Trailer for “Harriet” Biopic Features Cynthia Erivo Starring As Harriet Tubman
The official trailer for “Harriet” has bee released, starring Cynthia Erivo in the title role of Harriet Tubman.. ...Read Full Story
The official trailer for “Harriet” has bee released, starring Cynthia Erivo in the title role of Harriet Tubman.. ...Read Full Story
Beth Chapman’s final battle with cancer will be documented on a new reality show, “Dog’s Most Wanted.” The show will premiere September 4 at 9 p.m. ET on WGN America.. ...Read Full Story
The first trailer for the upcoming film about the late Fred Rogers, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” was just released, starring Tom Hanks in the title role.. ...Read Full Story
Arsenio Hall has officially signed on to reprise his role as Semmi in “Coming To America 2,” the sequel to one of Eddie Murphy’s most iconic films from 1988.. ...Read Full Story
“Avengers: Endgame,” the Disney and Marvel blockbuster, has officially moved past “Avatar” on the list of all-time highest grossing films in its 13th weekend of release, Disney reported.. ...Read Full Story
“Sesame Street, actress Sally Field, R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire, singer Linda Ronstadt, and conductor and musical visionary Michael Tilson Thomas were named the 2019 Kennedy Center honorees last week. . ...Read Full Story
Danai Gurira, who has played sword-wielding fan-favorite Michonne on AMC’s “The Walking Dead” since it’s third season, is leaving the show in Season 10.. ...Read Full Story
“Lady Bird” director Greta Gerwig, along with Noah Baumbach have signed on to co-write Warner Bros.’ live-action Barbie movie with Margot Robbie starring. Gerwig is also in talks to possibly direct the film.. ...Read Full Story
The sequel to last year’s hit film A Quiet Place has started shooting, according to director John Krasinski, who posted a image of the shoot’s first clapperboard to Twitter. . ...Read Full Story
A Massachusetts prosecutor dropped the sexual assault charges against actor Kevin Spacey on Wednesday, after the accuser declined to testify at a pre-trial hearing.. ...Read Full Story
The first trailer for the upcoming film “Hustlers” has just been released, starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Cardi B, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart and Lizzo. . ...Read Full Story
Singer R. Kelly was denied bond on Tuesday as he faces charges that he recruited girls and women to have illegal sex with him and then covered up the crimes by paying and threatening the victims and witnesses. Kelly appeared in a Chicago federal courtroom wearing an orange jumpsuit and shackles on his legs.. ...Read Full Story
On Tuesday, the nominations for the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards were announced. HBO’s hit “Game of Thrones” earned a record 32 nominations, the most nominations earned in a single year by any drama series.. ...Read Full Story
Director Baz Luhrmann has cast actor Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in his upcoming biopic. The 27-year-old will star in Luhrmann’s as-yet untitled film, beating out Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller and Harry Styles for the role.. ...Read Full Story
British actress Lashana Lynch has reportedly been cast as the next 007 – making it the first time a woman will play 007 in the Bond legacy’s 57-year run.. ...Read Full Story
Chris Young has teamed up with Lauren Alaina on “Town Ain’t Big Enough,” which will be featured on his upcoming eighth studio album.. ...Read Full Story
HBO has renewed “Euphoria” for a second season. Euphoria is based on the Israeli series of the same name and created by Sam Levinson.. ...Read Full Story
Shortly after the premiere of Disney’s Lion King remake, Beyoncé announced her forthcoming album, The Lion King: The Gift, and released its first single, “Spirit.”. ...Read Full Story
Taylor Swift has topped Forbes’ annual list of the world’s highest-paid celebrities, beating out Kylie Jenner and Kanye West, who came in at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. . ...Read Full Story
Nicki Minaj is pulling out of a concert in Saudi Arabia because she said she wants to show support for women’s rights, gay rights and freedom of expression. “After careful reflection I have decided to no longer move forward with my scheduled concert at Jeddah World Fest,” Minaj said in a statement.. ...Read Full Story
Lady Gaga is finally launching her long-awaited beauty brand exclusively on Amazon. The pop star released a video announcing her new beauty line, Haus Laboratories.”They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” Gaga says in the video. “But at Haus Laboratories, we say beauty is how you see yourself.”. ...Read Full Story
Samuel L. Jackson is joining the cast of the “Saw” reboot to play Chris Rock’s father.. ...Read Full Story
