Taylor Hill/Getty Images Elon Musk and Grimes have welcomed a new baby to their brood, via surrogate. And like her big brother, Grimes’ first child X Æ A-Xii, the new addition has an…interesting name: Exa Dark Sideræl [sigh-DEER-ee-al] Musk. For the record, they normally just refer to her as Y, Grimes says in a wife-ranging feature piece in Vanity Fair — …
Rosalind O’Connor/NBC Pete Davidson is teaming up with his SNL boss Lorne Michaels for a new sitcom about his life. Sort of. Deadline reports the headline-grabbing funnyman will star in a show, tentatively titled Bupkis, which will center on a fictionalized version of his real life, a la Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm. The trade reports the show is to be an “unapologetically unfiltered, …
HBO Max/Aaron Epstein The premise of the new pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death is so crazy, it just has to be true — and it is. The HBO Max series is based on the real life of Stede Bonnet, an 18th century wealthy English landowner turned pirate. Show creator David Jenkins first learned about Bonnet from his wife and …
Scott Olson/Getty Images Actor Jussie Smollett is scheduled to return to court in Chicago today to learn if a judge will order him to serve prison time after he was convicted for lying to police and staging an attack. In January 2019, Smollett reported to police that he was the victim of a hate crime, alleging that …
Jamie Hawkesworth/™ & © DC Comics Move over Batman, it’s The Penguin’s time to shine. HBO Max announced Tuesday that they’ve officially given a straight-to-series order to The Penguin, a limited series based on the Dark Knight’s nemesis. According to the streamer, “The DC drama expands upon the world filmmaker Matt Reeves has created for Warner Bros. Pictures’ global …
Warner Bros. has shuffled the release dates for a few of its upcoming movies. Variety reports the Jason Momoa-led sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is being pushed back from December 16, 2022, to March 17, 2023. Meanwhile, The Flash, starring Ezra Miller, high-tails it from November 4, 2022, to June 23, 2023. Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam is being pushed back three months to October …
Mark Taylor/Peacock If you think you know the Tiger King story, think again! The new Peacock series, Joe vs. Carole, aims to give you a broader understanding of the feud between Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel and Carole Baskin. John Cameron Mitchell plays the exotic animal aficionado, and he tells ABC Audio people are going to see something they didn’t expect. “You’re …
Lilja Jonsdottir/Netflix © 2022 (NOTE LANGUAGE) Making the new Netflix movie Against the Ice was not a posh, fancy experience, says star, producer, and co-writer Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. In fact, Coster-Waldau tells ABC Audio they shot most of the early 1900s explorer film in Iceland and Greenland, in temperatures of -22 below Fahrenheit, with raging storms that put lives in danger. …
Disney+ A first look at the new live-action adaptation of Pinocchio is finally here. Disney+ released an image from the new movie — set to premiere on the streaming platform in September — featuring Tom Hanks as Geppetto and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth voicing Pinocchio. You can check out the photo, showing Hanks as the puppet maker and his creation looking at …
L-R — Morrison, Acoin — Alex Stead/Blue Ice Pictures/SYFY Actress and singer Samantha Aucoin tells ABC Audio that she “never even stepped on a TV set” before being cast in SyFy’s new supernatural series Astrid & Lilly Save the World, but fans clearly think producers made the right choice. When the titular high school outcasts have had enough of the figurative …