Entertainment - Friday, April 17, 2026

A blast on Thursday night turned out to be for a video shoot, but it unnerved residents who had lived through a propane plant explosion in 2008.

NYT Arts • 100 days ago

QVC Group, whose networks pioneered the concept of live TV shopping in the 1980s and built it into a mainstay of the late-20th century media business, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The voluntary filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Southern Texas was cited by company management as a way to help it transition […]

Deadline • 100 days ago

Coachella 2026 is underway, and for home viewers, so is Couch-ella. Most of the performances from weekend 2 will be streamed live on YouTube, across seven channels for seven stages — check out the full schedule of streams, below. Although most sets will be seen live, some will be shown on a delayed basis, like […]

Variety • 100 days ago

As the Wayans brothers make their return to the big screen this summer with Scary Movie 6, the comedy filmmaking family is plotting their next sequel. Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans recently teased that a sequel to their 2004 comedy White Chicks “can happen” if Scary Movie 6 does well at the box office when […]

Deadline • 101 days ago

Although the criminal case against Mr. Baldwin was thrown out, the actor still faces civil cases about the fatal shooting of a cinematographer in 2021.

NYT Arts • 101 days ago

“Stranger Things” star David Harbour is the latest addition to the cast of “John Rambo,” the origin story of the franchise. Harbour will play Rambo’s commanding officer Major Trautman in the film directed by Jalmari Helander (“Sisu”), Variety has confirmed. Noah Centineo stars as John Rambo, the one-man fighting force. The “John Rambo” story takes […]

Variety • 101 days ago

Li Jun Li, known best most recently for her breakout starring role in Ryan Coogler’s Oscar-winning Sinners, has joined the Season 3 cast of HBO’s The Last Of Us, Deadline has confirmed. Li will play Mirium, a Seraphite who is Lev and Yara’s mother. As previously announced, Bridgerton‘s Michelle Mao and Kyriana Kratter will play Yara and Lev, respectively. […]

Deadline • 101 days ago

Taraji P. Henson appeared on a recent episode of Hoda Kotb’s “Making Space” podcast (via People) and reflected on the moment she realized just how differently male and female actors are treated in Hollywood. The Oscar nominee got her movie breakthrough in John Singleton’s 2001 coming-of-age movie “Baby Boy,” which also happened to mark the […]

Variety • 101 days ago

With Season 1 of Ryan Murphy’s Love Story meeting its tragic end last month, one of the true story’s subjects has reacted her portrayal. Jack Schlossberg recently revealed what his mother Caroline Kennedy thought of Grace Gummer’s performance as her in Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, inspired by her late brother’s […]

Deadline • 101 days ago

Taylor Swift is famous for her “Secret Sessions,” where, for most of her albums of the pre-COVID era, she invited a few dozen select fans to sit in a living room and be the first to experience a new album and hear her stories about how she wrote and recorded each song. Paul McCartney might […]

Variety • 101 days ago