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Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — When CBS All Access becomes Paramount+ next year, a new series surrounding the making of The Godfather is coming along with it. 

The upcoming streaming platform serviced through ViacomCBS will include a new scripted, 10-episode series called The Offer that presents a behind-the-scenes look at The Godfather producer Al Ruddy’s experience making the iconic film franchise. 

Film writer, director and producer Michael Tolkin is the creator and executive producer behind The Offer, with Ruddy also serving as executive producer, according to Deadline. 

CBS All Access began offering all three Godfather films on the platform this summer.

Other original series that will be featured on Paramount+ include Lioness, which follows the real-life journey of a Marine who is tasked by the CIA to become friends with the daughter of a terrorist in order to dismantle the terror group, and true crime docuseries The Real Criminal Minds.  

A reboot of BET’s The Game is also in the works, along with VH1’s series focusing on the behind-the-curtain lifestyle of popular artists, Behind the Music. 

Paramount+ is expected to launch in early 2021.

By Cillea Houghton
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Disney+(LOS ANGELES) — A trailer for the second season of The Mandalorian has been revealed.

In the first teaser clip for the highly anticipated new season of the Disney+ series, a mysterious voice instructs The Mandalorian in the opening sequence that he must return The Child, a.k.a. Baby Yoda, back to the Jedi.

“You expect me to search the galaxy and return this creature to a race of enemy sorcerers?” Mando questions.  “This is the way,” the voice beckons. 

As Mando and Yoda board a ship, a mysterious woman in a black robe and hood appears, the two passing curious glances to one another just as she disappears.

Based on the action-packed trailer, Mando and Yoda will embark on a quest that includes space battles, storm troopers and a journey through snow covered mountains. 

“You know this is no place for a child,” another voice instructs Mando, to which he replies, “wherever I go, he goes.” 

Pedro Pascal returns as The Mandalorian, as does Giancarlo Esposito as the antagonist, Moff Gideon. Joining the cast in season two are Rosario Dawson and Michael Biehn.   

The Mandalorian season two premieres on Disney+ on October 30. 

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Christopher Polk/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Paul Rudd is teaming up with the State of New York for a PSA encouraging young people to wear masks. 

In a video titled “Certified Young Person Paul Rudd Wants You to Wear a Mask,” the actor appears in a yellow sweatshirt and sweatpants with a matching skateboard in hand, standing in front of a green screen of the New York City skyline and speaking all sorts of cool lingo to entice millennials to wear masks to stop the spread of COVID-19.

“I was talking on the iPhone with my homie, Governor Cuomo, and he’s just going off about how us millennials need to wear masks because, get this, apparently a lot of COVID is transmitted by us millennials,” Rudd begins, calling masks “totally beast.” 

The 51-year-old later stages a fake phone call with a mask-wearing Billie Eilish and jokingly tells viewers that “caring about other people is the new not caring about other people.”

He then takes to a makeshift Tik Tok video where, in between some sick dance moves, he poses a “stop the pandemic challenge” and a “save grandma challenge.”

But the Ant-Man star takes a serious tone at the PSA’s end, pleading with viewers to wear a mask, framing it as a simple step to helping to halt the spread of the virus.  

“It’s easy, it’s simple. Please, it’s not hard. People are dying, hundreds of thousands of people are dying and it’s preventable,” he exclaims. “Just wear a mask, I shouldn’t have to make it fun. It’s science.” 

Morgan Freeman, Robert DeNiro, Billy Crystal and Ellen Pompeo are some of the other actors who have participated in Cuomo’s Mask Up America PSA campaign. 

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September 15, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Courtesy YouTube Originals(LOS ANGELES) — YouTube Originals has premiered its Paris Hilton documentary This Is Paris, which promises to show us a side of the heiress, reality star and businesswoman we’ve never seen before.

Among the things she discusses in the film include the alleged physical and emotional abuse she suffered as a child at a Utah boarding school for troubled teens, and her abusive relationships with men that followed her into adulthood. Paris tells ABC Audio why she’s decided to reveal all this now.

“People really don’t know the real me and I feel that it’s the perfect time in my life,” Paris explains. “I’m in the best place of my life. I really know who I am. I have a story to tell.”

“People are going to learn a lot about me that they had no idea about,” she adds.

Paris, who controls her own multi-million dollar business empire, and is the highest-paid female deejay in the world, wasn’t interested in the documentary at first, she tells Variety. But was eventually won over the the director’s vision for the project.

“I just want people to really get to know the real me,” she tells ABC Audio. “And I think that a lot of people are going to relate to it and the things that I went through in life, and understand me a lot more. And also see that there’s a lot more to me than what they think.” 

Since these revelations, Paris’ former school has issued a statement saying it changed hands in 2000, so it can’t comment on what may have happened during her time there. Paris, meanwhile, is now supporting a movement called Breaking Code Silence, which is trying to reform what’s called the “Troubled Teen Industry.”

By Andrea Dresdale

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Invision for The Television Academy/AP(LOS ANGELES) — The first round of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards have been announced. 

The Television Academy virtually delivered the first of five nights of award presentations. Hosted on Emmys.com on Monday night, winners in the categories of Reality and Nonfiction were announced.   

HBO’s The Apollo came out the night’s top winner with three awards for Outstanding Picture Editing For a Nonfiction or Reality Program, Outstanding Sound Editing For a Nonfiction or Reality Program and Outstanding Sound Mixing For a Nonfiction or Reality Program.

RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Netflix reality show Cheer also picked up multiple wins, including Outstanding Directing For a Reality Series and Outstanding Picture Editing For an Unstructured Reality Program for Cheer, while RuPaul earned Outstanding Picture Editing For a Structured Reality or Competition Program and Outstanding Casting For a Reality Program.

A&E documentary series Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath was named Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, while Queer Eye picked up Outstanding Structured Reality Program. National Geographic Presents Cosmos: Creating Possible Worlds was awarded Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series. 

Other winners include Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer, American Factory and the Discovery Channel documentary Why We Hate.  

The remaining winners will be announced online each night this week through Thursday at 8 p.m. ET, with Nailed It! host Nicole Byer serving as emcee.

The final broadcast will be held on Saturday on FXX at 8 p.m. ET, leading up to the Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday on ABC.     

By Cillea Houghton
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