L-R Anthony Russo, Joe Russo/ABC(LOS ANGELES) — Joe and Anthony Russo, who directed four Marvel blockbusters, including the most recent, Avengers: Endgame, are adapting the popular card-based adventure game Magic: The Gathering into an animated series for Netflix. ABC Radio has learned that the pair will produce the project along with Hasbro and Wizards of …
Is James Holzhauer’s winning streak in ‘Jeopardy!’?
Jeopardy! Productions(LOS ANGELES) — (SPOILER ALERT) Footage that’s making the rounds online seems to show that the record-breaking run by James Holzhauer, the current Jeopardy! champ, ends tonight. Following 32 straight wins, Holzhauer apparently was dethroned by librarian Emma Boettcher when the pair both correctly answered the Final Jeopardy question. Professional gambler Holzhauer was one game …
Tony Soprano’s NJ house is on sale for $3.4 million
Photo by Bobby Bank/WireImage(NEW JERSEY) — The North Caldwell, New Jersey property that Tony Soprano called home on the HBO series The Sopranos from 1999-2007 is up for sale, with an asking price of $3.4 million, according to The New York Times. The 5,600-square-foot house, set on a 1.5-acre lot, has undergone a few cosmetic changes …
‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ reigns at the box office with $49 million debut
Warner Bros. Pictures(NEW YORK) — Warner Brothers’ Godzilla: King of the Monsters roared it’s way to the top of the box office this weekend, just not as mightily as expected. The third installment in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, following 2014’s Godzilla and 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, delivered an estimated $49 million, slightly below the $50-$55 million the studio had predicted, and well below Godzilla‘s …
Ahead of Sunday night’s premiere, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ star Colman Domingo calls season five “epic”
AMC(NEW YORK) — Colman Domingo has been one of the few remaining original stars of AMC’s spin-off Fear The Walking Dead, and much of that is due to the mysterious charm of his character Victor Strand. “He’s like peeling open a nice sweet and bitter onion,” Domingo laughs to ABC Radio while describing his smooth-talking …
Producer Matthew Vaughn talks Elton, floating fans and the “true fantasy” that is ‘Rocketman’
L-R – Producers Matthew Vaughn, David Furnish — Dave Allocca/Starpix(NEW YORK) — Matthew Vaughn is the filmmaker behind the hit X-Men: First Class and the Kingsman movies — the latter of which featured quite possibly the most famous cameo performer in the world: Elton John. Elton’s tapped Vaughn to co-produce the long-in-development cinematic life story …
Netflix reveals ‘Dark Crystal’ prequel series trailer; Mark Hamill weighs in
Netflix(NEW YORK) — The first trailer for the Netflix original series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance arrived Thursday. The Jim Henson Company’s beloved 1982 fantasy puppet film followed Jen, an elf-like creature called a Gelfling, and his quest to find a magic crystal that can restore order to his world. And the prequel series …
IKEA campaign replicates famous rooms from ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Friends’, and ‘Stranger Things’
IKEA(NEW YORK) — IKEA, the Swedish furnishing giant best known for inexpensive, occasionally impossible to build home furnishings, has looked to Hollywood for a new overseas online ad campaign. Specifically, the company’s “Real Life Series” replicated three famous living rooms — from The Simpsons, Monica’s apartment from Friends, and the Christmas light-festooned living room of …
Tiffany Haddish gets emotional as she recounts her “very violent” struggles with her mother
Photo by Dominik Bindl/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival (LOS ANGELES) — Tiffany Haddish is opening up about her rough upbringing and tumultuous relationship with her mother Leola. In a clip from an upcoming episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman on Netflix, Haddish shares that after her mother survived a car …
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston reveal they were “friends before ‘Friends'”; and NBA stars read mean tweets on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night’
Scott Yamano/Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Jimmy Kimmel returned to prime time for the 12th straight year, in conjunction with the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors, for Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night. On Thursday night, before the big NBA Finals game one between the defending champion Warriors and the upstart Raptors, …