Alyssa Milano has launched a grassroots fundraising initiative ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Instead of endorsing a candidate in the upcoming election, she has chosen to encourage voting in swing states through the #2020Fund. The actress has partnered with the Movement Voter Project to raise money for local grassroots organizations in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, […]
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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, […]
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Hobbs & Shaw once again finished atop the box office, collecting $25.4 million during its second weekend. Variety reports that the Fast & Furious spinoff has now earned $108 million in North America and $224 million overseas. The film pulled in $60 million during its opening weekend—and whilepredictions had the movie grossing between $60 to $65 million, it was enough to […]
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One day after President Donald Trump launched an attack against “racist” Hollywood – a tirade that appeared to be inspired by the movie “The Hunt,” whose release Universal has just canceled – Hilary Swank, one of the film’s stars, told reporters at the Locarno Film Festival that it’s “important to celebrate our differences” and that the President’s divisive politics haven’t […]
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Taylor Swift will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) just three days after the release of her new album “Lover.” The show will broadcast live from Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Aug. 26 and will be her first televised performance following the album’s release. Swift, who earned 10 VMA nominations for her […]
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For the fourth time in history, the Primetime Emmy Awards are going host-less. Fox, which carries the ceremony this year, and the Television Academy have decided to not have a host on the show, which takes place a month and a half from now, on September 22. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier just confirmed the news during the network’s […]
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Veteran casting director David Rubin has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Rubin, whose 100-plus film credits include “The English Patient,” “Get Shorty,” and “Men in Black,” is the first casting director to assume the role. He replaces outgoing Academy president John Bailey. Also elected by the board of […]
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Nearly a year and a half after season two of FX’s Emmy-winning American Crime Story ended, the future of the Ryan Murphy-produced anthology is coming back into focus. On Tuesday, FX used its time at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour to announce that season three will focus on the saga of the Clinton presidency scandal […]
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Donald Glover’s “Atlanta” has been renewed for a fourth season at FX before production on its previously-ordered third season has even begun. The Season 4 renewal was announced during the cable channel’s day at the Television Critics Association press tour on Tuesday, when it was also revealed that production on both upcoming seasons — which […]
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E!’s flagship news program is getting a new home, in more ways than one. E! News, which has aired at 7 p.m. ET/PT from Los Angeles for most of its life, will transition to a morning show in 2020. It also will switch coasts and originate from NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center studios in New York. […]
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James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems is buying a majority stake in Tribeca Enterprises from The Madison Square Garden Company, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff and other investors, Lupa Sytems, Attention Capital and Tribeca Enterprises, announced on Monday. This partnership will bring together Murdoch, Attention’s CEO and co-founder Joe Marchese and Tribeca Enterprises’ Jane Rosenthal and […]
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During ABC’s TCA executive session Monday, the network’s entertainment president Karey Burke was asked to comment on the bombshell claims by former The Rookie co-star Afton Williamson, who said she walked away from the show after being sexually harassed and racially discriminated against. The leading studio behind the series, Entertainment One, which co-produces with ABC Studios, said Sunday afternoon that it has “initiated an […]
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Jimmy Kimmel had the daunting task of being the first to take the stage Monday and open ABC’s portion of the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour following a weekend that featured not one, but two mass shootings in the U.S. The late-night host and increasingly prolific producer was asked first to comment on the […]
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Not surprisingly at today’s CW panels at TCA, journalists in the audience took note of the fact that the new Batwoman series breaks ground by introducing TV’s first “out and proud” gay superhero, Kate Kane’s Batwoman, portrayed by Australian Ruby Rose, an out and proud lesbian in real life. Despite the CW’s touted commitment to diversity, however, the network can’t […]
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D.A. Pennebaker, the documentary filmmaker who helped pioneer cinema verité in films like the 1967 Bob Dylan film “Don’t Look Back” and 1993’s “The War Room,” died Thursday at his home at age 94, Pennebaker’s son and executive producer and distributor for nearly all Pennebaker Hegedus films, Frazer Pennebaker, told TheWrap. The celebrated cinematographer and […]
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Howard Lapides, a producer and talent manager who repped and worked with such clients as Dr. Drew Pinsky, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla and Carson Daly, died Thursday at his home in Encino, Calif., after a battle with colon cancer, a publicist announced. He was 68. As CEO of Lapides Entertainment, he also represented Tom Green, […]
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Barbra Streisand walked an artistic tightrope at Madison Square Garden Saturday night for her first Manhattan show in 13 years. The outspoken Democrat had plenty she wanted to say about President Donald Trump and his administration, especially clear after warm introductions of President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the crowd, […]
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The CW’s executive vice president of communications, Paul Hewitt, took a moment to pause and reflect on the mass shooting that took place early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio, before beginning the network’s day of panels at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour Sunday. “Welcome everyone, thank you for joining us. You know, I’m […]
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“The 100” is the latest long-running CW series to reach the end of its run. Series creator Jason Rothenberg announced Sunday that the show’s previously announced seventh season will be its last. “With #The100 Season 6 finale just days away, I have some bittersweet news to share: Season 7 will be our last,” Rothernberg tweeted. “We […]
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Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw sped to the top of the North American box office chart with $60.8 million from 4,253 theaters, while opening to a far more muscular $120 million overseas for a worldwide launch of $180.8 million. The Fast & Furious spinoff, teaming Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, came in on the modest end of expectations domestically. While […]
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The Rookie series regular Afton Williamson, who played John Nolan’s (Nathan Fillion) training officer Talia Bishop, will not be returning for Season 2. In an Instagram postpublished early Sunday, Williamson alleges that she quit the ABC series because of systematic racism/racially charged comments, bullying, and sexual harassment, which remained largely ignored by the producers of the show until […]
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Nancy O’Dell is leaving her post at “Entertainment Tonight” after nine years of co-hosting the show. “Tonight, I’m excited to tell you about the start of a new chapter in my life,” O’Dell said on Friday night’s broadcast. “It means leaving this position, but it does not mean I am leaving the genre. I’ll be […]
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Chuck Lorre donned an “IMAG” hat — the logo standing for “Immigrants Make America Great” — during a press conference for his upcoming CBS sitcom “Bob Hearts Abishola” Thursday. He passed out a handful of the hats, which are yellow to contrast with President Trump’s trademark red “MAGA” hat, to TV critics after the panel […]
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Under a barrage of criticism at the Television Critics Assn. press tour on Thursday, CBSEntertainment executives defended the network’s decision to keep “Bull” on the airdespite the harassment allegations against star Michael Weatherly, and addressed concerns about racial insensitivity on the set of “Big Brother.” CBS network head Kelly Kahl told the reporters and critics in the audience that Weatherly […]
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Adam McKay’s HBO pilot about the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers has found its first castmember. Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty, HBO’s upcoming Catherine the Great) will play NBA legend Jerry West in Showtime, which McKay (Succession, Vice) is directing and executive producing. The actor will play NBA legend Jerry West in the drama about the team in the […]
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