via The mid-flight show: Variety · The Hollywood fallout: Variety · The stop lifted: Deadline
While the FAA's nationwide ground stop stranded more than a million travelers Friday, Hoobastank, Simple Plan, The Used and Lolo played a live in-flight concert on a Southwest flight from Los Angeles to Orlando, per Variety. The band was already airborne when …
via The Threads statement: THR · The exit itself: THR · Gisondo on what he still doesn't know: THR
James Gunn posted to Threads saying "No one from Skydance has even seen" Man of Tomorrow, the Superman sequel, per The Hollywood Reporter. He and Peter Safran step down as DC Studios co-CEOs on December 1. The post is a masterclass in the departed-exec voice: …
via The lawsuit: Deadline · The complaint breakdown: TMZ · Her canceled season and her next move: Page Six · The spinoff keeps casting: Us Weekly
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives cast member Dakota Mortensen filed a defamation suit in Utah state court Friday against Hulu and the show's two production companies, per Deadline. TMZ breaks down the complaint, which accuses the show of running "stage scenes pres…
via The campaign piece: The Hollywood Reporter · The brand's own release: Anheuser-Busch Newsroom · The bundle spec: BevNet · Trade coverage: MediaPost
Bud Light aired a spot ahead of UFC 334 at Madison Square Garden showing ring announcer Bruce Buffer trade places with a steakhouse server to serve customers. The brand is also selling a $99 "Fight Night Feast" box with a tomahawk steak and a "Bud Light beer m…
via The complaint: Deadline · Work-for-hire, explained: The Hollywood Reporter · The full rundown: The Wrap · The work-for-hire angle: A.V. Club
New Regency sued Michael Mann in federal court Friday, arguing the 1995 "Heat" screenplay was a "work for hire" and that his copyright termination notices are "defective and invalid," according to Deadline. "Work for hire" is the phrase a company uses when it …
via The grovel itself: Daily Mail · Portnoy's "won't be back" ruling: Golf Digest · The apology video and the Team Red breakdown: Total Pro Sports · The blackout recap: Heavy
Salim Sirur, the golf influencer, posted a video apology Friday after getting blackout drunk at the finale of Dave Portnoy's Internet Invitational. Portnoy says the finale was "ruined" and that Sirur "will not be back" next year, according to the Daily Mail. T…
via The statement, broken down: Deadline · The C-minus grade: Rolling Stone · The silence break: Just Jared · The awkward follow-up: Deadline
Shane Gillis addressed the backlash to his Oct. 10 "SNL" monologue on Joe Rogan's podcast this week, per Deadline, telling the host that the show does not approve monologues and that he promised them "no controversy." The set, which mixed self-deprecating fat …
via The actual video: TMZ · The press release: PUMA MediaHub · Rival coverage: AllHipHop · The shoe page: PUMA
According to TMZ, A$AP Rocky's PUMA launch party for the Suede '94 sneaker line turned into a fight inside a Manhattan building Thursday night, the NYPD showed up to what it called a "disorderly group," and the event was evacuated. The sneaker launch is the la…
via The recap: Variety · The full ten-writer list: IndieWire · The "all but confirm" coverage: EW · The no-script shoot: World of Reel
Per Variety, eagle-eyed Marvel fans combed through the Writer's Guild of America directory and spotted the screenwriting credits for Avengers: Doomsday, which list Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman among the 10 writers who worked on the film. We'll call the ten-w…
via The recap and the quote: Variety · The exploding head clip: Page Six · The residency review: Variety · The pansexual reveal: USA Today
Per Variety, Alanis Morissette told the crowd at her "Butterfly With a Machete" residency at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood on Nov. 11, "I've even had a guy ask me why I didn't lead with my sexuality. Thank you, Ben Affleck." Then the show played a clip of h…
According to TMZ, Kylie Jenner is asking a Los Angeles judge to force the former private chef who sued her in June to reveal her name in public court records. Jenner's lawyers say the pregnancy discrimination allegations do not satisfy the "high bar" to procee…
According to Page Six, on Thursday's episode of "The Kardashians," Kris Jenner demanded that the author of Kim Kardashian's new biography, Citizen Kim, remove a line suggesting the 46-year-old has "childhood trauma" that "she just doesn't see." Jenner's instru…
According to E! News, Ariana Grande and boyfriend Ricky Alvarez made their official red carpet debut at the New York premiere of Focker In-Law on November 11, standing side by side and, in E!'s words, sweetly leaning into him. Grande, 33, wore a white gown wit…
According to TMZ, the final version of Ted Turner's trust makes no mention of Jane Fonda. Turner's five children, Laura, Robert, Rhett, Reed and Sara, filed a petition to be named executors of the CNN founder's estate. They are the only listed heirs. Turner di…
According to TMZ, Zac Affleck posted a statement to his Instagram Stories taking "full responsibility for my actions" and saying he "deeply regretted that my actions negatively affected Jen over the course of our relationship." Sources tell TMZ there is "no ba…
According to Variety, Forbes pegs Paul McCartney's net worth at roughly $1.4 billion, which makes him the third-richest musician on the planet, behind Taylor Swift at $2 billion and Jay-Z at $2.8 billion. Third-richest musician. Read that again. It is a music …
According to E! News, Taylor Swift will not perform in the Dolly Parton tribute at the 2026 CMA Awards on Nov. 18 at Bridgestone Arena. A CMA source confirmed the absence, and the ceremony honoring the star who died in August goes on without her. The tribute a…
via The line, and the aftermath: TMZ · The judges' reaction, per E! News: EW · The show, where it aired: Dancing with the Stars
According to TMZ, Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba told the ballroom on Tuesday's Grammy Night episode, after Paralympian Ezra Frech and his pro partner Daniella Karagach finished a steamy Argentine tango, that "Turning your sister into your lover…
via The lineup announcement: TMZ · The 2006 tent backstory: Just Jared · The full lineup: Billboard · The official site, where the tent lives: Coachella
According to TMZ, Coachella dropped its 2027 lineup Tuesday night with Dua Lipa, Tame Impala, and SZA as the three headliners, and the 67-year-old Madonna listed in her own line as "in the dance tent," playing the same nights as Dua Lipa on April 9 and 16. The…
via The naming: Page Six · The three-year investigation: The Guardian · Why the injunction failed: BBC · The statement, in full: The Hollywood Reporter
According to Page Six, David Walliams, the 55-year-old Little Britain comedian and children's book author, was named Tuesday as the anonymous British celebrity who tried, and failed, to use a court injunction to keep his identity out of a joint Guardian and IT…
via The announcement: Variety · The press photo behind the exclusive: Variety
ABC is set to premiere a hide-and-seek competition series called "Can You Hide... Shaq?" in which eight contestants in Dallas must hide the 7-foot-1 NBA legend in plain sight, according to Variety. It opens December 3. Let's look at the mechanism. In this show…
According to People, Elton John and David Furnish's zero-alcohol sparkling wine, Elton John Zero Blanc de Blancs, hit U.S. shelves Tuesday at $25 a bottle. The launch statement says celebrations "should include people who do not drink alcohol." The machine doe…
via The defense: Page Six · The original scoop: TMZ · The fundraiser itself: GoFundMe · The 'get a job' comments live here: Reddit
According to Page Six, "Little Rascals" star Brandon "Bug" Hall defended his GoFundMe on Sunday after netizens urged him to "get a job," telling them he is "going to keep impregnating my wife." The fund for his sixth child, due in under a month, has passed $8,…
*According to Rolling Stone, Justin Timberlake says "What Goes Around... Comes Around" was never about Britney Spears. In a new Complex video he says the 2006 hit is "a personal story from a friend's" and that the friend gave permission. He has been denying it…
*According to Variety, Druski hosted his first "Saturday Night Live" last night, the first digital creator to run the show without a movie or TV crossover, and spent part of it playing Elizabeth Holmes in his signature whiteface. Emma Stone crashed his opening…
via The carpet gallery: Vogue · The museum's announcement, Gucci and all: LACMA · More carpet photos: The Hollywood Reporter · Every look: W Magazine
The 15th annual LACMA Art+Film Gala wrapped up Saturday night in Los Angeles, honoring painter Vija Celmins and director Denis Villeneuve, per Vogue. Photos from the carpet courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter. Read the museum's own announcement, because that is…
via The offer, in full: Variety · Rival coverage: Deadline · Tabloid angle: TMZ · The expected meeting: TMZ
*On Saturday, according to Variety, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he has offered UFC CEO Dana White the job of White House press secretary. He asked White to bring assistants and named six UFC fighters to "defend us against the lunatic left." The la…
