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Here are the top entertainment news stories you need to start your day. Empire’s Taraji P. Henson has a new mission, Broad Green heads to Mosquitoland, and Zoolander 2 stumbles on the catwalk.

The California Film Commission announced the 13 productions that will receive a portion of the $56.9 million in tax credits up for grabs under the recently re-vamped incentive program. Among them is Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut A Star Is Born.

Ahead of The Walking Dead’s return to AMC this Sunday, The ShowOff has dropped this recap of the first half of season six. Warning: they’ve managed to pack a lot of spoilers into about four minutes. And it’s fantastic.

The vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter.

Here are the top entertainment stories you need to start your day. Michael De Luca wants to jumpstart Battlestar Galactica, Amy Schumer takes a dramatic turn, and Johnny Depp will appear – or not – as The Invisible Man.

Two miles west of London, Dr. Robert Laing moves into his new apartment seeking soulless anonymity, only to find that the building’s residents have no intention of leaving him alone.

We’ve partnered with the ISA Spotlight to provide the opportunity to highlight the winning screenplays and to introduce you to these talented writers. The Hitchcock Murders by Andy Maycock, The Kindred by LS Garvey, and That’s Basketball by Cory Soukup took home the Grand Prizes for the 2016 Park City Table Read My Screenplay Contest.

Here are the top entertainment news stories you need to start your day. The Super Bowl sees some amazing new trailers debut, The Coen Brothers have a great weekend at the box office, and Jigsaw is back.

NYU student Bo Shim has been named the 8th Michael Collyer Fellow in Screenwriting by the Writers Guild Initiative. Shim will be presented her award at the WGA Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 13th.

Julieta’s life in 2015 finds her on the verge of madness; 30 years earlier, we see a more prosperous time in her life.

Up against a somewhat unexciting Super Bowl 50, DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 3 held onto #1 while the Coen Bros’ Hail, Caesar! managed to surpass expectations to claim second place, leaving its fellow new releases in the dust.

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

Two brothers place an online ad to find dates for a wedding and the ad goes viral.

Here are the biggest entertainment news stories you need to start your day. This weekend, The Revenant director took home the top prize at the DGAs, the NAACP Image Awards celebrated diversity in entertainment, while Super Bowl 50 featured some great new trailers.

We have the complete list of winners from the 43rd Annual Annie Awards, which honored the best in animation across 36 categories. Pixar’s Inside Out took home 10 awards, including best animated feature.

The Directors Guild of America held its annual awards ceremony on Saturday. See the complete list of winners here.

The NAACP Image Awards were held on Friday in Los Angeles, celebrating the accomplishments of people of color in film, TV, music, and literature. See the complete list of winners.

Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let-go. Viacom has a new leader, Kim Fox will head up MadRiver International, and WPA ups four agents to partner!

In the near future, where the world relies on renewable energy, a safety inspector is sent on a dangerous mission to a remote nuclear power plant after it suddenly goes offline.

The NAACP Image Awards celebrate the accomplishments of people of color in film, TV, music, and literature. Leading the nominees are Ryan Coogler’s Creed with six nods and Fox’s Empire, which landed 12 nominations.

On Wednesday, Fox announced the 10 participants for its 2016 Writers Intensive Program–which includes Launch Pad Alum Ahmadu Garba.

Sophomore Kung Fu Panda 3 will easily take keep the top spot against Super Bowl 50, while new entries Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, Hail, Caesar!, and The Choice will cluster around $8-10 million for a tight battle with holdovers The Revenant and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Director Steve Petersen has brought Craig Fernandez’s feature script Erebus to life in the form of a proof-of-concept short film–and it serves up some serious sci-fi action realness.

Davis, a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father in law Phil to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel.

Here are a few of the top entertainment stories you need to start your day. Key & Peele will cover the Superbowl, Bryan Singer has officially boarded Fox’s 20,000 Leagues adaptation, and Sumner Redstone gives up the reigns.

A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralyzed man she’s taking care of.

Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs.

Redstone has stepped down as Executive Chairman of CBS, becoming Chairman Emeritus. CBS CEO Moonves will take over as Chairman. No announcement has been made regarding Viacom’s leadership, where Redstone also serves as Executive Chairman.

Inspired by events in Miles Davis’s life, this is a wildly entertaining, impressionistic, no-holds-barred portrait of one of twentieth-century music’s creative geniuses.

Squarespace has announced that Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will provide live commentary during Super Bowl 50 on Sunday–in character, no less.