The first official trailer for the follow-up to 2014’s Disney hit “Maleficent” has been released, and it features Angelina Jolie faces a new enemy– Michelle Pfeiffer’s Queen Ingrith.. ...Read Full Story
On Monday, Kevin Spacey‘s sexual assault case took a surprising turn when the alleged victim pled the 5th during questioning, prompting the judge to strike the accuser’s previous testimony from the record.. ...Read Full Story
The official trailer for “Judy” has been released, and Renée Zellweger completely transforms into Judy Garland in the film.. ...Read Full Story
Stevie Wonder announced Saturday that he plans to take a break from performing to prepare for kidney replacement surgery.. ...Read Full Story
Actor Cameron Boyce, who starred in the Disney Channel series “Jessie” and the “Descendants” TV movies, has died. He was 20.. ...Read Full Story
Chloe x Halle singer Halle Bailey has been cast as Ariel in the live-action The Little Mermaid. Director Rob Marshall said in a statement that while the search was “extensive” it soon became “abundantly clear” that Halle has a “rare combination of spirit, heart, youth, innocence and substance — plus a glorious singing voice — all intrinsic qualities necessary to play this iconic role.”. ...Read Full Story
Musician Pharrell Williams guaranteed “A-list internships” to every 2019 graduate of The Promise Academy in Harlem, New York, at the end of their freshman year of college.. ...Read Full Story
Following an allegation of sexual misconduct in January of last year, comedian Aziz Ansari has kept a low profile. However, Ansari took to Twitter this week to announce his first televised comedy special in more than four years, titled, “Aziz Ansari: Right Now,” will stream on Netflix beginning July 9, with Oscar-winner Spike Jonze as director. His last special, titled, “Aziz Ansari: Live at Madison Square Garden,” was released on Netflix on March 6, 2015.. ...Read Full Story
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has extended invitations to 842 new members of the film industry to join them. The invitees include familiar names and also recognize the Academy’s push for better inclusion. Half of the invited members for 2019 are women and 29% of them are people of color. . ...Read Full Story
Rock musician Rick Springfield canceled his show in the Dominican Republic. After rising safety concerns in the Dominican Republic, where at least 10 American citizens have died while in the country in the last year, the event was cancelled. Although statistics show that Americans are more likely to be killed in the US than in the Dominican, many people are still alarmed.. ...Read Full Story
A show based on singer Neil Diamond and his career is headed to Broadway, with a score by the iconic singer-songwriter and a book by “Bohemian Rhapsody” writer Anthony McCarten.. ...Read Full Story
Just weeks after saying goodbye to “Game of Thrones” and her character, Cersei Lannister, Lena Headey has been cast in a dramedy pilot for Showtime called “Rita.”. ...Read Full Story
Thanks to viewers, “One Day at a Time” is coming back – this after Netflix did not renew the show in March after three seasons. Pop TV announced that the series will continue on with a new 13-episode fourth season premiering in 2020. . ...Read Full Story
The new “Charlie’s Angels” trailer was just released, with your first look at Ella Balinska, Kristen Stewart and Naomi Scott in the title roles. . ...Read Full Story
Paul Rudd has announced he will join the next installment of the “Ghostbusters” franchise. In a video posted to social media on Thursday, Rudd said, “I can’t wait to join the cast this fall for ‘Ghostbusters.’ In fact, I’m sliming myself right now.”. ...Read Full Story
Sky, a UK media and entertainment company, has announced the “Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams will star in a six-part comedy series currently called “Two Weeks to Live.”. ...Read Full Story
Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is set to host the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. Maniscalco, who is also an actor and best-selling author, just sold out a four-show run at Madison Square Garden. He will host the VMAs from Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Monday, August 26.. ...Read Full Story
George Clooney has signed on to direct and star in “Good Morning, Midnight” for Netflix. It will be his first project with the streaming service. Clooney and Smokehouse Pictures’ Grant Heslov will produce the adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel, “which follows a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to make contact with the crew of a spacecraft as they try to return home to Earth,” according to a description from Netflix.. ...Read Full Story
Ryan Murphy is adapting the Tony Award-nominated musical “The Prom” for Netflix, with big names Meryl Streep, Ariana Grande, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key and Andrew Rannells set to star.. ...Read Full Story
