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Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight companion novel Midnight Sun has exceeded sales of one million copies in its first week in stores.

LOS ANGELES — A new “Star Wars” holiday special produced with Legos will debut on Walt Disney Co’s Disney+ streaming service in November, the company said on Thursday.

Schitt’s Creek, Ozark, Watchmen, Succession, Dead To Me, and Killing Eve lead the the 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations with three nods apiece.

MILAN — Fewer A-list stars will stumble out of parties along the lagoon to be snapped by paparazzi in boats. But organizers of this year’s Venice film festival are promising plenty of movies — on actual screens in front of actual audiences — for the first time since the worldwide pandemic shut showbiz.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Unto most every TV-watching generation, a new Muppets show is born. The original “Muppet Show,” which ran from 1976 to 1981, had Jim Henson’s felt puppets take over a vaudeville theatre to perform songs, slapstick sketches and more unabashedly cheesy puns than its bewildered guests could count.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that health authorities would investigate a charity concert, which included performances by Goldman Sachs Group boss David Solomon and the Chainsmokers, over social distancing violations.

Regis Philbin, a familiar face to TV viewers as an energetic and funny talk and game show host who logged more hours in front of the camera than anyone else in the history of U.S. television, has died aged 88, People magazine said on Saturday, citing a statement by his family.

Vanessa Morgan’s baseball star husband filed for divorce a month before the Riverdale star announced she was pregnant.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” has become the subject of an internal investigation by WarnerMedia following numerous accounts of workplace problems on the long-running daytime series, Variety has learned.

ROME — Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli on Monday issued a scathing criticism of the Italian government’s handling of the coronavirus, saying he was humiliated by a recent lockdown, and urged people to disobey rules still in place.

Dancer and actress Julianne Hough enjoyed a weekend reunion with her estranged husband Brooks Laich as she continued her birthday celebrations with a pool party.

Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated new film Tenet has finally landed a release date after four attempts to hit cinemas amid the coronavirus clampdown.

LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey is returning to her talk show format with a new series on Apple TV+, whose first episodes will focus on racism in the United States, Apple Inc and Winfrey announced on Monday.

In a comment that surprised exactly no one, Justice League director Zack Snyder has said his upcoming Snyder Cut of the troubled superhero film will not feature any footage that was shot by Joss Whedon for the theatrical release.

Sandra Bullock gathered pals including fellow actresses Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor to mark her 56th birthday with a socially-distanced bash on Sunday.

Elon Musk has jokingly challenged Johnny Depp to a “cage fight” over allegations he had an affair with the actor’s ex-wife Amber Heard during their marriage.

Tom Hanks has gone back to his hot dog-selling roots to make Oakland Athletics players feel at home in an empty baseball park.

Here’s a clue, “Jeopardy!” fans: For decades, Alex Trebek resisted writing this type of book before finally delivering one on the eve of his 80th birthday.

Riverdale star Vanessa Morgan is pregnant.

Taylor Swift’s new album Folklore secured the biggest album debut for a female artist in Spotify history upon its release on Friday.

Rob Lowe’s wife taught Gwyneth Paltrow how to perfect oral sex.

Louis Gosset Jr. is not the only octogenarian actor working today — look at Donald Sutherland or Morgan Freeman — but he might be the only one with a dozen projects in the pipeline.

Justin Bieber paid a visit to his pal Kanye West in Wyoming amid the rapper’s ongoing personal dramas.

“Gone With the Wind” star Olivia de Havilland, considered the last surviving actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, died on Sunday at the age of 104, the Hollywood Reporter said.

A close friend of actress Amber Heard became really scared for the Aquaman star’s life after an alleged Johnny Depp attack during a March, 2015 fight she told a court in London.

Kathie Lee Gifford has paid tribute to her former Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee co-host Regis Philbin following his death on Friday.

Vancouver-raised movie star Ryan Reynolds is offering a cash reward to whoever reunites Mara Soriano with her stolen teddy bear that contains a recording of her late mother’s voice.Soriano, a storyboard artist who works on animated TV series, has been c

Alanis Morissette fears she’d have died young if she did not have a “whole team” of therapists.

1. Wynonna EarpSeason 4 debut Newly gunless, demon hunter Wynonna Earp (Melanie Scrofano) races to find a way into the Garden of Eden before her sister, Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), is trapped there forever as the supernatural Western returns.When: Sunday on CTV Sci-Fi Channel

Prince Harry doesn’t fare well in a new book about his life by a woman who once wrote about his mother.