Reuters Entertainment News Summary
Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.
'Grey's Anatomy' creator Shonda Rhimes leaves ABC for Netflix
"Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes is taking her Shondaland production house away from Walt Disney Co's ABC network to Netflix Inc to produce new content, the video streaming company said on Sunday. Rhimes's move to Netflix comes a week after Disney, the world's largest entertainment company, announced plans to launch its own streaming service and pull Disney and Pixar films from Netflix, starting with releases in 2019.
Female stunt driver dies on Vancouver set of 'Deadpool 2'
A female stunt driver has died on the set of 20th Century Fox's superhero movie "Deadpool 2" in downtown Vancouver during the filming of a stunt on a motorcycle, police said on Monday.
Local media reported that the stuntwoman appeared to lose control of the vehicle, which drove off the set and through the window of a building across the street. Police have not yet released the name of the woman or details of the accident.
Kendrick Lamar holds off Brett Eldredge for Billboard top spot
Rapper Kendrick Lamar reclaimed the top spot of the weekly U.s Billboard 200 album chart on Monday, fending off country music star Brett Eldredge. Lamar's "Damn." climbed from No. 2 to No. 1 with 47,000 album units sold, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. Streaming accounted for much of the sales activity, with more than 46 million streams in the past week.
Jury begins deliberating in Taylor Swift groping trial
Jurors began deliberating on Monday in the closely watched trial of dueling lawsuits by Taylor Swift and a Colorado DJ over her accusations that he groped her bare bottom during a photo shoot and his claims the pop superstar cost him his "dream job." The 12-member U.S. District Court jury began deliberating shortly after noon local time (2 p.m. EDT) in Denver after attorneys representing Swift and radio personality David Mueller gave their closing arguments.
Wild brass bands festival kicks off in Serbia
The 57h Guca Brass Band Festival, Serbia's liveliest traditional music event, has attracted tens of thousands of people crowding the streets and savoring the trumpet beat. Guca, a normally sleepy town with only 3,700 people in the rolling hills of southwestern Serbia, is hosting the country´s biggest party, with 50 brass bands competing for the coveted Golden Trumpet.
Boris in Union Jack underpants? Musical comedy finds the fun in Brexit
A retelling of Britain's vote to leave the European Union and its dramatic political consequences might perhaps be framed as high drama or extreme farce. But audiences at the Edinburgh Festival are lapping up a light-hearted sung comedy version, "Brexit The Musical", a sellout featuring a cavorting Boris Johnson, the most prominent Brexit campaigner, in matching Union Jack underpants and socks, looking for a lost plan.
Egyptian artist creates portraits out of burnt tobacco
In a small studio littered with empty cigarette packets in Egypt's second city, Alexandria, Abdelrahman al-Habrouk sits hunched over a sheet of paper making portraits with tobacco. The cigarettes fuel his art; he breaks them in half, painstakingly traces out monochrome images of celebrities or animals with the fine flakes of tobacco, then sprinkles his creations with gunpowder and sets them on fire.
Downtown? Petula Clark goes Down Farm
Grammy award-winner Petula Clark sang her global hit "Downtown" about as far from "where the neon signs are pretty" as she could at the weekend -- to thousands in a field in rural England. It was the 84-year-old's first outdoor festival in a career spanning, well, eight decades.
'Annabelle: Creation' levitates to no. 1 with $35 million
"Annabelle: Creation" may not be able to save the summer -- which, after this weekend, will only fall farther behind last year's pace -- but it is doing its part to frighten audiences into theaters. The latest from New Line and Warner Bros, which serves as the fourth installment in what has become the "Conjuring" extended universe, is casting its evil eye on $35 million from 3,502 locations. That's a strong start for the horror flick, which was made for about $15 million.
Hackers release more HBO episode shows: report
Hackers have released more unaired episodes of popular HBO shows but the latest leak did not include anything on the hit series "Game of Thrones," the Associated Press reported on Sunday. The hackers, who broke into HBO's computer network and have released stolen information for several weeks, provided more unaired episodes, including the popular show "Curb Your Enthusiasm, " which returns in October.
