The Y.A. queen's role has been cut from the Amazing Spider-Man sequel in the middle of filming, but she could just end up with a bigger part in the third film in the re-booted franchise. But there are a lot of big actors signed up for all four movies, and we're starting to worry.
The organizers of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi — the games are less than a year away! — unveiled the medals that will be bestowed on the victorious competitors in St. Petersburg today, and, well, they look really cool. Putin sure likes 'em.
So, it's happened folks. Deadline's Mike Fleming broke the news that Grumpy Cat has a movie deal. But, call us grumpy, we're not overjoyed. Call us grumpy, but we're not exactly overjoyed about what happens when an Internet meme gets an actual feature film deal.
Today in show business news: A big change is coming to Two and a Half Men, Arnold Schwarzenegger sells a bodybuilding show to Showtime, and Homeland adds a cast member.
The all-at-once release sucks conversation dry, and conversation seems to be a large part of why many people watch television these days. So Netflix should rethink its strategy, even after the success of Arrested Development and House of Cards. See you Sundays at 8, perhaps?
Facebook is taking a page out of Twitter's playbook — and making a play for its rival's key territory — by verifying the official accounts of celebrities, politicians, and more people with a whole lot of fans. But will their new plan alter the fan-celeb social media landscape? Absolutely not.
The former child doctor turned mugging sitcom star has been tapped by CBS to host the Emmys, and he's also hosting the Tony Awards for CBS this year. Sure, there will be lots of crowing about the network's success, but what's wrong with a little gloating on an already boastful evening?
After an unceremonious dismissal by the International Olympic Committee in February, the original Olympic sport ended up on the IOC's surviving shortlist at a presentation in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, and wrestling has some pretty weak international competition ahead of the final call.
In a preview proposition to cut 30 seconds off each clip, movie theaters say they're trying to bring pleasure back to your time at the movies. But studios are already pushing back, trying to sell their movies — and trying to use your love of online trailers to their advantage.
Today in celebrity news: Justin Bieber says it wasn't him, Taylor Swift hung out with Lena Dunham this weekend, and Paul Ryan had a party in New York.
Last night on NBC, Levine faced off with either all of the nation or at least the vast swath of it that loves country music. Either way you read it, Levine lost a war with a hot mic when, disappointed with the results of The Voice's top six voting, he muttered "I hate this country" live on national television.
Ten members of Congress sent Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder a letter today, urging him to change the "derogatory" team name to something else.
Today in show business news: Lots of people wanted to watch Michael Douglas and Matt Damon be lovers in Behind the Candelabra, NBC might want Community's creator to come back, and P.T. Anderson adds to his all-star cast in adapting Pynchon.
Today in viral videos: You're singing Daft Punk's song of the summer wrong, a kid genius on Ellen, and Charles Bronson gets the epic commercial he deserves.
Variety has an apparent shortlist of directors, each of whom will likely have interesting takes on Bond, but they may not be the version of Bond 24 you're hoping for come a targeted 2016 release. Here's the good, the bad, and the maybe of your next MI6 leaders.
Its stomach empty, the fourth "season" of Arrested Development starts eating itself, all these stringent new acids of plot and character corroding the walls that separated the show from the real world that created it. The series was always a little meta, but the cult comedy's return is a new and unpleasant level of self-awareness. It's garish and, frankly, lazy.
The behind-the-scenes political hero of The West Wing and Parks & Rec will play JFK on National Geographic's adaptation of Killing Kennedy. Lowe may or may not have been leaning outwardly right of late, but isn't it kind of bizarre to think of Rob Lowe playing John F. Kennedy?
Combine an absolutely bonkers interview for New York magazine's new cover story with some of Will and Jaden's other recent appearances ahead of this weekend's "blockbuster" release, and we're learning a little more about what it's like to be a part of the Smith father-son duo.
Today in celebrity news: Updates on the Amanda Bynes saga, Justin Bieber is a reckless driver, and Aaron Paul had a bad wedding.
To complete its transformation into the poop cruise network of the Internet age, CNN has found the perfect partner for a joint YouTube channel: Buzzfeed, arguably the original poop cruise of the online news age.
Community fans possibly have another reason to stop whining. Not only is their show coming back on the air for an unlikely fifth season, but it looks like the lauded-crazy-genius behind the show, Dan Harmon, might also be coming back. Meaning that perhaps Community will finally get the attention and care its fans think it deserves.
Last night's Mad Men, an episode titled "The Better Half," was all about couples and family — who you choose to be with, who you choose not to be with, who you decide not to choose, and of course, how all those choices impact you and beyond.
Something historic happened late Sunday evening at Los Angeles's Home Depot Center. Robbie Rogers stepped onto the field for as the first active openly gay athlete to play in a major North American sport.
