Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO(LOS ANGELES) — Game of Thrones fans were disappointed when Jon Snow’s faithful direwolf, Ghost, didn’t make any appearances in the show’s seventh season. But here’s the good news: He’ll be re-appearing in the show’s forthcoming final season. Speaking about the new season, the show’s visual effects supervisor Joe Bauer tells HuffPost, …
Alec Baldwin posts Twitter message to Kanye West after rapper’s pro-Trump speech at ‘SNL’
Will Heath/NBC(NEW YORK) — Alec Baldwin, who plays President Trump on SNL, has some choice words for Kanye West, who went on a non-televised pro-Trump rant following his performance on SNL Saturday. Baldwin posted a five-part message to the rapper on Twitter Monday. He begins, “Dear Kanye, Your support of Trump is certainly your right. …
Report: ‘Black Mirror’ to have choose-your-own-adventure episode in new season
Jonathan Prime / Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Black Mirror is about to get interactive. According to a report from Bloomberg, the popular Netflix sci-fi anthology series is planning a choose-your-adventure episode — meaning viewers will get the chance to decide how the storyline plays out. The Black Mirror episode will be the first of several forays …
Lin-Manuel Miranda returning to Hamilton in Puerto Rico, and you could win tickets
ABC/Heidi Gutman(PUERTO RICO) — Lin-Manuel Miranda is returning to Hamilton for a good cause. People reports Miranda will be reprising the role of Alexander Hamilton for 24 performances of his Tony award-winning musical at the University of Puerto Rico, as a way to help bring joy to the island as it continues to recover from …
‘Rocketman’ teaser blasts off
Paramount Pictures (HOLLYWOOD) — Paramount Pictures has released the first teaser for Rocketman, the upcoming biopic about Elton John. The snippet shows Kingsman series star Taron Egerton channeling a ’70s-era Elton, complete with his receding hairline, and as many costume changes as one would expect from the legendary performer. “There are moments in a rock star’s …
Gwyneth Paltrow makes wedding Instagram official
ABC/Kevin Mazur; Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — Gwyneth Paltrow made her marriage to her fiancé, TV producer Brad Falchuk, Instagram official on Sunday. Paltrow shared a photo of her and Falchuk’s hands, one on top of the other, proudly displaying their simple, thin gold wedding bands. Paltrow, 46, and Falchuk, 47, tied the knot in New …
A very angry Matt Damon guest stars as Brett Kavanaugh on ‘SNL’ premiere
NBC/Will Heath(NEW YORK) — Matt Damon was the latest A-lister to join Saturday Night Live as he guest starred as an angry Brett Kavanaugh in the season premiere’s cold open. In a sketch parodying the Senate Judiciary Committee nominee hearings from Thursday, when the judge hotly denied accusations of sexual assault by Dr. Christine Blasey …
‘Night School’ scores an A-plus box office weekend with $28 million
Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish in “Night School”; Universal(NEW YORK) — Night School topped the weekend box office with an estimated $28 million weekend. Overseas, the comedy from Malcolm Lee and Will Packer — the duo behind last year’s Girls Trip — starring Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, grabbed an estimated $5.5 million. The weekend’s …
Jamie Lee Curtis says new Halloween sequel is a horror movie for the #MeToo age
Andrew Eccles/Universal Pictures(HOLLYWOOD) — In a new cover story for Entertainment Weekly, Jamie Lee Curtis explains how her new Halloween sequel has evolved since the original film in 1978. This time around, Curtis’ Laurie Strode takes on masked murderer Michael Myers with the help of her daughter and granddaughter. She says the film — directed …
‘Night School’ director Malcolm Lee and producer Will Packer share the bumpy process of how Kevin Hart’s idea for the film eventually landed
Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) — Girls Trip director Malcolm Lee and producer Will Packer are sharing details of how their new comedy, Night School, came about and why the upcoming film had a bit of a bumpy start. Packer tells ABC Radio that the film — which follows Kevin Hart as a high school drop out …