Jane Fonda has ruined me. I never want to interview anyone under the age of 80 again. Specifically, I never want to interview anyone who isn’t 80, and who doesn’t phone me for a catch-up call from a limo in Cannes, in which they are being driven to the airport, having gone to a deeply glamorous […]
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Mario Batali’s three Las Vegas Strip restaurants will shut down July 27, officials said Friday, as the celebrity chef faces sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women. Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group partner Joe Bastianich sent a letter to nearly 300 workers about the closures of Carnevino Italian Steakhouse, B&B Ristorante and Otto Enoteca e Pizzeria at The […]
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Estimates for “Solo: A Star Wars Story” are continuing to fly low. Disney and Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars” prequel is now looking to make $101 million in 4,381 North American theaters during its four-day holiday weekend debut. The Han Solo origin film’s three-day estimate currently hovers around $83 million. Internationally, it opened with a disappointing $65 million for a worldwide […]
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“The Shonda deal was a shot across the bow, and the Ryan Murphy deal was a punch in the face.” That’s one business affairs executive’s assessment of the way Netflix dramatically disrupted the overall deals market with back-to-back nine-figure pacts for two of TV’s top creators. Now traditional studios are left scrambling — looking at […]
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Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities on Friday following a probe into allegations of sexual misconduct by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and the NYPD, the New York Times and New York Daily News have reported. Benjamin Brafman, an attorney for Weinstein, declined to comment on the repots. The news comes months after an Oct. 5 New York […]
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After “The Fonz,” I didn’t act for about eight years. People said, “Oh, my God, we love him! He is such a good actor … but, you know, he’s The Fonz.” When I did a small role in Scream, in 1996, they wouldn’t give me a credit. The production company felt that I would knock the […]
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Morgan Freeman has been accused of sexual harassment by eight women in a new exposé published by CNN. The women include production assistants and workers who interacted with Freeman on movie sets and entertainment journalists, including CNN’s own reporter Chloe Melas and a journalist from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. CNN’s report begins with an accusation from a production […]
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Following a blistering reaction on social media, Jason Bateman, one of the stars of “Arrested Development,” apologized on Thursday after an interview with The New York Times during which he defended Jeffrey Tambor, a co-star, and his on-set behavior toward another co-star, Jessica Walter. Critics accused Mr. Bateman of excusing Mr. Tambor’s verbal harassment at the expense […]
Read moreMaking a movie requires a lot of organization and planning but sometimes all of that goes out the window and that’s how hilarious movie bloopers are born! The comedic stars on this list are guilty of making everyone around them (and sometimes even themselves) totally break character and start chuckling. Before we get started, can […]
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ABC News’ Good Morning America, will expand to three hours. The new third hour will air at 1 PM. EDT, noon CDT/PDT. The extra hour will replace ABC’s daytime food-themed program The Chew which, after seven seasons, 1454 episodes, multiple Emmy nominations and two Emmy Awards, will cease production at the end of this season but will continue to air as […]
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Moses Farrow, the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, defends his father — and claims his mother was abusive towards him and his siblings, a charge she previously denied — in a detailed new personal essay, titled “A Son Speaks Out,” posted online Wednesday. Moses, who was adopted from South Korea as a toddler by Mia and then […]
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Annihilation (2018) movie explained! What does the ending of Annihilation mean? What is the Shimmer, and what happened in the lighthouse scene? What is the film’s alternate ending, and how does the story differ from the book? Erik Voss breaks down the final sequence of Annihilation and explains the deeper meaning of the movie’s extended […]
Read moreDeadpool 2 is finally here, and it left fans with more than just a stitch in their sides – it also left them with a lot of questions. Sure, continuity and logic aren’t exactly important in a Deadpool movie, but there are still some questions we’d love to have answered even if those answers have […]
Read moreMovies are the most common pastime and form of entertainment. They take an incredible amount of time to make. From story developing, to casting talent and crew, to filming, and creating magic, and post production. It is all a work of art. But making audiences believe the world, especially the characters are real is a […]
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Around this time 21 years ago, “Roseanne,” the groundbreaking sitcom about the blue-collar Conner family, came to an end after a successful 10-year run. The notion that it’d be pulled out of retirement more than two decades later and become the success story of the 2017-18 television season would have likely elicited a Roseanne-like cackle from the […]
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Bill Gold, one of Hollywood’s best-known creators of film posters, has died aged 97. The veteran illustrator had a hand in more than 2,000 posters, including those for Casablanca, Dial M for Murder, and Dirty Harry. Mr Gold began work at the film production company Warner Brothers in the 1940s. The endangered art of the […]
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Charlize Theron and director Jay Roach are teaming to tell the tale of disgraced Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. The project is being put together by Annapurna, which is already making a Dick Cheney biopic with helmer Adam McKay, and comes armed with a script by Charles Randolph, who won an Oscar for co-writing The Big Short. Annapurna […]
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Voters crowned singer-songwriter Maddie Poppe the newest winner of “American Idol” on Monday night, bringing the show’s first season on ABC to a close. Part two of the finale included performances some top-shelf artists. The night kicked off with judge Lionel Richie joined by the top ten Idols, performing his song “All Night Long,” followed by acts […]
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Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to play the villainous Mysterio in Sony Pictures’ sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming. Talks are underway right now for Gyllenhaal to join the long line of Spidey villains. Gyllenhaal is booked to star this fall in The American, the BRON-financed and Cary Fukunaga-directed drama about the life of iconic composer Leonard Bernstein, which Gyllenhaal is starring […]
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Former President Barack Obama formally announced on Monday a multiyear production deal with Netflix in which he and the former first lady, Michelle Obama, will produce television shows and films for the streaming service. The deal will give Mr. Obama an international television platform during his post-presidency, allowing him to reach millions of people in […]
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The return of Arrested Development on Netflix isn’t without a fair share of drama. Not only are members of the cast upset about the recut version of season 4 and payment they may be owed due to its expanded episode count, but there is also the matter of Jeffrey Tambor. The actor is still in the middle of the harassment controversy that led […]
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Atrium TV, the drama-commissioning club for pay-TV platforms and telcos, has set out a new slate that includes shows from Michael Douglas, Ava DuVernay, David Simon, and the producers of “Sherlock.” “Quasimodo,” which was shown to Atrium members last October, will also move forward, joining the already-announced moon-landing project “One Giant Leap” from veteran producer Mike Medavoy. Atrium […]
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Superheroes continued to dominate the box office over the weekend as Ryan Reynolds and Fox’s Deadpool 2 bowed to $125 million domestically and $301 million globally after scoring the biggest foreign debut ever for an R-rated title. After falling off more than expected on Saturday, the sequel couldn’t match the North American opening of the first Deadpool, which […]
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