Credit: Scott Garfield. © 2019 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.(LOS ANGELES) -- For fans eager to feel the need for speed with Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick, you're going to have to wait a little longer. The long-awaited sequel to the 1986 hit had already been bumped a year to June 23, 2020, to accommodate the movie's flying sequences. It's now been grounded again by the coronavirus. It will now open […]
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- Oprah Winfrey has ponied up big time to try to help those battling the COVID-19 pandemic, to the tune of ten million bucks. She revealed on Instagram that she'll give a million-dollar donation to the charity America's Food Fund (AFF), and nine million dollars will be distributed to various coronavirus relief organizations. AFF was launched by Leonardo DiCaprio, Apple and the Ford Foundation, among others, and is focused on fighting food […]
Adult Swim(LOS ANGELES) -- The final five episodes of the fourth season of the beloved, Emmy-winning animated series Rick and Morty kick off Sunday night at 11:30 p.m., Adult Swim has announced in a new trailer. For the uninitiated, the show stars the voices of co-creator Justin Roiland as both lead characters: Rick, a brilliant, substance-abusing sociopath scientist, and Morty, his awkward grandson, whom Rick drags along on inter-dimensional adventures across space and time. Set to Thin […]
ABC/Paula Lobo(LOS ANGELES) -- Hollywood has changed quite a bit since Kristen Bell first stepped on the scene in the 90s. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the 39-year-old actress broke down her career timeline and addressed the adversity she faced as she was entering the industry. "I remember early on, getting feedback, that I wasn't enough in either category," she recalled. "I would get feedback from an audition like 'Well, you're not pretty […]
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- Rachel Bloom's baby girl is finally here. The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend actress, along with husband Dan Gregor, showed off their new bundle of joy on Wednesday. "She’s here. She’s home," captioned a relieved Bloom as she shared an adorable photo of her snuggling her newborn. "Having a baby in the NICU during a pandemic while a dear friend was in the hospital 3,000 miles away made this by far the most emotionally intense week […]
Kevin Winter/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- We can all use a good laugh these days, and YouTube did its part on Wednesday by launching The Official Robin Williams YouTube Channel, celebrating the late comic’s genius. The channel features classic live performance clips from Williams’ HBO stand-up specials, including 2002’s Live on Broadway and 1978’s Off the Wall, as well as exclusive, recently shot interview clips with fellow comedians Lewis Black on Becoming Friends with Robin Williams, and Inside […]
ABC News/Steve Iervolino(LOS ANGELES) -- (NOTE LANGUAGE) Samuel L. Jackson, the man who years ago so memorably narrated that children's book for snooze-deprived parents, Go the F*** to Sleep, has a new fable for the age of coronavirus: Stay the F*** at Home. Jackson, appearing from his home theater via video on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday night, read the children's book sequel, which stressed, as only the Pulp Fiction Oscar nominee can, the importance of social distancing. He intones, "Stay […]
John P. Johnson/courtesy of HBO(LOS ANGELES) -- If you're familiar with Larry David from Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, you'll know he's been advocating social distancing even before it became potentially lifesaving defense against the COVID-19 pandemic. With that in mind, he took to social media from an easy chair to admonish "idiots" who were violating the rules that can keep everyone safe. "Obviously, somebody put me up to this because it's generally not the kind […]
Universal Pictures(LOS ANGELES) -- Universal Studios, among the first to move its newer films to streaming in the wake of coronavirus-related closures, has announced the pandemic has caused the delay of three more of its projects. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Minions: The Rise of Gru will now be moved a year from its original release date, and ill now hit theaters July 2, 2021. In turn, that release date's former occupant, the […]
