Year: 2017

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Margot Robbie takes the ice as Harding in “I, Tonya”

ABC/Lou Rocco(NEW YORK) -- The first teaser has been released for I, Tonya, Margot Robbie's darkly comic turn as real-life disgraced Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding. Harding was implicated in a plot -- executed by her ex-husband and bodyguard -- to break the kneecap of her rival Nancy Kerrigan, weeks before they took the ice at the 1994 Olympic Games.  The snippet begins with Robbie as Harding in a garish purple skating outfit, […]

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“This television thing was a fluke” – “Empire” creator Lee Daniels ready to return to directing

ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua (NEW YORK) -- Lee Daniels is thankful to have two primetime shows on television, but the Empire and Star creator says he's seriously itching to get back to directing. "I miss being behind the camera as a filmmaker because you know right now as a creator it's really more administrative," Daniels tells ABC Radio. "You start with something and you sprinkle your fairy dust on it and you manage […]

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Channing Tatum ends development project with The Weinstein Company

ABC/Randy Holmes(NEW YORK) -- Channing Tatum will no longer develop his current project — or any others — with The Weinstein Company, he announced Wednesday. The producer and Kingsman 2 actor, along with his producing partner Reid Carolin had been developing a film adaptation of the book Forgive Me Leonard Peacock -- which, incidentally, deals with the theme of sexual abuse -- with the now-embattled studio. In the wake of the Weinstein sex scandal […]

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Alyssa Milano on the #MeToo campaign: “We are going to be vocal until this stops”

Getty Images/David Livingston(NEW YORK) -- On Thursday, actress Alyssa Milano said the chorus of millions of women who have come forward with their allegations of sexual abuse and harassment using the "#metoo" hashtag won't be silenced anytime soon. "We are going to be vocal until this stops," Milano, 44, said in an exclusive interview on Good Morning America. "Not one more. It stops here." The "me too" movement was started in 2007 by […]

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Sasha Pieterse on “Pretty Little Liars” spin-off: “Emison is alive and well”

Freeform/James White(NEW YORK) -- Sasha Pieterse may have been booted from Dancing with the Stars this week, but she won’t be off our TV screens for long. The actress is set to reprise her role as Alison DiLaurentis in the Pretty Little Liars spinoff The Perfectionists. The series, which will air on Freeform, begins shooting early next year. Pieterse describes the show as more of a mash-up than a spinoff, designed to keep the PLL legacy […]

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“Empire” Recap: “Bleeding War”

FOX/Chuck Hodes(NEW YORK) -- This week's episode of Empire, titled "Bleeding War," begins with a flashback to Cookie during her time in jail, watching Lucious on an episode of BET's 106th and Park. We soon find out that Cookie is telling Lucious, in the present day, about what life was like for her behind bars, especially when it came to fighting to survive. Here's some more highlights from the episode:  - Another flashback […]

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Chelsea Handler’s Netflix talk show axed

Netflix/Greg Gayne(LOS ANGELES) -- Chelsea, comedian Chelsea Handler's talk show, which has struggled on Netflix, won't be back for a third season. In a lengthy Twitter post, Handler insisted she's walking away from the program so that she can focus on activism against President Trump. "Like so many across the country, the past presidential election and the countless events that have unfolded since have galvanized me. From the national level […]

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Kevin Smith to donate residuals from his Weinstein-produced films to Women in Film

Getty Images for IMDb.com/Bryan Bedder(LOS ANGELES) -- Kevin Smith, the director of indie hits Clerks and Chasing Amy, has vowed to donate all his future residuals from his Harvey Weinstein-produced films to the nonprofit organization Women in Film. "My entire career is tied up with the man," Smith said in an expletive-filled emotional episode of his podcast Hollywood Babble-On. "It's been a weird f****** week. I just wanted to make some […]

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Substitute teacher in Texas allegedly duct-taped mouths of 10 elementary school students, school district says

Gloda/iStock/Thinkstock(KILLEEN, Texas) -- A substitute teacher has been banned from the campus of an elementary school in Killeen, Texas, after she allegedly placed duct tape over the mouths of 10 students, according to the school district.The teacher was substituting a fifth-grade class at Maxdale Elementary School when the incident occurred. After the teacher placed the duct tape over the students' mouths, three additional students placed duct tape over their own […]

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