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Cardi B Reveals She'll Be Directing Offset's Forthcoming Music Video
Whoopi Goldberg Slams Racist ‘Rings’ And ‘Dragon’ Fans: ‘Get A Job!’
The “Up” rapper revealed the news in response to a post on social media sharing a clip from a short film from At- lanta artist Lyrik London. The visual features dancers performing to Cardi’s 2019 single “Press,” a track she also directed the accompanying music video for.
“Love it,” Cardi wrote, adding a string of heart emo- jis. “This was not my highest song but this was one of my best videos. DIRECTED BY ME!”
When asked if she intends to direct more music videos, the hitmaker shared that she’s assuming that role in
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Whoopi Goldberg wasted no time on the season pre- miere of “The View,” hitting back at the racist criticism of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” and Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”
With the two new fantasy series making their marks and becoming hits, some fans — or wannabe critics — have been claiming the creators were “too woke” in adding diverse characters.
Amazon introduced new racially diverse characters into the series, and some fans ar- gued that J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t have intentions to pop- ulate Middle-earth with di- verse creatures — despite Tolkien describing Har- foots as having “browner” skin.
Goldberg, 66, responded to the discourse, starting with an acknowledgment that the
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worlds of the two fantasy shows “are not real,” and “there are no dragons, there are no hobbits.”
“Are you telling me black people can’t be fake people, too?,” she said. “I don’t know if there’s, like, a hobbit club, I don’t know if there are gonna be protests. But people: What is wrong with y’all?”
“It’s just racist. Call it what it is,” Joy Behar, 79, added.
the creation of a visual for a forthcoming collaboration between Offset and an un- named artist.
set’s music videos with a very sexy, talented artist ?... It’s going to [be] amazing,” Cardi wrote in another tweet.
“I’m directing one [of] Off-
Snoop Dogg-Produced Comedy Gets Acquired
Snoop Dogg’s upcom- ing buddy comedy Bromates has been acquired by Quiver Distributions. According to Deadline, the project star- ring Lil Rel Howery and Josh Brener is set to re- lease on VOD on Friday (Oct. 7). Quiver will now hold the worldwide rights to the rap- per‘s film and distribute it to an additional 100 U. S. screens.
Court Crandall’s directed buddy flick will follow the best friends Howery and Brener, who have recently
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broken up with their girl-
friends. The duo decides to move in with each other, and things quickly grow increas- ingly unhinged.
Additionally, the Snoopadelic Films Inc. pro- duction stars Brendan Scannell (Heathers), Asif Ali (WandaVision), Jessica Lowe (Blended), Flula Borg (Pitch Perfect), Ken Davitian (Borat), Taryn Manning (Orange Is the New Black), Marla Gibbs (The Jeffersons), Rob Rig- gle (The Hangover) and Snoop Dogg.
Brandy To Star In Psychological Horror Film, 'The Front Room'
Brandy Norwood has been chosen to star in an up- coming A24 production. Ac- cording to Deadline, the legendary singer will appear in the psychological horror film, The Front Room.
The movie is set to be di- rected by Max and Sam Eg- gers, who previously worked on A24’s The Witch and The Lighthouse, making their filmmaking debut. A24 is set to produce the film with Two & Two Pictures’ Lucan Toh,
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Babak Anvari, Bryan Son- derman, Julia Oh, and David Hinojosa of 2 AM.
Brandy hit social media to voice her excitement for her upcoming role.
“God you’re Awesome!!!! I trust you with my entire life,” the singer typed. “Thank you for this amazing opportunity to work with this unbelievable cast, crew, and the studio everyone wants to work with and, of course, my Eggers fam.”
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