studios president and chief creative officer Kevin Feige, who has overseen the rise of the company's superhero film franchise since the release of Iron Man in 2008, has confirmed that the Marvel Universe will soon see its first transgender superhero, stating that the movie was currently in production, but did not provide any further details.

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Thu Jan 02 - CNN
The show was originally going to be released in 2021, image via Disney
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Marvel's WandaVision has a new Disney+ release date

Disney has announced that WandaVision, a Marvel show featuring the Vision and Scarlet Witch, will now be released sometime in 2020 instead of its original release date of 2021. The show will presumably premiere after The Falcon and Winter Soldier show is released this fall. It is currently unknown why they moved up the release date.

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Thu Jan 02 - CBR
The show will feature each user's personalized avatar, image via SNP. inc
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Snapchat is launching an entire bitmoji based cartoon show

One of Snapchat's most popular features, Bitmoji, is now getting its own show. The company is launching Bitmoji TV, a show that will feature each user's personalized avatar in a small animated short that can only be accessed from within the app. The feature will be released in February 2020.

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Thu Jan 02 - TechCrunch
Ryan Reynolds confirms Deadpool 3 movie is in production. Image via Getty Images.
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Deadpool 3 confirmed by Ryan Reynolds

In a television interview, Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds confirmed a third Deadpool movie is in production at Marvel Studios, easing fans' worries about the future of the irreverent superhero comedy franchise after Disney's purchase of Fox. A definite or tentative release date has not been provided yet.

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Wed Jan 01 - Gamespot
Mariah Carey's Twitter account hacked by notorious 'Chuckling Squad'. Image via Twitter.
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Mariah Carey's Twitter account hacked on New Year's Eve

Mariah Carey's Twitter account, on New Year's Eve, suddenly started posting tweets that contained provocative, racist and salacious content, and also included sexual remarks concerning Eminem, as well as use of the N-word. The hack appears to have come from the 'Chuckling Squad', the same source that attacked the accounts of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and several YouTube celebrities,

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Wed Jan 01 - MSN
They have not announced a new director, image via Variety
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Travis Knight to drop out of Uncharted movie due to scheduling problems

Travis Knight will no longer be directing the new Uncharted movie due to some scheduling conflicts. The movie's lead actor Tom Holland will not be available at the same time as the director so the studio has chosen to pick someone else to direct the film. The movie will be based on the hit video game franchise of the same name.

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Wed Jan 01 - Deadline
The show will premier on Disney+, image via Marvel Comics
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Marvel's new Moon Knight show to feature Werewolf and Dracula

According to some unofficial reports, Marvel's new Moon Knight show will feature both Werewolf and Dracula, two major Marvel horror characters. The information has not been officially confirmed as of yet and rumors circulating around the show say that it will tie into the upcoming 'Blade' movie. Daniel Radcliffe is currently being considered to play the lead role.

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Wed Jan 01 - CBR
Sharon Stone faced a ban on dating app Bumble because staff thought her account was not genuine. Image via Getty Images.
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'Basic Instinct' star Sharon Stone faces a ban on dating app Bumble

Sharon Stone, 62-year-old star of several 1980s and 90s hit movies like Basic Instinct, Total Recall and The Mighty, recently discovered she had been banned from popular dating app Bumble, over concerns that her account was not genuine. However, since then, Bumble staff have apologized for the misunderstanding and restored Stone's account.

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Tue Dec 31 - BBC
He is one of the most commercially successful African American comedians in the world, image via Getty Images
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This year's Critics Choice Lifetime Achievement Award to go to Eddie Murphy

The Critics Choice Association has announced that this year's lifetime achievement award will go to Eddie Murphy. While making the announcement they noted that Murphy was one of the most commercially successful African American actors in history, having played a number of iconic roles over the course of his career.

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Tue Dec 31 - Deadline
The series will soon move to HBO Max, image via Warner Bros
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'Friends' to be removed from Netflix by Wednesday

'Friends', one of the world's most popular and successful sitcoms, will no longer be available to Netflix users in the US. The show will be moved to Warner Bros' new project, HBO Max when it launches in May. The show was going to be removed earlier this year but Netflix extended their license at the cost of $80 million.

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Tue Dec 31 - TheLosAnglesTimes
Fortunately he has made a full recovery, image via Getty Images
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Zac Efron taken to hospital while filming 'Killing Zac Efron'

Zac Efron, an actor most well known for his roles in High School Musical and 17 again, was hospitalized in Papa New Guinea while filming his new show 'Killing Zac Efron'. The actor later said that he got sick while in the country and made a full recovery. He also said that they were able to finish the shoot.

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Mon Dec 30 - FoxNews
Amazon Prime has renewed the show for another season, image via Amazon
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'The Expanse' actors hop to film scenes for the next season in space

Since Amazon has picked up fan-favorite sci-fi show 'The Expanse', the actors on the show have said that they would like to shoot 'on location'. They were likely referencing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's spaceflight company Blue Origin when they made these comments. The idea may be far fetched but is not impossible.

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Sun Dec 29 - Space
He was responsible for writing some of the non-white characters in season 2, image via Starz
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American Gods producers did not want to pay Orlando Jones for his writing work

Orlando Jones, the actor who plays Mr. Nancy on American Gods, has said that Starz was unwilling to pay him for helping write some of the characters on the show. The [roducers asked him to contribute but did not want to pay him initially, despite the fact that he is a part of the writer's guild in Hollywood. He was paid eventually after much conflict.

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Sun Dec 29 - CBR