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Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult have joined the race to play James Bond as the search for the 007 actor widens, with screen tests under way at Bray Studios and Amazon MGM Studios declining to comment.
Gkids’ ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ is tracking for a $30 million to $33 million North American opening weekend, which would be the biggest for a live-action foreign-language film and the distributor’s largest release.
Netflix announced Friday ‘Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure,’ a prequel series set in 1950s Nevada that expands the franchise’s mythology, with production in New Mexico and a 2028 premiere.
Adam Driver said the Star Wars film he developed with director Steven Soderbergh about Kylo Ren is effectively dead, because Disney never found a way for the character to be alive.
The comedian and actor Russell Brand, 51, was convicted Thursday of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault after a three-week trial at Southwark Crown Court.
Cynthia Erivo will play Afeni Shakur, Tupac Shakur’s mother, in Universal Pictures’ Snoop Dogg biopic, directed by Craig Brewer. Jonathan Daviss stars as Snoop and Camron Jones as Tupac.
Jen Affleck, a star of Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, has filed for divorce from her husband Zac Affleck, TMZ reported. She is pregnant with the couple’s fourth child, announced in June.
Disney announced that Jonathan Garson, a 30-year company veteran, becomes Pixar’s president on January 4, 2027, succeeding Jim Morris, who served 12 years in the role and moves to president emeritus.
Martha Stewart, 85, said her Halloween costume — ragged clothes, simulated dirt and a sign reading ‘I AM HUNGRY. HELP ME.’ — was meant to raise awareness of homelessness, after backlash forced her to delete the post.
Director Michael Mann, 83, was treated and released after a holstered weapon discharged at a Los Angeles gun range Saturday; the accident comes as he prepares ‘Heat 2,’ which he says will use digital de-aging.
Paramount+ is ending Criminal Minds: Evolution with its 20th and final season, closing a 20-year franchise; cast members including Paget Brewster and Kirsten Vangsness paid tribute Sunday.
Filmmaker Michael Mann, 83, was treated at a hospital after a weapon he had holstered accidentally discharged at a Los Angeles gun range Saturday, suffering a superficial leg injury, his representative said.
Speaking in Swansea while promoting his memoir, Michael Douglas said Jack Nicholson was well but had stopped working and had largely withdrawn from public life.
Deep Purple canceled weekend shows in Leipzig and Hamburg after singer Ian Gillan, 81, was hospitalized in Germany following a medical emergency, the band announced Saturday, with the tour scheduled to resume Nov. 3 in Dortmund.
Harry Styles opened the second of his ‘Harryween’ nights at Madison Square Garden dressed as Elvis, then recreated his 2010 ‘X Factor’ audition, covering Stevie Wonder’s ‘Isn’t She Lovely’ as his 16-year-old self.
Curry Barker released “Mama Bear,” a five-minute horror short, Thursday on his That’s a Bad Idea YouTube channel, drawing more than one million views as he waits to deliver his next studio features.
Sir Patrick Stewart, the British actor who spent more time on stage than on screen and won a global audience as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ and Professor X of the ‘X-Men’ films, died at his Los Angeles home on October 28. He was 86.
Early audience and critic reactions to ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ ran high ahead of its November 20 release, with praise for newcomer Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy. Jennifer Lawrence effectively confirmed a Woody Harrelson cameo.
Ernie Johnson, 70, announced Wednesday that this is his last season hosting TNT’s ‘Inside the NBA,’ citing heart problems that required bypass surgery 14 months ago. He is not retiring; Charles Barkley will also step back from the desk.
Greenville, South Carolina, police concluded their investigation into Hayden Panettiere’s death Wednesday, adopting the coroner’s ruling of accidental overdose. No one will be charged; the cause was a combination of fentanyl and prescription drugs.
A three-judge appeals panel rejected each of Danny Masterson’s arguments Tuesday and upheld his 2023 rape conviction and sentence of 30 years to life, according to an 89-page ruling.
The NFL confirmed Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl LXI halftime show at SoFi Stadium on Feb. 14, 2027, with U2 playing the first Thanksgiving Eve halftime show and Miranda Lambert the Thanksgiving Day game.
William Shatner paid tribute Tuesday to Walter Koenig, who originated Ensign Pavel Chekov on Star Trek and died this week at 90, saying the actor ‘genuinely loved the Star Trek community.’
Eric Bauza, the Emmy-winning Canadian voice actor who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes characters for Warner Bros. Animation, died Sunday. He was 46.
Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, the mop-topped Russian navigator of the starship Enterprise on Star Trek, died at 90. His career spanned more than half a century of film and television, including Alfred Bester on Babylon 5.
The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Monday that Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl LXI halftime show on February 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California — the producer of recent halftime shows taking the stage himself.
The DC horror film ‘Clayface’ opened at No. 1 with $24 million domestically and $43 million overseas, while A24’s documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ gained in its second weekend with $19.5 million, lifting its domestic total to $45.1 million.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, said she is ‘deeply distressed’ after her father, Thomas Markle, 82, became the subject of an investigation in the Philippines on suspicion of child sexual abuse material, a statement released to CBS News said.
Tom Skerritt, the Emmy-winning US actor whose six-decade career spanned ‘MAS*H’, ‘Alien’, ‘Top Gun’, ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘Picket Fences’, has died of natural causes aged 93, his family said.
Regal will release all six episodes of Heated Rivalry in more than 650 US theaters for a limited run November 6-30, two episodes at a time.
Andrew Shue and Marilee Fiebig, the respective ex-spouses of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, are engaged after nearly three years together.
Julia Stiles told Extra she asked Michelle Williams for permission before dedicating a Dancing With the Stars tribute to Heath Ledger.
Talking Heads are preparing New Feeling, a career-spanning coffee-table book featuring handwritten lyrics, original album sketches, and private photos.
The TV Festival, formerly the Edinburgh TV Festival, announced dates for its first Greater Manchester edition with Wayne Garvie as advisory chair.
John Anderson, the Country Music Hall of Fame inductee known for “Swingin’,” “Seminole Wind” and “Straight Tequila Night,” died Wednesday at the age of 71, his family announced on his social media accounts.
