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What one hand giveth, the other taketh away. Grounded by scathing reviews, Warner Bros.’ The Goldfinch bombed at the U.S. box office over the weekend with a debut of just $2.68 million, one of the worst starts ever for a film opening in 2,542 theaters. But the frame wasn’t totally bereft for the studio — It: Chapter Two stayed […]

Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit” has won the coveted People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The honor positions the film for a potential Oscar run and bolsters its awards chances. That’s good news for Fox Searchlight, which must have been disappointed by the lackluster critical reception for the movie, a dark comedy set […]

James Corden opened up about his struggle with his weight as he responded, on Thursday’s Late Late Show, to Bill Maher’s recent call for fat shaming to make a comeback. In a recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host suggested that fat shaming should be make a return, in order to lower the obesity […]

Demi Moore revealed that she had a miscarriage while she was dating Ashton Kutcher in a profile for The New York Times. Soon after the pair began dating in 2003, Moore became pregnant with a girl that she planned to name Chaplin Ray. She lost the child six months into her pregnancy, which led her to start drinking […]

It’s done! JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot have closed a five-year deal for him to keep his TV business and move his film business under the WarnerMedia umbrella. The wide-ranging pact, which runs through 2024, also includes games and digital content. The JJ Abrams Sweepstakes started last fall, with a number of media congloms vying for his services […]

Bob Dylan will focus on the U.S. over the course of his Fall Tour 2019. The legendary artist will go coast-to-coast from October 11 – November 20 with more shows to be announced. The tour is currently scheduled to start at UC Irvine’s Bren Events Center in Irvine, California on October 11. Dylan and his band […]

The news that Crazy Rich Asians co-screenwriter Adele Lim has left the franchise amid a pay parity dispute has sparked a widespread conversation featuring the collision of two entrenched Hollywood systems: its longstanding method of establishing pay and the more complicated, invisible but just as longstanding process of how value is assigned to workers who aren’t white and male. […]

With Hurricane Dorian barreling towards the Florida coast, Walt Disney World will close early on Tuesday. The company said on Monday that both the Magic Kingdom Park and Epcot would close at 3 p.m. ET, with Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom shutting down at 2 p.m. ET. Both ESPN’s Wide World of Sports and Blizzard Beach […]

Kevin Hart was involved in a serious car accident early Sunday, The Hollywood Reporter can confirm. According to a press release sent to THR from the California Highway Patrol, Hart was not driving the car, identified as a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, but rather Jared Black. According to CHP, Black lost control while driving from southbound Cold Canyon Road to […]

 Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto chastised President Donald Trump on Thursday after Trump tweeted that “Fox isn’t working for us anymore” in a series of tweets in which he also said the network of “promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by anchor, @SandraSmithFox.” Over the past couple of weeks, Trump has increasingly […]

Hackers were able to break into thousands of iPhones by combining a number of iOS vulnerabilities, Google’s Project Zero security project revealed late Thursday. The hack was carried out via dedicated websites; simply visiting those sites with an iPhone or iPad could result in hackers installing malware on those devices, which they could then use to steal […]

The widow of famed actor/dancer Gene Kelly has leaped into the fray regarding Lara Spencer’s comments on ballet. Patricia Ward Kelly responded in an open letter after Spencer, the Good Morning America host, mocked young Prince George over his ballet lessons, holding back laughter at the prospect of the six-year-old dancing. “In 1958, my late husband, the dancer, director, choreographer Gene […]

Toymaker Hasbro is acquiring studio Entertainment One in an all-cash transaction valued at $4 billion, bringing My Little Pony and Nerf under the same umbrella as “Peppa Pig” and “PJ Masks” and furthering Hasbro’s growth goals in the infant and preschool categories. Hasbro aims to expand its operations in film and TV. Entertainment One’s production infrastructure in multiple markets and its […]

Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has joined the Fox News Channel as a paid, on-air contributor, the network said on Thursday. “Fox News has been the No. 1 news organization in the country for 17 years running, and I am beyond proud to join their incredible stable of on-air contributors in providing […]

Gina Gershon has been sharing views of her summer in San Sebastian on Instagram for weeks now, posting pictures of the cast, crew and locations on Woody Allen’s next film, Rifkin’s Festival. But it was the image she posted two days ago — a black-and-white selfie of the actress smiling widely while touching heads with a bucket-hat-wearing […]

CBS has canceled “Instinct” after two seasons. Series creator Michael Rauch broke the news on his Twitter account Saturday morning. “I’m very sad to relay the news that @instinctcbs won’t be renewed for a 3rd season. We will double up this Sunday and our season/series finale will be Aug 25. Endless thanks to @Alancumming & […]

The Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau has brought down the hammer on several networks that, according to the agency, misused the Emergency Alert System or Wireless Emergency Alert tones on episodes of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” among other programs. The programs were accused of violating the FCC’s rules on actual or simulated alert […]

Promotions for streaming shows have been known to backfire, but Amazon might not be complaining too loudly about this incident. Santa Monica police made Amazon suspend a one-day Marvelous Mrs. Maisel promotionthat charged people 30 cents for gas at a station to reflect prices in 1959 (when the show is set) due to sheer demand. Apparently, the traffic snarls from lined up […]

“Landline” actress Abby Quinn has been cast as Mabel, the grown-up daughter of Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) Buchman on Spectrum Originals’ “Mad About You” revival, TheWrap has learned. Charter’s Spectrum ordered the limited series back in March, revealing that Reiser and Hunt would reprise their roles from the ’90s NBC sitcom for the […]

Awkwafina will star in the fantasy-adventure feature film “The Last Adventure of Constance Verity” for Legendary. The production company has acquired the feature film rights to adapt the eponymous series written by A. Lee Martinez. John Raffo has written the script. Jon Shestack, who brought the project to Raffo and attached Awkwafina, is producing. Jon Silk will […]

The Crown is finally heading back to Netflix with the third season of the royal drama climbing onto the throne on November 17. This comes nearly two years on from the second season of the British drama, which launched on December 8, 2017. Season 3 of The Crown starts in 1964 and will cover events such as the rise of […]

 Bill Cosby’s lawyers urged a panel of Pennsylvania appellate judges Monday to overturn his sexual assault conviction, setting the stage for a ruling that could shape the future of the #MeToo movement’s push to hold celebrity abusers accountable in court. For roughly an hour, attorneys jockeyed before a panel of Superior Court judges on two key […]

The teenagers have spoken! The 2019 Teen Choice Awards are being handed out live on Fox on Sunday, August 11, broadcast from Hermosa Beach, California, for the first time in the awards show’s two-decade history. Pretty Little Liars alum Lucy Hale and YouTube star David Dobrik are hosting the star-studded affair, which honors teens’ favorite stars and titles from movies, […]