Martin Landau, perhaps most known for his Oscar-winning performance as Bela Lugosi in 1994’s Ed Wood, died Saturday at age 89. Celebrities influenced by Landau’s many decades of work — his first notable role was in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film North by Northwest and he has been acting ever since — reacted to the news, remembering his talent and kindness. “I had the honor & joy of working/playing with Marty Landau.

One secret of good stand-up comedy is that it’s often good stand-up drama. In Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat, Lawrence, on stage in a beige leather dashiki, does a routine about a man who has to get drunk to face going home to his wife, and then get drunker still. As he swigs from a glass of cognac, his sozzled honesty starts to pour out, and though a few of the things he says are spot-on funny (his wife got the Halle Berry haircut, but she still doesn’t look like Halle Berry), that’s mostly because Lawrence makes you believe in the character you’re watching.

Actors changing their names to sound less ethnic is a common tale. Anthony Quinn, Steven Bauer, Rita Hayworth, and Raquel Welch are just some of the performers who opted for more Anglicized monikers to make it in Hollywood. Among them is Martin Sheen, who was born Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez. But the Apocalypse Now star now says he regrets the decision. Looking back at his life, the 81-year-old revealed erasing any trace of his Spanish immigrant father's last name was something he was "

Marvel has reached a legal settlement with another of their most important artists, according to court documents viewed by EW. Steve Ditko, who co-created iconic characters like Spider-Man and Doctor Strange alongside writer Stan Lee, died in 2018, but his heirs have been trying to get better compensation for his contributions to the superhero canon.  As executor of his father’s estate, Patrick Ditko moved in 2021 to terminate and reclaim the highly lucrative copyrights to those iconic characters, using the Copyright Act as legal justification.

Labor Day marks the (unofficial) end of the summer, but the upside is that there is plenty of shopping to do thanks to all the big sales taking place leading up to and during Labor Day weekend. And for pop culture fans, that means it's an ideal time to stock up on more Funko Pops from Amazon. Whether you're a Marvel obsessive, a superfan of Star Wars, or a lover of all things Disney, you're bound to find plenty of heavily discounted Funko Pops to add to your collection.

Jeffrey Wright is righting a wrong he's noticed throughout pop culture when it comes to the role of the wise narrator. The Emmy-, Golden Globe-, and Tony-winning actor stars in What If...? — the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first animated series — as Uatu, the all-knowing and all-seeing extraterrestrial being known as the Watcher. Serving as the narrator for the Disney+ series, the Watcher takes viewers on a journey, showing what would happen if certain pivotal moments from the MCU unfolded differently.

Meet Marvel’s new big bad. EW has confirmed that the upcoming Fantastic Four movie has cast Ralph Ineson as Galactus, the legendary planet-eating villain from Marvel comics. Ineson will face off against the previously announced members of the Fantastic Four: Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Galactus is one of the most notorious villains in Marvel comics, first popping up as a Fantastic Four villain in 1966.

Mary J. Blige, Kelly Rowland, and Trey Songz are the latest artists set to perform at the 2011 BET Awards, EW has learned exclusively. Additionally, Cee-Lo Green will also make a “special appearance” at the show, which will air live from L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium on June 26 on cable network BET. BET has already announced some talent for the telecast, including host Kevin Hart, Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Patti LaBelle, Humanitarian Award honoree Steve Harvey.

The highly anticipated Friends reunion special dropped Thursday, and while it was great to see all six cast members together again, one star in particular caught the attention of social media — especially Irish Twitter. Fans couldn't help but notice that Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey Tribbiani on the long-running NBC sitcom, was among the chattier and more jovial of the bunch, cracking jokes at every turn. Of particular interest? His outfit — a striped button-down short-sleeved shirt and dark jeans — and his posture, which reminded many viewers of their Irish uncles and granddads.

The handsome was on display Thursday afternoon at Entertainment Weekly’s Brave New Warriors Comic-Con panel, moderated by Lynette Rice. Squeals from the audience were expected, of course, but even the panelists seemed completely delighted by each others aesthetics. “I just wanted to speak for the fans and say, ‘Tyler, you are so sexy,'” said Grimm’s David Guintoli to Teen Wolf’s Tyler Posey. Twice. Okay, so it might have been tongue in cheek.