Jennifer Lopez arrives for the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards at Barker Hangar Santa Monica airport on Jan.12, 2020 in Santa Monica, California. AFP

Actress-producer-singer Jennifer Lopez’s social media channels, including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter, have suddenly gone dark in their featured/cover images. It is perhaps because the “Hustlers” and “Marry Me” actress is on the verge of announcing a new project, reports ‘Deadline’.

While Lopez’s Instagram account has erased all posts, a trail of her previous postings remained on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter. Across all four social media platforms, Lopez counts close to 347 million followers, the majority of them coming from Instagram. According to ‘Deadline’, Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions in June 2021 signed a multi-year first-look deal with Netflix spanning feature films, TV series and unscripted content, with an emphasis on projects that support diverse female actors, writers and filmmakers.

Lopez co-runs Nuyorican Productions with her producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas. Lopez scored her best opening for a live-action movie in the US box office with “Hustlers”, which debuted to $33.1 million, grossed $105 million statewide and $157.6 million worldwide.

As a recording artiste, Lopez has sold over 70 million albums, with “J.Lo” becoming her bestselling album with 3.8 million copies sold in the US and 12 million globally. “Deadline” adds that her Netflix thriller “The Mother” from director Niki Caro is set to debut in May. Her romantic comedy “Shotgun Wedding” with Josh Duhamel will hit Prime Video on Jan.27.

Meanwhile, Lopez said taking her actor-husband Ben Affleck’s surname is a “power move”. The 53-year-old singer added the move has made her “proud” and said it reaffirmed her feelings that she is in full control of her life, reports femalefirst.co.uk. She made the statements in a cover interview with the December issue of Vogue magazine after she and Ben, 50, married in Las Vegas in July before throwing another wedding extravaganza that lasted three days at her new husband’s $8.9 million estate in Georgia. Lopez said: “People are still going to call me Jennifer Lopez.

But my legal name will be Mrs Affleck because we’re joined together. We’re husband and wife. I’m proud of that. “I don’t think that’s a problem... it’s not traditional. It doesn’t have any romance to it. It feels like it’s a power move, you know what I mean? “I’m very much in control of my own life and destiny and feel empowered as a woman and as a person.

I can understand that people have their feelings about it, and that’s okay, too.” “But if you want to know how I feel about it, I just feel like it’s romantic. It still carries tradition and romance to me, and maybe I’m just that kind of girl.” Jennifer and Ben, fondly called as Bennifer, first dated between 2002 and 2004, with the pair marrying other partners during their subsequent two-decade break.

Indo-Asian News Service