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May 24, 2026
Beartooth Singer Caleb Shomo Comes Out as a ‘Proudly Gay Man’ in Emotional Message to Fans
Caleb Shomo, the frontman for rock band Beartooth, has come out as gay in a message to his fans. Shomo took to Instagram on May 23 to reveal “I am a proudly gay man,” and explained that “This is so...
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May 24, 2026
‘Gilded Age’ Season 4 First Look, New ‘Harry Potter’ Footage Among Teases in New HBO Max Trailer
A new HBO Max trailer is filled with new footage of returning series and first look footage of some of the year’s most anticipated titles. The following shows have clips included in the trailer: In...
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May 22, 2026
‘Dutton Ranch’ Episode 3: Rip’s Cattle Might Be Ruined by Anti-Vaxxers and Carter Avoids Getting Murdered After Peeing on a Truck
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the third episode of “Dutton Ranch,” “Act of God Business,” which is now streaming on Paramount+. After last week’s pair of series premiere episodes,...
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May 22, 2026
Ms. Rachel Sends Love to Danny Go After His 14-Year-Old Son Dies of Cancer: We ‘Are Thinking About Their Son’s Amazing Joy and Their Immense Pride’
Ms. Rachel has urged her fans to send prayers to fellow chidren’s entertainer Danny Go, whose 14-year-old son Isaac has died of cancer. “Hi wonderful parent and caregiver community — Please send so...
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May 22, 2026
Quentin Tarantino Butted Heads With Brad Pitt While Filming ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’: ‘You’ll Be Dead in This Business’
Although Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt are close collaborators, they allegedly had one moment where they disagreed while filming 2019’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” The anecdote comes via co...
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May 21, 2026
Stephen Colbert: From Interviewing John Lewis to Hosting at Home During COVID, These Six Moments Defined His ‘Late Show’ Tenure
When Stephen Colbert stepped behind the desk of CBS’ “The Late Show” on Sept. 8, 2015, viewers didn’t entirely know what to expect. Colbert had spent the previous 10 years playing a bombastic Bill ...
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May 20, 2026
Damon Lindelof Reveals Why He Was Fired From Star Wars Movie: Story Was the ‘Protestant Reformation Inside Star Wars’
“Lost” and “Watchmen” mastermind Damon Lindelof has detailed why he was fired from writing a Star Wars movie and teases what the tale would’ve been about. Lindelof was a guest on the May 18 episode...
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May 20, 2026
Michael Bay to Direct Operation Epic Fury Rescue Film About Two Pilots Recovered From Iran
Michael Bay is working on a new film about a major military operation. Bay, who previously directed the 2016 military drama “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” is working with Universal Pi...
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May 18, 2026
‘Obsession’ Star Inde Navarrette Delivers a Scary and Tragic Performance That Demands Awards Attention
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Obsession,” now playing in theaters. The best movie villains inspire empathy or understanding in an audience: Maybe they profoundly believe what t...
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May 18, 2026
Léa Seydoux Transforms: The Cannes Icon on Her Bold Festival Return, Not Being Threatened by AI and Championing Denis Villeneuve’s Bond Movie
“I’m pregnant. Will that be OK?” Léa Seydoux wasn’t sure if the timing was right at all. She’d been approached years prior by writer-director Arthur Harari to star in “The Unknown,” a science fict...
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May 17, 2026
Annette Bening on Going Head-to-Head With Beth and Rip on ‘Dutton Ranch,’ Perfecting That Accent and Wardrobe, and Bringing ‘Vulnerability and Desperation’ to Beulah
“Dutton Ranch” is a high-profile “Yellowstone” spinoff, but Annette Bening, a new addition to Taylor Sheridan’s universe, has been stealing every scene she’s been in. Bening plays Beulah Jackson, a...
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May 17, 2026
Will Ferrell’s Jeffrey Epstein Haunts Donald Trump on ‘SNL’: ‘People Will Always Associate You With Me’
Jeffrey Epstein made his “Saturday Night Live” debut during the May 16 cold open. Host Will Ferrell played the monstrous sex offender and Trump pal in a sketch that began with the president (James ...
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May 15, 2026
‘Dutton Ranch’ Series Premiere Episodes: Craziest Moments and Burning Questions, From A Cold-Blooded Murder to Beth and Rip’s Steamy Shower Scene
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the two-episode series premiere of “Dutton Ranch,” “The Untold Want” and “Earn Another Day,” which are now streaming on Paramount+. “Yellowstone” fan...
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May 15, 2026
‘Dutton Ranch’ Stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser on Creating Beth and Rip’s Steamy Chemistry: ‘We Take Care of Each Other’
One of TV’s most beloved couples is back. Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser have reunited to play Beth and Rip once more on the “Yellowstone” spinoff “Dutton Ranch.” The first two episodes are now avail...
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May 15, 2026
‘I Was Thrown Straight Into the Fire’: ‘SNL’ Freshmen on Crazy Auditions, Hate Comments and Advice From Lorne Michaels
Like any freshman year, one’s first season on “Saturday Night Live” is full of new friends, late nights and nervous poops. At least, that’s according to the five new cast members of Season 51, who ...
