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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Kat Von D’s move means the end of an era. The famed tattoo artist/reality star/musician and entrepreneur has announced she is shuttering her Los Angles based tattoo parlor, High Voltage. Von D, whose shop was the scene for the TLC reality series “L.A. Ink,” made the announcement on her verified

By Jenn Selva and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A district attorney in New Mexico hasn’t ruled out criminal charges in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the “Rust” movie set, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday, noting the shooting remains under active investigation. News of the potential for criminal charges was first reported on Tuesday by the New

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Jennifer Aniston has led the tributes to her “Friends” co-star James Michael Tyler following his death, saying the show “would not have been the same” without him. Tyler, who was best known for playing Gunther — the Central Perk manager and Rachel Green’s admirer — on the hit ’90s sitcom for

By Andy Rose and Susannah Cullinane, CNN The shot that killed a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set last week was fired as actor Alec Baldwin was practicing drawing his gun, according to the director who was injured in the shooting, an affidavit for a search warrant shows. Joel Souza, director of the film

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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Pop the bottle, it’s the Champagne Papi’s birthday today. Canadian rapper Drake is celebrating another year around the sun as he turns 35 years old on Sunday. Just last month, the musician, whose real name is Aubrey Graham, dropped his new album, “Certified Lover Boy,” which made it to No. 1

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Adapting a relatively obscure comic into a sprawling epic, “Eternals” might be Marvel’s boldest bet since “Guardians of the Galaxy,” and that worked out. Whether this millennia-spanning tale of immortals hiding in plain sight on Earth can repeat history will serve as a referendum on the studio’s muscle, especially because

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The season premiere of HBO’s “Succession” saw a lot of moves on the chess board that is the Roy family’s power struggle. One of the pieces on that board, Greg, the beloved-by-viewers character who lives somewhere on thin border of the family’s inner circle, took a place on Team Kendall in

By Chloe Melas, CNN Jason Sudeikis returned to host “Saturday Night Live” this weekend and brought the funny. It was the first time he had returned to host the show since he left the NBC sketch comedy series in 2013. Here are the “Ted Lasso” star’s best moments from the show. Jason’s Biden cold open

By Chloe Melas, CNN Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae Young are married. The reality TV stars tied the knot on Saturday in Santa Barbara, California, and shared pictures of their special day on Instagram. Young wrote on Instagram, “I married the love of my life today. My sweet man, my everything. Cheers to forever

By Leah Asmelash, CNN As fascination with Netflix’s “Squid Game” grips the world, doctors have a word of advice for parents: Don’t let your kids watch. “Squid Game,” which debuted on Netflix in September, is a South Korean fictional drama following contestants, who are deeply in debt, as they play a series of children’s games

By Julia Jones, CNN An assistant director on the film set of “Rust” was the subject of complaints over safety and his behavior on set during two productions in 2019, two people who worked closely with him tell CNN. The complaints against assistant director Dave Halls include a disregard for safety protocols for weapons and

By Scottie Andrew, CNN On a summer night in New York’s Greenwich Village, standup Jaye McBride’s energy was squirrelly and unpredictable as she stood a few feet from a full crowd at the Comedy Cellar. “You guys know I’m trans, right?” she asked the audience. “Y’all have figured that out by now? Bunch of Brooklyn

By Aya Elamroussi, Lucy Kafanov and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Family, peers and community members of Halyna Hutchins mourned the cinematographer’s untimely death after the 42-year-old was killed on the film set of “Rust” from a firearm mishap. Her husband Matthew Hutchins tweeted Friday that the loss was “enormous.” “Halyna inspired us all with her passion

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Netflix has released a film collection dedicated to sharing Palestinian stories in a move a Palestinian filmmaker is calling “bold.” The streaming service launched the “Palestinian Stories” collection, featuring 32 award-winning films created by Palestinians or about Palestinian stories, on October 14, the company said in a press release. Ameen Nayfeh,

By Chloe Melas What better way to get in the spooky spirit than curl up and watch some scary flicks. From the creepy crawly to family classics, we’ve got you covered this Halloween. “Hocus Pocus” The Sanderson Sisters are the perfect witches to get you ready for Halloween. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy

By Chloe Melas, CNN Cue the tears. Meadow Walker, daughter of the late actor Paul Walker, married actor Louis Thornton-Allan earlier this month. Walker’s “Fast & Furious” co-star, Vin Diesel, walked his longtime friend’s daughter down the aisle. The moment was captured in a photo she posted on Instagram. The couple married in the Dominican

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Adele has returned to the top spot of the UK charts and broken the national record for most streams in a week, with her new single “Easy on Me.” The song is her third chart-topping single in the UK after “Someone Like You” and “Hello,” and Adele also has four number-ones

By Maria Santana, CNN After 44 years as the loveable Maria on Sesame Street, Sonia Manzano thought she was finally ready to move to a quieter, non-puppet inhabited neighborhood where she could spend her days writing children’s books. “I didn’t think I was going to continue in television,” said Manzano, 71, who was on Sesame

