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Lynda Obst and Paula Weinstein will posthumously receive this year’s Trailblazer Award for their work creating opportunities for female producers, the Producers Guild of America announced Friday.

“Lynda Obst and Paula Weinstein have made a lasting impact on the industry with their trailblazing work and steadfast commitment to amplifying women’s voices,” Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line, PGA presidents, said in a statement.

“Lynda and Paula embody the spirit of women who have broken barriers and paved the way for future generations of producers. Their visionary work includes iconic films that have defined eras, alongside their unwavering commitment to championing underrepresented stories,” the statement continued. “Honoring them highlights their dedication to empowerment, innovation and mentorship, celebrating not just their individual legacies but also their shared commitment to advocating for women and fostering collaboration.”

The recognition will be given at this year’s PGA Awards on Feb. 8 at the Fairmont Century Plaza.

While Gina Rodriguez is best known for leading The CW’s Jane the Virgin, she’s also acted in many other films and TV shows.

Rodriguez began her acting career by guest starring on many procedurals, such as Law & Order, The Mentalist, and Rizzoli & Isles. She also had a short stint on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.

Whether Rodriguez directs independent films or romantic comedies, fights bad guys, or voices popular characters in animated classics, she does it with style.

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Since she began leading films and TV shows over a decade ago, Rodriguez has rarely been without work. She’s become one of the leading ladies in the United States and owns her production company, often producing her lead roles.

Rodriguez has joined Will Trent Season 3 as Marian Alba, the assistant district attorney. The series returns on Tuesday, January 7, 2025.

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Women don’t have it easy in Hollywood. And they didn’t back in the ’80s when former New York Times Magazine editor Lynda Obst got her start as a producer. As famously chronicled in her 1996 book “Hello, He Lied — and Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches,” she sold her first movie “Flashdance” (1983) to Dawn Steel at Paramount, only to have the newly minted production team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer take over along with all the credit for its breakout success. Still, it was a winner for the Associate Producer, and she was on her way.

Always a heavy smoker, Obst passed away at age 74 from Copd (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). She was devoted to her family, including her brother, agent Rick Rosen, and son Oly, a producer/manager, whom she has described as “my confidant and best friend.”

“She was a trailblazer for women in the industry...

Lynda Obst, who had producing credits on high-profile films including “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Flashdance” and “Adventures in Babysitting,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 74.

“I was immensely proud of her. She was a trailblazer for women in the industry at a time when it was very difficult for women to have prominent roles. She was passionate about her work but even more passionate about her family,” her brother, WME’s Rick Rosen, said to Variety.

Obst told the Hollywood Reporter earlier this year that she had been battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Most recently, she served as producer or executive producer on TV series including “The Hot Zone,” “Good Girls Revolt,” “Hot in Cleveland” and “Helix.” Obst’s final feature producing credit was Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” in 2014. Among her other credits were “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” “Hope Floats,” “Bad Girls” and “The Fisher King.

Lynda Obst, one of the most prolific female producers in Hollywood, died Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to her brother, WME partner Rick Rosen. She was 74.

Obst had previously been open about suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or Copd.

The producer’s long list of hit films includes Flashdance, The Fisher King, One Fine Day, Contact, Hope Floats, Interstellar and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. She also executive produced Sleepless In Seattle, TVLand’s Hot in Cleveland and had a deal at Sony Pictures Television.

“I was immensely proud of her,” Rosen said. “She was a trailblazer for women in the industry at a time when it was very difficult for women to have prominent roles. She was passionate about her work but even more passionate about her family.”

Obst’s son Oly, a partner at 3 Arts Entertainment, said today: “My mom was a trailblazer...

Taylor Character attributes her early exposure to house music legends like Frankie Knuckles and CeCe Peniston to her late mother. When Character, known professionally as HoneyLuv, decided to leave her Navy drone mechanic job in 2020 and pursue music full time, she says her mother was skeptical at first. But as a house head herself, her mother began to appreciate HoneyLuv’s craft.

Now, as HoneyLuv compares those classic cuts from the Eighties and Nineties to the latest house music releases, she says there’s something missing.

“A lot of labels...

Tom Hanks was leading the romantic comedy genre in the 90s with Meg Ryan, but his wife, Rita Wilson, revealed that he actually turned down starring in another classic.

