ABC(NEW YORK) — Kelsey Grammer can be seen as a once-absentee dad looking to make amends to his onscreen daughter Kristen Bell in the Netflix film Like Father. The Emmy-winning actor tells ABC Radio that his character — who returns to his daughter’s life for her wedding, just before she gets left at the altar …
Academy Awards promise a leaner show, and a new Oscar category for popular movies
AMPAS(LOS ANGELES) — Remember that Chris Rock Oscars bit in 2016 where Rock, that year’s host, quizzed people on the street as to whether or not they’d seen that year’s Academy Award-nominated movies? And it turned out that many people hadn’t even heard of the movies in question, let alone seen them? Well, that may …
‘Stranger Things” young cast among Top 30 Stars Under Age 18, tallies ‘The Hollywood Reporter’
Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown, Eighth Grade’s Elsie Fisher and A Wrinkle in Time’s Storm Reid are among the young stars on The Hollywood Reporter’s first-ever list of Top 30 Stars Under Age 18. The list ranks the breakout kid actors of 2018 based on their successful career choices, expanding paychecks and …
CBS combines investigations of Les Moonves, CBS News
Photo: Bill Inoshita/CBS 2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(NEW YORK) — CBS News announced Tuesday that the corporation’s board of directors is folding the investigations of two recently hired legal firms investigating sexual misconduct allegations against CEO Les Moonves into an earlier investigation into harassment claims against former CBS This Morning anchor Charlie Rose. CBS said the investigation …
Angelina Jolie accuses Brad Pitt of not paying enough child support
Photo by Socrates Baltagiannis/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Angelina Jolie claims that ex-husband Brad Pitt isn’t paying a “meaningful” amount of child support, according to new a new court filing released Tuesday. “[Pitt] has a duty to pay child support,” the court document reads. “As of present, [Pitt] has paid no meaningful child support since …
‘Dog Days’ gets a paw up on the weekend’s new movies
Jacob Yakob / LD Entertainment(LOS ANGELES) — Opening nationwide Wednesday: * Dog Days — Nina Dobrev and Vanessa Hudgens lead the cast of this ensemble comedy about a group of people in Los Angeles whose lives become intertwined, thanks to their dogs. Also starring Eva Longoria, Tig Notaro, Luke Cage‘s Ron Cephas Jones and Stranger Things‘ Finn Wolfhard. Rated …
‘The Bachelorette’s’ Becca Kufrin wants the “haters” to support her relationship with Garrett
ABC/Heidi Gutman(NEW YORK) — In an emotional finale of The Bachelorette Monday, Becca Kufrin chose Garrett Yrigoyen to spend her forever with, but the rest of America doesn’t necessarily agree with her decision. In the middle of the season, controversy around Garrett’s questionable social media habits surfaced. It appeared he “liked” Instagram posts that supported sexist, …
Netflix closing in on new comedy staring Lil Rel Howery, Kevin Hart, and Don Cheadle
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — A new comedy starring Lil Rel Howery, Don Cheadle and Kevin Hart could be coming to Netflix. Deadline has learned that the streaming service is currently in negotiations to acquire Black Stallions, a comedy that follows rival brother jockeys played by Howery and Cheadle. Deadline says Hart will have “showy moments of …
CW casts openly gay star Ruby Rose as lesbian heroine Batwoman
CW(LOS ANGELES) — The CW has found its Batwoman. Openly gay Orange Is The New Black actress Ruby Rose, recently seen in Pitch Perfect 3 and John Wick: Chapter 2, has been cast as DC Comics heroine Kate Kane, aka Batwoman, a social justice warrior and street fighter who’s also a lesbian. The Vampire Diaries’ …
Want to join Deadpool’s super-duper team? Check out his selfie museum
20th Century Fox(LOS ANGELES) — If you’ve always wanted to join a tough, morally flexible, gender-neutral superhero team — and you happen to be in New York City this week — you’re in luck. Big-screen superhero Deadpool is opening up a Believe In Your Selfie Museum, which promises — nay, vows, in the words of …