via The statement: Deadline · The clip, both players, full detail: ESPN · Rival coverage: The Guardian · The response, celebrity angle: People
According to Deadline, Knicks guard Tyler Kolek called Taylor Swift a "very performative" fan on a since-deleted NBA clip, and the team's rep responded with a statement thanking her for "many years" of support. A point guard gets asked to name the fakest celeb…
via The statement: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety
After three sold-out benefit shows in Dublin, Paris, and London, Macklemore posted an Instagram statement naming the nine U.S. arenas that "turned us down" for his Free Palestine benefit tour, including Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, and Crypto.com Ar…
via The record and the tour math: Variety · The press release: PR Newswire · Rival coverage and the stadium photo: Pollstar
According to Variety, The Weeknd's "After Hours Til Dawn" stadium tour wrapped at TM Stadium National in Kuala Lumpur last night, ending at more than $1.3 billion, the highest-grossing tour by a male artist in history, per the PR Newswire release. The record i…
via The DM story and the rep's statement: Variety · The Times Square push and Oscar screenings: IndieWire (via Yahoo) · The trailer and the Oscar bid: Variety · The YouTube audience math: The Wrap
According to Variety, Grimes has a few minutes of cameo in "Gods Don't Give Gifts," the R-rated AI-generated feature from YouTuber Gossip Goblin that hits theaters Dec. 4, and the studio is running a Times Square ad campaign built around her appearance. The di…
via The chocolate defense: USA Today · The original backlash: NBC News · The crisis-PR breakdown: Forbes · The blame shift: People
Martha Stewart says her controversial "homeless" Halloween costume happened because Today co-host Craig Melvin spilled chocolate on her sweater the day before, per USA Today. The alibi gets better with every appearance. On Oct. 31, Stewart posted a photo in ri…
via The trailer: Variety · The trailer, with legal notes: Deadline · The cease-and-desist response: Deadline
Fox Nation dropped the first trailer for "The Vow," Chris Harrison's new dating series premiering Nov. 11, and one contestant's pitch for the 30-year-old bachelor is, in her words, "put a baby in me now," per Variety. The rose throws the same way. Five years a…
via The fight: Variety · The AI abomination: Billboard · The same beef, UK edition: The Independent · The takedown: Pedestrian TV
Nicki Minaj marked the midterms with an AI-generated image of Chucky in a pink suit wearing a "Vote Red" pin, and the franchise's creator Don Mancini replied in all caps, "IMPOSTER," per Variety. The property owner of a franchise just unionized. Minaj photosho…
via The article: Deadline · The real photo: Deadline/Getty · The brand page: vertTV
Tori Spelling and Brian Austin Green are starring in a vertical microdrama for vertTV, per Deadline. The "Beverly Hills, 90210" co-stars wrapped shooting in Los Angeles, and Carol Potter, who played Cindy Walsh, is in it too. The app's pitch: "Powered by human…
Source: Variety
Paris Creator Week is holding its third edition on November 4 and 5, doubling in size to 8,000 industry professionals with top executives from YouTube, Twitch, LinkedIn, Banijay and Mediawan, according to Variety. Co-founder Pierre Allary, who launched the eve…
Source: WWD
Ye's Yeezy takes the runway tonight at 8 p.m. at Droam 1, the brand's new flagship at 4317 Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, with a presentation called "Yeezy Season 01" — its first major runway show in more than four years, according to WWD. The last show, "Y…
Source: Page Six
Ellen DeGeneres donated $5,000 to the GoFundMe for late producer Matthew Wright, whose family says he "died suddenly but peacefully in his sleep" at 52, according to Page Six. Wright, who produced DeGeneres' talk show for 16 years before dying in Los Angeles o…
via The campaign and guest list: Variety · The advert, trade coverage: Drapers · The 170th anniversary, fashion trade: The Industry · Same week, rival campaign: Variety
According to Variety, Burberry is marking 170 years with "Wrapped in Burberry: Celebrating 170 Years," a Harmony Korine directed short set at Longleat House in Wiltshire, where Pierce Brosnan and Fiona Shaw play hosts to a Christmas party attended by Cara Dele…
via The rep's statement: EW · The Graham Norton appearance: National Examiner
According to Entertainment Weekly, after Michael Douglas made fun of Cher's 1988 "Moonstruck" Oscar win on "The Graham Norton Show," the complete response from Cher's camp arrived by representative: "Cher adores Michael Douglas." The setup, for anyone who miss…
via The round 4 report: Variety · Rival coverage: Deadline
According to Variety, Disney is prepping a fourth round of 2026 layoffs, with Bloomberg reporting that some managers have been told to cut 20% of their expenses on an annualized basis. It is expected to be the biggest round of the year by headcount. Round four…
via The interview itself: Variety · Rival coverage: SlashFilm · Depp as Scrooge at Comic-Con 2026: News24
According to Variety, while out promoting his Christmas Scrooge movie "Ebenezer," Johnny Depp told Entertainment Tonight that he would return for "Pirates of the Caribbean 6" for one reason only: to "send them off on a better note." "Send them off on a better …
via The deal announcement: Variety · Rival coverage of the sketch-to-series pipeline: Blex Media · The original viral sketch: YouTube
Druski signed a multi-year exclusive deal with Netflix Monday, headlining "Collect & Praise," a semi-scripted series premiering Dec. 1 that adapts his viral "Mega Church Pastors Love Money" sketch. According to Variety, Mike Epps plays the deacon. The fictiona…
via The cops' statement: TMZ · The denial video: USA Magazine · The lawsuit itself: RingSide News
Jane Doe, who is suing Hulk Hogan's widow Sky Daily and her son Hayden Hitt over a March 2026 house party, alleges Clearwater police "quickly and quietly" closed her report because of Daily's ties to Scientology. The police say in a statement the case "is not …
via The denial: TMZ · Rival coverage: Page Six · Rival coverage: NY Post · The old photo, explained: Hindustan Times
A Learjet 60 bound for the Bahamas crashed Sunday into a residential neighborhood near Palm Beach, killing all nine people aboard. Lenny Kravitz' team told TMZ that reports the rocker was on board are "untrue and incorrect." Nine people died and the internet's…
via The evisceration: Page Six · The charity correction: TMZ · The second apology: The Cut · The original post takedown: Page Six
Martha Stewart deleted her first apology over the weekend and posted a second, calling her homeless Halloween costume "insensitive and not funny," according to Page Six. TMZ reports God's Love We Deliver, the charity she named to defend the costume, says it "d…
via The photos and the "low profile" line: TMZ · The second hand shot: Page Six · Rival coverage: USA Magazine
Photos courtesy of TMZ, the 38-year-old former Victoria's Secret model was spotted Friday in black leggings and a tank top, flashing a large gold band on her left ring finger, and then driving into the garage of Tom Brady's office building in the Miami area. P…
via The quotes: Deadline · His profile and the Socrates bio: Letterboxd · Rival coverage: Yahoo
Per Deadline, Rider Strong said on his own podcast that he "stopped revealing my star count on Letterboxd" "for the sake of my professional career." He has removed about half his ratings, which he described as a "complete flat line" of half stars and five star…
via The firing: TMZ · The "no feud" post: TMZ · The estate fight timeline: Business Insider · The "legal violence" emails: Page Six
Per TMZ, the team running Dolly Parton's estate fired her niece Rebecca Seaver Thursday from her job as executive director of the Life of Many Colors Museum, and let her entire staff go with her, three weeks after the museum opened inside her Nashville SongTel…
via The deleted photo and the carousel: Page Six · The deletion, first reported: TMZ · The same photo, the Reddit receipts: Just Jared · The QVC carousel detail: TV Insider
Martha Stewart, 85, posted a photo of herself in tattered clothes with dirt on her face and a cardboard sign reading I AM HUNGRY HELP ME inside an Instagram carousel promoting her QVC candles, then deleted it, according to Page Six. The mechanism is the carous…
via The costume story and the "many hands" quote: E! News · The full party photo gallery: Deadline · The 25th-anniversary coverage: Variety
Heidi Klum opened her 25th annual Halloween Party on Oct. 31 dressed as a hyper-realistic severed human hand, a prosthetic replica of her own left hand down to the green-stone wedding ring and the finger tattoo that reads "Tom." Per E! News, it took six hours …
via Rolling Stone: Jessica Lange on "American Horror Story" and the possible end of her career · Deadline: Jessica Lange retirement report · AOL: Jessica Lange, 77, reflects on her career's possible end
Jessica Lange, 77, told Rolling Stone she "actually feel[s] like I'm coming to an end" — the interview timed to the launch of "American Horror Story" Season 13, with her possible last film, "Long Day's Journey Into Night," still in theaters. The mechanism: the…
