Crystal Harris, who was married to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner until his death in 2017, is asking Jessica Biel to reconsider playing the fictional version of Hefner's wife in the upcoming movie "Playmates." After Biel's casting was announced, Harris messaged Biel on Instagram, saying, "If this movie aims to romanticize her or the world of Playboy, please reconsider playing Hugh Hefner's wife.

Rebranded from Angel Studios in 2025, the Angel media company and streaming platform inevitably reimagined the 1947 John Wayne project “Angel and the Badman” and not just for the angelic title. This is actually the third iteration; The 2009 Hallmark Channel adaptation, filmed in British Columbia winter instead of the dusty, sandy American West, starred Lou Diamond Phillips and Deborah Kara Unger.

He throws a Hail Mary. Dianna Russini has enlisted veteran crisis publicist Melissa Nathan to help her navigate the Mike Vrabel scandal, a source told Page Six on Thursday. The development comes as the former Athletic reporter prepares to return to work after abruptly leaving the job in April amid controversy surrounding the New England Patriots head coach.

Actor Michael Douglas, who cemented his legendary status after a decades-long career in Hollywood, reflects on his wildly eventful life in his new memoir, "One Helluva Ride." And that includes some pretty explosive confessions. Douglas, known for his roles in the blockbuster films "Wall Street" and "Basic Instinct," details his personal sagas, including everything from infidelity to parenting struggles, in what many readers have already considered a bombshell of a book.

Crystal Hefner implored Jessica Biel to “reconsider” her role as Hugh Hefner’s wife in the upcoming movie “Playmates.” "If this movie wants to romanticize her or the Playboy world, please reconsider playing Hugh Hefner's 'wife,'" the "Girl Next Door" alum, who was married to the Playboy president from 2012 to 2017, wrote in a direct message to Biel on Instagram. he wrote.

The New Jersey prison where Sean 'Diddy' Combs is serving his sentence is at the center of a sexual abuse case after a corrections officer admitted to sexually assaulting an inmate. Jordan Pensak, 27, a corrections officer at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix, pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually assaulting a person in federal custody, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey.

Dear gentle “Bridgerton” viewers – rejoice, because a new prequel series about Lady Violet is coming to Netflix. An untitled spinoff series following the early life of the future matriarch of the Bridgerton clan is in the works, the streamer and Shondaland announced Thursday. Shonda Rhimes and Nicholas Nardini will write and serve as showrunners on the limited series, which will tell the story of young Lady Violet's love affair with her future husband, Viscount Edmund Bridgerton.

Minka Kelly and Dan Reynolds' 4-year relationship has ended. A source close to the couple confirmed the separation: People first reported on Wednesday. The “Friday Night Lights” actor and the Imagine Dragons frontman first met through a mutual friend in 2022 — but their interactions for the first month were over phone calls as Kelly, 46, was in the United Kingdom for work and finishing her memoir “Tell Me Anything,” which details her complicated relationship with her mother.

An Ohio home day care operator could spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murdering a 5-month-old child he called "fussy." Franklin County Judge Bill Sperlazza prisoner Tammra R.Straughter He will be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole on Wednesday, Oct. 7, in connection with the 2024 murder of Kashan R. Crawford-Chatman.

The Vancouver International Film Festival's Moving Image Institute has announced a new partnership to launch an exchange between the Málaga Talent program and VIFF Catalyst, new talent programs associated with Spain's Málaga Film Festival. The first filmmaker selected from this year's Catalyst participants is Mexican-born filmmaker Diego Minor Martínez, who currently lives in Vancouver. The Malaga Talent program is aimed at filmmakers under the age of 30 and is conducted in Spanish.

Hugh Jackman takes his morning routine seriously. The actor, who has maintained the stamina for decades to play Wolverine and perform eight shows a week on Broadway, is an early riser, a devoted meditator, and apparently not very good at singing during practice. It's an apt premise for his latest campaign with daily supplement brand AG1, which named Jackman as its global ambassador earlier this year.

Halle Berry has many loved ones amid her contentious custody case with ex-husband Olivier Martinez, who has accused the Oscar-winning artist of physically abusing their 12-year-old son. The actor's supporters include Berry's 18-year-old daughter, Nahla Aubry, who he has largely kept out of the public eye. Aubry, who Berry shares with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, spoke out against her ex-stepfather Martinez and supported her mother in an affidavit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday.

Against the backdrop of the rise of fascism and the cruelty and horrific reality of war, this gentle and sensitive portrayal of repressed love and constrained friendship becomes a heartbreaking watch. Gris Jordana's dazzling cinematography, along with the impeccable direction of Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, enhances both the romance and devastation of the stories they tell. One moment you are terrified by the gloom of war, the next you feel the longing, fear and desire in Sebastián's presence as his role within the republican forces tests his mental resolve.

