Getty Images An ongoing dispute between ABC News’ parent company, Disney, and DirecTV will apparently leave millions of customers in the dark for Tuesday night’s presidential debate on ABC. Disney had announced it would allow viewers to watch the face-off between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris via “a three-hour feed of ABC News coverage to …
Amid DirecTV dispute, Disney allowing blacked-out customers to catch Tuesday’s presidential debate
ABC News/Al Drago An ongoing dispute between ABC News’ parent company, Disney, and DirecTV had threatened to leave millions of customers in the dark for Tuesday night’s presidential debate on ABC. However, Disney has announced it is allowing the viewers to watch the face-off between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Disney-owned …
Bad Bunny snags role in ‘Happy Gilmore 2’
Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Recording artist and actor Bad Bunny has taken the Bullet Train to work with Adam Sandler. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the star will join Sandler for the anticipated follow-up, but his role is still unknown. For that matter, nothing really is known about the project, save original stars Julie Bowen — now an alumna …
Larry David’s live tour widens to 10 new cities
HBO/John P. Johnson Larry David was called a “walking f****** virus” on his show Curb Your Enthusiasm, and now it seems that he’s spreading. His A Conversation with Larry David shows, which began with a pair of shows in the spring, will expand to 10 new cities. Aside from a previously announced Sept. 20 gig …
Shailene Woodley to play Janis Joplin in new biopic
Julie Snow/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Shailene Woodley is set to star as rocker Janis Joplin in a new biopic funded by the California Film Commission’s Film and Television Tax Credit Program. The film is one of 15 independent projects to receive funding from the commission. “California meant so much to Janis Joplin – from the stoops …
Lacey Chabert’s daughter asks why people keep trying to make “fetch” happen
MediaPunch/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Lacey Chabert‘s Mean Girls character, Gretchen Wieners, will forever be tied to the word “fetch,” and apparently so is the actress. The star explained to Today on Monday that the word — and the diss that followed, “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen” — follows her everywhere in real life, to the apparent …
‘Shang-Chi’ director Destin Daniel Cretton reportedly circling fourth Tom Holland ‘Spider-Man’ movie
(L-R) – Cretton, Simu Liu on ‘Shang-Chi’ set/Marvel Studios Destin Daniel Cretton, who directed the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe entry Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and is developing the Disney+ Marvel Studios series Wonder Man, might just swing into the director’s chair on Tom Holland‘s fourth Spider-Man movie. That’s according to The …
Ryan Seacrest makes ‘Wheel of Fortune’ host debut, kicks off new era with Vanna White
Eric McCandless/Sony Pictures Television Ryan Seacrest has kicked off a new era of Wheel of Fortune with his co-host, Vanna White. Seacrest made his debut Monday for season 42 of the iconic game show and began the show by walking out on the new set with White. “So happy to be here with you,” Seacrest told White. …
Kevin Costner, Mark Hamill and more pay tribute to ‘Star Wars’ actor James Earl Jones
Universal/Gordon/Kobal/Shutterstock As soon as news broke that legendary actor and voice over artist James Earl Jones died Monday at 93, Hollywood took to social media to mourn. Jones, who famously voiced Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and Mufasa in the 1994 and 2019 Lion King films, died on Monday morning at his home in Dutchess County, New York, …
In brief: Michael McKean Broadway bound in ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ and more
Deadline reports Michael McKean, of This is Spinal Tap fame, is joining his Better Call Saul co-star Bob Odenkirk, Succession‘s Kieran Culkin and comedian Bill Burr in the upcoming Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. McKean will play George Aaronow, the timid real estate salesman portrayed by Mike Nussbaum on Broadway in 1984 …