Legendary Sets $800 Million Credit Facility With J.P. Morgan

Icon alert! Jennifer Coolidge was awarded the Comedic Genius Award at the 2023 MTV Movie and TV Awards.

Despite all of the upheaval at Twitter under new owner Elon Musk in recent months, the social media firm and NBCUniversal say they have gotten their earliest start yet in ramping up their Olympic Games partnership.

A trove of documents that were in the possession of disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reportedly show he interacted with people who included a former Israeli prime minister, a former treasury secretary, other high-powered financiers and Woody Allen. The documents revealed Epstein's scheduled meetings with former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Emeritus Lawrence Summers, billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black and others, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Kelsea Ballerini is setting the record straight about rumours she and Chase Stokes have broken up.

Aryan Khan, the son of Hindi film industry superstar Shah Rukh Khan, is gearing up to make his debut as showrunner and director with a series set against the backdrop of the film industry. 

Shalini Dore Features News Editor As the second season of Hulu’s “Taste the Nation” starts streaming May 5, executive producer and host Padma Lakshmi again takes viewers among the immigrant communities in the U.S. via their taste buds. Lakshmi spoke with Variety for AAPI Month ahead of the show’s season premiere. She says she and her team get lots of invitations from around the country asking them to visit and highlight the communities. This season they visit Puerto Rico, the Appalachians, the Afghan community in Washington, D.C., as well as Filipinos in the Bay Area. “We don’t just go into a community, visit them and we’re out and then rinse and repeat in the next town,” she says. “We’re looking at the larger issue of immigration in the country that is so integral to the foundation of our modern republic but also through the ever-evolving thing that is America. Immigration is so uniquely important to this country out of all the countries in the world and it’s what has made it its superpower.”

Jenny Slate is ready to set to join Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and Brandon Sklenar in the big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel “It Ends With Us,” which is currently in development with Wayfarer Studios and Sony Pictures, TheWrap has confirmed. Baldoni will also direct.

Morgan Wallen found fame on "The Voice" and quickly became one of the most wanted men in country music.  Wallen, by all accounts, was dangerous, a fitting word that embodied his writing, singing and care-free persona. He used "dangerous" to name his second, award-winning, chart-topping double-album with 32 songs to prove he was serious about becoming a mainstay in the industry. The 29-year-old Tennessee native has fought every inch of the way to keep his "Whiskey Glasses" from clouding life but has been caught in a few controversies along the way.

Eiza González has been working hard on her latest project in London. The Hollywood star just finished filming ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ with Henry Cavill, Alex Pettyfer, and Henry Golding. Directed by Guy Ritchie, the storyline takes place during World War II, and the cast was photographed getting ready to shoot one of the scenes.The 33-year-old actress looked glamorous wearing a white dress paired with metallic sandals.

abruptly canceling his show at Vaught Hemingway Stadium in Mississippi on Sunday.Mandi Walker Nowlin — who attended the concert with her husband — later posted a Facebook status tagging the singer and expressing her wish that he pay for everything from their outfits to gas, reported The Independent. “Since you’re offering refunds … here is our itemized bill for you,” read Nowlin’s status. Unfortunately, she’s received no response regarding getting any of her money back.Nowlin told The Post that no one from Wallen’s team has reached out to her regarding the list, nor has she been refunded for her tickets.

K-pop boyband SEVENTEEN’s new mini-album ‘FML’ has become the highest-selling K-pop album in its first week to date.Yesterday (April 24), SEVENTEEN returned with their tenth mini-album ‘FML’, led by title tracks ‘F*ck My Life’ and ‘Super’. In less than 24 hours since its release, the record has set a new record for highest first-week sales for a K-pop album.According to South Korea’s Hanteo Chart, per The Korea Times on Tuesday morning KST, ‘FML’ sold over 3.9million copies after it dropped the evening prior, making it the highest-ever number of albums sold by a K-pop act in the first week of release.The record was previously held by BTS with their 2020 album ‘Map of the Soul: 7’, which had achieved over 3.3million sales in its first week.

The cast of Venom 3 is growing!

Prosecutors in New Mexico plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film “Rust,” Baldwin’s attorneys said Thursday.

A new study has suggested that drinking more cups or tea or coffee throughout the day could help those with diabetes live longer lives. Type 2 diabetes affects approximately 3.9million people in Britain, causing symptoms such as high blood sugar levels which can result in heart attacks or strokes.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Legendary Entertainment, the content studio behind “Dune” and the rebooted “Godzilla” franchise, has secured a new $800 million credit facility from J.P. Morgan. The new fund updates a preexisting line of credit and will span five years, the company announced Tuesday. It’s a sign of confidence in the unit, run by CEO Josh Grode and vice chairman of worldwide production Mary Parent, that a traditional mega-lender would invest at such a turbulent time in a media business rife with consolidation and Wall Street woes. Grode said the company was “pleased to extend our relationship with J.P. Morgan as we continue to grow our global film and TV pipeline and monetize our IP across multiple platforms.” He credited the creative team led by Parent for “creating compelling content that resonates with audiences around the world.”

Dune producer Legendary Entertainment has secured an $800 million five-year credit facility led by J.P. Morgan, replacing an existing agreement with “improved and market-leading terms” that reflect its “profitability and success in executing its business plan,’ the company said.

Peter Morgan (The Crown) was among the top winners at this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards with his latest production, Patriots, which took home the coveted Michael Billington Award for Best New Play.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” left its box office competitors in the dust, scoring a massive $87 million in its second weekend of release. Ticket sales declined just 41% from its debut, resulting in the best sophomore outings ever for an animated film. So far, the video game adaptation has grossed $347.8 million in North America and $678 million globally. “Mario” stayed strong even as several new movies entered the theatrical race, to varying results. In a surprise finish, Universal’s wacky horror-comedy “Renfield,” which sees Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula and Nicholas Hoult as his rebelling henchmen, landed in fourth place with a disappointing $7.7 million from 3,375 locations. The film arrived behind Sony’s R-rated demonic thriller “The Pope’s Exorcist,” which also fell slightly short of expectations with $9.1 million.

Well, this is a bit different than what we were led to believe…

Will Smith is all smiles and hard at work on the set of Bad Boys 4 on Wednesday (April 12) in Atlanta, Georgia.