NEW YORK -- The Recording Academy has announced that its annual Clive Davis pre-Grammy gala will continue in 2027 following the business giant's death earlier this year. The music industry lost one of its most powerful figures in June when Davis, the titan who launched or resurrected the careers of superstars such as Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana and Alicia Keys, died in his Manhattan apartment weeks after being hospitalized for an upper respiratory tract problem.

In between their busy lives in and out of the ballroom, Jenna Johnson and Valentin Chmerkovskiy seek out the little moments in their daily lives that make them feel at home. The "Dancing with the Stars" pros and real-life husband and wife are currently competing in Season 35; Johnson, Harry Shum Jr. and Chmerkovskiy is partnered with Jenna Dewan. Paired with trained dancers, the duo has frequently been at the top of the leaderboards since the new "DWTS" season premiered in mid-September.

Nimesh Patel's share in comedy has been on the rise lately. From sold-out shows to skyrocketing social media followers to the first Netflix special, "Buy the Dip," released last month, it's been incredible the difference a year has made. Filmed in Washington, D.C., the new hour offers sharp, dryly delivered jokes and personal stories about America's separation from the heart of our capital.

Sean “Diddy” Combs release date delayed following allegations of lavish prison lifestyle. The disgraced music mogul is currently serving a 50-month prison sentence after being convicted of transporting prostitutes across state lines for drug-assisted sex acts known as "freaks." while before October reports While the artist and producer was set to be released on January 21, 2028 — which was months after his initial release in June 2028 — an updated search of the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database revealed the newly revised date was March 2, 2028.

Michael Douglas got Jeanne Tripplehorn's approval before writing about their relationship in his explosive new memoir. “I talked to him about it before I put it in the book,” he told Page Six in an exclusive interview, assuring him that “he was fine.” The actress revealed in "One Helluva Ride" that she had a steamy fling with Tripplehorn, 63, while filming "Basic Instinct."

Spotify said Thursday that it has renewed its deal with Joe Rogan, who runs the audio company's most popular podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience." Rogan's podcast, which has 18 million followers on Spotify, has become the company's best-selling podcast since 2020. Terms of the multi-year license agreement were not disclosed. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported that the deal generated an estimated $250 million in revenue.

Katseye member Sophia Laforteza will continue her activities with the group starting from the first week of January 2027, according to an announcement published on her social media accounts. "Sophia is prioritizing her health and well-being with our full support and resources," Hybe and Geffen's memo says. “While Sophia will not be participating in the WILDWORLD TOUR or promotional activities in North America for the remainder of this year, we look forward to welcoming her back as we continue the next chapter together at KATSEYE 2027.”

From Resy to Empathy Wines, VaynerX president Gary "GaryVee" Vaynerchuk knows how to build a profitable business. But until now, the serial entrepreneur and YouTube star's work has largely relied on impersonal ideas. Enter VeeFriends, the company Vaynerchuk has wanted to own since he was a kid. On the surface, VeeFriends is a brand that aims to “fill a gap in the collectibles market.” VeeFriends, led by Vaynerchuk as founder and CEO, is a storytelling universe featuring more than 280 hand-drawn characters, each designed to impart kindness and life lessons to generations young and old.

Wynonna Judd performed her new song "Girl Who Could Sing" on the TODAY show on October 8, and it definitely resonated with Carson Daly. The song, which is included in his first new album in 10 years, "The Hard Truth", tells about never meeting his biological father. "I didn't find out he was my real father until I was 30. So, this is a very heavy song," he said before playing the song.

- Ivana: I remember when I was making the movie, I really believed that Ofelia was going to go to a better world. In a way, I felt like this brought comfort, and it justified the strength needed to move the story forward. For him, the endgame is complete. It made the journey even better and I was very determined about it.

Something will happen to CBS in the monopoly swamp that should never have happened, I can't say that, and it's too early to tell. But for now, it's looking very much like itself, continuing a good old-fashioned fall season with the premieres of three new series (a franchise procedural, a supernatural sitcom, and a legal drama), all of which have ties to previous CBS shows.

When did you and the cast establish the family dynamic at the core of the show? When did it all click? Oh my god, we really clicked right away. Shout out to our casting directors, Jessica Daniels and Cassandra Kulukundis, because I truly think they have the intuition of gods. We had never met each other and the first day we met we were just like family.

