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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “Yellowjackets” star Melanie Lynskey is mourning her friend, British actor Julian Sands, who was found dead in the Southern California mountains earlier this week after going missing in January. Lynskey shared a post on her Instagram page on Wednesday, including a sepia-toned photo of the pair and reminiscing about

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — While they both are “American Idol” winners with great voices, please don’t pit Kelly Clarkson against Carrie Underwood. During a recent appearance on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” a viewer started to ask Clarkson about seemingly being pitted against Underwood by media over the years. Clarkson

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — It’s been six months since Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the amiable DJ for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and dancer who rose to fame on “So You Think You Can Dance,” died by suicide. Now his mother has opened up about her struggle with his death. In an interview with

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Viewers aren’t the only ones who appreciate the (brief) reunion of Samantha Jones with her “Sex and the City” friends. In a preview of Kim Cattrall’s upcoming appearance on “Today,” the actress, who portrays the character, talked about her cameo during the second season of “And Just Like

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have welcomed a son via surrogate, just five months after Teigen gave birth to their daughter Esti. The surprise announcement came in a moving post on Teigen’s verified Instagram page on Wednesday, in which she wrote, “Just minutes before midnight on June 19th, I

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Chrissy Teigen has shared more about her 2020 pregnancy loss. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the cookbook author and entrepreneur spoke about that experience on Thursday at social impact agency Propper Daley’s “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation” summit held in Beverly Hills, California. Teigen, who is currently pregnant

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Following a difficult performance at the Glastonbury Festival over the weekend, Lewis Capaldi is taking a break from touring. The 26-year-old singer has been struggling with Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary movements and sounds. On Tuesday, Capaldi shared word he is taking a pause in

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Idris Elba says he felt “super complimented for a long time” when it came to suggestions he should play James Bond. Until things took a turn. During a recently released conversation on Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett’s podcast “Smartless,” Elba addressed the many times he’s been

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Here comes the bride. Nicole Scherzinger is engaged to be married. The Pussycat Dolls alum said yes to her fiancé Thom Evans, she revealed on Instagram, adding a picture of the two on the beach. “I said yes,” she wrote. Evans also shared the pictures to Instagram, writing, “My

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Idris Elba is another right guy in the wrong place in “Hijack,” a tense real-time thriller in the mode of “24,” which follows a hijacked plane from the perspectives of its passengers, their captors and authorities on the ground. Crisp and tense, the seven-episode Apple TV+ series overcomes

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — At first blush, “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed” seems determined to find every movie phrase uttered by the actor – famously closeted throughout his career as a leading man – that could be construed to have a double meaning hinting at who he really was. Yet the

By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Tom Cruise – he’s just like us. Speaking in London ahead of the release of “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One,” Cruise shared that, yes, he feels fear. “It’s not that I don’t get scared,” the actor said. “It’s that I don’t mind being scared.” And there ends our

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Some members of the Screen Actors Guild — American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) have written a letter to union leadership urging the negotiating committee not to settle with the Hollywood studios on a deal that does not represent their demands. The letter, which was shared with

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Clark Kent and Lois Lane have officially been cast in James Gunn’s new DC superhero blockbuster “Superman: Legacy.” Rachel Brosnahan has been tapped to play Lois Lane and David Corenswet will wear Superman’s iconic red cape, representatives for Warner Bros. Pictures, the film’s studio, confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

By Alli Rosenbloom and Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — British actor Julian Sands, known for his work in shows like “24” and movies like “A Room with a View” and “The Killing Fields,” has been found dead after going missing in the San Gabriel mountains in Southern California in January, investigators announced Tuesday. He

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Nicolas Coster, a veteran actor known for his work on the daytime dramas “Santa Barbara” and “Another World,” died Monday, his daughter announced in a Facebook post. He was 89. “It’s with great sadness that I am posting this to my father’s book page,” Dinneen Coster wrote. “Nicolas Coster

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Chris Noth is pushing back on a report that his former costars are shunning him. The actor recently posted a screen grab of a headline from a New York Post article titled, “Chris Noth feels ‘iced out’ by ‘Sex and the City’ cast after sexual assault claims: report,”

