Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — The City of Chicago has made good on its promise to sue Empire actor Jussie Smollett to recover the cost of their investigation into his claim that he was the victim of a hate crime attack earlier this year. ABC News obtained a copy of the lawsuit Thursday, released by the Chicago …
Regina Hall wants to go from ‘Little’ to serial killer onscreen
ABC/Paula Lobo(NEW YORK) — Regina Hall is ready to show off her evil side. In an interview with Essence, Hall, who’ll be seen Friday opposite Marsai Martin and Issa Rae in the new comedy Little, says she’s ready to take on a completely different type of role in her next movie. The Girls Trip star …
They can’t talk about ‘Endgame’, so Paul Rudd and Jeremy Renner “created” ’50 Year-Old Virgins’
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — Marvel movie stars Paul Rudd and Jeremy Renner have teamed up again. The big-screen’s Ant-Man and Hawkeye have co-created a comedy called 50 Year-Old Virgins. Sort of. For celebrities on a big film, part of the bargain is traveling the world to do countless interviews to promote it. In the case …
Personal tragedy led ‘Walking Dead’ & ‘Prison Break’ star Sarah Wayne Callies to ‘Unspeakable’
Jeff Weddell/SundanceTV (NEW YORK) — Sarah Wayne Callies is a veteran of beloved escapist series like Walking Dead, Prison Break, and USA Network’s alien invasion show Colony — but her new show Unspeakable hits much closer to home. The SundanceTV series chronicles one of the largest medical disasters in history: the accidental HIV and Hepatitis C …
ABC’s summer schedule features fun and games, captivating drama and ‘The Bachelor’ franchise all season long
ABC/John Fleenor(LOS ANGELES) — ABC has announced its summer lineup, and it’s full of fun & games, drama and roses. Highlights include three nights of game shows, starting with the return of ABC’s popular 1970s-80s game shows Card Sharks and Press Your Luck, airing Wednesdays at 8:00 and 9:00 p.m ET, respectively, ahead of Match Game, …
Emmy winner Henry Winkler is “in the presence of greatness” on HBO’s ‘Barry’
Isabella Vosmikova/HBO(NEW YORK) — HBO’s has given the green light to a third season of its dark comedy Barry — just two episodes into its second season. SNL vet Bill Hader plays the title character, a hitman who accidentally catches the acting bug. The show, which also stars Stephen Root and Sarah Goldberg led Henry …
Felicity Huffman’s plea hearing set for May 21
Felicity Huffman outside of federal court in Boston, MA, April 3, 2019; Paul Marotta/Getty Images(BOSTON) — Former Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman will return to court May 21 to officially enter her guilty plea in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scam that rocked elite schools this spring. The Boston Herald reports Huffman was initially to have …
Bill Murray zombie movie ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ to open Cannes Film Festival
Focus Features(LOS ANGELES) — The Dead Don’t Die, a zombie film starring big names like Bill Murray, Danny Glover, Rosie Perez, Selena Gomez, Chloe Sevigny, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton, will open this year’s Cannes Film Festival on May 14, according to Variety. The movie, from acclaimed director Jim Jarmusch, is about zombies attacking the …
Kim Kardashian reveals she’s studying to become a lawyer
Mikael Jansson(LOS ANGELES) — Kim Kardashian: coming to a courtroom near you? In a new Vogue cover story, the reality star reveals that she is studying to become a lawyer, following in the footsteps of her late father Robert Kardashian. Kim says she began a four-year apprenticeship with a law firm in San Francisco last …
Jeremy Renner takes aim at ‘Hawkeye’ series for Disney+ service
Marvel Studios(NEW YORK) — Following news that Disney’s upcoming streaming service Disney+ would feature limited series based on Marvel Cinematic Universe characters like Loki, a team-up with Falcon and The Winter Soldier and Scarlet Witch, comes the news that Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye will also get his own series. Variety says the series, like the others, is …