AMC Theaters will pay tribute to the late Olivia Newton John by playing Grease in 135 of its theaters this weekend. “To honor the late Olivia Newton-John: many of our U.S. theatres this weekend will show her classic 1978 hit movie Grease, again on the big screen,” Adam Aron, AMC’s CEO announced Thursday on Twitter. …
Brad Pitt at a Make It Right Foundation press conference in December, 2007; Matthew HINTON/AFP via Getty Images Brad Pitt and his Make It Right Foundation reached a $20.5 million settlement with victims over faulty homes built in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, according to Page Six. Global Green, an environmental nonprofit, has agreed to …
HBO Max/Ollie Upton The dragons are coming! HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, the highly anticipated spinoff of one of the most successful shows ever on TV, premieres Sunday night. Fabien Frankel stars as the knight Ser Criston Cole, and he tells ABC Audio that while the new series is “still in …
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Chi Cubs 3, Baltimore 2 Pittsburgh 8, Boston 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas 10, Oakland 3 Houston 21, Chi White Sox 5 Tampa Bay 7, Kansas City 1 Toronto 9, NY Yankees 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 13, Colorado 0 …
Neilson Barnard/Getty Images The fallout from Will Smith‘s Oscars slap continues. On Thursday, Variety reports that the actor’s Q Scores, the industry standard for measuring celebrities’ mass appeal, have dropped significantly since he slapped host Chris Rock onstage at the Academy Awards in March. Conducted twice a year in January and July, nearly 2,000 consumers starting from age 6 are surveyed about …
Nick Argo/©Academy Museum Foundation Even after 30 years, the cast of A League of Their Own still keeps in touch. The 1992 film, which starred Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell, Lori Petty and Anne Ramsay, is loosely based on the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that was active from 1943 to 1954. It was created to keep professional baseball …
Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Jonah Hill may have directed and starred in the upcoming film Stutz, but that doesn’t mean you’ll see him promoting it. Stutz is a documentary that explores mental health alongside Hill and his therapist. Coincidentally, Hill’s mental health is the reasoning behind his decision to forgo promotional media appearances for the show. “Through this journey …
ABC/Randy Holmes Jamie Foxx has an unreleased comedy that he’s hoping sees the light of day. In 2016, Jamie co-wrote and directed a film called All-Star Weekend that stars him and Jeremy Pivenas friends and truck drivers Malik and Danny, respectively, who win tickets to the NBA All-Star Game. During their trip across the country to get to the …
Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images Kenan Thompson may have a sequel to Good Burger in the works. The 1997 film starring Kenan and Kel Mitchell as cashiers at a burger joint that was based off of a sketch featured in the Nickelodeon show All That has built a cult following over the years. In an Instagram post celebrating its 25th anniversary last …
Dave J Hogan/Getty Images If there’s one person Keke Palmer would love to play in a film, it’d be the late Whitney Houston. Her desire comes from wanting to do the singer some justice and tell her full story, unlike the projects that mainly discuss her highly publicized lows. “I think that with Whitney’s story, a lot of …