About one month ago Lucasfilm announced that actress Gina Carano would no longer appear in their hit Disney+ series The Mandalorian, with later reports indicating that the Cara Dune character wouldn’t be recast moving forward. The sudden “firing” of Carano was spurned my multiple controversial social media posts by the actress, backlash off which led
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Disney CEO Bob Chapek voiced his support for Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy during The Walt Disney Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders today. Chapek was forced to speak up in support of Kennedy when one Texas shareholder dropped the surprisingly aggressive “question” of whether or not Chapek was planning on firing Kennedy and installing The
Have you ever heard the expression, “If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If not, it was never meant to be”? Well, if you balled up that expression and threw it in a song, you would get Kacey Musgrave’s “Space Cowboy.” This ballad really is beautiful, but I think
Exclusive Paul Rodriguez — one of the ‘Original Latin Kings of Comedy’ — underwent heart surgery, but the good news is he’s on the mend. A rep for the legendary comic tells TMZ … Paul recently had bypass surgery, but is recovering nicely at his home. They add, “Paul wants everyone to know he is
A new trailer has been released for City of Lies, the previously shelved film about the investigation into the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. The film is set to open in theaters March 19th before arriving on on-demand services April 9th. The film stars Johnny Depp stars as real-life LAPD detective Russell Poole, who spent
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Though many restaurants remain closed during the pandemic, dining and dashing still remains a problem, and even forced one restaurant owner to close up shop. Sara Donchey reports.
Twitter founder and billionaire Jack Dorsey is selling his — and the world’s — first tweet as a non-fungible token (or NFT), with the current highest bidder offering $2.5 million for the missive. Dorsey launched the sale Friday, March 5th, tweeting out a link to the platform, Valuables. The site allows people to sell one-of-a-kind
Every TV series comes along with its own set of TV influences. But few shows in recent memory have shouted out their televised inspirations more loudly than Marvel’s WandaVision on Disney+. Of course, that was all by design as Mind Stone-altered magic user Wanda Maximoff found herself in a world of her own making. Since the
A former employee of a Panda Express in Santa Clarita alleges she was required to strip down to her underwear and hug a partially clad co-worker during a “cult-like ritual” at a 2019 training seminar sponsored by the company as a prerequisite to promotion. The 23-year-old woman is suing Panda Restaurant Group, headquartered in Rosemead,
Emotions are higher than expectation outside court in Minneapolis. People shouting for justice for George Floyd over an undercurrent of concern this trial won’t go their way. His sister Bridgett Floyd, who was representing the family in court, addressed supporters outside: “He was so family oriented. He loved his family. He loved his daughter. Gianna
Sports coaches and priests who have sex with, or abuse 16 and 17-year-olds in their care are to face prosecution, under a government move to close a controversial legal loophole. A huge piece of new crime legislation being introduced in the Commons includes a new law to prevent adults in positions of trust from engaging
Thanks to decreased case numbers and changes implemented by the state in response to vaccination efforts, Los Angeles County officials said Monday that they are preparing to advance to a less-restrictive tier of the state’s Covid-19 economic reopening blueprint as early as next week. But whether the county will approve all the reopenings permitted in
The European Banking Authority (EBA) on Monday said it had been a victim of a cyberattack targeting its Microsoft Exchange Servers, forcing it to take its email systems offline as a precautionary measure temporarily. “As the vulnerability is related to the EBA’s email servers, access to personal data through emails held on that servers may
Google Fit app is now rolling out the ability to measure heart rate and respiratory rate through phones. These new features are rolling out for Pixel phones only for now, but the company has reportedly confirmed that it “will be expanding to more Android devices in the future.” Google announced these new heart rate and
ITV says a “majority” of the programmes it makes are now back in production after coronavirus disruption knocked 2020 profits by almost 40%. The broadcaster reported a 16% decline in group revenue for its last financial year as advertising collapsed and its independent production arm ITV studios was forced to switch off cameras when pandemic
Last week, Black Lightning left off on a heartbreaking cliffhanger when Jennifer Pierce/Lightning (China Anne McClain) flew up into the ionosphere despite the protestations of her friends and family, only to be overpowered by the energy. In the last moments of the episode, Jennifer seemingly exploded into light. This week, “The Book of Ruin: Chapter
Coming 2 America debuted last week on Amazon Prime Video and while the sequel to the classic Eddie Murphy-starring Coming to America scored the biggest opening weekend for a streaming film in the past year, it didn’t exactly win over critics. The film is presently sitting at 52 percent on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, but the
At some point you run out of words to describe Zach Bryan. Unique, authentic, raw, deep, talented, genius, trailblazer, fearless, new, old, soulful, happy, sad… All of those are true, yet feel beyond cheap when compared to the body of work, the cult-like following, and focus on depth of substance that Zach has curated for
HBO Max subscribers looking for some family fun were instead treated to an early look at Zack Snyder‘s “Justice League” … with the streaming service leaking the film 10 days early. Here’s the deal … folks who wanted to watch the PG-rated “Tom and Jerry” movie Monday on HBO Max were, instead, greeted with the