Venu Sports, the joint sports streaming venture backed by Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery, has laid out its case to a federal appeals court, requesting permission to resume its plans to launch. The company’s brief, filed late Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, comes months after pay-TV operator […]
UPDATED, 1:25 PM: Freddie Lee Trone, 42, has been sentenced to 31 years to life for the 2022 shooting death of PnB Rock. He was convicted last month in the robbery and murder of the rapper (real name Rakim Allen) at a South Los Angeles restaurant, after sending his teenage son inside to rob the […]
Dave Mason has canceled his Traffic Jam Tour due to health and will not be able to continue his stage appearances this fall. “I’m heartbroken to have to cancel these dates, but it’s Doctor’s orders. I’ll be back, and better than ever, in 2025,” Mason said in a statement posted on his website. The statement […]
Akbar Gbajabiamila has a huge presence in daytime TV as co-host of NFL Network’s Good Morning Football and CBS’s The Talk. The former football star was missing from both shows on Monday, September 23 and each of his respective moderators addressed his absence. At the top of the second hour of GMFB, Jamie Erdahl said […]
EXCLUSIVE: Actor and martial artist Lewis Tan (Mortal Kombat, Deadpool & Wolverine) has joined the ensemble cast in the 20th Century feature Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, a buddy action comedy set in the criminal underworld from writer and director BenDavid Grabinsk. He joins Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza Gonzalez, Jimmy Tatro and […]
Travis Kelce’s is making his scripted TV debut this month in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming FX series Grotesquerie in a role that the creator says was crafted just for him. During a press conference Monday, Murphy explained that, in a general meeting that aligned with pre-production on Grotesquerie, Kelce “said he was interested in getting into […]
EXCLUSIVE: In what is gearing up to be an A-list pairing for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights movie, MRC is tapping Oscar-nominated actress and producer Margot Robbie and BAFTA-nominated actor Jacob Elordi to star in the adaptation of the classic novel. MRC is also setting LuckyChap to produce Fennell’s upcoming feature film adaptation, Wuthering Heights, based on […]
Michelle Pfeiffer has joined the cast of Margo’s Got Money Troubles, joiining Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman in the Apple series based on Rufi Thorpe’s novel. The project hails from David E. Kelley and A24. Both Fanning and Kidman also executive produce. The eight-part series, set in the world of OnlyFans with a wrestling twist, […]
Twice nominated for the Academy’s best documentary gong, Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi is one of non-fiction cinema’s best-known contemporary voices. This evening in San Sebastian, however, Alberdi launches her first departure from the factual world with In Her Place (El Lugar de la Otra), a cunning and deceptively ambitious crime romp she has directed for […]
The View cohosts weighed in today on Janet Jackson’s ill-informed statement about the racial identity of presidential candidate Kamala Harris, with some on the panel taking the pop superstar to task for spreading misinformation and others calling for “grace.” Watch the segment below. The debate on the ABC daytime talker was prompted by a recent […]