Whoopi Goldberg was back in the moderator’s seat on The View today after missing last week’s Season 27 premiere due to her third bout with Covid, and today she received a standing ovation from the studio audience on her return.
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K-pop agency SM Entertainment has announced that it will be taking legal action against a fan who allegedly broke into NCT member Jaehyun’s hotel room last year.On August 21, a Twitter user uploaded several clips from inside the hotel room, claiming that had it was being used by NCT member Jaehyun at the time, per Soompi.The clips were taken without permission in a hotel where the NCT 127 members had been staying during their US tour last October, and captured some of the singer’s stage outfits and personal belongings.SM Entertainment has since released a statement announcing its intent to pursue legal action against the fan. “The video is an illegal act that seriously infringes on the privacy of the artist, and the company is collecting data on the first person who uploaded it and all those who redistributed it,” said the agency, per Newsen.It continued: “We will request the cooperation of domestic and foreign sites and legal firms to conduct a thorough investigation through law enforcement agencies.”Earlier this month, Jaehyun released the song ‘Horizon’ through NCT’s ‘NCT LAB’ project, under which the boyband release standalone solo or unit tracks.
In an interview with NME, the singer shared that the song was particularly inspired by an airplane ride.Meanwhile, NCT are set to make their comeback with ‘Golden Age’ on August 28, being the boyband’s first full-group release since ‘Universe’ in December 2021. It’s currently unclear if member Taeil will be involved with promotional activities following his injury.
.Whoopi Goldberg was back in the moderator’s seat on The View today after missing last week’s Season 27 premiere due to her third bout with Covid, and today she received a standing ovation from the studio audience on her return.
EXCLUSIVE: In one of the first acquisition deals at Toronto, Greenwich Entertainment today announced it has picked up Sorry/Not Sorry, the documentary about the Louis C.K. sexual misconduct scandal and its aftermath, hours after the film’s TIFF world premiere.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer NBCUniversal Entertainment has tapped Universal Television Alternative Studio exec Christine Cowan as its new senior vice president of casting and talent. In her new role, Cowan will head up casting and talent management for scripted and unscripted shows, with a particular focus on unscripted, across the NBCUniversal Entertainment brands NBC, Bravo, E!, Oxygen True Crime, SYFY, USA Network, Universal Kids and Peacock.
In an unprecedented move, the libraries and foundations of 13 former U.S. Presidents have banded together to issue what they’re calling “an urgent call to action for all Americans.” The signatories include institutions representing virtually the entire spectrum presidential politics – from Barack Obama to Ronald Reagan, to Bill Clinton to Richard Nixon to John F. Kennedy – stretching back to Herbert Hoover.
“Keep your crayons sharp.”
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling, Jennifer Lane’s documentary about the legendary installation artist Robert Irwin, who has been called “one of the most pivotal figures in recent American art.”
RIIZE have made their debut with their new single ‘Get A Guitar’.RIIZE are a seven-member group from SM Entertainment, featuring former NCT members Shotaro and Sungchan. The duo are joined by Eunseok, Wonbin, Seunghan, Sohee and Anton.“I love it when our eyes meet / Ooh, baby, ooh / I love it when I dance with you / Drawing sunshine in the rhythm / Full of dreams in my heart,” the boyband sing on the upbeat chorus of ‘Get A Guitar’.‘Get a Guitar’ is also the title of RIIZE’s debut single album, which include the previously released song ‘Memories’.At a press conference in Seoul for the release of ‘Get a Guitar’, SM Entertainment also announced that RIIZE will also be represented by RCA Records in the US, per Forbes.“RIIZE are ushering in an exciting new era of K-pop,” said Joseph Chang, CEO of SM and Kakao Entertainment America.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The international trailer for “A Whole Life,” which will have its world premiere in the Gala section of the Zürich Film Festival (Sept. 28 to Oct. 8), has debuted with Variety (below).
SNL, after an impression of her teenage daughter was broadcast.The news that the former US presidential candidate wrote in to the show was shared by Saturday Night Live star Julia Sweeney, who spoke about the incident in a recent interview.Sweeney – who worked on the show between 1990 and 1994 – was appearing on the Fly On The Wall podcast recently when she took a look back at one of her more-controversial skits, which saw her get in hot water from the former First Lady.Here, she recalled the time she did an impression of Clinton’s then-teenage daughter Chelsea on the show, which soon “rubbed somebody wrong”.“People were saying how unattractively I was playing Chelsea, and all I did was not wear makeup and put braces on,” she told Dana Carvey and David Spade, who were hosting the podcast. “If you say that, you’re saying I’m unattractive!”“I wasn’t trying to play [Chelsea] unattractive” she insisted.