via Deadline: Daytime Emmys winners list 2026 · Billboard: Kelly Clarkson wins one and loses one at the 2026 Daytime Emmys · EW: 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards winners list
The Kelly Clarkson Show took home five Daytime Emmys on Friday, including Outstanding Daytime Talk Series — for a show that wrapped its final episode on August 31. According to Billboard, Clarkson wasn't even at the ceremony. The mechanism has a name: the post…
via Deadline: Judge dismisses Trump's $10B WSJ/Epstein defamation suit · CNBC: Trump's $10 billion Murdoch/WSJ defamation lawsuit dismissed · Bloomberg: WSJ wins dismissal of Trump's $10 billion defamation suit
A judge in New York has dismissed Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones over its Jeffrey Epstein coverage — "with prejudice," meaning the case is dead and cannot be revived, according to Deadline. "Dismisse…
via The Zukerman memo: Deadline · The streaming side: Deadline · The international shuffle: Deadline · Variety's take: Variety
In an internal memo obtained by Deadline on Oct 30, Melissa Zukerman, chief communications officer of merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, revealed the post-merger communications organization — and named the seven people losing their jobs. The merged compa…
via The layoffs: Deadline · The buyback: Deadline · The Candle questions: Deadline · Variety's take: Variety
According to Deadline, Hello Sunshine is laying off roughly 30 people — about half the staff — three weeks after co-founder Reese Witherspoon bought the company back from Blackstone-backed Candle Media with France's Mediawan. The buyback was the good-news week…
via The lobby interview: TMZ · Full quotes, syndicated: Yahoo Entertainment · The clip, fan-recycled: PopTingz on X
According to TMZ, Terrence Howard told a TMZ photographer in New York on Wednesday that he is "looking forward to becoming president," adding that if the people in power will not make a difference, "somebody's got to do something." His proposed platform: 400 y…
via The exclusive: Variety · Confirmation and the sources: Deadline · The original announcement: Deadline
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has exited Eddie Murphy's upcoming Peacock series "The Chairman" as writer and showrunner, Variety first reported, and Deadline has confirmed. Sources say the split was "creative," decided by Peacock, Universal and 101 Studios ex…
via The filing, in the city's own words: CBS Los Angeles · "Illegal commercial enterprise": LA Times · The celebrity client list: TMZ · The owner's denial: NBC Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Attorney is suing Wagmor Pets and its owner Melissa Bacelar, alleging the Studio City "rescue" bought dogs from puppy mills and resold them to customers as rescues, according to CBS Los Angeles. The city says the operation ran through mult…
via The death report: Variety · The Marvel and Feige tributes: Variety · The "Godspeed, Captain" thread: Variety · Hugh Jackman's tribute: Variety
Sir Patrick Stewart, the actor who played Jean-Luc Picard and Professor X, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home at age 86. Per a Variety report, the family statement says he died "after a brief battle" with Alzheimer's and Lewy Body Dementia, and that his pr…
via The exclusive: E! · The product page: SKIMS · Rival coverage: WWD · More details: Page Six
SKIMS dropped a limited-edition Cryo Glow Globes set with celebrity makeup artist Jenny Patinkin on Thursday: two hand-blown glass snow globes, $78, that you press against your face to "depuff" it in seconds, per an E! exclusive. The brand ran out of categorie…
via The explanation video and the family photoshoot: E! · The photoshoot in full: Free Press Journal
Paris Hilton dressed as Belle for Halloween while her 2-year-old daughter London was the teacup, per E!, which reports she posted a video clapback explaining the family's Beauty and the Beast choices: "London said she wanted to dress up as Chip. She said it wa…
via The statement and the sonograms: TMZ · The $100 million divorce liabilities: TMZ · The kitchen kiss and the ultrasound: Page Six
According to TMZ, Savannah Chrisley is posting sonograms and telling the baby "you are not a headline" and "you are not defined by anyone's past," which is her response to the backlash over the pregnancy and the engagement to convicted fraudster Jason Galanis.…
via The interview: The Guardian · The annoyance, explained: Variety
In a Guardian interview published Tuesday, Cynthia Erivo addressed the public "annoyance" at her friendship with Ariana Grande during the Wicked press tour, via Variety. Two women held hands on a red carpet and the internet filed a complaint. Not about the car…
via The full trailer, broken down: Deadline · The cast, itemized: Variety · Every Austen adaptation, ranked: Deadline
Netflix dropped the full trailer today for its six-part Pride and Prejudice series, with Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lowden as Darcy, Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet and Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet. Written by Dolly Alderton, directed by Euros Lyn, it pr…
via The takeaways, Deadline · The review, Variety · The AA detail, E!
Netflix's three part "The One About Matthew Perry" dropped today, and per Deadline none of the "Friends" cast sat for interviews, while his 2023 death gets roughly 15 minutes at the very end of the final episode. Start with the title. "The One About Matthew Pe…
via The statement, TV Blackbox · The Deadline version · The With Love, Meghan pivot, E!
Meghan Markle has been tapped for a "special guest" spot on "Junior MasterChef Australia," which will film and air in 2027, per E!. The announcement ran through an Australian trade site first. So the arc goes: royal, royal rebrand, brand, and now a guest spot …
via The deal: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety · The takeover it was announced during: Deadline · His tax credit lobbying: Deadline
Lionsgate announced Monday that it is forming a joint venture with Steven Paul's SP Media, in which Paul's company makes a capital investment and gets its independent features distributed by the studio, according to Deadline. The deal lands one week after Lege…
via The numbers and the Astin video: Deadline · Drake Bell's Instagram: Deadline · Rival coverage, the ONE JOB AWAY campaign: Variety · The 2023 deal that made the bonus: Deadline
During a weekend national board meeting, SAG-AFTRA revealed that less than 1% of its 160,000-plus members qualify for the streaming success bonus the union won in its 2023 strike, according to Deadline. Roughly $1.5 million will roll out to about 700 performer…
via The exclusive with the 1993 detail: Page Six · Rival coverage: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety · The rest of his slate: Deadline
According to Page Six, Keanu Reeves is attached to star in the Netflix action film "Maelstrom," a "Die Hard"-style project first sold as a spec script to Warner Bros. in 1993, taking over the lead from "Reacher" star Alan Ritchson, who dropped out. Directed by…
According to E! News, Sephora has launched "We All Sephora," a holiday campaign starring Seth Rogen, who picked out a gift list with the help of Sephora's "Beauty Advisors," including a $395 LED face mask for his mom and a marshmallow-scented perfume for his w…
According to Variety, Sacha Baron Cohen told a 92Y audience that Donald Trump has "elements of brilliance" and that "we were too easy to dismiss him as a nincompoop," while promoting Ali G: Who Iz I?, the new movie about a guy who pretends to be a fool. The pr…
Jay-Z played the first of two SoFi Stadium nights in Inglewood Friday, a two-hour set from the Jay-Z 30 celebration that closed with John Legend and DJ Khaled, according to Variety. Fifty-six years old, and the set list is a museum tour. Thirty years in two ho…
Bravo set the dates for BravoCon 2027, October 22 through 24 at the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, with "unparalleled access" to the Bravoverse, according to Deadline. A reality TV convention that exists to sell you tickets to watch the people who sell you the se…
via The Graham Norton appearance: Variety · The DJ Xara reveal: The Sun · The Instagram pre-tease and the sofa photos: The Sun · The rift spin: The Express
Prince William made a surprise appearance on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, joining Cate Blanchett, Hannah Waddingham and Robert Irwin on the red sofa for a special Earthshot edition, according to Variety. The surprise had already been teased on the Prince …
via The crew statement and the firing: Page Six · Ethan's statement and the ownership handover: Just Jared · Hila's statement: Variety
The H3 Podcast crew said it will no longer work with host Ethan Klein after his wife Hila publicly accused him of a six-month affair, according to Page Six. Ethan's response: he is giving up his ownership and financial stakes in the podcast and its related bus…
via The AFI screening story: Deadline · The surprise-reveal recap: The Wrap · On-set photos and the Fincher reveal: Gold Derby
Quentin Tarantino surprised an AFI Fest crowd at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Friday night by screening the first 17 minutes of The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, the script he wrote that David Fincher is directing, according to Deadline. The film is due…
