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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Members of the union representing roughly 60,000 film and television workers have voted to authorize a strike that could shutter Hollywood productions indefinitely. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees union president Matthew Loeb announced the results on Monday. “The members have spoken loud and clear,” said Loeb. “This vote is

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Netflix and Howard University have established a $5.4 million scholarship in honor of Chadwick Boseman, called The Chadwick A. Boseman Memorial Scholarship. The full scholarship will cover four years of tuition at Howard’s College of Fine Arts, which was renamed after Boseman earlier this year. Boseman attended the school studying directing

By Chloe Melas, CNN Simone Biles is thanking Taylor Swift for being a shoulder to lean on during the Tokyo Olympics over the summer. Biles will be presenting Swift with the Gracie Grand Award at the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation’s 46th Gracie Awards on Tuesday. In an exclusive advance look at Biles’ tribute

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Billie Eilish is set to once again make history. The singer, who turns 20 in December, has been announced as the headliner for next year’s Glastonbury Festival. According to the festival’s verified Twitter account, she will be “the youngest ever solo headliner.” “We are very excited to confirm that @billieeilish

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Jamie Lee Curtis and Kyle Richards have reunited more than 40 years after starring together in 1978’s “Halloween.” The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star and the actress appeared in a behind-the-scenes video from the upcoming sequel “Halloween Kills.” Richards asked, “Jamie, can I say something? 40 years ago? I carried

By Chloe Melas, CNN Captain Kirk is headed to space. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced Monday actor William Shatner, 90, will be on the next Blue Origin flight alongside Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s vice president of mission and flight operations, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries. “I’ve heard about space for a long time now,”

By Brian Lowry, CNN “Billions” closed a major account in its fifth-season finale, as the show pivots to a new billionaire and star. In a major twist, the character of Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damian Lewis) got axed — or rather, outmaneuvered by New York Attorney General Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and rival billionaire Michael Prince

By Lisa Respers France, CNN This story is for grown folks only. If you have ever wondered what Harry Styles was singing about in his hit “Watermelon Sugar,” wonder no more. According to a YouTube video posted from the singer’s concert Friday in Nashville, Styles has finally revealed the real meaning of the lyrical reference.

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Showtime has teased the return of its high-stakes drama “Billions” after a major character bowed out. Emmy award-winning actor Damian Lewis ended his five-season run in the season finale “No Direction Home” on Sunday night, with his character, hedge fund wizard Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, leaving New York for good to escape

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Days after her father was suspended as conservator of her estate, Britney Spears said she’s taking some time for self-care. “Although there is change and things to celebrate in my life, I still have a lot of healing to do,” Spears posted Saturday on Instagram. In the post, which shows a

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Adele fans think the singer has a new album coming. And they may be right. Social media users this week began noticing signs and billboards with the number “30” in different parts of the world and believe that’s a nod to a comeback, nearly six years since the artist’s last album,

By Dakin Andone, CNN David Lee Roth, the original lead singer of Van Halen, has announced his retirement in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I am throwing in the shoes. I’m retiring,” Roth told the newspaper in a phone call. “This is the first, and only, official announcement … You’ve got the news.

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Netflix’s latest hit really kills. “Squid Game” is a South Korean fictional drama in which contestants who are deeply in debt play children’s games in order to win a ton of cash. The downside is that losers will be killed. Seriously, if a person can’t nail “Red Light, Green Light,”

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, married designers with two children, are all about the heart of a home. So when they were producing their new HGTV series “The Nate & Jeremiah Home Project,” the two made sure the homeowners’ stories were at the center of their design work. That involves emotions

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After its live-action movies in the 1990s, the Addams Family has found a logical foothold in animation, with “The Addams Family 2” scaring up enough laughs to merit the return, with a mix of low-brow humor for kids and old-time callbacks certain to sail over their heads. Only mildly creepy,

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Eva Marcille is loving playing Marilyn Deville, a.k.a. Madam, in the new BET+ series “All the Queen’s Men.” “She runs the city of Atlanta, she has multiple businesses,” Marcille told CNN. “She is a business woman at heart. Her whole goal in life is to be very successful by building

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After splendid presentations of “Hamilton” and “Come From Away” brought theater into homes via other streamers, Netflix adds to the act with a bonus, offering “Diana: The Musical” prior to its stage debut. But other productions, including Netflix’s own The Crown,” loom large over this vibrant but oft-told tale, dutifully

