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The Big Apple may soon dethrone Los Angeles as moviemakers’ top choice. via: THR While California kept its crown at No. 1 with $1.76 billion in movie and TV production spend, New York is drawing major titles at a much more rapid pace, according to industry tracker ProdPro’s closely-watched quarterly snapshot released on Thursday. The state surged 87 percent in production spend in the quarter to $1.61 billion compared with California’s 17 percent uptick. Bulked up soundstage i

Amazon MGM Studios has released the first official teaser trailer for their upcoming actioner The Beekeeper 2, featuring an action-packed first look at Jason Statham on a mission for revenge! via: Deadline Jason Statham‘s retired “Beekeeper” Adam Clay is back to take on his makers in the sequel to his 2024 action pic. On Thursday, Amazon MGM Studios released the first teaser for the Timo Tjahjanto-helmed sequel The Beekeeper 2, which premieres in theaters on Jan. 15, 2027 and

The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have filed a lawsuit against a San Diego-based ticket resale firm, alleging that the company and several of its executives violated federal laws to resell tickets for more than $120 million in profit. via: Billboard The Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused a San Diego-based ticket broker of using illegal workarounds to buy up and resell millions of concert tickets for an eye-popping profit of $120 million. The DOJ’

Ben Affleck doesn’t want people to relish Digger‘s demise. via: THR During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast this Monday, the Animals actor addressed the poor performance of Tom Cruise‘s latest movie. He argued that criticizing a “big swing” movie could result in studios later opting to take a safer approach with future projects. “It’s a little bit like the high-school bullying thing, with people who hadn’t even seen movies. You see it happening now, frankly, wi

The pop icon uploaded a YouTube playlist called “CONFESSIONS II STUDIO SESSIONS,” showcasing behind-the-scenes work including a standout snippet with the lyric “are you washed in the blood of the music.” Producer Stuart Price described the album's direction as exploring new territory, not revisiting the past. Fans are buzzing with calls for more releases, like a deluxe edition, as the album continues to gain streams with tracks such as “Bring Your Love” featuring Sabrina Carp

Cynthia Erivo is rounding out her cast of magical beings with the latest Bad Fairies news, which announced live on Thursday at the Hollywood Bowl. via: Variety Bad Fairies,” the Warner Bros. Picture Animation and Locksmith Animation musical comedy led by Cynthia Erivo, has added Kylie Minogue, Jonathan Groff and Catherine Tate to its voice cast. Minogue will voice Clowder, the Cat Witch, Groff will voice Robin Goodfellow and Tate will voice the Fairy Gothmother, joining Erivo

The Harlem entertainer & businessman was reported to have gotten into beef with the leader of the infamous Shower Posse. via: Deadline A dust-up with a drug lord was not what sent Sean Combs to the hospital with a head injury last week, the Bureau of Prisons insists. However, the actual cause of the injury and Combs’ current status is under lock and key. “While, for privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any individual in

Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow has turned his attention to Grindr, raising concerns about how the LGBTQ+ dating app uses personal information to train its AI technology. via: Queerty Cue the Grindr sound! In his video, Farrow dissects how Grindr is feeding unknowing users’ data into its AI program, and the company’s checkered past on protecting users’ privacy. Over the last year, CEO George Arison has aggressively integrated AI into Grindr’s user experience. Dubbed “gA

Universal Pictures has revealed the official title for their highly anticipated The Mummy sequel, which is due out in theaters October 2027 and will feature the returns of Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. via: Deadline Universal Pictures said Thursday that the next installment in its The Mummy franchise that will return Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz to their starring roles is titled The Mummy: Book of the Dead. The pic remains set to hit theaters on October 15, 2027. Radio

As director Matt Reeves continues to attend to an ongoing family matter, Steven Soderbergh is coming on to help finish principal photography for the final weeks of DC Studios’ The Batman Part II. The news comes after production was paused on the film so that Reeves could focus on the personal matter. via: CBM Some second unit work continued after production was paused, but Ocean's Eleven, Magic Mike, and Black Bag director Steven Soderbergh has officially joined the sequel to

