Kevin Smith describes his 'complete break from reality': 'It was scary'

“This was not planned,” says stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco about his auto-biopic comedy About My Father making it to the screen.

Happy place! Sam Hunt enjoyed a vacation getaway with pregnant wife Hannah Lee Fowler and their baby girl, Lucy Louise.

Moviemaking isn’t always magical. Florence Pugh opened up about how the vibe on set could affect the entire movie.

Offering his expertise! Howie Mandel poked fun at himself for his bombshell interview with Tom Sandoval ahead of Ariana Madix’s appearance on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast.

Dua Lipa made an appearance at Cannes Film Festival, making her red carpet debut alongside her new boyfriend, Romain Gavras. The pair looked stunning together wearing evening attire and appeared happy to have a moment in the spotlight, with Dua Lipa sharing the photos on social media."Last night in Cannes with my sweetheart,” she captioned it. Scroll down to have a look at all we know about Romain Gavras: 2023 Met Gala: Penelope Cruz, Dua Lipa, and more to co-chair fashion’s most exclusive eventCheck out Pedro Pascal in Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Strange Way of Life’ posterA post shared by DUA LIPA (@dualipa)Gavra is a filmmaker, having been involved in the entertainment world since he was young.

Beyoncé and JAY-Z had a date night ahead of her Renaissance World Tour concert in the U.K., and the couple oozed luxury and style.Bey took to Instagram on Monday and shared a carousel of photos showing the couple out and about on a date. Queen B donned a revealing black top with an oversized pinstripe blazer, pinstripe shorts and thigh-high black leather boots.

Jason Sudeikis is enjoying a night out with his son! The 47-year-old actor stepped out on Monday to attend an NBA game with his son, 9-year-old Otis, and his famous pal, Jason Bateman.The trio sat courtside for the big game, which saw the Denver Nuggets complete a sweep against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. The Nuggets will go on the play the winner of the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat series, which the latter team is currently leading 3-0.Though the Lakers didn't come out victorious in the game, the three guys appeared to have a great time, with a tracksuit-clad Otis smiling alongside his dad, and Sudeikis chatting with Bateman.The night out comes amid Sudeikis' custody battle with his ex, Olivia Wilde, regarding whether their kids should live in L.A.

Lauren Sánchez is ready to walk down the aisle. The journalist is currently celebrating her engagement with Jeff Bezos in France, looking stunning in a white minidress, which featured pearl and crystal embellishments.The stylish media personality looked chic walking hand in hand with her fiancé after having dinner at celebrity hotspot La Petite Maison.

Josh Duhamel is living that wilderness life. The star is enjoying nature at his large cabin home in North Dakota — and getting ready for anything the future might throw at him.The 50-year-old actor recently opened up for an interview with , while promoting his new comedy film,, and he spoke about his remote cabin estate in the woods.According to Duhamel, he's learning how to fish so he can catch dinner, he's chopping his own firewood, and he's learning to hunt.«I've become a bit of a doomsday prepper, I guess,» Duhamel said, adding, «I'm building something so if things do go south, I have a place to take my family.»Duhamel explained that, at first, his property included «one little cabin in the woods with no electricity and no water,» and it was a place for weekend retreats at the most. But then, the property next door went up for sale and he snagged it.«I have a tractor.

director Rachel Fleit originally began work on her University of Alabama sorority documentary because she wanted to study what it meant to be a young woman today. By the time she was done, her answer was punctuated with something far more sinister than what she could have predicted. Fleit and her team faced an onslaught of rumors about their filming practices, she told ET, which culminated in alleged threats that necessitated a security detail and led to one participant cutting off contact from the documentary. «It felt really scary, honestly,» Fleit said.

Teresa Giudice and Louie Ruelas' wedding day was perfect, except for the «calculated» and «classless» actions of Teresa's only sibling, brother Joe Gorga, and sister-in-law and fellow cast member, Melissa Gorga. ET's Brice Sander spoke with theReal Housewives of New Jersey star and her husband about their upcoming Bravo special, Teresa Gets Married, where they open up about their special day and why Louie was so upset at the Gorgas. Last week, Bravo released the highly anticipated trailer for the special, which shows Teresa crying and Louie very upset, saying he’s going to «f**king bury» someone.#RHONJ: Teresa Gets Married Trailer! It airs Next Tuesday at 8/7c on @BravoTV! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/bu4F4DClAG«I got upset because the history of us four, let’s say, you know, myself, Teresa, Joe and Melissa, we invested a lot of time into having a relationship,» Louie says. He adds, «Then the show airs and all this happens, the season goes by, you know, halfway through the season it was really easy to kind of, you know, to get their number in what was going on, what was really happening behind the scenes and the day of our wedding to see them doing that is really classless.»The couple, who tied the knot on Aug. 6, 2022, filmed their wedding special days after wrapping season 13 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

Blake Shelton is looking back on his 23 seasons as a coach on Shelton took to Instagram Tuesday ahead of his final episode to reflect on his time on the show, from being one of the original coaches when the singing competition series first premiered in 2011, to taking home nine — hopefully 10 after tonight — wins, and coaching alongside his wife, Gwen Stefani.«Can't believe it's been 23 seasons of @nbcthevoice… and especially can't believe today is my final episode. It's bittersweet.