By Chloe Melas, CNN Britney Spears‘ father is reacting to his suspension as the conservator of his daughter’s estimated $60 million dollar estate. An attorney for Jamie Spears described Wednesday’s ruling by Judge Brenda Penny as a “loss” for the singer. “Mr. Spears loves his daughter Britney unconditionally. For thirteen years, he has tried to

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Her hips don’t lie and Shakira says she’s not telling tall tales about being a victim of a boar attack. According to the BBC, the singer said she was attacked by two wild boars as she and her 8-year-old son, Milan, walked in a park in Spain. “They were taking

By Chloe Melas and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Britney Spears scored a legal victory Wednesday in her fight to regain control of her life. A Los Angeles judge suspended Jamie Spears, the singer’s father, as conservator of her estimated $60 million dollar estate and designated a temporary replacement to oversee her finances. Mathew Rosengart, attorney for

By Marianne Garvey, CNN The show will not go on for the Zac Brown Band. Lead singer Zac Brown says he has tested positive for Covid-19 and that the band’s Thursday concert at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Michigan has been canceled. “I have made the very difficult decision to pause Zac Brown Band’s ‘The

By Chloe Melas, CNN The fight over Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship returns to court in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Judge Brenda Penny is expected to consider several petitions filed since the last hearing in the case on July 14. Jamie Spears, the singer’s father, has served as her conservator since 2008. Earlier this month, he

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Alan Jackson has gone public with an illness he says has been affecting him for years. In an interview with Jenna Bush Hager of “Today,” the country star shared that he has suffered for years with a degenerative nerve condition known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. The singer said it is a

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After 25 movies over 60 years, billing a James Bond adventure as the end of something requires a certain leap of faith. Still, Daniel Craig’s yeoman service comes to its conclusion with “No Time to Die,” a big and length-wise bloated epic that includes the desired bells and whistles, which,

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Billy Bob Thornton is going to miss “just about everything” about playing Billy McBride on “Goliath.” “I loved playing that character, which is very similar to me,” Thornton told CNN in a recent interview. “I kind of just rolled out of bed everyday and went out and did it as

By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Dancing with the Stars” pro Cheryl Burke was still able to compete in the second episode of the competition series, despite having tested positive for Covid the day before the taping. Instead of appearing on the show live, the judges evaluated Burke’s rehearsal with Cody Rigsby, which had already been been

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son Cooper Hoffman stars in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, “Licorice Pizza.” The late actor and Anderson were longtime collaborators, and now Cooper carries on the tradition alongside singer Alana Haim (of the band HAIM) in the 1970s period piece set in the San Fernando Valley. The

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Like many of us, Kelly Rowland’s 6-year-old son Titan has an itch to travel. “He recently asked me were we going to be able to go some place really cool with snow,” Rowland told CNN. “So, I think I’m going to have to start fixing my mind on what are

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Singer Kelly Price has broken her silence after her family said she was missing following her announcement she had contracted Covid-19. In a video interview with TMZ, the Grammy-nominated R&B and gospel singer said she almost didn’t survive her bout with the virus. “At some point, they lost me,” she

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN The Rolling Stones have marked their first concert without late drummer Charlie Watts with an emotional onstage tribute. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood honored their bandmate of nearly six decades as they finally kicked off their pandemic-delayed “No Filter” tour at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis,

By Chloe Melas Britney Spears is just days away from a court hearing that could determine the fate of her court-ordered conservatorship. In “Toxic: Britney Spears’ Battle For Freedom,” a CNN special report which debuted Sunday, some of singer’s friends and former employees spoke out about the singer’s conservatorship and shed light on what life

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Broadway is back and the 74th Tony Awards were presented Sunday after a long delay due to the pandemic. The event honored productions from the 2019-2020 Broadway season. See the full list of nominees below with winners indicated in bold. Best Musical “Jagged Little Pill” “Moulin Rouge: The Musical” *WINNER “Tina:

By Marianne Garvey, CNN The 74th Tony Awards will honor the shows from the 2019 – 2020 Broadway season, before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered all performances. But after 18 months, Broadway is back in business and ready to celebrate. Here’s how to watch: Where and when it will air The show will air on Sunday

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Earlier this summer, a new princess giddily square-danced onto the scene. They’ve got blue fur, a nose shaped like a hook and a thing for chickens. They’re a Muppet — one you’ve probably known for a while. Their name is Gonzo-rella, the royal alias of Gonzo the Great. The idiosyncratic Muppet

