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Comedian Andy Dick has been charged with sexual battery on allegations that he groped a woman in  April. The Los Angeles city attorney filed two misdemeanor charges against the actor and is seeking an arrest warrant for him, The Times has confirmed. The charges, filed on June 27, include misdemeanor sexual battery and misdemeanor simple battery stemming […]

A new half-hour comedy from Fred Armisen and “Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels has been ordered to series at HBO. And it’s in Spanish. According to the logline, “Los Espookys” (working title) is set in a strange and dreamy version of present-day Mexico City and follows a group of friends turning their love for […]

President Donald Trump will likely be pleased to learn that longtime investigative reporter Brian Ross is leaving ABC News, along with his producer, Rhonda Schwartz. Trump publicly attacked Ross on Twitter in December, after the veteran reporter received a four-week suspension from the network for botching a story on the investigation into potential collusion between Trump’s […]

Speaking at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Saturday, Tim Robbins expressed outrage and shame at U.S. immigration policies and the Supreme Court’s new ruling allowing President Trump’s travel ban on some predominantly Muslim countries to stand. “That Supreme Court decision will be remembered as a disgrace,” he told journalists, building on comments at the fest opening that had galvanized […]

While his past few months have been embroiled in controversies over female representation and MusiCares, there’s no question that Neil Portnow will leave big shoes to fill when he steps down from his post at the helm of the Recording Academy and Grammy Awards in July of next year. During his tenure, Portnow has negotiated a $600 million agreement that will keep […]

A pair of smaller films — the intense U.S.-Mexico border drama Sicario: Day of the Soldado and basketball comedy Uncle Drew — are scoring more points than expected at the North American box office, even though they don’t stand a chance of stealing the crown from holdovers Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Incredibles 2, according to Friday returns. Sicario 2, from Sony […]

Michelle Wolf is all-in on her starring role in Republican National Committee’s The Left in 2018: Unhinged ad. “Yeah, like a screen door installed by a blind lesbian I AM unhinged. And you can unpack whatever you think that joke means,” Wolf told the RNC in the latest episode of The Break With Michelle Wolf, streaming Sunday, July 1 on Netflix. Two […]

A comedian best known for his stints on “The Howard Stern Show” says he was able to reach President Trump aboard Air Force One by impersonating New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez. “This is how easy it is to infiltrate the administration,” John Melendez, better known as “Stuttering John,” said on his podcast. The radio personality said […]

AMC has been hit with yet another lawsuit over its massively popular The Walking Dead franchise. But this time, it’s the spin-off Fear the Walking Dead engaging in the legal battle. Dead Ahead author Mel Smith has accused Fear the Walking Dead of copyright infringement after its season 2 arc tread too closely to his […]

Ed Sheeran is facing a $100 million lawsuit that alleges the singer-songwriter copied Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit “Let’s Get It On” on his 2014 song “Thinking Out Loud,” TMZ reported. The company Structured Asset Sales who owns one-third of the copyright to “Let’s Get It On” files the lawsuit. “According to the lawsuit, Sheeran’s song has […]

Spoilers below for the entirety of Luke Cage season two. When watching the second season of Marvel’s Luke Cage, my mind occasionally turned to thoughts about the spirited black actress Theresa Harris. While promoting the film Bargain With Bullets in 1937, Harris noted somberly, “I never had the chance to rise about the role of […]

Joseph “Joe” Walter Jackson, the patriarch and architect of the iconic Jackson entertainment family industry, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 89. News of his death was first reported by TMZ and soon confirmed by the family. “We are deeply saddened by Mr. Jackson’s passing and extend our heartfelt condolences to Mrs. Katherine Jackson […]

Wrestlers are coming to Fox. The network is giving up on airing dramas and will go with a two-hour Friday block of Smackdown Live, the WWE’s flagship program, instead. The new direction kicks off Oct. 4. as part of Fox Sports’ new five-year agreement with the WWE. Smackdown Live will air weekly for 52 weeks each year. “At […]

At the premiere of Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp” Monday night, “Deadpool” creator Rob Liefeld expressed regret that the world would never get to see Donald Glover’s scrapped “Deadpool” series come to life. FX originally ordered 10 episodes of the series from Donald and Stephen Glover, both of whom are behind “Atlanta,” but the network announced in March it was parting […]

Ample Entertainment has entered into a co-production partnership with actress, producer and director Courteney Cox and her production company Hopper Productions. Cox has a history with Ample, the prodco behind Nine Months, an upcoming documentary series on which Cox currently serves as an executive producer, for Facebook.   Through the partnership, Ample and Hopper will create, develop […]

During the BET Awards on June 24, Netflix released an incredibly powerful advertisement spotlighting 47 black actors and creators as part of the streaming service’s Strong Black Lead initiative. Titled “A Great Day in Hollywood,” the spot was directed by Lacey Duke and inspired by the legendary “A Great Day in Harlem” photo, which captured […]

Showtime has given an eight-episode order to a limited series about Roger Ailes, with Oscar winner Russell Crowe set to star as the controversial Fox News founder in his US television debut. The as-yet untitled series (fka Secure and Hold: The Last Days of Roger Ailes), a Blumhouse Television and Showtime co-production, is based on Gabriel Sherman’s bestselling book The Loudest Voice in the […]

Kanye West opened up about the time he said slavery seemed like a “choice” to him and explained why he thinks President Donald Trump and himself share “dragon energy.” “I said the idea of sitting in something for 400 years sounds like a choice to me. I never said it’s a choice. I never said slavery […]

Last week Star Wars fans heard the worrisome but unsurprising news that any future installments in the Star Wars Story spin-off banner from Lucasfilm were on hold. The news came in the wake of the less than satisfying box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was meant to kick off an entire […]

President Trump has found a new adversary in Jimmy Fallon. Fallon became Trump’s latest Twitter target after the late-night host expressed regret over a controversial Tonight Show interview he did with the now-president in September 2016. Back then, Trump was still widely considered a longshot to win the presidency. The President took to his favorite figurative megaphone, Twitter, on Sunday night […]

The hosts of the BET Awards preshow got a bit of a surprise on Sunday night. The live preshow, hosted by Terrence J and Cassie, was interrupted by cops during its final moments. As Terrence J and Cassie were doing interviews, security personnel appeared onscreen in front of the camera asking those involved in the […]