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Blake Shelton and John Legend will be back on The Voice as coaches for Season 22, with Gwen Stefani returning to the show for the first time in two years. Shelton announced his continued involvement on Friday via a TikTok challenge. “#duet this if you're going to be a coach on #TheVoice this fall,” he wrote in the…

Musical stars lined up to pay homage to Joni Mitchell in Las Vegas on Friday evening, with the tireless artist and activist being named Person of the Year at the 2022 MusiCares gala. Performers on the night included Beck, St. Vincent, Chaka Khan, Allison Russell, Billy Porter, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Jon Batiste…

EXCLUSIVE: More change is afoot at Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang. Having added long time colleagues Gordon M. Bobb and Loan T. Dang as name partners earlier this year, one of Hollywood's most powerful and far reaching law firms is now moving some of their chess pieces around internally, I've…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired the John Fusco spec script Phantom, a package that includes producers Harvey Mason Jr of Harvey Mason Media, and John Legend and his Get Lifted Film Co producing partner Mike Jackson. Pic will be an adaptation of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel Phantom of the Opera, set in…

John Legend’s smooth-as-silk Tony-night performance with the cast of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations should have tipped us off: The multiple-Grammy winner, along with his partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius in Get Lifted Film Co., have joined the producing team of the hit Broadway…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of this morning’s Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony live on NBC. Ever imagine what it would be like if they held an Olympics and almost nobody came? Well, with Japanese-born tennis superstar Naomi Osaka holding the flame and lighting the cauldron, today's opening ceremony of…

EXCLUSIVE:  Get Lifted Film Co. and Mandalay Pictures have a new feature drama in the works based on the life of cycling champion Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, entitled The Black Cyclone. Alan Fox (Queens of the Stoned Age, Wisdom) is writing with Jason Michael Berman of Mandalay Pictures and Mike Jackson and John L…

Carrie Underwood and John Legend took home the top award at Wednesday night’s County Music Television (CMT) Music Awards. Underwood and Legend won video of the year for Hallelujah, a Legend song that. Underwood used on her holiday album. The songstress accepted for herself and Legend, continuing her record as the…

UPDATED, May 29: The canceled commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Black Wall Street Massacre boiled down to money demands by the living survivors, according to NBC News. A prior agreement between the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the three living survivors of the event was upended at the last…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired worldwide rights to Emmy-winning director Nancy Buirski's documentary A Crime on the Bayou, the third in her trilogy of films that explore vital stories from the Civil Rights era. Shout! Studios, the distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory, plans a theatrical release…

It's the most famous symbolic protest in all of sport, and one of the most potent in American history. In October 1968, U.S. sprinter Tommie Smith took the podium after winning the gold medal in the 200-meter dash at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City. As the national anthem began to play, Smith and his teammate…

"Good evening, America, proud to be here in cold Washington D.C.," Bruce Springsteen said Wednesday night, kicking off the Celebrating America apogee of today's unprecedented inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. If you had any questions about the tone the concert special was going to aim for, the Boss' choice…