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Shortly after hosting the Grammy Awards broadcast on Feb. 1, Trevor Noah took a relaxing flight home. Yet any sense of peace that he was feeling wouldn’t last long.

Screenwriter John Logan has achieved named recognition in Hollywood working with some of the biggest names and franchises in the business, and he’s the writer behind Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael,” a musical biopic of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, that uses some creative screenwriting to skirt more than a few controversial topics in the singer’s life. But Logan’s career as a screenwriter is ...

Brian Williams, the veteran former anchor for NBC News and MSNBC, is joining Netflix where he will host a weekly podcast.

It is no easy job to adapt a novel to a visual medium, even when the medium is an extended miniseries instead of a mere two-hour feature film.

In David Lowery’s latest film “Mother Mary,” Anne Hathaway plays the titular international pop superstar, proving the actress can do anything. She’s legitimately great in the concert scenes — unsurprising since she won her best supporting actress Oscar playing Fantine in the movie musical adaptation of “Les Misérables.” She has the pipes for it. But she also has the stage presence and moves of ...

 Sid Krofft, the creative mind behind kids’ classics “Land of the Lost” and “H.R. Pufnstuff” has died. He was 96.

British actor Riz Ahmed is an Academy Award winner, but it still feels like he somehow goes under the radar. Perhaps because he’s not in many blockbusters (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Jason Bourne” aside). Still he’s built a quietly excellent career always working with interesting filmmakers and selecting quality projects. With his electrifying performance as the title role in “Hamlet” in theaters this week, check out the best of Ahmed’s career so far on streaming.

CBS is outsourcing its late night hours to media mogul Byron Allen in a move aimed at reducing programming costs. The Paramount-owned network announced Monday that Allen's programs "Comics Unleashed" and "Funny You Should Ask" will take over the 11:35 p.m. and 12:35 a.m. time slots after "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" ends its 11-year run on May 21. 

There are tons of video game adaptation movies, and even TV shows (“The Last of Us”) but they’ve tended to skew more adult – “Resident Evil,” “Assassin’s Creed,” “Mortal Kombat,” “Tomb Raider,” etc. Even the first “Super Mario Bros.” in 1993 was more racy cyberpunk nightmare than kid-friendly entertainment.

The comic and actor who voices “Bob’s Burgers” character Gene Belcher was hospitalized with serious injuries after being pulled from a burning car in New Hampshire.

After losing its bid for Warner Bros Discovery’s rich trove of characters and stories, Netflix is forging ahead with the challenging work of building culture-defining franchises on its own.

If you live in North Texas, you may have recently stumbled across a peculiar road closure. Perhaps you saw a clue in the form of a sign that read “SET.” The commotion most likely traced back to Taylor Sheridan, the Fort Worth-raised show creator who has churned out TV hits at a dizzying pace.

Savannah Guthrie is returning to "Today." Viewers of NBC's morning program learned Friday that Guthrie will be back to her hosting duties at the network's Rockefeller Plaza studio in New York on April 6. Guthrie, 54, has been absent from "Today" since Feb. 2, the day after learning her mother Nancy was abducted from her Tucson, Arizona, home. She appeared on the program this week in a taped ...

Bill Maher, the comedian and longtime political talk show host, will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Thursday, following aggressive denials from the White House that Maher had been chosen for the honor.

Yes, you’re seeing double. That’s two Vince Vaughns in BenDavid Grabinski’s “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice,” an original action comedy landing on Hulu Friday, March 27. And no, Vaughn isn’t pulling a Michael B. Jordan and playing twins, he’s playing a gangster named Nick, twice. One Nick is from the future, and he’s trying to save one of his heavies, Mike (James Marsden) from a grim fate. This ...

The filmmaking team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have undeniably shaped our cinematic sensibilities over the last decade, and with their new film, the heartwarming space movie “Project Hail Mary,” starring Ryan Gosling, they’re taking their style into the previously unexplored territory of the live-action sci-fi epic.

The revolving door of pop culture and what the internet deems as “trending” doesn’t appear to have many parameters. One month, it’s a pop star and what they did (or didn’t) do right, the next a plush toy elf flying off the shelves.

Romance novel adaptations are big business right now, and will only get bigger. With the popularity of romance novels, especially on “BookTok” and the success of “Heated Rivalry,” based on the “Game Changers” book series by Rachel Reid, it’s clear that audiences are craving big, swoony feelings as a form of escapism. One of the biggest names in the genre is Colleen Hoover, an author who ...

The idea for HBO’s new comedy “Rooster” hatched from an emptying chicken coop, creators Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses said.