The Yale grad counts fellow alum and ‘Black Panther’ star Winston Duke as a friend (“helped me move”) and is paying it forward to the next generation of the drama school’s Black students. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is stepping out with his biggest film yet as the villainous Black Manta in Aquaman. For the 32-year-old New...
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David Rooney: The Best New York Theater of 2018
Angels and executioners, a pop Shakespeare rom-com and a brooding Bob Dylan tone poem, a Northern Irish pastoral and a deep dive into American foundational law were among the year’s stage highlights for The Hollywood Reporter’s chief theater critic. Plus the great Glenda Jackson. Grosses for the calendar year on Broadway are on track to...
How and why do influencers make so much money?
Open Instagram and scroll, and you likely can’t go more than a few seconds without seeing someone you follow promoting a brand, whether it’s a celebrity, a wannabe celebrity, or that random girl you went to college with who’s somehow managed to become a famous fashion blogger. According to the influencer management platform Traackr, 72...
Shatava Lindsey Talks About Fashion & being ‘Ready to Love’
Fashion Stylist/Clothing Designer/Boutique Owner Shatava Lindsey of OWN’s hit show “Ready to Love” sits with inCity Magazine and talks about her calling to Fashion, Giving Back and being READY TO LOVE. Watch her in an all new episode of “Ready to Love” that airs Saturday nights on OWN. Follow Shatava Lindsey on IG at @IamShatava Follow Runway Boutique...
Dennis Quaid Terrorizes Young Couple in ‘The Intruder’ Trailer
Michael Ealy and Meagan Good also star in the Deon Taylor-directed film. Sony Pictures Entertainment on Monday released the first trailer for The Intruder. The psychological thriller film follows young married couple Scott and Annie Russell (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good) after they buy their dream house in Napa Valley. When the seller, Charlie (Dennis...
How Stan Lee Brought Humanity to Superheroes and Altered the Face of Entertainment
He didn’t invent comic book heroes, but Marvel’s late mastermind brought them down to earth, creating a universe of ultra-lucrative superhumans whose humanity altered the face of entertainment. There were superheroes before Stan Lee. DC Comics’ Superman and Marvel’s Captain America had been around since the 1930s. But it was Lee — who died Nov....
Bud Light Super Bowl Festival Taps Cardi B, Bruno Mars, Migos and More
The special event will take place over three nights at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena between Thursday, Jan. 31, and Saturday, Feb. 2, ahead of Super Bowl LIII. Ahead of Maroon 5’s Super Bowl Halftime performance this year, On Location Experience, the hospitality partner that works with the NFL and Bud Light, is giving the opportunity...
Will Smith & Martin Lawrence Say ‘Bad Boys For Life’ Is “Official”
On Instagram today, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence confirmed that Sony’s Bad Boys for Life is finally going forward, and they’re respectively reprising their roles as Detectives Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett. “It’s official Bad Boys 3 is happening, it’s official,” screamed Smith from the Santa Monica, CA beach. Production is starting in mid January with Belgian directors Adil El...
Solange, the Polymathic Cultural Force
A MONONYM IS possessed of a certain celebrity: Prince, Madonna, Iman. No surname needed, thank you very much. Just a couple of syllables and the whole of the mononym’s grandeur flashes across our consciousness. Solange. Two mellifluous syllables and her face springs to mind: the fierce, open gaze, those striking full eyebrows. Solange the singer,...
Can Snapchat’s Shows Keep Users From Disappearing?
With NBCUniversal’s help, the struggling social media giant preps more than a dozen original series for its 188 million users as it muscles into a crowded market. It’s a sweltering mid-September afternoon in Altadena, California, but the Mountain View Mortuary has come alive with actors dressed in period garb. Director Suzi Yoonessi is about to...