A raucous, deliriously madcap midnight premiere of “Dicks: The Musical” closed out the first day of the Toronto Film Festival. A24’s first-ever musical, which leans hard into its R-rating and puts an irreverent, queer spin on “The Parent Trap,” played to laughs, cheers, audible gasps and shrieks and, yes, a few groans from the Royal
After a record-breaking first season, “The Real Housewives of Lagos” is returning for Season 2. Season 1 of the reality TV series saw the first episode break the first-day streaming record on Showmax Nigeria and become the only African title to crack the top 10 most-watched shows on the streaming service in 2022 across Nigeria,
Hot Girl Summer is not over yet! Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have released a vacation-themed music video for their new joint single “Bongos,” the follow-up to their massive, 2020 collaboration “WAP.” The Latin-infused beats of “Bongos” are met with colorful visuals of both Cardi and Megan relaxing by the beach in over-the-top accessories
A sophomore jinx would be a terrible thing to suffer before you’re old enough to have a legal drink to slug down the disappointment. It’s not something Olivia Rodrigo has to worry about. “Guts,” her second album, does feel at times like “Sour, Too” — a picking-up-right-where-we-left-off extension of her Grammy-winning 2021 debut — but
Country star Zach Bryan was arrested on charges of “obstruction of investigation” in Oklahoma Thursday, according to multiple news reports. He was released on bond later in the day. Commenting on the incident after his release, Bryan owned up to being “out of line” with police: “Today I had an incident with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol,”
The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its 48th edition with the North American premiere of “The Boy and the Heron,” the first feature from animation icon Hayao Miyazaki in a decade and the picture that is likely to serve as his cinematic swan song. The 82-year-old filmmaker isn’t doing any promotion for the film,
More often than not, Hayao Miyazaki’s heroes have been young women — from Ponyo to Princess Mononoke, mischief-seeking Kiki to the two sisters spirited away by furry forest guardians in “My Neighbor Totoro.” That’s the most obvious departure the anime maestro’s fans will notice in “The Boy and the Heron”: It’s about a boy, Mahito
Nina Agdal won’t have to worry about Dillon Danis posting any more sexually explicit images of her online without facing serious consequences. According to legal docs, obtained by TMZ Sports, a New Jersey Court has granted Logan Paul‘s fiancée a temporary restraining order against Paul’s upcoming fight opponent. The docs prohibit Danis from, “posting content
Jimmy Fallon apologized to “Tonight Show” staffers Thursday afternoon following a Rolling Stone report about his behavior at NBC’s venerable late-night program over the years. “It’s embarrassing and I feel so bad. Sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends,” Fallon said during a Zoom meeting with “Tonight” employees, Variety has learned. “I
Franchises rarely get better as they go along. Unfortunately, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is no exception to the rule, as the expanded saga of the Portokalos family becomes less compelling, introspective and funny the more time we spend with them. The first film, centered on a woman’s quest to find herself and establish her
The Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA are pushing California lawmakers to grant unemployment benefits to striking workers. In California, workers currently do not receive unemployment pay when they are on strike. But state lawmakers are working on a bill, SB 799, that would extend benefits to workers who have been on strike for at
Pakistani Canadian filmmaker Anam Abbas has won the Canadian Media Producers Assn.’s 2023 Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award, it was announced Sept. 7 at the Indiescreen Awards, the opening event of the Toronto International Film Festival’s industry conference at Glenn Gould Studios. Abbas’ latest feature is writer and director Zarrar Kahn’s feature debut “In Flames,”
SPOILER ALERT: This column contains spoilers from “Virgin River” Season 5, now streaming on Netflix. As a romance novel connoisseur, I thought nothing of pressing play when Netflix recommended “Virgin River” to me during the 2020 holiday season. Like most of the world, I had spent the better part of a year on my own,
First, let’s be clear: Ranking the best “Star Trek” episodes is a silly thing to do. To date, the longest-running American TV franchise has aired a gargantuan 890 episodes and counting, starting with the original series in 1966. Since then, at least one “Star Trek” TV show has aired (or streamed) every decade, totaling 11
Check out a Behind the Scenes Featurette for A Haunting in Venice starring Jamie Dornan! ► Buy Tickets for A Haunting in Venice: https://www.fandango.com/a-haunting-in-venice-2023-231120/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy ► Shop Rotten Tomatoes: http://bit.ly/3KvCU1M US Release Date: September 15, 2023 Starring: Jamie
