Famous people doing famous-people things
81 pieces in the last 30 days
The 'You're So Vain' singer reveals she has been living with Parkinson's disease and treating skin cancer, explaining a period of public quiet ahead of her forthcoming record 'Comes in Waves.'
Veteran chronicler of human reproductive behavior Gregg Araki opened OutfestNEXT in Los Angeles with alarming testimony that the youngest generation is voluntarily reducing a primary biological coordination activity.
Disney and Pixar's fifth installment in the franchise has surpassed $1 billion globally, including $448 million domestic, making it the highest-grossing film released so far in 2026.
Ryan Gosling's Ghost Rider reveal capped a packed Hall H panel that sent San Diego into brief, qualified rapture — though fans are keeping one eye on what Marvel isn't saying yet.
Christopher Nolan's star-packed ancient-epic adaptation has outrun 'The Dark Knight' at the second-weekend mark, making it the director's strongest domestic hold in a two-decade career.
The rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner concluded with a 60-minute address from the seated executive, blending campaign-rally repetition with rehearsed humor units that produced inconsistent response yields from the assembled press cohort.
The comedian and actor paid public tribute to Chuck Russell this week, calling the 1994 supernatural comedy a jewel in his career and praising the director's gift for conjuring wonder on set.
Apple TV+'s remake of the classic thriller has become the streaming platform's biggest summer hit, with Javier Bardem's Max Cady drawing comparisons to the most iconic screen villains in decades.
The director's adaptation of Homer's epic landed the biggest opening weekend of 2026, with sold-out IMAX bookings turning multiplex lobbies into something closer to a revival tent.
The performer who first emerged in Season 12 has completed her franchise arc by winning All Stars 11, becoming the first Mexican winner in the show's coordinated competition cycle.
The production company is expanding its international scripted slate with three new U.K. and Ireland series, leaning on two of the most recognisable names in transatlantic television.
The author and filmmaker behind 'Pumping Iron' gave the world its first real look at Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the culture never quite recovered from it.
The comedian's second feature as writer-director tracks an unnamed Hollywood actress fighting for relevance, and it will get its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Netflix follow-up to the acclaimed '13th' will anchor this year's New York Film Festival closing night, arriving into a national conversation that has only grown louder since the original.
The entertainment colossus has initiated yet another internal purge, with Pixar animation and National Geographic absorbing disproportionate casualties alongside high-profile ESPN departures.
The R&B singer and session musician whose falsetto anchored some of the most recognizable recordings of the 1970s died this week, leaving a credit list most frontmen never matched.
The Marvel Studios president is going on record about the years-long collapse of the Mahershala Ali-led Blade reboot, using words like 'loser' and 'failure' in a rare moment of studio-chief candor.
The brothers were detained in Miami on Sunday as British authorities seek extradition on charges including rape and sex trafficking, following 21 criminal counts filed in the UK in May 2025.
For the first time in FIFA history, the World Cup Final hosts a Super Bowl-style halftime spectacle, activating Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber, and BTS in a single coordinated broadcast event on July 19, 2026.
Sunday's World Cup final between Argentina and Spain is shaping up as a historic ratings moment for NBCUniversal's Telemundo and Peacock, with a senior executive predicting an all-time cultural peak for Spanish-language broadcast.
Joe Caldwell, who co-created the vampire that turned a struggling daytime soap into a Gothic cult institution, died Monday following a stroke — nine days before what would have been his 98th birthday.
The comedian returned to 'Oh, Mary!' at the Lyceum Theatre on Friday after a week off for bronchitis, communicating with stage door fans exclusively via handwritten note.
As U.K. and Irish actors dominate American lead roles on screen, their training institutions are following the talent pipeline westward and opening U.S. campuses.
Q2 numbers landed in line with expectations but Q3 revenue guidance missed, leaving Netflix to perform confidence for Wall Street with live programming as the headline act.
Christopher Nolan deploys his latest coordinated spectacle against domestic audiences, opening to $17.6 million in Thursday preview screenings — a tactical first strike ahead of the full weekend mobilization.
The New York Times filed a motion Thursday to quash federal subpoenas issued to journalists who broke the story of Qatar's Air Force One gift to President Trump.
A man was arrested Thursday at 30 Rockefeller Plaza after breaching the Today show studio and making physical contact with host Craig Melvin — but sources say he originally came looking for Al Roker.