A new off-Broadway musical from multi-hyphenate entertainer Todrick Hall, premiering Thursday (Oct. 15), is drawing attention for all the wrong reasons, including a problematic plot, which involves a slave falling in love with a white man. via: Queerty YouTuber, singer, and Drag Race fixture Todrick Hall has been in the game long enough to weather several controversies. His new off-Broadway opera, however, has viewers asking bigger questions. Namely: when writing a slave narr

Scooter Braun and Todrick Hall have mended their public feud and reunited to produce Hall’s Off-Broadway musical, Midnight, at the Daryl Roth Theatre in New York City. via: Page Six The music mogul and entertainer have joined forces on Hall’s new off-Broadway musical “Midnight,” which has been attracting celebrity supporters and drawing enthusiastic reactions from audiences. Braun is a producer alongside Hall — who also wrote, directed, choreographed and stars in the producti

Todd and Julie Chrisley accused of evading nearly $2 million in state taxes, have been cleared of the state tax evasion charges. via: Page Six Todd and Julie Chrisley are facing more than $1.5 million in unpaid federal taxes, according to a new tax lien filed against the reality TV couple more than a year after President Donald Trump pardoned them for their tax evasion and bank fraud convictions. The Internal Revenue Service filed the $1,571,452 federal tax lien in Davidson C

The online reactions are hot and heavy to Heated Rivalry right now! via: Pink News Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney has revealed that stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie offered to do full-frontal nudity for season one, but he chose not to include it. “I was like, ‘I’m not showing your d****,’” Tierney said, speaking to actor Andrew Rannells to promote his book I’ll Believe in Anything: The Making of Heated Rivalry Season 1 (The Annotated Scripts). Tierney said Willi

Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland are giving back to their hometown in a big way. via: Revolt What started with earnings from Destiny’s Child’s early music career is now helping Houstonians find a permanent place to call home. More than two decades after a youth center opened with financial support from the R&B group, the building has been given a new purpose. On Tuesday (Oct. 13), Beyoncé, her daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi Carter, her mother Tina Knowles and Kelly Rowland attended the

Lady Gaga has been one of the biggest pop stars of the last 25 years. Every millennial can recall exactly where they were when they heard “Poker Face” for the first time. In her prime, her hits never seemed to run out. Nowadays, she oscillates between acting and singing, recognized as an icon within pop music. But R&B legend Stephanie Mills begs to differ. In fact, she argued that Gaga has quietly been a culture vulture this entire time. via: The Root During Wednesday’s episo

Drake Bell wants people to think twice before becoming a professional actor. via: Deadline Drake Bell is calling out SAG-AFTRA after revealing he didn’t have health insurance because he didn’t qualify. The Drake & Josh alum took to social media to share a screenshot from the actors’ guild website where it read, “You do not qualify for Health Plan coverage at this time.” “Your reported covered earnings from July 2025 – June 2026 did not meet minimum eligibility requirements, o

Diddy busted his head during a fight with another famous, or infamous, inmate ... a Jamaican drug lord known as "Dudus," and allegedly the fight was over Diddy getting all the inmates in trouble. via: Page Six The “Act Bad” emcee got into a fight with a kingpin known as “Dudus” at the Fort Dix prison in New Jersey, TMZ reported. The outlet reported that Combs, 56, and “Dudus” — whose real name is Christopher Coke — got into a physical altercation last Friday. The Revolt co-fo

Selma Blair’s on-again and off-again boyfriend, Andy Kiernan, is asking people to keep the actress and her son in their thoughts following her arrest after an alleged altercation aboard a Delta Air Lines flight. Kiernan has spoken out as the Cruel Intentions star faces assault charges stemming from the incident and its aftermath in New York. via: Page Six “Pray for Selma,” the businessman posted to his Instagram Stories Tuesday, according to the Daily Mail. “She has a good he

Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been sentenced to 40 years to life after being found guilty of orchestrating the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. via: Deadline Convicted of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon on August 31, Duane “Keff D” Davis was in court in Las Vegas Tuesday to learn his fate from Judge Carli Kierny. “You don’t get to take a man from his family,” the judge told Davis in announcing his decades behind bars. Acknowledging how long it has taken for justic