Entertainment

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Beyoncé will be honored with the iHeartRadio Innovator Award at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards this year. “Few artists in the course of history have taken creative risks, successfully transformed their music and influenced pop culture on the level that Beyoncé has,” a press release from iHeartMedia announcing

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Give Sydney Sweeney credit for a highly eclectic run of movie roles, from the fact-based HBO drama “Reality” to the hit rom-com “Anyone But You” to the blink-and-you-missed-it superhero dud “Madame Web.” Add to that playing a nun in “Immaculate,” a low-budget horror movie that’s odd, creepy and

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — On the plus side, “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” doesn’t have to play coy about the inclusion of original cast members 40 years later, after having sought to keep that a surprise with 2021’s “Afterlife.” Yet having them around creates a very busy movie that lacks the emotional hook of

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — About two decades ago, Katie Gee Salisbury glimpsed a photo that would stay with her for years to come. The black-and-white image depicted a sea of parade-goers surrounding a convertible. In the back seat was a Chinese American woman looking ever so chic and glamorous. Salisbury, a fifth generation

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Series seldom arrive as nicely scaled for long (potentially very long) multi-season runs as “3 Body Problem,” a brainy science-fiction concept from a producing team – “Game of Thrones’” D.B. Weiss and David Benioff – whose last major venture shared similar attributes. Rapidly disgorging secrets, the eight-episode opening

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “Selling Sunset” star Christine Quinn’s husband Christian Richard Dumontet was arrested on Wednesday for the second time this week, following his first arrest on Tuesday after a domestic dispute that involved Quinn and their young child. Dumontet was arrested on Tuesday for assault with a deadly weapon, according to

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Sydney Sweeney’s grandmothers got to see the picturesque landscapes of Italy all thanks to their granddaughter’s… grisly R-rated horror film. “I flew them to Italy and they got to come visit me on set,” Sweeney said on the “Today Show” on Wednesday, regarding her upcoming scary movie “Immaculate,” which

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Richard Simmons is opening up about being diagnosed with skin cancer. The fitness personality wrote about seeking medical care for a “strange looking bump under my right eye,” in a post on Facebook Tuesday. “I had a tube of neosporin which I would put on I the morning

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — When the documentary “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told” was first announced, there were some concerns. What began as a picnic for Atlanta HBCU students in 1983, later grew into an annual spring break destination that attracted thousands from across the country. The thought of resurfaced footage from

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Karen Houghton, sister of reality TV star Kris Jenner, has died suddenly. “It is with the heaviest heart and deepest sadness that I share that my sister Karen passed away yesterday unexpectedly,” Jenner wrote in a post on Instagram on Tuesday. “My heart aches for my mom MJ and

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The original “Road House” has long been the guiltiest of pleasures, a movie that seems to be in a perpetual loop on cable, with Patrick Swayze as the philosopher-bouncer immortalizing lines like “Pain don’t hurt.” A 35-years-later update brings some of that allure to Amazon, with Jake Gyllenhaal

By Maria Sole Campinoti and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Months after former Marvel actor Jonathan Majors was found guilty of assault of his ex-girlfriend in a 2023 incident, the former girlfriend has sued him over accusations that he physically and verbally abused her during their nearly two-year relationship. The suit, filed by Grace Jabbari on

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Nicole Kidman knows that “indescribable feeling” of when the lights dim in the movie theater all too well. That is, of course, because she’s the star of AMC Theaters’ now-viral ad that plays before the theater chain’s movies. It’s a role that Kidman takes very seriously, telling Elle magazine