A Cook County, IL judge set the bail for R&B singer R. Kelly for $1 million — $250,000 for each of the four people he's charged with sexually abusing — during a hearing in Chicago on Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFrom the chilly beach in Santa Monica, the 34th edition of the Film Independent Spirit Awards takes place today on the eve of the Academy Awards.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareUPDATED with more reactions: Stanley Donen, the director whose mind and feet where behind several of the best-liked musicals in Hollywood’s golden age including Singin’ in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, On the Town and many more, died Sunday at age 94.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The 39th annual Razzie Awards hat-tipping the year’s not-so-great in movies are in, with Sony’s Sherlock Holmes parody Holmes & Watson, Melissa McCarthy’s turns in two movies not her Oscar-nominated one in Can You Ever Forgive Me?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Tensions are high along the border between Colombia and Venezuela, as a major push to deliver humanitarian aid could descend into violence on Saturday.
On Friday, musicians held a Live Aid Venezuela concert in border town Cucuta, Colombia to pressure Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro to let humanitarian aid into Venezuel
UPDATED with cause of death: KTLA anchor Chris Burrous’s death has been ruled accidental, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office.
Burrous died on Dec. 27 from what the coroner called methamphetamine toxicity, authorities said today.
Precious Harris, older sister of rapper and VH1 reality show star T.I. of T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle, died today of injuries sustained in a car accident last week. She was 66.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
EXCLUSIVE: Nathaniel Arcand (Cold Pursuit) has been cast opposite Julian McMahon, Alana de la Garza, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Roxy Sternberg and Kellan Lutz in FBI: Most Wanted, the planted spinoff of Dick Wolf's freshman CBS drama series FBI.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Over the past year, beginning in February with Black Panther and ending in December with Vice, I did video reviews of all of what eventually became the eight nominees for Best Picture at the 91st annual Academy Awards.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
UPDATED with details from news conference, 1: 33 PM: Rumors about R. Kelly and underage girls have swirled since the 1990s, and today the singer is facing a 10-count grand jury indictment of aggravated criminal sexual assault involving minors in Illinois.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
20th Century Fox said that it will release James Mangold’s untitled Ford Vs. Ferrari movie on November 15, 2019, putting it squarely into the film awards-season corridor.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFox’s Last Man Standing (0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 4.61 million viewers) fell two tenths from last week but still ended Friday as the night’s top-rated show in primetime.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The 34th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards are set for Saturday at 2 PM PT/5 PM ET airing live on IFC and Facebook Watch from the beach near the Santa Monica pier.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareStanley Donen, the deft director of such iconic movie musicals as Singin’ In the Rain, Funny Face, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Charade who helped define Hollywood’s golden age, has died at age 94.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBrody Stevens, a regular at Los Angeles comedy clubs and a character actor in numerous film and television productions, died today. No cause of death or location was provided by his representatives.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
And now it all comes down to this. On Sunday at the Dolby Theatre the long, often bruising movie awards season comes to an end.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
DIGA Studios, recently acquired by the Allyance Media Group, is expanding its West Coast presence, opening an LA office, and hiring former Lionsgate TV SVP Development A.J. Morewitz as EVP, Head of Scripted.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareYes, that’s exactly right: Should Netflix’s Roma or Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther take Best Picture at the Oscars on Sunday, forget about any type of halo effect at the box office.
In either case, Netflix
Elizabeth Anweis (9-1-1) has been cast opposite Ruby Rose in Batwoman, the CW's groundbreaking drama pilot from Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television.
Written by Carol
Clark Gable III, TV host, sometime actor and grandson of the Hollywood legend who shares his name, died in Dallas today of as-yet-undisclosed causes. He was 30.
Gable’s mother Tracy Yarro Scheff announced his death, posting on Instagram “with an extremely heavy heart we say goodbye to my beautiful son Clark.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Here’s one that we’re catching up on after a wild Oscar Friday: Evan Williams, one of the four co-founders of Twitter, is exiting as a member of its board of directors, ending his tenure at the company that helped fuel the explosion of social media.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
EXCLUSIVE: Sources have informed Deadline that Channing Tatum, his production company Free Association and its principals Reid Carolin and Peter Kier
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTragedy hit the Harris family this week when Precious Harris, sister of rapper-actor Tip "T.I." Harris, died. According to a source close to the production of T.I.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAfter 11 years pushing A Star Is Born as producer though three studio administrations — not counting the earlier iterations with Whitney Houston, Aaliyah, Lauryn Hill and Will Smith he worked on while a Warners exec — Bill Gerber is moving on to other projects.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBill Maher figures there’s at least one beneficiary of Jussie Smollett’s alleged hoax attack: Fox News.
“Fox News will dine out on this,” Maher said during the panel discussion on tonight’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
UPDATED with WGA statement: The Association of Talents Agents has fired back at the Writers Guild, claiming that the WGA's attempts to "divide" the agency business to kill off packaging deals and force them out of the production business is filled with "misinformation and myths."
WGA West president David A.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Awards looks to be going without a designated host on Sunday for the first time since 1989, but broadcaster ABC had to break some new ground this year in the era of plummeting ratings.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Malik Yoba, star of Dick Wolf's 1990s series New York Undercover, has been tapped to star in the contemporary reboot of the cop drama, which has a pilot order at ABC.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEXCLUSIVE: Wrecked co-star Will Greenberg has been cast as one of the leads opposite Bradley Whitford and Anna Camp in NBC's church choir comedy pilot (fka All Together Now) starring and
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCBS welcomed back The Big Bang Theory (2.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 13.3 million viewers) after two weeks off and saw it dominate the primetime landscape Thursday, taking the tops spots in the demo and viewership and, teaming with Young Sheldon, the night’s No.
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