Wedding bells are in the future for Queer Eye‘s Antoni Porowski, who announced his engagement to boyfriend Kevin Harrington.
Antoni shared the news with a low-key photo of the couple to Instagram Thursday, captioning it “I really hope the wedding photos are less blurry.”
Kevin also posted to Instagram, “Officially together until we look like the last pic #engaged,” alongside a carousel of photos.
The pair, who were together for three years, were flooded with congratulatory messages in the comments, including some from Antoni’s Queer Eye costars.
Jonathan Van Ness wrote, “So Cute, love soy much. Already sourcing my flower girl looks!!!”
Tan France also chimed in writing, “I volunteer as wedding selfie-photographer.”
Jay Leno got a dose of laughter-as-medicine from his longtime pal Tim Allen as Jay recovers from burns he suffered in an accident last weekend.
TMZ caught a smiling Allen as he left the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles on Thursday, where the Toy Story star gave an update about his friend and Jay Leno’s Garage host’s condition. “Jay is good,” Allen commented as he walked to his car. “It’s wonderful because he’s feeling better. He’s feeling better, I brought him some car magazines, did some jokes, because that’s what we do.”
Leno suffered serious burns to his face, chest and hand after being sprayed by gasoline as he worked on an antique vehicle. He subsequently underwent a skin graft and is getting hyperbaric oxygen therapy to help him heal.
Allen continued, “His face looks good,” before joking, “it didn’t look all that good to begin with, so he’s going with ‘the George Clooney‘ look. You’re gonna be surprised.”
Leno’s doctors gave an update on Leno’s condition earlier this week, noting he’s expected to make a full recovery but explaining “it’s still way too early to tell” if he’ll have any permanent scarring from the accident.
Ellen Pompeo addressed her departure from Grey’s Anatomy in a social media post dedicated to the show’s fans.
“I am eternally grateful and humbled by the love and support you have all shown me, Meredith GREY and the show for 19 seasons!” the actress, 53, wrote in an Instagram post Thursday.
“Through it all….none of it …would have been possible without the best fans in the world,” she continued. “You all are RIDERS and you all have made the ride so fun and ICONIC!! I love you madly and appreciate you right back.”
Pompeo teased that this won’t be the last time viewers will see Meredith Grey, the character she has played for more than 400 episodes since Grey’s Anatomy debuted in 2005.
“This isn’t your first time on the rollercoaster… you know the show must go on and I’ll definitely be back to visit,” her post concluded. “With a lot of love and immense gratitude XoE [folded hands, heart emoji].”
It was revealed ahead of season 19’s premiere that Pompeo would be limiting her role on the show, appearing in only eight episodes while staying on as executive producer and continuing to provide voiceover narration for all episodes this season.
Meredith announced in the midseason finale, which aired Nov. 10, that she was leaving Grey Sloan Memorial for a job researching for an Alzheimer’s cure with the Catherine Fox Foundation.
(NOTE LANGUAGE)Insecure and White Lotus vet Natasha Rothwell is set to star in, write and serve as showrunner for Hulu’s upcoming comedy series How to Die Alone, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rothwell will play Melissa, “a fat, black, neurotic woman who has never been in love. After a comical brush with death, she refuses to settle for anything less than the life she wants, catapulting her on a journey to becoming ‘100 percent that b****’ in real life by any means necessary,” per the streamer…
Deadline reports Epix — the broadcast network which will go by the new name MGM+ starting January — and Amazon Prime Video have ordered a suite of live-action action series from Sony Pictures Television, beginning with the Spider-Man spin-off series Silk: Spider Society. The Walking Dead’s Angela Kang is set as showrunner for the series that will follow Cindy Moon, “a Korean-American woman bitten by the same spider that bit Peter Parker, as she escapes imprisonment and searches for her missing family on her way to becoming the superhero known as Silk,” according to the entertainment website. MGM+ will have air the series first before it moves to Amazon’s Prime…
Peacock on Thursday released the official-teaser trailer for Bel-Air‘s second season. The series, which is a dramatic reimagining of the beloved 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, stars Jabari Banks as Will who, like his predecessor, is South Philadelphia born and raised and moved by his mom to live with his wealthy aunt and uncle in the ritzy Los Angeles Bel-Air neighborhood to keep him safe from the Philly streets. Season 2 picks up with Will “at a crossroads as a new figure comes into his life who challenges what he’s learned in Bel-Air and competes for control of his influence,” according to the streamer… Adrian Holmes, Cassandra Freeman, Olly Sholotan, Coco Jones, Akira Akbar, Jimmy Akingbola, Jordan L. Jones and Simone Joy Jones also star…
It’s the sequel Enchanted fans have waited 15 years for — Disenchanted, out Friday on Disney+, with star Amy Adams returning as Princess Giselle.
Barry Josephson produced the first film and the sequel, and he tells ABC Audio what took so long.
“Well, originally when the first movie happened, I think it took everybody by surprise how successful it was. So successful, in fact, that everybody from the original movie wound up going right to work,” he explains. “So whether it be the director, the actors, especially Amy, whose career just blossomed and took off in leaps and bounds, it was very hard to imagine a sequel right after that movie as much as I think Disney really would have liked it.”
Josephson says Adams was also itching to work on the sequel, which sees her character Giselle facing new challenges.
“…She’s having a baby. She’s struggling to understand her teenage daughter. Her husband, you know, [has progressed to understanding her wants and needs, unlike it was in the first movie,” he notes.
Idina Menzel is also back as Nancy Tremaine, and says fans are going to get what they wanted: “a great, funny, witty movie with lots of incredible performances.”
Menzel even gets to sing this time, and one of her favorite days on set involved her big musical number, “Love Power,” which was “really magical.”
