Kevin Winter/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — NBA icon and Oscar-winner Kobe Bryant was killed Sunday morning in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles, ABC News has confirmed. He was 41. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, there were five people on board the helicopter and no one survived the crash, which happened at around …
Terry Crews insists ‘America’s Got Talent’ is “the most diverse place” he’s ever worked
NBC/Trae Patton(NEW YORK) — America’s Got Talent host Terry Crews apparently had a very different experience on the set of NBC’s variety series. Amid the network’s investigation into Gabrielle Union’s departure from the show following claims of a toxic culture, Crews tells NBC’s Today that he begs to differ. “First of all, I can’t speak …
After getting jacked for ‘Marvel’s The Eternals’, Kumail Nanjiani gets treated to junk food by Jimmy Kimmel
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — Around the holidays, if you recall, actor Kumail Nanjiani found himself an unlikely viral star, when he posted a snap of his ripped body, which he whipped into shape for Marvel’s The Eternals. He talked about the situation with Jimmy Kimmel Thursday night, explaining he loved the attention — particularly from …
‘Joker’ director Todd Phillips says “intense” Joaquin Phoenix was “kind of light” on set
L-R Phoenix, Phillips/Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures(LOS ANGELES) — Oscar-nominated Hollywood filmmaker Todd Phillips has worked on a range of movie genres, but his latest hit, Joker, broke a box office record and set a high bar for awards season. Phillips, who directed, co-wrote and produced the Batman villain origin story, told Good Morning America …
Move over, Kristin Bell: Brad Pitt might take your man to the Oscars
Photo by Michael Tran/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — As we learned recently, Brad Pitt is on Tinder, but he already might have locked in a date for the Oscars: Dax Shepard. Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood nominee Pitt received the Maltin Modern Masters Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Wednesday night, when he joked …
Experts say China’s coronavirus could make Hollywood’s bottom line sick
iStock/jarun011(LOS ANGELES) — The potentially deadly coronavirus has led Chinese health officials to quarantine people and cancel many public activities — and some of those will hurt Hollywood’s bottom line. Deadline reports amid the outbreak, all local film releases scheduled for the highly lucrative Chinese New Year period have been canceled, and theaters closed. And …
Necessary Ruff-ness: Animal Planet releases lineup for ‘Puppy Bowl XVI’
Animal Planet(NEW YORK) — Some people watch the Super Bowl for the game, Others watch it for the commercials or halftime show, and some choose to forgo the entire event to watch Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl instead. Well, for fans of the latter, the entire starting lineup is out and its chock-full of adoptable puppies from all over the country …
Ewan McGregor says Disney+’s pausing ‘Kenobi’ series “isn’t as dramatic as it sounds”
ABC/Randy Holmes(NEW YORK) — (NOTE LANGUAGE) “Ah, ‘The Negotiator!’” Ewan McGregor is living up to his character Obi-Wan Kenobi’s flair for diplomacy, putting a positive spin on a much-hyped pause in production of his Disney+ Kenobi series. An online firestorm erupted after news broke Thursday that script issues forced a halt in production on the series, …
Fetch is back. Tiny Fey announces movie plans for ‘Mean Girls’ the musical
Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — Tina Fey is making fetch happen all over again. After her smash 2004 comedy Mean Girls was turned into a Broadway musical in 2017, Fey is bringing her beloved brainchild into the new century by turning the musical adaption… back into a movie. Fey announced in a statement Thursday obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, “I’m very …
‘The Gentlemen’ tops this week’s new releases
Christopher Raphael(NEW YORK) — Opening nationwide on Friday: * The Gentlemen — Guy Ritchie’s action comedy stars Matthew McConaughey as a drug lord with a profitable empire in London. His efforts to cash out of the business leads to bribery and blackmail schemes in an attempt to steal his business out from under him. Jeremy Strong, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Eddie Marsan, Colin …