During a recent episode of the Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast, the actress-producer said Hanks was asked to star in 1989’s When Harry Met Sally…, but declined the role.

“People probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered When Harry Met Sally…, and he turned it down because he was going through a divorce and he was very happy to be not married,” Wilson said. “And so he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would have anything other than just like, ‘I’m so happy.’”

The Forrest Gump actor later went on to star opposite Ryan in 1993’s Sleepless in Seattle and 1998’s You’ve Got Mail. And Billy Crystal ended up landing the role...

Estelle Harris, best known for playing Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld, died of natural causes on Saturday at the age of 93, days shy of her 94th birthday.

“It is with the greatest remorse and sadness to announce that Estelle Harris has passed on this evening at 6:25 pm,” Harris’ son Glenn said in a statement to our sister site Deadline. “Her kindness, passion, sensitivity, humor, empathy and love were practically unrivaled, and she will be terribly missed by all those who knew her.”

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“The panhandle of Texas is a really forgotten part of the world. It’s not a pretty place; it’s dusty and it smells like cow shit, but it has its beauty. And the people are just the best,” says William Clark Green, who with three fellow Texas singer-songwriters is hoping to shine a light on an overlooked region of the state with their new group and album.

The Panhandlers — Green, Josh Abbott, John Baumann, and Cleto Cordero — released their self-titled debut in March, just prior to the world going to hell.

From the opening scenes of “Tiger King,” it’s clear that Joe Exotic, the star of Netflix’s latest documentary sensation, was ready to do just about anything to become famous. Throughout the series, he attempts to film his own reality show, runs for the governor of Oklahoma and even tries his hand at country music.

His musical pursuits were glossed over in the documentary, with a few of his perplexing, tiger-saturated music videos mainly used as B-roll. However, with 17 music videos currently housed on Exotic’s YouTube channel — each one wackier than the next — there looks to be enough material for an additional seven-episode series.

Mostly released between 2013 and 2015, Exotic’s songs touch on everything from love and loss to advocating for causes, including exotic animal ownership and a biker gang that takes in neglected children.

The songs are catchy and well-written — the vocals reminiscent of the mullet-and-10-gallon-hat-sporting...

Mild spoilers for Netflix’s “Tiger King.” Don’t read until you finish.

If you’ve seen “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” on Netflix, then you already know that one of the most wonderful things about this almost unbelievable true-crime docuseries is the extremely corny, low-rent pop and country music that keeps popping up again and again.

If you’ve finished all seven episodes, we’re happy to confirm that these songs are all real, like, actually real. Not parodies, not tongue in cheek, but all recorded and shared with deadly seriousness by the two people whose conflict is at the center of the series: Joe Exotic of Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma, and Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue in Florida.

And because we assume that like us you’re now hellbent on watching the full-length videos, we’ve stepped in to help. Below, please enjoy all the weird,...

With his bottle-blond mullet, tacky shirts, and this-close-to-offensive catchy songs (like “Pretty Woman Lover”), zookeeper-country singer Joe Exotic looks and sounds like he emerged from country’s less-polished past.

And for that, as quarantined viewers who are as captive as Exotic’s own lions and tigers, we’re oh-so grateful.

The narcissistic star of Netflix’s big-cats-meet-crime-docuseries Tiger King, unleashed on the streaming service just as the world went into self-isolation, believes in himself as much as he does in his wild beasts. Along with serenading them in on-the-nose country...

Chicago – Getting the right chemistry in casting a film is crucial in a drama, and the new film “Just Mercy” anchors lead actors Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx with two vital characters actors. Karan Kendrick portrays Millie McMillian, the wife of Foxx’s character, who is on death row. Tim Blake Nelson is Ralph Myers, a key witness.

“Just Mercy” is the based-on-truth story of Walter McMillian (Foxx), an African American man who is accused of a 1990s murder he did not commit. The irony of this accusation is that it takes place in Monroeville, Alabama. This is the hometown of Harper Lee, who set the scenario in her famous book about racial injustice, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” in a town like Monroeville. Enter Bryan Stevenson (Jordan), a fresh out of law school attorney looking to make a difference. With the help of Eva Ansley (Brie Larson), he takes on Walter’s case,...

