‘Raging Fire’ tops box office another weekend Donnie Yen’s action thriller “Raging Fire” easily torched the competition for a second weekend at the top of China’s theatrical box office. New Orleans Jazz fest 2021 canceled The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has canceled its fall 2021 dates due to surging COVID-19 cases in Louisiana, the U.S., festival organizers said. Kool & The Gang co-founder Dennis Thomas dead Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, longtime saxophonist and co-founding member of the legendary funk outfit Kool & The Gang, has died at the age of 70. Beijing film festival postponed The Beijing International Film Festival has been postponed amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases caused by the spread of the Delta variant. Feldstein plays Lewinsky in ‘American Crime Story’ “Booksmart” star Beanie Feldstein makes her debut as Monica Lewinsky in the first “Impeachment: American Crime Story” teaser, which also stars Clive Owen as former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Edie Falco as Clinton’s wife Hillary, Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp (one of Lewinsky’s closest confidantes who secretly recorded her). Almodóvar film tapped for NYFF closing night Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers” has been tapped as the closing night selection of the 59th New York Film Festival (NYFF). Rihanna is 2nd-richest female star Singer Rihanna just joined an exclusive group of celebrities as the newest billionaire and the world’s wealthiest female musician, Forbes reported. Portman drama ‘The Days of Abandonment’ dead at HBO “The Days of Abandonment,” a feature film set at HBO and starring Natalie Portman, is no longer moving forward at the network after Portman unexpectedly left the project. ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV series to launch in 2022 Amazon’s multi-million dollar TV version of “The Lord of the Rings” will launch in September 2022, Amazon Studios said. The streaming platform said filming on the first season has wrapped in New Zealand. (SD-Agencies) | 