John Leguizamo criticizes Super Mario Bros. remake casting, applauds 'colour-blind' casting of original movie

The final day of the first full week of testimony in Danny Masterson’s multiple rape trial Friday may have started a bit later than usual, but things got fiery pretty quick.

Not OK. Many celebrities have spoken out about feeling uncomfortable with how they’ve been sexualized in their various hit TV shows and movies.

Janey Godley has left her fans in stitches once again by voicing over Liz Truss ' resignation speech on Thursday afternoon.

American Idol is a cultural institution.

While Jana Kramer revealed that her ex-husband Mike Caussin cheated on her with more than 13 women during their nearly six-year marriage, the country star confessed she "went real crazy" amid their divorce. "I shattered so many things in my house ... there was this pantry door.

Kelly Ripa isn’t going to let Kathie Lee Gifford just say whatever she wants!

Oprah Winfrey is the latest big name to join Stacey Abrams on the campaign trail. Winfrey will host a virtual event with the Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee titled "A Thriving Life!" on Thursday night.  "I’m excited to join an extraordinary storyteller and my friend,@Oprah, for a conversation about this historic election, the #UnfinishedBusiness we have here in Georgia, and how we can write the next greatest chapter in our state's history," Abrams, 48, wrote on Twitter.

the cast of David O. Russell’s Amsterdam. Bale and Washington play World War I veterans who befriend each other after serving together.

EXCLUSIVE: Industry and Bodies Bodies Bodies star Myha’la Herrold is the latest name to join Sony and Black Bear’s starry GameStop movie Dumb Money.

Selome Hailu During the 2020-21 TV season, a study found that streaming companies put more women in positions of creative power than broadcast networks did, though broadcasters featured slightly more women as major characters in their shows. But a year later, that same study has found that streamers now beat out networks on both fronts by slight margins. The study, titled “Boxed In,” has been run by Dr. Martha Lauzen, executive director of San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, for 25 years now. Lauzen also conducts the yearly studies “Celluloid Ceiling” and “Thumbs Down: Gender and Film Critics, and Why It Matters.” Boxed In” considers one randomly selected episode of different series appearing on the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW) during primetime and streaming services (Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock). In 2021-22, the study tracked over 3,000 characters and more than 3,800 production credits, adding to a total of over 53,000 characters and 66,000 credits since the study began during the 1997-98 TV season.

If you've been sleeping with the lights on after binging terrifying true crime shows, you're not alone. It seems everyone - including Hollywood's biggest stars - has become obsessed with true crime as streaming platform Netflix and more release shows, podcasts and movies about real life mysteries. Fox News Digital spoke to psychotherapist Dr.

2022 has been a busy year for the Fox network and so far, the channel has renewed a lot of content.

John Legend is opening up about Blake Shelton‘s exit from “The Voice”. ET’s Cassie DiLaura spoke to the “Wonder Woman” singer at Ralph Lauren’s 2023 Spring-Summer fashion show at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California where he shared what he thought about the “heart” and “soul” of the show leaving after 23 seasons.

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Ramos, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Dane DeHaan have joined the all-star ensemble of Sony and Black Bear Pictures upcoming dramedy Dumb Money. They join Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan and Pete Davidson with Gillespie directing. The pic based on bestselling author Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network, the script was adapted by Rebecca Angelo & Lauren Schuker Blum. Ryder Picture Company’s Aaron Ryder, Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman and Gillespie will produce. Principal photography is currently underway. Sony recently swooped in to land distribution rights after the film was recently announced a this years Toronto Film Festival. Sony Pictures also holds Latin America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, South Africa, India and select Asian rights.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw and Texas GOP congressional candidates Cassy Garcia and Monica De La Cruz said on "Fox & Friends" they believe longtime Democratic seats in South Texas are about to flip red.

Mark Wahlberg has joined the growing list of celebrities who have moved away from Hollywood. During an appearance on "The Talk" last week, the 51-year-old actor revealed that he and his family have moved to Nevada, and he explained why they decided to relocate.

