Finally — a Hollywood breakup story with a happy ending.
Nearly four years after Ben Stiller and wife Christine Taylor announced their separation, the couple is officially giving their marriage another shot.
Stiller, 56, told Esquire in an interview published on Tuesday that he moved back in with Taylor, 50, and their children amid lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We were separated and got back together and we’re happy about that. It’s been really wonderful for all of us. Unexpected, and one of the things that came out of the pandemic,” he said.
The Night at the Museum star also had a funny way of explaining his discovery of what makes a marriage work.
“A few years ago, I realized I don’t like horseback riding. If there’s an opportunity to go horseback riding, I’m probably not going to do it. Now, I like horses! I think they’re beautiful. I like petting them. I like watching people ride horses, I like watching my kids ride horses,” he said. “I just don’t really love riding horses. And once you know that, it just saves a lot of energy.”
He added, “So, yeah, I think we have a respect for the ways that we’re similar and the ways we’re different. And I think accepting that, you can really appreciate someone more because you’re not trying to get them to change for you.”
The couple — who share daughter Ella, 19, and son Quinlin, 16 — announced their separation in May 2017.
The Blacklist has nabbed an early 10th-season renewal from NBC, star and executive producer James Spaderannounced during a visit to The Tonight Show on Tuesday. The show’s current ninth season has reached 22 million viewers across linear and digital platforms. The Blacklist, which also stars Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison, Hisham Tawfiq, Laura Sohn and Harry Lennix, returns to its familiar 8 p.m. ET Friday night slot starting this week. The first nine episodes have been airing on Thursday nights as a result of the Law & Order spinoff Law & Order: For the Defense falling through…
After three seasons at CBS, the U.S. version of the reality dating competition Love Island is moving to Peacock, the streaming service announced on Wednesday. Peacock has ordered two new seasons of the series, the first of which is set to shoot in California and premiere in the summer. Love Island features group of singles searching for love while living together in one villa. They couple and re-couple week to week, with uncoupled contestants being eliminated. Each season’s winning couple wins a cash prize…
Donny Davis, the comic and impersonator who was a frequent guest on Chelsea Handler‘s late-night talk show Chelsea Lately and performed on stage in Britney Spears’ Las Vegas residency Britney: Piece of Me, was found dead by police inside his room at Vegas’ Resorts World hotel and casino on Wednesday, according to KLAS. He was 43. A cause of death was not disclosed. Davis also appeared on film in Tommy Chong‘s 2017 comedy It’s Gawd! and the 2013 film Pain & Gain starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie…
Legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady, who announced his retirement after 22 seasons earlier this month, will produce and appear in a football-themed road trip movie titled 80 for Brady, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film centers on four best friends and New England Patriots fans — played by Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Sally Field — who take a trip to Super Bowl 51 to see Brady play, and the chaos that ensues. Production is due to begin this spring…
Dollface actress Tanisha Harper is joining ABC’s long-running soap opera General Hospital as a new series regular, replacing Briana Nicole Henry as Jordan Ashford, according to Deadline. The Jordan Ashford role was initially played by Vinessa Antoine from 2014-2018, who was replaced by Henry until last September, when she announced that it was time for her “to move on” from the series. General Hospital is both the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the longest-running scripted television drama currently in production. The show has won the Emmy for Outstanding Daytime Drama a record 14 times…
Netflix has dropped a sneak peak of Ryan Murphy‘s The Andy Warhol Diaries, a six-part documentary about the iconic artist. The project, according to the trailer, uses an AI program to recreate Warhol’s voice to “narrate” the writing in his diaries. Director Andrew Rossi tells Entertainment Weekly that he used a text-to-speech algorithm that would to mimic Warhol’s native Pittsburgh accent and cadence. He then had actor Bill Irwin record the lines, and combined it with the digital voice to come as close as possible to Warhol. The Andy Warhol Diaries premieres March 9 on Netflix…
Jennifer Lawrence has reportedly given birth to her first child with husband Cooke Maroney.
According to public records obtained by TMZ, the actress gave birth recently in Los Angeles County. The sex and date of birth are unknown.
