Disney Upfront rundown: Marvel Studios and ‘Star Wars’ shows take center stage

Disney Upfront rundown: Marvel Studios and ‘Star Wars’ shows take center stage

Marvel Studios’ Feige teases ‘Secret Invasion’ — Disney General Entertainment/Jennifer PottheiserAt Disney’s Upfront presentation, held at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Tuesday, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm teased their upcoming projects bound for Disney+. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige revealed the second season of the critically acclaimed Loki, starring Owen Wilson and…Read More…

In Brief: Hulu extending ‘The Kardashians’, and more

In Brief: Hulu extending ‘The Kardashians’, and more

Hulu has given The Kardashians a 20-episode extension ahead of the show’s May 25 season 3 premiere, the streamer announced on Tuesday. The show’s initial order of 40 episodes was divided into three 10 episode “seasons,” meaning the extension would take the show through season 6. The Kardashians — starring Kris Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian Barker, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner — ranks as…Read More…

Tearful Johnny Depp gets standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival screening

Tearful Johnny Depp gets standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival screening

Lionel Hahn/Getty ImagesThe 2023 Cannes Film Festival opened with the premiere of Johnny Depp’s first major on-screen role since his controversial defamation trial with ex-wife Amber Heard, and he got a warm reception. Following the screening of Depp’s French-language film Jeanne Du Barry, he received a seven-minute standing ovation, according to a clip shared on…Read More…

Patricia Arquette goes undercover in Apple TV+’s ‘High Desert’

Patricia Arquette goes undercover in Apple TV+’s ‘High Desert’

Apple TV+It’s Patricia Arquette, Private Eye. The award winning actress plays an on-again, off-again addict in search of purpose after the death of her mother in the new Apple TV+ series High Desert, out Wednesday. That search leads her to a private investigator’s office, where her knack for figuring stuff out comes in handy. But in real life, is…Read More…

Daytime Emmys postponed over writers strike

Daytime Emmys postponed over writers strike

Rodin Eckenroth/Getty ImagesThe 50th annual Daytime Emmy Awards have become the latest awards ceremony to be affected by the writers strike. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that the ceremony, slated for Friday, June 16, is being postponed, along with the Creative Arts & Lifestyle event planned for the following day, “pending…Read More…

Be a Barbie Girl (or guy) in the Barbie World of the Malibu Barbie Café

Be a Barbie Girl (or guy) in the Barbie World of the Malibu Barbie Café

Courtesy Bucket ListersBucket Listers, the media brand that brought pop culture fans pop-up experiences like The Golden Girls Kitchen, the 90210 hangout The Peach Pit and Saved by the Bell-inspired diner Saved by the Max, has stepped into Barbie’s world. The brand has cooked up The Malibu Barbie Café. Starting May 17 in New York…Read More…

Settlement reached after dispute over Lisa Marie Presley’s estate

Settlement reached after dispute over Lisa Marie Presley’s estate

Lisa Marie and Priscilla in June, 2022 – Jon Kopaloff/Getty ImagesA settlement has been reached for the estate of Lisa Marie Presley, who died January 12. Priscilla Presley’s lawyer, Ronson Shamoun, told reporters outside of court on May 16 that the “families are happy” and that “everybody is happy and unified and together and excited…Read More…

Netflix unveils trailer to ‘Extraction 2’

Netflix unveils trailer to ‘Extraction 2’

Netflix/Jasin BolandOn Tuesday, Netflix unveiled the full trailer to hard-hitting sequel Extraction 2. Once again, Chris Hemsworth stars as Tyler Rake, the not-quite-dead mercenary who survived being “clinically dead” at the original’s climax, only to take on another risky mission. This time around, he needs to rescue “the battered family of a ruthless Georgian gangster…Read More…

ABC will showcase “a second chance at love” with ‘The Golden Bachelor’ this fall

ABC will showcase “a second chance at love” with ‘The Golden Bachelor’ this fall

ABCThe Bachelor is getting a spin-off for the senior set. “After more than 20 years of fostering young love on The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Bachelor in Paradise,” ABC announced Tuesday its plans for its upcoming reality dating show for the “golden years.” “The Golden Bachelor showcases a whole new kind of love story,” the network teased, one in which “one hopeless romantic…Read More…