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Comedian Andy Dick has been charged with sexual battery on allegations that he groped a woman in  April. The Los Angeles city attorney filed two misdemeanor charges against the actor and is seeking an arrest warrant for him, The Times has confirmed. The charges, filed on June 27, include misdemeanor sexual battery and misdemeanor simple battery stemming […]

A new half-hour comedy from Fred Armisen and “Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels has been ordered to series at HBO. And it’s in Spanish. According to the logline, “Los Espookys” (working title) is set in a strange and dreamy version of present-day Mexico City and follows a group of friends turning their love for […]

President Donald Trump will likely be pleased to learn that longtime investigative reporter Brian Ross is leaving ABC News, along with his producer, Rhonda Schwartz. Trump publicly attacked Ross on Twitter in December, after the veteran reporter received a four-week suspension from the network for botching a story on the investigation into potential collusion between Trump’s […]

Speaking at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Saturday, Tim Robbins expressed outrage and shame at U.S. immigration policies and the Supreme Court’s new ruling allowing President Trump’s travel ban on some predominantly Muslim countries to stand. “That Supreme Court decision will be remembered as a disgrace,” he told journalists, building on comments at the fest opening that had galvanized […]

While his past few months have been embroiled in controversies over female representation and MusiCares, there’s no question that Neil Portnow will leave big shoes to fill when he steps down from his post at the helm of the Recording Academy and Grammy Awards in July of next year. During his tenure, Portnow has negotiated a $600 million agreement that will keep […]

A pair of smaller films — the intense U.S.-Mexico border drama Sicario: Day of the Soldado and basketball comedy Uncle Drew — are scoring more points than expected at the North American box office, even though they don’t stand a chance of stealing the crown from holdovers Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Incredibles 2, according to Friday returns. Sicario 2, from Sony […]

Michelle Wolf is all-in on her starring role in Republican National Committee’s The Left in 2018: Unhinged ad. “Yeah, like a screen door installed by a blind lesbian I AM unhinged. And you can unpack whatever you think that joke means,” Wolf told the RNC in the latest episode of The Break With Michelle Wolf, streaming Sunday, July 1 on Netflix. Two […]

A comedian best known for his stints on “The Howard Stern Show” says he was able to reach President Trump aboard Air Force One by impersonating New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez. “This is how easy it is to infiltrate the administration,” John Melendez, better known as “Stuttering John,” said on his podcast. The radio personality said […]

Ed Sheeran is facing a $100 million lawsuit that alleges the singer-songwriter copied Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit “Let’s Get It On” on his 2014 song “Thinking Out Loud,” TMZ reported. The company Structured Asset Sales who owns one-third of the copyright to “Let’s Get It On” files the lawsuit. “According to the lawsuit, Sheeran’s song has […]

Joseph “Joe” Walter Jackson, the patriarch and architect of the iconic Jackson entertainment family industry, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 89. News of his death was first reported by TMZ and soon confirmed by the family. “We are deeply saddened by Mr. Jackson’s passing and extend our heartfelt condolences to Mrs. Katherine Jackson […]

Wrestlers are coming to Fox. The network is giving up on airing dramas and will go with a two-hour Friday block of Smackdown Live, the WWE’s flagship program, instead. The new direction kicks off Oct. 4. as part of Fox Sports’ new five-year agreement with the WWE. Smackdown Live will air weekly for 52 weeks each year. “At […]

At the premiere of Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp” Monday night, “Deadpool” creator Rob Liefeld expressed regret that the world would never get to see Donald Glover’s scrapped “Deadpool” series come to life. FX originally ordered 10 episodes of the series from Donald and Stephen Glover, both of whom are behind “Atlanta,” but the network announced in March it was parting […]

Showtime has given an eight-episode order to a limited series about Roger Ailes, with Oscar winner Russell Crowe set to star as the controversial Fox News founder in his US television debut. The as-yet untitled series (fka Secure and Hold: The Last Days of Roger Ailes), a Blumhouse Television and Showtime co-production, is based on Gabriel Sherman’s bestselling book The Loudest Voice in the […]

Kanye West opened up about the time he said slavery seemed like a “choice” to him and explained why he thinks President Donald Trump and himself share “dragon energy.” “I said the idea of sitting in something for 400 years sounds like a choice to me. I never said it’s a choice. I never said slavery […]

The hosts of the BET Awards preshow got a bit of a surprise on Sunday night. The live preshow, hosted by Terrence J and Cassie, was interrupted by cops during its final moments. As Terrence J and Cassie were doing interviews, security personnel appeared onscreen in front of the camera asking those involved in the […]

Pending the final figures, Walt Disney’s Incredibles 2 has probably been inducted into the $100 Million Loser Club. For those who haven’t kept up with the reading, the $100m loser club is when a movie makes $100m (or more) less on its second weekend than it does on its opening weekend. This isn’t exactly a high insult, […]

It’s a girl for Brigitte Nielsen! The Danish actress and model welcomed her fifth child, a daughter named Frida, at the age of 54, People magazine reported. (Nielsen also shared the People report on her verified Facebook page.) The baby, her first with husband Mattia Dessi, was born Friday in Los Angeles, weighing 5 lbs. 9 oz. “We are […]

Seth Rogen stopped by The Late Show on Friday to chat about work, Canada’s marijuana legalization, and the time he shut down Paul Ryan‘s selfie request in front of his own kids. The actor told Stephen Colbert that earlier this month he shared an incredibly awkward moment with the Speaker of the House at Mitt Romney’s annual political summit in Park […]

MoviePass, the cheap movie ticket subscription service that has taken the film industry by storm, is about to introduce a controversial change to its service. Previously, you could pay a flat price to see any movie you want, but starting in July, getting tickets for high-demand movies will incur an additional fee. MoviePass CEO Mitch […]

Despite winning an Academy Award, former NBA star and Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant isn’t getting a spot in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Though the Academy’s short films and feature animation branch voted to invite him into the ranks, the Academy’s governors committee, which has final say-so on membership, overruled them, Variety […]

AMC Theatres has upped the ante in the monthly movie ticket subscription war with MoviePass, and is adding a new tier to its current rewards program called AMC Stubs A-List. Cinema giant AMC Theatres is launching a discounted movie ticket program, AMC Stubs A-List, where members can see up to three regular movies a week for $19.95 […]