PETA is urging Kate McKinnon to use only CGI cats in the upcoming scripted series about Joe Exotic (real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage), the now-imprisoned big-cat breeder who is the topic of the recently released Netflix docuseries “Tiger King.”. ...Read Full Story
Singer Lizzo is doing her best to show hospital workers appreciation for all of their hard work during the coronavirus pandemic.. ...Read Full Story
Medical professionals have been at the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic from the start and singer Lizzo is doing her best to show hospital workers appreciation for all the tedious hours they put in to keep the rest of us afloat.. ...Read Full Story
Singer Lizzo is doing her best to show hospital workers appreciation for all of their hard work during the coronavirus pandemic.. ...Read Full Story
Christopher Meloni will be reprising his role as the iconic Law & Order: Special Victims Units detective for a new NBC spinoff series. The still untitled show has already received a 13-episode order.. ...Read Full Story
CNN’s Chris Cuomo has tested positive for COVID-19. Cuomo shared the news on Twitter writing, “Sooooo in these difficult times that seem to get more difficult and complicated by the day, I just found out that I am positive for coronavirus. I have been exposed to people in recent days who have subsequently tested positive and I had fever, chills and shortness of breath.”. ...Read Full Story
Sony Pictures announced that it has moved several of its upcoming movies to later dates as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.. ...Read Full Story
After tackling the season 1 story of manipulator John Meehan (Eric Bana) and his victim Debra Newell (Connie Britton), the Dirty John season 2 trailer has arrived — this time to take on another toxic relationship: Dan and Betty Broderick, who Oprah Winfrey herself once referred to as “one of America’s messiest divorces.”. ...Read Full Story
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is returning to her Hollywood roots. Disneynature said in a press release that Meghan is the narrator for a new documentary about elephants. Disney+ denied reports Meghan had signed a “further” deal with Disney before stepping back from royal duties. . ...Read Full Story
Evangeline Lilly has apologized for the controversial remarks she made about why she was refusing to self-quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. . ...Read Full Story
Actor John Callahan, known for playing Edmund Grey on “All My Children” and also starring on other soaps including “Days of Our Lives,” “Santa Barbara” and “Falcon Crest,” has died. He was 66.. ...Read Full Story
Bindi Irwin, the late Steve Irwin’s 21-year-old daughter, married Chandler Powell at Australia Zoo on Wednesday. In a post on her Instagram, she highlighted how they had it with no guests at their ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic. . ...Read Full Story
Elton John will host a benefit special, airing March 29 on Fox, that will pay tribute to front line health care workers and first responders amid the coronavirus pandemic and seek donations.. ...Read Full Story
Lady Gaga has decided to postpone the release of her forthcoming album, “Chromatica,” saying “it’s not the right time to drop new songs amid a global fight against the coronavirus.”. ...Read Full Story
Wonder Woman 1984 is officially being delayed due to the ongoing issue of COVID-19 closing movie theaters across the country. The film will now be skipping over its initial June 5 release date to later in the summer . ...Read Full Story
Actor Idris Elba revealed he had the coronavirus last week, and now his wife now says she too has tested positive. Model/actress Sabrina Dhowre Elba shared her diagnosis with Oprah Winfrey during a Facetime on Winfrey’s “Oprah Talks COVID-19,” Apple TV+ series.. ...Read Full Story
“The View” co-host Meghan McCain announced that she and her husband, Ben Domenech, are expecting their first child together. As a result, McCain will be making her appearances on the ABC daytime talk show remotely due to the pandemic. McCain tweeted the news in a statement from her verified Twitter account: “My husband Ben and I have been blessed to find out I’m pregnant,” McCain said in her statement. “Although this isn’t how I expected to announce my pregnancy, both we and our families are excited to share the news with you all.”. ...Read Full Story
Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation helps fund education and emergency preparedness, and now they are helping out with the ongoing coronavirus global pandemic. Clara Lionel is donating $5 million to coronavirus relief efforts, per the foundation’s website.. ...Read Full Story