Brandi Glanville says a doctor is "taking my face off" on Friday for "exploratory surgery" that includes a "power wash" under her skin, according to Page Six. The announcement came on Thursday's episode of her own podcast. The mechanism is the reveal window. A…
John Mayer is launching Sob Rock Records, a new imprint in partnership with Universal Music Group's Mercury Records, named after his 2021 album and confirmed Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The announcement lands the day before his first new sin…
Sacha Baron Cohen says the Ironheart team sat him down before offering him the role of Mephisto to check that casting a Jewish actor as the devil would not be offensive, according to Variety. At a Wednesday conversation at New York's 92nd Street Y, he describe…
A musical about Amy Winehouse is officially in development for the West End, with Broadway producer Catherine Schreiber understood to be involved and casting said to be underway, according to Variety. One source called it "the worst kept secret in theater." Ca…
Amazon MGM Studios is setting final screen tests for the next James Bond as early as Friday, with at least four test offers out and three names expected in front of the camera: Jack Lowden, Callum Turner and Josh O'Connor, according to Deadline. The spy who ki…
According to E! News, North West posted her first 2026 Halloween costume to TikTok Tuesday — a full transformation into Baddies star Natalie Nunn, complete with the bob, the "baddie chain," and a prosthetic for Nunn's famous chin. TMZ had it within hours. Here…
According to Deadline, EA emailed staff on Wednesday that it is cutting roughly 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the 30-year-old studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate, with a Mass Effect in early development also cancelled. The closure is …
According to E!, Paul Rudd was photographed peering into Art of Play, the Brooklyn novelty shop Kelly Clarkson called out on Oct. 10 after a clerk allegedly snubbed her over the $15,000 mechanical singing bird Molly. The store has since relisted Molly for $15 …
via The summit quotes: Variety · Dan Levy's slam: Variety · Dana Carvey's defense: Variety
Kenan Thompson said a Shane Gillis return to host SNL would require some sort of real chat, telling Axios Media Trends Live that the episode was overshadowed by the monologue backlash, per Variety. The mechanism is the panel. The cast member who will sit Gilli…
via The math and the quote: Variety · The post itself: X · Rival coverage: Axios · The trigger, Anthropic's fund: X
According to Variety, Elon Musk posted on X Monday that he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America next year, a giveaway worth more than $10.5 billion delivered through the Treasury's new Trump Accounts. A $10.5 billion press release with no…
via The memoir quotes: Variety · The Guardian's version: The Guardian · Digital Spy: Digital Spy · The Independent bulletin: The Independent
According to Variety, Judi Dench wrote in her forthcoming memoir "Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?" that Tom Hooper's 2019 "Cats" film was "a waste of all that goodwill and talent," adding, "I never saw the final cut so I can't judge." The actor, who playe…
via The bribe story: Variety · The Oppenheim interview: Vulture · NME's version of the story: NME · The box office numbers: Variety
According to Variety, director Lance Oppenheim says Robert Pattinson only agreed to star in A24's "Primetime" after the director shipped 200 canisters of Zyn nicotine pouches to his Los Angeles home alongside the script, addressed "Dear Chris Han-Zyn." The fil…
via The exclusive report: Puck · Rival coverage with the shortlist: Just Jared · International pickup: IOL
According to Puck, "multiple sources" now confirm that Jay-Z will headline the 2027 Super Bowl LXI halftime show, with an official announcement "expected soon." Roc Nation has held the halftime selection contract since 2019, and the man who has never once book…
via The exclusive order: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety · The Netflix week it landed in: Deadline
According to Deadline, Netflix has put a two-season straight-to-series order on The Apology, an A24 thriller drama starring Gwyneth Paltrow in her first lead TV role. Thomas Vinterberg, of Another Round, directs. In the show, a couple whose son was murdered 18…
via The engagement exclusive: Page Six · The ring post that started it: Page Six · Rival coverage: People · The ring emoji post: Instagram
According to Page Six, Billy Ray Cyrus, 65, proposed to Elizabeth Hurley, 61, after more than a year of dating, days after she posted a selfie flaunting a massive diamond and he shared a cryptic ring emoji that Hurley's son Damian liked with a celebratory one.…
via Victoria's Secret defends the bra pick · Jenner's VS debut, with Chalamet in the front row · Fantasy Bra numbers: 1,000 hours, 4,410 stones, no fabric · Jasmine Tookes pushes back on the "fighting for her life" wing claim
According to E!, Kylie Jenner closed the 2026 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on October 18 as the first non-Angel to wear the Fantasy Bra, ending the piece's eight year absence from the runway in a $50 million bustier. It is 4,410 natural diamonds around a 75.…
via Deadline: Jason Sudeikis Gives An Update On Potential 'Ted Lasso' Seasons 5 and 6 · Variety: Jason Sudeikis Wants to Continue 'Ted Lasso' and Talks Olivia Wilde · The Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso episode, in full
Deadline reports that Jason Sudeikis says he "would like to" make "Ted Lasso" seasons 5 and 6, telling the "Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso" podcast the show could be "the next big thing" if it stays fun, and Variety notes he also credits the series with saving his…
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John Wilson has been filming inside Harry Styles' Together, Together residency at Madison Square Garden since August, and the documentary is going to Universal. According to Variety, Universal Pictures Content Group owns the global rights and is pushing a thea…
J.K. Rowling's agent Neil Blair issued a statement this weekend slamming the masked protest that interrupted the gala for a new shortened version of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" at the Palace Theatre in London, claiming the activists "put others at risk…
Selma Blair's camp released a statement Friday saying she "did not intend to harm anyone" on the Delta flight that ended in an arrest, per The Hollywood Reporter. Hours later she was photographed at '90s Con in Hartford, her first public appearance since the a…
via The option: Deadline · The game on Steam: Steam
According to Deadline, Scarlet Stallone's SRYN Productions has optioned the Fears To Fathom horror video game franchise for film and television, teaming up with the creator who goes by Rayll. The game is an anthology of standalone psychological horror entries …
via The merger math: Deadline · The preview numbers: Deadline · The review: Deadline
According to Deadline, Street Fighter, the video game reboot from Paramount, Legendary, and Capcom, pulled in $4 million in Thursday previews, with the studio projecting a domestic opening north of $30 million and about $70 million worldwide. The film is the f…
via The preview numbers: Deadline · The review: Deadline · A24's film page: A24 Films · How the shoot stayed secret: E! News
According to Deadline, You Can See Everything, the Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, opened in 800 theaters today after $1.75 million in Thursday previews with a 100 percent positive score and 92 percent of previewers recom…
According to Deadline, Netflix on Thursday booted Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, a 10-year veteran, replacing her with ex-Disney TV chairman Peter Rice, the day after the company laid off roughly 1,000 people in its biggest cut in history. Six years in an…
via The friends' response: TMZ · The memoir interview: Deadline · The feud history: Variety · The book signing: Warner Bros. Studio Tour
According to TMZ, Anna Faris' friends called Chuck Lorre "sy" after he revealed in his new memoir Sitcom that he doubted her casting as the lead of Mom and claimed his gut instinct was correct when she left after season 7. Every showrunner's memoir is the same…
via The tour announcement: Variety · The single and the tour: Rolling Stone · The dates and tickets: NME · The stadium math: Billboard
According to Variety, U2 has announced a 2027 global stadium tour called "Carnaval De Luz presents: The Greatest Show On Earth," kicking off Feb. 23 in Mexico City with Beck opening the first six Latin America dates, and a subscriber presale that starts before…
via The defense squad: Deadline · The $8M opening: Deadline · The $150M loss: Deadline · Hathaway's 10/10: Deadline
According to Deadline, Tom Cruise's Digger, the $160 million Alejandro G. Iñárritu film that opened to $8 million and is expected to lose around $150 million, has assembled a celebrity defense squad: Ben Affleck called the criticism "a little bit like the high…
via The exhibition, with photos: Deadline · The Bunnyman, at its Istanbul debut: Deadline
