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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Hugh Jackman has revealed he is undergoing skin cancer tests following a medical check up, and urged his fans to protect themselves in the sun. In a video message posted to his Instagram account, the Australian actor, who had a plaster on his nose, said he’s awaiting the results of skin

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Welcome, Jaime Reyes. DC has dropped the trailer for “Blue Beetle,” featuring Xolo Maridueña as Reyes, a recent college graduate who becomes a superhero after he is asked to hold on to a box, but not open it. That’s because it contains an ancient relic known as “the Scarab,” which

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Sunday was a big night for first-time nominees at the 2023 CMT Music Awards. They dominated the event with singer Jelly Roll taking home three awards, followed by Lainey Wilson with two, and Hardy, Megan Moroney and Katelyn Brown tying with one each. The live show was held at the

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Kaley Cuoco and her partner, fellow actor Tom Pelphrey, are “overjoyed and grateful” for their new “little miracle.” “The Flight Attendant” and “The Big Bang Theory” star posted a series photos over the weekend of their newborn daughter on her verified Instagram account. “Introducing, Matilda Carmine Richie Pelphrey, the new

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Shania Twain is standing up for others in country music. The legendary star in the genre used her acceptance speech for the Equal Play Award at Sunday’s CMT Awards to call for more equity and diversity in the country music industry. “When I wrote the phrase ‘Man I feel like

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, has celebrated their elder daughter’s birthday with a trip down memory lane. Mabel Willis turned 11 on Sunday, and her proud mom marked the occasion by sharing a montage of family photos and videos taken over the years, set to the song “Pictures Of You”

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards took place on Sunday at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. The celebratory event, voted on by the fans, was hosted by Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown, who were both nominees this year and performed during the broadcast. Kane, along with his spouse Katelyn

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN “Women Talking” filmmaker Sarah Polley was pranked by her child on April Fools’ Day and the stunt is as good as Oscar gold. Polley won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for her film “Women Talking” last month, and posted a photo on Saturday of a hilarious letter she received notifying

By Dan Heching, CNN No one is ever safe on April Fools’ Day, and this year that included hapless Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost. The “Saturday Night Live” castmember was doing his usual Weekend Update segment with co-anchor Michael Che this weekend, on the episode hosted by Quinta Brunson, and from the top of the

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The cold open of “Saturday Night Live” featured comedian James Austin Johnson considering possible jail time as an indicted former President Donald Trump. “Well folks it happened. I got indicted,” Johnson said, later poking at rhetoric from the former president, saying, “What the radical left Democrats are doing to me is

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Murder Mystery 2” answers the question “What could be more disposable than ‘Murder Mystery?,” a 2019 action-comedy pairing of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston that nevertheless racked up big viewing numbers for Netflix. The sequel charitably shoots for a sort of more violent “The Thin Man” vibe, but about the

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN One needn’t strain hard to find the metaphorical aspects of Amazon’s “The Power,” which imagines the terrifying scenario (to parents, anyway) of what would happen if teenage girls could suddenly shoot lightning from their fingers. But the series gets lost somewhere between the global implications of that and its individual

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN As fact-based movies go, “Tetris” plays like a Cold War espionage thriller, which merely underscores the crazy amount of globetrotting intrigue that surrounded the introduction of this very popular game. Starring Taron Egerton, this Apple TV+ movie, like the game, is colorful and engaging enough that it’s hard to take

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Terry Sanderson was “very disappointed” by losing his lawsuit against Gwyneth Paltrow, but it appears things have ended between the two of them on good terms. On Thursday, a Utah jury ruled in Paltrow’s favor by finding her not liable for a 2016 ski collision with Sanderson, a retired optometrist.

By Dan Heching, CNN The best musical acts out there attract a wide range of fans — young and old, from all walks of life. Case in point: Brian Cox and the Spice Girls. In a new trailer for Friday’s episode of “Carpool Karaoke: The Series,” Scottish actors and “X2: X-Men United” costars Alan Cumming

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN An attorney for actor Jonathan Majors has shared text messages she says came from the woman her client allegedly assaulted last weekend. Majors, who recently starred in “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” was arraigned on Sunday on assault and harassment charges after a domestic dispute in New York,

By Marianne Garvey, CNN The official trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest film, “Asteroid City,” has dropped. The movie is packed with stars, including Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jason Schwartzman, Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Rita Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Tony Revolori, Jeff Goldblum, Fisher Stevens,

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks will be the hosts of the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards. The two country legends will be live from the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on May 11. Parton said in a statement that she’s “thrilled” to be hosting the show with

By Brian Lowry, CNN After what can at best be described as a somewhat disjointed third season thus far, the fifth episode of “The Mandalorian” began to bring those pieces together and into focus, while continuing to draw upon the “Star Wars” animated series that preceded it, including another cameo by a character from the

By Lisa Respers France, CNN “Murder Mystery 2” may want to include epsom salts as part of its marketing campaign. The movie’s stars, Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, each reportedly had some aches and pains while working on the Netflix film. Sandler told Variety he ended up having hip replacement shortly after filming. “I had

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Paul O’Grady, one of Britain’s most popular TV personalities, has died aged 67. The star, also known for his drag queen alter ego Lily Savage, died unexpectedly on Tuesday evening, according to his husband, Andre Portasio, the PA Media news agency reported. In the statement shared with PA, Portasio said: “It

By Dan Heching, CNN It’s somewhat hard to believe, but it’s been 25 years since the marvelous re-imagining of the Cinderella fairytale, “Ever After: A Cinderella Story” graced theaters, and star Drew Barrymore marked the occasion on her CBS talk show on Tuesday. Barrymore welcomed the actresses who played her stepsisters in the movie, Megan

