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Netflix/David LeeGabrielle Dennis will be one to watch on the second season of Marvel's Luke Cage. The black superhero series, which officially launches today, will feature Dennis as Tilda Johnson, the estranged daughter of disgraced Harlem councilwoman Mariah Dillard, played by Alfre Woodard. "She's regal. She's funny. She's talented. She's just.. amazing," Dennis tells ABC Radio of Woodard. "And when I found out I was playing her daughter, I was […]

Universal(NEW YORK) -- Opening nationwide Friday: * Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom -- The sequel to 2015's Jurassic World takes place three years after the events of the first film, with Owen and Claire -- played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, respectively, reprising their Jurassic World roles -- scrambling to save the dinosaurs from extinction when the island's previously dormant volcano erupts. B. D. Wong and Jeff Goldblum also […]

Lucasfilm(NEW YORK) -- Hold up, Star Wars fans.  Reports of the death of future stand-alone films from that galaxy far, far away -- like Solo, Rogue One, and a rumored Obi-Wan Kenobi project -- appear to be premature.Lucasfilm sources on Thursday characterized as “inaccurate” a widely quoted Collider report that future Star Wars movies falling outside of the regular trilogy storyline -- the Episodes I to IX chapters -- have […]

David Lee/Netflix(NEW YORK) -- Netflix unveils the second season of Luke Cage Friday, and with it, says showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker, will come a collaboration that fans first saw in the pages of Marvel Comics in 1972: Luke Cage teaming up with the mystical martial artist Iron Fist. While 2016's debut season of Luke Cage, and Mike Colter's portrayal of the Harlem hero, found favor with fans, reaction was less […]

Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for MTV(NEW YORK) -- Media personality Charlamagne Tha God has inked a deal with HBO for a series of four interview specials, called The Gray Area with Charlamagne Tha God, it was announced on Wednesday. The series, "will provide a safe space for ‘unsafe’ people to curate their stories and control their own narratives,” says Charlamagne. “The reality is, when it comes to people's stories, it's […]

Joan Marcus(NEW YORK) -- Supergirl star Melissa Benoist is making her Broadway debut in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, playing Carole King, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer behind hits like "So Far Away," "It's Too Late" and "You've Got a Friend."  While she's done musical theater in the past and sang every week as one of the stars of Glee, Benoist didn't expect to be on Broadway at […]

ABC(NEW YORK) -- Fran Drescher, "The Nanny" herself, stopped by Good Morning America Thursday to dish on the new animated movie, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.Drescher, who voices Eunice Stein -- the wife of Kevin James' Frank Stein -- in the film, said she is "delighted" to be part of the franchise."I don't think that there's an animated film besides ours that has put together such a great collection of […]

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Actor Peter Fonda has apologized for a series of what he now calls "vulgar" tweets, one of which said, "…We should rip Barron Trump from his mother's arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles."  Barron Trump is the 12-year-old son of President Trump and wife Melania. The tweets were in reference to a years-old immigration policy that has seen children […]

Netflix(NEW YORK) -- Netflix has just debuted a trailer for the upcoming season of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The clip starts of with Seinfeld and Matthew Broderick introducing the teaser with a black and white scene modeled after an early car commercial. Jerry pokes fun at other "too complicated" streaming shows, boasting each episode of CCGC runs an average of 14 minutes. "Unlike our competitors, we're not trying to take […]