iStock/Rawpixel(LOS ANGELES) — Just over a week after AMC announced its intentions to reopen 450 of its 600-plus U.S. theaters on July 15, the chain has pushed that date back two weeks to July 30. “We continue to devote extraordinary resources into our plan to operate our theatres with a hyper commitment to the safety …
YouTube star Liza Koshy apologizes for racially insensitive videos
Steve Granitz/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — Liza Koshy is the latest YouTube star to face backlash over a couple of 2016 videos that resurfaced last week, of which Koshy and her then-boyfriend, David Dobrik, used mock Japanese accents. In response to the controversy, Koshy posted a statement to her Instagram and YouTube pages on Sunday, apologizing for her past actions. “While we focus on …
Heat Advisory issued June 29 at 2:05PM MDT until June 29 at 7:00PM MDT by NWS
…HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING… * WHAT…Heat index values to around 100 degrees. * WHERE…Brule, Jerauld, Sanborn, Gregory, Douglas, Charles Mix, Aurora, Davison and Beadle Counties. * WHEN…Until 8 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS…Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
“I am ashamed”: Florence Pugh apologizes for past cultural appropriation
ABC/Eric McCandless(LOS ANGELES) — She may play an chameleonic assassin in Marvel’s delayed Black Widow movie, but a series of “looks” in Florence Pugh’s past has led her to apologize for committing cultural appropriation. In a lengthy Instagram post, the actress says she’s “ashamed” at looking back at photos she’d taken in her younger years, in which she’d worn …
Jennifer Hudson dazzles as Aretha Franklin in new ‘Respect’ trailer
MGM(LOS ANGELES) — Jennifer Hudson wowed during the 2020 BET Awards Sunday night, in more ways than one. First, the 38-year-old American Idol alum delivered a tribute performance of Aretha Franklin’s 1972 hit, “Young, Gifted, and Black,” for the virtual awards show. Then we got a taste of Hudson Franklin in the trailer for Respect, the upcoming biopic about the …
Curtains: Broadway closed for the rest of the year
iStock/400tmax(NEW YORK) — It’s no surprise, but now it’s official: the Great White Way won’t be back for the rest of the year. Some 31 Broadway productions had been closed on March 12, when restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic began going into effect. For his part, The Broadway League’s Thomas Schumacher said in a statement, “The safety of …
‘Jack Ryan’ star Wendell Pierce wants the role of ‘The Cleveland Show”s Cleveland Brown
© 2019 TCFFC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED./FOX — Sarah Shatz/Amazon Prime(LOS ANGELES) — With Mike Henry, a white voiceover actor stepping down from playing African American character Cleveland Brown, actor Wendell Pierce has thrown his hat into the ring to fill the void. Henry voiced the soft-spoken character for 20 years, on both Family Guy and its spin-off, The Cleveland Show. Last …
Report: Margot Robbie boarding female-fronted ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ project
ABC/Kelsea McNeal(LOS ANGELES) — Margot Robbie and Christina Hodson, the latter of whom wrote Robbie’s Birds of Prey film, are teaming up for a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie for Disney. The Hollywood Reporter explains the project, based on the famed Disney Parks ride, is said to be centered on original female characters. The film is separate from a reboot of …
Heat Advisory issued June 29 at 9:25AM MDT until June 29 at 7:00PM MDT by NWS
…HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING… * WHAT…Heat index values up to 103 expected. * WHERE…Portions of central, east central, south central and southeast South Dakota, mainly west of Highway 81. * WHEN…From 1 PM this afternoon to 8 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS…Hot temperatures and high humidity may …
Ryan Reynolds hilariously crashes ‘X-Men’ Zoom reunion
Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — One would think that quarantine would have eliminated awkward run-ins with people, but as Ryan Reynolds proves, those interactions haven’t gone anywhere. They’ve simply reemerged in the form of crashed Zoom calls. On Saturday, the original X-Men cast reunited in support of Global Citizen on a video call to …