Year: 2017

ABC Radio(NEW YORK) -- How good are your song recognition skills? Jamie Foxx wants to find out. He's hosting the new game show, Beat Shazam, which premieres tonight on Fox. The show pits contestants against the song recognition app, Shazam, to see who can identify a tune the fastest. Contestants have the chance to win up to one million dollars. “What was interesting about all of the contestants, nobody was playing for themselves,” Jamie […]

© 2016 Walt Disney Pictures(LOS ANGELES) -- On Thursday's Good Morning America, Oscar-winner Javier Bardem opened up about playing Captain Jack Sparrow's nemesis in the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film, Dead Men Tell No Tales. He revealed that time spent in the makeup chair helped him physically and psychologically find his inner bad guy. Bardem plays Captain Salazar, a former Spanish Navy officer who was turned into a ghost and is now out […]

ABC - 2017(LOS ANGELES) -- ABC's Dirty Dancing reboot aired on Wednesday night -- 30 years after the classic film, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey as Johnny Castle and Francis "Baby" Houseman had its premiere -- and answered the question, "What ever happened to Johnny and Baby?" It turns out the relationship between the couple -- played this time by Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin and Colt Prattes -- was only a summer fling. The remake begins with a grown up Baby entering […]

Universal Pictures - 2017(LONDON) -- The scheduled June 1 London premiere of the new Tom Cruise movie The Mummy has been cancelled in the wake of Monday night's bombing in Manchester, England that left 22 people dead. A statement from Universal, as reported by Variety, reads, “All of us at Universal have been devastated by the terror attack in Manchester and continue to stand with the community and country as it recovers. Out of respect […]

FOX//Chuck Hodes(NEW YORK) -- Part two of Empire's season three finale begins with Guisi and Lucious arriving in Las Veags via private jet  and ends with Lucious waking up from a coma with amnesia. Here's what happened:  We find that Tariq's body is being kept hidden at Lucious' home. Meanwhile, Jamal asks Cookie to come to his performance at Leviticus Las Vegas.  At Hakeem's apartment, Lucious' mother calls Anika and […]

ABC/Guy D’Alema(LOS ANGELES) -- Sarah Hyland is fighting back against cyberbullies who have mocked her appearance.The Modern Family star wrote on Twitter that for the past few months, she's "basically been on bed rest," cannot work out and has been on medication. She did not disclose the particulars of her condition, but wrote that as a result, she has lost a lot of muscle mass. The medicine she's taking, prednisone, […]

Matt Rourke-Pool/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH, Penn.) -- Twelve jurors and three alternates have been selected from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to hear testimony at Bill Cosby's criminal trial next month. At the end of the day Tuesday, three white women, one black woman, one black man, and seven white men had been chosen to sit on the 12-person jury. Additionally, six alternates were chosen: a black woman, a black man, and four white […]

Lucasfilm(LOS ANGELES) -- May 25, 1977, fans were introduced to a galaxy far, far away. While 20th Century Fox had little faith a movie called Star Wars would be a hit, the space opera from young filmmaker named George Lucas became a worldwide cultural phenomenon.  Forty years, and a handful of sequels, prequels, and follow-ups later, the multi-billion-dollar franchise is a popular as ever.  After a successful re-launch with J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens in […]