Universal Filmed Entertainment Group Chairman Donna Langley introduces ‘Wicked’ footage at CinemaCon;Gabe Ginsberg/WireImage On Wednesday, attendees of CinemaCon, the annual Las Vegas convention for movie theater owners, were off to see the wizard — and Ariana Grande — as they got the first glimpse of footage from the movie version of Wicked. Wicked, a novel by George Maguire, is a revisionist …
2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards: Gal Gadot, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tiffany Haddish among first announced presenters
MTV has announced its first round of presenters for May’s 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards. Newly minted Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis will log some podium time, as will Halle Bailey from the live-action The Little Mermaid, Wonder Woman‘s Gal Gadot and Daisy Jones & the Six nominee Riley Keough. The show will air …
Paramount+ drops trailer to eighth season of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’
Paramount+ On Thursday, Paramount+ dropped the trailer for the eighth season of RuPaul‘s Emmy-winning Drag Race All Stars. As always, returning performers from RuPaul’s Drag Race will compete for a chance to compete for a spot in the Drag Race Hall of Fame, along with a cash prize of $200,000. But this time around, there’s …
Bob Odenkirk saved Carol Burnett from an untimely death on ‘Better Call Saul’
(L-R) Peter Gould, Burnett, Gilligan, Rhea Seehorn, Odenkirk — Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television Carol Burnett owes her life — or at least her Better Call Saul character’s life — to series star Bob Odenkirk. Burnett, who joined the sixth and final season of AMC’s Breaking Bad prequel, played Marion, the mother of Pat Healy‘s Jeff, …
Jerry Springer, former mayor who transformed daytime TV, dead at 79
Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images Jerry Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, whose eponymous daytime show transformed talk television, has died, ABC News has confirmed. He was 79. According to his rep, Springer “died peacefully Thursday at his home in suburban Chicago.” Jene Galvin, a lifelong friend and spokesman for the family, added: “Jerry’s ability to …
Unleash the ‘Beasts’: Paramount drops new trailer to ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’
Paramount Pictures On Thursday, Paramount Pictures dropped an action-packed trailer for its June 9 release, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Set in 1994, the movie has In The Heights‘ Anthony Ramos as a human caught in the middle of an intergalactic conflict: Fan favorites like Bumblebee and Optimus Prime (veteran Peter Cullen) must team up …
Chris Evans and Ana de Armas’ ‘Ghosted’ becomes Apple TV+’s most-watched movie
Apple TV+ Ghosted, starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, has become the most-watched movie debut to date for Apple TV+, according to Deadline. The movie, which debuted April 21, saw viewership climb through Tuesday, pulling in 328,500 viewers, according to numbers crunched by streaming tracker Samba TV. That tops the first two days of …
Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died Thursday at 79. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. …
Tucker Carlson breaks his silence with viral video tweet
Jason Koerner/Getty Images After his surprise ousting at Fox News, Tucker Carlson addressed his fans in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday night that has gone viral. Sitting at his home studio, wearing a suit and tie, Carlson opened by noting, “One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for …
In Brief: ‘General Hospital’ leads Daytime Emmy nominations, and more
Deadline reports Cara Delevingne has joined the 12th season of FX’s American Horror Story, as a series regular, joining season 9 vet Emma Roberts and franchise newcomer Kim Kardashian. Details of Delevingne’s character haven’t been revealed. The latest season — based on Danielle Valentine’s thriller novel Delicate Condition, due out in August — is described …