October 22, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — Lisa Marie Presley penned a heartbreaking tribute to her late son, Benjamin Keough, on what would have been his 28th birthday Wednesday.

Keough died on July 12 at age 27. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office confirmed that he died by suicide.

Calling Keough “my beautiful beautiful angel,” Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, began her note, “I worshipped the ground you walked on, on this earth and now in Heaven. My heart and soul went with you.”

“The depth of the pain is suffocating and bottomless without you every moment of every day. I will never be the same,” she continued. “Happy Birthday my sweet sweet Boy. You were much too good for this world.”

In the aftermath of Keough’s death, his 31-year-old sister, actress Riley Keough, has posted on Instagram multiple times about her family’s loss, calling her brother in August, “Love of my life.” On Wednesday, she shared a series of photos and captioned them, “Happy Birthday beautiful angel.”

Benjamin Keough was a relatively private individual, though he did appear in the 2005 documentary Elvis by the Presleys. He also participated in the music video of his mother’s 2012 duet with his late grandfather, “I Love You Because.”

He is survived by his mother, sister, father Danny Keough and his 11-year-old twin siblings, Harper and Finley Lockwood.

“Please wait for me my love, and hold my hand while I stay to continue to protect and raise your little sisters and to be here for Riley,” Presley wrote in her message Wednesday. “I know you would want that.”

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

October 22, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Quibi is calling it quits. 

On Wednesday, the streaming service officially announced that it will be “winding down the business,” according to a press release obtained by Variety. The decision comes just over six months after the company, which was led by founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman, launched in April — during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Quibi started as a a strictly mobile streaming service that delivered content in small bite-sized episodes, typically around or less than 10 minutes each and came at a monthly cost of $4.99 with ads and $7.99 without ads.

The start-up attributed “the changed industry landscape and ongoing challenges” as a reasoning behind closing its doors and said, “It was clear that the business would not be able to continue operating for the long-term on a standalone basis.”

Approximately 200 employees will be out of work as a result and many projects will be left in “limbo,” as noted by the publication. Also, the company does plan to give what’s left of the $1.75 billion dollars they raised back to investors.

Katzenberg and Whitman further expressed their thoughts regarding Quibi’s demise in an open letter “to employees, investors, and partners” posted on Medium.

“Quibi was a big idea and there was no one who wanted to make a success of it more than we did. Our failure was not for lack of trying; we’ve considered and exhausted every option available to us,” the letter read. “All that is left now is to offer a profound apology for disappointing you and, ultimately, for letting you down. We cannot thank you enough for being there with us, and for us, every step of the way.”

By Danielle Long
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October 22, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Jared Leto is returning to the DC Comics universe, reprising his role as the Joker from 2016’s Suicide Squad in Zack Snyder’s rejiggered version of Justice League.

The announcement is newsworthy, says The Hollywood Reporter, firstly because the character didn’t appear in the original 2017 film, which raises the question of how much new content will be added to the so-called Snyder Cut.

Leto’s addition will also tie together Snyder’s Justice League with Suicide Squad, which also featured a cameo from Ben Affleck’s Batman, who tried to take down Leto’s Joker and Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn.

Sources close to then-studio executives Jon Berg and Geoff Johns, who oversaw the film and the reshoot by Joss Whedon tell THR that the duo is planning to remove their names from the Snyder Cut, since they did not work on this version and are no longer studio executives.

It’s not clear if the move by the duo has anything to do with Ray Fisher, who plays Cyborg, accusing Justice League director Joss Whedon of “abusive” behavior on the set of the movie, and that Berg and Johns enabled Whedon’s alleged behavior.

The Snyder Cut of Justice League will be released exclusively on HBO Max next year.