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UPDATE SATURDAY 3:50 PM: Anne Heche’s publicist has released a statement a day after the actress was rushed to the hospital when a car she was driving crashed and caught fire. “Anne is currently in stable condition. Her family asks for your thoughts and prayers,” the statement said. “We ask to respect her privacy…
"My heart starts beating fast. It makes me angry," Jennette McCurdy told the Washington Post about experiences she says took place on the sets of Nickelodeon’s iCarly and Sam & Cat. McCurdy starred on the two shows between 2007 and 2014, both of which were created, written and produced by Dan Schneider.
The occasion…
Speaking on CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast yesterday, Quentin Tarantino held forth on the experience of seeing Top Gun: Maverick.
“Normally I don’t talk about new movies that much because I’m only forced to say only good things, but in this case I f***ing love Top Gun, the Maverick movie. I thought it was fantastic,”…
Kevin Spacey must pay House of Cards producer MRC nearly $31 million for alleged sexual misconduct behind the scenes of the Netflix show, a judge ruled today, saying it was not even a “close case.”
Spacey, now 63, played Frank Underwood on House of Cards and was cut from the series after allegations surfaced he…
On Tuesday, Netflixput a stake in First Kill after just one season. Today, showrunner Felicia D. Henderson went public with her thoughts about why the show was not given a new cycle.
First Kill was based on a short story by Victoria “V. E.” Schwab and executive produced by Emma Roberts.
In the series, teenage vampire…
Colson "Machine Gun Kelly" Baker is literally on the run through much of the opening seconds of the official trailer for the upcoming action-thriller One Way before he hops a bus on what may be a one-way ticket to redemption or palookaville.
“No wrong turn goes unpunished” is the punny tagline for the actioner that…
UPDATED: While daily Covid cases across L.A. County have plummeted by 50% in the past week, the outbreak at Warner Bros. has continued to grow, according to the Public Health Department’s dashboard.
What started out as an outbreak of 31 cases on July 11 has, in the past three weeks, more than doubled to 67 infections…
Over the last seven days, the average number of daily new Covid cases in Los Angeles was 5,332, an 11% decrease from one week ago when the average number of daily new cases reported was 6,014.
While the 7-day average of cases is a reliable number, it does not indicate the trend in cases, which is…
“We’re not taking sides in this,” said Tucker Carlson on his popular Fox News show last night, “but one of the biggest controversies in sports in many years is taking place between the PGA Tour and an upstart tour called LIV.”
Carlson then offered up an interview with LIV tour CEO and golf legend Greg…
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris jointly endorsed Rep. Karen Bass in her run for Los Angeles mayor today.
“We are endorsing Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor because we are eager to continue to partner with her on innovative strategies to reduce homelessness and increase public…
UPDATED throughout: The Walt Disney Company has announced more Marvel-related panels for its annual D23 Expo fan event next month, including a Spider-Man 60th anniversary celebration. For details, see listings below.
Disney also announced recently that its 100th anniversary celebration, dubbed Disney100, will…
Brad Pitt seemed as surprised as anyone when asked at the Bullet Train premiere tonight about his impending retirement.
Pitt had a semi-humorous and very visceral reaction to the question, which was prompted by a recent GQ interview. On the red carpet tonight, he laughed and spun halfway around as if…