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 …
Holy Cease and Desist, Batman! Warner Bros. calls ‘Dark Knight’ music in Trump re-election video unauthorized
Warner Bros.(LOS ANGELES) — Like a black caped figure on a dark Gotham City night, lawyers for Warner Bros. have swooped in. They’ve gotten a Donald Trump reelection video taken down from Twitter…or at least from the President’s own Twitter page. At issue was the use of the track “Why Do We Fall” — part …
‘Grease’ prequel ‘Summer Loving’ in the works
Getty Images/Archive Photos/Stringer(NEW YORK) — Summer Loving is coming as a prequel to the 1978 blockbuster Grease. Paramount on Tuesday said it was developing a story about the backstory of how John Travolta’s Danny Zuko and Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy Olsson met — an encounter they later sing about in the unforgettable Grease tune “Summer Nights.” …
Watch now: Live-action Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ has an eye-popping new trailer
Disney(LOS ANGELES) — With just 100 days until its premiere, the trailer for Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of The Lion King is here. The film, directed by Iron Man‘s Jon Favreau, features an all-star cast: Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, Billy Eichner as Timon, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Simba’s …
More than super friends — “family”: Robert Downey Jr. calls his Marvel movie run “a blessed affair”
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — With Avengers: Endgame hitting theaters in just a matter of weeks, the movie has already shattered every pre-sales record to date, and has many in the industry wondering if it could be the first ever to make $300 million in a single day. Robert Downey Jr., the then-unlikely star upon whose …
What Is…the biggest one-day win on ‘Jeopardy!’
Sony Pictures Television/CBS(NEW YORK) — What a difference a day made for James Holzhauer — he broke Jeopardy‘s single-day cash winnings record on Tuesday with a total of $110,914. The 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada, beat the previous record of $77,000 in a single game, set by Roger Craig on September 19, 2010. “I said …