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EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks Animation/Universal's Kung Fu Panda 4 crossed the $500M mark globally this past weekend, reaching the milestone on a staggered release pattern that has worked well for the partners in the past (think Puss in Boots: The Last Wish). Through Wednesday, it’s at $324M international box…

EXCLUSIVE: It was more than a year ago that a 45-year-old British woman, Nicola Bulley, went missing walking her dog in the sleepy northern English town of St Michael’s on Wyre. What followed was three weeks of frenzy, one of the country’s most publicized, televised searches for a missing person in…

You can probably sum it all up in just one word: Barbenheimer. It’s not a word found in Webster's, but one that's instantly recognizable to movie fans and everyone in all areas of the entertainment industry. Now it's probably your key entry into the…

EXCLUSIVE: A producer wryly tells us that they arrived to Channel 4 HQ in late 2023 to discover a boarded-up front, feeling their way around to a narrow door on the side of the building “where there stands a huge f***ing bouncer." If ever there was a metaphor for the British broadcaster's relations…

After years of controversies as ratings steadily declined, is 2023 the year The Bachelor franchise found redemption? The prospect feels greater than ever following the outsized success of The Golden Bachelor, ABC's ingenious senior-focused spin-off that, in its first season, saw 72-year-old Gerry…

Was the Oscar race defined all the way back in July? This morning’s predictable Golden Globe nominations provided few surprises as far as the motion pictures contenders go but also give credence to my theory that the cinematic story of the year with…

Taylor Sheridan’s 1923 and Amazon Freevee’s Jury Duty made a welcome showing at the Golden Globe nominations Monday, while the final season of Succession on HBO earned a deserved yet predictable round of nominations. The Yellowstone prequel — the second created by Sheridan after 1883 — earned…

If there were winners out of Fox News' debate between California's Gavin Newsom and Florida's Ron DeSantis tonight, it was Joe Biden, Donald Trump and the Walt Disney Company. If there were losers, it looks to be the Sunshine State governor himself, civility and Sean Hannity. Live from Alpharetta…

The mass shooting last month in Maine — perpetrated by an Army reservist allowed to keep his guns reportedly bought days before he underwent psychiatric evaluations due to his erratic behavior that included hearing voices that were not there — briefly reopened debate about whether a standardized red-flag…

EXCLUSIVE: The truth is out there, as that famous line from the TV classic The X-Files told us. But now, some insiders are bringing it to Hollywood. A group of Hollywood storytellers and many of the top UFO researchers in America are joining forces to launch the nonprofit Hollywood Disclosure Alliance…

As actors continue to struggle in negotiations with the entertainment companies, it's probably worth noting a point that doesn't get advertised much. That is, performers—living, breathing human beings who appear on movie screens—are far less influential than they were just a few short years ago at…

Reba McEntire lost her passion for music after her mother’s death in 2020, she said in a Today show interview on Tuesday. The country icon told hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager about the sorrow she experienced after her mom, Jacqueline Smith, died from cancer at the age of 93. She recalled…