Paula Faris will leave her roles at ABC’s weekend “Good Morning America” and daytime staple “The View” to focus more intently on snaring bigger interviews and breaking stories, ABC News’ top executive said in a memo to staffers Wednesday. “To have time to cover stories in-depth, Paula will leave the weekend editions of GMA and The View at the […]

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At long last, we know where The Vampire Chronicles will be spending its [after]life. Hulu announced Tuesday that they will be sinking their fangs into the television series based on the works by Anne Rice.  Also, the confirmation that the series will be about the chronicles, and not just the Brat Prince Lestat. It was first announced in […]

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In an interview released posthumously on Sunday, Anthony Bourdain discussed luxury, the Clintons and detailed and graphic fantasy of Harvey Weinstein’s death in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Bourdain, who died by suicide in June, is survived by his girlfriend Asia Argento. Argento is a vocal critic of the Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, whom she […]

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Liv Tyler has graced the big screen for more than two decades. Over the course of her career, she’s established herself as a pop culture staple with memorable roles in an eclectic range of movies. While these films put Tyler on a trajectory to take over Hollywood, she’s been pretty quiet lately. From activist work […]

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For months, the theories have been running rampant over what happens to Meryl Streep’s character in the sequel to ‘Mamma Mia’. Now, the time has come for the truth: Is she dead? When the trailer for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again dropped earlier this year, fans were immediately taken aback by the complete and utter lack […]

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Saturday Night Live has released a video full of bloopers from its latest season, its 43rd, on Tuesday (July 17). The team stepped up their game this year in terms of production and writing. From Kanye West and A Quiet Place to dolphin whispering, the level of ridiculousness hit a new peak. However, no matter how collected the celebrities, or seasoned the veterans, […]

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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind seesaws between hilarity and melancholy as it tracks the rise of one of the great American comics. Robin Williams has been gone for four years now, bringing to an end not just a spectacular life but a remarkable career as an electric comic performer, sitcom star, and Oscar-winning actor. Tonight, HBO […]

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Kurt Metzger, the controversial comedian who fell from grace in 2016 after a series of inflammatory online comments regarding rape victims, has a new gig: writing for Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial new TV show Who Is America?. The show’s IMDB page lists Metzger, along with seven other men, as series writers; each are only credited for one episode. Metzger […]

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It was Will Ferrell’s birthday on Monday, and to celebrate, “Smokeroom” took a look back and found his 10 greatest movies of all time. These are truly can’t miss. The 51-year-old actor got his big break when he landed a part on NBC’s late-night comedy sketch show “Saturday Night Live” in 1995. His impersonations of George W. […]

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Seth Meyers devoted his “Closer Look” segment on Late Night to dissect the “surreal” press conference of President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki Summit. Meyers began the segment by running through the “disastrous” nature of Trump’s trip to Europe before even getting to Finland, including the NATO summit and his infamous state visit […]

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Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures announced today a relaunch of the kids’ entertainment franchise “Rugrats.” A new animated-series revival featuring the characters from the ’90s cartoon has received with a 26-episode order from Nickelodeon; and Paramount Players, the new film division launched to develop projects based on properties from Viacom cable channels, has given a greenlight to a live-action film featuring CGI […]

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Showtime is fighting back claims that Sacha Baron Cohen posed as a disabled veteran in his new series “Who Is America?” In a lengthy statement issued Monday, the pay cabler denied that Cohen’s character Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., Ph.D., seen in the premiere episode of the series interviewing Sen. Bernie Sanders, claimed to have served […]

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After dramatically closing the gap with long-time Emmy nomination leader HBO last year, Netflix came up on top for the first time, just five and a half years after officially entering the original scripted series space with the launch of House Of Cards. Even with its first big Emmy contender not in the running after HOC‘s final […]

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A UK university professor claims to have unearthed a long-lost screenplay by the great Stanley Kubrick from 1956. Burning Secret, penned by Kubrick and novelist Calder Willingham, was adapted from a 1913 novella by Viennese author Stefan Zweig. It was originally planned as Kubrick’s next film following his noir classic The Killing. However, Kubrick and Willingham instead […]

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Hollywood’s busiest actor had five movies hit the big screen in the past 14 months — and has four more slotted to open in 2019. Dwayne Johnson’s latest movie, ‘Skyscraper,’ fell far short of expectations over the weekend, raising concerns that the action star has become overexposed. The actor’s newest outing on the big screen, Skyscraper, […]

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Netflix Inc. (NFLX – Get Report) had a lot to live up to when it reported second-quarter earnings after the close on Monday, and it didn’t deliver. The streaming video giant only added 5.15 million subscribers worldwide compared to 6.2 million expected, although it beat earnings expectations of $0.79 per share by reporting $0.85 EPS for the quarter. By […]

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Floyd Mayweather ($285 mil in pretax annual earnings), captures the top spot on Forbes’ 20th annual Celebrity 100 ranking of the world’s highest-paid celebrities. The boxer’s August 2017 fight versus Conor McGregor generated more than $550 million in revenue, with Money Mayweather earning $275 million, securing him the No. 1 spot for the second year since 2015. George Clooney ($239 mil) is in […]

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The year of Cardi B? The nominations for the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards were announced on Monday, July 16, and the rapper and new mother leads with 10 nods – including Video of the Year, Artist of the Year and Song of the Year. Beyoncé and Jay-Z (also known as The Carters) are close behind with eight nominations, and Childish […]

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The Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis taping kicked off Saturday evening at the Hollywood Palladium theater with host Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who starred with Willis in 2012 sci-fi thriller Looper. “What a career: The Fifth Element, The Sixth Sense, The Whole Nine Yards, Twelve Monkeys, zero Oscars,” Levitt began. Referring to the guest of honor’s 1998 divorce from actress Demi Moore, he […]

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The Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis did not go well for Dennis Rodman. The ex-basketball star and reality TV personality struggled through most of his time on Saturday during the taping of the roast in Hollywood. It got particularly tense when Rodman made a joke about the North Korean leader and his pal, Kim Jong-un. Trying to […]

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“Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” has checked into the No. 1 spot at the box office in its opening weekend and left the Dwayne Johnson action thriller “Skyscraper” in the dust. Sony Pictures estimated Sunday that the animated family movie earned $44.1 million from North American theaters. As the first in the franchise to open […]

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There was something in the air that night – when the greatest ABBA songs gave Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and an all star cast the greatest movie musical of all time – Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the ABBA-inspired sequel complete with Dancing Queens and Kings aplenty including Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Lily […]

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One terrifying glance at Venom is all it takes to know this year’s Spider-Man spin-off has the potential to be much darker, and much more disturbing, than any previous Marvel comic book adaptation. Venom’s crooked, slime-covered grimace is befitting of the characters Tom Hardy tends to portray: dangerous, cold, calculating, with an undercurrent of rage […]

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Britney Spears kicked her “Piece of Me” tour off with a bang — but probably not the kind she intended! The singer, 36, was performing her song “Do Somethin’” on opening night in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Friday, July 13, when she suffered a wardrobe malfunction. As captured in a fan video posted on YouTube, the former Vegas performer […]

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