The Justice Department warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a letter that potential rule changes to hinder the Oscar eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services could violate antitrust and competition laws, Variety reports. The letter follows reports that Steven Spielberg, an Academy board member, was …
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Stephen Colbert mocked celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti for his brazen attempt to extort Nike out of millions of dollars on The Late Show Tuesday. Avenatti — who represented Stormy Daniels, inserted himself into the ongoing R. Kelly court battle and recently mulled a presidential bid of his own — was …
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Days after liberal watchdog organization Media Matters for America unearthed Tucker Carlson radio appearances criticized as misogynist, racist and homophobic, Samantha Bee blasted the Fox News host as a white supremacist — using controversial clips from his home network as evidence. “Guess what, fucko? We have been watching your show,” …
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“I think it’s time I make a statement on disability,” JJ DiMeo (Micah Fowler) announces early in this week’s episode of the ABC sitcom Speechless. This is something of a surprise from both JJ and the show itself, both of which have worked very hard to keep JJ from being …
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It was hostless yet somehow the wheels stayed on. It played that “Bohemian Rhapsody” guitar riff roughly 60 gajillion times in a little over three hours — and boy, did the Oscars producers keep their promise about keeping the show way below the Satantango-running-time length. It gave the stage over …
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Michael Jackson’s estate is suing HBO for more than $100 million over its controversial Leaving Neverland documentary. The Jackson estate has been fiercely critical of the film since it premiered at Sundance in January. The film prominently features the story of two men, James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who claim …
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Enemies from The Fast & The Furious franchise unite to save the world in the explosive first trailer for Hobbs & Shaw, a spinoff of the action series starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham. Brutal adversaries in Furious 7and reluctant allies in The Fate of the Furious, the …
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On the heels of a bad week at the Trump White House, Saturday Night Live teased the president with a pair of sketches, including a cold open that seized on the Special Counsel’s damning documents against Donald Trump. In the sketch, Alex Moffat’s dim-witted Eric Trump is scared to go …
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There’s a remarkable moment early on in The Favourite, the spiky palace-intrigue comedy from the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (and begins hitting theaters on November 23rd). It’s the early 18th century in England, and there’s a festive ball taking place at the court of Queen Anne. Revelers gather in lines, …
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Take one look at Wyatt Russell — the shaggy blond hair, the Southern California drawl, those blues eyes, that beard that sometimes fluctuates between handsomely masculine to Father-John-Misty bushy — and you can see why folks might want to cast him as a stoner heartthrob. To be fair, he does …
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