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Photo by Raymond Hall/GC ImagesHarvey Weinstein asked a New York City judge on Friday to throw out the two indictments returned against him in the last few months, arguing the Manhattan District Attorney’s office failed to meet its technical burden when it filed a series of sex crimes charges against him.A new court document cites 40 emails that Weinstein’s lawyer says prove the woman he allegedly raped was no victim, […]

  John Lamparski/WireImage(HOLLYWOOD) -- Chris Rock is heading to Fargo. FX announced on Friday that the comedian will star in the fourth season of the hit limited series. The new season will be set in 1950's Kansas City, Missouri, where two criminal syndicates — one Italian, one African-American — have "struck an uneasy peace." To keep violence at bay, the heads of both families have agreed to raise each others' […]

Warner Bros. While Ben Affleck had written a draft of a script when he scheduled to direct a Batman movie -- and insisted last year that he wasn't done playing the Caped Crusader -- questions are still being raised about the actor's participation in the project, which is now being directed by Matt Reeves. The questions arose from Reeves' remarks to Deadline during the annual Television Critics Association gathering in […]

ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- Earlier this week, Seth Rogen faced immense backlash after a photo surfaced of a light-skinned black child actor wearing blackface on the set of the Seth's upcoming film, Good Boys.  According to TMZ, the child was reported to have been a stand-in for 11-year old Keith L. Williams. In the photo he was pictured wearing darker makeup on his face, as well as an afro wig and […]

Disney(LOS ANGELES) -- Here are the movies opening nationwide Friday: * Christopher Robin -- Ewan McGregor plays the titular character -- the boy we know from the A.A. Milne stories -- all grown up and too wrapped up in his job to be with his family. Enter his old pals Pooh, Tigger and the other beloved characters, who help him rediscover the joys of life. Co-starring Hayley Atwell and featuring the […]

Frank Micelotta/FOX/PictureGroup(LOS ANGELES) -- Tim Allen's Last Man Standing returns to TV this fall, this time on Fox. With Roseanne gone, Allen's character, Mike Baxter, is one of the few politically conservative starring characters on TV these days. But Allen and executive producer Kevin Abbott told the crowd at Thursday's Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills that the renewed show will be focused on family and not politics.  "I don't think we are […]

ABC Image Group LA(NEW YORK) -- Jessica Alba is says she's thrilled to team up with Gabrielle Union for their upcoming Bad Boys television spinoff, L.A.'s Finest. The show, which was initially passed over by NBC in May, will become Charter Communications' first scripted series and will air on their Spectrum cable platform. Alba -- who plays a police officer and mom named Nancy McKenna in the series -- tells […]

Photo by Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for AMCTyson Beckford is hitting back at Kim Kardashian after she responded to his snarky comment about her body with a seemingly homophobic response. It all started when Beckford commented on The Shade Room's post of Kim wearing tight-fitting leggings and a crop top. “Sorry I don’t care for it personally,” he wrote in the comments section, later adding, “She is not real, doctor f***** […]

FOX(LOS ANGELES) -- For about a year now, The Simpsons character of Apu has been under fire for cultural insensitivity. While the show finally addressed the controversy, it did so in an an offhand way. Now, a Fox executive says the "Apu Problem" will remain in the hands of the show's producers. Comedian Hari Kondabolu's documentary The Problem with Apu, which debuted on TruTV last November, criticized the cartoon’s representation of the Kwik-E-Mart owner […]