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UPDATED, Friday PM: Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is heading to a $17 million-plus Friday, which will put the sequel on track for a third weekend of $60M at 4,440 theaters, -41%, making it one of the seven best third weekends ever. Oscar buzz is already developing around the movie, and rightfully so: it’s…

Former President Donald Trump, in his first rally since the presidential debate on Thursday, continued to go after Joe Biden as a bit of a master political manipulator even as much of the post-event focus has been on the president’s feeble performance. “Despite the fact that crooked Joe Biden has…

Kevin Costner is weighing in on the pressure he feels for Horizon: An American Saga to do well at the box office. The former Yellowstone star largely self-financed the Western film series, which he also co-wrote and stars in. With the film dropping in theaters, he’s opening up about where his…

A lawsuit filed Thursday in California accuses Grammy-winning producer Diplo of distributing revenge porn. Diplo, real name Thomas Wesley Pentz, has produced or collaborated with Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg, Madonna, Shakira, Bad Bunny and Beyoncé, among others. The suit was filed…

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Med fans’ fears following the Season 9 finale have materialized: Dr. Crockett Marcel is checking out of the Gaffney Chicago Medical Center. Dominic Rains, who has portrayed the ace emergency room surgeon since Season 5, is departing the NBC medical drama as a series regular. It is…

The 58th Karlovy Vary Film International Film Festival kicked off with a very personal milestone, commemorating 30 years since the event was taken over by the programming team of Jiří Bartoška and the late journalist Eva Zaoralová. The veteran actor, now 77, gave the festival cause for concern last year…

Playwrights Horizons, the longstanding and prominent Off Broadway theater company that launched the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Stereophonic, has appointed a new managing director as it steers its way through what one exec calls “seismic” economic change for the nonprofit world. Casey York…

The 2024 BET Awards will close out the first half of the year at the end of June. This year's show boasts a wide range of nominees as well as performers, and the spotlight will be on Usher — fresh from his Super Bowl halftime show — as he receives the BET Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes…

Let the speculation begin. The “Untitled Event Film” Warner Bros had dated for December 2026 now is being billed as a “Denis Villeneuve Event Film,” and sources said the studio and Legendary are holding the date with expectations that he wraps up the spectacular trilogy with Dune 3. Hurdles still…

Carlos King, who runs Kingdom Reign Entertainment, the company behind the hit Love & Marriage franchise, knows a thing or two about producing African American-focused reality television. Kingdom Reign is behind three Love & Marriage series for OWN set in Huntsville, Detroit and D.C. as well as its…

Steve Bannon, the podcast host and former top adviser to Donald Trump, must report to prison on Monday after the Supreme Court rejected his effort to sideline a four-month prison sentence. “The application for release pending appeal presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court…

Nicola Coughlan dropped her first pop song and was inspired by queer icons and Bravo’s The Real Housewives franchise. The Bridgerton star turned a viral interview she did during the Netflix series’ press tour into a song that will benefit LGBTQ+ organizations. Titled “Shoes… More Shoes,&#8221…