Established in 1997 to “celebrate Hollywood and launch the awards season,” what the Hollywood Film Awards lacks in prestige it certainly makes up for in star wattage: Shia LaBeouf, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron and Antonio Banderas all are confirmed to collect 2019 prizes, which are announced ahead of time. And bucking the latest awards show trend, the […]
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“Terminator: Dark Fate” shot past box office competition but fell significantly short of expectations as Paramount, Skydance Media and Disney’s sci-fi sequel debuted to $29 million in North America. The sixth installment in the “Terminator” franchise landed in first place on domestic box office charts, but the results are disappointing given the film’s $185 million […]
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ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today were hopelessly devoted to Halloween on Thursday, with hosts on both of the rival morning shows dressed up as different versions of Olivia Newton-John. GMA‘s Ginger Zee provided a roller-skating take on the singer on the ABC morning show while a few blocks away Today‘s Savannah Guthrie took to Rockefeller Plaza […]
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Aaron Sorkin won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for scripting David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” a scathing behind-the-scenes look at Mark Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook. Nine years later, Sorkin has taken to The New York Times to publish an open letter slamming Zuckerburg and Facebook for allowing political candidates to post false ads. Zuckerberg has long cited the […]
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No, Joe won’t be going home with $300 million. That’s the amount of damages that Joe Arpaio, the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, demanded in a defamation suit against CNN, Rolling Stone and Huffington Post for getting the details of his legal troubles wrong. But on Thursday, a D.C. federal judge granted the motion to dismiss, ruling that Arpaio […]
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Ten years after a former Late Night With David Letterman writer wrote a story excoriating the host for his treatment of women on the show, David Letterman has apologized to the writer and other women who worked for him. In a follow-up piece in Vanity Fair to her viral 2009 story “Letterman and Me,” comedy writer Nell Scovell describes a recent meeting between […]
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Adam McKay is developing a limited series about Jeffrey Epstein at HBO, Variety has learned. The untitled series is based on Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown’s upcoming book about Epstein. Brown’s reporting was a driving force behind the multimillionaire financier’s arrest this past July on sex trafficking charges. McKay will executive produce along with Brown and his producing partner, […]
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The world of “Game of Thrones” will live on at HBO. A prequel series based on the “Game of Thrones” companion book “Fire & Blood” has been ordered straight-to-series at the premium cabler. The series will be titled “House of the Dragon.” Set 300 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” the series tells […]
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John Witherspoon, actor-comedian who for decades made audiences laugh in television shows and films, including the hit Friday franchise, died suddenly at his home today. He was 77. “It is with deepest sorrow that we can confirm our beloved husband and father, John Witherspoon, one of the hardest working men in show business, died today at his […]
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Nearly 60% of the writing staff behind FX Networks’ series — a programming slate that includes “Pose,” “American Horror Story” and “Better Things” — are female or people of color, said FX Networks and FX productions chairman John Landgraf at the USC Gould School of Law-Beverly Hills Bar Association 2019 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business. That follows the network’s […]
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Put on a happy face: In its fourth weekend in theaters, Warner Bros.’ “Joker” returned to the top of domestic box office charts, narrowly defeating Disney’s “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.” The two villains had been in a close race for first place, but Sunday estimates show “Joker” will walk away victorious with $18.9 million in […]
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Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley movie at Warner Bros. has cast Australian actress Olivia DeJonge in the role of his wife Priscilla Presley. Priscilla Ann Presley nee Wagner, was born in Brooklyn, NY. She was married to Presley from 1967 to 1973 and was the chairwoman of Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), the company that turned the King of Rock […]
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When Rachel Maddow called out her own bosses Friday over their handling of Ronan Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein reporting, she opened a new chapter in a two-year saga that has buffeted NBC News since Farrow took his Weinstein reporting to The New Yorker, where he would go on to share a Pulitzer Prize. Privately, Maddow earned cheers from […]
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A feature documentary about the late television star and chef Anthony Bourdain is in the works from Focus Features, CNN Films and HBO Max, to be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville. The director, who won the Academy Award for 20 Feet from Stardom and was also behind last year’s doc breakout Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, will also […]
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Jane Fonda was arrested (again) on Friday during an ongoing climate change protest in Washington D.C., and this time was joined by Ted Danson. “Today, the United States Capitol Police arrested 32 individuals for unlawfully demonstrating in the intersection of East Capitol and First Streets,” Capitol Police communications director Eva Malecki said in a statement to Variety. She […]
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Kelly Ripa is not here for the “fake outrage” over a joke she made about her son’s living situation. Earlier this week, she told Jimmy Kimmel Live! that her eldest child, Michael Consuelos, a senior at New York University, is living on his own for the first time in a Brooklyn apartment. While he likes the “freedom” of having […]
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Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are feeling the heat after being hit with additional bribery charges for their alleged role in the nationwide college admissions scandal, a report said Wednesday. “This stress is about to break them,” a source close to the couple told People. “They feel like this is David versus Goliath. How do you go […]
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Actress Alexis Bledel has been bookish and sweet on “Gilmore Girls” and “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” But the actress herself is now officially dangerous. Cybersecurity firm McAfee on Monday crowned Bledel the most dangerous celebrity on the internet in 2019. No other celebrity was more likely to land users on websites that carry viruses […]
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NBCUniversal renewed NBC News President Noah Oppenheim’s contract in recent months as the company prepared for bombshell allegations made in former contributor Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch & Kill. A source close to the situation confirmed to Deadline that Oppenheim inked a new multi-year contract with the Comcast-owned network. While corporate winds can blow in many directions, the new deal […]
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Lori Loughlin’s daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli, are no longer enrolled at the University of Southern California. The university registrar said in a statement Monday that the sisters aren’t enrolled at the school, but couldn’t provide additional information, citing student privacy laws. Prosecutors have said their parents, “Fuller House” star Loughlin, 55, and her fashion-designer hubby, Mossimo Giannulli, forked […]
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Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills Productions have joined the SAG Awards producing team. The guild announced this morning that Kathy Connell will once again serve as the show’s producer along with Hayes and Milliner in partnership with Avalon Harbor. “Attending the SAG Awards has always been a pleasure and a privilege for me,” Hayes said in statement. […]
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Monica Lewinsky has teamed with “Catfish” co-host and producer Max Joseph to produce “15 Minutes of Shame,” a documentary for HBO Max about the culture of public shaming. “15 Minutes of Shame” is described as a look at people from around the world who have been caught up in a situation that involved public criticism and humiliation. Lewinsky […]
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Dennis Quaid is officially engaged. The 65-year-old actor proposed to girlfriend Laura Savoie, 26, after several months of dating, the star confirmed to Extra over the weekend. “I had the ring in my pocket,” gushed Quaid to the outlet. “It has been kind of a month-and-a-half plan — I wanted it to be private.” The “Parent Trap” actor revealed […]
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An attorney for President Donald Trump has sent a letter to CNN that threatens to sue the AT&T-owned cable-news network for violating the Lanham Act and making misrepresentations to the public and advertisers about its content, but the network says the missive isn’t worth discussing. “This is nothing more than a desperate PR stunt and doesn’t merit a response, CNN said in […]
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Not even an Oscar-winning director and one of the world’s most popular actors could save Gemini Man from getting bumped off at the box office. Ang Lee’s VFX-heavy film, starring Will Smith, faces losses of $75 million or more after opening to $20.5 million domestically over the Oct. 11-13 frame and finishing Sunday with an anemic worldwide […]
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