© 2018 Paramount Pictures(LOS ANGELES) — Mission: Impossible — Fallout star Ving Rhames is speaking out about a time he had to deal with racism, on his own front doorstep. In an interview Friday with Clay Cane on SiriusXM, the 59-year-old actor explained that he was held at gunpoint in his Santa Monica home after …
Adam Rippon, Val Chmerkovskiy and choreographer Mandy Moore to judge ‘Dancing With the Stars: Juniors’
ABC(NEW YORK) — Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, two-time Mirror Ball champ Val Chmerkovsky and La La Land choreographer Mandy Moore will be judges for the upcoming spin-off series, Dancing With the Stars: Juniors. The judges for the highly-anticipated new competition that pairs celebrity kids with professional, pint-sized, ballroom dancers were revealed on Good Morning …
‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’ tops the box office with franchise-best debut
L-R: Henry Cavill, Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson in “Mission: Impossible — Fallout”; Chiabella James/© 2018 Paramount Pictures(NEW YORK) — Paramount’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout topped the weekend box office, earning an estimated $61.5 million — the largest three-day opening in the history of the franchise, topping Mission: Impossible II‘s $57.8 million debut back in …
“Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris leaving ABC Studios: “It has been an incredible ride”
ABC/Rick Rowell(HOLLYWOOD) — Kenya Barris, creator, producer and showrunner of ABC’s Black-ish and Freeform’s Grown-ish, is leaving ABC Studios, Variety reports. His current deal wasn’t set to expire until 2021. While Barris will remain an executive producer of his shows Black-ish will now have two new co-showrunners, both of whom have deals with ABC Studios. …
Omari Hardwick explains why this season of ‘Power’ has been the most “challenging” and “difficult” for him
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Omari Hardwick – ABC/Fred Lee(NEW YORK) — Omari Hardwick has played a lot of intense characters during his career, but the Sorry to Bother You star says playing the gritty “calm, cool collected” and “uber-bright” character of James “Ghost” St. Patrick on Starz’ Power has been the most challenging for …
Daveed Diggs & Rafeal Casal discuss their Oakland-based drama, ‘Blindspotting’; want to tell more hometown stories
Photo Credit: Ariel Nava(NEW YORK) — Real-life friends and Oakland natives Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal have teamed up for their Oakland based drama, Blindspotting. The film centers on Diggs’ character, Collin, and the complicated relationship he has with his best friend, Miles. Casal, who plays Miles, says they wanted to make the film to …
Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams & the late Carrie Fisher will all appear in “Star Wars: Episode IX”
Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney(HOLLYWOOD) — Carrie Fisher may have left us, but General Leia Organa lives on. Despite denials last year that the late actress would appear in Star Wars: Episode IX, Disney announced Friday that Fisher’s Leia Organa will indeed be present in the film, “using previously unreleased footage shot for Star Wars: …
Anthony Mackie swoops into the lead role for season two of ‘Altered Carbon’
Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Marvel movie star Anthony Mackie will be the new face — and body — of Takeshi Kovacs for season two of Netflix’s Altered Carbon. The sci-fi series, based on the science fiction novels written by Richard K. Morgan, centers on far-future tech that lets people transfer their consciousness into new bodies. This …
Superman himself, Henry Cavill, on fighting as a mere mortal in ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’
© 2018 Paramount PicturesSuperman himself, Henry Cavill, gets to show his fighting chops without the benefit of any superpowers in the explosive new Mission: Impossible – Fallout. One of the movie’s setpieces is a bruising bathroom fight in which his CIA assassin character, August Walker, helps Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt tackle a baddie played by …
Michelle Williams marries in ultra-secret wedding: ‘I never gave up on love’
Photo by Laurent KOFFEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Surprise! Actress Michelle Williams is married. The four-time Oscar nominee revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair that by the time the magazine went to print, she would have wed singer-songwriter Phil Elverum in a secret ceremony in the Adirondacks. A representative for the actress …