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — British actor Julian Sands, known for his work in shows like “24” and movies like “A Room with a View” and “The Killing Fields,” has been found dead after going missing in the San Gabriel mountains in Southern California in January, investigators announced Tuesday. Below is a timeline

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Angela Bassett’s time has come to hold an Oscar statuette that she can call her own. The two-time nominee is set to receive an honorary Oscar at the 2023 Governors Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced Monday. Bassett made history in 2023 when she

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “The Price is Right” is saying goodbye to the game show’s home of 51 years. “We’re about to film the very last episode of ‘The Price is Right’ at the Bob Barker Studio at Television City in California,” host Drew Carey said in a video posted to the show’s

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Patti LaBelle had to overcome a bit of a snafu during her tribute performance to the late Tina Turner at Sunday’s BET Awards. The legendary singer performed Turner’s 1989 hit “(Simply) the Best,” but appeared to struggle with some of the lyrics. “I can’t see the words and

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — YouTube star MrBeast said Sunday that he had been invited to join a submersible trip to the Titanic wreckage but declined. “I was invited earlier this month to ride the titanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it,” MrBeast tweeted Sunday morning.

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Kennedy Center honorees have been announced. The show will take place on Dec. 3, at the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C., and will broadcast later that month on CBS. The honorees include comedian and host Billy Crystal, soprano Renée Fleming, singer-songwriter-producer Barry Gibb, rapper, singer

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — There was a 13-year gap between the first “Avatar” movie in 2009 and its sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” during which time filmmaker James Cameron indulged in another of his passions: deep sea exploration. Cameron, who is also the director of the Oscar-winning movie “Titanic,” has shared

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “No Hard Feelings” is the kind of hard-to-characterize movie that isn’t served by a splashy ad campaign, in mostly good ways. Part French sex comedy, part “American Pie”-like coming-of-age story, this raunchy vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence also possesses darker and deeper streaks that elevate it above its “Pretty.

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — The archetypal white gown that Carrie Fisher wore while playing Princess Leia in 1977’s “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” could be yours to own, if you have a couple million dollars to spare. Propstore Auction, billed as a vendor of entertainment memorabilia that sells props and collectibles

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Kesha and producer Dr. Luke, whose legal name is Lukasz Gottwald, announced on Thursday that they’ve “agreed to a resolution” regarding the years-long legal dispute they’ve been embroiled in since 2014. Posting the same statements on their respective verified Instagram pages, Kesha and Gottwald said that they have “agreed

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — For a show about giant monsters, “Skull Island” feels puny in every conceivable way, from the characters to the story to the uninspired animation. Designed as a TV foray into the cinematic “MonsterVerse” occupied by Kong and Godzilla, the series that washes ashore via Netflix is mostly aimed

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — To those wide-eyed romantics who dared hope that a second season would fix all the things wrong with the first one of “And Just Like That…,” the “Sex and the City” sequel returns with its abundant flaws intact. Awkward, unconvincing and only sporadically funny, the show remains a

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “Yellowstone” showrunner Taylor Sheridan is talking about the end of his hit series, and how star Kevin Costner’s exit may be addressed. “I’m disappointed,” Sheridan told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday, adding “it truncates the closure of his character. It doesn’t alter it, but it truncates

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Famed director Sofia Coppola is bringing forth a fresh cinematic take on Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s relationship in “Priscilla,” one year after Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” biopic. “Priscilla” stars “Euphoria” actor Jacob Elordi as Elvis and Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla. The film is based on the 1986 memoir “Elvis and

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Comedian Whitney Cummings is celebrating some happy news. Cummings took to Instagram reveal that she is expecting her first child, sharing photos with her dog, along with an ultrasound image. “In these pix I am with child,” she captioned it. “And there’s a baby in me too. Human pup

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — James Cameron isn’t just one of Hollywood’s most successful directors ever, he’s also a lover of deep sea exploration. Those paths have crossed in two of his biggest hits, “Avatar” and “Titanic.” While Cameron has not publicly commented on the current search for the Titanic tour OceanGate submersible