Posts by Nathan Pine
BET Honoring Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx & Kirk Franklin With Ultimate Icon Award
Marking the 25th edition of its awards show, BET has announced a new crop of Ultimate Icons for 2025. Airing live June 9, 2025 at 8pm ET/PT, the BET Awards will honor Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Jamie Foxx and Kirk Franklin with the Ultimate Icon Award, celebrating their ongoing contributions to music, entertainment, advocacy and…
Read MoreHow Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Are Helping Their Son James With Acting Career
“One of them definitely is not, she says, right now,” the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off star told E! News last month about his daughters pursuing acting, “but I don’t think so.” Meanwhile, Matthew and James have already shared the screen, appearing together in a February episode of the CBS series Elsbeth. “It was great. We…
Read MoreBroadway 2024-2025 Season And George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Break All-Time Box Office Records
Broadway‘s 2024-2025 season is officially the highest-grossing in the industry’s history, with total grosses of $1.89 billion surpassing the previous – and pre-Covid – record-holding 2018-2019 season’s $1.82 billion, according to statistics released today by the Broadway League. Even accounting for the “leap year” nature of the just-ended season – 2024-2025 was a 53-week season…
Read More‘The Penguin’ EP & Showrunner Lauren LeFranc On Season 2 & Subverting The Gangster Trope: “I Loved That Oz Was Just A Man” – Crew Call Podcast
It could be argued that HBO put gangsters out of business, or at least we thought they did. Wait, what the hell do we mean by that? The Sopranos was so definitive, it rose above and reimagined the great movies that came before it, i.e. The Godfather and Goodfellas. Max Then along comes HBO Max…
Read More‘American Music Awards’ On CBS Attracts Largest Audience Since 2019
Jenny managed to recruit quite a few more viewers to the block: Monday night’s telecast of the American Music Awards on CBS posted its largest audience since 2019 and was the top broadcast of the night. The live, fan-voted awards show that was hosted by Jennifer Lopez averaged 4.73 million viewers, up 34% from its…
Read MoreBlake Shelton Reacts to Controversy Over AMAs 2025 Pre-Taped Performance
Blake Shelton is speaking out about his 2025 American Music Awards performance. The Voice alum addressed backlash to his and wife Gwen Stefani’s performances at the May 26 ceremony being taped in advance, insisting the move for them to not perform live was outside of their control. “Just now seeing these stories about Gwen and…
Read MoreSmokey Robinson Hits Back With $500M Defamation Suit Against “Fabricated” Rape Claims By Ex-Employees
Smokey Robinson and his wife are now going after the four former employees who have accused the Motown legend of rape in a $50 million lawsuit with a $500 million defamation and elder abuse suit of their own. “The Robinsons did not abuse, harm or take advantage of plaintiffs; they treated plaintiffs with the utmost…
Read MoreJenna Ortega Calls Out “Patronizing” Part of Playing Wednesday Addams
Jenna Ortega doesn’t always want to give two snaps to her iconic role. Ahead of the release of Wednesday’s second season on Netflix this summer, the 22-year-old admitted that she sometimes feels trapped playing the titular teen as she’s grown into adulthood. “I’m doing a show I’m going to be doing for years where I…
Read MoreBrad Pitt Makes Rare Comments About Relationship With Ines de Ramon
Pitt’s the one who lost his head for Paltrow on the set of 1995’s Se7en. They were the mid-90s couple, from the top of her slip dress to the ends of his frosted tips. Accepting the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe for 12 Monkeys in 1996, Brad thanked Gwyneth, his “angel, the love of my life,” and he proposed…
Read MoreJudge Declines To Immediately Block Trump’s Effort To Fire Register Of Copyrights
A federal judge declined to issue an order that would immediately prevent the Trump administration from firing the register of copyrights and head of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly denied Perlmutter’s motion for a temporary restraining order, a move that would have put the Trump administration’s efforts to dismiss…
Read MoreMiley Cyrus Addresses Rumor She Shaded Jennifer Lawrence With Her Dress in “Flowers” Video
Not long after Miley Cyrus achieved Hannah Montana stardom at 13, she found young love with fellow Disney Channel star Nick Jonas. (She specified in her 2009 autobiography Miles to Go that June 11, 2006, was “the day I met my first love” at a charity event.) They never went public—not least because the teens…
Read More‘Lilo & Stitch’ Swings To Best Tuesday In May For PG Movie At $15M+; Disney Pic Crossing $200M Today – Box Office
We were hearing buzz that it was a huge box office day yesterday, and indeed it was with Disney’s Lilo & Stitch collecting $15.2M, which makes it the best Tuesday in May for a PG rated film. The pic’s running total stands at $197.8M and will cross $200M today, it’s sixth day in release. Lilo…
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