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2012 appearance on “Conan.”“I don’t know his name, but he was in my house,” she said.“He was in my house, and he just started, like, caressing me,” Kesha said, re-enacting the gentle caresses on Conan O’Brien’s arm. “It was a sexy time, but it wasn’t, like, sex,” she clarified. Anna Nicole Smith credited a ghost for the kinkiest sex she’s ever had in an interview with FHM magazine in July 2004.“A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas,” the Playboy model explained.

Crossroads has been getting a lot of attention lately following the release of Britney Spears‘ memoir titled The Woman in Me.

Britney Spears is talking about the acting technique she used to film Crossroads which left her confused and not wanting to take on more acting roles.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Former Electus CEO and Shine International prexy Chris Grant has launched a new distribution company, Osmosis Global, which he will unwrap in time for next week’s Mipcom conference. Investor and entrepreneur Marc Pierce is backing the new venture.

Franne Lee, a Tony-winning costumer and set designer who joined the fledgling Saturday Night Live and created the looks of some of the NBC’s late-night show’s most iconic characters, including the Coneheads, the Nerds, the Killer Bees and the Blues Brothers, died August 27 in Atlantis, Florida, following a brief illness. She was 81.

Former “Saturday Night Live” star, Jane Curtin, was taken by surprise by the longstanding show’s humourless early episodes.

Jane Curtin is opening up about her days on Saturday Night Live.

It’s not just another zombie movie.

Trading Places now.Speaking to The Daily Beast, Aykroyd recently reflected on the John Landis-directed film in which he starred in with Eddie Murphy back in 1983. In one scene, his character appears in Blackface and adopts a Caribbean accent.“I was in Blackface in that film, and I probably couldn’t get away with it now,” Aykroyd told the publication. “Eddie and I were improvising there.

The Daily Beast about the film, which follows his character, a wealthy investment broker, switching places with a broke con artist (played by Murphy, 62).In one scene of the R-rated comedy, Aykroyd appears in blackface while wearing dreadlocks and speaking in a Caribbean accent.“I was in blackface in that film, and I probably couldn’t get away with it now,” Aykroyd told the outlet last week. “Eddie and I were improvising there. Eddie is a black man, and his entourage were all black people, and I don’t think they batted an eye.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outlet New Europe Film Sales has sold its 3D family animation “A Mystery on the Cattle Hill Express,” directed by Will Ashurst, to Viva Kids for North America. The third part in the “Cattle Hill” series is a detective story about the little cow Clara and her friend Gavin who join forces with the world famous detective Agatha Chichester to unveil the thief of a revolutionary Nano-seed stolen from a high-tech laboratory train. New Europe has also sold the film to South Korea (First Run) and South Africa (Red Dot Digitals) and, as previously announced, France (Alba Films), Poland (New Horizons), JUST4KIDS in Benelux, Neo Films in Greece, Birfilm in Turkey, FILMS4YOU in Portugal and Arthousetraffic in Ukraine.

Fox Nation has scheduled a comedy special with Rob Schneider for June 18 titled Rob Schneider: Woke Up in America.

With the likes of Jay-Z's champagne, Jon Bon Jovi's wine and Kendall Jenner's tequila on its shelves, this little shop in Alderley Edge has every bottle of celebrity wine and spirit that you could possibly imagine. And, given its location at the heart of Cheshire's Golden Triangle, its customers include celebrities, footballers and VIPs too.

Paul Plunkett The oversized contribution Chicago has made and continues to make to the American entertainment landscape comes in no small part from its vibrant and varied theater scene. With well over 200 theaters, from small stages featuring intimate fare to larger houses sending major productions to Broadway and beyond, it’s difficult to find any American film or television series that doesn’t have roots that trace back to Windy City stages. The Steppenwolf Theater Company is one where heavy-hitters John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise forged their craft early in their storied careers. Playwright and actor Tracy Letts premiered his Pulitzer Prize-winning “August: Osage County” at Steppenwolf in 2007.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The History Channel has greenlit a range of new docuseries and documentaries that are produced by Hollywood stars like Morgan Freeman, Bradley Cooper, and Kevin Costner. The announcements were made as part of a larger A+E Networks slate reveal ahead of its 2023-2024 upfronts presentation. Additional projects hail from producers Michael Imperioli and Dan Aykroyd. Costner will host and executive produce an eight episode docuseries currently titled “Kevin Costner’s The West.” The series is said to detail how the Wild West period of American history continues to impact the country today.

Ghostbusters franchise.The actor, who played Winston Zeddemore alongside Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis in the 1984 sci-fi film, said the studio was not “inclusive” of his character in the film’s promotional materials.Speaking about joining the cast on The Howard Stern Show, Hudson said: “I was the guy who was brought in, and so finding my place in the middle of that – and they were all welcoming and inclusive. The studio wasn’t, and the studio continued not to be. So it made it very, very difficult because I was a part of it but very selectively I was pushed aside.”He added: “When the posters came out, I’m not on the poster.

