Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival(LONDON) Terry Jones, who as a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python’s Flying Circus left an indelible mark on film and TV comedy, has died at 77. The BBC quotes Jones' agent as saying the entertainer "passed away on the evening of 21 January 2020 at the age of 77 with his wife Anna Söderström by his side after a long, […]
Rami Malek -- ABC/Eric McCandless(LOS ANGELES) -- Oscar winners Mahershala Ali, Olivia Colman, Regina King and Rami Malek were announced as presenters at the 92nd Oscars, show producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain announced on Tuesday. Ali, Coleman, King and Malek were Oscar winners in their respective acting categories last year: Ali won his second Academy Award, this one for his supporting work in the Best Picture winner Green Book; King snagged the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for If Beale Street […]
Netflix/Katalin Vermes(NEW YORK) -- Netflix unveiled a new ratings method on Tuesday, and claimed that by using the new approach, its original series The Witcher scored its best numbers for a first-season original TV series, according to Variety. Instead of its murky previous method, "reporting households viewing a title based on 70 percent of a single episode of a series or of an entire film," the streamer is, "now reporting on households (accounts) that […]
Kevin Kane/Getty Images for BSB(NEW YORK) -- Jennifer Lopez's new partnership with Coach created a major splash on social media thanks to an unexpected shout out from Barbra Streisand. Lopez, who was recently named the new face of Coach, released a series of promotional photos on Tuesday announcing the official launch of the "Originals Go Their Own Way" Spring/Summer 2020 line. One photo of JLo's in particular, however, caught Streisand's eye. And for good […]
Vladislav Zolotov/iStock(LOS ANGELES) --For those dying to see what could possibly be going on behind the scenes for the Royal Family are in luck. Family Guy producer Gary Janetti is launching a new animated satirical comedy about them, which has been ordered by streamer HBO Max. The series, simply entitled The Prince, was inspired by Janetti's Instagram that parodies what six-year-old Prince George could possibly be thinking about current events, from the critically panned CATS movie to "spilling tea" on #Megxit. Playing George […]
Lucasfilm(LONDON) -- Pop star Ed Sheeran may have had a secret cameo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker -- but it's not like you would have recognized him or anything. Last year, it was rumored that Ed would be playing a Stormtrooper in the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise, after the release of a behind-the-scenes video showing the singer wearing the Stormtrooper costume on set. But now, according to an article on Oh My Disney titled […]
ABC News/Steve Iervolino(NEW YORK) -- Emmy-winner Billy Porter will officially get to live out a lifelong dream in Sony's upcoming re-imagined Cinderella. Porter will play the fairy godmother in the movie musical, which stars Camila Cabello in the titular role. Porter tells ABC Audio that he's already renamed and remixed his new gig. "I know that I'm the fairy -- the Fab G," he says. "The slot is the fairy […]
ABC/Rick Rowell(PENNSYLVANIA) -- The King of Atlantis himself, Jason Momoa, recently delighted fans as he paid a visit to patients healing at a children's hospital. The star shared heartwarming photos on his Instagram page of himself greeting a number of kids at UPMC children's hospital of Pittsburgh, writing, "The greatest part of him being aquaman is making children happy spreading aloha." One photo showed the hulking star mock-arm wrestling a […]
ABC/Craig Sjodin(LOS ANGELES) -- After his directorial debut, A Star Is Born, was nominated for seven Oscars, fans have been wondering what Bradley Cooper would be up to next behind the camera. Now Variety reports Netflix is betting Cooper's next directorial effort, a drama about famed composer Leonard Bernstein, could be on next year's Oscars short list. The trade notes that the project will stream on Netflix but also hit theaters, […]