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Priyanka Chopra Jonas says she left Bollywood behind to give Hollywood a shot because she felt like she was being “pushed into a corner in the industry.” On Monday’s episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast, Chopra Jonas said that she “had people not casting me” and that she “had beef with

By Lisa Respers France, CNN If there was ever a role Teyana Taylor was born for, it was as Inez in “A Thousand and One.” The film, in theaters Friday, tells the story of a young woman fresh out of prison who reestablishes a relationship with her young son, Terry, and takes him from foster

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Actor Jonathan Majors was arraigned on several assault and harassment charges Sunday, the Manhattan DA’s office tells CNN. The complaint does not name the female accuser but claims the defendant did “strike her about the face with an open hand, causing substantial pain and a laceration behind her ear.” She also

By Dan Heching, CNN Amid a crushing flood of anti-trans and anti-drag bills cropping up throughout the country, music icon and social activist Madonna is making a change to her upcoming Celebration tour schedule. On Monday, the “Vogue” entertainer announced that she is adding a stop in Nashville, Tennessee, along with seven other US cities

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Emma Heming Willis is trying to raise awareness about her husband Bruce Willis’ diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, known as FTD. Heming Willis chatted live on Instagram with Susan Dickinson, the CEO of The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, on Monday, where she talked about looking for support following the actor’s diagnosis. “I

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN TV personality Nick Cannon has addressed his past antisemitic remarks, describing the subsequent fallout as “a growth moment.” In 2020, the “Masked Singer” host was briefly fired by media giant ViacomCBS for “hateful speech” following a controversial discussion on his “Cannon’s Class” podcast with former Public Enemy member Professor Griff. During

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Looks like Keanu Reeves will be around a bit longer in the “John Wick” franchise. Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Joe Drake told Deadline the studio is not yet ready to bid farewell to the actor or the character after “John Wick: Chapter 4” had a strong opening weekend on

By Brian Lowry, CNN Well, if those two kids can’t make it together, who can? A lot happened in the season premiere of “Succession,” kicking off the two-time Emmy-winning HBO show’s final flight of episodes, including the ongoing feud between media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and three of his four children: Kendall (Jeremy Strong),

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Hayden Panettiere has learned a thing or two since becoming a mom. The “Scream VI” actor sat down with E! News’s Erin Lim Rhodes on Friday’s episode of “The Rundown” and in a candid interview, she said she wishes she was more aware of postpartum depression (PPD) going into motherhood. “I

By Michelle Watson, CNN Darcelle XV, the Guinness World Record holder for oldest drag queen performer, died Thursday at 92, her Portland, Oregon, cabaret announced on social media. “The family of Darcelle XV along with her cast and crew are heartbroken to announce that our beloved Darcelle (Walter W. Cole, Sr.) has died at age

By Fernando Almánzar, Karol Suarez and Zoe Sottile, CNN Actor, comedian and producer Xavier López Rodríguez, better known as “Chabelo,” died on Saturday, his family announced on his official Twitter account. He was 88. “This is a very sad morning, Xavier Lopez Chabelo, father, brother, and husband, has left us suddenly due to abdominal complications,”

By Chloe Melas, CNN The final season of “Succession” kicks off on Sunday. The series, which centers around the Roy family and the complicated family dynamics over wealth and power, will reach a fever pitch based on the explosive trailer for the HBO show. (HBO, like CNN, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.) It stars

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Gwyneth Paltrow, the award-winning actress facing a civil trial for a 2016 skiing crash at a Utah resort, testified that she “froze” when a man allegedly skied directly into her back, causing them to collapse to the ground as their skis tangled together. Paltrow testified on Friday that the collision forced

By Chloe Melas, CNN If it feels like Kiernan Shipka is everywhere, you’re right. The 23-year-old who rose to fame on the hit series, “Mad Men,” is at the helm of an indie flick that’s getting quite a bit of buzz called, “Wildflower.” Shipka plays Bea Johnson a high school senior who is at a

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Selena Gomez is once again asking people to be kinder to Hailey Bieber. The singer and actress posted a note to her Instagram Story portion of her verified social media account on Friday, writing “Hailey Bieber reached out to me and let me know that she has been receiving death

By Marianne Garvey BTS member Jimin has debuted his solo album “Face.” He had teased the album with a pre-release single titled, “Set Me Free, Pt.2.” The album features six dance-heavy songs including “Like Crazy,” “Face-Off” and more. The K-pop star’s BTS bandmate RM has songwriting credits on three songs. Jimin appeared on “The Tonight

By Lisa Respers France, CNN No spoilers here, but you may want to hang around after the credits run for “John Wick: Chapter 4.” That’s because there’s a post credit scene that will have plenty of people talking. Keanu Reeves reprises his role in the famous franchise about a hitman who is forced out of

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Never underestimate the creative powers of Adam Sandler. He’s an accomplished comedian, singer-songwriter, director, producer, screenwriter and actor whose movies have made billions at the box office. He’s also the 2023 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Sandler received the honor at a ceremony in Washington, DC last

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN The BBC has halted production on the latest series of motoring show “Top Gear” following an investigation into an accident that left co-host Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff injured. Flintoff, who has fronted the popular show alongside Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness since 2019, was hospitalized last December when he was hurt while

By Dan Heching, CNN As viewers eagerly await the premiere of “Yellowjackets” Season 2, the showrunners and executive producers for the creepy Showtime hit series are giving props to one of the mystery-driven dramas that came before them. Ashley Lyle, who also co-created the series with Bart Nickerson, said in an interview with CNN that

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The Queen of England is ascending the throne in the official trailer for Netflix’s “Bridgerton” prequel series “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.” India Amarteifio stars as a younger version of Golda Rosheuvel’s sharp-witted Queen Charlotte, to whom viewers were first introduced in 2020 when the Regency-era series “Bridgerton” premiered on the