The 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set for Sunday, with the ceremony to air live from downtown Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater on Fox beginning at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. The network will also offer the broadcast via authentication at Fox.com and on the Fox Now app. The night will cap off the celebration of the year’s…

UPDATED, Sunday 3:20 PM: We finally got a look at those “Big Ass” fans — they aren’t floor industrial fans that could inconveniently blow your hair out-of-style, rather hanging ceiling fans along the initial long sprawl of this year’s Emmy ‘purple’ carpet.  At a very thick 93 degrees outside, it’s still sweltering…

Food Network star and restaurateur Carl Ruiz died Saturday in his sleep of a suspected heart attack. He was 44 years old and his death was confirmed by his restaurant’s Instagram page. Ruiz opened a new restaurant, La Cubana, in New York City in June. The eatery specializes in authentic Cuban cuisine. The late chef…

Walt Disney Co. chairman and CEO Bob Iger gave an extensive and revealing interview that ran today in the New York Times, talking about his rise to the…

Trump administration officials appearing on two Sunday morning political talk shows said that a transcript of a controversial phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would not be released. The July call between the two leaders has been the subject of an alleged…

UPDATE, SUNDAY AM: A tweet by The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) that threatened Area 51 trespassers with a stealth bomber has been hastily deleted and an apology issued. The DVIDS tweet indicated that anyone in search of “them aliens” that breached security at the base would be fired upon. …

UPDATE, writethru: Newcomer Ad Astra, from Fox/New Regency and distributed by Disney, launched this weekend with an estimated $26M in 44 markets for a $45.2M worldwide start. The international box office debut is within the range we were hearing before the weekend, and is 49% ahead of last year's First Man and 23%…

Aron Eisenberg, an actor who played the first Ferengi to join Starfleet in the Star Trek spin-off Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, died on Saturday. His death was reported by his wife in a Facebook post. The cause of death was not revealed, but Eisenberg had received two kidney transplants, most recently in 2015. He was…

All was fairly quiet on the specialty box office front this week, with the debut of just a handful of films. The most notable of the bunch was Matt Tyrnauer’s riveting Where’s My Roy Cohn? Other openers this weekend included a Loro, as well as Gunpowder & Sky’s horror-comedy Villains, starring IT Chapter Two‘s Bill…

REPOSTED From September 11: The Emmy Awards party field, which had expanded dramatically over the past decade as new cable networks and streaming platforms entered the winners’ circle, is undergoing a major contraction this year. As we reported last month, following the WGA-ATA breakup that triggered the firing of…