ABC/Craig Sjodin(LOS ANGELES) — It’s no lie: Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro will be helming a stop-motion musical version of Pinocchio for Netflix. Variety reports del Toro will write and produce the film — about a puppet who wants to be a real boy — in addition to directing it. His version of the children’s classic …
Marvel’s ‘Daredevil’ is back — but “he’s a pretty broken man,” says star Charlie Cox
David Lee/Netflix(NEW YORK) — Maybe you’ve already binged it, but if not, the new season of Marvel’s Daredevil just hit Netflix on Friday. The show picks up where Marvel’s The Defenders left off: Blind lawyer-turned-superhero Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, is being nursed back to health in a convent after being buried underneath the rubble of …
Actress Selma Blair reveals MS diagnosis: “I hope to give some hope to others”
ABC/Richard Cartwright(HOLLYWOOD) — Legally Blonde actress Selma Blair revealed that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis on her Instagram this weekend. “I have #multiplesclerosis,” she wrote in a caption. “I am in an exacerbation. Blair, who stars in the upcoming Netflix series Another Life, set to debut in 2019, continues, “By the grace of the lord, …
‘The Walking Dead’ recap – “Warning Signs”
AMC/Gene Page(NEW YORK) — (SPOILERS AHEAD) — Sundays episode of The Walking Dead starts with a newly-minted walker — the newly killed Savior Justin, snatched in the closing moments of last week’s episode; now undead. At Alexandria, Rick is up and at ’em early. He walks outside to find a perfectly ripe tomato. He leaves it near Carl’s grave. He …
‘Halloween’ delivers scary good opening weekend with box office-topping $77.5 million
Credit: Andrew Eccles/Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) — Halloween topped the box office, delivering an estimated $77.5 million in its opening weekend, slashing a franchise record. The direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, beat the franchise record opening of $26 million, previously held by the 2007 Rob Zombie reboot. The film, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role as Laurie Strode — also recorded the second …
Watch John Stamos as a pot-smoking therapist on Sunday’s ‘You’
Courtesy of Lifetime(NEW YORK) — This Sunday, John Stamos joins the Lifetime thriller You for a four-episode arc in which he plays a therapist with some unconventional methods. He plays Dr. Nicky, the therapist of Elizabeth Lail’s character Beck. Things get twisted when Beck’s stalker Joe, played by Penn Badgley, also begins seeing him. “I …
‘Halloween’s’ Jamie Lee Curtis insists its not just another slasher movie
Andrew Eccles/Universal Pictures(LOS ANGELES) — Probably one of the biggest horror movies to open this year — Halloween — opens nationwide on Friday. A direct sequel to the 1978 original, Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode, still dealing with the violent attack she suffered 40 years earlier. Curtis tells ABC Radio that the new film …
‘The Hate U Give’ cast and director weigh in on the film’s significance and why it’s more than just a black film
L-R: Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall, Amandla Stenberg, and Common in Twentieth Century Fox’s THE HATE U GIVE. Photo Credit: Erika Doss.(NEW YORK) — With today’s release of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired-film, The Hate U Give, the director George Tillman, Jr. and some of its cast are weighing in on its significance and why …
Supermodel Karlie Kloss marries Joshua Kushner
Freeform(NEW YORK) — Supermodel Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner are married. Kloss, 26, posted a beautiful picture on Thursday of herself in her wedding dress, smiling ear to ear, while Kushner, 33, lovingly looks at his new bride. She simply captioned the pic, “10.18.2018” with a heart emoji. People magazine confirms the duo tied the …
Lena Dunham shutters her digital newsletter, ‘Lenny Letter’
ABC/Lou Rocco(NEW YORK) — Lena Dunham is shuttering her digital newsletter, Lenny Letter. The newsletter — which had featured essays by Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong’o and many more during its publication — announced the closure in its final letter to subscribers Friday morning. Lena founded Lenny Letter with her producing partner Jenni Konner three years …