Entertainment Daypop Archives

ABC has picked up the pilot to “thirysomething(else),” the sequel to the network’s “thirtysomething” series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick. . ...Read Full Story

The Batman director Matt Reeves has confirmed that actor Colin Farrell will be starring in the film as “The Penguin.”. ...Read Full Story

Chloë Sevigny is expecting her first child with her boyfriend, Sinisa Mackovic. A  rep for the star confirmed that the  45-year-old actress is pregnant.. ...Read Full Story

The “Saved by the Bell” reboot, starring original cast members Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley, has cast transgender actress Josie Totah in a leading role. Totah will play Lexi, described in press notes as “a beautiful, sharp-tongued cheerleader and the most popular girl at Bayside High” who is both “admired and feared” by her classmates.  The 18-year-old Totah’s credits include NBC’s “Champions” and the Disney Channel’s “Jessie.”  She was most recently seen on Netflix’s “No Good Nick.”. ...Read Full Story

Back in October 2017, the first New Mutants trailer arrived — however the film, based on the X-Men comics of the same name, was delayed multiple times with script reworks and reshoots.. ...Read Full Story

Starz has released the official trailer for the upcoming fifth season of Outlander, its centuries-spanning romantic drama based on Diana Gabaldon’s series of novels. The upcoming 12-episode season finds the Frasers fighting for their family and the home they have forged on Fraser’s Ridge as the American Revolution draws nearer. . ...Read Full Story

Riverdale actress Vanessa Morgan married professional baseball player Michael Kopech over the weekend. Morgan, 27, and Kopech, 23, exchanged vows in front of their closest family and friends, including members of the Riverdale cast, during an intimate ceremony at the Historic Walton House in Homestead, Florida. About 40 guests attended, and the bride’s sister’s Celina served as her maid of honor.. ...Read Full Story

The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards was held Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, with Ricky Gervais returning as host for the fifth time at the ceremony, which honors the best in film and television over the past year. . ...Read Full Story

Pink is donating $500,000 to help fight the deadly wildfires that have devastated parts of Australia.. ...Read Full Story

Streaming service Disney+ is kicking off the new year with the announcement that we’ll be seeing one of its planned Marvel series premiere in 2020.  Disney+ has revealed that WandaVision will be coming this year, following initial reports of a 2021 premiere date.. ...Read Full Story

NCIS star Wilmer Valderrama is engaged to his model girlfriend Amanda Pacheco. Valderrama popped the question in San Diego on New Year’s Day, he revealed on Instagram. In the photo, Valderrama, 39, can be seen getting down on one knee in front of a gorgeous seaside backdrop. “‘It’s just us now,’” he captioned the photo, adding the date of their engagement, “01-01-2020.”. ...Read Full Story

Kathy Griffin announced her engagement on New Year’s Eve on Twitter, and also shared that she was married in Los Angeles, California. The comedian tweeted a video late Tuesday with her longtime boyfriend Randy Bick to make the surprise announcement.. ...Read Full Story

Four-time Oscar nominee, Michelle Williams, is engaged and expecting a child with the Tony Award-winning director of Hamilton, Thomas Kail.. ...Read Full Story

Alex Trebek is sharing an update about his pancreatic cancer battle. The “Jeopardy” host told ABC News he is going through chemotherapy again, and that he knows that he might not have a lot of time left to live – but the prayer from supporters have helped him feel a lot better since his diagnosis.. ...Read Full Story

32-year-old actor Zac Efron is speaking out, taking to Instagram to share a message about his health after Australia’s Sunday Telegraph reported he had contracted what is believed to be typhoid or a “similar bacterial infection” while filming his Quibi show, Killing Zac Efron, in Papua New Guinea. . ...Read Full Story

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is at the top of the box office againthis weekend. The J.J. Abrams-directed final installment in the Star Wars Skywalker saga dominated the Christmas Day box office with $32 million, earning the film the honor of having the second-best Christmas Day box office total behind 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. . ...Read Full Story

The Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau is dropping some details about Season 2, announcing the pickup of the Disney+ series. . ...Read Full Story

The teaser trailer for the Aretha Franklin biopic, “Respect,” starring Jennifer Hudson, was just released and the minute-long trailer begins with Hudson singing a verse from the title song nearly a cappella.. ...Read Full Story

25-year-old Justin Bieber has officially announced the new projects he has coming up in a video posted on his YouTube page. The singer teased an untitled new album, along with the single, “Yummy,” which will be released on January 3.  . ...Read Full Story

Former “One Direction” star Harry Style’s sophomore album, Fine Line, hit number one on the Billboard 200 chart this week. According to Billboard, “it marks the biggest week for a pop album by a male artist in over four years.” It’s the second highest debut in the chart’s history, beating Post Malone’s “Hollywood’s Bleeding.” The chart is based on album units sold both digitally and physical album sales, song sales and audio streams. Styles also landed number one on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart.. ...Read Full Story

