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By Staff The Associated Press Posted September 5, 2023 1:06 pm Updated September 5, 2023 1:08 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Warner Bros. Discovery is cutting its profit expectations for the year, saying it will likely incur costs as high as US$500 million tied to the ongoing Hollywood writers’ and actors’

Image Credit: MediaPunch/Shutterstock Elliot Gould has made a name for himself in Hollywood over the decades as an actor. Elliot started acting in the 1960s and he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the film, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Throughout his career, Elliot has since starred in

It happened again at the gym. In the middle of my workout, some godawful song started playing: another wretchedly over-Auto Tuned melody-less mid-tempo mumble rap thing with zero energy. It just meandered aimlessly for about four minutes before segueing into something else. My reaction was both emotional and physical. How could anyone possibly think this

View gallery Image Credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock Kristin Chenoweth is officially married! The 55-year-old Broadway legend said “I do” to fiance Josh Bryant, 41, in a Dallas wedding that took place on Sept. 2, PEOPLE first reported. HollywoodLife has reached out to Kristin’s rep for additional comment. “I have been a self-proclaimed bachelorette my whole life,”

Disco producer Denis LePage had a knack for drawing revellers to the dance floor, and in the heart of Montreal’s pumping 1980s nightlife, the musician’s hitmaking skills were unmistakable. With a stream of Billboard chart hits, LePage helped define an era of Canada’s discotheques as part of the duo Lime. LePage, who identified as non-binary

When Queen Elizabeth II died last September, her two surviving corgis were given to her son Prince Andrew and his ex-wife and longtime roommate Sarah Ferguson. It was a reflection of the close bond between the queen and Ferguson that lasted long after she separated from Andrew in 1991. In this week’s episode of her

View gallery Image Credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock In the early hours of Sept. 1, Blink-182 postponed the launch of their European tour as Travis Barker, 47, rushed home amid his wife Kourtney Kardashian‘s pregnancy. “Due to an urgent family matter, Travis has had to return home to the States,” the band shared on Twitter. “The Glasgow,

Maui residents are still reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century that swept through the island early this month. The death count of the wildfire stands at 115, with an unknown number of people still missing. Though the fires have been contained, many residents have no homes to

The Virginia governor is getting presidential buzz, but he’s focused on winning a Republican trifecta this November—an “off-off year” election that could catapult his career. The state’s senators are sounding the alarm bells: “I’m a little bit amazed that this isn’t a higher priority at the White House,” Senator Mark Warner tells VF. By Abigail

View gallery Image Credit: Shutterstock Post Malone, 28, is looking incredible, in his latest Instagram photo! The rapper, whose real name is Austin Post, posed for a mirror selfie while showing off his 55-pound weight loss in a black shirt under a black leather blazer, black pants, and black boots. The hunk also wore a

A third lawsuit has been filed against Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter, alleging the singer raped a 15-year-old girl two decades ago. The lawsuit was filed Monday by an unnamed Pennsylvania woman in Clark County, Nev., according to Las Vegas news station KTNV. In the legal filing, the woman, identified only as A.R., claims Carter

In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, the returning US Soccer coach opens up about his difficult break from the team, patching things up with young star Gio Reyna, and, as the World Cup comes to the States in 2026, advancing to a round “that no US team has ever gone to.” By Tom Kludt

View gallery Image Credit: Disney+ Dancing With the Stars season 32 premieres in the fall. Pros Witney Carson and Lindsay Arnold are not returning. Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough are the new co-hosts. It’s almost time to get back to the ballroom! Dancing With the Stars will return for season 32 on ABC and Disney+

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Actor Mitchel Musso, best known for playing Oliver Oken on the hit Disney Channel show Hannah Montana, was arrested in Texas on Saturday after he allegedly stole a bag of chips while intoxicated. According to the Rockwall Police Department, Musso caused “a disturbance” at a hotel in

