Love it or hate it, “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” is at least universally beloved for its casting of Ewan McGregor as young Obi-Wan Kenobi. But hold up. A recent interview with “Star Wars” concept and storyboard artist Iain McCaig (via StarWars.com) to mark “The Phantom Menace’s” 25th anniversary reveals that George Lucas was originally […]

Matthew Lillard thought his career would explode when the success of 2002’s live-action “Scooby-Doo” (the film earned $275 million worldwide) launched a franchise. The actor signed up to reprise the role of Shaggy in 2004’s “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” and earned the biggest payday of his career. The only way forward for his career was […]

Quentin Tarantino has not seen Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” movies and has no intention of changing that despite the rave reactions. During an interview on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” (the same interview where Tarantino defended “Joker: Folie à Deux”), the filmmaker was asked about whether or not “Dune: Part Two” was the best movie of […]

Jimmy Kimmel was not impressed with Donald Trump’s mockery of Joe Biden this week. After the U.S. president found himself in a controversy for appearing to call Trump supporters “garbage,” Trump seized on the opportunity to troll Biden by taking photos in a MAGA-branded garbage truck. Kimmel said it would’ve been more fitting had Trump […]

Martha Stewart has seen her new Netflix documentary, “Martha,” and she’s not entirely a fan of the finished product. Directed by R.J. Cutler, whose recent biographical docs include “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” and “Elton John: Never Too Late,” the Stewart documentary features intimate interviews with her as she opens up her personal […]

Anna Kendrick revealed during an interview on the “Crime Junkie AF” podcast that she made no money from directing “Woman of the Hour” because she donated her pay to RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) and the National Center for Victims of Violent Crime. These organizations are two of the country’s leading nonprofits that […]

Cynthia Erivo admitted to Entertainment Tonight that she “probably should have called” her friends about her frustrations with “Wicked” poster fan edits instead of publicly speaking out on her Instagram story earlier this month. The Tony winner and Oscar nominee blasted fans for editing the “Wicked” film poster to obscure her face. Erivo called the […]

Joe Russo revealed to GamesRadar+ at MCM Comic Con 2024 that Marvel approached the Russo Brothers and Robert Downey Jr. to return for another “Avengers” movie of their record-breaking “Avengers: Infinity War” when the trio was already in discussions with each other for another project. It was announced at Comic-Con in July that Anthony and […]

Julia Roberts is the latest Hollywood celebrity to champion Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. The Oscar winner is featured as the narrator in a new Harris-Walz campaign video created by the progressive evangelical group Vote Common Good (via The Daily Beast). The ad finds Roberts reminding women that their vote is their choice, regardless of how […]

“Joker: Folie à Deux” bombed with critics and at the box office, but not with Quentin Tarantino. The filmmaker recently appeared on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” and raved over the divisive “Joker” sequel, which is barely at the $60 million mark domestically after nearly a month in theaters. The movie’s worldwide total stands at […]

Robert Downey Jr. appeared on a recent episode of the “On With Kara Swisher” podcast and sent a stern warning to Hollywood in the age of AI: “I intend to sue all future executives” who sign off on the creation of a Downey digital replica. The Oscar winner does not want his likeness being used on screen […]

“Frasier” revival actor Toks Olagundoye revealed during a recent interview on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” that she received a personal phone call from co-star and leading man Kelsey Grammar during the production of the show’s first season ensuring that she would not be fired and her role would not be cut down amid her cancer […]

Whoopi Goldberg put Joe Rogan in his place during an episode of “The View” in which the EGOT winner corrected Rogan’s false claims about one of Trump’s appearances on the ABC daytime talk show. Trump recently guested on Rogan’s Spotify podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” where the two claimed that “The View” hosts once acted […]

Lupita Nyong’o had to lose her Kenyan accent in order to become an American actor and take on different Hollywood roles, and she said during a recent episode of the “What Now? With Trevor Noah” podcast that it “felt like a betrayal” to herself when she made that decision. The Oscar winner was born in Mexico […]

Anna Kendrick was asked during an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast to name the worst note she ever got from a director while filming, and she answered by calling out one filmmaker for strategically embarrassing her on set in front of dozens of extras. The director mocked Kendrick’s improv skills, only for said […]

Zachary Levi recently took to Instagram to refute Whoopi Goldberg’s claim that Hollywood has “always been a very right-leaning town.” Goldberg tried to teach the “Shazam” actor a lesson during an episode of “The View” earlier this month after he publicly endorses Donald Trump for president. Levi said he was risking career suicide by supporting […]

Sacha Baron Cohen resurrected his infamous characters Borat and Ali G during a visit to “The Tonight Show,” in which he imagined what they might say to Donald Trump and Kamala Harris amid the race for president. Ali G is predictably a big admirer of Trump, which allowed Baron Cohen to call out the Republican […]

Anderson Cooper and Charlamagne Tha God got into a tussle on the former’s CNN show when Charlamagne called out news networks like CNN for focusing less on Donald Trump being a fascist and more on topics related to Kamala Harris such as whether or not she’s Black, a false claim Trump has touted at several points. […]

Tim Burton is chronically not online. Speaking to the BBC ahead of the The World of Tim Burton exhibit opening at the Design Museum in London, the “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” filmmaker admitted that he gets depressed when he going on the internet and would rather spend his time looking at clouds instead. “Anybody who knows me knows […]