Peter Bart On Redrafting The System: What Joe Eszterhas & The ’80s “Writers Rebellion” Say About Today’s Screenplay Malaise

Kimberlin Brown is back on The Bold and the Beautiful as the beloved villain Sheila and she’s opening up about her big return.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jerry Seinfeld said in an interview with The New Yorker while touting his feature directorial effort “Unfrosted” that “P.C. crap” and the “extreme left” is making television comedy go extinct. Seinfeld is a sitcom icon thanks to his eponymous NBC sitcom that ran between 1989 and 1998, but he says viewers no longer flock to their television sets in order to get their comedy fix like they did for decades.

One Direction turned Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik into household names, but the former boy banders have found just as much success as solo acts.

The man behind Co-op Live has revealed exactly why the opening of Manchester's new arena has been delayed again. In an exclusive interview with the Manchester Evening News, Tim Leiweke explained why the £365m venue has pushed back Peter Kay's two performances for a second time and rescheduled The Black Keys' show tomorrow (April 27).

Manchester's brand new Co-Op Live arena has dramatically pulled MORE shows at the last minute amid news that the building is not yet ready to fully open. Peter Kay's gigs had already been rescheduled, but now they've been moved again to May 23 and 24.

Unfortunately for readers in the UK, you’ll have to dig around online for all the details on Rebel Wilson’s bombshell allegations against Sacha Baron Cohen!

David Pecker stabbed impatiently at his veal piccata. We’d been having a cordial business lunch, but he was growing frustrated. The publisher of the National Enquirer was pitching an ambitious deal to me involving major money — not a Stormy Daniels sort of deal — but my disinterest in it puzzled him.

TikTok in the United States unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells the platform’s US stakes.The bill – which was voted for 79 to 18 – is next expected to be signed by President Joe Biden, who has previously indicated that he will approve of the legislation once it hits his desk. Tuesday’s vote comes three days after it cleared the House of Representatives.Should the bill be passed, ByteDance will have an estimated nine months to sell TikTok.

A small piece of contemporary cinema history was written last night in St Andrews, Scotland when Steven Soderbergh sat down with Joe and Anthony Russo on stage at the Sands International Film Festival to discuss their 2002 collaboration Welcome to Collinwood. 

I never liked Tom Ripley but I keep meeting him.

Taylor Swift‘s new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ have been unveiled.Swift dropped the new album this morning (April 19) and later announced it is in fact a double album as she shared the remaining tracks.Now the full credits to the first half of the album have emerged. You can listen to it below.The opening track ‘Fortnight’ as previously reported features Post Malone while Florence + The Machine appears on ‘Florence’.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Barbra Streisand has recorded a new song, “Love Will Survive,” to serve as the end-title theme for “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” a six-part, Holocaust-themedseries that premieres on Peacock in the U.S. and Sky in other territories on May 2. The song will come out globally via her longtime label, Columbia Records, on April 25.

Billy Joel,’s 100th concert at MSG, the screen cut to black in a number of markets just as the Rock Hall of Famer launched into his seminal hit “Piano Man.”Fans were understandably disappointed.“Someone royally screwed up. That’s an embarrassment,” an irate viewer shared.Thankfully, viewers that were robbed of singing along with Joel on CBS can still catch him at Madison Square Garden this year.The only issue is that the 74-year-old singer doesn’t have many more shows at the Knicks and Rangers home venue.Back in July 2023, Joel announced he would end his longstanding, record-breaking 150 show run at MSG in July 2024; now, there are just four more concerts remaining on his schedule.

To outsiders, Eleanor Coppola, who died Friday at age 87, presented as soft spoken and unassuming, yet as someone who always understood exactly what was going on. When I first met her she was playing the role of the perfect ’60s “hippie chick” who hung with young filmmakers, tolerated their ego trips but also had a keen sense of talent.

The cast of Wicked has grown by one with the announcement that Peter Dinklage would be starring in the forthcoming movies!

Oliver Hudson is opening up about one of his biggest regrets.

co-DC Chief Peter Safran just told Cinemacon attendees that the Warner Bros Sundance acquisition, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is getting a September theatrical release.

Adam and Ryan Thomas are being lined up as presenters of a new weekend gameshow on ITV. The pair are already popular with viewers from appearances in Emmerdale and Coronation Street, plus reality shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing on Ice.

The royal family isn’t worried about the Middletons’ massive debt at all? Really?!

“Game Of Thrones” fans, meet Dunk and Egg.  HBO has their two leads for “A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight” as the series inches closer to production.  Peter Claffey will star as Ser Duncan the Tall (“Dunk”), while Dexter Sol Ansell is Aegon V Targaryen (“Egg), his squire. READ MORE: ‘The Hedge Knight’: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Spinoff Headed For A Late 2025 Premiere And for those shocked that Ansell, who moviegoers may recognize from “The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes,” is just 9 years old, well, that’s the point.