Jeff is a professional manager who provides Frances with a clunky phone loaded with his own number. When Frances, disappointed that her bosses are ignoring her concerns, decides to give Jeff the documents, he says that she physically cannot use any of his electronic devices, but that Jeff can leave them on and she can look at them. (Sorkin makes sure to credit the whistleblower's grandfather, Daniel Ellsberg.) Jeff also takes the information Frances provided and uses it to run a separate experiment with the help of Evelyn, who spoofs the Facebook activity of someone like Frances's radical friend to see what the algorithm will bring her.

Acapulco (2021–2025) Eugenio Derbez as Maximo Gallardo Ramos on ‘Acapulco’. Apple TV+ Inspired by the 2017 comedy How to Be a Latin Lover starring Eugenio Derbez, Acapulco features the actor as wealthy mogul Maximo Gallardo Ramos as he recalls his extraordinary life story. Enrique Arrizon plays the younger version of Maximo, who works as a pool boy at a luxury resort in 1980s Acapulco, Mexico.

One of Fremantle's newest game show formats, the high-stakes "Stacks of Cash", has kicked off its international rollout as Australia's Seven Network joins CBS in the US in its latest series commissions. Dealing with global distribution, Fremantle will launch its "Stacks of Cash" at Mipcom starting next Monday, unveiling the rather large, oddly shaped blocks (a circle, a teddy bear, a top hat) that grace the Mipcom stand.

Wim Wenders has joined “Truth:Beauty,” a feature-length documentary about legendary German fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh, as executive producer. Produced by Maja Hoffmann and Human Humans, the project will be the feature-length directorial debut of French novelist Alexandra Matine, whose credits include "Scopophilia" and "La Pire Amie du monde". Matinee also writes the film, which was developed in partnership with the Peter Lindbergh Foundation and gives the filmmakers full access to the photographer's archives.

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Olivia Dean's music has clashed with a Grammy-winning classic in a new lawsuit accusing the singer of repeatedly copying Bill Withers' tune "Just the Two of Us." Dean's record label was sued Friday by Mattie Music Group, publisher of Withers' catalogue. Dean's 2025 song "I've Seen It" bears "clear and unavoidable similarities" to Withers' hit classic, according to the lawsuit obtained by Fox News Digital.

Josh Hartnett and Charlie Heaton know how to brood. The actors both rose to fame in their early 20s playing characters prone to suffering and sulking: Hartnett became a heartthrob in the late '90s and early 2000s with bland roles in movies like "The Virgin Suicides," "Pearl Harbor" and "Black Hawk Down." Heaton, meanwhile, has spent the last decade playing introvert Jonathan Byers on “Stranger Things.”

For Alfonso Cuaron, cinema came first in his youth. That's what life is like these days, says the Oscar-winning director. He made the comment at a Busan International Film Festival master class on Thursday, a day after he and his son Jonas Cuaron, who co-wrote the 2013 space survival drama "Gravity," revisited the film following its Imax release. Alfonso's relationship with filmmaking changed over time.

Jenna Dewanfiancée, Steve Kazeedefends her fiercely after fans speculate about her alleged intimacy Dancing with the Stars professional partner Val Chmerkovskiy. "They have no chemistry. They have too much chemistry. They have chemistry in the wrong places. Make up your mind," Steve, 50, said in his responses to the news on Instagram. DWTS. "You all really have too much time on your hands.

Travis Barker The famous drummer explains the reason for his recent hospitalization after sharing a candid photo of his stay with his wife. Kourtney Kardashian. “I had surgery yesterday,” Barker, 50, said via Instagram Story on Wednesday, October 7. "My arm, hand and fingers have been numb since a show I played last month. I did a nerve test on the Monday after the show and it turned out I needed a cubital tunnel release to fix the nerves."

If you've been sniffing department store counters lately and feeling like every bottle smells vaguely the same—vanilla, sugar, the whisper of something warm—you're not imagining it. The foodie wave has flooded the shelves, and people who make perfume for a living are quietly turning to something weirder. What happens next isn't about smelling polished. It's about smelling like you have a point of view.

Geneviève Dulude-De Celles's "Nina Roza", Nyla Innuksuk's "In the Heart of the South" and Marie Clements's "How We Stand" are among the films deemed worthy of the grand prize at the 45th Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF). The festival announced Wednesday night the winners of the 2026 juried awards, which recognize films in the Summit, Horizon, Tides, Arbutus, Vanguard and Short Forum competitions.

The upcoming Doha Film Festival has announced its 15-title competition program, the majority of which are Middle Eastern premieres of films from the region, seven of which are directed by women. As previously announced, Yemeni-Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq's timely drama "The Station," which examines the impact of Yemen's civil war on the country, is set to open the second edition of the revamped event, which will be held in the Qatari capital from November 19-27.