When Jelani Cobb was named dean of the Columbia Journalism School, he became the 14th person and the first African American to lead the institution, which was founded by Joseph Pulitzer in 1912. He also became the third consecutive New Yorker staff writer to assume the prestigious title, following Steve Coll and Nicholas Lemann. The

View gallery Image Credit: TLC Kody Brown and Christine Brown met face-to-face for the first time since she moved away on the season 18 premiere of Sister Wives, and their conversation continued on the Aug. 27 episode. Kody admittedly “didn’t want to be” at the lunch with Christine, and flat-out told her he still had “anger issues”

Controlling the distribution of music — and thus making sure composers get paid for their labour and talent — has been a problem that dates back to the invention of the printing press. In 1498, less than 50 years after Johannes Gutenberg revealed the printing press, a savvy entrepreneur named Ottaviano Petrucci received a patent

At Price Is Right, Barker would win 16 Daytime Emmys, earning prizes for producing and hosting, as well as a lifetime-achievement Emmy awarded in 1999. The year before, after he’d taped 5,000 episodes at Studio 33 at the CBS Television City studio in Hollywood, the network renamed the stage the Bob Barker Studio. In 2003,

View gallery Image Credit: Brandon Nagy/Shutterstock Iggy Azalea wants your attention! And she’s likely got it, thanks to a clothing-free, diamond heavy outfit in her new music video for “Money Come.” In the video, the blonde bombshell steps out of an elevator and into an office building rocking a fierce pinstriped skirt suit and toting

A 43-year-old man was arrested Thursday and charged with stalking after police said they were notified he was going door to door looking for Drew Barrymore’s house. The incident comes just three days after Barrymore was escorted off stage during an event at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, when an audience member

The movie exodus from 2023 has claimed another victim. The Dune: Part Two release date has been changed from Nov. 3rd and will now move to March 25, 2024, Warner Bros. confirmed.  The second half of filmmaker Denis Villeneuve‘s sci-fi saga fell victim to the ongoing Hollywood writer and actor strikes, which have been expected

View gallery Image Credit: Briquet Nicolas/ABACA/Shutterstock Jamie Foxx, 55, is seemingly in great spirits! The Oscar winner stepped out on the town for a romantic date night with a mystery blonde on Aug. 23 (SEE PHOTOS HERE). Jamie and his date hit up Nobu, a celebrity hot spot in Malibu, CA, just four months after

Hollywood studios and streaming services on Tuesday released the terms of a revised proposal to striking writers, but the union urged members to continue picketing as the new offer failed to address all their concerns. The Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) had walked off the job on May 2 after negotiations reached an impasse, and were

Over on X (a.k.a Twitter), Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump, who are streaming their prerecorded interview as debate counterprogramming, spent some time bashing Fox News. “Fox is way down, as you know,” Trump told Carlson. “They just don’t have a lot of credibility, Tucker––you know that perhaps better than anybody.” He then described the April

View gallery Image Credit: Broadimage/Shutterstock Mason Disick, 13, made a rare appearance on social media when he hung out with some of his family members, including his cousin North West, 10. Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick‘s oldest child popped up in North’s TikTok from August 12 where the pair hung out on tennis courts with North’s mom Kim

If FEMA tents and cold cheese sandwiches are your idea of fun, Fyre Festival II might be right up your alley. Billy McFarland, the fraudster creator of the infamous failed Fyre Festival, has announced he is already selling tickets to the event’s second try. Despite there being no official date, musical line-up or even a

Taplin, the educator, writer (Move Fast and Break Things), and film producer (Mean Streets, The Last Waltz), is director emeritus of USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab. His peripatetic career includes stints as tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band, VP of media M&A at Merrill Lynch, professor at USC, and founder of the pioneering video-on-demand

View gallery Bachelor In Paradise is returning for a ninth season on September 28. Jesse Palmer will be back as host of the show for the 2nd year in a row. The Bachelorette’s Brayden Bowers is one of the confirmed cast members. We’re in the thick of summer, which means fans are already beginning to