Confused? We don’t blame you! It’s not the simplest explanation… Essentially, if you’re a Netflix subscriber, anyone who you’ve given your password to but doesn’t live with you won’t be able to use your account.

Sylvester Stallone has his girls’ backs.

Bizarrap has had a year of breaking records, but he’s been around for years. Time Magazine has selected him as one of their Next Generation Leaders, putting him alongside celebrities like Florence Pugh, the K-Pop band NewJeans, and Australian tech CEO Melanie Perkins. Meet Bizarrap: The composer and record producer topping the charts alongside ShakiraShakira is Billboard’s inaugural ‘Latin Woman of the Year’Shakira shares a new picture with Bizarrap, while Piqué posts one with Clara ChíaA post shared by BZRP (@bizarrap)The 24 year old Argentinean producer and DJ, born Gonzalo Julián Conde, has been sharing music on YouTube since 2017, becoming a specter over Latin American music.

Well, Chrishell Stause and G Flip’s marriage is going to be permanent one way or the other!

Katy Perry may well be DONE with American Idol after this messy season!

Tom Sandoval is NOT the father! Not this time anyway…

said in a blog post. “It makes every user a power user, helping you take action, customize your settings and seamlessly connect across your favorite apps.”The number of applications Copilot may have is nearly infinite if it’s truly as capable as Microsoft’s unveiling of it implies the tech to be.

Cookie Johnson will be commemorated at this year’s Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS on Sept. 21 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Both Magic and Cookie Johnson will be presented with the Elizabeth Taylor Commitment to End AIDS Award at the ball. Paris Jackson and Christine Chiu serve as this year’s gala’s co-chairs. The event will sport a number of 270 guests entertained by a live auction in partnership with Chiu presenting a number of art/luxury experiences, a live performance and an exclusive look at items from The Elizabeth Taylor Archive. 

Sophia Scorziello editor Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated his first-ever television show, Netflix’s action-spy comedy “Fubar,” on Monday in Los Angeles. “I just think that every stage in my career was an exciting stage,” Schwarzenegger told Variety. “I know normally you wouldn’t think that when you’re 75-years-old that there’s an exciting stage because most people are retired, but here I am.” Schwarzenegger stars in “Fubar” as an almost-retired CIA operative alongside Monica Barbaro, who plays his daughter. Milan Carter plays Schwarzenegger’s nerdy and unassuming, yet heroic, right-hand spy Barry. “What I really loved about playing Barry is that it’s not often you see a Black guy with an afro in the CIA,” Carter said. “So thank you, [series creator] Nick Santoro and Netflix, for taking a chance and representing differences.”

Jeff Bridges is sharing an update on his health following a cancer diagnosis and a grave case of Covid-19 at the beginning of 2021.

for minutes of applause. So entrenched is this French farce that trade publications routinely time the euphoria and judge the response to the new films based on the length of the cheering at the Grand Théâtre Lumière. Cannes’ longest-ever roar? Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” which premiered there in 2006, at 22 minutes. This year’s fest is in full swing, and so is the ceaseless hand-slapping.Here are Cannes’ standing ovations so far, from triumphant to tepid.The most ecstatic response to a film so far at this year’s festival, which runs until May 27, was for Martin Scorsese’s latest drama. The historical movie from Apple and Paramount brings together two popular Scorsese stalwarts, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, plus last year’s Best Actor Oscar winner Brendan Fraser and Jesse Plemons.

Netflix has set June 22 for the global premiere of Glamorous, starring Miss Benny and Kim Cattrall.

Imad Mughniyeh killed thousands of people with car bombs — including 220 Marines stationed in Beirut in 1983 — before he himself was blown to bits in Syria 25 years later.The story of Mughniyeh an Islamic Jihadist dubbed “The Man of Smoke,” is dramatized, for the first time and in detail, in “Ghosts of Beirut,” a four-part Showtime series mixing real, documentary-style on-camera interviews with scripted drama that goes inside the joint CIA/Mossad operation to track down and assassinate Mughniyeh … or so the story goes, since US and Israeli officials have never officially confirmed their agencies’ roles in sending him to kingdom come.“Ghosts” was created by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, who also developed the hit Netflix series “Fauda,” in which Raz stars as Israeli Defense Force team member Doron Kavillio. (Raz himself was a commando in an IDF counter-terrorism unit.)Raz and Issacharoff also co-wrote “Ghosts of Beirut,” filmed in Morocco, with Joëlle Tauma and Greg Barker (who directed all four episodes).

