“American Beauty” isn’t saying the suburbs are bad or that chasing high school cheerleaders is okay—quite the opposite. The movie is looking to remind us of how blessed we are, what a miracle the American Dream is, that fathers matter, that family is everything, that men are created by God to protect women, and to appreciate what we have.
Dec. 29 (UPI) — Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning an additional $38 million in receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.
NEW YORK — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87.
Charles Shyer, the Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker known for classic comedies like “Private Benjamin,” “Baby Boom” and “Father of the Bride” that he made alongside Nancy Meyers, has died. He was 83.
Disney received a fact-check on the social media platform X when it falsely declared Mufasa the “#1 movie in America” over Sonic 3.
“Harry Potter” creator and women’s rights activist J.K. Rowling has told her fans on social media that there is no such thing as a transgender kid and that no child is born in the “wrong body.”
Late-night comedy hosts including Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel spent 2024 repeatedly bashing now President-elect Donald Trump — and experienced another bad year as their cultural relevance and viewership continue to crash.
LONDON — Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” has died, her family said on social media Saturday. She was 73.
Charles F. Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died at age 98, according to a news report.
Fans of Netflix’s hit South Korean series Squid Game are divided over Season two’s transgender character, played by an actor who is not confused about his sex in real life.
Former Pixar staffers are reportedly experiencing emotional meltdowns following Disney’s decision to remove a transgender storyline from the upcoming children’s animated series Win or Lose, with one ex-staffer admitting to breaking down in tears.
Seventy-six-year-old supermodel Dayle Haddon died on Friday in Pennsylvania from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.
The Walt Disney Company saw its fair share of disasters in 2024, even as Hollywood’s biggest studio continued to wield enormous power across media and politics.
Rapper OG Maco has died surrounded by his family in an L.A. hospital 16 days after a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was only 32.
Denis Villeneuve, director of the hit sci-fi franchise Dune, expressed dismay about how individualism has suffered during the age of Big Tech
“You don’t write the truth. You write what people say, what you overhear—you eavesdrop. You don’t come across truth that easy.”
Americans — especially Republicans — do not want to hear political opinions from athletes and celebrities, an AP-NORC poll reveals.
NEW YORK — An Alabama woman who says she was raped by Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was 13 can proceed anonymously, for now, in her lawsuit against the rap moguls, a judge ruled Thursday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) failed to reverse the collapse of movie and TV productions in the state in 2024, with shooting activity plummeting to catastrophic lows.
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) annual Festivus Waste Report released Monday targeted taxpayer-subsidized flood insurance for which some of the most loved (and loathed) celebrities are eligible.
Hudson Joseph Meek, best known for his roles in Baby Driver and Found, has died after falling from a moving vehicle in Alabama. He was 16.
Amazon Prime Studios is taking heat on Christmas for censoring a key scene in the classic Christmas film, “It’s a Wonderful Life” with many saying the edits make the movie nonsensical and eliminates one of the most important bits of character development in the film.
(AP) — Netflix will have one of its biggest days since the site launched in 1998 when it carries two NFL games for the first time on Christmas.
SANTA FE, N.M. — The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath, attorneys for plaintiffs in the civil suit said Tuesday.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to chair the Federal Communications Commission has called out the Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger over the way he has run ABC News, saying “Americans no longer trust the national news media to report fully, accurately, and fairly.”
‘Tis the season for spirited and winless debates about what the best Christmas movie is. No one needs us to remind you about the obvious holiday movies playing on repeat on cable, whether it’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Home Alone” or “Love, Actually,” or even those holiday adjacent classics like “Eyes Wide Shut” and “The Godfather.”
Some fans were shocked upon seeing the unhinged, anti-Trump diatribe delivered by “Star Wars” star Mark Hamill who went into a spittle-specked rage over Trump while defiantly claiming he does not care how many fans he upsets with his hate for the President-elect.
The Biden administration has authorized $20 million in taxpayer dollars to create a “Sesame Street” show in Iraq in an effort to “promote inclusion.”
Artist and photographer Dan Fleuette joins the Drill Down to describe how he creates art through personalities on the political right.
Kim Kardashian is starring in a lewd Christmas-themed music video that features the reality TV star crawling around provocatively on all fours as she sings a cover for the 1953 classic “Santa Baby,” with actors playing Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and an assortment of others in the background — culminating in Macaulay Culkin as Santa Claus.
Actor and comedian Eddie Griffin told his nearly 400,000 Youtube subscribers that he visited Donald Trump during a big party at Mar-a-Lago, and he isn’t ashamed of doing it, either. And he came away with a different opinion of the people there, too.
A high-ranking executive for the Walt Disney Company has offered an explanation why the woke Disney+ “Star Wars” spin-off series “The Acolyte” was cancelled after just one season, saying the show didn’t perform well enough to justify its cost — which one estimate put close to a quarter of a billion dollars.
Denzel Washington was baptized and received his minister’s license Saturday as the movie veteran looks to take his life in a new direction after dedicating himself to Christ.
The world may have to wait for the next James Bond movie a little longer than usual now the latest installment has been put on hold due to a feud between MGM Studios and longterm James Bond producer/owner Barbara Broccoli.
A star of the iconic mid-1980s Australian film Crocodile Dundee has died at the age of 90.
NEW YORK (AP) — In the holiday season battle of big-budget family movies, Paramount Pictures’ “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” sped past the Walt Disney Co.’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” to take the top spot at the box office ahead of the lucrative Christmas corridor in theaters.
During “Saturday Night Live’s” “Weekend Update” comedy news bit segment, anchor Colin Jost was shocked when his audience cheered when he mention Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Mark Burnett, the London-born producer who launched Donald Trump to a global television audience with “The Apprentice,” has been tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom.
In a complaint that has stunned Hollywood, actress Blake Lively has accused her “It Ends with Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment — and is alleging that he orchestrated an elaborate smear campaign to discredit her, including recruiting a crisis management expert to bury the story. Within hours of the news, WME, the mega Talent agency that also reps Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, dropped Baldoni.
Blake Lively has accused her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the movie and a subsequent effort to “destroy” her reputation in a legal complaint.
