Deadline reports Daisy Ridley, best known for playing Rey in the J.J. Abrams Star Wars trilogy, has been tapped to star in The Better Liar, a drama series based on Tanen Jones‘ book of the same name, in development at Amazon. Ridley will also executive-produce the adaptation, along with True Blood writer Raelle Tucker, who …
Athens-Clarke County Police Department (ATHENS, Ga.) — University of Georgia football player Jalen Carter, a projected top pick in the NFL draft, has surrendered to police on charges of reckless driving and racing tied to a crash that killed a player and staff member in January, according to the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. An investigation …
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Will Smith took the stage at the African American Film Critics Association Awards, where he and Emancipation director Antoine Fuqua accepted the organization’s Beacon Award. It marked Smith’s first in-person speech at an awards ceremony since the 2022 Oscars, where he slapped Chris Rock onstage. “Emancipation was the individual most difficult film of my entire career. It was all outdoors, that is true,” Smith …
Alexis Boichard/Agence Zoom/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Mia Brookes making history at the Snowboarding Freestyle World Championships! The 16-year-old freestyle snowboarder became the youngest ever snowboarding world champion in Bakuriani on Monday. But that’s not all. In order to clinch the gold medal spot, Brookes, who is British, …
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING INTERLEAGUE Philadelphia 4, Minnesota 4 (Tie) Detroit 8, Pittsburgh 7 Tampa Bay 3, Atlanta 3 (Tie) NY Yankees 4, Washington 2 Anaheim 4, Milwaukee 3 Chi Cubs 5, Seattle 3 Oakland 14, Cincinnati 14 (Tie) LA Dodgers 4, …
CBS via Getty Images Paramount+’s further adventures of Kelsey Grammer‘s Frasier Crane have landed a major foil: That’s right, Lilith has entered the building. Stage and screen star Bebe Neuwirth will reprise as Crane’s intelligent, icy ex-wife in an episode of the reboot, ABC Audio has confirmed. The couple, who first appeared on Cheers, did …
Photo courtesy of Brigitte Lacombe Legendary actor Robert De Niro has locked in his first-ever television series with a Netflix project called Zero Day. According to the streaming giant, the limited series is a “conspiracy thriller” that will be co-produced by the actor and executive-produced by its creators: Narcos franchise alum Eric Newman and The …
Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Actress Jena Malone shocked fans with a heavy revelation captioning a picturesque photo she posted to Instagram Wednesday: She had been the victim of sexual assault. Explaining the photo was taken in a field in France when she’d wrapped work on 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part Two, Malone wrote, “…I …
Sony Pictures/Eric Charbonneau Jason Reitman, son of the late Ivan Reitman, who directed the original Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel, posted to his Instagram a photo that will get any franchise fan fired up. The black-and-white snap shows the Ghostbusters: Afterlife director smiling next to co-writer Gil Kenan, who is taking the reins behind the …
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Chris Pine is clearing the air about what happened between him and Harry Styles during the infamous “spit-gate.” Rumors sparked in September that Harry had spit on his Don’t Worry Darling co-star at the movie’s Venice Film Festival premiere. Pine’s team dismissed the reports, while Harry used the rumor as a punch line at one of …