Duggar docuseries say they were “shocked” by the “far-reaching quality” of the infamous family’s controversial church.“Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” claims to “expose the truth” about how The Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) negatively affected the extensive reality TV family.Guided by parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the children were raised with IBLP’s strict teachings — such as women should be obedient to their husbands, and everyone should avoid dating, listening to music with drums, and following pop culture.The religious organization that became IBLP was founded by 88-year-old minister Bill Gothard in 1961. He has since been forced out under allegations of abuse — accusations he has denied.Docuseries executive producer Olivia Crist told People that those who worked on this project discovered “how far and wide the IBLP ideology went.”“It went into our police system.

Instantaneously, fans and friends of the long-running I’m A Celebrity….Get Me Out Of Here! host jumped in the comments to share their support and insight into the condition 

Candace Cameron Bure is responding to critics who claim she, in fact, has eaten fast food in the last 20 years.  Earlier this month, the Christmas movie queen shared that she hasn’t had any fast food except for West Coast burger chain In-N-Out in two decades, prompting trolls to unearth a 2012 since-deleted social media photo she snapped of her holding a Chick-fil-A cup in a car with her son. "We love Chikin!" she captioned the post.  "I haven’t eaten fast food except for In-N-Out in 20 years," Bure wrote on a May 15 Instagram story, according to reports. "Some days I wonder what a burger and fries is like from McDonalds or Burger King or Wendy’s or any of those other places I’ve never eaten at … Am I going to find out? No!" She added, "I don’t regret it.

Jessica Kiang Solid, stately and — like the collapsing Papal States of the Italian Peninsula in the late 1800s — just a little too tradition-bound for its own good, Marco Bellocchio’s “Kidnapped,” based on a 19th-century case of religious abduction, opens with an eavesdrop. Anna (Aurora Camatti), the Catholic servant to the Jewish Mortara family of Bologna, pauses on the stairs after a tryst and spies her employers, Momolo Mortara (Fausto Russo Alesi) and his wife Marianna (Barbara Ronchi), murmuring a blessing in Hebrew over their newborn baby boy. It is not clear yet why the sight should make her stop in her tracks, but over the course of over two sedate but mostly absorbing hours, the veteran director follows its repercussions with a singleminded, narrow dedication that sits strangely at odds with the film’s immaculately expansive production design.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Aki Kaurismäki, the deadpan cockeyed minimalist of Finland, has become the ultimate illustration of the principle that if you make movies in the same mood and style, with the same monosyllabic bombed-out hipster vibe, for a period of 30 years, your movies may not have changed — but the world around them has, so the films will have a totally different effect. In “Fallen Leaves,” the Kaurismäki bauble that’s showing at Cannes this year, there’s actually a scene in which a character uses a computer. The film’s heroine, Ansa (Alma Pöysti), loses her job as a supermarket worker, and to find another gig she rents an HP laptop at a makeshift Internet café that charges 10 Euro for half an hour. Apart from that, the movie unfolds in that scruffy and sparsely decorated so-familiar-it’s-cozy pre-tech Kaurismäki zone, where people still use electric adding machines or listen to a bulky kitchen radio that looks like it’s from the early ’60s. “Fallen Leaves” is set in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, but to our eyes it’s a weirdly underpopulated place where shopping, as a pastime, doesn’t exist, and neither, in any meaningful way, does conversation.

Content warning: This story contains discussion and description of sexual assault.Kevin Smith has revealed that he spent a month in a mental health treatment facility after having “a complete break from reality” last year. The events were caused by unresolved issues concerning childhood trauma.In a new interview with People, the Clerks and Chasing Amy director spoke for the first time about his experiences of being sexually abused and guilted for his weight as a child.

Kevin Smith is getting candid and honest in a new interview, where he openly discusses his decision to seek help.

Kevin Smith is revealing for the first time that he spent one month at a treatment facility to address memories that he said put him «in a weird, dark place.» And it was at that moment when he said he knew he needed to get help.The famed director opened up like never before about his mental health struggles, telling  he woke up one morning last January in «terror» and he was convinced he was losing his mind. At the center of his mental health struggles was a traumatizing episode at six years old when he said he was sexually abused when an older boy he didn't know forced him to perform sexual acts with a young neighborhood girl.Smith told the outlet he was convinced that they «were just playing doctor in an alleyway,» but it was his therapist who opened his eyes.«When a third party is instructing you to do something against your core values like that,» Smith recalled the therapist telling him, «that's sexual abuse.»There was another incident Smith recalled that proved traumatizing, and that was a teacher fat-shaming him when he was just nine years old and made fun of his «gut» in front of the entire class.«I felt disgusting, like I didn't matter.

lifelong struggle with his weight.“It was scary,” Smith, 52, told People. “At that moment, I wouldn’t have been averse to not being around any longer.

Kevin Smith is getting vulnerable about the “dark place” he was in prior to seeking mental health help. In January of last year, the Clerks di

EXCLUSIVE: MVD Entertainment Group has claimed North American rights to the darkly comedic thriller Wrong Reasons, marking the feature debut of writer-director Josh Roush. The film, executive produced by and featuring Kevin Smith (Clerks III, Red State), is slated for release on digital, VOD, Blu-ray and DVD on August 15.