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 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 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 deal: Deadline · The 2025 Netflix deal: Deadline · The Sensical platform: Sensical · The 2025 season press release: Sesame Workshop
*Sesame Street and Cricket Media announced a 24/7 free ad-supported streaming channel that will launch with seasons 39 through 46, per Deadline. The channel will run about seven minutes of ads per hour, and Volkswagen and Toys "R" Us are among the launch adver…
According to Page Six, Frankie Muniz was hospitalized Wednesday after he crashed his Mustang into a tire barrier during a practice lap at a Veterans Day charity race at Daytona, and was released the same night. Bryan Cranston, who played his father on Malcolm …
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…
*Brandy and Monica announced a 10-date "The Boy Is Mine" residency at Resorts World Las Vegas running from May 29 through July 17, 2027, per Variety. The announcement landed the day after the two performed the 1998 duet on "Dancing With the Stars." The pipelin…
via The refund: TMZ · First wave: Page Six · The rep statement: E! · Customer quotes: Today
According to TMZ, Kim Kardashian's SKIMS is refunding buyers of its $148 Accessories Advent Calendar after customers found the box mostly full of hair ties and bobby pins. Twelve little doors. Behind the doors: keychains, silk hair ties, bobby pins, a squishy,…
via The exclusive: Deadline · Rival coverage: TMZ
*According to Deadline, Crave is filming two six-episode seasons of Heated Rivalry back-to-back and a standalone holiday movie before the year is out. A Crave rep says there are no projects to confirm. The denial is the best part. The thing currently on the st…
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…
Netflix greenlit “Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure,” a live-action prequel set in the 1950s before the original series, on Stranger Things Day, Nov. 6, per Deadline. Kate Trefry, who got her first paid Hollywood job as a staff writer on the original s…
According to Variety, the New York Times Company is in exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd, the movie-rating site, for roughly $330 million, with the co-founders expected to stay on and report to a Times executive. The deal is not final. The site, per…
via The teaser with the hotline: Showbiz Junkies · Rival coverage with the number: TV Insider · Rival coverage: Collider · The network show page: NBC
NBC has set the premiere date for the David Boreanaz "Rockford Files" reboot, January 2 after an NFL telecast, with a regular Thursday 8 p.m. slot starting January 7, and launched a Jim Rockford hotline you can actually call at (760) JIM-ROCK, per Variety. The…
via Where the Impossible Task quote first hit the record: Variety · Rival coverage from the announcement: The Hollywood Reporter · The Impossible Task angle: FandomWire · Animation trade coverage: Animation World Network
Keanu Reeves has officially closed a deal to voice John Wick in Lionsgate's animated prequel, per Variety. The film tells the Impossible Task story. He kills all of his rivals in one night to free himself from the High Table and earn the right to be with Helen…
via The article: Variety · The competing coverage: Deadline · The real photo: Variety/Getty · The brand page: Magic: The Gathering
Maya Hawke is set to star in "Magic: The Gathering," a live-action movie from Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment, per Variety. Matt Johnson, who directed "Blackberry," will direct. Her role is undisclosed and the plot is "under wraps," though the…
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…
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 full wrap, the Brunson banner: Variety · MSG's own press release: the banner night · Pizza Rat night two: Meaww · The 79 countries stat: 24hip-hop
Harry Styles closed his record-setting 30-night Madison Square Garden residency over the weekend with two Harryween shows, according to Variety. On the final night he performed as the New York pizza rat while Knicks captain Jalen Brunson presented a banner com…
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: "It: Welcome to Derry" drops surprise Halloween episode · Variety: "It: Welcome to Derry" Halloween special lands on HBO Max · A.V. Club: "It: Welcome to Derry" dropped a surprise episode on HBO Max for Halloween
HBO Max dropped a 30-minute surprise Halloween special for its "It: Welcome to Derry" series — "A Story of Derry," set in the centuries before Pennywise arrived in the town — which appeared on the platform this Halloween, according to Deadline. The "surprise d…
via The numbers: Deadline · The meme craze: Deadline · The Ripa costume special: E! News · The Oscar prediction: Deadline
According to Deadline, A24's three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" is expected to lead the weak Halloween frame with more than $10 million, for a U.S. 14-day cume of $52.7 million. A three-hour documentary about a convicted fraudster…
via The announcement: Variety · Rival coverage: Consequence · Format and tracklist details: The Second Disc
The Prince Estate and NPG Records announced a 3121 Expanded Edition arriving December 11, with the original 12 tracks plus 10 more vault recordings, per Variety. It lands digitally and in 2CD + Blu-ray and 3LP + Blu-ray sets, alongside a 154-minute Las Vegas c…
via The bucket story: Variety · The $100M tin projection: Variety · Rival coverage: IGN · Rival coverage: Mashable
