Cocktail Crossfire: Do Olympics Spoilers Ruin Everything?
Everyone is complaining about Olympics spoilers. But are they really that bad? We discuss.
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Today in show business news: Jennifer Hudson might become an American Idol judge, Jon Stewart finds a leading man for his risky directing debut, and Tom Cruise walks away from a movie.
Everyone is complaining about Olympics spoilers. But are they really that bad? We discuss.
Oh, for Peter's sake. CBS has announced plans to reboot the cornball family sitcom The Brady Bunch for a whole new generation. To prove its new, fresh modernness, the project will be co-developed and produced by foul-mouthed funnyman Vince Vaughn.
The Los Angeles Times reports today that flashy billionaire Ron Burkle, supermarket mogul and alleged sex-jet-riding former pal of Bill Clinton, is the "leading contender" to buy showbiz trade Variety.
Of all the strange things that happened at the men's team gymnastic finals last night, perhaps the strangest was the sight of a Japanese coach approaching the judges while holding a stack of cash (American $100 bills) while arguing they had gotten a decisive call wrong.
Today in celebrity gossip: Tom Cruise is looking to buy a house in the New York suburbs, Snoop Dogg has a fierce new name, and Katie Couric's got a new man.
Today in showbiz news: Taylor Kitsch may be box office poison, but he's still working. Also: Showtime employs Laura Linney for one more year and hires Ron Howard to cover the Aztecs.
The bad idea that was rumored last week has now been confirmed: Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien's first story in the Middle Earth universe, will be split into three films.
Are Rowdy Gaines and Dan Hicks in love? This is the biggest question I have about NBC's trusty swimming commentators.
Today in celebrity gossip: Music royalty goes on vacation, a Real Housewife may not be a wife for long, and Kris Jenner takes a lie detector test.
Today in showbiz news: Alaska's favorite daughter heads back to the Dancedome, AMC doesn't want another Rosie Larsen case happening, and Dustin Lance Black gets a surprising new gig.
The Weinstein Company has announced that it is moving the release date of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, the omigod-we-can't-wait movie that's kinda sorta about Scientology, ahead a few weeks.
Who doesn't like the Olympics? Only jerks don't like the Olympics. Though the trouble is, these days, some jerks are watching the Olympics and they're bound and determined to ruin them for everyone else.
Today we review the new thriller 'Killer Joe,' which marks the true beginning of Matthew McConaughey's career reboot.
Today's celebrity gossip brings us news of a blue-streaking Justin Bieber, a devastated Robert Pattinson, and a guilty Russell Brand.
Emma Koenig, 24, has a blog called Fuck! I'm In My Twenties full of cutesily hand-drawn musings about the plight of the aimless millennial. And since no improbable rise to trendy stardom would be complete without a fawning, way-we-live-now profile in The New York Times, which was published yesterday.
Today in showbiz news: A troubled set gets working again, Mariah Carey books a big movie, and American Horror Story casts strangely.
The first trailer for Cloud Atlas, a collabo joint by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis, based on the cult hit novel by David Mitchell, has been released, and boy is it strange.
Today in celebrity gossip we're mostly going to talk about Kristen Stewart, but there's also some news about Jennifer Lopez, Prince Harry, and Mariah Carey.
Today's Hollywood news: An Olympics record has already been broken, Alex Pettyfer and Kristen Stewart are the newest item (on screen!), and MTV makes a wise renewal.
Just two days after Warner Bros. announced that it would be doing last minute edits on its upcoming thriller Gangster Squad, because of a scene that mirrored last week's movie theater shooting in Aurora, CO, the studio has announced that it is pulling the 1940s gangster film from the fall schedule entirely.
Following Us Weekly's bombshell report (with photos!) that actress Kristen Stewart cheated on never-confirmed-but-totally-her-boyfriend Robert Pattinson with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, the actress has released a statement apologizing.
There's a rumor afoot that Peter Jackson and New Line are considering turning the upcoming The Hobbit films, originally planned as two installments, into a trilogy.
The celebrity news world is roiling this morning with allegations of Twilight-related infidelity. Also, Chris Brown and Rihanna discuss business in France, and the "Call Me Maybe" gal has been found in the nude.
Today in Hollywood news: A cast bands together to demand more money, MTV revives a popular old show, and NBC will get political again this fall.
We could talk about all the movies at the Toronto International Film Festival, but in the interest of time, let's just focus on our top ten most-interesting picks.
Today in celebrity gossip: Your favorite mom of eight wants back on the TV, Rihanna and Chris Brown have a Cannes reunion, and Lindsay Lohan's mom is once again up to no good.
