After the real-life disaster at last year’s Oscars, the Academy feels the best way to make sure the proper people accept the award for Best Picture — bring back the ones who screwed it up … because TMZ has learned Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway will do the honors again!!! Our Oscar sources tell us Warren and Faye both […]

The ‘Saturday Night Live’ alum will play Cheetah in the superhero sequel. Kristen Wiig is in talks for the villain role in Wonder Woman 2, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Patty Jenkins is returning to direct the sequel that will star Gal Gadot as the Amazonian princess. Very few plot details are known about the […]

The main reason why some potential contestants never get to compete on the “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette” has nothing to do with their looks. The “top reason applicants don’t make it onto the show” ― according to Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure, by Los Angeles Times staff writer Amy Kaufman […]

SeaWorld Entertainment CEO Joel Manbay is stepping down, CNBC reported Tuesday. Manbay has been at the helm of the company for three years as it navigated falling attendance and revenue to its shareholders. CNBC reports that the company’s quarterly revenue of $265.5 million beat out analyst projections for $260.1 million. However, SeaWorld Entertainment’s annual losses widened to $202.4 million, […]

Passengers flying onboard China Southern Airlines were in for a frightening start to their trip on Sunday as a phone charger caught fire in a passenger’s luggage stowed away in the overhead compartment. Passengers were in the process of boarding a flight heading from Guangzhou to Shanghai, China, on Sunday when smoke was spotted inside the airplane’s cabin, airline […]

AMC Networks announced a deal to acquire majority control of RLJ Entertainment, the streaming-oriented company headed by Robert Johnson, in a deal valuing RLJ at about $60 million. RLJ Entertainment operates two streaming-subscription services aimed a niche audiences: Acorn TV, which features British television and film content, and UMC (Urban Movie Channel). AMC is offering about $16 million to […]

Axelrad Concert Series hosted the WEPA! Latino Music Dance Party in the upstairs room of Axelrad Beer Garden on Saturday, February 24, 2018 in Houston, Texas. The exclamation “wepa!” is usually yelled in the Latino culture, and is used as a form of celebration and approval. On a rain soaked yet pleasant Saturday night, the […]

BY DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Counting up the medals, Pyeongchang was a lackluster Olympics for the U.S. team, and the post-mortems will soon begin about what went right and wrong. It’s worth taking the same look at NBC’s performance, because the network is locked into showing the Olympics every two years […]

Saudi Arabia is preparing to pump $64 billion into its nascent entertainment industry as part of Vision 2030, the social and economic reform program spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Construction is already underway on an opera house in the capital Riyadh, and the country plans to host 5,000 entertainment events this year, the […]

HONG KONG — United States officials have torpedoed a Chinese state-backed group’s plan to buy an American electronics company, signaling the Trump administration’s continuing skepticism toward Chinese investment deals, particularly those that involve transferring technological know-how. Xcerra, a Massachusetts-based provider of equipment for testing computer chips and circuit boards, said this week that it was […]