“Project Runway” star and fashion designer Christian Siriano is working with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to mobilize his company’s resources to produce face masks amid a critical supply shortage as the nation battles the coronavirus. Siriano, who has dressed famous clients from Michelle Obama to Taylor Swift, reached out to Cuomo on Twitter after a call for help from the governor asking for businesses to help supply gloves, gowns and masks.. ...Read Full Story
Actress Debi Mazar shared with her followers Saturday on her verified Instagram account that she has tested positive for the coronavirus. Best known for her roles in “Goodfellas,” “Entourage” and “Younger,” Mazar said she’s doing OK, but shared that about a month ago, she, her husband and their two teen daughters “got an odd bug — Lowgrade fever, headaches, sore throat, body aches, ears ringing and a dry cough. It cleared up quickly.”. ...Read Full Story
Disney and Pixar’s “Onward” will soon be streaming on Disney+, less than one month after being release in theaters. Disney said in a release, “With cinemas currently impacted by closures due to the global health crisis, Disney will offer the film ahead of schedule.”. ...Read Full Story
The coronavirus pandemic is closing movie theaters and affecting release dates, and Disney has officially announced that it’s postponing the scheduled spring release of Black Widow on May 1st, starring Scarlett Johansson. No new release date have been announced yet.. ...Read Full Story
The 2020 Billboard Music Awards have been postponed amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. The upcoming award show was originally set to take place on April 29 in Las Vegas, but has been pushed back to a later date.. ...Read Full Story
Oscar winner Jared Leto took to social media to share that he had been in total isolation from the outside world during a 12-day meditation trip in the desert, and had “no idea what was happening outside the facility” amid the current coronavirus climate.. ...Read Full Story
Vanessa Hudgens took to Instagram Stories to clarify comments she made during an Instagram Live clip, which many accused her of not taking the coronavirus pandemic seriously enough.. ...Read Full Story
Actor Idris Elba announced he has tested positive for COVID-19. In a video shared to Twitter, Elba said he learned on Friday that he’d been exposed to someone who’d tested positive for the virus. Although he has not exhibited symptoms, he immediately self-quarantined after learning of the exposure, he added. The actor’s wife, Sabrina Dhowre, appeared alongside him in the video, and Elba said that she has not yet been tested and is doing “OK.”. ...Read Full Story
Disney-Pixar’s upcoming animated film Soul just released its latest trailer. The animated film follows middle school teacher Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx), who dreams of being a professional jazz musician. But after Joe gets the opportunity to be the opening act at the Half Note Club, he is in a life-threatening accident and his soul is separated from his body; transported to the You Seminar, a center where souls develop and gain passions before being transported into a newborn child.. ...Read Full Story
Penélope Cruz and Winona Ryder have submitted declarations in support to Johnny Depp in his ongoing defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp sued Heard in 2019 after she wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post, in which she characterized herself as a victim of domestic abuse.. ...Read Full Story
The Walt Disney Company announced that it will be adding the animated film Frozen 2 to its Disney+ streaming service three months ahead of its scheduled release date as a way to surprise families with “some fun and joy during this challenging period.”. ...Read Full Story
Days after they both tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, are offering updates on social media to their concerned fans.. ...Read Full Story
In the latest trailer for the upcoming film Jungle Cruise starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, we see Frank Wolff (Johnson) and Dr. Lily Houghton (Blunt) team up to venture into the Amazon in their pursuit of a magical tree with healing powers.. ...Read Full Story
The first reactions to the much-anticipated live-action remake of Disney’s Mulan have now hit the internet, and the consensus from many critics seem to be that this is by far one of Disney’s best live-action adaptations of one of their animation classics.. ...Read Full Story
“Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune” will tape without studio audiences in response to the ongoing virus outbreak. The move is being taken out of an abundance of caution given the spread of the new coronavirus in numerous communities in the United States and abroad. . ...Read Full Story
Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is coming to late-night TV and will host “Jimmy Kimmel Live” tonight, March 12. . ...Read Full Story
The new action-packed trailer for Black Widow has been released, with Scarlett Johansson starring in the title role. . ...Read Full Story
Josh Gad and Luke Evans are expected to star in a Beauty and the Beast prequel TV series to Disney+. Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, the creators of the ABC series Once Upon a Time, are teaming up with Evans and Gad (who starred as Gaston and LeFou, respectively) in the 2017 live-action remake.. ...Read Full Story
The Fox drama Almost Family will not be back for a second season. The series, which starred Timothy Hutton as a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to inseminate patients, has been canceled following its 13-episode first season. After premiering in October, the series moved from Wednesdays to a Saturday time slot in mid-January and wrapped Feb. 22.. ...Read Full Story
Netflix announced director Taika Waititi is set to write, direct and executive produce two animated series based on Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” for Netflix. The first series from Waititi will center around the characters in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” The second, titled “Oompa-Loompas,” will focus on the characters of the same name who work in the chocolate factory. Netflix said that it plans to “retain the quintessential spirit and tone of the original story while building out the world and characters far beyond the pages of the Dahl book for the very first time.”. ...Read Full Story
Taylor Swift has donated $1 million dollars to the Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund, which supports the communities hit by a string of tornadoes which destroyed parts of Tennessee, as well as assist the nonprofits helping the victims. Two tornadoes struck central Tennessee last week, leaving at least 24 people dead and hundreds of buildings destroyed.. ...Read Full Story
Back in January, Netflix unveiled the first look at Jason Bateman and Laura Linney‘s Emmy-winning drama “Ozark” via a short teaser and images. Now Netflix has releases the trailer for Season 3 of the series, which finds the Byrde family going all in on their various criminal enterprises, to violent results.. ...Read Full Story
HBO Max has officially announced the first new member of the Gossip Girl reboot cast. Emily Alyn Lind will star in the forthcoming series, portraying a lead character in the series named Audrey, who “has been in a long term relationship and is beginning to wonder what more could be out there.” Lind has appeared in a slew of other projects, including Netflix’s The Babysitter and its sequel, and as the character Amanda Clarke on Revenge. According to IMDb, her first role was in 2008’s The Secret Life of Bees, where she played a young version of Dakota Fanning’s character Lily.. ...Read Full Story
After almost 23 years of marriage, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are set to star together in a revival of “Plaza Suite” on Broadway. The Neil Simon play revolves around three different couples in three-one act plays set in the same suite of the Plaza Hotel.. ...Read Full Story
Netflix has announced that it will be bringing its best stand-up comedians to Los Angeles for Netflix Is a Joke Fest, a weeklong event highlighting the streaming service’s comedy library. Netflix Is a Joke Fest will feature more than 100 shows from the likes of Dave Chappelle, Ali Wong, Amy Schumer, Pete Davidson, and more.. ...Read Full Story
Lady Gaga just dropped her latest single, “Stupid Love,” and she’s also announced the long-awaited release date for her sixth studio album, titled Chromatica. The new project is executive produced by BloodPop and Gaga, and will be available to stream and purchase starting on April 10th.. ...Read Full Story
James Franco is responding to two women who claim they were sexually exploited by his acting school, Playhouse West Studio 4 (before it closed in 2017.) . ...Read Full Story
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Hilary Duff is asking Disney+ to move the “Lizzie McGuire” reboot to a more appropriate TV home, suitable for a more grown-up version of Lizzie. In an Instagram post, Duff said the streaming service isn’t the best fit, suggesting Hulu instead. The original series, about a girl whose thoughts are expressed by her animated doppelganger, aired from 2001 to 2004 on the Disney Channel. . ...Read Full Story
Sofia Vergara is America’s Got Talent‘s newest judge. The Modern Family actress will serve as a judge on season 15 of the NBC reality series, Variety reports. In addition, Heidi Klum is returning as a judge as well for the first time since 2018. They join current judges Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel, with Terry Crews serving as host. The announcement arrives amid an ongoing investigation into the exit of judges Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough last season.. ...Read Full Story