The 2026 World Cup has wrapped, and the scoreboard of cultural winners and losers looks nothing like the official bracket — here is who walked away with the trophy and who is still looking for their luggage.
Director Jorge Gutiérrez raised a public objection to generative AI in animation studios and was rewarded with a cancelled series, doxxing, and death threats — a case study in how this civilization neutralizes dissent.
Plastic surgeons built their Instagram followings by decoding Hollywood's most debated procedures — now the same platform is flooding their DMs with teenagers chasing bone-structure hacks.
The studio has reshuffled at least three release dates in a single move, leaving Matt Reeves's sequel without a confirmed 2027 slot.
A brand-new 35mm print of the 1988 anime landmark — struck fresh from its 4K master — will open at BFI Southbank in August before hitting cinemas across the UK and Ireland.
Reports of a corporate bid for the New Zealand-based film-logging platform have rattled its user community, with analysts warning that the site's cult value could evaporate faster than the ink dries on any deal.
The trailer for The Shards landed this week, promising the full Ellis cocktail — private-school privilege, a missing girl, and enough 1980s Los Angeles dread to keep Murphy's fan base very happy.
The motion-capture pioneer is navigating a culture-war flashpoint over his Orwell adaptation while also defending artificial intelligence's role in his long-awaited Middle-earth return.
The streaming giant has greenlit a Studio Lambert reality competition rooted in the world's most nakedly acquisitive board game, offering two million dollars to whatever human survives its ritual of simulated economic domination.
The Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders actor died suddenly, with tributes arriving from co-stars, directors, and heads of government across multiple continents.
The creative team behind 'Elle' says the series format gave them room to build characters the original 2001 film and its sequel never fully had time to explore.
The 2-1 quarter-final victory on Sunday delivered the largest UK audience of the 2026 World Cup, peaking at figures not seen on British television since the tournament's group stages drew comparable numbers four years ago.
Yankee Stadium hosted a 90-minute celebration of the 2001 classic, with Eminem, Pharrell Williams, and Slick Rick joining Jay-Z on a stage built around one of rap's most studied albums.
The German-born actress who penetrated the innermost propaganda formats of two of Earth's most durable transmission vectors — Star Trek and The Twilight Zone — has concluded her field presence.
A 26-year-old man taken into custody Friday in connection with the death of former MP and reality-television figure Ann Widdecombe has been released and is no longer considered part of the investigation.
The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to a group of New York Times reporters following their story questioning security features on Donald Trump's new presidential aircraft.
Debbie McWilliams, who placed actors in the role across 14 films, told a Karlovy Vary audience that Ian Fleming's creation is not a template for reinvention.
The live-action remake opened to a solid Thursday haul, landing between two recent Disney and legacy-IP benchmarks and pointing toward a roughly $40–50 million opening weekend.
The trade bodies representing the recorded music industry on both sides of the Atlantic issued a joint call for mandatory AI disclosure labels on streaming platforms, citing listener demand.
Luca Guadagnino's much-discussed Sam Altman portrait, starring Andrew Garfield, will not undergo the traditional fall festival circuit after Amazon's sudden divestiture last month.
The London-born actress, whose career stretched from three Broadway runs to recurring television work on 'Knots Landing,' died leaving behind a filmography that a later generation largely encountered secondhand — through Rumer Willis's portrayal of her in a 2019 Tarantino film.
Five years after 'Mare of Easttown' made her a household name, Julianne Nicholson is stepping back into Delaware County — this time on HBO's 'Task.'
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures launches The Horror Show, a sweeping new exhibition celebrating the genre's craft, anchored by a 50th anniversary screening of Carrie and a full John Carpenter retrospective.
Thomas Kail's 2026 retelling of the 2016 animated hit draws sharp notices for garish digital backdrops and a fundamental confusion about what live-action is even supposed to mean.
After M3GAN 2.0 grossed a reported $21 million domestic against a $75 million budget, the franchise's next installment won't get the chance to embarrass itself in multiplexes.
A musical biography of the Tennessee icon is set to open at the St. James Theatre on her 81st birthday, January 19, 2027 — a date the locals have apparently chosen for maximum ceremonial resonance.
The rapper-mogul adds a landmark UK date to his anniversary run, landing at the same north London stadium where Beyoncé played eleven consecutive nights.
