ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — The forthcoming Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson as the Queen of Soul, has tapped some heavy hitters for the cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald, Tituss Burgess and Mary J. Blige have all been added to the film. They join previously …
‘Star Wars’ actor Daniel Logan thanks fans — and Jeep — after surviving ugly California wreck
Photo by Bobby Bank/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — “Thanks to Jeep for keeping me alive.” Those words came from grateful actor Daniel Logan — who played young bounty hunter-to-be Boba Fett in Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones, and voiced him on the small screen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars — following …
“It is a duty”: See Olivia Colman grappling with a changing U.K. in final trailer for ‘The Crown’ Season 3
Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Netflix has released the final trailer for the third season of The Crown, and in it, we see Oscar-winner Olivia Colman under strain as Queen Elizabeth II. Season three sees the Queen’s kingdom rapidly changing, from the Cold War through the Space Age, and into the challenges of the late ’60s and …
Report: ‘Suicide Squad’ co-star Jared Leto tried to get ‘Joker’ stopped
Clay Enos/Nikos Tavernise – Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (LOS ANGELES) — While fans were rightly confused last year when Warner Bros. announced plans to make a standalone Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix AND a second Suicide Squad movie, apparently Suicide Squad star Jared Leto was livid. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Leto was “alienated and …
Francis Ford Coppola: Marvel movies are “despicable”; James Gunn fires back
Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images(LYON, FRANCE) — Not only does Francis Ford Coppola support his fellow film-making legend Martin Scorsese’s opinion that superhero movies “aren’t cinema,” he’s now gone even further, calling them “despicable.” According to The Guardian, the Godfather series director declared, “When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures …
Chris Pratt lovingly jabs wife Katherine Schwarzenegger’s cooking skills
Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney(NEW YORK) — We assume that Katherine Schwarzenegger is many things to her new hubby Chris Pratt — but a chef is not one of them. The Marvel movie star took to Instagram to take a good-natured jab at Katherine’s cooking skills — or lack thereof — complete with …
Eva Mendes admits she hides from her kids for “me time” — encourages other moms to do the same
Adam Christopher /NBCUniversal(NEW YORK) — Sometimes parents just need a moment to themselves — even celebrity parents. Case in point: Eva Mendes. The mother of two posted a hilarious selfie on her Instagram Sunday of her hiding underneath the covers in an attempt to camouflage herself and escape her daughters. “Sunday. Still in bed. Trying to hide from my kids. (not …
Alec Baldwin reveals Lorne Michael’s “Jedi mind trick” to get him to play Donald Trump on ‘SNL’
ABC(NEW YORK) — Alec Baldwin was Jimmy Fallon’s guest on a special Sunday night edition of NBC’s The Tonight Show, and revealed the “Jedi mind trick” Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels used to get him to reprise his impersonation of President Donald Trump, despite vowing never to do it again. Baldwin says it begins with Michaels calling him up the day before the …
‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ tops the box office with a disappointing $36 million
Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney(NEW YORK) — It wasn’t the big weekend Disney had predicted for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, but the film still managed to topple Joker with an estimated $36 million haul. The sequel to 2014’s Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning, reprising their roles from the first film, delivered almost half the $69.4 million …
Quentin Tarantino bucks pressure from China to recut ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
Brian Dowling/© 2019 CTMG, Inc.(NEW YORK) — Despite China delaying the release Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, reportedly over its depiction of Bruce Lee, the filmmaker has refused the country’s demand to recut the movie. The movie had been approved for release in China this coming Friday, but regulators have suddenly changed their minds. The film has …