If you saw Wonder Woman this summer -- and the record-setting $800 million worldwide box office indicates a lot of people saw Wonder Woman this summer -- then you know the story of how Diana, Princess of Themyscira, became the superhero Wonder Woman, protector of mankind. How Wonder Woman ended up on the pages of comic books in the first place is a story unto itself however, told in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: In 1941, Dr. William Moulton Marston (played by Luke Evans), his wife, Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), and their lover, Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote), created the character to save the world...through psychology. Director Angela Robinson (D.E.B.S.) could never have predicted, though, that her Wonder Woman indie would arrive in theaters mere months after one of the biggest movies of the year.

"I'm getting a lot of credit for having the foresight to know that in the summer of 2017, the 75-years-in-the-making, long-gestating Wonder Woman movie would...

LeeAnne Locken did not enjoy watching herself on reality TV.

The 50-year-old actress and former Miss USA contestant may have become The Real Housewives of Dallas‘ season 1 breakout with her explosive temper and willingness to fight for what she believes in, but being the bad girl wasn’t nearly as fun for Locken as it was for fans eating up the drama at home.

“It was miserable, I’m not going to lie to you,” Locken tells People, looking back. “I cried every day of filming, then I was stressed beyond stressed waiting for it to air, and then it...

Bobby Moynihan came to TCA to talk about his new CBS comedy Me, Myself & I, but, understandably, took a lot of Saturday Night Live questions. “I'm an unabashed fan of SNL and would have stayed there forever and ever,” Moynihan acknowledged. “The day you get SNL you start worrying about your exit from SNL; it was always on my mind. It was 13 years of getting it, and then, one day you get it” and then you start thinking ‘This is my life's dream, what am I going to do after…...

Steve Whitmire doesn't appear to have left on good terms with Muppets Studio.

The 57-year-old puppeteer has been the voice of Kermit the Frog since 1990, but was fired in October from his job over what the studio is calling "repeated unacceptable business conduct" that was over "a period of many years." The statement, which was given to The Associated Press, also claims that Whitmire "consistently failed to address" the issue.

Watch: Just How Well Did The Muppets Cast Get Along On Set?

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, Whitmire said that he was fired after expressing views on how the beloved character should be portrayed in ABC's Muppets mockumentary series that aired from 2015 to 2016. "I have been outspoken about what’s best for the Muppets since the Muppets came to Disney [2004]," he said. "The fact is I have respect for everyone who was involved in the creation of that series for their own particular...

The actor was criticised over comments he made about preparing to play a gay man, joining actors such as James Franco who’ve toyed with ideas of sexuality

In an interview about his role as Prior Walter in the National Theatre’s current production of Angels in America, Andrew Garfield became the latest male celebrity to suggest that he might be gay. Asked about playing a gay man living with Aids, the actor joked that the experience had practically made him a gay man himself, “just without the physical act”.

“Every Sunday I would have eight friends over and we would just watch Ru [RuPaul’s Drag Race],” Garfield said in a discussion at the National Theatre. “This is my life outside of this play.” He went on to clarify that, as far as he knows, he’s not a gay man, but added, “maybe I’ll have an awakening later in my life,...

Corinne Olympios and DeMario Jackson may be the latest stars from Bachelor Nation to spark controversy on set, but they're definitely not the first.

Production on season four of Bachelor in Paradise was suspended this week following allegations of misconduct. A source told Et that the two allegedly started hooking up in the pool after the cast had been "drinking all day," and that a "third party" felt uncomfortable, claiming misconduct in the workplace.

Watch: Corinne Olympios Breaks Her Silence on 'Bachelor in Paradise' Incident: 'I Am a Victim'

Drinking on Bip isn't anything new. Since season one, the contestants have had access to a full bar with unlimited alcohol. So for production to completely shut down?

"It's crazy," another source told Et. "It's a multimillion-dollar production."

Amid what actually may be the biggest scandal in the history of this show, Et is breaking down the biggest Bachelor Nation bombshells of all time, from [link=tt...

“Wonder Woman” is expected to top the weekend; claims that it will be the most successful film ever directed by a woman will soon follow. That’s possible, but far from guaranteed: While Hollywood’s pretzel logic would suggest that women rarely direct blockbusters, Patty Jenkins’ success story will have a lot of competition.

The dearth of women directors trusted by studios to helm top movies becomes even more suspect when adjusting grosses to current ticket prices. Despite limited opportunities, 14 have grossed over $200 million, and 40 total over $100 million when calculated at current numbers.