Johnny Depp's first major UK art exhibition opened Tuesday at Halcyon Gallery on New Bond Street, per Deadline. The show follows the Shanghai edition of A Bunch of Stuff, and it runs to paintings, drawings, collages, and his first sculpture. The gallery's own …
via The announcement: Variety · The rival coverage: Rolling Stone · The presale portal: ZachBryan.com · The record he broke: Variety
Zach Bryan announced his 2027 stadium tour Wednesday: 23 shows in 19 stadiums across North America and Australia, promoted by AEG Presents, per Variety. The tour supports his EP Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs, out this week. The man who broke the att…
via The BBC's morning report: BBC News · The 2017 callback, documented: People · The all-British outfit breakdown: Just Jared · The rival angle: USA Today
Prince Harry and Meghan made their first official joint appearance since moving back to the UK on Thursday, visiting Nottingham charities per the BBC. The venue is the story: it is also the city where the couple did their first official outing together as newl…
via The announcement: E! News · The months of "later in life" setup: Page Six · The "full attention" interview: E! News · The Instagram post: Instagram
According to E! News, Hilary Swank, 52, is pregnant with her third child and announced the news with a family dance video, captioning it: "A lot of people have been asking what project I'm doing next, this one releases in December." There was no sonogram. Ther…
via The Nottingham outing: E! News · The 2017 callback and the quote: People · The status clarification: E! News · Harry's "eventful" interview: E! News
According to E! News, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made their first official joint outing since moving back to the U.K., visiting a community music recording studio in Nottingham on Oct. 15, nearly two months after the family's return. The word in the press …
via The exit and the rich-European-husband plan: Page Six · The Trump quote: Deadline · The Marafatsos piece: The Wall Street Journal · The $100,000 AmEx bill: NY Post
According to Page Six, Kimberly Guilfoyle is planning to look for a "rich European husband" after resigning as the U.S. Ambassador to Greece at the White House's request, and one insider's version of the next chapter is that she is "embarrassed to come back to…
via The Affleck response: E! News · The clip: E! News video · The "one-man riot" quote: Yahoo Style
According to E! News, Ben Affleck addressed David Fincher's 12-year-old claim that he shut down the Gone Girl shoot over a Yankees hat, calling the director a "lying motherf---er" on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast. For twelve years the hat story was Fincher'…
via The silent footage: Daily Beast · The owner's danger statement: TODAY · The PR autopsy: TODAY · Torre's podcast release: YouTube
According to TODAY, investigative journalist Pablo Torre released silent security footage from the ceiling cameras at the Art of Play shop in Brooklyn on October 13: a woman in a yellow t-shirt and baseball cap spending four minutes and fifty seconds inside, s…
via The announcement: Deadline · The math: A.V. Club · The Q&A format: ScreenRant · The wine empire: World of Reel
According to Deadline, Megalopolis returns to theaters October 24 in a limited run from New York to Hawaii, with the audience texting questions to Francis Ford Coppola and him answering the best ones live. The $120 million self financed epic that took in $14 m…
via The opening: Deadline · The representation: Arts & Collections · The forms: Halcyon Gallery · The Bunnyman: Yahoo News
According to Deadline, Johnny Depp's first major UK exhibition opened October 13 at Halcyon Gallery on New Bond Street, with every work listed as Price On Application. The redemption arc got a New Bond Street address. Halcyon has signed Depp as a represented a…
According to Deadline, Reese Witherspoon is partnering with Paris-based Mediawan to buy back her production company Hello Sunshine from Candle Media. Co-founder Seth Rodsky stays on, moving to the board. The shape of the deal: build the company, let Wall Stree…
According to Variety, a blue-checked fan account with a million followers posted an AI-generated selfie of Mia Goth wearing a shirt that reads "MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN," two days after her divorce filing from Shia LaBeouf became public. Meta says the account w…
via The exclusive details: Deadline · Trejo's son on the ICE film: Deadline · Trejo's "pro-immigrant" pushback: Deadline · The other shut-down, with Majors: Deadline
The Daily Wire revealed details Tuesday of "Confession," its under-the-radar prestige drama set in Stalin's 1938 Moscow, written by Ben Shapiro and starring Rob Lowe, James Franco, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nick Nolte, with a world premiere at the Warsaw Film F…
via The full feud: Variety · The actual quote-tweet: X · Rival coverage: Rolling Stone · Also covered: USA Magazine
Kacey Musgraves quote-tweeted Kristi Noem after the former DHS secretary took a shot at her over a politician's concert photo, with one line: "I don't think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it." According to Variety. Let's talk a…
via The launch story: Variety · The original spring announcement: Variety · Cohen at a red carpet before the takeover: Page Six
Peacock launched "Your Bravoverse" on Tuesday, a personalized TikTok-style feed of Bravo clips hosted by an AI-generated avatar of Andy Cohen, built from more than 5,000 hours of footage, with the first sponsor slot already sold to Wendy's. According to Variet…
Stephen A. Smith apologized on YouTube over the weekend for claiming on his new podcast that Teyana Taylor walked away from her divorce with $25 million, $10 million in properties, and luxury cars, while Iman Shumpert was left with roughly $2 million and nowhe…
The BBC blurred a transgender-rights slogan off the T-shirt worn by "Strictly Come Dancing" contestant Bethany Antonia in Saturday's broadcast, then said it is "standard practice" to cut "overt branding or slogans," per Variety. In a video the network posted o…
via The cancellation, reported live: Deadline · The May "great progress" update: Deadline · The February postponement that started the pattern: Deadline
The timeline is the whole story. Thursday: "I'm back!" from the stage at a welcome-back show his rep calls "triumphant." Friday: a few songs, then the exit, with "talk amongst yourselves" to the crowd. Saturday: nothing. The residency that was supposed to star…
via The callout and the store's reaction: Page Six · Rival coverage: Just Jared · The store's own website: Art of Play
The tweet is a customer service review with 8.8 million distribution. "Wow, dude. You're an idiot and just lost a huge sale," then the store's name, then the Julia Roberts comparison. Three sentences, and a shop that bills itself as one of the most beautiful i…
via The recap: ABC News · Rival coverage: BBC · Local angle: NewsON6 · E! video recap: E! News
According to ABC News, Ella Langley's sold-out Tulsa show was canceled Friday night over a "serious security threat" after bomb-detection dogs swept the arena twice and Tulsa police said they found nothing credible. Read the statement twice. Her post says the …
via The recap and first-look photos: Page Six via Yahoo Entertainment · Rival coverage: Complex · The actual landing page: meganfox.world · More steamy snaps: Parade
According to Page Six's report, syndicated to Yahoo Entertainment, Megan Fox launched a paid-content page on Subs.com on Friday and, in the same breath, became a co-owner of the platform itself. The launch, promoted by a lingerie teaser, reportedly crashed the…
via The feud and the email: Variety · The lie detector test where she did it: Vanity Fair · Rival coverage: AOL · The confessional she told it on: E!
According to Variety, Kourtney Kardashian revealed on the season 8 premiere of Hulu's "The Kardashians" that Jennifer Lawrence asked Kim for her contact info and emailed her an apology after calling her "more annoying than ever." Lawrence said it on a Vanity F…
via The claims: TMZ · The exclusive excerpt: PEOPLE · The dog chapter: Page Six · The product: Simon & Schuster
According to TMZ, excerpts from Joe Manganiello's memoir "Bloodlines," out Oct. 13 from Simon & Schuster, claim ex-wife Sofía Vergara refused to hug him and mocked his dog during his seven-year autoimmune battle. PEOPLE has the excerpts. First, the mechanism. …
via Deadline — Joe Rogan extends contract with Spotify · The Wall Street Journal — Joe Rogan re-ups lucrative Spotify deal · Reuters — Spotify renews multiyear deal with Joe Rogan
Spotify and Joe Rogan agreed to a multi-year extension of the podcast deal. Both sides declined to disclose terms and no dollar figure was released, but the Wall Street Journal reports the renewal is similar to Rogan's previous deal, which carried an estimated…
via Deadline — Bridgerton Lady Violet prequel spinoff in the works · E! News — Bridgerton prequel series based on "Violet In Bloom" announced · Deadline — Shonda Rhimes renews overall deal with Netflix
Netflix greenlit an untitled Bridgerton spinoff limited series built around Lady Violet's youth, based on Julia Quinn's novella "Violet In Bloom." The series covers Violet's courtship of Viscount Edmund Bridgerton — the husband who dies in the main series and …
via The find: TMZ · Rival coverage: THR · Rival coverage: Page Six · The TV version: E!