AMC unveiled two "Dune: Part Three" popcorn bucket designs on Thursday: a "Sandworm Thumper" with a working thumper and a "Double Sandworm" bucket with two worms, which the company's press release says "make it easier to share popcorn," according to Variety. T…
via The campaign and the bundle: Variety · The $50 bundle, live on the Rare Beauty site
Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato reunited for a Rare Beauty campaign called "Still Making Each Other Blush," which recreates their 2009 Disney Channel film Princess Protection Program and launches a $50 "Delena" blush bundle, per Variety. Two kids who met on Barne…
via The post: Variety · The executive order: White House · Rival coverage: Reuters · The fact sheet: White House
According to Variety, President Trump posted Tuesday on Truth Social that he wants to officially ban the word "artificial intelligence" in favor of "super intelligence," with one week left until the midterms. The Renamer did it again. A 70-year-old word, coine…
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…
A group of companies controlling Elvis Presley's music, including Authentic Brands Group, sued Anthropic in federal court Friday, claiming Claude was trained on 274 of the King's songs and demanding $48.6 million, per Variety. Rolling Stone reports the suit cl…
Brazil's president-elect Lula beat Flávio Bolsonaro in Sunday's runoff, 51.79 to 48.21, for a fourth term, and the campaign that did it ran through 600-plus artist fan accounts, per Variety. The historic footnote: a first-round underdog winning Brazil's second…
According to Page Six, a source says Megan Fox is relieved her ex Machine Gun Kelly is moving on with Dakota Johnson, and per Just Jared, the word doing all the work in that sentence is relieved. Relieved is the word you use when a warranty expires. Not happy.…
During World Series Game 1, MLB aired an exclusive Avengers: Doomsday preview on Fox, with Pedro Pascal's Mister Fantastic throwing the ceremonial first pitch to Joseph Quinn's Human Torch. The ceremonial first pitch was the one ritual in baseball you could no…
According to TMZ, Drake turned 40 on Friday at a New York hotel with more than 400 guests, a surprise Backstreet Boys set, designer handbags for the room, and a game show with a one million dollar jackpot. A birthday party is supposed to be a party. This was a…
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…
According to Deadline, a UK Companies House filing shows HBO's Harry Potter is on track to be one of the most expensive series the network has ever made, with the first season averaging roughly $25 million an episode. The number isn't news, the number is the p…
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 …
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 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…
via Variety: "The Simpsons" Brings Back Apu, New Voice Is Played By Sunil Malhotra · Deadline: The New Apu Makes His Debut Tonight · Sunil Malhotra and Janina Gavankar's joint reveal post · ComicBasics: the NDA and the "Daft Monk" reveal
Variety reports that Apu Nahasapeemapetilon spoke on "The Simpsons" Sunday night for the first time in nearly a decade, with Sunil Malhotra taking over the voice from Hank Azaria and Janina Gavankar debuting as his wife Manjula. Deadline adds that the reveal a…
Sean "Diddy" Combs was moved this morning from FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey to FCI Allenwood, a low-security federal prison in Pennsylvania, per TMZ. The move lands six days after his head injury and a string of phone violations and fights. The transfer is arith…
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 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 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…
WWE and microdrama platform ReelShort announced "Agent of Shadows," a vertical spy series starring Drew McIntyre, set to premiere October 23, per Variety. A secret agent learns he has a daughter he never knew about and must protect her from a criminal organiza…
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 chart math: Variety · Billboard's own numbers: Billboard
According to Variety, "The Life of a Showgirl" held No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second week, giving Taylor Swift her 100th cumulative week at No. 1 as a solo artist. One hundred weeks. Elvis got 67. Garth Brooks got 52. The Beatles, as a group, got 132. T…
via The announcement: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety · The game in question: DreadXP · The FNAF math: Deadline
According to Deadline, Blumhouse announced Friday that MatPat is developing a feature adaptation of "Amanda the Adventurer," the indie puzzle game about a haunted children's show. For ten years the job went like this: sit on a couch, find one weird thing insid…
via The announcement: Deadline · Disney's version: Variety · The channel in question: YouTube
According to Deadline, Dhar Mann announced "Creator City" on Sunday, a 4-acre LA campus with 175 sets built as actual brand stores, opening in Super Bowl week. 175 sets. 15 concurrent productions. The pitch says content campus, but the set list reads like a st…
via The monologue, all of it: Variety · The F-bomb, same episode: Deadline · The episode review: Deadline · The 2019 firing, for the record: Deadline
*Shane Gillis hosted "Saturday Night Live" for the third time Friday night and closed his opening monologue with a Hitler hairline bit, which Variety says got few laughs and ended early. The headline did the work: "bombs (again)." That parenthetical is the who…
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 drop and the Nov. 6 reissue: People · Same story, same vault: Today · The Timberlake co-write, per EW · UK coverage of the 25th edition: The Independent
