Category: Entertainment

‘The Odyssey’ Just Had the Best Monday of the Year — Unless You’re a Fan Paying $10,000 for a Movie Ticket Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” pulled in more than $17 million domestically on Monday, July 20, marking the best Monday box office performance of 2026 so far and beating Toy Story 5’s Memorial Day-adjacent Monday…

Judge Halts $110 Billion Paramount-Warner Merger — Everyone Says It’s a Win, Except the People Losing Their Jobs Either Way A federal judge paused Paramount Skydance’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, July 20, granting a temporary restraining order requested by a coalition of 12 state attorneys general. U.S. District Judge…

Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Smashes Box Office Records — And Not Everyone’s Cheering Christopher Nolan’s R-rated epic “The Odyssey,” starring Matt Damon as Homer’s wandering king, opened to an estimated $120.5 million domestically over its first three days, the best live-action opening of 2026 and the biggest domestic launch of Nolan’s career, according to studio estimates…

Awards Season Meltdown: Hollywood Guilds Revolt as Emmys Banish Five Categories From TV The Television Academy’s Board of Governors has voted to move five categories out of the main Primetime Emmy Awards telecast airing Sept. 14 on NBC and into the earlier, untelevised Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies held Sept. 5 and 6. The affected categories…

Emmys Slash Five Categories From TV Broadcast, and Hollywood’s Unions Are Furious The Television Academy has moved five award categories out of the main Primetime Emmy telecast, airing September 14 on NBC, shifting them instead to the earlier Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies held September 5-6. The categories being pulled from the broadcast are Supporting Actor…

Judge Punts on Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger, Leaving $110 Billion Deal in Limbo U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín held an 80-minute hearing in Oakland on Friday, July 17, over an emergency motion from a coalition of 12 state attorneys general seeking a temporary restraining order to block Paramount Skydance’s roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner…

God of War’s Kratos Gets Recast Mid-Shoot After Ryan Hurst’s On-Set Injury — Four Finished Episodes Scrapped Amazon’s Prime Video will recast the lead role of Kratos in its live-action adaptation of Sony’s “God of War” video game franchise after star Ryan Hurst suffered a serious injury on set in Vancouver in late June, tearing…

Intruder Screams Racial Slur at Craig Melvin Inside 30 Rock — Then NBC Fires the Guard Who Let Him In A man identified by police as Andrew Truelove, 41, of Manhattan, breached security at NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center studios on the morning of Thursday, July 16, entering an unauthorized vestibule area near Studio 1A at…

Paramount Gets the Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Judge Kicked Off the Case Over Union Ties Paramount Skydance filed an emergency motion on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, seeking the recusal of U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts from the multistate antitrust lawsuit seeking to block its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount attorney Jeffrey…

Sam Neill’s Family Reveals He Died of Pneumonia, Not Cancer, To Shut Down “Outright Falsehoods” Actor Sam Neill, best known for playing Dr. Alan Grant in “Jurassic Park,” died on Monday, July 13, 2026, in Sydney, Australia, at age 78. His family initially announced the death on social media as “sudden and unexpected” without disclosing…