According to TMZ, a MyHeritage study released Wednesday found that Sydney Sweeney and Marilyn Monroe are ninth cousins once removed, both descended from Ezra Perry, an early settler of Sandwich, Massachusetts who died in 1689. The Hollywood Reporter has the sa…
via Michael Douglas Weighs In on 'Nepo Baby' Debate, Says It 'Really Pisses Me Off' · Michael Douglas Reveals All In Wild New Memoir: Sexiling Danny DeVito, Heavy Drug Use And More · Michael Douglas Dumped Staggering Amount Of Partners Before Catherine Zeta-Jones Romance · SmartLess: Michael Douglas (YouTube)
According to Variety, Michael Douglas went on the SmartLess podcast and said the "nepo baby" label "really pisses" him off, calling himself "Hollywood royalty" and saying he "doesn't know a career where a father or mother don't try to help their son or daughte…
via The video and coverage: LADbible · Rival coverage: Jezebel · Rival coverage: Yahoo · The original Andre quotes: Rolling Stone
According to LADbible, Tom Hanks' son Chet Hanks walked up to comedian Eric Andre at ComplexCon in Los Angeles and confronted him over a 2023 joke that his dad should get a DNA test. The beef is old. Chet appeared on The Eric Andre Show in 2023, and after the …
via The cover story: THR · The tabloid spin: Just Jared · The original PDA photos: Just Jared
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Olivia Rodrigo confirmed in this week's cover story that she is single, and called being stalked on a casual date and judged for the photos "the craziest thing." This summer she was caught on a few dates with a New York pri…
via The greenlight: Deadline · Kylie at The Moment premiere: Page Six · The Kardashians S8 returns: Deadline
According to Deadline, Kylie Jenner is set to headline and executive produce Bachelorette Weekend (working title), a Hulu thriller drama where the bride is murdered in the pool and her closest friends are all suspects. The project is in final negotiations for …
via The farewell and the money: Deadline · The post-deal org chart: Deadline · Zaslav's pay package: Deadline · The debt raise: Deadline
According to Deadline, David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery for a few more hours, posted a three-minute farewell video to the company's internal portal on Monday. The Paramount deal is expected to close today. In it, Zaslav sits in a stiff-backed chair …
via The denial itself: Daily Express · The misquoted headline: Rolling Stone · The gin launch: Yahoo Music · The interview that was misquoted: The Times
Brian May took to Instagram to deny that he said Queen will never tour again, calling Rolling Stone's "Brian May Says Queen Won't Tour Again" headline a "misinterpretation" of his interview, per the Daily Express, and adding "I made a personal decision last ye…
via The photos: Just Jared · The March pre-Oscars party, same deal: Just Jared · Front row scene report: Vogue · The full guest list: WWD
According to Just Jared, Nicole Kidman brought her 15-year-old daughter Faith to the Chanel Spring 2027 show at the Grand Palais in Paris on Monday, October 5, where the pair sat the front row alongside Dua Lipa, Olivia Wilde, Marion Cotillard and Pedro Pascal…
via The actual report: Page Six · The 2019 "evil person" quote: Page Six · The feud timeline: Billboard · The show, per the reviews: Broadway.com
According to Page Six, Scooter Braun shared a rehearsal clip from his former client Todrick Hall's Off-Broadway musical "Midnight" on his Instagram story over the weekend, and the two, who fell out in 2019, are now following each other on Instagram again. Repr…
via The wave, reported: Variety · The cover story: Vanity Fair · Garfield on the dissociation: Esquire U.K. via Variety · Guadagnino on the backlash: Vulture via Variety
According to Variety, Sam Altman waved at Andrew Garfield, who plays him in "Artificial," the Luca Guadagnino film about the five-day period in 2023 when Altman was ousted from OpenAI and then rehired. The two have never spoken, and the film premieres Monday a…
via The announcement: Variety · The new campaign site, live: bowie80th.com · Rival coverage: Far Out Magazine
According to Variety, the David Bowie estate has announced "Bowie80," a year-long run of events, exhibits, releases, collaborations and "experiences" marking the artist's 80th birthday, beginning in November and spanning 2027. A dedicated website is already li…
via The rally recap: Variety · The rally video: Indivisible on YouTube · The lame duck quote, expanded: AOL · The De Niro speech clip: YouTube
According to Variety, Mark Ruffalo told a "Hands Off Our Vote" rally in New York on Sunday that when the crowd chanted "You tell 'em, Hulk," he was "gonna Hulk out. You won't like me when I'm angry," and added, "They thought I was out for the count, I'm still …
via The exclusive: Variety · The directors' Oscar-winning short: YouTube · O'Connell's Venice carpet peak: Page Six · The tuxedo, catalogued: Hollywood Reporter
According to Variety, Jack O'Connell and Odessa A'zion will star in "The End of the World as We Know It," about "a pair of star-crossed loners who meet on an epic pilgrimage to prove the earth is flat." The film is written and directed by Ross White and Tom Be…
via The podcast recap: Variety · The open-world game pitch: Polygon · Why he's avoiding the gameplay: Dexerto · The fandom's review, written early: r/Games
According to Variety, Rockstar co-founder and Grand Theft Auto head writer Dan Houser said this week that Absurd Ventures, the media company he started in 2023, is developing two untitled games and a transmedia library of comics, podcasts, books, and animation…
During her SNL hosting run last night, Taylor Swift walked out on Dakota Johnson mid-monologue, then returned for the goodnights with a birthday cake, as Page Six caught on its own photos. Johnson introduces her as "my literal therapist." Swift then does a bit…
Fox dropped four new teasers for the Baywatch reboot on October 2, and they feature gymnast-turned-influencer Livvy Dunne guest-starring as a character called Junior Lifeguard Grace, per Deadline. The series is scheduled to launch on Fox for the 2026-27 season…
According to Deadline, the Livingston, Montana city commission unanimously moved Saturday to temporarily suspend the filming permit for the Daily Wire's "Pawn Shop," the pro-ICE action picture that was supposed to shoot through October 10 in the downtown. The …
Christopher Abbott, cast as Professor X in Marvel Studios' X-Men movie, told Entertainment Tonight that he "hasn't read anything yet. Nothing," as Deadline reports. He's "not even being coy." He has not read anything, but he "can't wait," because the film isn'…
via The label's announcement: Billboard · The "we listened" statement: Billboard Pro · Rival coverage: BBC · The first boycott, BTS: Billboard
On Friday, JYP Entertainment told Billboard that Stray Kids had submitted nothing to the 2027 Grammy Awards, joining the boycott BTS announced in July over the Recording Academy's new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category. The mechanism is the locked room.…
Prince Harry, 42, and Meghan Markle, 45, were photographed holding hands on Thursday as they ambled to The Falkland Arms, a 16th-century Cotswolds pub, the first time they've been seen together since their surprise return to the UK, per Page Six. Harry wore a …
Ryan Seacrest, 51, posted a thirst trap to Instagram Saturday: a shirtless torso shot gazing up at the sun during a break from a trail workout on his Elliptigo stand-up bike, plus a clip from behind gazing at the moon while the camera zooms in on a flexing mus…
Zach Bryan, 30, opened his sold-out Friday show at Robert Kraft's Gillette Stadium wearing a black T-shirt that read "FREE PALESTINE" over a pine tree and the words "AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN," per Page Six. That was one month after Kraft's stadium campaign dropped …
Per Deadline, Aaron Sorkin logged back into Facebook for "The Social Reckoning," sent a friend request to Jesse Eisenberg, and got denied. The sequel opens October 9, with Jeremy Strong playing the Zuckerberg that Sorkin spent a three-day weekend trying to put…
According to Deadline, Jimmy Kimmel declared Guillermo Rodriguez, his 23-year sidekick and "Dancing with the Stars" contestant, "the most popular dancer in the whole world" in Wednesday night's monologue, after Rodriguez posted the lowest judge scores for a th…
According to E! News, Anne Hathaway, who delivered five films in 2026, posted an Instagram video on October 2 in which she vanishes in a cloud of animated smoke, followed by fake newspaper headlines reading "Anne Hathaway has disappeared" and "Anne Hathaway ha…
via The trailer post: Deadline · The Gaslamp stunt: Deadline · Rival coverage: THR · The actual trailer: Paramount
Paramount dropped the first full trailer for "Ebenezer" on Thursday, a Ti West "supernatural revenge thriller" adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" with Johnny Depp as Scrooge, per The Hollywood Reporter. The marketing did not pick a role, it picked a plot. The w…
via The announcement: Deadline · Her full remarks: ADL · The 2024 apology: Deadline · The rep exits: Deadline
On Thursday at the ADL State of the Arts reception in New York, Selma Blair announced she is making a documentary about antisemitism called "Hineni," to say what she "couldn't say two years ago," per Deadline. The two-year gap runs from her February 2024 apolo…