One place she doesn’t get to sing much anymore is around the house, explaining, “I used to, but now for some reason, the minute I open my mouth, my son asks me to be quiet.”
Disenchanted also features Patrick Dempsey and James Marsden, reprising their roles from the first film, and Gabriella Baldacchino, who replaces Rachel Covey. They’re joined by newcomers Maya Rudolph, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jayma Mays, Oscar Nunez, and Griffin Newman.
The classic 1968 action drama Bullitt is getting an update for director Steven Spielberg, and Deadline reports he’s put Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper in the driver’s seat.
The trade reports Cooper will succeed the legendary stuntman-actor Steve McQueen in an all new adventure featuring McQueen’s hard-nosed, hard-driving San Francisco cop Frank Bullitt.
A Star Is Born director Cooper is also producing the film, which is being executive produced by Steve McQueen’s son, Chad McQueen, and granddaughter Molly McQueen.
Bullitt featured one of cinema’s most famous car chases, with McQueen in his hunter green 1968 Mustang GT, pursuing baddies in a 1968 Dodge Charger through the famously hilly City By The Bay.
The chase — and the actual car — became so iconic that the car sold at auction in 2020 for more than $3.7 million.
With so much content out there to stream and stan, the platform Fandom asked 5,000 of its global community of some 300 million monthly users what they think about their favorite content, from Star Wars to The Sex Lives of College Girls.
The findings were rather revealing and could make a marketing exec’s head spin.
Fandom CMO Stephanie Fried noted in a statement, “The words ‘fan’ and ‘super fan’ are used constantly to describe consumers of entertainment, but those terms are too generic for today’s entertainment world.”
She adds that “fandoms are complex,” and to that end, Fandom has broken “fans” into four distinct groups, ranging from the hardcore — “The Advocate” and “The Intentionalist” on one end — to more casual fans, who are in “The Flirt” category on the other side of the spectrum.
The survey also revealed that 84% of Marvel fans say they’re “overwhelmed with the constant stream of MCU content” — but they still flock to the box office or streaming for every new entry. Their fanbase is more made up of “Advocate” and “Intentionalist” fanboys and fangirls.
On the other hand, rival DC has its fans, too, but most reside in the “Culturist” and “Flirt” categories — that is, they see new projects to calm their FOMO, or to remain plugged into what people are talking (or meme-ing) about.
However, die-hard fans aren’t just found watching superhero movies: The audience for HBO’s The Sex Lives of College Girls ranks as “Advocates” and “Intentionalists” — with 81% saying they’re ready for the forthcoming second season.
Similarly, fans of Harry Potter, Stranger Things, Rick and Morty, Zelda, Nintendo’s Mario games and The Simpsons also logged the largest number of “Advocates” and “Intentionalists.”
Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.
In the teaser trailer released Thursday for the upcoming film Elemental, Pixar introduces its new world that centers around the four elements — fire, air, earth and water — and what happens when their respective residents live together.
The trailer introduces Ember, a fiery young woman, who has a meet-cute with Wade, a person made of water, on a subway train in Element City. The train also shows earth and air people going about their day on public transit.
Disney said in a press release that Elemental is inspired by director Peter Sohn‘s childhood in New York.
“My parents emigrated from Korea in the early 1970s and built a bustling grocery store in the Bronx,” he said in a statement. “We were among many families who ventured to a new land with hopes and dreams — all of us mixing into one big salad bowl of cultures, languages and beautiful little neighborhoods. That’s what led me to Elemental.”
He added, “Our story is based on the classic elements — fire, water, land and air. Some elements mix with each other, and some don’t. What if these elements were alive?”
Elemental is slated to premiere in June 2023.
Disney is the parent company of Pixar and ABC News.
The Fast and the Furious franchise started in 2001 as a street racing movie, but has since become something of a car-adjacent James Bond series: After all, Fast 9 saw “family” members Tej and Roman literally blasting off into space.
However, all that ante-upping comes at a price — a massive one, according to The Wrap.
The site says the 10th installment in the blockbuster series has a blockbuster budget to match: $340 million.
By comparison, the site notes, its previous installment, Fast 9, had a budget of $200 million: No small potatoes by any stretch, but some 70% less expensive than Fast X — and that was even including its ludicrous (or Ludacris) space race.
With the price tag from paying star and executive producer Vin Diesel and other returning stars’ salaries, as well as the over-the-top stunts, inflation, COVID safety regulations and marketing, Fast X might have to make at least $500 million before Universal Pictures can break even.
While previous entries in the franchise have easily cleared that much dough — with Fast 7 grossing a series-best $1.5 billion globally, pre-pandemic — the site notes the likely diminishing returns for Universal Pictures in a franchise that still has a series-capping 11th film in the works.
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno star in the official trailer for 80 for Brady as four best friends who travel to Houston to see their favorite football player — you guessed it, Tom Brady — play in Super Bowl 51.
The Super Bowl, which took place in 2017, saw the famed quarterback lead the New England Patriots to a comeback win over the Atlanta Falcons after trailing 28-3.
In the trailer, Fonda, Tomlin, Field and Moreno’s characters decide to set out on their adventure, which is filled with hilarious hijinks. There are also some celebrity cameos, including Billy Porter, Guy Fieri and Rob Gronkowski.
Highlights from the trailer show Fonda making out with Harry Hamlin in a closet and later running into Gronk in the locker room; Tomlin doing the dab; Field entering a hot wings-eating contest; Moreno drinking something that results in everyone looking like Fieri; and all the ladies dancing with Porter.
Brady, who now plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, appears in and is a producer on the Kyle Marvin-directed film, which is based on a true story.
80 for Brady touches down in theaters Feb. 3, 2023.