Roman Polanski, the film director who fled the U.S. for France in 1977 after pleading guilty to unlawful intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, has some things to say about women.
There are two types of Arrested Development fans: the ones who are going to love the new Netflix episodes unconditionally, and those who are a little nervous about reviving a show seven years after it was cancelled. For those fidgety millions out there who maybe haven't gotten through the whole thing yet, here is a (spoiler free!) run down of what people are saying so far.
There were no jewel heists on the last day of the Cannes film festival, but there was gold being given out Sunday in the form of the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or. The jury decided the award would go to Abdellatif Kechiche's three-hour lesbian love epic Blue is the Warmest Color.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we only take things a quarter mile at a time. Well, everything but cronuts. We would run two whole miles in scorching Arizona heat for cronuts.
The New York Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau has launched an investigation into Amanda Bynes' claim she was sexually harassed by the two officers who arrested her for throwing a bong out of a window.
Jimmy Fallon released a brilliant Game of Thrones parody on Friday's episode of Late Night and, really, the whole thing is fantastic. But it really served as an introduction for the next king of the remote control throne.
Today in viral videos: lesbian porn can make actual lesbians unhappy, that kid who got turned down by Kate Upton gets a prom upgrade, the 50 quotes you're probably misquoting, and hashtags.
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.
Memorial Day Weekend is here! The summer season has officially started, with all the joys and stresses that come with it. One of those stresses is the mad, fraught dash to get out of the city every Friday, sometimes successful, sometimes not. But that's OK. A weekend in the city can be fun, too. Really, there are infinite ways to enjoy a summer weekend. Here are a few.
The return of Arrested Development is fast approaching, but, really, nobody knows much of anything about what's actually in the new episodes. So that makes these four new videos released by Netflix on Friday all the more enticing.
This month Random House Children's Books released The Mighty Lalouche, a picture book by Matthew Olshan illustrated by Sophie Blackall. It gets my vote for cutest picture book of the year so far.
Andrew Goldman has an extensive interview with Billy Joel in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, which — after you finish admiring the accompanying photo of Joel and his pug posing in a sidecar — covers the piano man's finances, divorces, and drinking.
Today in celebrity news: Amanda Bynes was arrested last night, Leo's space trip earns millions, and Prince William receives a gift.
Are we sure this isn't a viral marketing stunt for a remake of To Catch a Thief? About a week after some $1.4 million worth of Chopard jewels were stolen from a hotel during the Cannes Film Festival, a diamond necklace valued at $2.6 million vanished from a swanky party on the French Riviera that hosted the likes of Paris Hilton and Alessandra Ambrosio.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart explained that the Department of Justice is going after people whose crimes seem minor — especially when you look at them in comparison to what Wall Street executives did to create the financial crisis. To which Stewart asked: "What, none of them bought pot?"
Today in show business news: Steven Soderbergh is headed to television, Intervention will intervene no more, and USA is sending camp kids to battle.
Bryan Singer broke some news on Twitter today: Evan Peters, of American Horror Story, will be playing Quicksilver in Singer's upcoming X-Men film. Alone, that's not all that interesting, but put that together with Joss Whedon's intention to put Quicksilver in the Avengers sequel, and things get really interesting.
Details surfaced this week of Hustler's upcoming porn parody of HBO's Girls — titled This Ain't Girls XXX and open to the immediate response of "well, is that really necessary?" — but now Lena Dunham has decided to weigh in and, well, surprisingly enough to her, she's not really ecstatic.
Heading into the third Hangover's Memorial Day weekend release, the proposition of reviewing such a ridiculous film set off a competition of sorts between critics who have each tried their hardest to criticize the movie in the most excoriating way possible. Let's award some prizes.
Today in celebrity news: Leo DiCaprio is auctioning off an escorted space trip, Amanda Bynes can't get on a plane, and Brad Pitt can't remember your face.
How do you become the toast of Cannes? Pretend to be Psy, apparently.
Jon Stewart last night turned his attention to Reagan "fan fiction" author (and, you know, Wall Street Journal columnist) Peggy Noonan, who is angry at President Obama for his recent scandals, but gives her former boss a pass for a little thing like Iran-Contra.
Today in show business news: Emma Roberts has joined the Ryan Murphy family, CBS hires a Bad Teacher, and a glimpse of the next Vince Vaughn movie.
Yesterday we wrote about Joseph Gordon-Levitt's attempt to promote his directorial debut, which he also wrote, in character on Twitter. His Twitter persona as porn-addicted Jersey guy Jon Martello seemed strained. Now we have the trailer to see if he can pull off the persona on screen.
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