Lawrence, 31, and Maroney, 37, who wed in a Rhode Island ceremony in 2019, confirmed they were expecting in September 2021. Shortly after the confirmation, the Hunger Games alum shared that she hopes to keep her child out of the spotlight.
“If I was at a dinner party, and somebody was like, ‘Oh, my God, you’re expecting a baby,’ I wouldn’t be like, ‘God, I can’t talk about that. Get away from me, you psycho!’ But every instinct in my body wants to protect their privacy for the rest of their lives, as much as I can,” Lawrence told Vanity Fairin November. “I don’t want anyone to feel welcome into their existence. And I feel like that just starts with not including them in this part of my work.”
Great news for those who fell in love with History Channel’s popular Vikings series. After the series’ six-season run ended, the next chapter arrives Friday with Vikings: Valhalla, which documents the warriors’ historical battle against the King of England.
Creator Jeb Stuart tells ABC Audio the series takes place 125 years after the events of the original series and will explore the infamous “St. Brice’s Day massacre” of 1002. Stuart says the massacre was orchestrated by the King of England, Aethelred the Unready, who ordered “the genocide of all Vikings living in England… because of immigration.”
Stuart says the king made a “calculated move,” hoping to take his targets by surprise because, at the time, “the Christian Vikings were fighting with the pagan Vikings.” Stuart says the king thought his targets “would be too busy fighting among themselves to pay attention to what was going down in London — and he made a bad decision.”
Stuart says the event united the Vikings — much like how Americans put aside their differences to face a common enemy. “You got the Democrats and Republicans, and they’re all fighting at each other’s throats,” he described. “When there’s an attack from the outside, you suddenly become American again. And that’s actually what happened with the Vikings.”
Despite the modern-day comparison, Stuart says Vikings: Valhalla is steeped in history, and he strove to make the series as accurate as possible — even though it was a challenge.
“We take a lot of pride in the authenticity of this story,” he shares. “The Vikings did not have a written language, so it was an oral storytelling tradition. Even what we know about the Vikings, we primarily know about it from their enemies.”
Vikings: Valhalla launches Friday, February 25, on Netflix.
Marvel movie star and Academy Award-nominated The Power of the Dog actor Benedict Cumberbatch is getting that famously long famous name set in stone.
Cumberbatch will receive the 2,714th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Monday morning, in an award ceremony at which his Star Trek: Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams and Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige will honor him.
“Benedict Cumberbatch career spans across genres,” says Hollywood Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez in a statement. “[H]e is one of England’s prized exports, and we are proud to welcome him to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.”
The Doctor Strange lead’s star will be located at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard; the ceremony will be livestreamed exclusively at WalkofFame.com.
With an intense preview clip of the footage to come, Netflix has announced that the final seven episodes of its gritty drama Ozark will premiere on April 29.
In the teaser, the series’ two-time Emmy winner Julia Garner, who plays Ruth Langmore, can be seen driving, tears in her eyes. As she speaks in a voiceover, flashes of upcoming scenes play out, including Ruth threatening Jason Bateman‘s and Laura Linney‘s characters, Marty and Wendy Byrde, with a shotgun.
We also see Ruth turning on a light to reveal a massive pile of likely laundered cartel cash.
In the voiceover, she says, “My childhood traumas are not like yours. You see, I’m a cursed Langmore. Long inured to violence and death. And in the case of a Langmore, not soon enough.”
Having arrived at her destination, Ruth focuses on a pistol on the passenger’s seat, as the screen fades to black, replaced by a legend reading, “The end arrives sooner than you think.”
The first part of the hit show’s fourth and final season debuted on the streaming service January 21.
Kerry Washington is celebrating Black History Month by transforming herself into several trailblazing Black women. “Black History is about more than just slavery and Jim Crow. Our history is a tapestry of beauty, culture, power, community, resilience, & strength. And through it all — the pain and the joy — Black women have held it down,” the Scandal star wrote in an Instagram post.
Throughout February, Washington has used wigs, makeup and props to bring awareness to historic Black women on her Instagram page. She’s honored Rosa Parks, the iconic woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus inspired Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955. The Emmy winner has also portrayed Olympic gold medal winning track star Wilma Rudolph, and supermodel Beverly Johnson, with a social media series she calls “Black HERstory.”
