Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson today announced he will return to golf in LIV Golf’s London tournament this Thursday. “Lefty,” as he is known, took a four-month break after remarks he made about the PGA and Saudi Arabia. Today, with a post to social media, Mickelson reiterated his apology from four months ago, said he’s […]
Netflix has unveiled the premiere date for its upcoming The Sandman series, starring Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong and more. They will be joined by Mark Hamill who will voice beloved character Merv Pumpkinhead. During Day 1 of its Geeked Week event, the streamer also shared that The Sandman will debut on August 5. Based […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cavalry Audio, the podcast division of Cavalry Media, is premiering today its new limited series podcast, X Marks the Spot: The Legend of Forrest Fenn. The show is comprised of 9 episodes and follows Forrest Fenn, a New Mexico art dealer who, in 2010, reportedly buried $2 million in gold somewhere in the Rocky […]
The newest batch of episodes of Stranger Things, which arrived on Netflix the same day that Obi-Wan Kenobi premiered on Disney+, powered the show to 5.1 billion minutes of U.S. streaming in its first three days, according to Nielsen. Obi-Wan, with shorter and fewer episodes, had a more subdued launch with about 1 billion minutes. Even […]
Women in Animation today unveiled the program for its sixth annual World Summit, in conjunction with this year’s Annecy Animation Festival and Mifa 2022. The theme of the event, taking place at the Impérial Palace Hotel on June 13, is “Gender Justice: A Global Call for Inclusion in Animation.” The day-long symposium will feature panels […]
EXCLUSIVE: Timeless and ER star Goran Visnjic is joining the cast of Vikings: Valhalla for a major multi-year arc. Making his debut in Season 3 of the Netflix series, he will play Erik the Red, the legendary Viking father of Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett) and Freydis (Frida Gustavsson), who is living in exile in Greenland […]
AMC said Monday that the latest installment of its The Walking Dead universe, the episodic anthology series Tales of the Walking Dead, will premiere Sunday, August 14 at 9 p.m. on AMC and AMC+. The first two episodes in the series, which consists of six one-hour stand-alone episodes focused on new and established characters, will […]
FX’s breakout series Reservation Dogs, Hulu’s limited series Dopesick and socially impactful content from PBS, Netflix, NPR and Vice News are among the first winners of the 2022 Peabody Awards, which are being rolled out this week. The Peabodys, in their 82nd year, honor the year’s most powerful content across the fields of entertainment, documentary, […]
We’ve officially heard that Neve Campbell won’t be reprising her role as Sidney Prescott in Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream 6. Word began to leak on the convention circuit with Campbell, and she says today, “Sadly I won’t be making the next Scream film.” “As a woman I have had to work extremely hard in my career to […]
EXCLUSIVE: The International Documentary Association has added three new board members and hired a director of development. Joining the board are Maria Agui-Carter, a filmmaker, founder of Iguana Films, and professor at Emerson College; Michael Turner, director and senior counsel-original documentary films at Netflix, and Ina Fichman, a documentary producer whose credits include Fire of Love […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Union has signed an overall deal with BET Studios via her I’ll Have Another production company. BET Studios is the venture launched last year by Paramount and BET to generate premium content from Black creators for Paramount+, Showtime, CBS, Nickelodeon, BET+ and BET, as well as select third-party platforms. “We are thrilled to […]
Six actors will join the Straw Hats on the Going Merry as Netflix expands the cast of its upcoming One Piece live-action series. Joining the series, based on the beloved manga from author Eiichiro Oda, are Langley Kirkwood, Celeste Loots, Alexander Maniatis, Craig Fairbrass, Steven Ward and Chioma Umeala. They will appear opposite stars Iñaki […]
All of Us Are Dead will be coming back to life for another go-round. Netflix has renewed the hit Korean drama series for a second season. The pickup was announced Monday on Day 1 of Netflix’s Geeked Week. You can watch the cast video above. Cancellations/Renewals Scorecard: TV Shows Ended Or Continuing In 2021-22 Season […]
Covid Puts Paid To Shanghai Fest At Eleventh Hour At the eleventh hour, the organizers of the Shanghai Film Festival have cancelled this year’s event due to the pandemic, which continues to ravage parts of Asia. The festival — China’s most prestigious — was due to kick off later this month. Organizers said: “Given the […]
A former Conservative government minister and Boris Johnson supporter has slammed the sale of Channel 4 as an “unnecessary and provocative attempt to address a political non-issue” as the Prime Minister gets ready to face a no confidence vote in his leadership tonight. Jesse Norman, who used to be a senior Treasury Minister and has […]
Christoph Waltz is to lead Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Billy Wilder & Me. The No Time to Die and Inglorious Basterds star will play Wilder in the part coming-of-age story, part true-to-life portrait of the Hollywood icon, which is adapted from a book by Jonathan Coe. In the summer of 1977, an innocent young woman begins […]
With the BBC receiving major plaudits for its Saturday night Party at the Palace to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, a peak of more than 13M viewers tuned in for the concert, which featured Diana Ross, Nile Rodgers and Queen. The two-hour long Saturday night extravaganza, which aired from 7.30pm GMT (11.30AM PT), was […]
John Oliver delivered an impassioned plea on tonight’s Last Week Tonight in opposition of the inevitable rise of support for increased police presence on school campuses. In the wake of the Uvalde shooting several weeks ago, Oliver took conservative pundits to task over their solutions to the increase of school shootings. Despite the presence of […]
Spider-Man: No Way Home and HBO’s Euphoria were crowned the best of movie and television, respectively, at tonight’s MTV Movie & TV Awards. Hosted by Vanessa Hudgens, MTV tonight combined the annual Movie & TV and Unscripted award shows into one event at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica. Additionally, Tom Holland nabbed an award for […]
Lionsgate is starting its engines for The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, the highly anticipated Hunger Games prequel coming November 17, 2023. Though first released at CinemaCon more than a month ago, the studio has formally released the teaser on YouTube to stoke the flames of fans worldwide. Collins’ Songbirds and Snakes, the prequel […]
Talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! has scored a coup, convincing President Joe Biden to join for an exclusive in-studio interview. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! sit-down will mark Biden’s first in-studio late-night appearance as president. Biden’s interview will air on Kimmel’s Wednesday, June 8 show, which is on ABC at 11:35 PT/10:35 Central. The show will […]
The Tampa Bay Rays 16th “Pride Night” was held Saturday, the Florida club’s annual show of support of the LGBTQ+ community. Most Major League Baseball teams acknowledge Pride Month in some way, with the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays including drag queens as part of their celebrations. Tampa Bay was more muted, simply having […]
UPDATE: Stoney Westmoreland, charged with attempting to lure a minor into sex, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and ten years of supervised release. Westmoreland copped a plea deal with prosecutors after the actor originally faced a ten year sentence,. But he was allowed to plead down to a lesser charge of […]
Another cancellation, another chance for fans to resuscitate a show from the dead. That’s what’s happening to Raised By Wolves, the two-season sci-fi drama produced by Ridley Scott for HBO Max. Though the Aaron Guzikowski-created drama was met by lukewarm reviews for its first season, critics praised the sophomore release, notching an 86% on RottenTomatoes […]
When voters go to the polls Tuesday for Los Angeles’ primary election, they are likely to advance two mayoral candidates to the general election: Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) and developer Rick Caruso. If so, Hollywood’s unusual split in its loyalties between the two could be an indicator of a highly contentious and massively expensive November […]
