Artist sues Lego over leather jacket on ‘Queer Eye’ toy of Antoni Porowski

Danai Gurira, the actress most widely known for her roles in Marvel’s Avengers franchise and AMC’s The Walking Dead, will play one of the stage’s great villains this summer when she takes the title character of Richard III for New York’s Free Shakespeare in the Park.

Ellise Shafer The New York Times has purchased Wordle, the daily word game that has recently taken the internet by storm.The publication announced the acquisition in a press release on Monday, writing: “As The Times looks to entertain more solvers with puzzles every day — especially during these anxious times — we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve acquired Wordle, the stimulating and wildly popular daily word game that has become a cultural phenomenon. Wordle, which gives players six tries to guess a five-letter mystery word, will join New York Times Games’s portfolio of original, engaging puzzle games that delight and challenge solvers every day.”The press release also states that Wordle was purchased for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.” The game was created by Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn-based software engineer, and released to the public in October 2021.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“Spoiler Alert,” a new feature led by Jim Parsons from Focus Features, has added four stars to its ensemble cast.Antoni Porowski of Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” Tony award winner Nikki M. James (“The Book of Mormon”), Jeffery Self (“Search Party”) and Bill Irwin (“Rachel Getting Married”) have all joined the project directed by Michael Showalter.Having just wrapped principal photography in New York, the film is based on Michael Ausiello’s bestselling memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words.” It charts the emotionally turbulent 11-month journey of Ausiello’s former partner Kit, from his diagnosis with terminal cancer to his death.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaTheatergoers can soon get an up-close-and-personal brush with a legendary pop art provocateur. Bated Breath Theatre Company, which recently produced the award-winning “Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec,” will launch its newest immersive and theatrical walking tour production, “Chasing Andy Warhol.” The show will use the East Village as a backdrop as it explores the life and legacy of one of the 20th century’s most famous artists, a man who explored the impact of celebrity and mass media with works like Campbell’s Soup Cans and his silkscreen diptych of Marilyn Monroe. It’s a pretty pandemic-friendly slice of theater, one that takes audiences from Astor Place to the Bowery before ending at Von Bar.

The Gilded Age seems destined to be a hit. After all, American viewers are huge fans of British period dramas—or so it appears. The Tudors, Downton Abbey, , and are just a few of the series to find runaway success focusing on a time that transports us to yesteryear.

A lot of eyebrows were raised when it was revealed Pete Davidson, 28, and his Saturday Night Live co-star Colin Jost, 39, purchased a Staten Island Ferry recently. In case you missed it, the comedians, along with comedy club owner Paul Italia, won the auction for a decommissioned, 277-foot boat that was used to shuttle commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island since 1965 before it was taken out of service last August. As fans were clamoring to figure out exactly why the trio coughed up $280,100 for the vessel, a source EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife that the new owners have some big plans for it.

Saturday Night Live, as multiple cast members have hailed from there. At present, there are a couple of Staten Island natives amongst the current cast – namely, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost. And recently, the two came together to save the world-renowned ferry system, which also has a connection to Jost's and Scarlett Johansson's wedding.

Antonio Brown has a new gig lined up with Kanye West. The two connected earlier this month after Justin LaBoy said that West, who recently changed his legal name to Ye, had expressed interest in working on music with the NFL free agent.

NBC News confirmed the purchase, which was made at auction for $280,100 by Davidson, Jost and real estate agent Paul Italia.What does one do with their own Staten Island Ferry, exactly? Turn it into a party boat, of course. Italia told the New York Post that the trio is planning on turning the boat into a live entertainment space.

In what sounds like material for a Saturday Night Live sketch, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost have purchased a decommissioned Staten Island ferry boat for $280,100, NBC News has confirmed.

NEW YORK -- “Saturday Night Live” comics Colin Jost and Pete Davidson have purchased a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry boat for $280,100 with plans to turn it into New York's hottest club.Jost and Davidson teamed up with comedy club owner Paul Italia on Wednesday's winning bid for the John F. Kennedy, a 277-foot (84-meter) vessel that shuttled commuters between the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island from 1965 until it was taken out of service last August.“The Staten Island Ferry is definitely something iconic,” Italia, a real estate investor and co-owner of the restaurant and comedy club The Stand, said Friday.

Jimi Hendrix has filed a lawsuit claiming that the estates representing his late Jimi Hendrix Experience bandmates, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, do not have the right to sue them for copyright claims.Dorothy Weber, the lawyer representing Experience Hendrix, LLC and Sony Music Entertainment, filed the suit on Tuesday (January 18) in the US District Court in the Southern District of New York.According to Rolling Stone, it comes after a letter Sony Music received in December from British lawyer, Lawrence Abramson, in which he claimed the label owed Redding and Mitchell’s estates performance royalties for roughly 3billion streams of the Experience’s songs.Abramson didn’t specify an amount they were looking for but did say that “such streaming figures and sales is estimated to be in the millions of pounds”. He added: “Ignoring this letter may lead our clients to commence proceedings against you and may increase your liability for costs.”The letter prompted Weber to take acton on behalf of Experience Hendrix and Sony, who claimed they were unable to be sued by the defendants because both Experience members previously signed waivers.Weber has alleged that Mitchell signed a document in September 1974 releasing the Hendrix estate from legal claims and agreeing not to sue the Hendrix estate. She’s claimed that Redding, too, signed a similar document in April 1973.

Lisa Rinna, 58, may have become a household name on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills ever since her debut on the series in 2014, but her daughters, Delilah Belle Hamlin, 23, and Amelia Gray Hamlin, 20, both made names for themselves all their own. After introducing her girls — whom she shares with actor Harry Hamlin — to RHOBH fans, the girls’ stars began to rise as they flourished with their own respective careers in show business and their complicated personal lives made headlines.

Page Six reported that Gayle King's contract with CBS ends in May, and rival networks are ready to move mountains to ink the "CBS Mornings" anchor to a contract. CBS, though, "will do everything we can to keep King," a source said.Despite CBS' hopes, there is speculation that Gayle might be ready to move on from her early shift or move to the West Coast, where her family lives.

No longer a royal. Buckingham Palace has revealed Queen Elizabeth’s Prince Andrew sexual assault lawsuit response for the first time. With approval from Her Majesty herself, the Duke of York has officially been stripped of his royal titles as he awaits potential trial in the United States amid his ongoing sexual abuse lawsuit.