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So many of those who knew and lovedBetty Whiteare paying tribute after the comedy icon’s death and Rue McClanahan’s estate honored theGolden Girlsstar in a touching way. While everyone fromThe Golden Girlskept in touch in the years after the show ended, White and McClanahan were particularly close. They had remained friends until McClanahan’s passing in 2010, which was rather hard on White at the time. “We adored each other. It hurts more than I even thought it would, if that’s even possible....

Sacha Baron Cohenhas called out Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter as “the greatest propaganda machine in history” for hate groups. TheBoratstar particularly homed in on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO has touted the social media platform as a proponent of free speech. Cohen addressed the Anti-Defamation League earlier this week, which is where he accepted the ADL International Leadership Award and delivered his blistering speech. You can read a portion of the speech below....

Back in March, New Line Cinema’s highly-anticipated adaptation ofSandmansuffered a huge blow when it lostJoseph Gordon-Levitt, who had been attached to both direct and star in the movie. Today we have word that the project has now lost its screenwriter,Eric Heisserer, who came aboard in March, just one day afterJoseph Gordon-Levittleft the project. While doing press for his new movieArrival, the writer says he’s taken himself off the project, and that thisNeil Gaimancomic would be better suited as a TV show....

Today marks the beloved 4th of July holiday, which many Americans will be celebrating with fireworks and a good old fashioned BBQ cookout. Before you chow down on hot dogs and hamburgers this Monday, Sony Pictures' animatedR-RatedcomedySausage Partyhas a special message in a new TV spot.Seth Rogen’s Frank asks fans to eat responsibly! Sausage Partyarrives this August as the first R-rated CG animated movie in history. And while kids will be clamoring to see it, it’s quite obvious, especially from this new PSA, that this is definitely not a family movie....

ForgetGeneral Hospital, Days of Our Lives, Eastenders,andCoronation Street; sport is the real, never-ending soap opera. Brimming with scandal, controversy, jubilation, and despair, it is a composite of emotional investment and drama that’s typically unpredictable in nature. From gladiatorial combat in Roman amphitheaters, to the original Olympics in Ancient Greece, sport was (and at times, still is) a matter of life and death, fierce competition, and the height of physical prowess, except if your names are Jeff, Walter, and Donny and you bowl at the Hollywood Star Lanes on the Santa Monica Boulevard…...

Suicide Squad 2was put on thefast trackrecently by Warner Bros., but that track may not be as fast as we previously expected. Most of the principal cast from the first movie, including Will Smith, are expected to return for the sequel, but that actually may be holding things up. Because of Will Smith’s busy schedule, that may be putting a delay on the production ofSuicide Squad 2. According to Variety reporterJustin Kroll, the earliestSuicide Squad 2could go into production is fall of 2018....

One of the biggest elements of thehorror genreis its infamous and memorable kills. Mostly the aftermath of each film’s iconic or vengeful antagonist, horror movies are notoriously known for over-the-top deaths given to unsuspecting or completely innocent characters. Each untimely death is often the result of a character’s intrusion into the goals of the film’s antagonist, or caused by simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The commonality of innocence or fight against evil in the protagonists and good-natured characters in horror films helps viewers emotionally connect to the victims of the antagonists' wreckage....

The world ofFalloutis one of the unique post-apocalyptic worlds in all science fiction, blending cold-war terror with a 1950s nuclear-punk aesthetic in aMad Max-esque landscape. The cinematic influences shine through across the six main titles in the video game series and the handful of spin-offs and DLC content. As any screenwriter, author, or video game writer will say, “To be a great writer you have to be a great reader,” and the literary influences onFallout, although lesser known, are just as important as their cinematic counterparts....

If you thought season 2 ofThe Boyswas violent, just wait for season 3. When the satirical superhero series debuted on Amazon Prime Video in 2019, it began with a speedy superhero literally runningthrougha woman, setting the stage for the extreme bloody violence that would follow in later episodes. Season 2 had an ending that was particularly explosive, but it sounds like even that will be nothing compared to what’s ahead in the next season....

The musical period drama filmThe Color Purpleis based on both Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name and the Broadway musical of the same name, whileSteven Spielberg’s dramatic filmadaptation is based solely on Walker’s novel. Both films explore the inherent conflicts of Walker’s novel to varying degrees, but the musical adaptation has a much lighter tone than the 1985 film. Spielberg’s original adaptation presents the struggles of the book’s central protagonist, Celie, a teenage girl who is subjected to a lifetime of physical and sexual abuse before finding true happiness, in stark, unflinching detail....

WhenThe Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, was first released in theaters July 23, 2025, it received massive commercial and critical acclaim for its acting (mostly towards Ledger), complexity, and for being more than just a comic book film. The film is often consideredthegreatest superhero film ever made, and even to this day shapes the way superhero films are made. At the box office, it became the fourth highest-grossing film of its time and the highest grossing superhero film at the time....

Emily VanCamp has officially wrapped filming onThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The Sharon Carter actress announced the news on social media late yesterday. The long-awaited series was supposed to have already premiered, but it was forced to shut down production back in March, like the majority of Hollywood productions.WandaVisionwas able to complete production and will premiere later this year, exclusively on Disney+. It was first officially announced at last year’s D23 Expo thatEmily VanCampwas returning as Sharon Carter inThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier....

TheMarvel Cinematic Universehas grown a lot in fifteen years. By the end of 2008, the only heroes in the franchise with Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, and Nick Fury. Now the franchise is filled with characters from the comics. Marvel mainstays like The Avengers,obscure characters introduced in the 1970slike Shang-Chi and the Eternals, and relatively new characters like Ms. Marvel and Ironheart all now co-exist in this ever-growing franchise. It doesn’t appear to be stopping anytime soon either, with new developments in the franchise arriving every day....