Britney Spears released "She'll Never Be Me" on Friday, a song recorded in 2001 for her self-titled album that never officially came out, according to People. It is the first of five vault tracks on the "Britney" 25th anniversary edition, which arrives Nov. 6.…
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 quote: Variety · The original interview, on video: USA Today · Rival coverage: Yahoo
According to Variety, Luke Grimes said in a USA Today interview that he hasn't spoken to "Yellowstone" co-star Kevin Costner since the show ended, adding that they are "both busy guys and life moves on." The mechanism is a fall TV cycle. The spin-off needs a q…
via P.K. Subban To Star In Animated Ice Hockey Series 'Screech Owls' · Shaftesbury Provides Ailing Canadian Kids' TV Biz With $850,000 Gift Package · Rocket Fund Canada, Volume 3 (earlier Screech Owls reimagining funding)
According to Deadline, former NHL defenseman P.K. Subban will star in and executive produce Screech Owls, an animated series about a young hockey team that thwarts crime, launching on CBC in English in fall 2027 and on Radio-Canada and TFO in French in winter …
Thanks to the "Avengers: Endgame Encore" re-release, the 2019 Marvel film has reclaimed the all-time box office record from "Avatar," $2.9255 billion to $2.9237 billion, per Deadline. Do the math before you cheer. The Encore, a short re-release, opened at No. …
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…
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 …
via The recap and the quotes: Variety · Rival coverage: Page Six · Rival coverage: Hollywood Reporter · Rival coverage: The Independent
During the opening monologue of her "Saturday Night Live" hosting debut Sunday night, Dakota Johnson cut to a studio monitor and welcomed Taylor Swift in as her "literal therapist." According to Variety, the cameo had been treated as a lock all week after Swif…
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 …
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…
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 photos: Page Six · The fashion angle: Vogue · Rival coverage: TMZ · The video: Just Jared
On Friday night, Olivia Rodrigo opened her Unraveled Tour at People's Bank Arena in Hartford, Connecticut, and artificial rain turned her white sleeveless dress into a disintegrating costume change during "the cure," revealing a red corset and micro miniskirt …
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…
via The actual event photos: Indian Express · The bow moment: Times of India · The photo gallery: India TV News · Rival coverage: Hindustan Times
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 …
According to Fortune, Temu quietly stopped funding a network of fake influencer accounts on Meta's platforms within days of being exposed, after spending nearly a billion dollars on "creator" partnership ads across the UK and the EU. The Czech nonprofit Online…
via The breakdown: USA Today · The audit: Tuko · His response to the critics: LiveMint · The cocoa sourcing page: Feastables
According to USA Today, MrBeast posted a video Sept. 19 about spending close to $10 million to build a "self-sustaining" village in Ghana, with a 300-student school, a clinic and teacher housing meant to keep kids off cocoa farms. The clip has 51 million views…
via The skin list and the "give me a skin" quote: NME · Epic's "She manifested it all" post: X · Rival coverage: Billboard · The "asking very nicely" framing: IGN
According to NME, Madison Beer is joining Fortnite's Icon Series, with her outfits, emotes and jam tracks going live at 1am BST on September 25. The setup was a Hot Ones clip. Playing fuck marry kill with video games, she turns to camera mid-wing: "I'm a littl…
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 recap: Just Jared · The trade version: Variety · The vinyl preorder: Official Charts · The release-time explainer: Cosmopolitan
Taylor Swift announced on Instagram this morning that The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, a four-track follow-up to last year's record, drops this Friday with pre-orders already open on Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon. Caption and tracklist courtesy of Just Ja…
via The recap: E! · The ScreenTime interview coverage: Screen Rant · The games-press version: GamesRadar+ · The MovieWeb version: MovieWeb
According to E!, David Thewlis, 62, says he is "sick of talking about" returning to Harry Potter, and the interview in which he said so is making the rounds again ahead of the HBO reboot. The series is in production and expected in 2027. The Return Question is…
via The recap: TMZ · The local version: NBC Chicago · The wire report: USA Today · The recovery detail: Today
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles revealed on a get-ready-with-me TikTok that three masked men broke into the Chicago home she shared with husband Jonathan Owens and stole her Porsche GTS, per TMZ, and the car has since been recovered. The burglary is not the news.…
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: E! News · The announcement: Billboard · The dark-website countdown: USA Today · The wire copy: The Washington Post
Taylor Swift announced Tuesday that a new single, "Patient Zero," drops September 25 with a 24-hour pre-order window on her website, per E! News, capping a run of coded clues that started with a cryptic Emmys sketch and a letter on her site that sprouted a thi…
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: 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…