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May 14, 2026
Nicki Minaj Reveals Why She Came Out as MAGA, Says Jay-Z Hurt Obama’s Legacy
After publicly supporting Donald Trump and the Republican Party in recent months, Nicki Minaj is opening up about why she became vocal in her support for the President. During an interview with Tim...
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May 13, 2026
Untold Tales of ‘Survivor’: Players and Producers Dish on Season 50, Editing Controversies, Brutal Betrayals and the Real Lion That Could’ve Killed the Show
It’s June 24, 2025, on the remote Fijian island of Mana, a pocket of the Mamanuca archipelago that’s about half the size of Central Park. A sunburned camera operator is observing the jungle from th...
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May 10, 2026
Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Euphoria’ Sex Worker Is Really Pissing Off OnlyFans Models
The third (and last?) season of “Euphoria,” HBO’s crushingly bleak portrait of wayward youths in Southern California, sees its coterie of high school friends navigate the seventh circle of hell — w...
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May 10, 2026
Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel and Justice Kavanaugh Hit the Bar Together to Celebrate Iran War, Alcohol on ‘SNL’ Cold Open
Three of President Trump’s most alcohol-inclined confidants walk into a bar… That was the premise behind the cold open of the May 9 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which found aggro secretary of ...
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May 9, 2026
‘Buffet Infinity,’ A Surreal Horror Film Told Entirely Through Commercials, Is a Must-Watch for Midnight Movie Fans
The best midnight movies conjure a community experience, pleasing audiences who want to see reactions to the insanity onscreen. While many touchstones of the genre consist of notoriously strange an...
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May 8, 2026
How School Shooting Satire ‘Our Hero, Balthazar’ Director Oscar Boyson Found His Style While Making Movies With Greta Gerwig and the Safdie Brothers
The social satire “Our Hero, Balthazar” has an incredibly dark logline: A young man named Balthazar (Jaeden Martell), who spends time forcing tears for online videos lamenting gun violence, travels...
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May 7, 2026
Top Helmers Sip and Dish at the Variety High Tea Celebrating Female Directors
Top helmers and other industry insiders gathered May 5 in West Hollywood to sip and dish at the Variety High Tea Celebrating Female Directors. The invitation-only gathering brought together a group...
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May 6, 2026
Media CEO Pay 2025: How David Zaslav, Bob Iger, Ted Sarandos and Other Moguls Made Bank as Hollywood Struggled
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders sent a clear message to David Zaslav last month: Greed isn’t good. On April 23, they approved a plan to sell the company to Paramount for $110.9 billion, while ...
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May 5, 2026
‘The White Lotus’ Crashes Cannes: Inside Season 4’s Storyline, Helena Bonham Carter’s Exit and a $120 Million Production
In Cannes, two rival film teams descend upon the Cannes Film Festival with movies in competition and something to prove. One camps out at a flashy, palatial hotel on the Croisette, while the other ...
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May 5, 2026
Javier Bardem on Standing Up for Palestine, Taking Down Toxic Masculinity and Loving Penélope Cruz: ‘She’s Amazingly F—ing Beautiful’
As Javier Bardem was preparing to present at this year’s Oscars, one very famous incident loomed large in his mind. “Vanessa Redgrave, back in the ’70s,” he recalls recently. When the British actre...
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May 5, 2026
‘Homebody’ Trailer: ‘It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This’ Team Debuts New Ghost Story — And Ambitious Hopes to Remake it (EXCLUSIVE)
“It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This” duo Nick Toti and Rachel Kempf, who made waves by vowing to never release their word-of-mouth hit horror film onto streaming, VOD or physical media, are back w...
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May 4, 2026
Kid Cudi Fires M.I.A. From His Tour After She Is Booed During Republican Rant: ‘I Won’t Have Someone on Tour Making Offensive Remarks’
Kid Cudi has announced that he fired M.I.A. as one of the openers on his Rebel Ragers Tour. The move comes after a viral rant she made on May 2 at the Dallas date at the Dos Equis Pavilion, where s...
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May 4, 2026
‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Episode 4’s Biggest Moments, From Cassie Leveling Up Her OnlyFans to Rue Becoming a Snitch for the Feds
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Kitty Likes to Dance,” Season 3 Episode 4 of “Euphoria,” now streaming on HBO Max. Three episodes in, and this season of “Euphoria” has already been...
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May 3, 2026
Aziz Ansari’s Kash Patel Partners Up With Colin Jost’s Pete Hegseth to Talk Iran, Rising Prices on ‘SNL’
This week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” stared with a political cold open that brought Aziz Ansari to the sketch show. The segment began with Ashley Padilla’s Karoline Leavitt launching a pres...
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May 1, 2026
Political Thriller ‘Behind Closed Doors’ Sets Cast as Production Begins in Los Angeles (EXCLUSIVE)
Writer and director Joseph Sperber’s political murder mystery film “Behind Closed Doors” has announced its cast as it begins production in Los Angeles. Elijah Reed (“Doom Patrol”), Nick Samson (“Po...
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