Entertainment Daypop Archives

Following an allegation of sexual misconduct in January of last year, comedian Aziz Ansari has kept a low profile.  However, Ansari took to Twitter this week to announce his first televised comedy special in more than four years, titled, “Aziz Ansari: Right Now,” will stream on Netflix beginning July 9, with Oscar-winner Spike Jonze as director. His last special, titled, “Aziz Ansari: Live at Madison Square Garden,” was released on Netflix on March 6, 2015.... [Read Full Story]

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has extended invitations to 842 new members of the film industry to join them. The invitees include familiar names and also recognize the Academy’s push for better inclusion. Half of the invited members for 2019 are women and 29% of them are people of color. ... [Read Full Story]

Rock musician Rick Springfield canceled his show in the Dominican Republic. After rising safety concerns in the Dominican Republic, where at least 10 American citizens have died while in the country in the last year, the event was cancelled. Although statistics show that Americans are more likely to be killed in the US than in the Dominican, many people are still alarmed.... [Read Full Story]

A show based on singer Neil Diamond and his career is headed to Broadway, with a score by the iconic singer-songwriter and a book by “Bohemian Rhapsody” writer Anthony McCarten.... [Read Full Story]

Just weeks after saying goodbye to “Game of Thrones” and her character, Cersei Lannister, Lena Headey has been cast in a dramedy pilot for Showtime called “Rita.”... [Read Full Story]

Thanks to viewers, “One Day at a Time” is coming back – this after Netflix did not renew the show in March after three seasons. Pop TV announced that the series will continue on with a new 13-episode fourth season premiering in 2020. ... [Read Full Story]

The new “Charlie’s Angels” trailer was just released, with your first look at Ella Balinska, Kristen Stewart and Naomi Scott in the title roles. ... [Read Full Story]

Paul Rudd has announced he will join the next installment of the “Ghostbusters” franchise. In a video posted to social media on Thursday, Rudd said, “I can’t wait to join the cast this fall for ‘Ghostbusters.’ In fact, I’m sliming myself right now.”... [Read Full Story]

Sky, a UK media and entertainment company, has announced the “Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams will star in a six-part comedy series currently called “Two Weeks to Live.”... [Read Full Story]

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is set to host the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. Maniscalco, who is also an actor and best-selling author, just sold out a four-show run at Madison Square Garden. He will host the VMAs from Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Monday, August 26.... [Read Full Story]

George Clooney has signed on to direct and star in “Good Morning, Midnight” for Netflix. It will be his first project with the streaming service. Clooney and Smokehouse Pictures’ Grant Heslov will produce the adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel, “which follows a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to make contact with the crew of a spacecraft as they try to return home to Earth,” according to a description from Netflix.... [Read Full Story]

Ryan Murphy is adapting the Tony Award-nominated musical “The Prom” for Netflix, with big names Meryl Streep, Ariana Grande, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key and Andrew Rannells set to star.... [Read Full Story]

Madonna just earned her ninth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with her new release, “Madame X.” ... [Read Full Story]

Roseanne Barr and fellow comedian, Andrew Dice Clay are launching a comedy tour called, “Mr. and Mrs. America” that will tackle politics, among other issues. Clay took to Instagram to post a promotional photo for the upcoming tour.... [Read Full Story]

Season 3 of the popular Netflix series “Stranger Things” will begin soon, and the latest trailer just dropped.... [Read Full Story]

The animated adventure Toy Story 4 is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $118 million at the box office this weekend. It’s the biggest opening weekend ever in the “Toy Story” franchise, and also the third biggest opening weekend domestically for a Pixar release.... [Read Full Story]

A never-before-seen music video featuring Queen’s legendary frontman, Freddie Mercury, was released Thursday on YouTube and on Mercury’s website. It shows the singer-songwriter performing “Time Waits for No One” on the empty stage of London’s Dominion Theatre. ... [Read Full Story]

Actress Angelina Jolie is joining Time magazine as a contributing editor. The magazine’s editor in chief and CEO, Edward Felsenthal, announced Jolie’s new position. The magazine said in a statement that Jolie’s pieces will appear each month and focus on topics including displacement and human rights. The magazine also said that Jolie has carried out more than 60 field missions to countries including Colombia, Peru and Bangladesh.... [Read Full Story]

Lin-Manuel Miranda is coming back to Broadway with “Freestyle Love Supreme.” Conceived by Anthony Veneziale and co-created by “Hamilton’s” Thomas Kail and Miranda, the show takes cues from the audience to deliver unique, improvisatory hip-hop musical experiences. Miranda will make unscheduled appearances during it’s 16-week run from September to January at the Booth Theater.... [Read Full Story]

HBO has begun production on the first “Game of Thrones” prequel series set in the world of Westeros. The network revealed that it had been working on a slew of spinoff content since 2017, having tapped five writers to pen potential projects. However only one project from Jane Goldman has been given a pilot order.... [Read Full Story]

Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm have signed on to Clint Eastwood’s movie, “The Ballad of Richard Jewell.”  ... [Read Full Story]

Netflix announced Tuesday that “Queer Eye” would return to the streaming network for a fourth and fifth season. Season 4 of the Emmy-winning, phenomenally popular makeover series will debut July 19 and be set in Kansas City, Missouri. Production on Season 5 will kick off June 24 in Philadelphia, and is slated to air sometime in 2020.... [Read Full Story]

Comedian Tiffany Haddish cancelled her June 22 show in Atlanta in protest over Georgia’s controversial new abortion law. The “heartbeat” abortion law bans the procedure as soon as a doctor can detect fetal cardiac activity, which typically happens about six weeks into a pregnancy.... [Read Full Story]

Director Todd Phillips is putting the finishing touches on his Joker origin story, and now he is confirming the film will be released with an R rating. ... [Read Full Story]

Britney Spears won a major legal victory, as the singer and her family have been granted a five-year restraining order against her ex-manager, Sam Lutfi.... [Read Full Story]

Taylor Swift wished the crowd a “Happy Pride Month” by giving a surprise performance at the Stonewall Inn, the site of the LGBTQ rights landmark ... [Read Full Story]

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. surrendered to the New York Police Department on Thursday, and was charged with forcible touching of a woman. Gooding’s lawyer, Mark Heller, told reporters that his client has “completed the surrender process” and added that he has “never seen a case like this” in his 50 years of practicing law.... [Read Full Story]

Actress Mira Sorvino, who has been a vocal voices in the #MeToo movement, says she is a survivor of rape. Sorvino made the revelation during a press conference on Wednesday, alongside New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in an effort to encourage the state legislature to eliminate New York’s statute of limitations on rape in the 2nd and 3rd degrees and pass additional sexual harassment protections before the end of the legislative session next week.... [Read Full Story]

Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film for HBO, “Ice on Fire,” focuses on the urgency of the climate crisis. ... [Read Full Story]

The trailer for a new documentary about the late actor Anton Yelchin, called “Love, Antosha,” has been released. Yelchin died nearly three years ago at age 27 after a freak car accident... [Read Full Story]