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Showtime gives early season 3 renewal to ‘Yellowjackets’
SHOWTIME/Kailey Schwerman Its sophomore season won’t kick off until Friday, March 24, on streaming and on demand, but Showtime has granted its acclaimed, time-spanning drama Yellowjackets a junior year. In a statement, Chris McCarthy, president/CEO [Read More…]
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ could see more than $500 million worldwide opening
20th Century Studios Writer-director James Cameron recently said that Avatar: The Way of Water would have to end up among the top-grossing movies of all time just to “break even.” However, between presales and ticket sales in overseas markets [Read More…]
OK, boomers: ‘The Fabelmans’, ‘Everything Everywhere’ lead ‘AARP The Magazine”s Movies for Grownups nominations
Universal Pictures With awards season ramping up, nominations are coming fast and furious from several organizations, and on Thursday, the grown-ups had their say. AARP The Magazine has released its picks for its annual Movies [Read More…]
Prince Harry believes stress of tabloid lawsuit contributed to Meghan’s miscarriage: What to know about stress and pregnancy loss
Chris Jackson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, open up in the final episode of their Netflix docuseries about their pregnancy loss, which they say happened in July 2020, [Read More…]
James Cameron wrote extra script to fill in ‘Avatar’ cast on what’s happened on Pandora before ‘The Way of Water’
20th Century Studios Avatar: The Way of Water makes a splash in theaters Friday, and Oscar-winning director James Cameron said he was eager to delve “deeper” into the characters we met in the original. At [Read More…]
Three militia members who plotted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sentenced to years in prison
Jason Marz/Getty Images (JACKSON COUNTY, Mich.) — Three members of a militia group who were convicted of several crimes in relation to a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were given yearslong prison sentences [Read More…]
Keystone Pipeline open again, but leaky section in Kansas still shut down
The bank of Mill Creak in Washington County, Kansas, following a rupture of the Keystone Pipeline on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, in this handout published Dec. 9 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. – U.S. [Read More…]
Anti-trans sports ban fails in Ohio legislature
Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — For Ember Zelch, an 18-year-old softball player and senior in high school, the anti-trans sports bill that failed to get enough support in the Ohio legislature hits [Read More…]
Justice Department sues Arizona’s governor over shipping container border ‘wall’
Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department has sued Arizona’s governor over a proposed makeshift wall along the U.S. — Mexico border as illegal crossing numbers surge. Outgoing Republican Gov. Doug Ducey [Read More…]
Trevor Noah to return as host for 2023 Grammy Awards
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Trevor Noah is pulling a hat trick and will return to the Grammy’s stage as host. This will mark his third consecutive hosting stint. Noah will act as master of ceremonies at the [Read More…]
Star Josh Groban says ABC’s “ambitious” ‘Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration’ will be “a really good time”
ABC Thursday night, ABC airs the all-star special Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, a tribute to the classic animated film that stars H.E.R. as Belle and Josh Groban as The Beast, plus Shania [Read More…]
After death by suicide of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, video emerges of ‘Ellen’ staffer warning crew not to “keep in the pain”
Mike Rozman/Warner Brothers/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images A behind-the-scenes video of an executive producer of The Ellen DeGeneres Show saying farewell to the chat show’s crew is being seen in a new light after [Read More…]
Henry Cavill out again, as James Gunn announces he’s writing a new Superman movie
Warner Bros. Pictures/Warner Bros. Discovery Just weeks after announcing he’d be once again playing the Man of Steel, Henry Cavill is out. That’s the word from both the actor and James Gunn, who, along with [Read More…]
In Brief: Tyler Perry goes to war with ‘Six Triple Eight’ for Netflix, and more
Tyler Perry has set his next feature film for Netflix about the 6888th battalion, the only all-black, all-female battalion in the World War II effort. Perry wrote the script for the project, titled Six Triple [Read More…]
Russia focused on US, Ukraine, Africa with coordinated tactics on websites like Facebook
boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and other massive digital platforms, announced Thursday that since 2017 they disrupted more than 200 global networks engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior [Read More…]
Freed American Suedi Murekezi says he’s in contact with US officials, being ‘debriefed’
ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) — Suedi Murekezi, an American who was freed from Russian-controlled territory on Wednesday, said he has since been in contact with U.S. officials. Murekezi told ABC News on Thursday that he’s [Read More…]
Prince Harry says Prince William ‘screamed and shouted’ at him in meeting over his and Meghan’s royal split
Netflix (NEW YORK) — The final three episodes of Prince Harry and Meghan’s closely followed docuseries aired Thursday on Netflix. The latest episodes of the six-part series, titled Harry & Meghan, focus on Harry and [Read More…]
Will US Patriot missiles really be a game changer in Ukraine?
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — If the United States approves the transfer of Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine will they really be the game changer that Ukrainian officials expect them to be? And how quickly [Read More…]
UVA shooting survivor speaking out ‘for my brothers I lost’
Virginia Sports (NEW YORK) — A University of Virginia football player is speaking out after surviving a shooting that killed three of his teammates, telling ABC News’ Good Morning America co-anchor Michael Strahan he’s “doin’ [Read More…]
Three dead in Louisiana after tornadoes hit state
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Three people are dead in the wake of tornadoes that swept through Louisiana, according to the state Department of Health. The latest fatality was reported in St. Charles Parish on [Read More…]