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Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesOne of the most highly anticipated panels of this year's San Diego Comic-Con took place Thursday: the Breaking Bad reunion, celebrating 10 years since the show's debut. The panel included show creator Vince Gilligan; Bryan Cranston, who played high school chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin Walter White; and Aaron Paul, who played White's former student turned fellow meth cook, Jesse Pinkman. Cranston told the crowd early in that […]

Marvel Studios(NEW YORK) -- The success of Marvel's Black Panther and its characters is officially spilling back over into its comic books. Marvel has announced that award-winning Nigerian-American writer, Nnedi Okorafor, will write a new standalone comic book series about Shuri, the genius younger sister of Wakanda's King T'Challa/Black Panther. As you may recall, she was portrayed by Leticia Wright in Black Panther, and proved so popular she was immediately […]

Photo by Mike Coppola/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- (NOTE LANGUAGE) Roseanne Barr promised to tell her side of the story regarding the racist tweet about President Obama's longtime confidante Valerie Jarrett that got Barr fired from her then red-hot Roseanne reboot, and now she has. Sort of. In a short video on her YouTube page, the entry, described as "Roseanne, like always, cuts through the bulls*** and gets to the heart of […]

Sony Pictures(NEW YORK) -- Denzel Washington returns as retired CIA agent Robert McCall in the Antoine Fuqua-directed action thriller The Equalizer 2. The film, which also stars Moonlight standout Ashton Sanders as Miles -- a young man McCall takes under his wing -- shows a strong father-son connection between Washington and the young actor. Washington tells ABC Radio their relationship is authentic. "It's a natural extension," he says. "Because he's asking […]

AMC/Gene Page(SAN DIEGO) -- Rick Grimes will soon fight his last battle. The Walking Dead's leading man, Andrew Lincoln, will be leaving the series after its upcoming ninth season, according to series creator Robert Kirkman. In an IMDB interview, Kirkman -- who also created the comic book series that the television show is based off of -- addresses the rumors that the upcoming ninth season will be Lincoln's last. "It's looking that way," Kirkman said reluctantly. "He […]

Denzel Washington in "The Equalizer 2"; Glen Wilson/Columbia Pictures(NEW YORK) -- Here are the movies opening nationwide Friday: * The Equalizer 2 -- Denzel Washington returns in this sequel to the 2014 action thriller The Equalizer as Robert McCall, a mysterious man who's not afraid to deliver some vigilante justice when its needed. This time, he's out to avenge the death of his former friend and colleague, Susan Plummer, played by Melissa […]

Kailey Fellows/NBC (NEW YORK) -- It's apparently been a tough week for Leslie Jones. After calling out Jessica Alba's Honest Company for "not doing good" business earlier, the Saturday Night Live star went on Twitter with another grievance. "When young men especially black men (yea I said it) talk to me like I’m some dumb B***!" Jones wrote. "It makes me want to stomp a mudhole in they a**. That […]

(L-R) Ledger, Lee, Gyllenhaal - Photo by Eric CATARINA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- It's hard to picture anyone in the leading roles for 2005's Brokeback Mountain besides Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, but one director had other plans.Before the film came to Ang Lee to direct, Gus Van Sant said he was working on the project.In his vision, Van Sant wanted bigger stars. Ledger and Gyllenhaal weren't quite as […]

Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight was released 10 years ago today. Although it's the second in director/co-writer Nolan's Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight is not only widely considered his best chapter, but one of the best superhero movies ever made. Much of that well-earned praise hangs on two things. One: Nolan crafted his film less like a "comic book movie" and more like […]