Courtesy of Netflix Break out the pom-poms! Season two of Cheer arrives on Netflix today, two years after season one took the country by storm, with the COVID-19 pandemic, along with a serious criminal accusation leveled against one of the Navarro College teammates threatening to upend the 2020 cheer season. After season one made cheerleader Jerry Harris a star, he …
Sharon Stone to play Kaley Cuoco’s mom in season 2 of ‘The Flight Attendant’
Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images — Karolina Wojtasik/HBO Max Kaley Cuoco‘s Emmy-nominated series The Flight Attendant has added an Oscar nominee to its cast: Sharon Stone. For the HBO Max show’s second season, Stone has been cast in a recurring role as Lisa Bowden, the estranged mom to Cuoco’s previously boozy title character, Cassie. Season one started with Cassie waking up …
The late Maya Angelou honored by US government, Whoopi Goldberg’s new TV series, and more
U.S. Mint The late Maya Angelou was honored by the United States Mint Monday in a very special way. Angelou became the first Black woman to have her image featured on a U.S. quarter. “It is my honor to present our Nation’s first circulating coins dedicated to celebrating American women and their contributions to American history,” said Mint …
“Finish it, Sidney!” Check out the final trailer to ‘Scream’
Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures has dropped the final trailer to its upcoming fifth Scream film. As previously reported, the new film has Neve Campbell‘s Sidney Prescott, David Arquette‘s Dewey Riley, and Courteney Cox‘s Gale Weathers again facing somebody donning the mask of the Ghostface killer. The series survivors are joined on the fifth film by some new blood, including The Boys‘ Jack Quaid, 13 Reasons …
Michael Jai White talks about the “reunion” of friends in his movie ‘The Commando’, and staying in superhero shape at 57
ABC News/Stephen Iervolino Michael Jai White has been an accomplished martial artist and movie star for decades, notably in the groundbreaking 1997 superhero movie Spawn, and as a crime boss who runs afoul of Heath Ledger‘s Joker in the Oscar-winning The Dark Knight. White now stars in the new action flick The Commando, in which he plays a DEA agent whose …
The next Oscars will have a host, ABC Entertainment president reveals
ABC/AMPAS The Oscars podium has remained empty since Jimmy Kimmel left the stage in 2018, but for this year’s 94th annual Academy Awards, a host will emcee the evening once again. “You heard it here first,” said Craig Erwich, president Hulu Originals & ABC Entertainment, at the virtual Television Critics Association press confab on Tuesday. It remains to be seen …
Page to screen: Survey shows most people say a book is usually better than a movie based on it
20th Century-Fox/Getty Images A famous bit on Sacha Baron Cohen‘s Da Ali G Show had the clueless character pitch a literary agent “a book version of The Lord of the Rings” movies. However, a new survey shows a lot of folks don’t know at least two popular movies that were once books. Seventy-percent of those polled by ThriftBooks didn’t know that Mean Girls and Die Hard were both books …
‘Cobra Kai’ stars talk friendship, representation, and what to expect for season 5
Netflix (NOTE LANGUAGE) With Cobra Kai season four continuing to dominate the binge-side of life on Netflix, two of its stars are talking friendship, representation, equal footing and dropping a few hints for what to expect in season five. When it comes to off-screen relationships, Vanessa Rubio who plays Carmen Diaz, and Courtney Henggeler, who plays Amanda LaRusso, tell ABC Audio that their friendship …
In Brief: ‘The Goldbergs’ gets full ninth season; Aubrey Plaza joins ‘The White Lotus’, and more
ABC has ordered four additional episodes of The Goldbergs, bringing its season nine total to a full 22, series star Wendi McLendon-Covey announced Monday on Instagram. The move has nothing to do with the previously announced departure of fellow original star Jeff Garlin, who left the series following multiple misconduct allegations, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s still unclear how the …
Lucy Hale says she never dated Colton Underwood
ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua — Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Baby2Baby Lucy Hale recently addressed rumors that she once dated Colton Underwood, insisting the stories were completely false. Multiple outlets, including People, reported the two were “casually dating” in July 2020 after they were spotted hiking together. Nine months later, when Colton publicly came out as gay, Lucy took to her …