Actor Joel McHale paid a visit to BUILD Series recently to dish about his new online talk show coming to Netflix later this month. “The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale,” is a weekly half-hour topical web series where McHale analyzes and pokes fun at the events that took place in the news, TV and pop culture all around the world. […]

Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones: TV Tune in: Not in the mood for the Olympics but enjoy a good competition? We have just the thing when The Bachelor Winter Games premieres Tuesday at 8 ET/PT. The four-episode series will pit contestants from international editions of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette against each other in athletics and dating. DVD/BLU-RAY View: The […]

When Tina Fey’s film “Mean Girls” came out in 2004, the comedy was lauded as a silly, satirical excoriation of modern high-school life and its cliques, cafeteria antics and materialism. “Mean Girls” was a “Clueless” for the millennial age. And it was so fetch. Fast forward to 2018. “Mean Girls” is about to begin a new […]

Los Angeles and Orange County area community colleges are starting a push to improve the training they offer for middle-skill jobs in the entertainment and digital industries. A new report commissioned by the colleges and released Friday reveals detailed wage and job growth information for Southern California middle skill jobs in entertainment and digital industries. It […]

“Tell them I told you everything you needed to know, and that you can’t tell anyone.” That was Harrison Ford’s advice to Alden Ehrenreich, the man who would be Han, when they sat down for lunch in January of last year shortly before production began on Solo: A Star Wars Story. Ehrenreich, the 28-year-old actor best known […]

Sony Pictures Entertainment has let go three president-level executives — international channels head Andy Kaplan, chief TV marketing officer Sheraton Kalouria and home entertainment topper Man Jit Singh — as part of a broader effort to streamline its top management ranks. Keith Le Goy, Sony Pictures TV’s president of distribution, will take on oversight of home entertainment while Sony […]

The Oscar-nominated short documentary Knife Skills has been acquired by Condé Nast Entertainment. This follows last year’s acquisition when the company acquired the Oscar-nominated short documentary Joe’s Violin, also for The New Yorker’s “The Screening Room” which features award-winning short films. The film, directed by Thomas Lennon (The Blood of Yingzhou District), follows the launch of an haute cuisine restaurant […]

LOOKING AHEAD Team Mickey: Walt Disney Co. reports first-quarter results for fiscal 2018 on Tuesday. During the quarter, the company announced plans to acquire TV and movie assets from 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. The proposed acquisition includes Fox’s 20th Century Fox film division and TV studio, as well as its international and cable TV […]

Like the Philadelphia Eagles when they battle the New England Patriots Sunday night at Super Bowl LII in a rematch of the 2005 pro football extravaganza, halftime performer Justin Timberlake will have the opportunity to exorcise the demons of Super Bowls past when he takes the stage in the biggest concert event of the year. […]

Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones: TV Tune-in: Two of Bravo’s biggest reality stars — Real Housewives of New York City‘s Bethenny Frankel and Million Dollar Listing: New York‘s Fredrik Eklund — are getting together for a show of their own. Bethenny & Fredrik premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The pair, already friends, become business partners and team up to renovate […]