Podcasts from talent including Love creator Lesley Arfin, Margaret Cho, Glow's Kimmy Gatewood and The Good Place's Rebecca Delgado form the inaugural slate for female-focused podcast network Earios. Earios was set up by former UTA and WME comedy agent Priyanka Mattoo, who also ran Electric Dynamite with Jack Black…

John Oliver kicked off Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight taking us on the ongoing saga that is the Donald Trump presidency before digging into Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace plan. Oliver talked about Trump’s “big week in diplomacy” as he visited with various authoritarians around the world. He joked about…

New York City was a beacon of love as it played host to WorldPride, one of the biggest celebrations of Pride month which celebrates members of the LGTBQIA+ community. June is marked as Pride month considering it was the month when there was an uprising between members of the gay community and the police at the…

UPDATED 5:26 pm June 30: It’s the battle of the pop stars, as Justin Bieber took to Instagram to defend his Manager Scooter Braun against Taylor Swift, who put Braun on Tumblr blast when she found out he owns her music catalog before 2017. She claims that he bullied her. In her post, she included an Instagram post…

The National Basketball Association free agency period starts today, and already the winners and losers are clear before the bell rings for the official start of negotiations at 6 PM ET/3 PM PT. The big winner is the Brooklyn Nets, who have reportedly signed superstars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, along with Durant…

UPDATE, writethru: Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: Far From Home came swinging into China, Japan and Hong Kong this weekend to nab an early $111M at the international box office. The launch sets the webslinger 45% over Spider-Man: Homecoming and 21% above Captain Marvel in the like-for-likes. The opening result is slightly…

David Young, executive director of the WGA West, is now Hollywood's highest-paid union leader, earning a salary of $723,500 for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019, according to financial documents the guild filed Thursday with the U.S. Department of Labor. For now, that puts him slightly ahead of David White…

Filmmakers and actors Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero are going from the confines of the cult hit The Room to intergalactic adventures in the new animated pilot SpaceWorld. Wiseau and Sestero are lending their voice to the loosely serialized animated sci-fi series. Wiseau stars as the mysterious bounty hunter known as…

Keanu Reeves, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón, Spike Lee, and others are voicing support for Italian cinema collective Cinema America, which had four members of its organization physically attacked by an alleged alt-right organization following a screening of Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. Cinema America, also…

SECOND UPDATE:  Two Oregon women allegedly stole a car and jewelry that belonged to Mouseketeer Dennis Day, whose body was discovered in his home in April. Wanda Garcia and Lori Declusin face felony charges for stealing Day's white 1990s Ford Escort station wagon, the Mail Tribune reported.  Garcia also is accused of…

Move over, Melissa McCarthy. There’s another contender for the role of Ursula in the live action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Melissa Viviane Jefferson, known professionally as Lizzo, made her pitch for the role on Twitter Friday, shortly after news broke of McCarthy being in talks for the part, to which…

The dog days of summer have arrived early for the specialties, which have only had some success in peeling away audiences from studio fare. New limited release titles landed slowly this weekend, with Sony Pictures Classics Toronto '18 documentary Maiden topping the few titles reporting numbers Sunday. The…