Mark-Paul Gosselaar appeared on the “Pod Meets World” podcast and spoke about how tough it can be to revisit outdated episodes of “Saved by the Bell,” on which he starred as Zack Morris. The series aired on NBC for four seasons and 86 episodes from 1989 to 1992. In the show’s second episode, “The Lisa
Jake Bloom, the larger-than-life Hollywood attorney who negotiated rich deals for clients including Nicolas Cage, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Depp, died Thursday in Sun Valley, Idaho, his wife Ruth confirmed. He was 81. In 2019, Bloom retired along with his partner Alan Hergott while the firm was still in the midst of litigation with former
A new article from The New York Times on how the “Barbie” movie’s success will pay off for Mattel reveals that executives at the company were first treated to a 147-page script for the film. The screenplay by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach would be shaped into a 114 minute film. Mattel Films head Robbie
“I’ve never really had a marketing plan ever in my career,” says veteran R&B singer Maxwell. Though he acknowledges “I’m sure someone was doing one in the building somewhere,” the reason why a more concerted effort wasn’t made may be because the singer, songwriter and producer seemed to arrive fully-formed upon the release of “Maxwell’s
UPDATED: Roku has removed at least 35 original shows from the Roku Channel, as part of its announced effort to cut costs. Those include episodes of the “Reno 911!” revival of the Comedy Central series; oddball sex-doll comedy “Dummy” starring Anna Kendrick; plane-crash drama “Survive” starring Sophie Turner and Corey Hawkins; and dystopian thriller “Most
Fairytales can easily bend and twist into nightmares, which is the core sentiment of Apple TV+’s adaptation of Victor LaValle’s award-winning novel, “The Changeling.” In the series, a young father, Apollo Kagwa (LaKeith Stanfield), embarks on a desperate search for his wife, Emma Valentine (Clark Backo), after she vanishes following a horrific incident shortly after
Nielsen is putting a new media yardstick out of arm’s reach, for the time being. Nielsen backed off a plan to incorporate first-party data from Amazon in its study of the audience for the company’s streamcast of “Thursday Night Football.” a move that was opposed by TV networks, putting to rest — at least for
After directing “Origin” — the feature adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” — Academy Award-nominee Ava DuVernay is feeling incredibly content. In fact, when she appears over Zoom from her office at the ARRAY creative campus in L.A. in late August, just a couple days ahead of the
We’re slowing inching into Spooky Season and this week we’ve got you covered with a few thrilling picks! The Nun II is in theaters, The Changeling is coming to Apple TV+, and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is coming to AMC+. If those picks are too scary for you, don’t worry we’ve got you covered
Check out the official teaser for The Creator starring Madeleine Yuna Voyles! ► Buy Tickets on Fandango: https://www.fandango.com/the-creator-2023-231997/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy ► Shop Rotten Tomatoes: http://bit.ly/3KvCU1M US Release Date: September 29, 2023 Starring: Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, John David
Ja Rule‘s decided 50 Cent‘s controversial hurling of a microphone at the head of a radio host is too sweet a moment to pass up — so, he’s rubbing the incident in his longtime rival’s face!!! Ja compiled several clips on Instagram, which included 50’s performance from Super Bowl LVI and Power 106’s Bryhana Monegain‘s
Fox News opinion host Mark Levin is getting a bigger perch on the network’s weekend schedule. Fox News said it plans to expand his program, “Life, Liberty & Levin” so that it will air at 8 p.m. eastern on both Saturday and Sunday. The new airing on Saturday evenings will take effect on September 16th and additional
On the heels of its splashy debut, the producers behind Netflix’s “One Piece” say scripts for a possible Season 2 are completed and that the next season could be “ready to air” in a year, once production is able to begin. “We’ve got scripts ready,” Marty Adelstein, CEO of Tomorrow Studios, which produces the live-action
NBCUniversal Entertainment has tapped Universal Television Alternative Studio exec Christine Cowan as its new senior vice president of casting and talent. In her new role, Cowan will head up casting and talent management for scripted and unscripted shows, with a particular focus on unscripted, across the NBCUniversal Entertainment brands NBC, Bravo, E!, Oxygen True Crime,
After months of stalling, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Anna Gomez as the FCC’s fifth commissioner, officially giving Democrats the majority at the regulatory agency. The confirmation of Gomez, who has an extensive background as a telecommunications attorney, gives the Democrats a 3-2 edge at the agency, which is led by FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel,