The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual report for Fiscal Year 2019 shows that Oscar-related revenue dipped half a percentage point, to $131.1 million. It’s not a big drop, but it’s an unhappy marker for a group that has taken pride in annual increases and has been banking on future income to finance its ambitious Academy Museum.
John Oliver opened his seventh season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight by taking aim at the media hyping a potential rift between William Barr and Donald Trump, after the attorney general complained last week about the president’s tweeting about Justice Department matters.
Oliver even gave credit to Fox News host Laura Ingr…
Dr. Amie Harwick, a well-known Hollywood family and sex therapist, was killed Saturday at her home in the Hollywood Hills, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
“On Saturday, February 15, 2020, around 1:16 a.m. Hollywood patrol officers responded to a radio call of a ‘woman screaming’ in the 2000 block of…
Jason Davis, a former child star and voice actor on the Disney Channel animated series Recess, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 35.
On Recess, Davis voiced the character of Mikey Blumberg from 1997-2001 during the show’s six-season run. In addition to his voice work, he appeared on Dave’s World and Roseanne as a…
Jennifer Hudson turned in an emotional tribute to late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant Sunday at the NBA All-Star Game in Chicago.
The award-winning singer and actress sang “For All We Know” just before the game got underway. As images of Bryant and his daughter Gianna played on a screen behind her, the Chicago…
International Women’s Day arrives on March 8, and NBC Sports Network will celebrate by using an all-female crew to broadcast and produce game coverage of the St. Louis Blues vs. Chicago Blackhawks National Hockey League matchup.
The game will mark the first NHL contest broadcast and produced solely by women in the…
A woman who claims singer/songwriter Rick James raped her at a group home in 1979 is suing his estate.
The woman, who was not identified in court papers, said James raped her at a group home in Buffalo. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday against the James Ambrose Johnson Jr. 1999 Trust, which is run by the singer's…
Grammy winner and actress Queen Latifah performed Stevie Wonder's Love's in Need of Love Today at the National Basketball Assn.’s Saturday Night skills competitions.
But she added a rap verse to the song in honor of the late Kobe Bryant, who had four MVP awards at the event and had the MVP trophy renamed in his…
The NBA All-Star Weekend 2020 Saturday night coverage showed gains across all platforms, the network claimed.
The preliminaries to the actual All-Star game today saw the Skills Challenge, a unique obstacle course that tests the participants' ball-handling, passing and dribbling abilities while under pressure; the…
Daniel Lee Martin, a reality TV host on the Sportsman Channel and a popular country music singer, committed suicide after law enforcement deputies attempted to serve multiple warrants related to charges of sexual abuse of minors, according to officials.
Martin appeared on the Sportsman Channel as host of the shows Brot…
UPDATE, writethru: Paramount's Sonic The Hedgehog raced to a $100M worldwide opening this weekend, including $43M from the international box office, and a domestic record for a videogame pic. The adaptation of Sega's globally popular property is playing in 40 offshore markets, repping 60% of the overseas footprint…
The indie distributor Neon is becoming the cool, popular kid in Hollywood and on the box office playground since they dominated the Oscars with the multiple Parasite wins. This weekend, the distributor, founded by Tim League and Tom Quinn, saw the return of Portrait of a Lady on Fire in theaters, while Parasite took a…
ITV has postponed another episode of Love Island following the death of Caroline Flack but the show will return on Monday night with a tribute to the former presenter.
The British broadcaster said that the decision had been made after "careful consideration" between Flack's representatives and the Love Island…
