Richard Plepler has signed an exclusive deal to produce content for the iPhone maker’s Apple TV Plus.
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Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Study finds 2019 was a ‘banner year’ for female filmmakers
Women directed 12, just 10.6 percent, of 2019’s top 100-grossing films – more than any year before.
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Ex-partner of Whitney Houston’s late daughter found dead in hotel room
Paramedics were called to Nick Gordon’s hotel room in Maitland, a suburb of Orlando, early Wednesday morning.
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Court will decide if defacing a $120,000 banana wall was a crime or artistic expression
Roderick Webber said he’s willing to let a court of law decide whether scrawling a reference to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on the wall that once held the duct-taped banana is defacement or a political statement.
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Golden Globes will serve plant-based meal at awards ceremony
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Thursday that it wants the initiative to raise environmental awareness about food consumption and waste.
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Filmmaker uses home movies to show life in 20th-century Maine
‘Maine’s Home Movies’ will air at 9 p.m. Thursday on Maine Public Television and again at 2 p.m. Saturday.
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T.S. Eliot’s letters to muse will be unveiled after 60 years
Students, researchers and scholars can read the correspondence at Princeton University Library starting Thursday.
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Howland man wins first million-dollar Powerball of 2020
Blaine Marston is expected to take home about $710,000 from his winnings after taxes.
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Fans upset by Kelly Marie Tran’s lack of screen time in ‘Rise of Skywalker’
Some accuse director J.J. Abrams of pandering to online trolls who infamously forced her off social media.
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Student’s artwork with defaced Bible prompts complaint at USM
A member of a church group that rents space at the university has called the piece ‘inappropriate and repugnant,’ but USM says it falls under protected free speech.