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It’s a hosting switcheroo on “Jeopardy!”

According to Deadline, Ken Jennings will host the show’s final week of episodes in season 39, taking over from Mayim Bialik, who is standing with Writers Guild of America strikers.

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The final episodes, which are set to be filmed between May 16 and May 19, were set to be hosted by Bialik, but she reportedly declined her hosting duties in solidarity with the WGA.

Mayim Bialik – Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Cp Images

“Jeopardy!” is a union show, with contributions and questions written by WGA members in advance of the season and the current strike.

Writers on the show have been on the picket lines as part of the strike.

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The Bentonville Film Festival set the lineup for its sixth edition Tuesday, with the festival co-founded by Geena Davis unveiling its spotlight and competition program of indie feature films, shorts and episodic titles.

The fest is set to run August 10-16 in the Arkansas city and is being engineered as a hybrid event because of coronavirus concerns, with digital screenings, panels and events to run alongside some on-the-ground premieres and conversations.

This year’s lineup includes four Spotlight pics including the U.S. premiere of Misbehaviour, starring Keira Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, which tells the true story of protest and controversy at 1970 Miss World contest, and Parkland Rising, a documentary that looks at the students of Parkland, Fl, who started an international movement to call attention to the need for better gun laws.

As per usual, this year’s lineup focuses on underrepresented voices in film. Of the 68 titles, more...

We’ve seen Elisabeth Moss take on corporate male toxicity in Mad Men, a ghost of a man in The Invisible Man, Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale and punk rock in Her Smell. This weekend we’ll see her as a horror author who tries not to unravel as she goes through her creative process in the Josephine Decker-directed Shirley.

The film, which is adapted from Susan Scarf Merrell’s 2014 novel of the same name, bowed at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and is based on the real-life horror author Shirley Jackson and her husband Stanley Hyman.

“We were not making a film that we ever thought, ‘Oh, we’re making a film about the real Shirley Jackson’,” Decker told Deadline at Sundance. “In fact, the script really meshed up a bunch of timelines in the real Shirley Jackson’s life, so it absolutely was a fiction.

Enough is enough. Abramorama has unveiled an official, full-length trailer for the documentary Parkland Rising, which is launching with a live stream event in early June in just a few weeks. Directed by two-time Emmy award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Horner McDonough, Parkland Rising is an inspiring look at the students of Parkland, who have started an international movement to call attention to the need for better gun safety laws. The film encourages everyone to stand up and get involved. From executive producers Katie Couric and will.i.am, the film features Jaclyn Corin, Matt & Ryan Deitsch, Emma Gonzalez, Fred Guttenberg (Father of Jaime Guttenberg), Lauren and David Hogg; with music by Ajr, Black Eyed Peas, Sammy Brue, Bob Dylan, Michael Franti, and Pearl Jam. This is different than the doc film After Parkland, which focuses more on emotions. This ones focuses on change - and how we can make that change happen with solidarity.

In Michael Moore’s latest wide-ranging documentary, “Fahrenheit 11/9,” the filmmaker focuses on Donald Trump’s rise to power and indicts the entire existing political system. But the film also celebrates some new heroes, includes Parkland school shooting survivors and the whistleblowers of Flint, Michigan’s ongoing water crisis. They joined Moore for the film’s world premiere on opening night of the Toronto International Film Festival, and during the post-screening Q&A, he brought them onstage.

After the film premiered to a packed Ryerson theater — with a crowd appreciative enough that one audience member yelled out, “Michael for president!” — Moore took the stage alongside Parkland survivors David Hogg, Flint whistleblower April Cook-Hawkins, and her husband, Reverend Jeffrey Hawkins.

Like many of his fellow Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors, Hogg has spent the past few months turning his outrage into action, and the ongoing activism of the students...

David Hogg helped spearhead a movement in the wake of the Parkland massacre that has resonated around the world, and you'd think colleges around the country would be clamoring to snag him, but sadly that's not the case. David has been rejected by the 4 University of California campuses where he submitted applications -- UCLA, Ucsd, Ucsb and Uc Irvine. He says the rejection letters came 2 weeks ago. He has a 4.2 Gpa and an Sat score...