CAA on Monday filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Writers Guild of America, accusing the guild of violating federal law by exceeding the scope of its authority to regulate agents. The move arrives just days after WME and UTA filed similar lawsuits against the guild — and in the wake of an antitrust cease-and-desist letter from the WGA to the Association […]
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This is the greatest … proposal ever? Hugh Jackman helped an audience member pop the question to his girlfriend during the entertainer’s “The Man. The Music. The Show” tour stop in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this summer. In a newly circulating video of the June 22 concert, Jackman, 50, tells the crowd at the Xcel Energy […]
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Mark Wahlberg is in negotiations to star in Infinite, an action thriller that Antoine Fuqua is directing for Paramount. The actor is stepping into the shoes previously worn by Chris Evans, who dropped out of the project in recent weeks. Sources say that the Avengers: Endgamestar, who boarded the project in February, ran into scheduling issues with […]
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Taylor Swift ripped into talent manager Scooter Braun Sunday, saying his acquisition of Big Machine Records — and, therefore, the rights to her music catalog up to 2017’s “Reputation” — left her “sad and grossed out.” “I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could […]
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Laurie Luhn, the former Fox News staffer who made sexual abuse allegations against Roger Ailes, has dropped a $750 million lawsuit against Showtime over the forthcoming miniseries “Loudest Voice.” Luhn filed suit in January, accusing Showtime, Blumhouse and journalist Gabriel Sherman of violating her right to privacy. The suit alleged that Sherman was “cashing in” on her history of psychosexual torture […]
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Henry Ian Cusick has been cast as a series regular on Season 4 of CBS series “MacGyver.” The “Lost” star is set to play Russ in a leading role opposite Lucas Till’s MacGyver. Per CBS’ character description, Russ is a handsome, quick-witted, Oxford-educated ex-Military man. A master manipulator and salesman and skilled in propaganda and […]
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Melissa McCarthy may be ready to help some poor unfortunate souls in Disney’s live-action version of “The Little Mermaid.” Sources tell Variety that while the deal is not yet completed, McCarthy is in early talks to play the sea witch Ursula in the live-action adaptation of “The Little Mermaid.” As Disney preps its live-action version of the undersea […]
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Dale, Pop TV, dale! Four months after Netflix canceled One Day at a Time, Vulture has learned the sitcom is getting a new life on the CBS Corporation–owned cable network best known as the American home of Schitt’s Creek. Pop has green-lit season four of the Sony Pictures TV–produced comedy, ordering 13 episodes for a 2020 premiere in what appears to […]
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Michael, Jim, Pam and the rest of the Dunder-Mifflin gang are on the move and they aren’t the only popular television characters expected to decamp from Netflix for new streaming services over the next few years. NBCUniversal’s June 25 announcement that it is pulling The Office from Netflix when that deal ends at the start of 2021 is the […]
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Steve Dunleavy, the hard-hitting, hard-drinking journalist who helped define The New York Post as a crime reporter, editor and premier columnist, died Monday at his home on Long Island. He was 81. The cause was unknown. “Steve Dunleavy was one of the greatest reporters of all time,” said Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Post. “Whether […]
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A TV adaptation of “The Lincoln Lawyer” from David E. Kelley has been given a series production commitment at CBS, TheWrap has learned. Based on Michael Connelly’s bestselling series of novels, “The Lincoln Lawyer” centers on Mickey Haller, who is described as “an iconoclastic idealist, who runs his law practice out of the back of […]
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On what would have been his 63rd birthday, people across the food world and beyond are coming together to remember author and TV host Anthony Bourdain’s life on Bourdain Day, created in memory of the late chef by his friends, chefs Eric Ripert and José Andrés. So far, people like CNN host Christiane Amanpour, Top Chef host Padma […]
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For the first time in its history, Warner Bros. will have a female CEO. John Stankey, CEO of parent company WarnerMedia, has found his replacement for ousted Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara, tapping BBC executive Ann Sarnoff for the role. She will be based in Los Angeles and begin the job later this summer. The […]