For a second year in a row, Kevin Spacey posted a video on his YouTube page on Christmas Eve his House of Cards character Frank Underwood. . ...Read Full Story

Actress Hilarie Burton has chimed in with her thoughts on the Hallmark Channel’s since-rescinded decision to scrap ads depicting a same-sex wedding, by raising claims of her own. Best known for playing Peyton Sawyer on “One Tree Hill,” Burton has appeared in a number of Hallmark’s original films over the years, including 2012’s “Naughty or Nice” and 2013’s “Christmas on the Bayou.” However, she said she was dismissed from one of the network’s projects last January because she demanded more “diverse casting.” . ...Read Full Story

Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma were married in a low-key backyard ceremony at their Los Angeles home on Saturday, December 21, in front of close family and friends.. ...Read Full Story

DaniLeigh has returned with a new EP, My Present via Def Jam Recordings. The 4-song EP is the prelude to new music expected from DaniLeigh in the new year. The title My Present is a nod to her birthday, and how she feels in the “present day.”. ...Read Full Story

Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is estimated to earn $195 million domestically on it’s opening weekend, which would place it just above the $191 million openings of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and the “Lion King” remake for the eighth highest domestic opening of all-time.. ...Read Full Story

For the first time since his emergency surgery, “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak spoke publicly about his health scare on “Good Morning America.” . ...Read Full Story

Netflix and Mattel announced that a new original CG animated series for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe will reimagine the franchise. This comes in addition to the 2D anime series Masters of the Universe: Revelation by Kevin Smith.. ...Read Full Story

Last weekend, a teaser for the sequel to “A Quiet Place,” directed by John Krasinski, screened in theaters ahead of showings of Black Christmas. The preview for A Quiet Place Part II was brief, showing a scene in which the lead character, Evelyn Abbott (played by Emily Blunt) leads her children along a trail of sand until it ends and they realize that they have to keep going. That teaser is now online, with the promise of a full-length trailer to be released on New Year’s Day.. ...Read Full Story

The first images of Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter starring in Bill & Ted Face the Music were just revealed.  Now middle-aged best friends, Bill and Ted are back in a phone booth that serves as their time machine for their new adventure.. ...Read Full Story

The streaming service Netflix has canceled the apocalyptic teen drama Daybreak after one season, series co-creator Aron Coleite revealed through a joint letter from the producers released on Twitter.. ...Read Full Story

The new trailer for Top Gun: Maverick the sequel to the iconic Tom Cruise film released more than three decades ago, just debuted.. ...Read Full Story

Mariah Carey has landed the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 for her famous holiday hit, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” This is the first time the 25-year-old song has hit No. 1. The song’s previous record was No. 3 on the chart.. ...Read Full Story

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Hulu dropped the  irst teaser for the anticipated Kerry Washington-Reese Witherspoon drama series “Little Fires Everywhere” adaptation. The eight-episode limited series, based on Celeste Ng’s bestselling novel of the same name, is set to debut on Hulu on March 18, 2020.. ...Read Full Story

The first trailer for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” has debuted. The film tells the story of a mostly Hispanic neighborhood in New York City and centers around bodega owner Usnavi, played by Anthony Ramos.. ...Read Full Story

Orlando Jones says he was let go from the Starz series American Gods and will not reprise his role of Mr. Nancy in the upcoming third season.  The 51-year-old Jones is claiming the new showrunner, Charles Eglee, thinks his “angry” character sends the “wrong message for black America.”  The cable channel, production company Fremantle and Eglee have not responded the actor’s remarks, made in text posts and in a video message on Twitter.. ...Read Full Story

Young ballet star and actor Jack Burns has died at age 14. Burns was found dead at his home in Greenock, Inverclyde in Scotland. The cause of death has not been disclosed, but police said that they are not treating it as suspicious.. ...Read Full Story

Grammy-nominated singer Lizzo is Time’s Entertainer of the Year of 2019. Time unveiled its cover featuring Lizzo, 31, on Twitter. The image was taken by photographer Paola Kudacki.. ...Read Full Story

The nominees for the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Wednesday. . ...Read Full Story

A new Netflix documentary offering a behind-the-scenes look at Taylor Swift’s life will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. . ...Read Full Story

The trailer for “Wonder Woman 1984” was released, and the first look at the highly anticipated follow-up to “Wonder Woman” shows Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) reuniting with her love, Steve Trevor, played by Chris Pine. This might have come as a surprise to many as Trevor’s plane blew up in the first film, which was set during World War I, decades before. . ...Read Full Story

Netflix has announced that Part Three of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will debut on January 24.. ...Read Full Story

The first trailer for the upcoming original movie about video games, titled Free Guy, reveals Ryan Reynolds and Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer in a virtual world. . ...Read Full Story