Below, we go into detail about the top directors and their movies; there’s a lot to see, with some compelling and surprising conclusions. However, more than any other statistic, here’s one that stands out: Among the most successful female directors, after adjusting to current ticket prices, the career average per film gross is over $100 million for several.

Fifteen years ago, best friends Andra Liemandt and Jenny Mason never would have predicted their mid-life career change.

Back then, they worked for tech giant Dell — but nowadays, the ladies are rocking Austin and beyond with their country-tinged pop-rock band The Mrs.

“My dad still tells me, ‘You are the last of all my children I thought I’d be seeing onstage playing in a band,'” says Mason, the act’s bassist and also a former interior designer. “But now I can’t imagine doing anything else. That’s the journey it’s been.”

That long road has so...

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Major spoilers ahead as we speak to Line Of Duty creator, writer and director Jed Mercurio about Roz Huntley, Acc Hilton and more…

If I were ever to find myself alone in a room with a dead body I’d created in self-defence and pondering my next move, “plead guilty to manslaughter,” Jed Mercurio tells me. “For the minimum three years sentence. If you take the risk of fighting a murder plea with self-defence and you fail, then you will be convicted of murder and that is a mandatory life sentence.” Getting off with self-defence is really, really hard, says Mercurio, really hard. “I did the research.”

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It’s good advice, if alarming in the context of a DVD release-plugging interview. As a general rule,...

Barry Manilow doesn't think it was a surprise to anyone when he revealed that he married his longtime partner and manager, Garry Keif, in 2014.

After opening up to Et about his relationship in an exclusive sit-down interview, the 73-year-old singer appeared on the Today show on Thursday to talk about coming out to the public. "It's not news to me and no news to anybody around me," Manilow said. "I think even fans, I don't think it was news at all. But the [National] Enquirer caught us getting married, and so we were stuck."

Exclusive: Barry Manilow on Feeling Reluctant to Talk About Relationship With Garry Kief, the Price of Fame

The music icon admitted that he doesn't like to talk about his personal life. "I'm a private guy, I'm a musician," he explained. "Yes, fame hit me, but I never really wanted to go on that ride."

Manilow added that he gets "uncomfortable" talking about himself, but "the...

Barry Manilow is opening up about his husband, Garry Kief, for the first time ever on camera.

During an exclusive sit-down interview with Et, the 73-year-old music legend reflects on marrying his manager and longtime partner, and how the two kept their relationship from the public for nearly 40 years.

"I have not read one negative response," Manilow tells Et's Cameron Mathison of the reaction he's received from fans ever since news broke in 2015 that he had secretly tied the knot with Kief. "These strangers out there, and I've always known it, they care about me."

"I don't know, maybe they care about everybody, but for me, it is so moving, it is so deep that these strangers were so happy that I was happy," he continues. "That I wasn't alone, that I had somebody that was with me that I loved and that we'd been together for 37 years. We're in great shape, and I was very...

The Performer | Cameron Monaghan

The Show | Gotham

The Episode | “Mad City: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies” (Jan. 30, 2017)

The Performance | Monaghan is so good at being colorfully bad, it almost makes us angry every time one of his arcs as that joker, Jerome Valeska, comes to an end.

It’s always a precarious thing to raise comparisons with the late Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning turn as The Dark Knight‘s actual Joker, but Monaghan’s latest “swan song” more than ever flirted with that kind of greatness. Between his voice, his gait and the way he carried himself with a...

"This is my life! I had to fight for this..." A trailer has debtued for an indie drama adapted from a stage play called "Blackbird". The film is titled Una and premiered at the Telluride & Toronto Film Festivals last year to mixed reviews. Rooney Mara stars as a troubled young woman who comes to a man's work to confront him about their past, and things get a little crazy. Ben Mendelsohn also stars, and the cast includes Riz Ahmed in a small role, as well as Tobias Menzies and Tara Fitzgerald. While some critics flipped for this film, I found it utterly boring, and it feels way too much like a stage play and not at all like a film (taking place mostly in one drab location). It doesn't work well as a film, but that's just my own take. Have a look. Here's the first official trailer for Benedict Andrews' Una,...

Debbie Reynolds was famous for her perky onscreen personality, but behind that sweet smile she was hiding a painful past.

When Reynolds, who died Wednesday, just one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher passed away, did a joint interview with Fisher on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011, she reluctantly discussed the at-times volatile relationship she had with her mother Maxine. Fisher went so far as to describe Reynolds’ mother as abusive.

