Justin Timberlake & Anna Kendrick Reunite, Jack Black & 'Fast X' Stars Take the Stage at CinemaCon

The mother of a TikTok influencer took the stand today (May 17) as she and her daughter face charges of murdering a man in a car crash.

The NBCUniversal Upfront kicked off a week of events in New York amid a writers strike.

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Nothing but love! Kate Bosworth revealed she had a hand in her fiancé Justin Long’s appearance on his ex Drew Barrymore’s daytime talk show.

Both Usher and Chris Brown hopped onstage at the Lovers & Friends Music Festival on Saturday (May 6) as details continued to emerge about an alleged altercation they had.

Morgan Wallen shared a health update on Thursday before returning to the stage after falling ill earlier this month.

Back on the horse. Morgan Wallen apologized to fans who were impacted by his last-minute concert cancellation as he prepared to return to tour.

Morgan Wallen made his big return to the stage Thursday night following time off for doctor-ordered vocal rest.Before his Florida show, the 29-year-old singer shared a health update with his fans on his Instagram Story, and apologized after being forced to pull out of his Mississippi concert last week after losing his voice. «What's up, everybody? I just wanted to let you know I am in Jacksonville, we are going to play a show tonight — and all weekend. I wouldn't say I'm 100% but I'm doing a lot better,» Wallen said in a short video from the venue.

Morgan Wallen is back on tour after taking more than a week off due to “doctor-ordered vocal rest.”

Pitch Perfect is currently the number one movie on Netflix, more than a decade after it was originally released in theaters, and all eyes are on the beloved cast members.

Former “7th Heaven” co-stars, Jessica Biel and Beverley Mitchell, reunited over the weekend at Monster Jam in Los Angeles.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic I have a little ritual when it comes to animated films. I try to go into them not knowing who the cast members are. That’s not always possible, of course. For the most part, though, I do my best to ignore the publicity and let the voices I hear surprise me — because if you don’t know who the actors are, you respond, I think, in a less biased and more spontaneous way. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” made my crusade easy, since the film has no opening credits. From the earliest moments, I had no idea who was voicing any of the characters. But I did know this: When the villain, a gigantic fire-breathing horned turtle named Bowser, showed up in his studded-leather arm bands, lowered his fire-red eyebrows into a gleaming, gap-toothed grin of the most insidious megalomania and began to push and order people around, all I could think was, “I like this dude.” 

Refresh for updates The studio that owns the highest grossing movie of the year so far, Universal with its billion bound Super Mario Bros Movie, brought the stars and filmmakers to CinemaCon. Could we expect anything less?

Universal’s CinemaCon presentation Wednesday night included an extended look at DreamWorks Animation’s “Trolls Band Together,” due in theaters Nov. 17. The plot, concerning Branch’s estranged brother coming into Branch and Poppy’s lives, isn’t that different from “Despicable Me 3.” That said, nobody goes to a “Trolls” movie for the plot.

UPDATED, 7:55 AM: Matthew Dwyer and Rescue Dog Productions LLC have dropped the suit brought against a second producer and his company. On Thursday, the plaintiffs’ attorney filed court papers with Judge Christopher Lui in Los Angeles requesting dismissal of the suit “without prejudice,” meaning it can be refiled later. The papers were not clear whether a settlement was reached or if the case was not being pursued for other reasons.

Jack Black‘s ballad ‘Peaches’ from The Super Mario Bros. Movie has entered the Billboard Hot 100.The track, which is sung by Black’s character Bowser to Princess Peach, voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy, has debuted at Number 83 on the chart with 5.8million US streams and 6,000 downloads in its first week.

Timbaland has confirmed that his longtime collaborator Justin Timberlake has finished his next album.The two have been collaborating since the late ’90s, across all of the singer’s solo albums. Now in a recent interview with Variety, the Grammy Award-winning producer revealed that he has been helping Timberlake with his next record.“We just finished up and everything sounds great,” said Timbaland.

Justin Timberlake is gearing up to grace our ears with new music! This, according to his longtime collaborator, Timbaland. The prolific producer, 51, tells that he and Timberlake, 42, have completed a new album together and that «everything sounds great.» «Now it's really on him how and when he envisions it to come out,» Timbaland reveals. «But it's done and it's coming.» Asked to describe the sound, Timbaland says, «It's Justin,» likening the project to 2006's .«But nothing too heavy, just giving you what you expect from us,» he continues.

When a comedian gets serious. Bill Hader has kept his personal life relatively quiet over the years, but he’s been linked to a series of famous women since he rose to fame on Saturday Night Live.