MeToo founder Tarana Burke has spoken out defiantly in response to the overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, the BBC reports. Burke, who first coined the phrase MeToo to describe women victims of sexual abuse as early as 2006, and saw it gain worldwide recognition in 2017 in the light of accusations against Weinstein, […]
UK news presenter Rageh Omar is receiving medical care after becoming unwell live on air, ITV News has said. Viewers took to social media Friday evening to express their concern after Omar was seen struggling to read the autocue towards the end of News at Ten bulletin. He managed to sign off with a short […]
When did Columbia become Kanye State? Bill Maher asked that question at the top of Friday’s Real Time on HBO, setting the tone for a show that focused on the national campus unrest and what’s behind it. Maher attempted to answer that himself in his “New Rules” editorial, saying in a message to protesters blocking […]
Sonja Christopher, who was the first person in Survivor Season 1 to be voted off the show, has died at 87, according to a current contestant. No cause was revealed. Liz Wilcox, who stars in the current season 46 of Survivor, posted the news on X. She met Christopher over Christmas and shared a photo […]
Melanie Lynskey apparently never has to nag Jason Ritter to take out the garbage. Lynskey had recent starring roles in Candy, The Last of Us and Yellowjackets. She credits Ritter with taking care of her and their 5-year-old daughter while she focuses on work. “He’s the most supportive person in the world,” Lynskey tells People […]
NCIS: Hawai’i cast members and creatives are slowly digesting the news the series will not return for a fourth season following news today of its cancellation. Tori Anderson, who portrayed FBI agent Kate Whistler, posted on X: “Having a really hard time processing this one,” she wrote. “Thank you to our incredible crew who made […]
Speaking to V Magazine, Anne Hathaway has dropped a hint that more Princess Diaries may be coming. “We’re in a good place,” is all she will divulge. “That’s all I can say. There’s nothing to announce yet. But we’re in a good place,” she said. Hathaway played Mia Thermopolis in the first Princess Diaries movie […]
Sony has pushed their reboot of Karate Kid from Dec. 13 this year to May 30, 2025. This has created a bit of a backward domino effect but won’t rob the year of theatrical releases. Backfilling Karate Kid‘s spot is Sony/Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter which goes from Aug. 30, the Labor Day weekend frame, to […]
Robert Downey Jr. has expressed interest in reprising his role as Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Which presents a problem, since he died at the end of Avengers: Endgame. Speaking with GamesRadar at the Sands: International Film Festival, the film’s directors, Joe and Anthony Russo, seemed baffled at the notion of a Downey […]
Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering […]
Roku CEO Anthony Wood collected a total pay package of $20.2 million in 2023, according to the company’s latest proxy filing. Charlie Collier, the veteran former TV exec who now leads Roku Media, got $6.8 million. The tally was far below the $53.3 million he took home in 2022, with the bulk of that payday […]
Luke Grimes isn’t mad at his Yellowstone costar Kevin Costner for exiting the hit show. Grimes plays the youngest son of Costner’s character, John Dutton III, and addressed Costner’s departure in a recent interview with The Independent. “Whatever happened there is unfortunate if it’s changed anything about how the show was going to unfold,” Grimes […]
In 2002, Training Day costars Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke were Oscar-nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. Washington won, Hawke did not, losing to Jim Broadbent for his role in Iris. Hawke said Washington provided some sage advice after he lost. “You don’t want an award to improve your status. You want […]
A central scene in director Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers wasn’t in Justin Kuritzkes’ original script. In the film, Zendaya plays Tashi Duncan, a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion, Art (West Side Story‘s Mike Faist), on a losing streak, Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s […]
It came down to the wire, but NCIS: Hawai’i ultimately didn’t make the cut for next season at CBS. The news comes days before the network is set to announce its fall schedule on May 2 and before the Season 3 finale of Hawai’i is scheduled to air on May 6. According to sources, the […]
Marla Adams, best known for her 37 years in the role of Dina Abbott Mergeron on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 85 and the cause was not disclosed. Born in Ocean City, New Jersey, on August 28, 1938, Adams’ love for the stage was […]
Less than a week after Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was tossed by New York’s highest court, the much-accused Pulp Fiction producer is set to be in front of a judge. Weinstein will appear in Manhattan Supreme Court on May 1, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said late Friday. The hearing in Judge Curtis Farber’s courtroom […]
EXCLUSIVE: Stu Goldstein is the newly minted head of Business & Legal Affairs and General Counsel at Vice Media Group. The promotion of the longtime staff member to the newly created position comes as Vice Media has gone through rounds of layoffs recently. It also comes as the company is undergoing “fundamental changes to our […]
President Joe Biden wasn’t tossing out too many laugh lines Friday during his live appearance on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show, but maybe he was saving them for his comedian-in-chief role at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. Along with Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost, Biden will be the headliner at the annual gathering of […]