Celebrities

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic via Getty Images Willem Dafoe will be honored with the first star of 2024 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday that Dafoe will be honored with his star in the category of Motion Pictures. Dafoe has had a long and storied career, having starred in over 100 films […]

Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Michelle Yeoh has a lot to celebrate as the new year kicks off. The Oscar winner, 61, took to Instagram on January 2 to share that she and her husband, Jean Todt, are now grandparents. “A little miracle on the first day of 2024,” she captioned a photo of her hand holding a […]

LMPC via Getty Images The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse has just entered public domain, and there’s already a new trailer for a non-Disney film using the character. Animated shorts Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy entered public domain at the beginning of 2024, and the trailer for Mickey’s Mouse Trap, which premiered on January 1, takes advantage of that fact. […]

Legendary Las Vegas stand-up comic Shecky Greene died Sunday, December 31 of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas. His wife Miriam Musso Greene confirmed the news to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was 97. Greene also appeared in the films Tony Rome, History of the World, Part I and Splash, and guest starred […]

ABC/Eric McCandless Celebrity Jeopardy! returns this week with the first of the semifinal rounds, featuring Ghost’s Utkarsh Ambudkar, Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and Abbot Elementary’s Lisa Ann Walter. Early rounds of the show felt a little looser than what you’d see on syndicated Jeopardy!, and host Ken Jennings says the fact that the contestants are used to being in front of a camera may have something to do […]

Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images Jeremy Renner showed his deepest gratitude to those who helped him during his near-fatal snowplow accident one year after the incident. In an Instagram post on Friday, the two-time Academy Award-nominated actor shared a picture of himself sitting in a RennerVation Foundation firetruck, while revealing his visit to Reno Hospital in Nevada […]

Warner Bros. Wonka sweetened its North American box office haul with an additional $22.7 million between Friday and Sunday, and is expected to reach an estimated $29.5 million for the long New Year’s weekend. That brings the Timothée Chalamet-led movie’s three-week domestic gross to $140.2 million and around $400 million worldwide. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom took second […]

Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images Tom Wilkinson, best known for roles in The Full Monty and Michael Clayton, has died at age 75. According to The Associated Press, a statement from his agent confirmed the British actor passed away suddenly at home on Saturday. No further details were given. Wilkinson was nominated for a best supporting […]

Here’s a look back at those the entertainment community lost in 2023: January January 7 – Adam Rich, Eight Is Enough actor, 54 January 12 – Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, 54 January 17 – Edward R. Pressman, prolific producer, Wall Street, 79 January 25 – Cindy Williams, Laverne & Shirley star, 75 January […]

Getty Images Variety has compiled its list of the year’s 100-most-watched telecasts, and as always, the NFL remains unchallenged for broadcast viewer supremacy: In fact, 19 of the top 20 in that 100 were football matchups, starting with the most-watched show of every year, the Super Bowl. Fox’s Super Bowl LVII coverage of the game […]