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California’s latest wildfire is impacting Hollywood productions. The Saddleridge fire, which broke out in Sylmar near the 210 freeway Thursday night, has caused ABC’s Bless This Mess, NBC’s Perfect Harmony and Freeform’s Good Trouble to shut down production Friday (Oct. 11). Party of Five, SWAT, LA’s Finest and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels also called off filming. The fire has already burned more than 4,700 acres and destroyed […]

A familiar face will be landing in Roswell when The CW’s “Roswell, New Mexico” returns for its second season next year. Jason Behr, who starred as Max Evans on the original “Roswell” series in 1999, has joined the cast of the midseason drama in an undisclosed recurring role. Behr will appear in multiple episodes of […]

James Franco and two of his associates are facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that the actor’s Studio 4 acting and filmmaking school was actually a setup to provide them with a stream of young, impressionable women for sexual and financial exploitation. The suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court and reviewed by The Times, […]

Bernie Sanders’ campaign says the Democratic presidential candidate has had a heart procedure for a blocked artery. The Vermont senator is canceling events and appearances “until further notice.” The campaign says the 78-year-old Sanders experienced chest discomfort during an event Tuesday and sought medical evaluation. The campaign says two stents were “successfully inserted” and that […]

Tom Hanks, decorated actor, Mr. Rogers lookalike and America’s dad, is set to be honored at next year’s Golden Globe Awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Tuesday morning that Hanks, 63, will be the next recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an annual honor given to a “talented individual who has made a […]

Warner Bros. has weighed in on the mounting controversy surrounding “Joker,” an R-rated comic book adaptation that is being criticized for offering an in-depth portrait of a mass killer. In a statement on Tuesday, the studio hit back at suggestions that it is glamorizing a mass murderer. “Make no mistake: neither the fictional character Joker, nor […]

The wife of “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary has been charged with “careless operation of a vessel” for a boat accident that killed 2 people in Canada last month. The Ontario Provincial Police told Fox News that Linda O’Leary was charged for the August 24 incident in which her smaller vessel struck a larger vessel in Ontario, Canada. Her […]

Sander Vanocur, the longtime correspondent for NBC News and ABC News who logged more than 40 years in print and television journalism, has died. He was 91. Vanocur died Monday night in a hospice facility in Santa Barbara of complications from dementia, his son, Christopher, told The New York Times. He made his home in nearby Montecito. […]

Cokie Roberts, a pioneering journalist who was perhaps best known for her savvy insight and analysis of politics, government and Washington D.C., has died at the age of 75, ABC News has announced. Her death was due to complications from breast cancer. “We will miss Cokie beyond measure, both for her contributions and for her […]

What one hand giveth, the other taketh away. Grounded by scathing reviews, Warner Bros.’ The Goldfinch bombed at the U.S. box office over the weekend with a debut of just $2.68 million, one of the worst starts ever for a film opening in 2,542 theaters. But the frame wasn’t totally bereft for the studio — It: Chapter Two stayed […]

Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit” has won the coveted People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The honor positions the film for a potential Oscar run and bolsters its awards chances. That’s good news for Fox Searchlight, which must have been disappointed by the lackluster critical reception for the movie, a dark comedy set […]

James Corden opened up about his struggle with his weight as he responded, on Thursday’s Late Late Show, to Bill Maher’s recent call for fat shaming to make a comeback. In a recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host suggested that fat shaming should be make a return, in order to lower the obesity […]

Demi Moore revealed that she had a miscarriage while she was dating Ashton Kutcher in a profile for The New York Times. Soon after the pair began dating in 2003, Moore became pregnant with a girl that she planned to name Chaplin Ray. She lost the child six months into her pregnancy, which led her to start drinking […]

It’s done! JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot have closed a five-year deal for him to keep his TV business and move his film business under the WarnerMedia umbrella. The wide-ranging pact, which runs through 2024, also includes games and digital content. The JJ Abrams Sweepstakes started last fall, with a number of media congloms vying for his services […]

Bob Dylan will focus on the U.S. over the course of his Fall Tour 2019. The legendary artist will go coast-to-coast from October 11 – November 20 with more shows to be announced. The tour is currently scheduled to start at UC Irvine’s Bren Events Center in Irvine, California on October 11. Dylan and his band […]

The news that Crazy Rich Asians co-screenwriter Adele Lim has left the franchise amid a pay parity dispute has sparked a widespread conversation featuring the collision of two entrenched Hollywood systems: its longstanding method of establishing pay and the more complicated, invisible but just as longstanding process of how value is assigned to workers who aren’t white and male. […]

With Hurricane Dorian barreling towards the Florida coast, Walt Disney World will close early on Tuesday. The company said on Monday that both the Magic Kingdom Park and Epcot would close at 3 p.m. ET, with Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom shutting down at 2 p.m. ET. Both ESPN’s Wide World of Sports and Blizzard Beach […]

Kevin Hart was involved in a serious car accident early Sunday, The Hollywood Reporter can confirm. According to a press release sent to THR from the California Highway Patrol, Hart was not driving the car, identified as a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, but rather Jared Black. According to CHP, Black lost control while driving from southbound Cold Canyon Road to […]

 Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto chastised President Donald Trump on Thursday after Trump tweeted that “Fox isn’t working for us anymore” in a series of tweets in which he also said the network of “promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by anchor, @SandraSmithFox.” Over the past couple of weeks, Trump has increasingly […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]