Rapper T.I. and his wife, singer-songwriter Tameka ‘Tiny’ Harris, have been awarded a whopping $71 million by a jury in their lawsuit against MGA Entertainment, the toy conglomerate they alleged violated the intellectual property rights of their teen pop group the OMG Girlz with their popular L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G. line of dolls. Per the Daily […]
EXCLUSIVE: The topic of how the major streamers pay talent has been one of the dominant conversations in Hollywood over the past few months. Netflix is holding an event for top agents and managers where it will likely be discussed as the streamer is understood to be reevaluating how it structures its deals going forward. […]
Emmy nominee D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs) has joined the cast of Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing from Sony Pictures, Deadline has confirmed. Caught Stealing follows Hank Thompson (Austin Butler), a burned-out former baseball player, as he’s unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of ’90s NYC. We hear Woon-A-Tai will […]
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Season 3, Episode 12 of All American: Homecoming. Monday’s penultimate episode of All American: Homecoming seemed, in many ways, to be about healing. After standing up to a major recording artist about his work, Cam (Mitchell Edwards) is looking for new opportunities, and Keisha (Netta Walker) wants to […]
Tokyo International Film Festival has announced that Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake and Taiwanese filmmaker Fu Tien-yu will be the joint recipients of the 2024 Kurosawa Akira Award. The award honors the legacy and ongoing influence of the selected directors. Last year, China’s Gu Xiaogang and Indonesia’s Mouly Surya received the award. The selection committee for […]
Jared Harris, son of Richard Harris, who originated the role of Dumbledore in the Warner Bros. Harry Potter franchise, doesn’t see the need for HBO’s television reboot. In a recent interview with The Independent, Jared Harris — who followed in his late father’s footsteps with credits in Mad Men and Chernobyl (from HBO), garnering Emmy […]
It’s a fact: Staffers at A+E Factual Studios, producer of nonfiction fare including Hulu’s Dance Moms: A New Era and Lifetime’s The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, have unionized with WGA East for collective bargaining. More than 150 employees have called on A+E to voluntarily recognize their union voluntarily, and a majority have signed […]
Rescue: Hi Surf is off to a strong start for Fox. The lifeguard drama debuted to 4.7M viewers on Sunday night, according to live + same-day data from Nielsen. The premiere episode also managed a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49, which is quite impressive as scripted broadcast series rarely perform that well in same-day ratings […]
Mariska Hargitay has been the star of Law & Order: SVU since its premiere in 1999, and playing Olivia Benson has had a significant impact on her. The actress has starred in the procedural drama, which has more than 550 episodes, and knowing about all the cases covered on the show has affected Hargitay personally. […]