In a Rolling Stone UK interview published today, Bono revealed that Ed Sheeran resisted the humanitarian themes on "Yours Eternally," the track Sheeran made with U2 earlier this year, according to The Independent. The song features Ukrainian singer Taras Topal…
via The Happy Jack announcement: Deadline · Martin Sheen's faith film gets a US date: Deadline · AMC's other greenlight this week, Point Break: Deadline
Charlie and Martin Sheen are back playing father and son on TV for the first time in over a decade, headlining Happy Jack, a six-episode half-hour family comedy for AMC and AMC+ that starts production at the Warner Bros. studio where Friends was filmed in 2027…
via The full story and the campaign photos: Page Six · The press release: PR Newswire · The brand's site: TateByTM
Tate McRae launched "Tate 01," her first fragrance, on Thursday in partnership with Scent Beauty, Inc., according to Page Six. The black-and-white campaign shot by Mario Sorrenti features the 23-year-old standing waist-deep in a pool and wearing, in the press …
via The full story and the Instagram photos: Page Six · The necklace, on the jeweler's site: Leviev · Madonna's $2.8M VMA necklace, same jeweler: Page Six · Swift's VMA ring, also Leviev: Page Six
To mark the 25th anniversary of the "Glitter" soundtrack, Mariah Carey launched new merch, according to Page Six. She unveiled the "Loverboy" tank top wearing a $1,550,000 diamond necklace from Leviev that runs 44.71 carats with a 14-carat center stone. Do the…
via The full story and the ad stills: Page Six · The actual ad: YouTube · The campaign page: Ro
According to Page Six, Megan Fox is starring in a new ad for Ro Sparks, a prescription erectile dysfunction treatment, playing the drug itself in a skintight red catsuit while delivering the product's copy. In a companion interview, the 40-year-old said "I per…
*Miranda Kerr made a "surprise" return to the runway nearly a decade after her last walk, appearing in the Stella McCartney spring 2027 show in Paris, according to Page Six. The former Victoria's Secret Angel wore a seafoam green cutout dress with oversized sh…
*Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen said his 23-year-old babysitter makes $30 an hour to watch his two kids, according to Page Six, and he "checked with friends" about the rate after his own showmate called it cheap. The number first leaked on his own Sir…
Ari Emanuel's rage memoir "Roll the Calls" will debut at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, according to Page Six, outranked by a book about Princess Diana written by her brother, Charles Spencer. "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister" was announced only abou…
via The approval: Deadline · The co-CEO appointment: Deadline · The original settlement: Deadline · The judge's ruling: Reuters
A federal judge today approved the antitrust settlement between Paramount and the twelve state attorneys general who sued to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing the last hurdle for the deal to close next week, according to Deadl…
via The opening story: Page Six · Her death: Page Six · The Americana award video: Page Six · The nephew texts: Page Six
Dolly Parton, who died Aug. 25 at age 80 after a private battle with cancer, opened her new Life of Many Colors museum in Nashville on Tuesday with a prerecorded video posted to the museum's Instagram, according to Page Six. In the clip, filmed before her deat…
via The closure story: Page Six · The brand page: Nordstrom · The "genuine buzz," last spring: Page Six · The brand's Instagram: Instagram
Scarlett Johansson's skincare brand The Outset is shutting down, announcing on its own website that "after an incredible journey," it will "wind down operations," according to Page Six. The brand gave no reason, and it is now telling fans to stock up on the be…
via The exclusive: Page Six · The Sloane drop: Page Six · The $60 million in legal fees: Page Six
Blake Lively has signed with Kelly Bush Novak, the founder of PR firm ID and the publicist to Lady Gaga and Christopher Nolan, according to Page Six. The signing comes one day after she dropped Leslie Sloane, her publicist of 20-plus years and co-defendant in …
via The report: NBC News · The same story, with the statement: Page Six · The release date moved up again: Page Six · Fort Dix from the inside, last fall: Page Six
Sean "Diddy" Combs is reportedly living a "pampered" life at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, with inmate chefs, Chinese-style massages, and a secret stash of Hennessy allegedly smuggled in by guards, according to NBC News. The report includes video of Combs using …
via The photo and caption: NME · Billboard's take: Billboard · The BBC ruling: The Standard · The Reading Festival set: NME
According to NME, Victoria Beckham was photographed recording vocals with her son Cruz on Monday, with Cruz posting the photo under the caption "yeah we got posh back in the studio ;)" and Victoria replying with a string of laughing emojis. Neither confirmed o…
via The fraud report: Inc. Magazine · The shutdown letter: 9NEWS · The celebrity golf roster: PlayGolf Myrtle Beach · The Shark Tank backer: Yahoo Finance
According to Inc. Magazine, ONEflight International, a celebrity-promoted private jet brokerage out of Centennial, Colorado, reported $232 million in revenue for 2025 before it halted every flight, wiped its website, and landed in federal court on fraud and Po…
via The insider reaction: The Blast · The original quotes: Page Six · The original interview: WSJ
Bob Chapek's memoir "Behind the Castle Walls" hits bookstores Tuesday, claiming Bob Iger "didn't want to let go of the ball" when Chapek took the top job, according to The Blast. One Disney insider called the book "a bit of a yawner" and said "the Chapek thing…
via The exclusive announcement: Deadline · Rival coverage of the cast: Hollywood Reporter · The studio's own press: Netflix Tudum · The Mean Girls reunion angle: EW
Netflix announced today that Lindsay Lohan will star in and produce a new romance feature, "Return to You," starring Henry Golding, according to Deadline. The film, directed by Mark Waters, the man behind Freaky Friday and Mean Girls, is set in 2008 and follow…
via The coverage: Variety · The cover story: Esquire · Rival coverage: The Independent · The first wave of outrage: The News
According to Variety, Brad Pitt told a new Esquire cover story that AI, "if used as a tool," is going to be the thing that helps $40 million to $90 million mid-budget films get made. He called it "gonna be a very interesting experiment" and said he "heard an A…
According to Deadline, Disney's Chief Legal Officer sent a memo on Sept. 18 to his roughly 1,000-person legal department saying the group "will be a much smaller organization than it is today" and that some staffers "will personally be affected," all as part o…
According to Nine, Kylie Minogue performed in the pre-match entertainment at Saturday's AFL Grand Final at the MCG, the first-ever meeting of the Fremantle Dockers and Brisbane Lions in a Grand Final, wearing custom gold, silver, and black heeled boots made by…
The biggest YouTube channel on earth, 517 million subscribers, showed up to a Mumbai promo event for Ramayana on Saturday, and the press event that was supposed to be a two-hour spectacle ran about fifteen minutes, according to Hollywood Reporter India. The me…
Meta unveiled the "Meta Glasses by LISA" collection on Wednesday, two styles of $399 hands-free camera glasses with pet-inspired charms, according to Fashion Times. The backlash started within a day, after fans pointed out she has spent years describing stalke…
Nike cancelled a London photoshoot for its Cortez line the night before it was due, after an internal review concluded Karim Benzema's past was not worth the brand's logo, according to The Athletic. The 38-year-old free agent's response, three days later, was …
via The video: TMZ · The video: Today · Rival coverage: Daily Mail · Rival coverage: Vice
On September 18, influencer Frankie LaPenna fought a six-foot humanoid robot in a San Francisco cage in an event billed as the world's first human versus robot fight, and the remote-controlled machine, which was running as an ad for a VR game, knocked him to t…
via The video: TMZ · The video: Daily Mail · Rival coverage: Page Six · Rival coverage: The Mirror US
On Saturday night, Johnny Depp stopped for photos at Drink Las Vegas at Park MGM and, mid-pose, bit a leaf off the leafy backdrop behind him, chewed it, spat it out, and went back for a bigger second bite, per TMZ. The step-and-repeat exists to give the camera…
via The original report: The Athletic · The denial and the context: Goal.com · The deal details: Football Today · Nike's week of bad news: Irish Times
According to The Athletic, Nike cancelled a planned London shoot with Karim Benzema on Wednesday night after taking a closer look at his past, and the 38-year-old hit back on Friday with an Instagram story reading "Fake news.. my dear". The quiet drop. The sho…
via Stone's interview: People · The ad itself: Novig on X · Rival coverage: Fox News · Athletes firing back: ABC Australia
According to People, Sharon Stone said in an exclusive interview at Variety's Power of Women on Sept 23 that her Euphoria costar Sydney Sweeney needs to "take responsibility" for the nearly nude Novig sports-betting ad that has women's athletes in an uproar. F…
