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Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Harvey Weinstein has failed in his attempt to get a judge to drop a sex trafficking suit filed against him by an aspiring actress. Karina Noble alleges Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a Cannes hotel in 2014 after promising her film roles that never materialized. In court documents obtained by ABC, on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet dismissed the lawsuit, writing, “Plaintiff has plausibly alleged that Harvey Weinstein, […]

Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros. Pictures(NEW YORK) -- Crazy Rich Asians is ready to share its wealth with moviegoers nationwide, starting today. The film, based on the novel by Kevin Kwan, follows Chinese-American NYU professor Rachel Chu who finds out her boyfriend Nick Young is, well, crazy rich. When they fly to Singapore for his best friend’s wedding, Rachel is thrown into his family’s world of opulence, and judgment. “It's just a […]

ABC/ Heidi Gutman(HOLLYWOOD) -- Kerry Washington has set up another project at Hulu. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Washington has signed on to star in and produce the series adaptation of Boom! Studios' 2011 graphic novel Old City Blues.   The comic, set in 2048, takes place in New Athens, Greece, a place filled with "high-tech criminals including smugglers, drug dealers and corrupt politicians and powerful corporations." It follows the New […]

ABC/Ida Mae Astute(HOLLYWOOD) -- In what could be a match made in heaven, DreamWorks Pictures has dropped the first official trailer for Green Book, the upcoming film starring Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen as two unlikely friends.The film follows Mortensen's Tony Lip, an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, who is hired to drive Ali's Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class African-American pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep […]

Courtesy of CBS TV Studios(LOS ANGELES) -- Star Trek's Mr. Spock, one of TV's most iconic characters, has been portrayed by the late Leonard Nimoy on TV and in the original Star Trek movie series, and by Zachary Quinto in the three recent Star Trek films. But now there's a new Vulcan in town. TV actor Ethan Peck has been cast as Spock for season two of the CBS All […]

Anthony Harvey/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Mark Hamill is ready to trade his lightsaber for a medieval sword. The Star Wars actor is joining season two of the History series Knightfall as a warrior monk named Talus, Entertainment Weekly reports. His character is described as “a battle-hardened Knight Templar veteran of the Crusades, who survived captivity for ten years in the Holy Land and is tasked with training the new initiates […]

Jeffrey R. Staab/CBS via Getty Images(DETROIT) -- Following a report that Aretha Franklin was "gravely ill,"  People magazine has now confirmed that the Queen of Soul may not be with us for very much longer. A longtime friend tells People that the 76-year-old music legend is very sick, and her death is "imminent," adding, "She has been ill for a long time. She did not want people to know and […]

ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua(NEW YORK) -- Actor Mark Wahlberg stopped by Good Morning America Tuesday to chat about his upcoming film, Mile 22, and his life as a family man.Wahlberg, a father of four, recently celebrated his nine-year wedding anniversary with his wife, model Rhea Durham. The pair celebrated with a day of shopping at the Chanel store, he said."Anything my wife wants," Wahlberg told GMA. "Happy wife, happy life and she […]

ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- Jimmy Kimmel Live! has just become the most reliable mid-sized late-night show in the business.  During Monday night's monologue, host Jimmy Kimmel said his show has won a lot of awards but one has always eluded them: the J.D. Power Award for customer satisfaction. Although the award is typically reserved for products like cars, Kimmel made it his mission to become the first television show to earn […]