ABC Thursday night, ABC airs the all-star special Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, a tribute to the classic animated film that stars H.E.R. as Belle and Josh Groban as The Beast, plus Shania Twain, Martin Short, David Alan Grier and Rita Moreno. Groban says the special is an “ambitious” production that isn’t quite …
Mike Rozman/Warner Brothers/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images A behind-the-scenes video of an executive producer of The Ellen DeGeneres Show saying farewell to the chat show’s crew is being seen in a new light after the death by suicide of Stephen “tWitch” Boss. Boss, the show’s in-house DJ and an executive producer on the show, …
Warner Bros. Pictures/Warner Bros. Discovery Just weeks after announcing he’d be once again playing the Man of Steel, Henry Cavill is out. That’s the word from both the actor and James Gunn, who, along with producer Peter Safran, is tasked with getting Warner Bros. Discovery’s DC Comics-based cinematic universe back on track. Cavill’s surprise return …
Tyler Perry has set his next feature film for Netflix about the 6888th battalion, the only all-black, all-female battalion in the World War II effort. Perry wrote the script for the project, titled Six Triple Eight, which is based on an article by Kevin M. Hymel published in WWII History Magazine by Sovereign Media. Six …
ABC Ahead of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, airing Thursday at 8 p.m. on ABC, producer Jon M. Chu confirmed the special will feature a tribute to Angela Lansbury, who died in October. Lansbury voiced Mrs. Potts in the original 1991 animated feature “We definitely do a nod to her for sure. How could we …
ABC Audio The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced that Eddie Murphy will be presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at this year’s Golden Globes ceremony. First awarded to its namesake by the HFPA in 1952, the special trophy highlights a star’s “extraordinary achievements in the motion picture industry.” Previous winners include Morgan Freeman, …
NBC/Rosalind O’Connor Elvis star Austin Butler looks glamorous in nearly every frame of his lavishly shot promo for his upcoming hosting stint on SNL. Butler looks dapper in a suit as he takes a deep breath and says, “Here we go.” He strides in slow-motion, his hair blowing, to the stage at Studio 8H in a bit that looks like more of a …
A24 Films The film nominations for the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards are in. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert‘s Everything Everywhere All at Once earned the most nominations on the film side this year, with 14 total nods in categories including best picture, best comedy and best directing. Following closely behind was Steven Spielberg‘s The Fabelmans with 11 nominations, and Damien Chazelle‘s Babylon and Martin McDonagh‘s The …
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images The death at age 40 of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Ellen DeGeneres‘ in-house DJ and show co-executive producer, has been ruled a suicide. ABC News has learned the Los Angeles County coroner has closed the case after examining the body and determining Boss’ manner of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound …
CNBC Former Tonight Show host Jay Leno continues to open up about the accident he experienced last month. On Tuesday, he told People about the moment he was working underneath his 1907 white Model G steam car and unclogging a fuel line when he “got a face full of gasoline.” “I knew how close I was to the pilot light and …