via How to watch tonight: AP · The Monday announcement: AP · The studio announcement: Paramount · The full performer list: Billboard
According to AP, Taylor Swift will receive an inaugural "Artist Director Honors" at tonight's VMAs, a 31st trophy that makes her the most awarded artist in VMA history. The award, announced Monday by CBS and MTV, recognizes artists whose work behind the camera…
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Girls' Generation's Yoona walked to the Max Mara 2027 spring/summer show in Milan on September 24 as the house's first Korean "Friend of the Brand," and the next day Italian jewelry house DAMIANI named LE SSERAFIM's Sakura its new "Friend of the House" in a re…
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McKenna Grace posed among the new displays at a Target Beauty Studio celebration event on September 26, weeks after the retailer opened its rebranded beauty "destination" in more than 600 stores. According to Target's own press release, the concept launched Se…
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MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) attended a promotional event for "Ramayana" in Mumbai on September 26, and after someone in the crowd shouted "Jai Shree Ram," Ranbir Kapoor taught him the chant and the room erupted. According to Indian Express, the event ran at the …
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According to Page Six, Lionel Richie, 77, announced his return to the "American Idol" judging panel for season 25 during Luke Bryan's Luke Bryan & Friends concert at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday, appearing on the arena's big screen while Bryan and…
via The recap: Hollywood Reporter · The perjury filing: CourtListener · The sanctions motion: CourtListener · The "we can bury anyone" text: New York Times
According to Hollywood Reporter, ex-"It Ends With Us" publicist Stephanie Jones has moved for sanctions against Hollywood publicist Melissa Nathan, arguing she committed perjury and hid evidence about anonymous smear websites, including one built to take down …
via The side-by-side screenshots: Business Insider · The report: The Verge · The second victim, documented: Futurism · The original post: Elliot Choy on X
According to The Verge, YouTuber Elliot Choy says a Kalshi ad used an AI recreation of his apartment move-in video with his face swapped for a white man's, and Kalshi confirmed the ad ran. Kalshi is a prediction market. The whole brand is that it knows what ha…
via The press release: GlobeNewswire via FinancialContent · Rival coverage: The Hollywood Reporter · Her actual jewels, the $137 million sale: Christie's · The same release, finance desk: MarketScreener
According to the GlobeNewswire release, Brilliant Earth and House of Taylor, the company that licenses the late Elizabeth Taylor's name and likeness, announced a 17-piece lab-grown jewelry collection on Sept. 24, ranging from $995 huggie earrings to a $15,000 …
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According to Today, Reformation launched its "Good Sport" fall campaign Sept. 16, starring Olivia Jade Giannulli in a gray crewneck that reads "College," with 100% of the sweatshirt's net proceeds going to a student nonprofit. The shoot leans on the 2019 admis…
via The original report: TMZ · The fight photos and CEO quotes: Daily Mail · The 'he won' spin: NBC News · The preview fight at the gym: ABC7
On Friday in San Francisco, TikTok stunt performer Frankie LaPenna stepped into a cage to fight a six-foot humanoid robot piloted by a man in a VR headset, and the robot kicked him across the ring, according to TMZ. REK, the robotics company that ran the event…
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On Wednesday, Meta announced two styles of $399 AI glasses by BLACKPINK's Lisa, complete with a star on the frame, a star-printed charging case, and a blind-box pet charm, according to Engadget. The drop lands weeks after her bandmate Jennie faced online heat …
via The press release: Business Wire · The couch photo, as filed: Pet Age · Rival coverage: Pet Age · The ticker math: StockTitan
According to a Business Wire release out of Neptune City, N.J., Nylabone, the dog toy division of NASDAQ-listed Central Garden & Pet, announced its first chew toys made with real chicken, bison, venison, bacon and beef, and named actress Ashley Tisdale the fac…
via The announcement story: Daily Beast · The official press release: PR Newswire · The AP story: WTOP · The preview exclusive: USA Today
Melania Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday to launch Imperia, an invite-only network for women executives, per AP via WTOP. Her adviser calls the project "Davos for Women," and the exchange is hosting the first Imperia summ…
via The AP story: Seattle Times · The press release: PR Newswire · Rival coverage: WWD · Rival coverage: Adweek
Gap Inc. announced Tuesday a multiyear partnership with JYT, a five-member boy band, as the first deal under its new Fashiontainment platform, per AP via Seattle Times. The deal includes a co-produced docuseries, a national mall tour starting in October, and a…
via The recap: Hello! Magazine · The official store: shop.madonna.com · The 10th No. 1 chart run: Billboard · The Rolling Stone version: Rolling Stone
Madonna, 68, posted behind-the-scenes photos from a shoot for her new Confessions II merch line to Instagram this week, posing in a sheer black top, fishnets and a cascade of layered necklaces while peeking over a doorframe. Photos courtesy of Hello! Magazine.…
via The recap: Daily Mail · The BBC version: BBC · The trade version: Variety · The great-jacket detail: The Independent
Prince William and Princess Kate attended Tuesday night's world premiere of Tom Cruise's satirical black comedy Digger at the Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square, a Royal Film Performance held in aid of the Film and TV Charity, where Cruise guided the Princess down…
via The recap: Variety · The actual red carpet gallery: British Vogue · The live arrivals feed: Vogue · The best-dressed list: Vogue
Per Variety, Vogue World Milan held its annual fashion show on Tuesday, with an invitation-only red carpet that included Michael B. Jordan, Dakota Johnson, Dua Lipa, and Irina Shayk. The show, themed around Italian craftsmanship in the age of artificial intell…
via The recap: PR Newswire · The brand page: Kenneth Cole · The industry coverage: WWD · The FashionNetwork version: FashionNetwork
Per PR Newswire, Kenneth Cole has launched INSPIRE, a new men's fragrance named after the verb, fronted by Joe Jonas, who also performs its original power ballad. The rollout includes a One Times Square takeover, branded pedicabs, and a $15 body spray. The $75…
via The recap: Marketing Dive · The creative breakdown: Adweek · The Hollywood Reporter version: The Hollywood Reporter
According to Marketing Dive, Beats launched a new ad for its customizable Beats 360 headphones in which a cafe is packed with different versions of Kendall Jenner. The cafe in the ad is, of course, called Kendalls. The genius of the Franchise of One is that th…
via The recap: Hello! · The photo gallery: OK Magazine · The second gallery: Entertainment Now · The parrot detail: Mid-Day
According to Hello!, Kim Kardashian posted a nude photoshoot with photographer Donna Trope on September 22: her silhouette draped in pink orchids and garden roses, two pink parakeets perched on her shoulders, captioned "Lost Donna Trope files." The press is al…
via The recap: Page Six · The statement: TMZ · The E! version: E! News · The account dossier: The Cut
According to Page Six, Channing Tatum denied Monday that he runs the burner Instagram account that has been leaving bitter comments about ex-fiancée Zoë Kravitz and her fiancé Harry Styles. The account follows one person: Tatum, and Tatum follows it back. One …
via The recap: The Athletic · The athlete reactions: The Guardian · The international wire: CNN · The Australian angle: ABC News
According to The Athletic, Sydney Sweeney, an equity holder and strategic partner in the sports betting app Novig, fronted its "Just Sports" campaign, which shows her semi-nude playing sports while saying "no betting on wars or deaths and no politics." Olympic…
via The recap: Page Six · The photo gallery: Harper's Bazaar · The video: TMZ · The other side of the story: USA Today
According to Page Six, at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday Taylor Swift pointed at her wedding ring as Travis Kelce scored a 13-yard touchdown against the Colts and shouted "That's my husband!" Fan videos went viral within the hour, and the NFL's own account did th…
via The recap: PBS NewsHour · The wire report: CNN · The NBC copy: NBC News · The same-week follow-up: Reuters
According to PBS NewsHour, Converse pulled a global sneaker campaign starring Karina of aespa this week after critics said the lighting on her skirt evoked a KKK hood and the way she held the shoes evoked a lynching. The company apologized with "We're sorry" a…
via The recap: News 7 Channel · The premiere economics piece: The Hollywood Reporter · The itemized party costs: The Guardian · The red carpet autopsy: Newsweek
According to News 7 Channel, a studio-scale premiere runs up to a million dollars before the after-party, and every dollar of it is so that forty cameras can film the same seventeen seconds of a celebrity pretending not to be in pain. The red carpet is the pur…