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Read More »Johnny Mathis to Retire From Live Stage Performances
Johnny Mathis has announced he’s retiring from live stage performances due to “age and memory issues which have accelerated.” The news was shared in a statement on the 89-year-old’s Facebook page Wednesday: “While there are still some exciting concerts coming up, regrettably all Johnny Mathis concerts from June 2025 onwards are now cancelled.” “As many of you may already be aware, Johnny …
Read More »Janelle James Talks Ava’s Future
[This story contains spoilers from episodes 18 and 19 of season four of Abbott Elementary.] If you’re caught up on the latest episodes of Abbott Elementary, you know principal Ava Coleman is out of a job. But the good news for fans of Quinta Brunson’s workplace comedy is that Janelle James, the actress who portrays Ava, is not. In last …
Read More »Elton John, Brandi Carlile Play One-Night Special In London
Elton John and Brandi Carlile had a very excited audience grooving, laughing, and cheering during their special one-night-only concert at the London Palladium on Wednesday night. The gig, dubbed “An Evening With Elton John & Brandi Carlile,” mixed a showcase of songs featured on their highly anticipated collaborative album Who Believes in Angels? with some of their respective greatest hits …
Read More »Michael Caine Calls Dark Knight Publicity Intense After Heath Ledger’s Death
Michael Caine is looking back at the difficulty of doing a press tour for 2008’s The Dark Knight following Heath Ledger‘s death. In his new memoir, Don’t Look Back, You’ll Trip Over: My Guide to Life, the veteran actor opened up about working with his late co-star on the Christopher Nolan-directed film and the grief he experienced after his death …
Read More »Angel Studios Sued by Producer Over Rights
Last year, Angel Studios — home of the sleeper hit Sound of Freedom — predicted to theater owners at CinemaCon that its upcoming film David would be the highest grossing animated movie of all time while announcing the title as a splashy 2025 Thanksgiving release. The Utah-based firm, which has eschewed the Hollywood system and prides itself on catering to …
Read More »Seth Rogen Destroys Martin Scorsese
[This story contains some spoilers for the first two episodes of The Studio on Apple TV+.] The idea of a movie studio considering a film based on Kool-Aid — the sugary drink with an anthropomorphic pitcher as logo — sounds just plausible in the current IP-obsessed era of the entertainment business. It’s also just crazy enough to be the inciting incident of …
Read More »How Gaumont Germany Is TV Drama’s Big Shake-Up
Getting an international TV show made these days is a tough business. Rising production costs are meeting falling budgets and even the deep-pocketed streamers — who had turbo-charged the global business with big-budget commissions for the past several years — are shifting gears, making fewer shows and focusing more on lower-cost crime shows and less on big-budget drama. But Sabine …
Read More »Emperor Palpatine in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Was 94
Clive Revill, the New Zealand native who after being recruited to be an actor by Laurence Olivier starred on Broadway, appeared in two films for Billy Wilder and provided the original voice of the evil Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back, has died. He was 94. Revill died March 11 at a care facility in Sherman Oaks after a …
Read More »Anthony Carrigan Talks Death of a Unicorn, James Gunn’s Superman
By the time Anthony Carrigan’s Emmy-nominated run on Barry concluded in 2023, he’d already reaffirmed his independent and blockbuster ambitions to his reps. The Massachusetts native wasted no time turning those desires into reality, beginning with A24’s Death of a Unicorn and followed by James Gunn’s Superman. The former, which marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director Alex Scharfman, is …
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