Akon, the singer known for “Smack That” and other hits, was arrested last week in Atlanta on an outstanding warrant, according to multiple local reports.

Police were alerted to Akon’s location last Friday by a surveillance camera outside a window-tinting business in DeKalb County, according to Fox5 Atlanta. He was arrested on a bench ...Read more

Nitin Ganatra "almost got fired" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory after Johnny Depp got him "into trouble".

The 58-year-old actor portrayed Prince Pondicherry in Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic story and feared the worst after he went exploring on the set at the encouragement of his co-star - who led the cast as Willy...Read more

Teyana Taylor is "proud" of her achievements in cookery school.

The 34-year-old musician/actress has enrolled on a course studying culinary arts and she's found the experience "amazing" so she's going to come back to train as a pastry chef once she finishes her current course.

She told ELLE magazine: "Culinary school has been amazing. I've ...Read more

Gaten Matarazzo's own grief helped inform his performance in Stranger Things season five.

The 23-year-old actor lost his cousin Joey, who was 19, in a car accident in 2020 and looking at the different ways his family processed the situation helped him to understand the "personality shift" his alter ego Dustin Henderson has revealed in the ...Read more

Morgan Freeman has been taking legal action against those replicating his voice without permission.

The 88-year-old actor is known for his distinctive deep tone and he is less than impressed by AI technology that has been cloning his speech without permission, accusing those behind such ventures of "robbing" him.

He told The Guardian newspaper...Read more

Dick Van Dyke feels "lonely" and "frustrated" as he approaches 100th birthday.

The Mary Poppins legend will celebrate his milestone birthday on December 13 and he's now admitting getting older has plenty of disadvantages because he's outlived most of his best friends and he rarely gets to attend glitzy showbiz events because of his declining ...Read more

[This article contains spoilers for Netflix's "The Beast in Me," including the finale.]

LOS ANGELES — There's a moment that happens late in the run of "The Beast in Me," Netflix's new cat-and-mouse thriller starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys as two neighbors with troubling pasts who are drawn to each other's red flags, when levity ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sarah Jessica Parker is adding one more trophy to her collection.

The six-time Golden Globe-winning actor will receive the 2026 Carol Burnett Award for excellence in television. Parker will be presented with the prize, named for its inaugural winner, during the first-ever "Golden Eve" special, airing Jan. 8 on CBS and streaming ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premieres on PBS on Sunday, Nov. 16, it will mark the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago.

“Ken always says these films take 10 years,” says Sarah Botstein, who co-directed the series with David Schmidt and Burns. “From the ...Read more

Gurinder Chadha has admitted the Bend it Like Beckham sequel has "big boots to fill".

The 65-year-old filmmaker confirmed earlier this year she was working on a follow-up to the 2002 sports drama - which starred Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra - and she's now teased that she has some "good ideas" for the movie.

Speaking exclusively to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ruby Rose has entered the ring to take a swing at Sydney Sweeney — blaming the actor, now known for her choice in jeans, for "Christy's" disastrous debut.

"The original Christy Martin script was incredible. Life changing," the former "Batwoman" star wrote in a Monday post on Threads. "I was attached to play Cherry. Everyone ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The “Purge” movies are missing from the list, as are the entries in the “Saw” franchise. There are no “Evil Dead” titles. “The Exorcist” is suspiciously absent.

The list, in this case, is the favorite four films of Pope Leo XIV, FKA Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago. The pontiff released the list via video ahead ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Fans of the universe of reality series and stars from the Bravo network are loyal and fierce. BravoCon, a three-day celebration of all things Bravo, is like the Super Bowl or the Olympics to them, according to Andy Cohen, the creative force behind the network.

"I don't think it's hyperbole, especially for a Bravo fan, to say ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A trio of Bob Ross paintings sold for more than $600,000 in a Los Angeles charity auction Monday to help support public television programming that is struggling after government funding was slashed.

American Public Television, the national public program, offered the landscape paintings from the beloved artist in a fundraising ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Coming off the release of her most recent album, “Fatal Optimist,” last month, singer Madi Diaz has put out another project — but it’s far from new and serves a higher purpose.

The 39-year-old Grammy nominee announced on Monday, in a surprising turn, that she recorded a full track-by-track cover of Blink-182’s seminal ...Read more

Elizabeth Olsen wants to return as the Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

The 36-year-old actress portrayed Wanda Maximoff from 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron until the character's supposed demise in 2022's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Olsen has insisted she would come back to the MCU "in a heartbeat".

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Jon Watts thinks it will be "genuinely weird" for him to watch Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

The 44-year-old director helmed the Tom Holland-starring 'Home' trilogy and has since let Destin Daniel Cretton, 46, take the reins to the series for its next instalment, and Watts has now admitted it will be strange for him to watch a new Spider-Man movie...Read more

Emily Blunt was scolded by Dame Judi Dench for being late and "wildly hungover" when they were working together on a play.

The 42-year-old actress was just 18 when she was cast opposite the acting legend in a production of The Royal Family in London's West End in 2001 and she loved working with the Oscar-winner until one day when Emily almost ...Read more

Chadwick Boseman is to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame five years after his death.

The Black Panther star - who died aged 43 in 2020 following a secret battle with cancer - is to be given a permanent memorial on the famous Los Angeles sidewalk in a ceremony on November 20 which will be accepted on his behalf by his widow ...Read more

King Charles wrote to Ozzy Osbourne's family after his death.

The Black Sabbath rocker passed away in July at the age of 76 and his wife Sharon took comfort in the kind message she and the Paranoid hitmaker's children received from the "amazing" and caring monarch.

Speaking on the Osbournes podcast, the couple's son Jack Osbourne said: "We got...Read more