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 […]
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Beanie Feldstein, Blake Jenner and Ben Platt will star in an adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along. Richard Linklater will be directing the project, which is being backed by Blumhouse, and will shoot over a 20-year span. The director shot his Oscar-winning Boyhood over 12 years. The much-beloved musical, based on the 1934 play of […]
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Ah, the August doldrums. When people go outside, relax, hit the beach and… Just kidding, there was still a ton of new TV on this month, including premieres, continuing series, ending series, and more. And with the siren call of the beach mixing with the equally loud call of new television series, it might have […]
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Lori Loughlin and her famous designer husband Mossimo Giannulli appeared in court Wednesday to face the judge in the college bribery scandal, but the most interesting thing from the hearing was Mossimo signing his famous name to the court order. As you know, Mossimo is one of the world’s top clothing designers in the surf […]
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Alex Trebek is back at work taping the new season of “Jeopardy!,” five months after being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. In a new video for “Jeopardy!” viewers, Trebek said his chemotherapy treatments are “over” and he’s “on the mend.” A spokeswoman for the show confirmed that production of season 36 is now underway. The new episodes […]
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NBC’s Saturday Night Live will feature one fewer familiar face when it returns for its 45th season. Leslie Jones will not be returning to the Lorne Michaels-produced sketch comedy show when it resumes in September. Sources say Jones has opted to depart the veteran series and will instead focus on her upcoming feature film projects and Netflix comedy […]
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The MTV Video Music Awards has officially handed out its 2019 Moon Man awards. Taylor Swift took home two trophies for Video of the Year and Video for Good, with her “You Need to Calm Down” music video. Billie Eilish was also a big winner, nabbing the coveted Best New Artist award, edging out fellow […]
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Earth Alliance, an environmental initiative backed by Leonardo DiCaprio, has committed $5 million toward the preservation of the Amazon rain forest following an alarming surge in wildfires. After launching Sunday, the organization’s emergency Amazon Forest Fund is working to support local partners and indigenous communities in their efforts to protect the sensitive habitats within the Amazon. […]
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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 […]
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Fending off sequelitis, the testosterone-laced Angel Has Fallen opened to a better-than-expected $21.3 million at the North American box office to easily win the penultimate weekend of summer. Heading into the weekend, it was eyeing a launch in the mid-teen millions. Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman are joined by Nick Nolte in the third installment of Millennium’s […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Tom Bergeron, the longtime host of “Dancing With the Stars,” was disappointed in this season’s casting. He took to social media on Wednesday to post a lengthy statement explaining his feelings about which “celebrities” will be featured on Season 28 of the hit reality competition series, in particular referring to how Sean Spicer, President Donald Trump’s former White […]
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Very quietly this morning, Lionsgate dropped the trailer and revealed the title for their Jay Roach-directed, Charles Randolph scripted movie about the women who take on Fox News Channel boss Roger Ailes: Bombshell. While we don’t get a glance at John Lithgow’s Roger Ailes in the current trailer, we see Margot Robbie’s Kayla Pospisil (a fictitious news producer) getting on […]
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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 […]
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Larry King has filed for divorce. The 85-year-old radio personality filed paperwork in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday to end his 22-year marriage to actress Shawn King, his seventh wife. King’s attorney, Michael Trope, confirmed the news to USA TODAY. The couple tied the knot in a hospital room in 1997, just three days before King had […]
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The relationship between Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx has been percolating below the surface of public knowledge for years, and now that it finally appears to be confirmed, it’s all over. After six years of relationship speculation, E! News and PageSix have both confirmed with sources that Holmes and Foxx separated back in May. A source from the music industry also told Peoplethat the […]
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A judge ruled in favor of “Criminal Minds” star A.J. Cook on Monday is her dispute with her former attorneys, who said they were entitled to 5 percent of her payments from the hit CBS drama. Cook argued that attorney Neil Meyer and his firm, Meyer & Downs, raised their fee from 2.5 percent per episode of […]
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Steven Soderbergh’s next film, a comedy starring Meryl Streep called “Let Them All Talk,” is heading to HBO Max, HBO announced Monday. Streep stars in the film alongside Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan, and production on the movie kicked off last week in New York and will continue onboard the Queen […]
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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 & […]
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Peter Fonda, who broke out from under the legendary Fonda family name with Easy Rider, has died. He was 79. Fonda, the son of acting legend Henry Fonda, the younger brother of Jane Fonda and the father of Bridget Fonda, died Friday morning at his home in Los Angeles, according to his rep. The cause of death […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“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 […]
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Drew Barrymore is eyeing a move into the daytime talk show arena. The actress, who recently wrapped three seasons of the Netflix comedy “Santa Clarita Diet,” is shooting a pilot this week in New York for CBS Television Distribution. Details of the hourlong show are still sketchy. Barrymore is among the executive producers of the pilot, likely […]
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