“The big, big thing about my mom is that she had a very bad mom,” Fisher said on the show. “She had a very difficult, mean, punishing mother. My grandmother,...

He may be the Starboy, but life in the spotlight wasn’t always easy for The Weeknd.

In this week’s issue of Billboard, the Canadian singer admits that he’s suffered from stage fright.

“I used to be very nervous, especially about performing on TV,” explains The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye. “It’s usually just nerves when ­somebody sounds bad. People who become famous for signing are usually pretty good at ­singing.”

The 26-year-old has discovered that recognition helps partially soothe the fears, however.

“Now, when I step out at the American Music Awards or on Saturday Night Live,...

Let's be honest: last night should have actually been called the Bey-MAs.  From her incredible angel-like gown to bringing Blue Ivy as her guest to her jaw-dropping, 15-minute performance, Beyoncé reigned over the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. And to think, some of her amazing surprises weren't even caught on-stage! For example, during one of Chance the Rapper's backstage interviews, Queen B decided to pop up behind him and make her presence known, totally catching both him and the reporter off-guard. "Oh my God! That was awesome," the rapper gasped after realizing who had hugged him. "This is my life!"  Bey, not wanting to be...

Chad Johnson may have been eliminated early from The Bachelorette, but he refused to disappear from the public eye. On Tuesday night's two-hour season premiere of Bachelor in Paradise, Johnson made a violent and offensive return.

At the end of the episode, the meat-loving luxury real estate agent was asked to leave by none other than Chris Harrison. ("You told everybody at this hotel last night to suck a d---. You had a chance to turn over a new leaf and you didn't, and so on behalf of everybody, I'm sorry, I thought this could work out, it didn't. I'm...

Chad Johnson may have been eliminated pretty early on The Bachelorette, but he refused to disappear from the public eye. On Tuesday night's two-hour season premiere of Bachelor in Paradise, Johnson made a triumphant - or should we say, violent and offensive - return. At the end of the episode, the meat-loving luxury real estate agent was asked to leave by none other than Chris Harrison. ("You told everybody at this hotel last night to suck a d---. You had a chance to turn over a new leaf and you didn't, and so on behalf of everybody, I'm sorry, I thought this could work out,...

It's back.

On Tuesday, Bachelor in Paradise season 3 premiered, fulfilling all of our hopes and dreams of spending the summer watching Bachelor and Bachelorette castaways hook up with and discard each other in a steady, seamless rotation, week by week. It's a beautiful disaster and we can't look away, so for that, we thank you, ABC.

Of course, the two-hour season premiere boasted the show's signature abundance of alcohol, sloppy make-out sessions and tear-soaked confessionals, but what everyone will undoubtedly be talking about is the return of Chad Johnson, perhaps the franchise's most infamous (read: hated) character.

If you watched...

It's back. On Tuesday, Bachelor in Paradise season 3 premiered, fulfilling all of our hopes and dreams of spending the summer watching Bachelor and Bachelorette castaways hook up with and discard each other in a steady, seamless rotation, week by week. It's a beautiful disaster and we can't look away, so for that, we thank you, ABC. Of course, the two-hour season premiere boasted the show's signature abundance of alcohol, sloppy make-out sessions and tear-soaked confessionals, but what everyone will undoubtedly be talking about is the return of Chad Johnson, perhaps the franchise's most infamous (read: hated) character.If you watched...

Amber Rose tells it like it is – proudly.

The star – who was once best known as Kanye West's ex and later Wiz Khalifa's wife – has come into her own as a self-declared feminist and an outspoken member of Hollywood's new social media elite.

"This is my life. This is about me. If you don't like it, I don't care. I'm going to do anything and everything I want with my own life," she explained to Motto in January.

Ahead of the 32-year-old's weekly talk show, The Amber Rose Show, which features pop culture coverage and celebrity interviews starting Friday on VH1 debut,...

Amber Rose tells it like it is - proudly. The star - who was once best known as Kanye West's ex and later Wiz Khalifa's wife - has come into her own as a self-declared feminist and an outspoken member of Hollywood's new social media elite. "This is my life. This is about me. If you don't like it, I don't care. I'm going to do anything and everything I want with my own life," she explained to Motto in January. Ahead of the 32-year-old's weekly talk show, The Amber Rose Show, which features pop culture coverage and...

