Ashanti and Nelly, who rekindled their romance last spring, have welcomed their first child together, named Kareem Kenkaide Hayes. The couple, who reportedly married in June, are happy and in love with their new arrival.
Simone Biles says a nightclub in Paris tried to charge her $26,000 for a bottle of champagne while she was celebrating post-Olympics. “Obviously, I didn’t buy it. But why would you even try to play me like that? Like, that’s wild.”
Anya Taylor-Joy will star in an 8-episode Netflix series How To Kill Your Family, based on Bella Mackie’s novel. She plays Grace Bernard, a woman seeking revenge and inheritance by creatively eliminating her estranged family.
Tim Curry, best known for Clue, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Congo, appears in the new horror film Stream. His last on-screen role was 2010’s Burke & Hare. He shifted to voice acting after suffering a stroke in 2012.
Jack Black and Paul Rudd are in talks to star in a comedic re-imagining of Anaconda. The film, which is not a remake of the 1997 thriller, takes a meta-twist with a story about friends facing mid-life crises and venturing into the jungle.
Hulk Hogan sparked controversy by asking a crowd if he should “body slam Kamala Harris” and questioning her racial identity during an event in Ohio. Hogan, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, also mocked Native Americans.
Francis Ford Coppola’s trailer for Megalopolis features negative quotes from critics like Roger Ebert and Rex Reed about his classic films like The Godfather: but Variety found none of them actually appeared in the cited reviews.
Rotten Tomatoes introduced a new badge called Verified Hot for top-rated audience-reviewed films with a score of 90% or above on the Popcornmeter. This is equivalent to the Certified Fresh badge for critic-reviewed movies.
