Actress Gina Carano, Lucasfilm and its parent company Walt Disney Co. have settled the federal lawsuit filed in which Carano claimed that, in 2021, she was wrongfully terminated from her role in βThe Mandalorianβ after she expressed her conservative political views on social media. The settlement details have not been made public, but Lucasfilm released…
Jimmy Fallon once grabbed a cigarette out of Greg Gutfeldβs mouth, crinkled it up and tossed it to the ground, hollering at the Fox News personality, βThose things will kill you!β But it sounds like the place where they were hanging out had a shot at killing them too. The two late-night hosts were both…
Busta Rhymes is rejecting claims leveled against him in a lawsuit filed this week by a former assistant, calling it an βattempted shake-down.β Dashiel Gables, who filed the lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, is accusing Rhymes β real name Trevor Smith Jr. β of wage and hour…
Short, pained lives marked by achievement and promise and then abruptly gone leave a restless afterglow. Youth is supposed to fade away, not become oneβs permanent state. And regarding the late musician Jeff Buckley β a roiling romantic with piercing good looks whose singing could rattle bones and raise hairs β that loss in 1997,…
The road to find steady work in Hollywood is more fraught now than ever before. The entertainment industry is in the throes of a seismic transformation, as traditional jobs are vanishing, and AI threatens to completely upend the way visual media is made and consumed. Fortunately, Ada Tseng and Jon Healey are here to help….
The Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm have settled a lawsuit brought by βThe Mandalorianβ actor Gina Carano, who alleged she had been wrongfully terminated from the show and discriminated against because of her social media posts. Carano and Disney each separately confirmed the settlement Thursday, with Carano calling it the βbest outcome for all parties…
As βMadame Webβ star Sydney Sweeney remains mum on allegations of promoting eugenics via her American Eagle advertisement, she has seemingly stirred up even more support from far-right figures after recently gaining the favor of President Trump. A black-and-yellow banner covering a billboard on the 91 Freeway in Corona boldly states: βProud Boys Love Sydney…
At a time when most of their peers have retired, threatened to call it quits or died, the Beach Boys continue to perform 120 shows per year. Led by original singer Mike Love and longtime multi-instrumentalist Bruce Johnston, this version of the Beach Boys performs the sounds of Southern California to three generations of fans,…
Media mogul Byron Allen has reached a deal to sell 10 television stations for $171 million to Atlanta-based Gray Media. Gray and Allen Media Group announced the agreement Friday. Allenβs stations in Huntsville, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Ft. Wayne, Ind., Lafayette, La., and Paducah, Ky., were part of the transaction. The stations each have affiliations with…
Sir Gary Oldman β he received a British knighthood in King Charlesβ June birthday honors list β appears on Zoom at his home in Palm Springs in front of a display of his own black-and-white photographs. βI do all sorts of photography, but I also do 19th century wet plate,β he says. βI just like…