On Monday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the 2020 Golden Globe nominations. Among the big winners in film were Marriage Story with six nominations; and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Irishman with five. On the TV side, Chernobyl, The Crown, and Unbelievable each received four nominations. Netflix led the way in film and TV, scoring a total of 17 nominations in both.. ...Read Full Story

Taylor Swift has released a Christmas song titled “Christmas Tree Farm,” along with a video which shows a compilation of the Swift family’s home movies around the holidays.. ...Read Full Story

Director Jason Reitman — the son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman — is revealing what he’s planning for the next installment of comedy franchise.. ...Read Full Story

Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning will portray sisters in the film adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s best-selling 2015 novel The Nightingale. This will mark the first time the Fanning sisters have appeared together on screen, though Elle played a younger version of Dakota’s character in the 2001 film I Am Sam.. ...Read Full Story

The trailer for the latest James Bond movie, “No Time to Die,” was just released.  Daniel Craig stars again as the iconic British secret agent 007 for his fifth – and final – time.. ...Read Full Story

Fans first learned over the summer at Comic-Con that “Black Widow” would finally get her own feature film after seven appearances in Marvel movies. Now the trailer for “Black Widow,” the long awaited feature film about the mysterious heroine of the Marvel movie universe, has premiered, along with a release date: May 2020.. ...Read Full Story

Kristin Chenoweth will star in and executive produce a comedy series for Disney+.called The Biggest Star in Appleton that’s in the early stages of development at the streaming platform. The potential series would center on Carol Dannhauser (Chenoweth), a mother, wife and waitress in Appleton, Wisconsin, who gets her deepest satisfaction from small-town stardom at her community theater.Her status is threatened, however, when a struggling New York chorus girl moves back home with dreams of her own. . ...Read Full Story

HBO revealed that Season 10 of Larry David’s comedy ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ will premiere in January 2020. David began filming the 10th season in the fall of 2018, and details are scarce on this season’s premise.. ...Read Full Story

Following her directing and acting in the Charlie’s Angels movie, Elizabeth Banks will now direct and star in The Invisible Woman for Universal Pictures. The announcement of The Invisible Woman caused some confusion as the movie The Invisible Man, directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Elisabeth Moss (as a woman plagued by her abusive and newly invisible ex, played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen) is set for release soon.  However The Invisible Woman is a separate Universal release, based on an original concept by Banks. Banks and her producing partner at Brownstone Productions, Max Handelman, will produce, and Alison Small will executive-produce.. ...Read Full Story

BBC America announced that the second season of the time travel show “Doctor Who” starring Jodie Whittaker will premiere 8 p.m. ET on New Year’s Day. The season will begin with a two-part episode titled “Spyfall.” The network also announced that it has partnered with BBC Studios and Fathom Events to screen the premiere episode on over 600 cinema screens on Jan. 5. The event will include a Q&A with Whittaker and fellow cast members Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill transmitted from The Paley Center for Media in New York. Tickets and a list of participating locations will be available beginning Dec. 6 at the Fathom Events website.. ...Read Full Story

When Calls the Heart star Andrea Brooks (Faith Carter) has welcomed her first child. Brooks gave birth to a baby girl and posted the exciting news via her Instagram account, sharing a black-and-white photo of herself and her new bundle of joy snuggled up against her with the caption “…and then there was you. ????” without sharing any additional details on her baby girl.. ...Read Full Story

Leonardo DiCaprio is speaking out against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s baseless allegation that the actor is fueling fires in the Amazon by bankrolling nonprofits he claims are to blame for the destruction.. ...Read Full Story

Kanye West debuted the music video for “Closed on Sunday.” The song is a single from his “Jesus Is King” album. ...Read Full Story

The holidays just around the corner and superstar Beyoncé has just dropped a festive merch collection.. ...Read Full Story

Last week it was revealed that Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough were being dropped from the judging panel of the talent show Amercia’s Got Talent after just one season. Now new details have emerged, saying the women had been subjected to a “toxic culture” on the show, including offensive jokes, extensive criticism of their appearance and being ignored. Variety reports the two female judges received “excessive notes on their physical appearance.”  Union, 47, was told more than half a dozen times that her hair styles were “too black” for the audience of America’s Got Talent. Hough, 31, is said to have been subjected to consistent criticism on hair, make-up and wardrobe, which apparently led to tensions on the show. Union is also reported to have made several complaints about offensive jokes she witnessed during filming for the talent show, that were ignored by senior executives.. ...Read Full Story

Steaming service Netflix has announced it will not be making another season of the show “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”  The timing is ironic as Thanksgiving is the unofficial holiday of “MST3K,” the cult series about a guy and two robots laughing at bad movies.. ...Read Full Story

In his first interview since he was sentenced to prison for sexual assault, Bill Cosby said he doesn’t expect to express remorse when it comes time for his parole. Cosby was sentenced in September 2018.. ...Read Full Story