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Sen. John McCain’s widow Cindy McCain did a morning show circuit Wednesday to explain why she’s endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Despite Disney’s extensive efforts to appeal to them, Chinese moviegoers are mostly rejecting the new remake of “Mulan,” leaving the film as the latest example of an American take on Chinese culture that fails to make a big splash in the lucrative Asian market.

David Letterman is coming back for a third season of “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” Netflix announced on Wednesday.

Screen Media has acquired the U.S. rights to “Girl,” a revenge thriller starring Bella Thorne and directed by Chad Faust, and the distributor will release the film day-and-date this November following its premiere at Fantastic Fest later this week.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was assertive yet careful in his Wednesday assessment of President Donald Trump’s comments at his Tuesday rally, stopping just short of calling them “fascist.”

The countdown to Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Christmas” has officially begun!

After an explosive teaser trailer during Sunday Night Football in which Aaron Sorkin declared “the whole world is watching,” Netflix has released a more sentimental and fuller look at the drama of “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” one in which Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman explains what he’s willing to give to keep the revolution going.

Gale Sayers, a legendary halfback and return man best known for his NFL career with the Chicago Bears, as well as the subject of the 1971 biographical drama “Brian’s Song,” has died. He was 77.

The “Schitt’s Creek” cast walked out of Sunday’s virtual Emmys smelling like roses with long-overdue wins in all seven comedy categories. And watching Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy all accept their awards at an intimate, glamorous viewing party up in Canada was definitely one of the best moments of the first-ever (and hopefully last-ever) virtual Emmys.

(Warning: This post contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of “Ratched.”)

Late Tuesday night, Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar hit back at President Donald Trump for comments he made about her during a rally earlier.

WWE wrestler Road Warrior Animal, real name Joe Laurinaitis, has died. He was 60.

The 2020 “Change the Narrative, Change the World” study has found that depicting immigrant characters on TV can have a positive impact on viewers.

Variety parent company Penske Media Corporation (PMC) will take over operations of MRC’s The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Vibe in a new joint venture called PMRC, the companies announced Wednesday. In addition, MRC will lead a second joint venture to create content based on the outlets, which include PMC’s Rolling Stone, Variety and Music Business Worldwide interests.

The artists, entrepreneurs and pioneers on TheWrap’s 2020 Innovators List brought about meaningful change in a time when the coronavirus pandemic altered the world drastically. They adjusted to the worst case scenario and responded to the moment when America erupted in protest over racial injustices.

Netflix dropped the long-awaited trailer for “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” its follow up to 2018’s “The Haunting of Hill House,” on Wednesday. And it’s safe to say that Bly Manor is definitely going to give Hill House a run for its money in the creepiest haunted house race.

Every day is extremely eventful as we rapidly approach the presidential election in November, and it can feel like it’s next to impossible to keep up with all of it. But at least we have late night shows to catch us up. Like how “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” kicked off its episode on Tuesday with a joke about Donald Trump declaring New York, Portland and Seattle as “anarchist jurisdictions.”

In a fun gag parodying one of the weirder COVID-19-era trends, “The Daily Show” on Tuesday rolled an ad for a new service promising to bring a crucial vacation experience to people still quarantining in their homes. Specifically, the experience of just how much it sucks to deal with airports.

Donald Trump has been holding almost daily rallies in which he inevitably says something or other that causes a furor online. And on Tuesday, in Moon Township, Pa., the big one was probably his strange comment about tuna.

In her new film “On the Rocks” — premiering at the New York Film Festival on its way to AppleTV+ in October — writer-director Sofia Coppola may well have crafted the quintessential Bill Murray role. But this is a father-daughter story, and the daughter is no less important; it helps, obviously, that both Coppola and co-lead Rashida Jones know a thing or two about larger-than-life dads, but it also matters that Jones is enough of a skilled actor and comic that she more than holds her own opposite the equally larger-than-life Murray. Читать дальше...

If you thought that Tucker Carlson was done defending the Illinois teen charged with murdering two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, think again. Tucker was at it again on Tuesday, and this time his Fox News show aired a video from a group tied to Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense attorneys that showed him shooting people and blasted the victims as criminals.

Liv Tyler has decided against returning to Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” for the show’s upcoming second season, TheWrap has confirmed.

For almost six months, Hollywood executives and producers have been figuring out how to safely resume production, and with that, new policies have had to be put in place and filmmakers have had to pivot in the way they make content. And according to many producers, we’re never going to get back to the way things were pre-COVID — instead, we’re going to a face a “new normal.”

Coronavirus has changed everything, but as New York Media’s Kara Swisher said in TheGrill 2020 Tuesday, the real question is, “Will it continue afterward?”

While writer-director Brad Bird was working on “The Incredibles” at Pixar, he spent a lot of time with studio co-founder Steve Jobs, and he believes some of the things he learned from the late Apple mogul are lessons that movie theater owners should take to heart with moviegoing in crisis.