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Taye Diggs, Glee vet Amber Riley to voice King Triton and Ursula for ‘Disney Junior’s Ariel’
Disney At a Disney Junior & Friends Playdate event at Disney California Adventure Park on Friday, August 18, Ayo Davis, president of Disney Branded Television, announced plans for content headed to the kids network. For [Read More…]

‘Raging’ birthday: Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul McCartney and more show up for Robert De Niro’s 80th celebration
Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival Robert De Niro turned 80 on Thursday, August 17, and People is reporting a lot of his celebrity friends turned up in New York City that evening for a [Read More…]

‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ showrunner and director on working with Sigourney Weaver
Amazon/Hugh Stewart As The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart continues its rollout with new episodes Fridays on Prime Video, the series’ creatives spoke with ABC Audio about adapting Holly Ringland’s novel and what it’s like to work with Sigourney [Read More…]

‘Blue Beetle’ hits theaters Friday
Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Films On Friday, August 18, DC Films’ Blue Beetle takes flight in theaters. Cobra Kai‘s Xolo Maridueña plays Jaime Reyes, an everyday teenager who finds himself the recipient of an alien scarab that [Read More…]

‘Barbie’ and ‘Fast X’ digital releases; ‘Suits’ sets another streaming record, and more
Two of this summer’s big releases, Barbie and Fast X, will be available for streaming in September. Barbie, which recently topped $1.2 billion dollars globally since its July 21 release, will be available on paid [Read More…]

‘Landscape with Invisible Hand’ is an alien invasion movie with a twist
Lynsey Weatherspoon The new movie Landscape with Invisible Hand, out in theaters this weekend, is about an alien invasion, but not in any way we’ve seen alien invasions portrayed on screen before. “This is not your [Read More…]

AMC releases new images and teaser for ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’
AMC AMC has released new images and a new teaser from its forthcoming spinoff The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. The new footage from the show, which starts in September, shows Norman Reedus‘ Daryl not getting [Read More…]

‘The Blind Side’ author Michael Lewis sounds off on “sad” controversy surrounding the film
David Levenson/Getty Images Michael Lewis, the author behind the book that became the movie The Blind Side, has sounded off to The Washington Post about the controversy that now surrounds it. As reported, Michael Oher [Read More…]

Ousted ‘Big Brother’ contestant Luke Valentine says he should’ve gotten “slap on the wrist” for dropping N-word
CBS In an Instagram Live from Havana, Cuba, Big Brother contestant Luke Valentine addressed his dropping of the N-word during a broadcast that got him kicked off the CBS reality show. Wearing a tropical shirt [Read More…]

Robert De Niro turns 80
Lionsgate Legendary actor and new dad Robert De Niro turns 80 years old on Thursday, August 17. Born in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City in which he still lives, the man considered to be [Read More…]

Apple TV+ reveals title of Godzilla-related series starring Kurt and Wyatt Russell: ‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’
Apple TV+ On Thursday, August 17, Apple TV+ released the title and first images for its anticipated Godzilla and Titans live action original series: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Set in the same universe as the [Read More…]

FX announces premiere dates for ‘American Horror Story: Delicate’, ‘Fargo’ and its Hulu exclusives
FX FX has announced its premiere dates for its upcoming programming, including the returns of the award-winning American Horror Story, Fargo and its Hulu exclusive shows. American Horror Story: Delicate, the 12th installment of the flagship AHS franchise and the [Read More…]

Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis score win in legal battle with former nanny
Getty Images, FILE Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis scored a legal victory against their former nanny Ericka Genaro on Wednesday when a Los Angeles judge moved her wrongful termination lawsuit against the ex-couple to arbitration. [Read More…]

“I’m finally startin’ to feel like myself”: “Thankful” Jamie Foxx updates fans following “dark journey” of health scare
In an Instagram post Wednesday evening, August 16, Jamie Foxx updated fans about his recovery from the still-undisclosed health scare that left him hospitalized in April. Captioning a photo of himself wearing tinted aviator glasses [Read More…]

In Brief: Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ spotlighted at New York Film Festival, and more
The Girlfriends actress Jill Marie Jones has been added to the cast of Showtime’s The Chi in a guest-starring role. A new clip from the series shows Jones, who plays a business owner “with a shady clientele and a haunted past,” per [Read More…]

Clayton Echard talks new show ‘Pickleball Paddle Battle’, shares advice for the ‘Golden Bachelor’
John Fleenor/ABC via Getty Images As one of the fastest growing sports, Pickleball is taking over the United States — and soon our televisions. The beloved sport is now the premise of the new reality [Read More…]

FX’s ‘American Horror Stories’ to return on Hulu October 26
FX Just in time for Halloween, FX has announced its anthology spinoff American Horror Stories will debut on Hulu Thursday, October 26. The spinoff of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s award-winning hit anthology series American [Read More…]

‘Stranger Things’, ‘The Adam Project’ director Shawn Levy to be honored at Toronto International Film Fest
Netflix/Guy Aroch Shawn Levy, the Canadian-born director and executive producer of Stranger Things and the Ryan Reynolds hit Free Guy, will be honored at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Levy is known for his [Read More…]

Ahead of ‘Ahsoka”s release on Disney+, Lucasfilm drops deep dive into character with ‘Legacy’ short
L-R: Dawson, Bordizzo — Lucasfilm Ahead of Ahsoka‘s two-episode premiere on Disney+ on August 23, Lucasfilm has dropped a more than 7-minute special look into the history of the character. The snippet, called A New [Read More…]

Leonard Bernstein’s children fire back at “Jewface” claims about Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ makeup
Cooper on set – Netflix/Jason McDonald Bradley Cooper‘s upcoming romantic biopic Maestro, in which he plays famed composer Leonard Bernstein, dropped its first teaser on Tuesday. But it has already kicked off derision from people [Read More…]