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WARNING: This post contains video that may upset or offend. The endless drip of information from Jussie Smollett’s unsealed criminal case file took a harsh turn Monday with new video dropped by the Chicago Police department. Among the nearly 70 hours of footage, one particular jarring video stands out of the scene inside’s the Empire star’s upscale Windy […]
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Roseanne Barr and Andrew Dice Clay announced a new comedy tour Sunday called “Mr. And Mrs. America.” In preparation for the show, Clay told Fox News that the pair was inspired by the current national obsession with political discourse in addition to the alleged policing of comedians’ language. “She’s a comic because she’s wacky. I’ve known her since we […]
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Disney’s domination over the box office only seemed to strengthen this weekend as “Toy Story 4” easily topped box office charts. The fourth entry in Pixar’s animated series collected $118 million in ticket sales when it debuted in 4,575 North American theaters. While that haul is significantly below expectations – early estimates initially anticipated a […]
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NBC’s Today show on Thursday celebrated 25 years of broadcasting from Studio 1A off New York’s Rockefeller Plaza with a video montage featuring memorable moments from the popular morning program’s history. The five-and-a-half-minute-long clip highlighted major news stories throughout the years, on-set bloopers and beloved hosts, such as Hoda Kotb, Kathie Lee Gifford, Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly and Craig […]
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CBS Entertainment is pledging to improve disability inclusion in Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The company — which includes the network, CBS Television Studios and streamer CBS All Access — has become the first in the industry to respond to a request from the disability advocacy organization Ruderman Family Foundation: to commit to auditioning actors […]
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Two of TV’s busiest comedians, D’Arcy Carden and Ken Jeong, have been tapped by the Television Academy to announce this year’s Emmy nominations. Carden, whose credits include both NBC’s “The Good Place” and HBO’s “Barry,” and Jeong, seen on Fox’s “The Masked Singer” and his Netflix special “Ken Jeong: You Complete Me, Ho,” will present the nominations on […]
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Actor John Cusack has apologized for sharing a now deleted anti-Semitic image on his Twitter account. Cusack on Monday retweeted a cartoon image of a hand emblazoned with the Star of David pushing down on a group of people accompanied by a quote saying, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you […]
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Married duo J. J. Abrams and Katie McGrath run Bad Robot as co-CEOs. The sweepstakes to land a massive overall deal with Bad Robot, the famed production company run by J.J. Abrams and his wife and co-CEO Katie McGrath, is nearing the finish line. Following a months-long courting process that included multiple suitors, WarnerMedia is […]
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The CW has released fall premiere dates for the new shows “Batwoman” and “Nancy Drew,” as well as season premiere dates for returning shows like “Riverdale,” “Supergirl,” “All American,” “The Flash,” “Black Lightning,” “Legacies,” “Charmed,” “Dynasty,” “Arrow” and “Supernatural.” The premiere dates for midseason series like the new “Riverdale” spinoff “Katy Keene,” and returning series […]
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Model, clothing designer, heiress and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt died at age 95, her son Anderson Cooper revealed on Monday. He told Fox News in a statement: “Gloria Vanderbilt was an extraordinary woman, who loved life, and lived it on her own terms. She was a painter, a writer, and designer but also a remarkable mother, wife, and friend. She was 95 […]
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Veteran television producer Dick Wolf, best known for creating the “Law & Order” franchise, is eyeing what he believes will be the first-ever cross-network crossover. The crossover would be between his CBS freshman procedural “FBI” or its in-the-works spinoff “FBI: Most Wanted” and one of his NBC shows, such as “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” or “Chicago P.D.” The […]
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Tiffany Haddish canceled an upcoming standup comedy show in Atlanta over Georgia‘s controversial “heartbeat” abortion law. “After much deliberation, I am postponing my upcoming show in Atlanta,” Haddish, 39, said in a statement to ticketholders Saturday, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I love the state of Georgia, but I need to stand with women and until they withdraw Measure HB481, I cannot in good faith […]
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