We Came As Romans guitarist Joshua Moore has had a close encounter with a would-be thief while the band were on tour in Australia this week.As reported by Australia’s 7 News, the band had performed in the South Australian city of Adelaide on Tuesday night (August 29), beginning their first Australian tour in eight years with a show at the city’s Lion Arts Factory.On Wednesday morning, however, a 37-year-old man followed Moore to his hotel room at the Oaks Embassy and locked him out of it. Barricading the room, the man attempted to steal several of Moore’s possessions – including his passport.By the time the hotel manager had opened the door using bolt-cutters, the thief had leapt from the room’s window and fallen five stories below.
But her letters.Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Julia Sweeney revealed Wednesday that Hillary Clinton once sent a letter to the producer of the show expressing disapproval over the portrayal of her teenage daughter, Chelsea.Sweeney, 63, made the startling revelation on the “Fly on the Wall” podcast after co-host David Spade, 59, recalled the 1993 skit where the actress portrayed the former First Daughter and how it “rubbed somebody wrong.” “Yeah, Hillary,” responded Sweeney, adding that the former presidential candidate complained about the skit. The contents of Clinton’s letter were not shared on the podcast. The scene, entitled “Inaugural Ball,” aired shortly after Bill Clinton’s election as US president.
Thania Garcia Latin music revenue has seen consecutive double-digit growth in the U.S. in the last two years, marking all-time highs for the expansive genre, outpacing that of any other market in the region. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will be celebrating this impact with a ceremony on Sept.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor In support of the SAG and WGA members, and those affected by the strikes, entertainment industry social networking and education platform Stage 32 is giving away $100,000 in free education so they can hone their skills and be in the best position when the work stoppages lift. Stage 32, which recently reached 1 million members, is offering free codes to the platforms webinars and workshops, which typically cost $49 each.
Taylor Swift’s live show was actress Sandra Oh.The moment took place at one of Taylor Swift’s recent US shows during her extensive ‘Eras’ tour, when two fans asked another audience member to snap a picture of them together to mark the occasion.It was only after the gig that it dawned on them that the person who they asked was none other than famous actress and Grey’s Anatomy star, Sandra Oh.Sharing a brief clip of the moment on her TikTok page, concertgoer Neen (@secondhandshroom) wrote: “I will never ever get over this… Asking a super nice lady to take our picture at the bottom of our section before the Eras Tour.”In the footage, a live video is shown of someone taking a photo of Neen and her friend at the show. The video then cuts to images of Oh in her medical scrubs while on the set of the hit medical drama, with the text overlay reading “She looks so much like Cristina Yang from Grey’s Anatomy!”The video has since gone viral and accumulated over seven million views on the platform.
EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios and Blue Fox Entertainment have jointly acquired North American rights to the starry new animated feature The Canterville Ghost from Beverly Hills-based sales agent Cinema Management Group, Deadline has learned.
Donald Trump’s accounting staff have been hot off the mark, recreating his mugshot picture on a collection of T-shirts and mugs to raise money for his re-election campaign.
Tennis pro Carlos Alcaraz embodies athleticism, grace and style in a new campaign for Louis Vuitton.
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Inshallah a Boy, the directorial debut of Amjad Al Rasheed which world premiered during the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week and is set to have its North American debut at TIFF next month.
The Japan Times.It comes after DJ Soda took to Instagram last week (August 14) to raise concerns about the alleged incident that took place at the festival as she approached the crowd toward the end of her show.She wrote: “I was so shocked and scared that my hands are still shaking. In order to communicate more closely with the fans, I always get closer to the fans at the end of the gig.“At that moment, not only one but also several people suddenly touched my chest and I was helplessly sexually harassed by them.”DJ Soda continued: “I was so surprised and scared, but there were fans who liked me and also cried a lot, so I tried my best to finish it imperturbabley.
“The Blind Side” actor Quinton Aaron is jumping to his co-star Sandra Bullock’s defence amid the legal drama surrounding Michael Oher and the Tuohy family.