Marcia Clark spent many hours with O.J. Simpson when she tried to put him behind bars for the 1994 deaths of his wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

But in an exclusive interview with People, Clark says she was thrown for a loop when she saw rare footage of a much younger Simpson at his affable, engaging best – what she terms "the best 'act' I'd ever seen." The footage came from the highly anticipated Espn documentary, O.J: Made In America, which premieres June 11 on ABC, with subsequent episodes airing on Espn on June 14, 15, 17 and 18.

Drawing from more than...

Marcia Clark spent many hours with O.J. Simpson when she tried to put him behind bars for the 1994 deaths of his wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. But in an exclusive interview with People, Clark says she was thrown for a loop when she saw rare footage of a much younger Simpson at his affable, engaging best - what she terms "the best 'act' I'd ever seen." The footage came from the highly anticipated Espn documentary, O.J: Made In America, which premieres June 11 on ABC, with subsequent episodes airing on Espn. Drawing from more than 70 interviews with Simpson's friends and colleagues,...

Marcia Clark spent many hours with O.J. Simpson when she tried to put him behind bars for the 1994 deaths of his wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. But in an exclusive interview with People, Clark says she was thrown for a loop when she saw rare footage of a much younger Simpson at his affable, engaging best - what she terms "the best 'act' I'd ever seen." The footage came from the highly anticipated Espn documentary, O.J: Made In America, which premieres June 11 on ABC, with subsequent episodes airing on Espn. Drawing from more than 70 interviews with Simpson's friends and colleagues,...

After Ben Higgins made viewers swoon as a fan favorite on Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of The Bachelorette, he's now on his own journey to love on The Bachelor. He'll be blogging exclusively about each and every rose ceremony for People – check back each week and follow him on Twitter at @benhiggi!

Things are getting real aren't they?

I knew this was going to move fast, but I don't think I ever thought it would be this fast. Both in terms of the feelings I was having already, but as you saw, also with the drama and conflict with the women in the house.

After Ben Higgins made viewers swoon as a fan favorite on Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of The Bachelorette, he's now on his own journey to love on The Bachelor. He'll be blogging exclusively about each and every rose ceremony for People - check back each week and follow him on Twitter at @benhiggi!Things are getting real aren't they? I knew this was going to move fast, but I don't think I ever thought it would be this fast. Both in terms of the feelings I was having already, but as you saw, also with the drama and conflict with the women in the house.

After Ben Higgins made viewers swoon as a fan favorite on Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of The Bachelorette, he's now on his own journey to love on The Bachelor. He'll be blogging exclusively about each and every rose ceremony for People – check back each week and follow him on Twitter at @benhiggi!

Wow. Didn't I tell you this was going to be a wild week?! I don't even know where to begin. But like I said before, when I don't know it's usually just best to dive right in so here goes nothing.

I feel like the thing that stood...

After Ben Higgins made viewers swoon as a fan favorite on Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of The Bachelorette, he's now on his own journey to love on The Bachelor. He'll be blogging exclusively about each and every rose ceremony for People - check back each week and follow him on Twitter at @benhiggi!Wow. Didn't I tell you this was going to be a wild week?! I don't even know where to begin. But like I said before, when I don't know it's usually just best to dive right in so here goes nothing. I feel like the thing that...

The recent wave of gun violence and shooting rampages in San Bernardino, California, and Colorado Springs, hit especially close to home for actress Jennifer Hudson. “This is reality for me. This is my life. A part of my life,” she told W Magazine, recalling her own personal loss in a heartfelt interview published Wednesday. The “Chi-Raq” star and former “American Idol” finalist lost her mother, brother and seven-year-old nephew in 2008 when they were shot and killed in their Chicago home. William Balfour, the estranged husband of Hudson’s sister Julia, was later convicted of the triple murder and given three...

Jennifer Hudson is dealing with a topic that hits very close to home. The actress stars in Spike Lee's film Chi-Raq, in theaters now, where she plays a mother of a young girl killed by gunfire, a decision that was difficult for the star, who experienced a horrific gun tragedy in her personal life. "Yeah, of course. It's like, you're asking a lot," Hudson told W magazine when asked if she hesitated on taking the role. "This is reality for me. This is my life. A part of my life. And I definitely had that moment of like, 'Are you serious?' But when I really thought about it, I understood why he came to me and I thought, 'You know what? It's worth me telling my story so...

