Frank Masi/Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) — Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw still had plenty of gas left in the tank, speeding its way to a second week at number one at the box office with an estimated $25.4 million. Overseas, the Fast & Furious spinoff delivered an estimated $60.8 million, bringing its worldwide total to …
Leslie Jones announces Netflix comedy special to air in 2020
Netlfix(LOS ANGELES) — Leslie Jones announced Thursday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live that she’s starring in her first Netflix special to air next year, and Netflix made it official on Friday. “Y’all finally get to see like what I really do,” Jones said on Kimmel. “I am actually a standup comic. I mean, it’s great to …
Jake Lacy talks new movie ‘Ode To Joy’, recalls joy of going from a “superfan” of ‘The Office’ to a castmember
L-R: Martin Freeman, Jake Lacy/IFC Films(NEW YORK) — Actor Jake Lacy’s name might not ring a bell, but you probably know him as Pete Miller on the ninth and final season of The Office. He’s been busy of late, appearing opposite Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell in the series Fosse/Verdon, and wrapping a series adaptation of Nick …
Will William Shatner beam aboard ‘Dancing with the Stars’?
ABC(NEW YORK) — On Good Morning America on Friday to promote his new History show The UnXplained, William Shatner got a surprise message from his pal Tom Bergeron — who tried once again to recruit the Star Trek star for Tom’s returning series Dancing with the Stars. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Shatner if he’d do …
To honor sitcom’s 25th anniversary, new LEGO set allows the ‘Friends’ cast to really click
LEGO(LOS ANGELES) — We always knew Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Joey, and Phoebe really clicked…and now they’ll be able to do that literally, thanks to a new LEGO set commemorating Friends‘ 25th anniversary. On September 1, the company will release a 1,070 piece LEGO set depicting the show’s Central Perk coffee shop. Along with minifigure …
Idris Elba still hasn’t seen ‘Endgame’, but has his eyes on playing the all-seeing Heimdall for Marvel again
ABC(NEW YORK) — (SPOILER ALERT) Avengers: Endgame is the highest-grossing movie of all time, but if you run into Marvel movie star Idris Elba, please don’t tell him how it ends. “I have it seen it, so no spoilers!” the Hobbs & Shaw star admitted to ABC Radio. Elba, who played the all-seeing Norse god …
‘The Kitchen,’ ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ lead a busy box office weekend
(L-R) Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish in “The Kitchen”; Alison Cohen Rosa/Warner Bros. Pictures(NEW YORK) — Opening nationwide on Friday: * The Kitchen — This live-action adaptation of the DC comics miniseries of the same name stars Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss as the wives of Irish mobsters in New York …
Stars of ‘The Brady Bunch’ to walk the shag carpet for HGTV’s ‘A Very Brady Renovation’ premiere
HGTV(LOS ANGELES) — Here’s the story, of a lovely family, whose famous TV home just got rebuilt. That story — the 2018 renovation of the world-famous North Hollywood home known as the “Brady Bunch house” — is the centerpiece of HGTV’s new series A Very Brady Renovation…and the Brady family will soon gather to celebrate. …
‘This Is Us’ star Milo Ventimiglia on winning Emmys, working with animals, and ‘Racing In The Rain’
© 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. (NEW YORK) — Based on the best-selling novel by Garth Stein, the film The Art of Racing in the Rain stars This Is Us patriarch Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried and an adorable golden retriever named Enzo. The film has Ventimiglia playing Denny, an aspiring Formula One …
Date set for Cuba Gooding Jr. sexual misconduct trial
iStock/Pattanaphong Khuankaew(NEW YORK) — Cuba Gooding Jr.’s sexual misconduct trial will begin September 3. A New York City judge announced the date Thursday. The Boyz n the Hood star had sought to dismiss the forcible touching case, arguing that a video of his encounter with the woman whose accusations form the substance of the charges …