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Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney(HOLLYWOOD) -- Carrie Fisher may have left us, but General Leia Organa lives on. Despite denials last year that the late actress would appear in Star Wars: Episode IX, Disney announced Friday that Fisher's Leia Organa will indeed be present in the film, "using previously unreleased footage shot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Director J.J. Abrams says in a statement, "We desperately loved Carrie Fisher. […]

Photo Credit: Ariel Nava(NEW YORK) -- Real-life friends and Oakland natives Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal have teamed up for their Oakland based drama, Blindspotting. The film centers on Diggs' character, Collin, and the complicated relationship he has with his best friend, Miles. Casal, who plays Miles, says they wanted to make the film to authentically showcase their city. "We really tried to rely on making the film come across […]

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Omari Hardwick - ABC/Fred Lee(NEW YORK) -- Omari Hardwick has played a lot of intense characters during his career, but the Sorry to Bother You star says playing the gritty "calm, cool collected" and "uber-bright" character of James "Ghost" St. Patrick on Starz' Power  has been the most challenging for him as an actor. "[He's] a character we don't really get to see a lot," […]

ABC/Rick Rowell(HOLLYWOOD) -- Kenya Barris, creator, producer and showrunner of ABC's Black-ish and Freeform's Grown-ish, is leaving ABC Studios, Variety reports.  His current deal wasn't set to expire until 2021. While Barris will remain an executive producer of his shows Black-ish will now have two new co-showrunners, both of whom have deals with ABC Studios. Earlier this year, there were reports that Netflix was looking to hire Barris, but as […]

Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney(HOLLYWOOD) -- Carrie Fisher may have left us, but General Leia Organa lives on. Despite denials last year that the late actress would appear in Star Wars: Episode IX, Disney announced Friday that Fisher's Leia Organa will indeed be present in the film, "using previously unreleased footage shot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Director J.J. Abrams says in a statement, "We desperately loved Carrie Fisher. […]

ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Actresses Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska are set to answer the call from Charlie, in a "modern and global" retelling of Charlie's Angels directed by Pitch Perfect's Elizabeth Banks.  The Sony Pictures project, set for a September 27, 2019 release, will also be co-written by Banks, who directed the hit Pitch Perfect 2. Additionally, she’ll play the traditionally male role of Bosley. "Charlie’s […]

Photo by Laurent KOFFEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Surprise! Actress Michelle Williams is married.The four-time Oscar nominee revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair that by the time the magazine went to print, she would have wed singer-songwriter Phil Elverum in a secret ceremony in the Adirondacks.A representative for the actress offered no additional comment, though Vanity Fair, which hits newsstands on Aug. 7, reported that the only […]

© 2018 Paramount PicturesSuperman himself, Henry Cavill, gets to show his fighting chops without the benefit of any superpowers in the explosive new Mission: Impossible - Fallout. One of the movie's setpieces is a bruising bathroom fight in which his CIA assassin character, August Walker, helps Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt tackle a baddie played by veteran stunt performer and martial artist Liang Yang. Cavill tells ABC Radio how different it was […]

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures(NEW YORK) -- Halsey is known for her unique singing voice, but her speaking voice is also getting her some pretty cool side gigs. The singer voices Wonder Woman in the animated superhero flick Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, in theaters today. She tells ABC Radio it was a dream role she couldn’t pass up. “Teen Titans they brought to me and they were like, […]