The big question leading into Sunday night’s Grammy Awards: will hip-hop finally get its long overdue recognition with an Album of the Year win? Not quite, though R&B had an exceptionally strong showing on Sunday night. Jay-Z, who was 2018’s most nominated artists, with eight, walked away empty-handed. Bruno Mars won all seven awards that […]
Read moreMovies, as they say, are magic. But sometimes it takes more than a well-written script to make it work once the cameras start rolling. Sometimes, Hollywood’s top talents rely on improv and luck to create some of the most memorable scenes in film history. Here are some of the most hysterical movie moments that weren’t […]
Read moreAs if the Grammys aren’t full of enough surprises, record producer Clive Davis announced beforehand that Jennifer Hudson will portray Aretha Franklin in a biopic about the iconic singer’s life. She was reportedly handpicked for the role by Franklin herself. Davis, who recruited Franklin to his Arista in 1980, also signed Hudson after the singer appeared – […]
Read moreCarrie Fisher won her first Grammy award posthumously, taking home the prize for best spoken word album for the audio version of her memoir The Princess Diarist. Fisher was previously nominated for a Grammy in the same category in 2009 for the audio recording of her book Wishful Drinking. The 2016 memoir was inspired by the diary entries […]
Read moreWill Ferrell returned to Saturday Night Live tonight to host for his fourth time, joined by musical guest Chris Stapleton. In his fourth time hosting Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell entered Studio 8H with a fake cut on his head to do his opening monologue. It was a musical number gone awry, a very eager Ferrell singing his […]
Read moreIt’s a milestone year for the 2018 Grammy Awards, the 60th annual ceremony celebrating the year’s best songs, albums, producers, performers, and other aspects of the music industry. This year’s show is particularly noteworthy because it features a far more diverse list of nominees than previous years. This is largely due to the fact that […]
Read moreThe network, which gave a straight-to-series order this week to a Murphy Brown revival, has picked up six pilots — including reboots of Cagney and Lacey and Magnum P.I. On the drama side, ordered to pilot are Chiefs, a female-driven procedural from CSI grad Carol Mendelsohn; Cagney and Lacey, from Bridget Carpenter (11.22.63, Westworld, Friday […]
Read moreSean Astin talks with ‘Showbiz Express’ on the Red Carpet at the ’24th Screen Actors Guild Awards’ about his character Bob, on ‘Stranger Things’ and pays tribute to the memory of his mother Patty Duke.
Read moreMoviePass exploded in popularity over the holidays, reaching over one million concurrent subscribers in December. With a $9.95 monthly subscription fee, that adds up to be a pretty nice chunk of change for the company. For the unaware, MoviePass is a service that allows subscribers to watch as many movies as they’d like in theaters […]
Read morePresident Trump is expected to bring the thunder when he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday, but the real storm is likely to hit afterward. Stephen Colbert had previously announced “The Late Show” will air live after the speech, and now Jimmy Kimmel has booked a special guest sure to raise some eyebrows. […]
Read moreThe CW is giving new life to one of its old, beloved titles. After originally announcing to bring the series back several years ago, the network has officially handed out a pilot order for a reboot of “Charmed,” this afternoon. The news also comes almost 12 full years since the original series concluded its run […]
Read moreThe next Colonel Sanders is giving the character a little bit of “country music flair.” KFC has picked singer Reba McEntire to play the founder of the fried chicken chain, the first female celebrity in the role. In commercials starting next week, McEntire dons the Colonel’s famous white suit and black tie, but with a […]
Read moreOfficials at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum were tight-lipped on Thursday night about an unusual email exchange in which its chief curator is said to have rebuffed a White House request for a Vincent van Gogh painting and offered a gold toilet instead. The exchange between the curator, Nancy Spector, and Donna Hayashi Smith of […]
Read moreVanity Fair debuted its anticipated Hollywood Portfolio today, and on the magazine’s website the headline read, in part, “12 Extraordinary Stars, One Momentous Year.” There was meant to be another star on the coveted cover spread, but he did not make the final cut due to the momentous year’s most powerful movement, the Hollywood Reporter […]
Read moreCasey Affleck has withdrawn from presenting the Best Actress Award at the upcoming Oscars, Deadline hears. He has notified the Academy he will not be attending the event, sources said. I’ve heard that Affleck did not want to become a distraction from the focus that should be on the performances of the actresses in the […]
Read moreThe best children’s programming astutely blends humor for kids with jokes that even a jaded parent can appreciate. But a few moments deemed too risqué for sensitive audiences can sometimes slip past the in-network censors, causing minor public relations nightmares, and leading the offending material to be pulled from the airwaves. Here are a few […]
Read moreMultiple talent reps say the “Hanoi Jane” remarks have made them reconsider booking clients on ‘Megyn Kelly Today.’ “Actors don’t trust her,” says a publicist. Is Megyn Kelly’s Monday morning takedown of Jane Fonda — in which Kelly invoked Fonda’s Vietnam-era Hanoi Jane sobriquet — the first of more provocations? Or was it a one-off? […]
Read moreJason Clarke stops by to talk with Ross Crystal on the red carpet at the ’24th SAG Awards’ about his latest film ‘Mudbound’ and his upcoming project ‘Chappaquiddick’ in which he stars as Senator Edward Kennedy. The Australian actor also talked about, among other things, his ability to perform with a spot on American dialect.
Read moreCBS has given a 13-episode order to a revival of the classic sitcom “Murphy Brown.” Original star Candice Bergen is set to reprise her role as the titular broadcast journalist. The multi-camera comedy will be part of CBS’ 2018-19 season and will see Bergen’s character returning to television news at a time of political and cultural upheaval. […]
Read moreHBO’s Big Little Lies is upping its star power for season two. Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress Meryl Streep has boarded the premium cable network’s second season of the drama starring Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman. Streep will play Mary Louise Wright, the mother to the abusive Perry Wright (Alexander Skarsgard), who (spoiler alert!) was revealed to have […]
Read moreThey might have punishing road schedules – well most of them anyway – but WWE stars do still manage to do work outside of their obligations to Vince McMahon. Occasionally, active stars are even afforded the luxury of trying to follow in the footsteps of The Rock and making it big in Hollywood (and not […]
Read moreWhen a once-beloved TV show starts showing its age and viewers start clicking to something else, the show has two choices: bow out gracefully or change everything about itself in an attempt to win back the fickle masses. Typically, the latter approach fails miserably, but that hasn’t stopped many shows from trying…. That ’70s Show […]
Read moreMuch has been made of the way the writers of Breaking Bad — which debuted to modest ratings on January 20, 2008, before growing into one of the defining shows of its era — wrote themselves into corners, before improvising their way out. They’d often get their protagonist, meth-cooking schoolteacher Walter White (played brilliantly by […]
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