Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television Mark Margolis, the veteran character actor who played drug kingpin Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and its prequel series, Better Call Saul, has died at 83 years old. Margolis, who appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies over the years, including The Blacklist, Black Swan and Scarface, died in a …
‘The Office’ vet Leslie David Baker returning more than $110,000 to online donors for sidelined Stanley spinoff
Amanda Edwards/Getty Images Uncle Stan was to center on Stanley’s Florida retirement getting interrupted so he could help his nephew in Los Angeles with his “motorcycle-florist shop,” according to an in-character tease Baker performed on the donation website page in 2021. However, the project never came to be — despite Kickstarter pledges reaching more than …
Zachary Levi clarifies feelings after calling certain SAG-AFTRA strike rules “so dumb”
Good Morning America As has been reported, some of the rules of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike don’t expressly forbid stars from attending certain fan conventions, but they aren’t allowed to promote even their past work. Zachary Levi is now clarifying his feelings about those rules, after comments he made at last week’s Manchester Comic Con in New Hampshire. …
Welcome to “Flo-ver town”: Florence Pugh in love with her Guy Fieri-like ‘do
Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images for Universal Pictures Apart from starring in films like Oppenheimer and Dune: Part Two, Florence Pugh has graced the cover of Vogue and collaborated with fashion houses like Valentino. The latest look she’s rocking, however, isn’t from the chic streets of Paris or Milan, but Flavortown. On her Instagram Story, Pugh said her blonde buzzcut reminds …
‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ stars reminisce on landing their first Marvel jobs
Iwuji as the High Evolutionary – Marvel Studios Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is now streaming on Disney+. The blockbuster, of course, stars returning cast members from the previous movies, including Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Dave Bautista as Drax and Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper voicing, respectively, Groot and Rocket. Some newcomers also joined the universe this time around. How they got …
‘Mob Land’ director Nicholas Maggio on his homage to 90s crime dramas
Lionsgate John Travolta is a small town sheriff with some big problems in the new film Mob Land, opening in theaters on Friday. The violent crime thriller, written and directed by Nicholas Maggio, also stars Stephen Dorff, Ashley Benson, Kevin Dillon, and Shiloh Fernandez. Maggio tells ABC Audio the film’s premise — “Small town family …
In Brief: ‘Barbie’ streaming plans, and more
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that Barbie will start streaming on Max in the fall, according to Deadline. The film, starring Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie, crossed the $400 million mark at the domestic box office on Thursday, August 3 in its 14th day, beating Top Gun: Maverick and Super Mario Bros. Movie …
Niecy Nash-Betts graces the cover of the newest issue of Netflix’s magazine, ‘Queue’
Netflix’s ‘Queue’ The 13th issue of Netflix’s hard-copy magazine, Queue, is now available and this time around, the cover model is DAHMER‘s Niecy Nash-Betts. With Ryan Murphy‘s DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story earning 13 Emmy nominations, Niecy describes the acclaimed serial killer series in which she played Cleveland as “a jarring reminder that …
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher rallies striking actors with New York City picket line appearances
Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher took New York City by storm on Thursday, August 3, making multiple appearances at picket lines to rally striking actors. To cheers, Drescher took to the podium at the picket line outside of HBO’s New York offices. According to video of the event sourced by Variety, she told …
Prime Video re-ups ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ for a third season
Courtesy Prime Video Weeks ahead of the show’s August 18 second season finale, Prime Video has announced it has given the green light for a third season of The Summer I Turned Pretty. The show, based on the bestselling trilogy from author-turned-TV producer Jenny Han — who also wrote the book-turned-movie series To All the …