Kaley Cuoco’s feature dance card continues to expand in the wake of the success of her HBO Max series The Flight Attendant with Studiocanal and The Picture Company’s stylish action thriller Role Play, penned by Seth Owen. Cuoco is in negotiations to star and produce Role Play, which follows a young married couple whose life turns upside down after secrets are revealed about about […]
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National Basketball Association broadcasting legend Marv Albert signed off for the final time today, his last words a simple “good night” to his legion of fans. Albert, whose 55-year-career was punctuated by his trademark “Yes!” call when someone made a crucial jump shot, finished his career with TNT, as the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Atlanta Hawks in Game […]
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In a career that spans more than seven decades, Eva Marie Saint has won an Oscar, played Superman’s mom, and acted alongside screen legends such as Paul Newman, Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando. A versatile performer, she appeared in comedies (“The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”), historical epics (“Raintree County”), social dramas (“On the Waterfront”), […]
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More than 23 years after “Seinfeld” left the airwaves, a soundtrack album featuring its immortal theme (and 40 more minutes of classic “Seinfeld” music) is about to be released. WaterTower Music will release the 33-track album on Friday, July 2, on all digital platforms. It will be the first time that any of the music […]
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ABC’s daytime panel show The View is losing its lone conservative panelist. Meghan McCain, the daughter of former Sen. John McCain and the show’s Republican co-host, said Thursday that she will be leaving the program later this month. Speaking at the top of Thursday’s show, McCain said she wanted to stay in Washington D.C., where she lives […]
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James Franco has signed off on paying $2,235,000 to settle an Oct. 2019 lawsuit alleging he and his associates coerced students into performing explicit sex scenes on camera. The proposed figure was revealed in court filings that were made public on Wednesday, and a Los Angeles judge will need to approve it. In 2019, Sarah Tither-Kaplan […]
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Hollywood reacted Wednesday to the shock news that Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction has been overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Court decided that a “non-prosecution agreement” the actor struck with a previous prosecutor should have prevented him from being charged in a case that stemmed from a 2004 encounter with accuser Andrea Constand. The decision paved […]
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The Yale Drama School will now go tuition-free after the school received $150 million donation from billionaire David Geffen and the David Geffen Foundation. Beginning in August with the 2021-2022 academic term, students accepted to the prestigious program will attend without paying tuition — which Yale has posted currently costs $32,800. In addition, the school will be […]
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Sarah Wayne Callies is leading the charge on a new scripted podcast series that also stars David Harbour and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Callies has written, directed and will star in post-apocalyptic series Aftershock, which she first teased last summer at the virtual TCA press tour. The Walking Dead star co-created the series with her Nomadic Engine partners, Patrick […]
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Dwayne Johnson will star in “Red One” for Amazon Studios, the streaming service announced Monday. The film will reunite Johnson with “Fast and Furious” scribe Chris Morgan — the pair recently collaborated on the hit spinoff “Hobbs & Shaw.” The deal for the film treatment, which comes after a highly competitive bidding situation, is another sign that Amazon is […]
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Jazmine Sullivan took home Album of the Year for “Heaux Tales” at Sunday night’s 2021 BET Awards, which were hosted by actress Taraji P. Henson. Standout names in Black entertainment were in attendance at the awards, which took place Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles — including nominees Issa Rae, Andra Day and Viola Davis. Day took […]
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John Langley, the creator of the long-running TV show Cops, has died. Langley died Saturday of an apparent heart attack in Baja, Mexico while competing in the Coast to Coast Ensenada-San Felipe 250 off road race, a family rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 78. Langley is best known for creating the then-Fox series Cops, which premiered on […]
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It’s a bad ending for NBC’s Good Girls. The beloved but little-watched-on-linear drama series has been canceled after four seasons on NBC. Efforts to move the series to Netflix, which serves as its streaming home after a global rights deal for the series — have imploded, and the series will not make the move to the streaming giant […]
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Conan O’Brien’s late-night run has come to an end after nearly three decades. The longest-tenured host in late night officially ended his nightly TBS show Conan Thursday after a 28-year run. During his final opening monologue, O’Brien was quick to admit that it was hard to grasp that the end of the show had arrived. “It’s hard to believe, it’s hard to […]
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Britney Spears is angry, depressed and has been lying to her fans about being okay. In a fiery speech she told the judge overseeing her longstanding conservatorship, “It’s my wish and my dream for this to end.” News that Spears would appear virtually in court as part of her much-discussed conservatorship has sparked even more interest […]
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Scarlett Johansson is staying on the Disney ride. The actor, who has Disney and Marvel’s Black Widow due out in two weeks, is attached to produce Tower of Terror, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley is penning the script for the project based on the classic Disney theme park ride. Plot details are being kept under wraps, […]
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Jerry Seinfeld has made it clear he would not inject his comic genius into another sitcom, after generating arguably the best one ever. So he is turning to another outlet — the movie screen — and his relationship with Netflix has just won the streamer a plum project for its film slate. Seinfeld will star in, direct and […]
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Somebody Feed Phil is going back out to eat. Netflix has handed out a fifth season renewal for the culinary travelogue hosted and exec produced by Phil Rosenthal. Season five will consist of 10 episodes, the show’s biggest order yet. Seasons one and two features six episodes, while three and four consisted of five apiece. Season four last […]
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Rachel Zegler has been cast as Snow White in Disney’s upcoming remake of the classic fairytale. Zegler, who beat out many for the role, is poised for a major breakout. She is making her feature film debut as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” which bows later in 2021, and will also appear in the superhero sequel to […]
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Jimmy Kimmel is the latest late-night host to bring back a live studio audience. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! will welcome back a half capacity crowd at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. It comes after California reopened further last week. Guests for this evening’s show will include Sarah Paulson, Frank Grillo and musical guest Lucy Dacus. Audience members […]
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CBS’ decision to keep the specifics of NCIS star Mark Harmon‘s alleged “limited” Season 19 commitment under wraps is beginning to make sense. Multiple sources confirm to TVLine exclusively that Harmon is slated to appear in a relatively small number of episodes next season. One insider close to the CBS procedural reveals of Harmon’s Season 19 episode count: […]
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What a difference two years and a global pandemic make. Steven Spielberg, who a couple of years ago was quoted — his camp maintains he never said it or anything he might have said was severely taken out of context — drawing a clear line between theatrically released films and streamer films, has berthed his Amblin Partners into […]
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Fox is going back to the drawing board. Jerry O’Connell is set to host Pictionary, a new game show based on the popular Mattel game that will get a four-week tryout on select Fox stations next month. The broadcast version of Pictionary will follow the rules of at-home play of the game launched in 1985. Two teams of three will consist […]
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 54-person board of governors will look considerably different when it next meets in July, the result of this year’s Academy board elections that took place over the past month. For the first time in the organization’s 94-year history, the majority of the board will be female (that figured […]
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Tribeca Festival, the first in-person film festival in the U.S. since the pandemic, closed out its 20th edition with a tribute to a small town in the midwest. Filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, the Oscar winners behind “American Factory,” took the stage at New York’s iconic Radio City Music Hall to introduce their new documentary to a […]
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