In other news, Gabrielle Union is launching a content series with LinkedIn that will focus on uplifting Black and other underrepresented entrepreneurs through topics including gender equity and mental health in the workplace. The three-month series, called Getting Real with Gabrielle Union, will include videos and posts on Union’s LinkedIn profile. The series is part of LinkedIn’s ongoing #IAmProfessional campaign.
Finally, Issa Rae was among the winners Tuesday on the second night of the non-televised portion of the NAACP Image Awards. The 37-year-old actress was honored for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for Insecure. The show received a total of 12 nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, and Rae is also up for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series . The 53rd NAACP Image Awards,hosted by Anthony Anderson, will air Saturday, February 26 at 8 p.m. on BET.
In a year that saw Andrew Garfield nominated for an Oscar for playing Rent playwright Jonathan Larsontick…tick…Boom!,and winning praise for playing both televangelist Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and Peter Parker No 3. in the blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home, comes the teaser for his latest project.
The versatile British actor will play a religiously devout Mormon detective on the hunt for a double murderer in the series Under the Banner of Heaven, coming to Hulu from FX and Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, and Academy Award-winning producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.
Detective Pyre, played by Garfield, is an elder in the Church of Latter Day Saints “who is committed to his Church and family, but begins to question some of the Church’s teachings through his contact with a suspected murderer,” according to the network.
“The evidence points to things and beliefs that I’ve only ever heard whisperings about,” Garfield says, the only voice heard in the spooky snippet. “I wonder how something so horrific could have come to pass.”
Also starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sam Worthington, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle and Rory Culkin, among others,the true crime thriller series will be available exclusively on Hulu in 2022.
The $4,750 black Armani dress Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle wore during her sit-down with husband Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey is being touted as 2021’s Dress of the Year by Bath, England’s Fashion Museum.
Specifically, it’s not the “screen-used” garment, to use movie industry parlance, but a version of the “triple silk georgette dress” donated by Armani that matches the one Markle wore during the headline-grabbing interview.
The piece will become a part of Fashion Museum Bath’s “A History of Fashion in 100 Objects” exhibition.
The “Dress of the Year” honor was bestowed upon the garment by last year’s winners, Dazed magazine’s Ibrahim Kamara and Gareth Wrighton. Their “Dress of Hope” snagged the honor for the pandemic year 2020.
On the museum’s website, the designers called the Oprah interview “the definitive anti-establishment moment that will forever endure in the British collective consciousness.”
And in case you don’t think headlines about the so-called “runaway royals” are already hyperbolic enough, the designers continued about the enshrined ensemble: “Meghan’s wrap dress by Armani, worn to showcase a divine pregnancy, framed the Duchess in black against the bountiful landscaping of Tyler Perry‘s Hollywood garden. This look now, through sheer association with a viral television moment, is firmly engrained in our pop culture psyche.”
Rosemary Harden, Fashion Museum Bath’s manager, added, “…There are moments in history that are all about the dress…The softly structured Armani dress with beautiful appliquéd lotus flower motif was part of a carefully curated look, guaranteed to send messages, and to imprint itself in our consciousness time and time again.”
While the movie is still raking in the dough in theaters, fans apparently can’t wait to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home at home.
The $1.83 billion-grossing Sony film has become the most pre-ordered title in the history of Vudu, Fandango’s video-on-demand service, besting previous pre-order champ Avengers: Endgame.
No Way Home will be released for rent or purchase on Blu-ray and streaming in SD, HDX and 4K UHD formats on Tuesday, March 22.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is now the third highest-grossing movie ever, domestically. The film starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Willem Dafoe and Jamie Foxx, as well as Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, currently only ranks under Avengers: Endgame and Avatar— two movies that didn’t have to compete with a pandemic for their box office earnings.
Meanwhile, Sony Pictures has teased the 80 minutes’ worth of special features that will be made available on Blu-ray and digital when Spider-Man: No Way Home swings into your living room, including behind-the-scenes peeks at the movie’s amazing stunts, a gag reel, interviews and more.
