Author: Michael

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is calling David Ellison’s bluff. After word leaked that the Paramount Skydance CEO told his top lieutenants last week that he will move the company out of California if Bonta doesn’t agree to negotiate a settlement of the state AGs’ antitrust lawsuit, Bonta responded on social media by calling the move “blackmail.” “In a span of weeks, Paramount agreed to halt the merger until a court decision or until June 2027, asked for a November trial, and is now back with another attempt to blackmail the state into letting an illegal deal through,” Bonta said.…

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ET has your exclusive sneak peek at the next, all-new episode of Bravo’s ‘Next Gen NYC,’ featuring the cast off the clock at BravoCon — the first Bravo ensemble to film at the fan event in Las Vegas! The group — Emira D’Spain, Brooks Marks, Gia Giudice, Shai Fruchter, Ariana Biermann, Riley Buruss, Georgia McCann, Ava Dash and Charlize Zakour — heads out to dinner at the Paris Hotel rooftop, and all eyes (and cameras) are on Ariana and Charlie. As he pesters her about her burgeoning romance with Liam Obergfoll, some underlying flirtation pokes through… with Charlie even asking…

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Ilona Maher has spent plenty of hours in the gym, so she’s ready to invite some of her celebrity peers to join her for her new digital series “Power Hour.” Kicking off Aug. 20 on the “House of Maher” YouTube page, the Olympic rugby player “invites the biggest names in sports and entertainment to the gym to test their limits” as they share stories and a workout together. Her initial round of guests includes Kylie Kelce, Azzi Fudd and Bretman Rock. “The workouts are real, but the banter does the heavy lifting,” per Tuesday’s announcement. “I’ve spent a lot of…

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Nearly every kid in America knows the rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41. So it’s only fitting that twisted nursery rhyme stands at the center of the first trailer for “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,” the fourth season in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix anthology series. The Lizzie Borden murder case is among one of the best-known in American history. On Aug. 4, 1892, Lizzie’s father, Andrew Borden, and her stepmother, Abby Borden, were found dead in their Massachusetts home. Both had…

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Incredibly, “Coyote vs. Acme” will be released later this month. The film, formerly thought lost at Warner Bros., was saved by Ketchup Entertainment, which bought “Coyote vs. Acme” and will be releasing it nationwide on Aug. 28. Ahead of that release, the team at Ketchup showed the movie to legendary animator Chuck Jones’ family – daughter Linda Jones Clough and grandson Craig Kausen. And we have their exclusive thoughts. If you are somehow unaware of who Jones is, he is a truly incredible animator who is perhaps best known for his work with WB on the Looney Tunes and Merry…

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