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Janet Jackson To Receive Billboard’s Icon Award
Janet Jackson will be honored with Billboard’s most prestigious award.
Dick Clark Productions and NBC announced Monday (May 7) that the youngest Jackson sibling will receive the coveted Icon Award at this year’s Billboard Music Awards.
Along with receiving the honor, Jackson is also scheduled to deliver a highly anticipated performance, which will be her first on tele- vision in nine years.
Jackson joins an exclu- sive Icon club that in- cludes Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion and Cher.
Janet Jackson will be hon- ored at the Billboard Awards on May 20th.
Kelly Clarkson will host the 2018 Billboard Music Awards, which will broadcast live from MGM Grand Gar- den Arena on Sunday, May 20 at 8 p.m. ET /5 p.m. PT.
St. Pete Native Will Packer’s New Movie ‘Breaking In’ Out Friday
While most of you might not have heard of Will Packer, you've certainly seen one of his films.
Packer has produced the likes of "Ride Along," "Think Like A Man" and "Girls Trip," each of which were embraced by huge audiences seeking to see fresh cinematic voices.
Even though it is a well- worn idea, Packer's latest film "Breaking In," which re- volves around Gabrielle Union trying to break in to a secluded high-tech house to save her kidnapped kids, has all the credentials to do the same, as it, once again, breaks the Hollywood mold.
‘Breaking In’ starring Gabrielle Union is in theaters Friday. St. Petersburg native, Will Packer is the producer.
Teaming up again with the movie’s star, Gabrielle Union, he was exec producer on Will Packer Productions’ holiday film, Almost Christ-
mas, and also co-starred op- posite Jamie Foxx in Sleep- less. Breaking In marks Union’s fourth outing as a producer.
Diddy’s ‘Revolt TV’ Lays Off Staff
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ cable network has laid off some of its staff.
According to reports, Re- volt Media and TV is down- sizing, laying off about 50 employees, or about one- third of its staff.
The plan is to reorient the content production operation to deliver a broader range of short-form and long-form content encompassing lifestyle and culture, fashion, art, comedy, and social jus- tice.
The company will concen- trate most of its content oper-
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
ations in Los Angeles while maintaining a sales office in New York. CEO Roma Khanna outlined the layoffs stating in a staff memo.
2 Chainz Proposes To Longtime Girlfriend At Met Gala
Looks like yet another ATL rapper is headed toward holy traptimony with his lady love!
2 Chainz got on one knee and proposed marriage to his longtime girlfriend, Kesha Ward as they climbed the iconic staircase on the Met Gala red carpet.
As you could probably guess, she happily said yes!
2 Chainz proposes to girlfriend, Kesha Ward.
JAY-Z and Eminem Drop The Mic On Weinstein Company For Unpaid Projects
Jay-Z and Eminem are now going after the once muscular outlet, The Wein- stein Company.
In filings late last week in TWC’s bankruptcy proceed- ings, the hip-hop superstars claim they are owed around $800,000 plus some of the rights for projects they had with the company.
Marshall Mathers, III
alleges that TWC is in hock to claiming that just $48,000 has been paid.
Oprah Winfrey’s OWN, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jennifer Aniston, Lions- gate and more have lined up to stake their claims in TWC’s Chapter 11. Longtime Wein- stein collaborator Jay-Z is also claiming in court he is due at least $480,000.
JAY-Z and Eminem have filed against Harvey Weinstein’s com- pany for monies owed.
Asserting in his own filing in federal court that TWC’s books require further investi- gation, the Tidal founder says the company needs to pony up two payments of $240,000 to his accounts.
According to Jay-Z, the money is owed for the 2017 docuseries Time: The Kalief
Browder Story and for the upcoming Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story.
Never mentioning the Jay-Z EP’d Rest In Power, which is set to air on Para- mount Network this summer, TWC has said in filings it doesn’t own Jay-Z anything for Time.
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