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Jaden Smith Is Voice In New Netflix Anime Series
Jaden Smith will voice, Kaz Kaan of the anime series Neo Yokio on Netflix.
NBC Sitcom ‘Marlon’ Is A Hit
“Marlon” has become a hit for NBC.
The sitcom starring Marlon Wayans and Essence Atkins continued its sturdy Season 1 ratings on last Wednesday, with the series hitting a new total viewers high, according to Nielsen overnight data reported by Va- riety.
The 9 p.m. episode aver- aged a 1.3 rating in adults 18- 49 and 5.5 million viewers. That bests the previous high in total viewers set by the series premiere (5.3 million), and
Essence Atkins and Marlon Wayans star in ‘Marlon’.
matches the key demo record also set by the series premiere.
A new anime series starring Jaden Smith is coming to Netflix.
Neo Yokio is a play on Neo Tokyo, a city in the iconic anime, Akira. Neo Yokio is a cultural oasis mix of New York and Tokyo at the forefront of fashion, finance and culture.
Smith voices the series' star, Kaz Kaan, who is the youngest in a family of “mag- istocrats." They are pink- haired demon slayers who once liberated the city.
Now, Kaz only demon-slays as coordinated by his Aunt Agatha (Susan Sarandon), when he'd rather be shopping,
playing field hockey with his friends, Lexy and Gottlieb (The Kid Mero and Desus Nice) or chilling with his robot/butler, Charles (Jude Law).
However, he's drawn into a new world by an ex-fashion blogger and realizes there is more to Neo Yokio than what meets the eye, and this will make him question everything he knows about the city.
Willow Smith and Amandla Stenberg are also voicing characters in smaller
roles.
The 6-episode first season
premieres on Netflix on Sep- tember 22.
Mary J. Blige and her soon to be ex-husband, Kendu Isaacs.
Growing Up Hip Hop’s Kristinia DeBarge Casted In Indie Film
Mary J. Blige used the "misery" she was experiencing as her marriage fell apart as inspiration for her role in “Mudbound.”
Mary is currently going through a contentious divorce with her estranged husband- Martin 'Kendu' Isaacs and she reveals the "heaviness" she was feeling was useful while she was developing her character.
"I used a lot of my own heaviness from my own mis- ery that I was living in that horrible marriage," she tells Variety.com . "I was just dying in it. I knew something was wrong. I just couldn't prove it. I just had all the heaviness of not feeling right, not feeling good. I gave it to Florence."
Mary also blasted her ex- husband, “I thought someone loved me, right? Turns out, he was a con artist and he didn’t, and now he’s coming after me for all my money,” the singer lamented.
Vince Sets Record
Kristinia DeBarge has been cast in the upcoming indie film, Conundrum: Se- crets Among Friends.
The film's description reads that it "follows a group of long- time friends who take a week- end getaway to a beach house in the Hamptons, and all hell breaks loose as their secrets come to light."
It is co-written and directed by Michelle A. Daniel in her feature film debut.
DeBarge, a member of the musical DeBarge family, can currently be seen in the WeTV reality show, Growing Up Hip-Hop. She is most known for her platinum-selling 2010 hit single, "Goodbye," and act- ing wise, she's appeared in the
Kristinia’s storyline on ‘Growing Up Hip Hop’ is to get her career back on track. This movie is a part of her newest work.
Nick Cannon movies School Gyrls and School Dance.
The film is set for release in November 2018.
Straight About Tamar
Aldis Hodge Casted To Play USC Prospect Wrongly Convicted Of Rape In New Biopic
All American football star Brian Banks was falsely accused of rape and sent to prison. He will be portrayed by Aldis Hodge.
Underground star Aldis was railroaded through the Hodge has been tapped to system and sentenced to a
After Accident
Vincent Herbert is fed up with reports that his wife, Tamar Braxton, continued to party in Atlanta without a care in the world after hearing that he got into a horrible car accident back home in Los An- geles.
Herbert spoke to HipHol- lywood about what really went down after he lost control of his pickup truck while driving in Calabasas.
According to the music pro- ducer, he and Tamar were in Atlanta together, but he left one day early to return to work. Tamar stayed in the ATL because she had an ap- pearance scheduled.
Vince said his wife was still at the appearance when his ac- cident happened, but flew back to Los Angeles once she found out about the crash. He told HipHollywood that Tamar was back in LA before he was
Vince Herbert and Tamar Braxton have been plagued by marriage trouble rumors for a long time.
even released from the hospi- tal.
Vince says he is incredibly “upset about the lies claiming she doesn’t care about me. That’s my wife.” He added, “I’m really sick of the lies. Sick of all the blogs.”
As for how the 44-year-old is feeing, he says he’s “in a lot of pain” but “doing well.”
headline an upcoming biopic. He'll now star in Brian Banks. It will be the real-life story of Banks, "an all-Amer- ican high-school football player committed to USC by his junior year whose life was upended in 2002 when falsely accused of rape. Despite main- taining his innocence, Banks
decade of prison and parole. After his conviction was overturned in 2012, he played for the Atlanta Falcons in a
preseason game in 2013. Greg Kinnear has been cast to play the head of the California Innocence Project helped overturn his
conviction.
Mary J. Blige Calls Her Wasband A ‘Con Artist’
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