ABC/Eric McCandless(LOS ANGELES) — The votes are in, and our new American Idol is — Laine Hardy. This season came to a close with an epic three-hour finale Sunday night, complete with a real-time vote that whittled the finalists from three down to two, until finally the winner was crowned. After the first round of …
‘Game of Thrones’ finale: Fans are satisfied — mostly — at Chicago viewing party
HBO(CHICAGO) — (SPOILERS AHEAD) There are potentially as many weekly Game of Thrones viewing parties, big and small, around the world as there are fans. But one of the biggest — and best-known, thanks to the tremendously entertaining reaction videos posted on YouTube — happens at The Burlington bar, located in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. …
Scarlett Johansson and ‘SNL’ star Colin Jost are engaged
Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney(NEW YORK) — Avengers: Endgame star Scarlett Johansson and her boyfriend of two years, Saturday Night Live cast member Colin Jost are engaged, a rep for the actress tells Entertainment Tonight. Adds the rep, “No date has been set for the nuptials.” This will the first trip down …
Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump closes ‘SNL”s 44th season with a song about his second term
Will Heath/NBC(NEW YORK) — Saturday Night Live ended its season last weekend on a musical note, with Alec Baldwin’s President Donald Trump and his crew delivering a parody of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Baldwin introduced the musical number by announcing, “I’m very excited about summer, getting in those things that I never have time …
‘Game of Thrones’ series finale recap: “The Iron Throne”
Courtesy of HBO(NEW YORK) — (SPOILERS AHEAD) So it’s come to this — the very last episode of Game of Thrones. The 73rd and final installment of HBO’s massive fantasy epic premiered Sunday night, with only 80 minutes to close every storyline, satisfy every character arc and try to win back the more than one million grumpy fans …
‘John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum’ takes out ‘Avengers: Endgame’ with #1 box office debut
Niko Tavernise/Lionsgate(NEW YORK) — John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum ended Avengers: Endgame‘s three-week run at number one, beating expectations with an estimated $57 million opening weekend. The third chapter in the John Wick film franchise, starring Keanu Reeves as the master assassin, also topped both of its predecessors’ opening weekends: the first and second …
‘Game of Thrones’ finale “will be talked about for a very long time,” says “EW” reporter who was on set
HBO/Helen Sloan(LOS ANGELES) — Who will sit on the Iron Throne? We’ll find out Sunday night at 9 p.m. as HBO’s Game of Thrones airs its final episode. After last week’s shocking turn of events, it’s anyone’s guess as to what will happen, but Entertainment Weekly‘s James Hibberd, who got a sneak preview, says it’s …
Going out with a ‘Big Bang’: Series finale scores 18 million viewers
Michael Yarish/CBS(LOS ANGELES) — Last night’s series finale of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory drew 18 million viewers — the show’s highest numbers since 2015, Variety reports. The two-part episode — which saw Jim Parson’s Dr. Sheldon Cooper and his onscreen wife, Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler, played by Miyim Bialik, share the Nobel Prize for …
Will Smith, Queen Latifah to produce hip hop ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for Netflix
Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — Will Smith and Queen Latifah are heading back to their musical roots with their latest project. Netflix has announced that Smith and Latifah are teaming up to produce a contemporary version of Romeo and Juliet, in the form of a hip-hop musical. The new iteration is said to follow …
Stefon Bristol says his Netflix time travel film ‘See You Yesterday’ draws from 90s sci-fi nostalgia
L-R: Eden Duncan-Smith, Dante Crichlow — Netflix/Linda Kallerüs(NEW YORK) — Stefon Bristol is over the moon about See You Yesterday, his directorial debut for Netflix. Bristol’s film follows two high school prodigies who develop a time machine and later use it to save a family member’s life when he’s wrongly shot by police. Although Bristol’s …