Netflix On Thursday, Netflix announced it will produce The Boroughs, an upcoming supernatural mystery series executive produced by Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer. The show was created by The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance veterans Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, and centers on characters just a bit older than the gang from Hawkins, …
Jennifer Coolidge to be given Comedic Genius Award at MTV Movie & TV Awards
Courtesy MTV Jennifer Coolidge will soon have a golden bucket of popcorn to keep her White Lotus Emmy company. The actress has been named this year’s recipient of the Comedic Genius Award during the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards in May. The network says Coolidge is the sixth such honoree, heralded for making “incomparable …
Six ‘Spider-Man’ movies, including ‘Venom’, coming to Disney+ this spring
Disney+ If your Spidey Sense was tingling, it’s because Disney+ just announced that six Spider-Man movies, including the hit Tom Hardy spinoff Venom, are headed to the streaming service. Spider-Man: No Way Home unites Tom Holland with previous Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield on Disney+ starting in April, when their respective Sony-produced films …
House Republicans pass ban on transgender athletes competing with women, girls
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans passed first-of-its-kind federal legislation on Thursday to ban transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams with women and girls — a political messaging priority for the GOP despite the bill having no chance of passing the Senate and facing a presidential veto threat. Outside the Capitol, House …
Paramount+ reveals cast for eighth season of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’
Paramount+ On Thursday, April 20, Paramount+ revealed the cast of the eighth season of the Emmy-winning RuPaul‘s Drag Race All Stars. As always, returning competitors from RuPaul’s Drag Race will take to the catwalk, vying for a chance to compete for a spot in the Drag Race Hall of Fame, along with a cash prize …
Tribeca Film Festival to premiere documentaries about Alicia Keys, Tierra Whack and Biz Markie
Scott Kowalchyk/CBS This year’s Tribeca Film Festival will feature documentaries about Alicia Keys, Tierra Whack and the late Biz Markie. According to the festival website, All Up in the Biz, directed by Sacha Jenkins, highlights the mark Biz Markie made on hip-hop via a combination of rare clips, reenactments, playful animation and interviews with the likes of Nick Cannon, Fat Joe, Big Daddy Kane, Doug E Fresh, Dapper Dan and Darryl …
Bruce Campbell reflects on his “pivotal” role in pop culture, ongoing Bruce-O-Rama tour
ABC Audio (NOTE LANGUAGE) Bruce Campbell is a cult movie icon, having appeared in all of Sam Raimi‘s films, including the classic Evil Dead and Army of Darkness movies, as well as Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, and more recently his Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 2002’s Spider-Man had him playing an underground wrestling promoter …
Ray Romano reflects on 35 years with wife Anna, talks new film ‘Somewhere in Queens’
Good Morning America After 35 years of marriage, Ray Romano says nobody supports him like his wife Anna Romano. “Today when I left very early, I went over and kissed my wife. I thought she was asleep and as I’m walking out the door all I hear is, ‘Don’t say anything stupid,’” he joked to …
MTV’s ’Pretty Stoned’ star Brandee Evans dishes on the female-led “stoner comedy”
Kelly Balch/Getty Images for ABA MTV’s new female-led comedy Pretty Stoned has arrived and star Brandee Evans is sharing what it’s all about. “It’s like our female stoner comedy, which I don’t think that you’ve ever seen,” she tells ABC Audio. “You know, we’ve got the boys club doing their thing, but now you finally get to see the way …
In Brief: Netflix cashes out on ‘Bling Empire’, and more
Bling Empire and its spinoff, Bling Empire: New York, won’t be back for a respective fourth and second season at Netflix, according to Deadline. Bling Empire, described as a real-life Crazy Rich Asians, centered on the lives of wealthy, materialistic East and Southeast Asian Americans, socialites based in the Los Angeles area. Bling Empire: New …