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The part of a door that controversially fit Kate Winslet‘s Rose — but not Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Jack — at the end of Titanic has fetched a fortune at auction. As part of Heritage Auctions’ Treasures of Planet Hollywood event, the door sold for $718,750 when the hammer fell, ABC Audio has confirmed.

By comparison, the $525,000 someone spent on Indy’s whip from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and the $350,000 the winning bidder parted with for Bill Murray‘s Kingpin bowling ball seem like downright bargains.

The door, and why Rose didn’t suggest Jack climb on board for safety as she did, has been the center of snarking since James Cameron‘s 1997 Oscar-winning blockbuster debuted.

Mythbusters confirmed years ago that the death of DiCaprio’s steerage class scamp was “needless,” as he easily could have fit on the piece of wood from the sunken ship.

However, even though Cameron took part in the Mythbusters ep, in a recent National Geographic special Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron, the famous perfectionist tested and retested the theory again himself, ultimately declaring “Jack might’ve lived, but there’s a lot of variables … I think his thought process was, ‘I’m not going to do one thing that jeopardized her,’ and that’s 100 percent in character.”

He also allowed if he could have shot the scene over, he would have “made the raft smaller so there’s no doubt.”

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On Monday, CBS and The Golden Globe Awards announced a new five-year deal that will keep the awards show on both the broadcast network and its sister streamer, Paramount+.

The new agreement kicks off with the January 2025 broadcast, both the network and the event’s organizers say.

The Globes aired on CBS back on January 7, and the network touted a 50% jump in ratings from 2023’s showing on the Globes’ former broadcast home, NBC.

“CBS’ collaboration with the Globes for this year’s broadcast was a big win for both of us and established strong momentum for awards shows in 2024,” declared the network’s president and CEO, George Cheeks.

Calling the awards show “a one-of-a-kind live event,” Cheeks said he’s “excited to expand the partnership … to continue to drive the Globes forward.”

Helen Hoehne, the president of the Golden Globes, called the deal a “significant milestone” for the organization.

She added, “We are incredibly proud of the audience we garnered in 2024 and look forward to building upon the immense success to make the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards the best and most memorable show yet.” 

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Rebel Wilson made some waves on March 15 when she said in an Instagram Story that her upcoming book would expose a certain A-list “a******” with whom she worked.

“I worked with a massive a******,” Wilson said at the time. “And, yeah, now I definitely have a no a******* policy.”

The scuttlebutt grew louder when she followed that Rebel Rising tease by identifying Borat‘s Sacha Baron Cohen as said actor. The pair worked together in The Brothers Grimsby. She even went so far as to say, “He’s hired a crisis PR manager and lawyers” and was “trying to stop press coming out about my book.”

“But the book WILL come out, and you will all know the truth,” she claimed, according to Page Six.

However, a rep for Cohen says her allegations are not true.

“While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby,” the statement read.

According to Page Six, the Australian actress told the Kyle and Jackie O radio show back in 2014 that the “outrageous” actor pressured her to be naked for a scene. “Sacha and I have the same agent in America and I’m like, ‘Sacha, I’m going to call our agent, Sharon, and tell her how much you are harassing me,'” she reportedly said at the time.

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Kevin Hart received one of comedy’s highest honors, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, at a ceremony held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.

“Life without a gamble is a weird thing, man,” he said in his speech, per USA Today. “‘Cause that’s acting as if you know. You don’t know. You don’t know what your future will be. You don’t have the answers.”

He continued, “So sometimes a gamble is the best way to define what will be you or ultimately become the best version of you.”

Kevin accepted the award, given to those who have “impacted American society,” before a crowd of loved ones and peers, including Jimmy Fallon, Tiffany Haddish, Chris Rock, Chelsea Handler and Dave Chappelle, who shared some words about the star.

“You remind me … why I love comedy so much,” Chappelle told Kevin before joking, “I am honored to know somebody like you. I really wish you had come when I won this award.”

Rock praised Kevin for finding his own voice and surpassing him as a star, and Handler claimed she long knew Hart was “destined for superstardom.”

“It was clear from the moment we met that (Hart) was destined for superstardom, especially when he told me he was destined for superstardom,” Handler said. “I admired his pluck … as well as his drive and determination and the unrelenting hard work that brought him here tonight, to a place where the talk show host he told he was destined for superstardom is now presenting him with a lifetime achievement award.”

Kev joins previous recipients Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor and more.

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While it was originally billed as a limited series, Apple TV+ announced on Monday it is bringing back the Jennifer Garner-led mystery series The Last Thing He Told Me for a second season.

The series, co-produced by Garner and Reese Witherspoon, follows the bestseller of the same name by author Laura Dave, who also co-produced the first season and is about to release a sequel book of her own in 2025.

The series has Garner playing Hannah, whose husband vanishes, leaving behind a duffel bag full of cash and questions about who he really was. Hannah and stepdaughter Bailey, played by Mean Girls musical vet Angourie Rice, then set about to untangle the mystery.

The series ended with a surprise appearance by Hannah’s husband, played by Game of Thrones veteran Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

Those cast members, along with co-star David Morse, are all set to reprise for the sophomore frame.

“Like so many people, I fell for Hannah on page one of Laura Dave’s gripping novel,” Garner said in the announcement. “The move to actor and producer from reader and super fan was delicious,” she expressed, calling the show “a career highlight.”

Garner and Witherspoon added they were thrilled to continue the series.

Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, teased, “Season two will take viewers on an even more exhilarating ride with more mysteries, twists and turns around every corner, and we can’t wait to explore the next chapter for these captivating characters.”

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While winning an Oscar is considered a career apex for an actor, Anne Hathaway has said it led to an explosion of “hate” against her.

In 2021, she admitted to The Sun she was shocked to once see an article titled “Why does everyone hate Anne Hathaway?”

Now, in a new cover story, The Idea of You producer and star reveals to Vanity Fair that the blowback after her win for Les Misérables wasn’t just internet snarking. “A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” she admits.

She explains it was Oscar-winning Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan, who had previously cast her as Selena Kyle/Catwoman in 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, who kept her career on track by casting her in his 2014 hit Interstellar.

“I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of,” Hathaway says.

“I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect,” she continues, adding, “my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.”

“Humiliation is such a rough thing to go through. The key is to not let it close you down,” she maintains, vowing that to be an actor, “You have to stay bold” even if it can get you hurt.

“You’re a daredevil. You’re asking people to invest their time and their money and their attention and their care into you. So you have to give them something worth [that]. And if it’s not costing you anything, what are you really offering?” Anne expresses.

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ABC Audio has confirmed that HBO has decided to delay production on the third season of its Emmy-winning drama Euphoria.

Cast members — including its Emmy winners Zendaya and Colman Domingo, as well as Sydney Sweeney and Storm Reid — were informed they have been temporarily released from their commitments to the drama.

The network issued a statement to ABC Audio reading, “HBO and [creator] Sam Levinson remain committed to making an exceptional third season. In the interim, we are allowing our in-demand cast to pursue other opportunities.”

The announcement was something of a surprise; recently, Sweeney hinted to MTV that she was gearing up to get back to work on the acclaimed series.

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She’s currently in theaters in the “twisty” thriller Sleeping Dogs opposite the “brilliant” Russell Crowe, but fans are already hoping Karen Gillan gets the call from Guardians of the Galaxy writer-director James Gunn for another comics-based role.

Ever since an artist posted a rendition of the flame-haired Scot as DC Comics’ plant-controlling baddie Poison Ivy, the internet has been abuzz with the possibility she’d reunite with Gunn, now the co-head of the DC Comics-based movie universe.

In 2023, Gillan told Total Film, “I always thought that Poison Ivy was really fun,” adding, “maybe something like that would be cool.”

However, the actress and director, who played the blue-skinned cyborg Nebula in the Marvel universe, starting with 2014’s Guardians, tells ABC Audio she hasn’t gotten that call — yet.

“No, we haven’t had any conversations,” she claims. “I mean, I have conversations with him because he’s my friend. But … kind of nothing serious about a specific character or anything like that.”

When ABC Audio pointed out that as Ivy, she could finally work for Gunn with her naturally red hair — and not shave it off like she initially did with Nebula — Gillan was delighted. “Yesss!” she replies. “I am not against that!” 

That said, she’s not picky. She told Total Film, “Honestly, if James asked me to play an alien that sits in the background of a shot and doesn’t talk, I would say yes, because working with him has been one of the great joys of my career so far.”

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Disney+ has dropped the official trailer for Doctor Who season 14, which finds Ncuti Gatwa assuming the role of the 15th Doctor on the British show. The upcoming season, per the streaming service, “follows the Doctor and his companion Ruby Sunday — played by Millie Gibson — as they travel across time and space, with adventures all the way from the Regency era in England, to war-torn future worlds.” Doctor Who season 15 premieres May 10 on Disney+ …

Karen Pittman, who played Nya on the first two seasons of Max’s Sex and the City sequel And Just Like That…, will not be returning for the show’s third season, according to Entertainment Weekly. A spokesperson for the streamer in a statement cited Pittman’s “commitments to two other streamer series” as the reason for her departure. The actress is a series regular on Apple TV+’s The Morning Show and was recently tapped to star in Netflix’s upcoming series adaptation of Judy Blume‘s novel Forever …

Rockmond Dunbar has joined the cast of Kevin Hart‘s upcoming limited series for Peacock, Fight Night, according to Deadline. It mark’s Dunbar’s first acting job since getting fired from the series 9-1-1 back in 2021 for not complying with the studio’s COVID vaccine mandate after his requests for a medical and religious exemptions were rejected, per the outlet. Fight Night chronicles one of the largest armed robberies in U.S. history, orchestrated around Muhammad Ali’s 1970 comeback fight against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, where hundreds of guests were robbed at gunpoint at an afterparty …

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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the fifth film in the Ghostbusters franchise, and the sequel to 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, delivered an estimated $45.2 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend.

Internationally, the film brought in $16.4 million, for a global haul of $61.6 million. That raises the total gross of Ghostbusters‘ franchise past $1 billion worldwide.

Frozen Empire reunites original Ghostbusters castmembers Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts with newer cast members Mckenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd.

Dune: Part Two continued its strong showing, hanging on to second place at the North American box office with an estimated $17.6 million weekend. Its four-week tally now stands at $233 million and $574.4 million worldwide.

Third place went to Kung Fu Panda 4, earning an estimated $16.8 million at the domestic box office in its third week of release. The animated sequel has now grabbed $268.2 million globally.

Immaculate, the horror flick starring Sydney Sweeney, opened in fourth place with an estimated $5.4 million in North America.

Rounding out the top five was Mark Wahlberg‘s Arthur the King, grossing an estimated $4.4 million. Its two-week totals stands at $14.6 million domestically and $15.2 million worldwide.

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