The upcoming Masters of the Universe film is once again finding itself pulled into a familiar cultural conversation, this time following new comments from Teela actress Camila Mendes that tie her character directly to themes of “toxic masculinity.” The remarks add to...
Perhaps the world just wasn’t ready for CNN+. That video streaming service, which launched in 2022, featured original content from the more distinguished CNN personalities, and was gone after one month. Now, according to Deadline, the cable news network is trying again this October 28th with CNN All Access.
Netflix is ramping up promotion for the long-awaited fifth and final season of Stranger Things, set to premiere this Thanksgiving after a three-year hiatus. The streamer doubtlessly hopes that the online discourse will center around fan theories and building anticipation for the return to Hawkins, Indiana. However, a recent interview in Time magazine with star Noah Schnapp, which examines how the media’s long-standing focus on his sexuality has affected him, threatens to pull the focus into the Upside Down.
For decades, The Walt Disney Company has billed itself as America’s storyteller — a studio and theme park empire built on optimism, imagination, and the American dream itself. But over the past few years, that image has come under fire. From removing historical scenes on classic attractions to corporate departments focused on “stories that matter,” many longtime fans have accused Disney of erasing the very Americana that once defined its spirit.
In a forceful public rebuke, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has formally rejected OpenAI’s newly unveiled video-generation tool, Sora 2, warning that its adoption poses “serious and harmful risks” to the intellectual property of artists, performers, writers, and other creative professionals.
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! has revived its recurring “Drag Queen Storytime” segment where a drag performer in a dress and make up sits with a group of children to read them excerpts from conservative books and mock them. This time, performer Trixie Mattel, a biological male dressed as a woman, read excerpts from Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation, a newly released memoir by Eric Trump, to a group of children on national television.
The Bari Weiss era at CBS News has officially begun — and she isn’t wasting time making her mark. In her first decisive act as editor-in-chief, Weiss has removed Claudia Milne, the head of Standards and Practices, signaling a long-overdue course correction for a network that’s been struggling to find its credibility amid years of ideological drift.
According to a rumor from Nexus Point, Danielle Deadwyler is supposedly in talks with Black Panther director Ryan Coogler regarding a potential role in his upcoming The X-Files reboot. Staying true to the original format, the new series will feature two main investigators, one male and one female, with Deadwyler portraying the latter.
How’s this for a shocking twist? M. Night Shyamalan has partnered with Mattel Studios to produce a Magic 8 Ball TV show. In a post on Instagram, the director shared a picture of the cover page for a pilot script written by Brad Falchuk with the caption, “Been working on this for a couple years… Who’s in?”
Snoop Dogg’s latest move is raising eyebrows across the entertainment world. Only weeks after his candid criticism of Disney and Pixar’s Lightyear for depicting same-sex parents, Snoop Dogg has joined forces with GLAAD to promote PRIDE-centric content through his animated children’s show Doggyland.
If you listen to the Hollywood access media this week, you’d think Superman has taken flight in streaming ratings. Headlines are praising its debut on HBO Max, highlighting how the reboot soared to #4 on Nielsen’s Top 10 Movies chart during its first three days of release.
Netflix has found its next modern audience “reinterpretation,” and this time it’s taking aim at one of the most famous revenge stories ever written. The streaming service has green-lit The Countess of Monte Cristo—a re-imagined version of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo that replaces the novel’s male lead with a woman and reframes the narrative as a tale of female empowerment.
BlueSky, the platform often marketed as a “friendlier” alternative to X, is currently melting down in a rage. Users there have spent the past several days unleashing a torrent of abuse toward actress Keira Knightley — not because she said anything hateful or controversial, but because she dared to suggest that people with different opinions should learn to live together.
Yes, really.