Aaliyah’s uncle Barry Hankerson is speaking out. Months after the “Are You That Somebody?” singer’s longtime manager was sued by his son Jomo Hankerson for violating a settlement deal over music…
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Once upon a time, the late-August, early-September film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto would leave voters and awards watchers with a pretty good idea of what Oscar season was going to look like. But that was then and this is now. In recent years, the fall festivals haven’t been nearly as effective in setting the awards-season agenda or identifying the major players. Last year’s Best Picture frontrunners “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners” eschewed festivals altogether. And this year feels as if it could be particularly weak in delivering big awards movies on the Lido in Venice, in the…
The California legislature has passed a new bill designed to mitigate the effects of a new business tax credit cap on the state’s production incentive program, which underwent a significant expansion last year in an effort to halt the decline in entertainment jobs in Los Angeles and beyond. The bill, AB/SB 186, was one of dozens if not hundreds voted on by lawmakers on the final day of the 2026 legislative session in Sacramento. It now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for signature. AB/SB 186 was the result of a two-month blitz of negotiations between entertainment stakeholders and Sacramento…
SB 186 would exempt indie projects from business tax credit caps and allow film and TV production to monetize their refunds faster.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman take a stroll down memory lane while chatting with ET’s Kevin Frazier about ‘Practical Magic 2,’ before it hits theaters on Sept. 10. The Oscar-winners explain why nothing about them has changed since ET first visited the original film’s set back in 1998, and also look ahead, with both mothers sharing how they’re preparing to deal with their teenagers moving off to college. The Owens sisters also gush about their new co-stars, Joey King and Maisie Williams, while also honoring the OG aunties, Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest. More from Entertainment Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtXPiqI2cLorKaPrfpKc4g?sub_confirmation=1 Exclusives from…
Emily Blunt has been named recipient of the 19th annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced on Tuesday. This year, Blunt has appeared in Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” and in “The “Devil Wears Prada 2.” She has previously won an Actor Award for “A Quiet Place,” a Critics Choice Award for “Edge of Tomorrow” and a Golden Globe Award for the television drama “Gideon’s Daughter,” and she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Oppenheimer.” Her other films include “The Young Victoria,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” “The Girl on the Train,”…
Sylvester Stallone returns to the Paramount+ dramedy’s fourth season.
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Doja Cat is opening up about her past “struggles” with cocaine and alcohol. “Man, I really don’t want to make this TikTok because I have fear in my heart, and I was taught that I should do something that scares me every day if I’m on any journey to healing, and so I’m gonna do it,” Doja, 30, began in a TikTok video on Monday, August 31. The “Say So” singer went on to explain that she had “[used] the internet as a means of validation to the negative thoughts in my head, which were then brought on by drinking…
Middle school football player Caden Sorrell has died after going into cardiac arrest during a practice at his school in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Friday, August 28. He was 13. Sorrell died two days after the incident despite what his family called “every effort by his amazing medical team” to try and save his life, according to a GoFundMe description. “Today, our Northwest Middle School family is grieving the loss of one of our students,” principal CeCe Matson wrote via Facebook on Sunday, August 30. “There are no easy words to make sense of losing a child, and our hearts…