By Lisa Respers France, CNN 50 Cent knows that there are already complaints about his new Starz series, “BMF.” Critics of the drama, based on the real life “Black Mafia Family” crime syndicate, have argued the show glamorizes drug-trafficking and money laundering. “The lifestyle choices are always going to give you more danger,” 50 Cent

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Sarah Jessica Parker paid tribute to her late “Sex and the City” co-star Willie Garson on Friday, calling the loss of her friend and colleague “unbearable.” Garson died on Sept. 21 of pancreatic cancer. “It’s been unbearable,” she wrote in a tribute shared on Instagram. “Sometimes silence is a statement. Of

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Actor Michael K. Williams died from “acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine,” the New York City Medical Examiner’s Officer has determined. His death was deemed to be accidental in nature, a spokesperson for the office said in a statement on Friday. Williams was found dead

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN As I set up the refreshments table at the “Law & Order: SVU” Emotional Support Group, enjoy this week’s TV OT. Just what I kneaded At my darkest point during the lockdown portion of the pandemic, I was awake until past 3 a.m. on most days watching old episodes of “The

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Willie Garson’s family has shared how he died. In a New York Times obituary published Thursday, his family wrote that the 57-year-old actor, whose legal name was William Garson Paszamant, died at his home in Los Angeles. “The cause was pancreatic cancer,” the obituary reads. Best known for his role

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Apple TV+ makes one of the new TV season’s biggest bets by turning writer/producer David S. Goyer loose on “Foundation,” Isaac Asimov’s sweeping and cerebral science fiction novels. The 10-episode first season looks appropriately epic but struggles to tame a centuries-spanning, complex plot that feels lost in space — dazzling

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN As is often the case with such fare, “Midnight Mass” begins as a creepy, provocative horror yarn and finally can’t deliver on its promise. Created by “The Haunting of Hill House’s” Mike Flanagan, the Netflix series deserves praise for its distinctive ambitions and jolting surprises but too often plays like

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Christopher Meloni has garnered many a fan in his role as detective Elliot Stabler on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and now “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” He is so popular that he’s been dubbed a “zaddy,” which is pretty much a hot dad. “To the best of my

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter wants the world to know she is embracing chapter 40, revealing her new age has brought a sense of freedom. In a rare personal letter to fans, shared on her website, the singer said she is grateful to be “grown” and refuses to feed into the notion

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN If you like Jake Gyllenhaal up close and sweaty, do we have a movie for you. Remaking a 2018 Danish movie, “The Guilty” is a taut, remarkably spare thriller that casts Gyllenhaal as a 911 dispatcher, taking a series of disparate calls — and one particularly significant one involving an

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Kelly Clarkson doesn’t need a pesky calendar to tell her to get into the Christmas spirit. The “Voice” coach and superstar singer unveiled her new single on Thursday, a tune called “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You).” The defiant song finds Clarkson singing about a woman who won’t let her ex ruin

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Get ready all you cool cats and kittens, Netflix has announced “Tiger King 2” is coming coming to the streaming service. The first season of the series, “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” was told over seven episodes. The second season was filmed in 2020 and into part of 2021. It’s

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Despite its Broadway credentials, “Dear Evan Hansen” hits screens faced with an inherent tension: Can its songs and cast, led by Ben Platt reprising his Tony-winning role, overcome the uncomfortable premise and problematic protagonist? The answer is not completely, despite tweaks seemingly made specifically to try softening those edges. Although

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Sarah Jessica Parker acknowledged “Sex and the City” costar Chris Noth’s tribute to Willie Garson, but she’s not there yet. Garson, who played Parker’s character’s gay best friend Stanford Blatch in the “Sex and the City” series, died this week. He was 57. On his Instagram account, Noth, who played

By Megan Thomas, CNN Melvin Van Peebles, a trailblazing African-American director who helped champion a new wave of modern Black cinema in the 1970s, has died, his son announced Wednesday. He was 89. Van Peebles, father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles, died at his home on Tuesday night, according to a statement shared

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Kim Kardashian West is set to make her “SNL” hosting debut. The TV personality and business mogul was one of four guest hosts announced Wednesday by NBC. The others include fellow first-time hosts Owen Wilson, Rami Malek and Jason Sudeikis, who was a writer and cast member on the show between

By Marianne Garvey, CNN “The Wire” creator David Simon won’t be filming an upcoming HBO series in Texas due to a controversial abortion law passed in the state, he announced on Twitter. “As an employer, this is beyond politics,” Simon wrote. “I’m turning in scripts next month on an HBO non-fiction miniseries based on events