“Ghostbusters” legend Ernie Hudson is haunted by his experiences on the set of the classic 1984 sci-fi action-comedy. Hudson, 77, opened up about the “psychological” damage he incurred working on the original movie that launched the franchise, revealing how being “selectively pushed aside” made the filming the project “difficult.”The veteran actor launched his bombshell appearance on “The Howard Stern Wrap Up Show” by declaring “Ghostbusters” director Ivan Reitman — who died at 75 in 2022 — a “really, really a brilliant man and I have just so much love and appreciation for him.” Although Hudson had praise for his A-list co-stars Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd — he didn’t share the same warm words for the Columbia Pictures studio execs behind the scenes.“I was the guy who was brought in, and so finding my place in the middle of that — and they were all welcoming and inclusive,” Hudson told SiriusXM’s Gary Dell’Abate and Rahsaan Rogers.

Zack Sharf Ernie Hudson said during a recent interview on “The Howard Stern Show” (via IndieWire) that “Ghostbusters” studio Columbia Pictures “selectively pushed [him] aside” during the making and marketing of the 1984 supernatural comedy classic. Hudson starred in the film opposite Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd as fellow ghostbuster Winston Zeddemore, but he was not featured on the film’s theatrical poster. “The studio wasn’t [inclusive], and the studio continued not to be,” Hudson said. “So it made it very, very difficult because I was a part of it but then I very selectively was pushed aside… The original script, Winston was in the very beginning of the movie. By the time we got ready to shoot the movie, Winston came in halfway through the movie. All those things… It definitely felt deliberate.”

The MTV Video Music Awards later this month will have not one emcee but three, with rap stars LL Cool J, Nicki Minaj and Jack Harlow set to anchor the ceremony. They will introduce and present the famous Moon Person trophies alongside performers including Lizzo, Anitta, BLACKPINK, J Balvin, Måneskin, Kane Brown, Marshmello with Khalid, and Panic! At The Disco on Aug. 28 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

James Caan earned his stripes in the entertainment industry decades ago, starring in one of the most iconic film franchises — "The Godfather."  He portrayed Sonny Corleone, the eldest son of mafia don Vito Corleone, played by Marlon Brando, who was known as much for his fiery temper as he was for his violent, bullet-ridden death scene in the classic 1972 Francis Ford Coppola movie. But Caan's work with Coppola, and in front of the camera, began years before.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife will premiere on December 20, 2023.Announced its upcoming schedule, the studio confirmed that a new Ghostbusters movie will hit theatres next year after the success of the 2021 reboot.Afterlife was directed by Jason Reitman, the son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the 1984 original. As well as a new cast – including Paul Rudd and Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard – last year’s film saw the return of original cast members Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts in their classic roles.Reitman and writer Gil Kenan also confirmed that the sequel will return to the series’ home of New York City for the sequel.We're back December 2023.

reprises his role as Winston Zeddemore, alongside other OG cast members such as Annie Potts, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver.

Sony announced earlier this month that “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” – last year’s legacy reboot and sequel starring Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, and Finn Wolfhard – is getting a follow-up. That untitled sequel now has a release date: Get ready to bust more ghosts on Dec.

Wilson Chapman editorMore ghostbusting is coming just in time for Christmas 2023. The sequel to 2021’s hit movie “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is set for December 20, 2023.Although no plot details for the new film have been announced, the sequel will feature the characters back in New York City and the Ghostbusters’ Firehouse home base after “Afterlife” moved the action to a small town in Oklahoma.“The last time we saw Ecto-1, it was driving back into Manhattan: the home of Ghostbusters.

Let’s go, girls! Amid Britney Spears’ rise to the pop charts, she made her feature film debut in 2002’s Crossroads.

On the heels of the newly announced Ghostbusters toon series in the works at Netfilx comes word of an animated feature based on the 38-year-old IP.

A Ghostbusters animated series is in development at Netflix, Deadline has confirmed. The project, based on the Ghostbusters IP, hails from Ghostbusters: Afterlife co-writers Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan (Ghost Corps) and Sony Pictures Animation.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA new “Ghostbusters” animated series is in development at Netflix, Variety has learned exclusively. The series hails from Sony Pictures Animation, with Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan of Ghost Corps, Inc. onboard as executive producers.

Frank Rizzo After the Great Recession of ’08 — not to mention anxiety about the current economy — will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it sing, too?In the 1983 movie “Trading Places,” the life of a financial manager is switched with a Philly street hustler when two filthy-rich commodities brokers — brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke  — make a nature-versus-nurture wager and puppet-master their secret social experiment. The same prince-and-pauper plot outline applies to the latest film-to-musical treatment premiering this month at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, which last launched the joyous “The Prom” to New York — and before that, the less successful “Tuck Everlasting.” But this screwball switcheroo still has a long way to go before it’s a safe Broadway bet.