By Marianne Garvey, CNN There is a moment in the beginning of the new book from Christine Pride and Jo Piazza that is written from the perspective of a 14-year-old Black boy. After being shot by police, he thinks of his school picture that his mom will use when he dies and his death becomes

By Brian Lowry, CNN Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s. Whatever the reason (including possibly happenstance), to paraphrase a great patriot, “The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming!” This

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Jacques Cousteau was a man ahead of his time in multiple respects, which provides the backbone of “Becoming Cousteau,” a documentary devoted to both the ocean explorer’s life and his early environmental advocacy. Brought to life by his own words and appearances, the film touches on various themes while letting

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN The family of late actor Brandon Lee has spoken out following the news that cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza injured after actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on the set of the movie “Rust.” According to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office Hutchins, 42, was pronounced

By Sara Spary, CNN The film industry has been left shocked and in mourning after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on set when actor and producer Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm. Hutchins, who was 42, was director of photography for Baldwin’s latest movie, “Rust,” a Western which was being filmed in New Mexico and

By Chloe Melas, CNN As Britney Spears prepares to return to court next month to try to bring her 13-year conservatorship to an end, her father Jamie Spears has a new lawyer. Vivian L. Thoreen, Jamie Spears’ former attorney, announced the change in counsel in a statement to CNN on Thursday. “We are proud of

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Yvonne Orji has some words of wisdom for the character she plays for the upcoming fifth and final season of “Insecure.” “I would tell Molly, take a deep breath,” Orji told CNN.”Just take a deep breath, Boo.” Fans of the HBO series will need to breathe as well with the

By Lisa Respers France, CNN What’s the relationship status when you swap Twitter avis? That’s what Cardi B and “You” star Penn Badgley did after sharing some mutual appreciation on that platform. The rapper tweeted an old video in which Badgley talks about social media and praises Cardi B for how she uses it, saying

By Chloe Melas and Josh Campbell, CNN Approximately 65 demonstrators, including Netflix employees and supporters of the transgender community, protested outside of the company’s offices in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Employees began streaming out of the building at 10:30a PT in protest of Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer” comedy special, which has been criticized as transphobic

By Chloe Melas, CNN Nicole Kidman has made some dramatic character transformations as an actor and it appears she’s pulled it off again. “I get paid a fortune to do exactly what I love doing,” Kidman says as Lucille Ball the first trailer for Amazon Prime’s “Being the Ricardos.” The film was written and directed

By Leah Asmelash, CNN It looks like outfits inspired by Netflix’s “Squid Game” are sure to make an appearance at Halloween parties everywhere. Searches for “Squid Game costume” are outnumbering searches for other film and TV character costumes, according to a study conducted by Design Bundles. Though the show only debuted on the streaming service

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Kourtney Kardashian has confirmed her engagement to Travis Barker with a romantic post on Instagram. The reality TV star posted photographs on Sunday of herself and the Blink-182 drummer hugging on a beach, amid a circle of roses, captioning the post “forever.” Barker commented “FOREVER” underneath the post. Barker popped the

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By Eric Levenson, CNN The new trailer for “The Batman,” the latest reboot of the iconic movie franchise, features a recognizably dark and gritty Gotham and previews the return of several of the superhero’s most infamous enemies. Warner Bros. and DC Comics debuted the trailer Saturday at the DC FanDome event, where the comics giant

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN We’re toward the end of our interview time when actor Brian Cox, in describing his character’s few but strong loyalties on HBO’s “Succession,” raises his voice to the level most people only hear through the television. He says those relationships — such as the one with legal counsel Gerri Kellman (J.

By Alaa Elassar, CNN One thing is for sure: Tony Bennett knows how to keep the music playing. The Grammy Award-winning singer just set a Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to release an album of new material. “Love for Sale,” a collaboration with Lady Gaga, was released on October 1, and at

By Andy Rose, Kimberly Berryman and Alaa Elassar, CNN A threatened strike on major TV and film production was averted Saturday night, just hours before a midnight deadline. The association representing producers made a tentative deal with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employee (IATSE), a union representing roughly 60,000 film and television workers, including

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Superman’s iconic motto, “Truth, Justice and the American Way,” is getting an official update for the first time in decades. “Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow” will be Superman’s new motto, a change that was announced Saturday by DC Chief Creative Office and Publisher Jim Lee, during DC’s FanDome. (CNN and

By Paige McAtee, CNN Eve is definitely feeling satisfaction… The hip-hop queen, 42, announced Friday she’s expecting a child with husband Maximillion Cooper. “Can you believe it… we finally get to tell everyone!!!!! You all know how long we’ve been waiting for this blessing!!!” she wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo showing off her baby

By David Williams, CNN Decades after it was stolen, Canadian rock star Randy Bachman says he’s finally found the rare guitar he used to write hits like “American Woman” and “Takin’ Care of Business” after an internet sleuth tracked it down in Japan. Bachman, of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive fame, said he was

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN A strike is looming but the work on TV OT continues. Here’s this week’s column: The bloody best of TV The next few weeks are poised to be a regular serial killer spree with the return of Netflix’s “You” and Showtime’s “Dexter” in the form of a reboot titled “Dexter: New