Today in showbiz news: A graphic and too-soon scene is excised from an upcoming movie, the script is flipped on romantic otherness, and welcome two new guys to the world of Glee.
Fox has officially confirmed today what has long been rumored: Pop diva extraordinaire Mariah Carey will be a judge on the next season of American Idol.
As evidenced by last night's harried, scattered mess of an episode, The Newsroom is not a terribly good show. This has been noted many times since the show began. But have no fear! The marketing team has swooped in and taken care of its pesky bad review problem by turning lemons into misleading lemonade.
Much like us, PBS is pretty obsessed with all things British right now. At the Television Critics Association summer press tour yesterday, the public broadcaster held a well-received panel, during which the network excitedly praised all the UK-created programming that is giving them its best numbers in years.
Today in gossip: Silicon Valley's fanciest lady is maybe not the best host, Emily Maynard picks her man (but not until he picks her), and Minka Kelly might be headed for trouble.
Today in non-tragic show business news: Christ Hemsworth may be teaming up with Steven Spielberg, Clea DuVall goes to work for Ryan Murphy, and Kenneth Branagh will soon be a villain.
At long last we have a full-length, somewhat expository trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's hotly anticipated next feature, The Master.
NBC's new morning co-host is suffering from terrible migraines. Elsewhere in celebrity news: Tom and Suri head to the beach, and Alec Baldwin's new wife is a bit more ambitious than we thought.
Katie Holmes has picked her first big post-divorce gig, and it's on stage. Elsewhere in today's showbiz news: Fred Willard loses a job after an embarrassing incident, Gwyneth Paltrow might become a chef, and Jennifer Jason Leigh is headed to the Hamptons.
Way back in June, former enfant terrible turned fortysomething terrible Bret Easton Ellis touched a dangerous third rail by tweeting about famous recluse/showbiz blogger Nikki Finke and now it's become a big ol' Hollywood fight with pricey lawyers.
Mary-Kate and her older, politically connected beau are going strong. Also today in celebrity gossip: Heidi Klum is a bit of a fashion nazi, Katy Perry and Russell Brand almost reproduced, and Fred Willard gets caught in the act.
The 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced in the wee hours (of PDT, anyway) this morning, and there were actually some surprises reflecting the ascendancy of new "prestige" television, where cable reigns fully supreme.
Well, this year at least. Elsewhere in today's showbiz news: Jessica Biel gets cold feet, Abraham Lincoln returns in November, and we just might have our Finnick Odair.
The Primetime Emmy Award nominations will be announced tomorrow, and as is Emmys tradition, we probably shouldn't expect many surprises. But that doesn't mean we have to stop hoping that some of our dream nominees will have their names read in the a.m.
Today we review the final film in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises.
Today in celebrity gossip: Halle Berry has an on-set accident, Tom Cruise hangs out with his daughter Suri for the first time in a while, and a Bachelorette spoiler.
Today in showbiz: Harry Potter tries out a new genre, Juliette Lewis gets a big break again, and Andrew Stanton receives his post-John Carter sentence.
Today in celebrity gossip: Katie Holmes has a fender bender, Arnold Schwarzenegger locks lips with a young lass, and Daniel Radcliffe might have a new gal.
Today in showbiz news, AMC has another hit on their hands, CBS keeps an old hit around too long, and a new Sleeping Beauty story sounds unfortunate.
Breaking Bad wasn't the only show to premiere last night. No, over on the USA Network, Sigourney Weaver made her big TV (mini)series debut on Political Animals, a look at a First Lady turned unsuccessful presidential candidate turned Secretary of State that could be called Hillary!
Last night was the premiere of the first half of Breaking Bad's final season. Anticipation ran high among the show's devoted fanbase, ourselves included, so how did the episode measure up? Pretty well!
Lindsay Lohan will soon have a new half-sibling. Miley Cyrus is thinkin' about having a baby, too. And poor Suri Cruise isn't allowed to get the doggy in the window.
Justin's girl will be putting on a catsuit of some kind and kicking but with Wolverine. Or be kicking Wolverine's butt. It's unclear. Also today: Dianna Agron snags a plum role and Ken Jeong moves up in the world.
The summer's most beguiling mystery isn't what those curious Prometheus aliens are up to, it's not Bane's plans for Gotham City. No, the most intriguing question of the season is what happened in a town outside of San Antonio back in the mid-1990s, when a thirteen-year-old boy went missing, only to astonishingly reappear in Europe four years later.
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