NEW DELHI -- Prominent Indian actor and filmmaker Nana Patekar died at his home in the western state of Goa on Thursday. He was 75 years old. Press Trust of India news agency reported that Patekar died due to a suspected heart attack, according to a doctor at the hospital where he died. Born in India's western state of Maharashtra in 1951, Patekar carved out a career in Hindi and Marathi-language cinema that spanned nearly five decades.

Supernatural crime thriller “The Mage,” starring Josie Ho in the leading role of Danny and Oxide Pang, will be introduced to international buyers at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents and Film Market (ACFM) when it premieres in its first territories in Asia. Southeast Asian distributor Abnormal Studios will meet with in-market buyers and connect interested parties with 852 Films, which is producing the film, and will take responsibility for subsequent sales inquiries and rights deals for territories that remain open.

Na Hong-Jin told the Busan International Film Festival master class audience that the film "Hope" was born from a conviction that war was about to break out on the Korean peninsula around 2017. News at the time described US warplanes and bombers flying in and out of Pyongyang throughout the night, Na said. He expected the fight to begin in early 2018 or just after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

You couldn't imagine a more ideal setting for “The Debut” than Alice Tully Hall on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where it had its New York premiere Wednesday night as part of the New York Film Festival. Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg's third feature film and the sequel to the Oscar-winning "A Real Pain," the film is set in 1990 and follows Mona Friedman (Julianne Moore), a shy, starry-eyed housewife in Central Jersey who breaks her mind-blowing routine by auditioning for the role of a doorman in a community theater production of the musical "Nosy Neighbors." There, he finds community among his co-stars (among them Halle Bailey and Colton Ryan) and clashes with his domineering director (the incomparable Paul Giamatti) as he gets deeper and deeper into character.

Fox News host Jesse Watters turned heads during a discussion about deep-voiced men on "The Five" on Wednesday. The hosts were discussing a study that claimed a deep voice makes a man look tougher, not more attractive. But Watters wasn't going along with any of this, and a man with a deep voice explained what he would do when he heard it.

Amanda Seyfried single mom enjoying her life - one joke at a time. Seyfried, 40, shared a hilarious video on Instagram on Tuesday, October 6, of herself scaring half of her daughter Nina to death. In the clip, the actor was strumming a dulcimer while singing a cover of the song. Joni Mitchell"A Case from You." 9-year-old Nina quietly sneaks up on Seyfried while wearing her boyfriend's Ghostface mask…

Flames spread fast in the Windy City, but the company at Firehouse 51 can handle the heat. The first member of Law & Order producer Dick Wolf’s “One Chicago” franchise, Chicago Fire premiered in 2012 and quickly became one of NBC’s hottest shows. The drama’s success led to the spinoff series Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, and the short-lived…

According to the Las Vegas Raiders superstar Maxx CrosbyKansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes He can be quite vocal on the field when things are not going his way. During “The Rush with Maxx Crosby” podcast on Tuesday, October 6, Crosby, 29, was asked if Mahomes, 31, “makes a noise when you tackle him.” The defensive end responded by making a strange guttural sound and told his co-host: …

Christa Pike A week after he survived two lethal injections in Tennessee, he was "angry and confused" after his botched execution, his lawyers said. On Wednesday, October 7, Pike's attorneys shared an update on his condition during a press conference. Randy Spivey told reporters that Pike, 50, was deemed "brain dead" on Monday, October 5, according to USA Today. The medical team planned to remove life support the next day, but the woman woke up and started talking on Tuesday, October 6.

Dolly Parton's estate claims the country icon's nephew and former security chief Bryan Seaver used a "no trespassing" sign and barbed wire to prevent legal documents from being served on him. There is an active restraining order and lawsuit against Seaver by Parton's company, She's Alive LLC, managed by Parton's former manager Danny Nozell, for allegedly threatening and extorting her property.

Police were called to his house Kim Zolciak After a 911 call late last year claiming teens were throwing fireworks and eggs at a riding camp near their property. We It can only reveal. On November 25, 2025, a 911 caller claimed that a young male was standing on the porch of Zolciak's home in Alpharetta, Georgia, and "screaming obscenities" at an area equestrian facility.

More than 30 years into his career, Questlove is still open to change. The Roots frontman and multi-hyphenate has performed in Jimmy Fallon's in-house band for more than a decade, produced the "Hamilton" cast album, serves as an adjunct professor at NYU, is a podcast host and has written eight books. Questlove has also directed four documentaries since 2020. It was this effort that she was initially most opposed to: “I know it's cliche – I had to work hard to understand that I had to be the change I wanted to be.”