When Richard Dreyfuss walked onto the Mothership at the end of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” it was just about the first time — and also nearly the last — that a movie hero voluntarily went on any such ride. More familiar notes of
Douglas Kiker, a contestant on “American Idol” Season 18 who memorably moved series judge Katy Perry to tears with his audition performance, has died. He was 32 years old. Kiker’s sisters, Angela Evans and Donna Kiker Carrillos-Ramirez, confirmed the news on Facebook Wednesday evening. A
NBC has given out a pilot order to the single-cam project “Stumble.” The show is described as “A mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer.” The project was originally set up with a put pilot commitment at NBC in late
The mayor of Miami Beach is asking the city to end a lease agreement and withdraw financial support from an independent theater that is screening the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” Mayor Steven Meiner characterized the film as “a false one-sided propaganda attack on the
Joni Mitchell covers are not for the faint of heart or voice, so Amanda Seyfried’s decision to cover a verse from the singer’s 1971 classic “California” on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” last week was a brave one — not just because of the celestial
Hazelight Studios’s new multiplayer-only game “Split Fiction” sold more than 2 million copies in its first week since its March 6 release. Written by director and Hazelight studio chief Josef Fares and Sebastian Johansson, the game blends fantasy and science fiction, following a pair of
Oscar winner Barry Jenkins looks to have found his next film — a new sci-fi thriller starring Glen Powell. The project, titled “The Natural Order,” comes from an unpublished manuscript by Matthew Aldrich (“Coco”), and revolves around the pursuit of eternal life. Universal preemptively landed
Michael Fassbender appeared on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast and revealed that he suggested Daniel Craig for James Bond during his own 007 audition for “Casino Royale.” “I met with Barbara Broccoli just you know through passing and I actually went in to an audition