America Ferrera will be leaving the comedy hit “Superstore” at the end of the current season, NBC announced. The actress, who is the show’s lead and an executive producer, will be leaving the comedy at the end of the current season. ...Read Full Story
Nespresso brand ambassador George Clooney says he was “surprised” and “saddened” after learning of child labor allegations raised against suppliers to the coffee maker. The allegations surfaced following an investigation for an upcoming episode of the British documentary series “Dispatches” where journalist Anthony Barnett was given access to farms in Guatemala that were reportedly linked to Starbucks and Nespresso. The episode, slated to air today, March 2, in the United Kingdom, claims young children are “working long hours in grueling conditions” in order to supply beans for the coffee giants.. ...Read Full Story
Captain America” star Chris Evans is in talks to star in the ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ remake. Evans is being lined up to play dentist Orin Scrivello in the movie. ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ tells the story of Seymour Krelborn, a florist who works in a flower shop located on ‘Skid Row’ in New York, who is secretly in love with his colleague Audrey. Seymour discovers that his Venus flytrap plant – that he bought from a Chinese shop during a solar eclipse – can talk and he starts to use it to try and woo Audrey. However, the plant, who he names Audrey II, begins to develop a taste for human flesh. Orin Scrivello is the abusive and sadistic boyfriend of Audrey, who takes great pleasure in the pain he causes his patients.. ...Read Full Story
The producers of the hit ABC reality dating show The Bachelor are looking for seniors for a new dating show. According to ABC’s casting page, producers “are looking for active and outgoing single men and women IN THEIR GOLDEN YEARS for a new exciting dating show!” The new series was teased during a casting call in a commercial that aired during the February 24 episode of The Bachelor.. ...Read Full Story
Paramount Pictures said that production of the latest film in the “Mission: Impossible” series starring Tom Cruise has been stopped in Italy following the coronavirus outbreak. The seventh installment of the franchise was scheduled to shoot in Venice for three weeks, the first location for production.. ...Read Full Story
Singer and “Voice” coach Kelly Clarkson is returning to host the 2020 Billboard Music Awards for the third time in a row. Clarkson said in a statement to Billboard, “I’m thrilled to be back with my Billboard family. I love being part of an event that celebrates our greatest artists and entertains our fans. This a night of music that you won’t want to miss!. ...Read Full Story
After the current fourth season of CW’s “Riverdale” comes to an end this May, Skeet Ulrich and Marisol Nichols will be leaving the series. Ulrich portrays FP Jones, father to Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) while Nichols has portrays Hermione Lodge, businesswoman and Veronica’s (Camila Mendes) mother. . ...Read Full Story
Steaming service Netflix dropped the first trailer for Transformers: War for Cyberton Trilogy, a three-part anime series from the folks at Rooster Teeth, which previously brought its animation stylings to RWBY and gen:LOCK. The trailer offers a glimpse at Chapter 1, subtitled Siege. . ...Read Full Story
HBO’s “Westworld” Season 3 trailer has been released, and there is a lot going on in the latest season of the hit series. Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) does a good job summing up all the action — “Welcome to the end of the game.” It looks like major events are about to go down, including a face-off between Dolores and Maeve (Thandie Newton).. ...Read Full Story
A Whitney Houston hologram tour is kicking off in Europe, eight years after the singer’s tragic death. An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram will begin on February 25 , ending sometime in April. U.S. dates are expected to follow the initial run, according to The Associated Press. The singer’s sister-in-law and former manager Pat Houston, who serves as the executor of Houston’s estate, said, “Now is just the right time. In the spirit of Whitney, I know we’re doing all the right things right now.” . ...Read Full Story
The cast of “Friends” is reuniting on HBO Max. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer will star in a reunion special for WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service. HBO Max launches in May.. ...Read Full Story
