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The fallout continues from the explosive allegations of abuse in the behind-the-scenes Investigation Discovery documentary, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. Now the Nickelodeon actor at the center of scandal, Drake Bell, who disclosed to the public for the first time in the four-part docuseries that he was the victim of sexual […]

Vanity Fair just dropped first-look images from the most highly anticipated film of 2024 and they are wicked good. Probably because they’re from the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical prequel to the Wizard of Oz — Wicked — which itself was based on the novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire. Wicked first […]

Those with kids (or anyone who was once a kid for that matter) are most likely familiar with the classic children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon. Now, the literary gem is getting the inevitable big-screen treatment in a new live-action adventure-comedy starring Zachary Levi. The first trailer just dropped for the summer release Sony […]

Slate recently published a great deep-dive piece on the weird public fascination with comedian John Mulaney’s relationship with actress Olivia Munn, following her recent heartbreaking reveal that she has been battling breast cancer. When Mulaney infamously broke up with his wife, the artist Anna Marie Tendler, shortly after emerging from rehab in 2021, and then […]

The Ghostbusters ain’t afraid of no ghost, but perhaps they should fear their Rotten Tomatoes score for the latest sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire — the film sits at a measly 44% as of Wednesday morning. Critics are unenthused by the latest entry in the franchise, technically the fourth Ghostbusters film in the timeline started back […]

Legendary musician and film composer John Williams, known as “the Maestro of the Movies,” has created some of the most emblematic and enduring film scores of all time, working with auteurs like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas on cinematic classics such as Jaws and Star Wars. Williams is still going strong at age 92, having […]

Travis Kelce is leaning even more into his non-football entertainment career with news swirling that he is in negotiations to host an upcoming reboot of the popular Fox game show “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” The reboot, as reported by Variety, would be for streamer Amazon Prime Video this time around and word […]

After stepping down from the board of WeightWatchers to maintain her journalistic independence for her new televised special on weight-loss medications and body-shaming, Oprah Winfrey fans got a chance to see what all the fuss was about as An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution premiered on ABC on Monday night. In […]

Jack Black taking the lead of a popular video-game live-action movie adaptation for a property like Minecraft feels like a no-brainer, but sounds like Black is taking a pretty heady approach to getting into character for the film. Black spoke with GamesRadar+ about his process in preparing for his role as everyman Steve in the […]

If you were worried Emmy and Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman isn’t fully embracing being a meme for her infamous AMC Theatres ads, think again. Kidman reacted to the surprise viral response of her much-spoofed in-movie-theater ads as well as teased a new crop of them soon in an interview with Elle. Kidman even delivered her […]

“Are the media so hungry for royal news that they’d interview anyone who claimed to know something about Kate and her famous photo?” ask British trickster influencers Josh & Archie in a recent viral video on their YouTube channel. The answer seems to be a resounding yes based on the news that the duo was […]

Red hot writer-turned-actress/comedian Ayo Edebiri seems to enjoy misleading the public online, especially where her “Irish” roots are concerned, so take this with a grain of salt — but a series of cute pics she posted to Instagram with the Irish actor Paul Mescal have sparked dating rumors for the talented 20-somethings. Mescal is best […]

In the unlikeliest of cinematic universes announced thus far, for those who thought a horror movie version of everyone’s favorite pooh bear was a stand-alone experiment, think again. Apparently the creative team behind the surprise breakout micro-budget slasher film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is on the verge of unveiling the “Poohniverse,” a horror compilation of […]

For all you geeky math fans out there (counting myself in that group of course), Happy Pi Day! For the rest of you, I hope I don’t have to explain at this point that the numeric run-on number Pi, frequently written symbolically as π, and often shortened to 3.14 in math textbooks so as not […]

Sam Neill, best known from the Jurassic Park franchise as Dr. Alan Grant, paleontologist extraordinaire, weighed in with his two cents about the possibility of his character returning for the next installment of Jurassic World (being referred to at this point in the process as Jurassic World 4). Sounding pretty Alan Grant-y in an interview […]

For those who were concerned that The Walt Disney Company spent too much to acquire the Star Wars franchise when they purchased Lucasfilm from George Lucas in December of 2012 for $4.05 billion, rest assured — Disney has apparently made approximately $12 billion in profits from their Star Wars properties. That’s nearly three times what […]

More than ten years since they said bye bye bye to live performances together, NSYNC finally reunited to perform live as a band in Justin Timberlake’s aptly named “One Night Only” show in Los Angeles. The prospect was long-in-the-works and has been teased for sometime by Justin Timberlake in interviews and through social media. NSYNC’s […]

After admitted initial reluctance to thoughts of a Barbie sequel, the summer blockbuster’s director and co-writer Greta Gerwig has come around to say she now has “no resistance” toward the possibility. She told Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party that although she wasn’t “feeling” the idea of a follow-up to Barbie’s big-screen […]

Olivia Munn stunned fans on Wednesday with a post about her tragic medical news on social media — she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer this past year and has been undergoing treatment and surgeries for the past ten months. Munn shared a series of personal pictures and a letter explaining her […]

If you weren’t already suffering from FOMO as a result of not being one of the A-list celebrity invitees to WNBA New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu’s wedding, you will be now — Vanessa Bryant has shared a series of photos and reels to her Instagram of Sabrina’s big day, and Vanessa and daughter Natalia […]

