Entertainment

Aug. 16 (UPI) — Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $70 million in receipts in its third weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

Rapper Nicki Minaj endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) to be Florida’s next governor and called for her fans, the “Barbz” to “support him” however they could.

Legendary guitarist Brian May has used Meta AI to poorly recreate the cover of Queen’s 1980 album The Game as a warning about artificial intelligence, declaring that the technology is not needed and that data centers must not be built in the UK.

Jeff Daniels says The Brink of War, his new Cold War-era nail-biter, which tells an extraordinary true story, has themes that resonate today.

Mark Rydell, the Oscar-nominated director of the sentimental blockbuster “On Golden Pond” who worked with such Hollywood heavyweights as Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Steve McQueen and John Wayne, has died. He was 97.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher discussed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) government-run grocery store proposal and said that it’s an idea that hasn’t worked before and is going to unfairly undercut legitimate private sector businesses.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that “most immigrants still want to assimilate, but some now have this other attitude” of opposing assimilation. During his “New Rules” segment at the end of the show, Maher

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that the Trump Accounts remind him of when President George W. Bush proposed allowing people to put some of the money they’d pay into Social Security into investment, which

Television directors Kate Herron and Ally Pankiw both admit that the McCarthyite political blacklist of the 1950s is alive and well in Hollywood, and that they are both the latest supporters of this era that decent people look back on with disgrace.

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and rapper Tish Hyman is calling for a boycott of the WNBA for refusing to formally ban men who identify as women from playing in the women’s pro basketball league.

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” star and leftist Mark Ruffalo is blaming a drop in lettuce sales on President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr., instead of the Mexican produce sources that sent diarrhea-inducing lettuce into the U.S. market.

Actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who co-starred with Will Smith in “King Richard,” defended the actor slapping comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars, saying the First Amendment should not “protect a**holes.”

Comedian Shane Gillis expressed little love for communism during his interview with Joe Rogan while showing appreciation for social programs like free healthcare.

US President Donald Trump’s efforts to put his stamp on the Kennedy Center arts complex in Washington — blocked earlier this year by a federal judge — moved ahead once again on Thursday.

Video game streaming giant Twitch has introduced a setting that allows users to opt out of Amazon using their channel content to train generative AI models, more than two years after a company executive publicly confirmed the practice.

Spotify announced this week that it will begin labeling artists whose personas are generated by AI, a move driven by user frustration with profiles for artists that appear human but are not.

Two of the biggest Hollywood unions, the Director’s Guild and IATSE, urged Rob Bonta to settle his lawsuit against Paramount.

Latin music stars Marc Anthony, Luis Fonsi, Chayanne, Feid, Jay Wheeler and many more will perform at an international benefit concert livestreamed from Miami on Sunday to raise money for those impacted by devastating earthquakes in Venezuela and Colombia.

Comedienne and actor Margaret Cho attacked policies aimed at curbing transgender ideology, even going as far to say we are in a “trans genocide.”

Children’s YouTube and Netflix star Ms. Rachel has added support for reparations over slavery and Jim Crow Laws to her growing catalogue of left-wing causes, taking her latest stance via an Instagram post to her five million-plus followers.

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger and Josh Kushner will reportedly purchase the Los Angeles Lakers for the record-breaking price of $12.5 billion. 

Lilly Wachowski, the director of “The Matrix” series of films and who now identifies as a woman, is ripping Hollywood for refusing to back his transgender action film.

The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative is calling out Hollywood after a forensic analysis said just one-third of speaking roles went to women in 2025’s top films.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, actor Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.

A reported “credible threat” from Iran on the life of President Donald Trump last month forced Secret Service agents to secretly swap Air Force One to transport Trump out of Ankara, Turkey, for a military plane to the United Kingdom. So, of course, a Hollywood celebrity, this time actor Anthony Anderson filling in on ABC for Jimmy Kimmel, used the news to fantasize about Trump dying.

On Tuesday, Xavier Becerra, the Democrat nominee to replace sitting Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), blinked and called for the attorney general to work out a settlement on the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.

Communist streamer Hasan Piker melted down over Communist Francesca Hong’s upset loss in Tuesday’s Democrat primary election for Wisconsin governor. Piker blamed “the f**king national media,” who he says are lying to voters about Democratic Socialist candidates. He also threatened revenge on the Democrat Party establishment. 

NEW YORK — Sir Rod Stewart will be unable to continue his “One Last Time” farewell tour following a coronary stent procedure and after postponing and canceling a few performances, a representative for the singer has confirmed.

NEW YORK — It may be hard to believe, but even Sir Anthony Hopkins doubts himself sometimes.

Andy Cohen, host of the Bravo show “Watch What Happens Live,” defended The Real Housewives featuring “MAGA women” as part of its cast.

Actress Rosie O’Donnell told former “Saturday Night Live” star Amy Poehler that being gay is a “doomed” existence that no one would choose because being gay “is no different than being left-handed or having blue eyes.”

A Joe Biden-appointed judge in D.C. has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay a jazz musician a $250,000 fee after the organization tried to sue him for cancelling his concert because he opposes President Donald Trump.

Mexican actress Melissa Barrera is ripping Hollywood for supposedly blacklisting her over her support of the Palestinians and her refusal to condemn Hamas for its brutal murders of more than a thousand innocent Jews on Oct. 7, 2023.

Global superstar Taylor Swift and country legend Lyle Lovett will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced Tuesday.

Roku has unveiled a new channel dedicated to a 24/7 broadcast of creative AI slop, complete with AI-generated ads.

Steve Marshall, attorney general for Alabama, called for California to allow Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros.