Taylor Lautner is coming to Selena Gomez‘s defense as she continues to face people body-shaming her on social media. The Twilight actor took to his Instagram Story on Wednesday to share a post from influencer Alex Light, highlighting contradicting comments about Gomez’s body from when she posed on the red carpet at the 2024 and 2025 SAG Awards. “Selena was …
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James Marsden wants to play Frank Sinatra in a biopic. “I’ve always loved emulating some of the old crooners, like Bobby Darin and Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin,” Marsden told the New York Post this week. “I always thought there were so many interesting stories of Frank Sinatra’s life that could be played. And for whatever reason, you’ve never really …
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Mel Gibson unleashed his frustrations with political leaders while standing at a podium in fire-ravaged Altadena on Wednesday. The Oscar-winning multi-hyphenate, who lost his Malibu mansion in the Palisades Fire last month, specifically zeroed in on Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and criticized the way in which they responded to the catastrophe that decimated thousands of …
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Matt Damon was ready to step into the role of Michael Bluth in an Arrested Development movie, per Jason Bateman. The Emmy-winning actor-producer-director made a recent appearance on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, where he revealed that Damon once pitched himself for a cameo in a potential film adaptation of the hit sitcom. “I remember Matt Damon coming up to me …
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Lizzy Caplan is opening up about the scrapped X-Men spinoff Gambit movie. During a recent interview with Business Insider, the Party Down actress, who was in talks to star opposite Channing Tatum, detailed the film’s pre-production before it ultimately got axed. “It was a really cool idea,” Caplan said. “It’s kind of odd that it got scrapped. Those movies don’t seem to …
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Following a blow by Los Angeles’ new district attorney last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom has now planted himself firmly in the good graces of the Menendez brothers, their family and legion of supporters, signaling on Wednesday that he’s potentially leaning toward offering clemency to the incarcerated convicted killers, should all other avenues fail, by calling for the California Parole Board …
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A federal judge has rejected Pepperdine University’s bid for a court order to block Netflix from releasing parts of episodes of its upcoming series Running Point that allegedly infringe on its basketball team’s trademarks. With the denial on Wednesday of the temporary restraining order, Netflix will continue with plans to release the sports comedy tomorrow. The legal battle revolves around …
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Paramount is stepping back from some policies aimed at boosting diversity among its ranks amid a larger retreat from DEI initiatives in the private sector driven by the Trump administration. The changes include eliminating staffing goals tied to race, ethnicity, sex and gender, according to an internal memo obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. The company will also stop collecting gender …
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Netflix has released its latest six-month trove of viewing data, and if the compilation of more than 15,000 series and movies points to anything, it’s how big a phenomenon Squid Game is. Season two of the Korean hit was the most watched series worldwide in the second half of 2024, in both Netflix’s preferred view metric (86.5 million, measured by …
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“From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen” promises to bring “an eclectic mix from hard-hitting drama to absurdist comedy” to the 2025 Glasgow Film Festival, which kicked off on Wednesday and runs through March 9. Across 12 days, Scotland’s largest annual celebration of cinema will bring out such stars as James McAvoy, Ed Harris, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, George …
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