Madonna just earned her ninth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with her new release, “Madame X.” . ...Read Full Story
Roseanne Barr and fellow comedian, Andrew Dice Clay are launching a comedy tour called, “Mr. and Mrs. America” that will tackle politics, among other issues. Clay took to Instagram to post a promotional photo for the upcoming tour.. ...Read Full Story
Season 3 of the popular Netflix series “Stranger Things” will begin soon, and the latest trailer just dropped.. ...Read Full Story
The animated adventure Toy Story 4 is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $118 million at the box office this weekend. It’s the biggest opening weekend ever in the “Toy Story” franchise, and also the third biggest opening weekend domestically for a Pixar release.. ...Read Full Story
A never-before-seen music video featuring Queen’s legendary frontman, Freddie Mercury, was released Thursday on YouTube and on Mercury’s website. It shows the singer-songwriter performing “Time Waits for No One” on the empty stage of London’s Dominion Theatre. . ...Read Full Story
Actress Angelina Jolie is joining Time magazine as a contributing editor. The magazine’s editor in chief and CEO, Edward Felsenthal, announced Jolie’s new position. The magazine said in a statement that Jolie’s pieces will appear each month and focus on topics including displacement and human rights. The magazine also said that Jolie has carried out more than 60 field missions to countries including Colombia, Peru and Bangladesh.. ...Read Full Story
Lin-Manuel Miranda is coming back to Broadway with “Freestyle Love Supreme.” Conceived by Anthony Veneziale and co-created by “Hamilton’s” Thomas Kail and Miranda, the show takes cues from the audience to deliver unique, improvisatory hip-hop musical experiences. Miranda will make unscheduled appearances during it’s 16-week run from September to January at the Booth Theater.. ...Read Full Story
HBO has begun production on the first “Game of Thrones” prequel series set in the world of Westeros. The network revealed that it had been working on a slew of spinoff content since 2017, having tapped five writers to pen potential projects. However only one project from Jane Goldman has been given a pilot order.. ...Read Full Story
Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm have signed on to Clint Eastwood’s movie, “The Ballad of Richard Jewell.” . ...Read Full Story
Netflix announced Tuesday that “Queer Eye” would return to the streaming network for a fourth and fifth season. Season 4 of the Emmy-winning, phenomenally popular makeover series will debut July 19 and be set in Kansas City, Missouri. Production on Season 5 will kick off June 24 in Philadelphia, and is slated to air sometime in 2020.. ...Read Full Story
Comedian Tiffany Haddish cancelled her June 22 show in Atlanta in protest over Georgia’s controversial new abortion law. The “heartbeat” abortion law bans the procedure as soon as a doctor can detect fetal cardiac activity, which typically happens about six weeks into a pregnancy.. ...Read Full Story
Director Todd Phillips is putting the finishing touches on his Joker origin story, and now he is confirming the film will be released with an R rating. . ...Read Full Story
Britney Spears won a major legal victory, as the singer and her family have been granted a five-year restraining order against her ex-manager, Sam Lutfi.. ...Read Full Story
Taylor Swift wished the crowd a “Happy Pride Month” by giving a surprise performance at the Stonewall Inn, the site of the LGBTQ rights landmark . ...Read Full Story
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. surrendered to the New York Police Department on Thursday, and was charged with forcible touching of a woman. Gooding’s lawyer, Mark Heller, told reporters that his client has “completed the surrender process” and added that he has “never seen a case like this” in his 50 years of practicing law.. ...Read Full Story
Actress Mira Sorvino, who has been a vocal voices in the #MeToo movement, says she is a survivor of rape. Sorvino made the revelation during a press conference on Wednesday, alongside New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in an effort to encourage the state legislature to eliminate New York’s statute of limitations on rape in the 2nd and 3rd degrees and pass additional sexual harassment protections before the end of the legislative session next week.. ...Read Full Story
Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film for HBO, “Ice on Fire,” focuses on the urgency of the climate crisis. . ...Read Full Story
The trailer for a new documentary about the late actor Anton Yelchin, called “Love, Antosha,” has been released. Yelchin died nearly three years ago at age 27 after a freak car accident. ...Read Full Story
Steven Spielberg is developing a new horror series for mobile-focused streaming service Quibi — “Quick Bites” for short — that viewers will only be able to watch when it’s dark outside.. ...Read Full Story