England's extra-time victory over Mexico in the early hours of a Tuesday morning pulled the largest UK live broadcast audience ever recorded between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. BST.
Adult Swim's new animated spin-off launches July 26 with a creator-endorsed argument that it stands apart from its parent show — and Harmon has a very specific TV comparison to make.
Moritz de Hadeln ran three of cinema's most prestigious festivals across four decades, championing work that critics and audiences caught up to — sometimes years later.
Microsoft's gaming division confirmed its largest single round of layoffs in 25 years, with half of the 3,200 positions eliminated on the spot and the remainder to follow in a second wave.
The Social Network actor collected the President's Award in the Czech Republic and used the stage to address his Polish passport, his politics, and what he calls a very human new film.
Cinematographer Robert Richardson spent July 4 weekend in Prague for the world premiere of a career documentary, and did not hold back on Hollywood's biggest names.
Three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson received a formal honor at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where presenter Harvey Keitel tore paper as a tribute gesture — a behavior the fleet should log under unpredictable ceremonial variables.
The journeyman performer who shared scenes with Elvis Presley, Jack Lemmon, and three separate Gidgets leaves behind one of Hollywood's more quietly remarkable life stories.
The Hollywood Reporter's couture prediction landed exactly right as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wed at Madison Square Garden in matching Christian Dior by Jonathan Anderson — but the officiant slot went to the one guest nobody had on their bingo card.
David Ellison's $billions merger of Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery has cleared several hurdles but now sits with European antitrust authorities, and British regulators hold the swing vote on whether his September deadline survives.
The Metropolitan Police have charged the 79-year-old convicted sex offender with additional historic offenses, including alleged intercourse with a girl under the age of 13.
A leaked police scheduling document places hundreds of officers on duty, maps out a rehearsal dinner, and hints at a possible surprise twist before the ceremony.
The Lethal Weapon and Color Purple star spoke publicly about his diagnosis in an emotional NBC Today show appearance, becoming one of Hollywood's most prominent voices on the disease.
Public television's longest-running program has now survived seven decades, multiple funding crises, and the current administration's appetite for defunding — by doing almost nothing except talking.
The voice architect behind Minionese reveals the language was assembled from food menus, a six-semitone pitch corridor, and an unspecified contribution from actor Rosamund Pike — a transmission humans have been absorbing for fifteen years.
Lively's attorneys have submitted an eight-million-dollar-plus fee application against Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios, citing litigation conduct they describe as deliberately designed to exhaust her resources.
Illumination and Nintendo's space-set blockbuster becomes the only 2026 film to crack $1 billion globally before making its streaming debut at the end of next month.
New York distributor Several Futures has picked up Lost Chapters, bringing a first-time Venezuelan feature filmmaker's work to North American audiences following a world premiere at FID Marseille.
Comcast's co-CEOs insist the planned NBCUniversal spinoff is not a sale, but analysts and dealmakers are already circling the asset list, which includes Peacock, Universal Pictures, and a theme-park division that turned $2.8 billion in EBITDA last year.
The latest entry in DC's relaunched cinematic universe has become a $125 million cautionary monument, confirming that not all cape deployments end in conquest.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion steps back onto Centre Court for her first singles match since 2022, and here is every way to watch it unfold.
The GoldenEye actor told a Malta film festival audience about a nerve-shredding Bond audition, a fight scene that cracked her ribs, and a psychic whose Hollywood prophecy came true.
The 37th Golden Melody Awards handed top honours to pop titan Jolin Tsai and singer-songwriter Chang Chen-yue in a ceremony that underlined Mandarin pop's enduring commercial and critical weight.
Holmes wrote and directed Happy Hours, a film about love and possibility that reunites her with co-star Jackson for the first time since their Capeside days.
Owner Jay Ellison is shuttering the equipment rental house he opened in 2008, citing Covid production shutdowns, back-to-back industry strikes, and the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires as the compounding causes.
The director behind Challengers and Queer says he saw it coming when Amazon MGM quietly shelved Artificial, a Sam Altman biopic, months after the studio's parent company locked in a $50 billion investment with OpenAI.
Disney/Pixar's animated toy-soldier sequel commands the battlefield for a second consecutive weekend as Warner Bros.' $170M superhero unit fails to mobilize its target demographic.