We get more excited for the return of "The X-Files" with every teaser trailer Fox drops, and the latest footage is no exception.

On Monday night, a 45-second promo was released, featuring Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) back in action and on "dangerous ground."

"They police us, they spy on us, tell us that makes us safer. We've never been in more danger," Mulder says in the trailer. "This is my life. This is everything I believe in."

Photos: The 'X-Files' Revival - Pics From The Set

The footage features returning star Mitch Pileggi ...

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"This is my life. This is everything I believe in." Fox has released a new teaser trailer for The X-Files event series, giving fans an updated look at Mulder, Scully, Skinner, and more.

"David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their iconic roles as Agent Fox Mulder and Agent Dana Scully in the upcoming event series which will encompass a mixture of stand-alone investigative episodes and those that further the original show’s seminal mythology. In the opening episode, Mulder and Scully take on a case of a possible alien abductee. The all-new episodes will feature appearances by guest stars, including Joel McHale (“Community”), Robbie Amell (“The Flash”), Lauren Ambrose (“Dig,” “Six Feet Under”), Annabeth Gish (“The Bridge”), Annet Mahendru (“The Americans”), Rhys Darby (“Flight of the Conchords”), Kumail Nanjiani (“Silicon Valley”) and William B. Davis, who reprises his role as “Cigarette Smoking Man.” Three of the episodes are written and directed by Chris Carter,...

Alex Garland, screenwriter of “28 Days Later,” “Sunshine” and “Never Let Me Go,” makes an impressive directorial debut with cerebral sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina” (in theaters today), but Garland waves off the achievement of leaping to directing as “just next in a continuum.” “The truth was that there was no epiphany moment about directing, because I just don’t dignify the directing role the way we’re supposed to,” the British filmmaker told The Dissolve. “There are a few people — like Woody Allen, he’s an auteur, and I’m cool with that. But for me, directing is about collaboration.” Whether directing is a logical next step or a hard-sought achievement for screenwriters, it’s often done by telling studios, “Hey, here’s my next screenplay. You can have it as long as I get to direct.” Preston Sturges — at the time the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood — is noted for...

Hold on to your pool chairs: All three of Penelope Spheeris' entertaining, heartbreaking and iconic Decline of Western Civilization documentaries are officially coming to Blu-ray and DVD for the first time in a deluxe box set on June 30th. Shout! Factory will release the four-disc anthology chronicling L.A.'s hardcore punk, hair-metal and gutter-punk phenomena with a 40-page book, extended interviews and a new commentary track by Dave Grohl. Each film has also been given a 2K high-definition restoration, which Spheeris supervised.

"I am so grateful to the fans of these films,...

Et's Kevin Frazier was still flying high hours after his selfie with Katy Perry at her Super Bowl press conference, but leave it to comedian Kevin Hart to bring him back down to Earth.

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"Wait a second, Kevin! She's not even looking at your camera," Hart said. "This is a weird moment right here. She didn't want to be there Kevin. Let me be honest with you. Eyes tell a thousand stories. Her eyes say, 'This is creepy.'"

Frazier caught up with Hart as The Wedding Ringer star hosted the Annual Madden Bowl at the Live Wire in Scottsdale, Ariz., where Cardinals' cornerback Patrick Peterson prevailed over Eagles' running back LeSean McCoy to win the video game tournament.

Hart emceed the event, but does he have game?

"I am what you call a gamer," Hart insisted. "This is my life. This is what I do."

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Artist Skottie Young created this wonderfully adorable trilogy of interlocking comic book cover art for Marvel's new Star Wars comic based on the classic movies. These comics will be set shortly after the destruction of the first Death Star in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The three comics are being coordinated with Lucasfilm to make sure that they line up with both the original films and whatever is coming in Episode VII, VIII, IX and whatever else Lucasfilm in planning. The three comics they are developing are:

Princess Leia #1, kicking off a five-issue miniseries in March, 2015 by writer Mark Waid and artist Terry Dodson.

Star Wars #1, launching in January, 2015 from writer Jason Aaron and artist John Cassaday.

Darth Vader #1, following close behind in February, 2015 by Kieron Gillen with art by Salvador Larroca.

Young talked about the project in a statement he gave to MTV:

“Like most people my age,...