By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The Internet is obsessed with him. His playful smile. His big, soulful eyes. The fact that he has no bad angle in photos. His owner is also actor Chris Evans, which makes the pair’s selfies ten times more “like”-able on Instagram. Named after a character from the movie “Oliver & Company,”
Continue Reading By Yenny Sanchez, CNN A father-daughter heart-to-heart — or, in this case, Hawke-to-Hawke — helped Ethan Hawke while he was working on his latest project. In a recent interview with CNN’s “New Day,” Hawke told Brianna Keilar and John Berman that his daughter Maya, an actress on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” provided inspiration when he needed
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN According to Candace Cameron Bure, everything is “all good” between the actress and JoJo Siwa after Siwa pegged her as the “rudest celebrity” she’s ever met. Siwa posted a video on TikTok over the weekend that went viral in which she shared a photo of Bure, but no details about
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “The Most Hated Man on the Internet” faces a bit of a logistical problem: How to visually represent the kind of photos that were posted by the “revenge porn” site IsAnyoneUp.com without invading people’s privacy all over again. Creatively tackling that, the producers deliver a highly watchable if salacious three-part
Continue Reading Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Celebrations have been taking place in Croatia to commemorate the opening of a long-awaited bridge that bypasses a narrow strip of Bosnian coastline to connect its southern Adriatic region with the rest of the country. Co-funded by the European Union, the Pelješac bridge, which formally launched on Tuesday, stretches between Komarna on
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Light & Magic” is of course a trip down memory lane about movies people love (beginning with “Star Wars”) and the wizardry behind making them. Yet this six-part docuseries from Lawrence Kasdan, a veteran of that franchise, also contains a broader look at how technology can fundamentally reshape an industry
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN The space tourism race is now firing on all rockets, but one company is hoping to carve out a niche as “the only carbon-neutral, zero-emission way” to travel to the edge of space. Florida-based Space Perspective plans to take passengers up to 100,000 feet for suborbital adventures in a pressurized capsule
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Brendan Fraser’s latest role involves a major transformation. The actor is starring in the forthcoming Darren Aronofsky film, “The Whale” in which he plays a 600 pound man. Production company A24 tweeted a photo of Fraser in the role as a part of an announcement that the movie will be
Continue Reading Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Described as “the world’s largest and most efficient twin-engine jet,” the Boeing 777X was originally scheduled to enter into service in 2020, but the launch of the jetliner has been beset by delays. Now expected to debut in 2025, the airplane’s most striking exterior feature is undoubtedly its folding wingtips — a
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo, CNN When bombshell “Baywatch”-era one-pieces and teeny bikinis reigned in the 1990s, relief for many women came in the form of the tankini — a tank-top silhouette that offered more coverage than most two-pieces, but could still be modest, sporty or sexy. It was one of the few innovations at a time when
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk has announced a collaboration with Hot Wheels that will bring a new toy to market and help expand access to community skate parks. Hot Wheels Skate is a line of “fingerboards” — mini skateboards used to simulate skateboarding tricks using the middle and index fingers. The toys
Continue Reading By Yenny Sanchez, CNN A father-daughter heart-to-heart — or, in this case, Hawke-to-Hawke — helped Ethan Hawke while he was working on his latest project. In a recent interview with CNN’s “New Day,” Hawke told Brianna Keilar and John Berman that his daughter Maya, an actress on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” provided inspiration when he needed
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN The recent announcement that both the series “Desus & Mero” and the partnership between the two co-hosts is no more was met on the internet with the type of grieving usually reserved for a celebrity death. It’s understandable given what The Kid Mero, Desus Nice and their beloved show —
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Emmett Till’s life and and his and his mother’s fight for justice are shown in the powerful new trailer for the movie “Till.” It’s the first trailer for the movie, which centers around Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. Despite worries from his mother, Till
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo and Oscar Holland, CNN The jacket worn by retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin when he set foot on the moon sold for a record-breaking price of $2,772,500 on Tuesday, less than a week after the landing’s 53rd anniversary. The in-flight coverall jacket features the historic Apollo 11 mission emblem and “E. Aldrin” for his
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew After sharing a statement on his verified Facebook account Tuesday morning that Tony Dow, an actor and director best known for his role as older brother Wally Cleaver on “Leave It to Beaver,” had died, Dow’s management team has removed the statement. According to Judy Twersky, a longtime friend of Dow’s, he
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN In about a month, some of the world’s best filmmakers will descend on the “City of Canals” for the 79th Venice International Film Festival. The festival, which kicks off on August 31, typically marks the start of a new film awards season, followed closely by the Telluride Film Festival and the
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey A three-track prologue soundtrack has already been released in anticipation of Marvel’s upcoming sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Nigerian artist Tems sings a cover of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry,” “A Body, A Coffin” by Amaarae and “Soy” by Santa Fe Klan also feature on the album. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Emmett Till’s life and and his and his mother’s fight for justice are shown in the powerful new trailer for the movie “Till.” It’s the first trailer for the movie, which centers around Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. Despite worries from his mother, Till
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Nick Cannon is a dad again. The actor and talk-show host welcomed a son with model Bre Tiesi. Tiesi shared a series of photos from the birth on her verified Instagram account, writing “I did it. An all natural unmedicated home birth.” “This was the most humbling / limit pushing
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