California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter berated Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan in their text conversation after trashing the Irvine police department after her violent town hall last year. Fox News Digital obtained the full text message exchange between Porter and Khan following a fight that broke out at the congresswoman’s July 2021 town hall that saw the man Porter lives with arrested.

Shannon Brandt intends to "fully defend" himself against the murder charge he is facing in relation to the death of Cayler Ellingson. Brandt, 41, was arrested after police say he used his SUV to fatally hit Cayler Ellingson, 18, during the early morning hours of Sept. 18 after a street dance at a local bar in McHenry, North Dakota.

J. Kim Murphy As Nintendo’s Bayonetta 3 closes in on its long-awaited release date of Oct. 28, the video game franchise’s fanbase has been rocked by a statement shared by the series’ original lead voice actor, Hellena Taylor, who shares that she did not return for the new entry after being offered only $4,000 to reprise her role. “The Bayonetta franchise made approximately $450 million. That’s not including merchandise. As an actor, I trained for a total of seven and a half years,” Taylor shared in a statement on her Twitter. “What did they think this was worth? What did they offer to pay me? The final offer to do the whole game — as a buyout, flat rate — was $4,000. This is an insult to me [and] the amount of time that I took to work on my talent and everything I’ve given to this game and to the fans.”

Shannon Brandt will appear in court on Thursday for his initial appearance. Brandt, 41, was arrested after police say he fatally hit 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with an SUV on Sept. 18 during the early morning hours.The incident happened after a street dance at a local bar in McHenry, North Dakota.

A Catholic Church in Michigan was vandalized with spray paint by three vandals last weekend. Security footage shows three vandals dressed in black approach the Church of the Resurrection in Lansing, Michigan, on foot. "Our hope and our prayer is that those who did this to our parish church are not just brought to justice but are also brought to conversion, brought to an encounter with the love of Jesus, brought to a realization that anger corrodes the soul while life in Christ brings only freedom, peace and healing.That's our hope.That’s our prayer," parish pastor Steve Mattson said Wednesday.

As time passes, Americans are becoming less outwardly appreciative of blue-collar and gray-collar jobs, such as those in the trades, agriculture and elsewhere, "How America Works" host Mike Rowe said Friday, ahead of the new season of his Fox Business program. On "Hannity," host Sean Hannity cited his early work in restaurants and labor-centric jobs, saying many Americans don't fully understand anymore what it takes to manufacture something or farm to a capacity that feeds the nation and world.

K.J. Yossman Entertainment One (eOne) have sold their first Soanish language series “Operación Marea Negra” to over 60 territories including the U.S. and Mexico (Roku), Austarlia (SBS), Latin American (AMC Networks Intl), Canada (TELEUS) and Spain (Disney-owned FOX channel). The four-part series is based on the true story of Europe’s first intercepted narco-submarine in November 2019, when three smugglers crossed the Atlantic in a home-made sub-aquatic vessel carrying more than 3,000 kilos of cocaine. After boarding in the middle of the Amazon, they sailed to Europe while enduring terrible conditions including hunger, engine problems and storms before finally being captured on the Galician coast by the Civil Guard.

John Legend will be sad to see Blake Shelton leave The Voice.

The English,” starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer. All six episodes of the limited series will premiere on November 11 exclusively in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Nordics on Prime Video, following its November 10 UK premiere on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. The series is created by Hugo Blick, who also serves as an executive producer, director and writer. The series follows aristocratic Englishwoman Lady Cornelia Locke, played by Blunt, and a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout named Eli Whipp, played by Spencer. They come together in 1890 middle America to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other legal groups filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thursday, alleging that migrants detained in four detention facilities in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona have been denied legal representation.  In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that attorneys face "numerous obstacles" in attempting to communicate with detained migrants.These obstacles, the lawsuit says, make representation "extremely difficult and, sometimes, impossible."  FILE: A Border Patrol agent walks between a gap along the border wall between the US and Mexico in Yuma, Arizona on June 1, 2022. (Patrick T.

