Poe Dameron’s line in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, “Somehow, Palpatine returned,” was apparently added in a reshoot. According to Oscar Isaac, who was tasked with delivering this key bit of exposition, he never considered that it might spark fan backlash and become an internet meme.
Conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, sparking shockwaves across the political world and raising new concerns about political violence in America.
Even as the lights of Hollywood begin to dim for Mark Hamill, the actor behind Luke Skywalker isn’t ready to fade quietly. Instead, he’s become one of the most candid and persistent voices in political commentary today. Whether or not he is effective at persuading...
Jimmy Kimmel has built his late-night persona on mocking President Trump. At this year’s Creative Arts Emmys, he kept that streak alive while also brushing off any suggestion that he’s some noble figure “defending democracy.” Still, if his comments backstage sounded dismissive, his attitude showed the same smug self-satisfaction that has defined his Emmy-night politics for years.
Rachel Zegler burst onto the scene with powerful performances in West Side Story (2021) and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023). Discovered by Steven Spielberg, she was a force to be reckoned with if even if both her first films flopped...
The long-running voice of Beast Boy, Greg Cipes, has come forward with a serious allegation against Warner Bros. According to Cipes, he was fired from his role as Beast Boy the day after he publicly shared his Parkinson’s diagnosis—ending over two decades of work with DC’s animated projects.
In one of the strangest twists in recent Hollywood memory, Stephen Colbert has finally won an Emmy for The Late Show—just weeks after CBS announced his program is being canceled. After nearly a decade on the air and 33 nominations without a single victory, Colbert’s show secured its first statuette in the Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series category.
The timing couldn’t be more suspicious. Was this really about rewarding creative merit, or was Hollywood sending a political message after CBS pulled the plug on the partisan host?
Howard Stern is back in the headlines with SirirusXM, though not for anything particularly new. After vanishing from the airwaves and sparking widespread speculation about his future, the veteran shock jock resurfaced on SiriusXM this week with a prank aimed at media outlets and his own listeners.
Sydney Sweeney stepped onto the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival this week with her new movie Christy front and center. But while promoting the biopic about boxer Christy Martin, one reporter shifted gears and asked about her recent American Eagle partnership and the viral fallout of the “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign.
Universal has removed director Jordan Peele’s new movie from the October 2026 release slate after it had already been delayed, leaving both fans and critics alike to speculate on the future of the project.
SungWon Cho, a prominent English-language voice actor also known as ProZD, has recently found himself at the center of controversy when his actions conflicted with his previous stance of race-based voice casting.
When American Eagle Outfitters tapped Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney to front its summer denim campaign, the reaction was immediate — and divisive. Progressive activists accused the ads of being tone-deaf, claiming the tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” carried undertones that had nothing to do with fashion. Yet while online outrage tried to paint the campaign as problematic, the numbers tell a very different story: American Eagle stock is riding high.
The phrase “Sydney Sweeney ballet” should be trending right now because of a stylish new Jimmy Choo campaign, not because online activists have lost their minds again. Yet here we are. The actress slipped into a leotard and boots for an ad that playfully leaned into ballet imagery, and the outrage brigade has declared it “offensive” to actual dancers.