Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions(NEW YORK) — Hit Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen is coming to the big screen. Universal Pictures has acquired movie rights for the six-time Tony award-winning musical, the company confirmed to ABC News. Ben Platt is reportedly in talks to reprise his role as the title character, Evan Hansen, …
Megan Fox confirms she dated Shia LaBeouf while shooting ‘Transformers’
Charles Sykes/Bravo(NEW YORK) — Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf’s friendship transformed into something more on the set of 2007’s Transformers. Fox confirmed on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live Thursday night that she and LaBeouf did indeed have a fling while working together. “I mean, I would confirm that it was romantic,” she said when asked about …
Dennis Quaid releases full-length debut album, explains how his band The Sharks got its name
ABC/Jeff Neira(NEW YORK) — Dennis Quaid has portrayed musicians on screen – most notably Jerry Lee Lewis in 1989’s Great Balls of Fire – but his connection to music runs much deeper than that. The 64-year-old actor tells Good Morning America that he’s been writing songs since he was 12. Eighteen years ago, he formed …
Tune in Sunday: Models and musical performers hit the runway for the 2018 ‘Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Holiday Special’
ABC/Jeff Neira(NEW YORK) — The Angels are hitting the runway for the 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Holiday Special, airing this Sunday on ABC. Kendall Jenner, sisters Gigi and Bella Hadid, Behati Prinsloo, Winnie Harlow and Adriana Lima are among the models strutting their stuff this year in lingerie creations by British designer Mary Katrantzou. …
‘Mary Poppins Returns’ makes a magical debut at its Los Angeles world premiere
Getty Images/Alberto E. Rodriguez(LOS ANGELES) — The stars of Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns — including Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emily Mortimer, and Dick Van Dyke — as well as director Ron Marshall, attended the film’s world premiere at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood Thursday night. Joining them were celebrity guests John Krasinski — Blunt’s hubby — as well as Frozen‘s Josh Gad, Oscar winner Allison Janney, and more. …
‘Possession of Hannah Grace’ tops this weekend’s new releases
Claire Folger/©2018 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LOS ANGELES) — Opening nationwide on Friday: * Possession of Hannah Grace — This supernatural horror film stars Pretty Little Liars alum Shay Mitchell as an ex-cop who takes a job working the graveyard shift at a city hospital morgue. There, she encounters an evil entity inhabiting one of the corpses. Newcomer Kirby Johnson also stars, along with Castle‘s Stana Katic and Friday …
Watch now: Natalie Portman sings a Sia-written song in new “Vox Lux” trailer
ABC/ Paula Lobo(HOLLYWOOD) — A new trailer for the Natalie Portman pop star drama Vox Lux has debuted, featuring a new song written by Sia and her frequent collaborator, Greg Kurstin. The trailer begins with Portman’s character, Celeste, as a teenager, singing the song called “Wrapped Up” at a vigil for a school shooting. “Hey/Turn …
Women dominate ‘Entertainment Weekly’s’ Entertainers of the Year picks
L-R: Michelle Yeoh, Janice Koh, Amy J. Cheng, Selena Tan, Lisa Lu and Gemma Chan in “Crazy Rich Asians”; Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros. Pictures(NEW YORK) — From the women of the box office smash Black Panther to breakout rapper Cardi B and pop star Ariana Grande, women dominate Entertainment Weekly‘s picks for Entertainers of the Year. …
Taraji P. Henson talks diversity in Hollywood and feeling “like a boss”
Taraji P. Henson in “What Men Want”; Jess Miglio/Paramount Pictures(NEW YORK) — In a new interview with InStyle magazine, Taraji P. Henson doesn’t hold back when talking about diversity and gender equality in Hollywood. In fact, Henson opens her interview with the strong statement, “I feel like a boss b****,” citing her new role in the film What …
Quentin Tarantino marries Israeli singer Daniella Pick
Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Quentin Tarantino got hitched. According to People, the Pulp Fiction director tied the knot with Israeli singer Daniella Pick Wednesday in Los Angeles. The two met in 2009 when Tarantino was in Israel promoting his film Inglourious Basterds, but they later broke up. The couple reunited in 2015 and Tarantino proposed …