Kelly Ripa joked that husband Mark Consuelos was getting "attention on the street" during her show Thursday. Ripa just released her new book, "Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories," which landed her on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Despite the success, the memoir has received criticism over Ripa's portrayal of her working relationship with Regis Philbin.

Ethan Shanfeld Not much is known about Nintendo’s upcoming “Super Mario Bros.” movie, but Keegan-Michael Key revealed to Variety that his character Toad has a musical moment in the film. When asked if Toad shows off his singing chops in the animated movie, Key said, “He does. I got to improvise a song in ‘Super Mario Bros.,’ which was an absolute blast. That was just a stick of fun, that whole thing.” Regarding Toad’s voice, Key said, “I was working on the voice with my partner and trying to find the voice through the internal journey of the character. And then with the directors [Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic], we sprinkled some things in, we moved it around.”

In a dramatic move, Congressional committee investigation the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol voted today to subpoena former president Donald Trump on the matter.

A new CNN analysis fretted that American voters might care more about the cost of their food than they do about the Jan. 6 hearings.  Noting Thursday’s Consumer Price Index data which showed inflation reaching 8.2% in September, as well as a cost-of-living index at its highest level since 1982, CNN's Stephen Collinson noted polling has repeatedly reinforced that the economy is the top concern to voters heading into the midterm elections.The data included information about frozen potato products, as well as pork products, which have increased 10% and 5.5%, respectively.

Left-leaning outlets have ignored the latest development in the debunked story about Border Patrol agents supposedly whipping Haitian migrants, despite previously parroting the claim.  According to a Sept 24, 2021 email obtained by the Heritage Foundation, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was told that the photographer who captured a clash between Border Patrol agents and Haitian migrants in Del Rio had said that the incident was being misconstrued. But hours before, Mayorkas attended a White House press conference where he failed to challenge the false narrative, pushed by other members of the Biden administration, including the president himself.

Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul is ahead in the New York governor's race, but independent voters are aligning with the GOP in critical issues like rising crime and inflation, according to a recent poll. A Marist Poll released Thursday found that Democrat Gov.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Conseulos did not answer questions about the morning show host's relationships with Regis Philbin or Michael Strahan when spotted out in New York Thursday morning. Ripa's new memoir, "Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories," reveals her rocky behind-the-scenes professional relationship with Philbin.  The former "All My Children" star wrote that she was not given the same benefits as the men she was surrounded by, and claimed she had to "earn" her place at the television show. Ripa hosted the show alongside Philbin from 2001 until he retired in 2011.

Realm hopes to scare up listeners for an election-timed, star-studded audio thriller from Trudie Styler.

sit-down interview with Radio Times posted Wednesday, the late night host and television fixture railed on “Monty Python” icon John Cleese for not getting with the times and deriding so-called “cancel culture.” “John Cleese has been very public recently about complaining about what you can’t say, and I just think it must be very hard to be a man of a certain age who’s been able to say whatever he liked for years, and now, suddenly, there’s some accountability,” Norton told Mariella Frostrup at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.” It’s free speech but not consequence-free.”Cleese has been very vocal, particularly in the last year, about his qualms with being held accountable for his words and opinions, telling Fox News this summer that wokeness has had a “disastrous” impact on comedy and that “if you’re worried about offending people and constantly thinking about that, you’re not going to be very creative.”Cleese now has a series headed to the U.K.’s conservative, anti-cancel culture GB News station in 2023, in which he’s said he’ll be collaborating with satirist Andrew Doyle and encouraging “proper argument.”“You read a lot of articles in papers by people complaining about ‘cancel culture,’ and you think: In what world are you cancelled?” Norton said of the hot-button phenomenon. “I’m reading your article in a newspaper, or you’re doing interviews about how terrible it is to be cancelled.”The fix is to change the way we talk about “cancel culture” in the first place, he added.

One Texas rancher called out the Biden administration for changing border policies ahead of the midterm election, after extending an invitation to the president to witness the crisis. Laura Allen, who has a ranch in Val Verde County, joined "Fox & Friends First" Thursday to discuss the invitation and her reaction to the White House sending Venezuelan migrants who entered the U.S.