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Almost from the moment Empire made a splashy debut in January 2015 to huge ratings and instant pop culture staple status, there had been talk of expanding the franchise with offshoots. Early in the show’s run, the focus was on potential prequels, including one about young Cookie Lyon, the character played by Taraji P…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s midseason finale of Empire‘s sixth and final season. "I think what we're seeing here is that this family truly loves one another, but they have a lot of baggage and they have a lot of drama," Empire showrunner Brett Mahoney says of the Fox series’ Lyon clan as…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's Empire Season 5 finale. "The idea of moving forward without him is a true challenge, and no decisions have been made as of yet of how we move forward," Empire showrunner Brett Mahoney admits of the contentious Jussie Smollett's exit from the Fox series at the…

Taraji P. Henson shared a heartfelt message Monday evening about John Singleton. The iconic filmmaker died earlier in the day from complications of a stroke. Henson and Tyrese Gibson visited him in the hospital over the weekend and urged fans on social media to “keep praying” for the director. Singleton cast the two…

EXCLUSIVE: Empire co-creator Lee Daniels told a New York City morning show Wednesday that the fate of Jussie Smollett on the Fox hit is "in discussions" right now, but Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard and the rest of the series’ top cast have already made their decision. "Together, as a united front, we stand with…

(UPDATED with Smollett’s lawyer letter) Jussie Smollett may have seen the felony charges against him dropped by state prosecutors last week and Taraji P. Henson is predicting he will return to Empire, but the actor’s legal troubles in Chicago are far from over. With the passing this evening of a deadline set by…

In the vein of Oscar-winning movies as The Defiant Ones and In the Heat of the Night all the way up to this year’s big Best Picture winner Green Book, comes The Best of Enemies. Set in 1971, the film somehow manages to put an African-American civil rights activist and a local Ku Klux Klan leader on a path together…

Golden Globe-winning Empire star Taraji P. Henson and Ed Helms, most recently seen in WB’s ensemble comedy Tag, are attached to star in Coffee & Kareem, a Netflix film which Helms is producing with Mike Falbo under their banner, Pacific Electric Pictures Co. (Corporate Animals, The Fake News with Ted Nelms). Michael Do…

In 2000, Mel Gibson had one of his biggest commercial hits in the comedy What Women Want, in which a whack on the head suddenly allows him to hear women’s thoughts. The upside of that was the discovery that women were exceptionally smarter and better than men. Big shock, eh? Nancy Meyers directed that one. Now Adam…

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details about tonight's Empire  Season 5 midseason finale "The question will become if the Lyons retake Empire, what will it cost them?" says showrunner Brett Mahoney of where tonight's Season 5 midseason finale is taking the Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard led Fox drama when it…

Don’t let the holidays keep you from enjoying a bawdy good Red Band not-safe-for-work trailer: Paramount today released a new one for What Men Want, director Adam Shankman’s gender-switched re-do, starring Taraji P. Henson, of Nancy Meyers' 2000 romantic comedy What Women Want. Henson, of course, takes the Mel Gibson…

“Sometimes there are necessary evils for the greater good.” That inherently creepy comment fairly describes one side’s stance on race relations in The Best of Enemies, a timely drama starring Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell. Check out the first trailer above and the poster below. Based on a true story, the film…