On the heels of Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man getting an extended standing ovation and rave reviews comes another breakout hit from the SXSW festival — the Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt starring action/comedy The Fall Guy. An inside-Hollywood send-up where the stuntman gets to be the hero, anticipation has been high for The Fall […]

Legendary actress Sharon Stone is opening up and naming the name of a big-time film producer who tried to get her to sleep with her co-star, Billy Baldwin, on the set of the 1993 film Sliver to help their on-screen chemistry during production. Stone alluded to the incident in her 2021 memoir The Beauty of […]

Watching Jordan Peele at SXSW introduce the world premiere of the highly-anticipated Dev Patel-directed action/thriller Monkey Paw, a film which Peele produced through his Monkeypaw Productions, it’s jarring to consider how differently his career has evolved from that of his long-time comedic collaborator, Keegan-Michael Key, with whom he created the seminal sketch comedy classic television […]

The revered South by Southwest film and culture festival, also known by the acronym SXSW, appears to have its breakout hit of this year’s edition (at least, thus far) — Dev Patel, the actor best known for his role as the contestant in Slumdog Millionaire, just received a massive standing ovation for his directorial debut, […]

Since she was Time’s Person of the Year, it was only natural to wonder if Taylor Swift would make an appearance at the entertainment industry’s biggest night of the year, even though she wasn’t nominated for an Oscar. Emma Stone made sure Swift would at least be there in spirit by quoting a song lyric […]

Fans of the recent and contentious Jimmy Kimmel and Aaron Rodgers feud were tuning into the 2024 Oscars on Sunday to see if Kimmel would poke the Jet and renew their beef, but it seems Jimmy didn’t take the bait. Instead, Kimmel went a classier route and issued a heartfelt thank you and praise of […]

As any parent of three youngsters will attest, getting everyone to smile and face the camera for a photograph is no easy task. Therefore, even without having to resort to expert photo analysis like the A.P. and other outlets did, I was able to determine that the photo Catherine posted for British Mother’s Day had […]

Princess Catherine, formerly known as Kate Middleton, may have dug the conspiracy theory hole surrounding her health a little deeper by making the curious decision to edit the photograph she posted of her with her kids for Mother’s Day in Britain. Catherine took to social media on Monday to admit she manipulated the original image […]

Fans of the Watch Dogs video game will be pleased to know that the film adaptation is leveling up with popular breakout actress Sophie Wilde, from the 2022 horror/mystery Talk To Me, according to an exclusive in Deadline. New Regency is the studio behind the Watch Dogs film, which will be adaptation of the popular […]

For those who thought AI couldn’t get any creepier, think again — AI technology firm Soul Machines has just unveiled “Digital Marilyn,” an AI-generated Marilyn Monroe chatbot who can interact with fans and respond to questions “in Marilyn’s signature voice and style,” the company announced in a press release. Monroe passed away 62 years ago […]

Well, in case you were all waiting on the edge of your seats for everyone’s favorite animated Australian puppy to weigh in on the Jonas Brothers’ epic homage to him, you’re in for a treat — Bluey has taken to social media to respond to the viral shout-out. The hoopla began on Tuesday with the […]

Lost in the wing basket of buzz created by a video the Buffalo Bills released this week on social media highlighting the plans for the proposed bison statues outside the new Highmark Stadium is a little bit of shade throwing directed at another prominent buffalo statue. Frank Cravotta, Bills SVP of new stadium design, probably […]

Now that it’s the NFL offseason, America’s favorite couple is switching things up — it’s Travis Kelce’s turn to get cutaway videos during Taylor Swift Eras concerts. Kelce is currently going viral for a clip of him dancing to “Look What You Made Me Do” during one of Swift’s Eras Tour shows in Singapore, and […]

It’s a sad commentary on the state of hostilities in the Israel-Hamas war when a harmless newborn announcement post on social media from a prominent Israeli-American actress spews messages of toxicity just because of her ties to the region. But unfortunately, that’s what’s transpiring on the Instagram account of Gal Gadot at the moment. Following […]

Gal Gadot may have to trade in her invisible jet for an invisible minivan. She and her husband Jaron Varsano just announced that that they’ve welcomed their fourth child together, daughter Ori. The couple also share three older daughters — Alma, 12, Maya, 6, and Daniella, 2. That’s quite a brood for this Wonder Woman […]

The Wrap has a deep dive piece covering the legacy of Sean Bailey’s reign as head of Walt Disney Studios, and it has some unfortunate news for Bambi and Sarah Polley fans. Polley, coming off directing the well-regarded 2022 drama Women Talking, had been attached to direct a live-action version of the 1942 animated classic […]

It’s been a seesaw last month for Dakota Johnson. On the heels of her colossal bomb at the box office, Madame Web, now comes news on the happy end of the news spectrum — that she’s engaged to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin (raise your hand if you didn’t even know they were dating ✋). This […]

With the seminal Larry David comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm about halfway through airing its final season on HBO, many outlets have been reporting nostalgically on the show’s best moments from various perspectives. After another memorable sports storyline in this past Sunday’s episode, and this being a sports/entertainment news website, it seems only right that […]

The Masked Singer is back on Wednesday with its season 11 premiere, and longtime judge Ken Jeong has a hot take on who one of the masked singers, Lovebird, is under the costume — surmising that the surprise celebrity may be none other than recent Super Bowl champ Travis Kelce. Jeong gave his prediction to […]