1 Star Wars is famous for making practically every background creature into an action figure, no matter how obscure -- Hammerhead, Walrus Man, Snaggletooth, just to name a few. But many major characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens have yet to appear in toy form. Finally, we're getting one of the cooler new aliens in action figure form: Maz Kanata, the 1,000-year-old mystic and barkeep played by Lupita Nyong'o.
How do you top that image of a (sorry, grandma) spunky Cameron Diaz burned into our brains by There’s Something About Mary? If you’re the Farrelly brothers, you pull a Time Code and shoot an unfinished script in one take. That’s the feeling one gets from Me, Myself & Irene, a film no one would fault for being chintzy and dull-witted if it weren’t so lethargically self-satisfied. Eerily meek lawman Charlie (Jim Carrey) gets cuckolded by a black midget, develops a thuggish alter ego named Hank (imagine Ace Ventura impersonating Clint Eastwood — poorly), and dukes it out with himself for the love of Irene (a too-prim Renee Zellweger) — all against the backdrop of a sinister EPA plot.
Ready for another tropical rendezvous? Season 9 of Bachelor in Paradise returns to ABC on Thursday, Sept. 28 with host Jesse Palmer and bartender Wells Adams. The beach will once again be filled with a cast of standouts and fan favorites from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette of seasons past. Additional cast members will be announced later in the season — and ABC is promising appearances from former Bachelorettes Katie Thurston, Charity Lawson, and Hannah Brown — but for now let's meet the first crop of sun-dappled singles.
Ready to head back to the pods? Netflix's unorthodox dating show Love Is Blind is back for season 4 come Friday, March 24. Thirty singles on the quest for love will mingle, date, and get engaged — all without ever seeing each other. The newly-engaged couples will then move in together and plan their wedding to find out if their physical connection matches their strong emotional bonds. Nick and Vanessa Lachey are back as hosts for what's sure to be another addictive 12-episode season.
A popular figure from George R.R. Martin's Fire & Blood history of the Targaryen Empire is arriving in House of the Dragon season 2. With the drop of the first trailer for the next batch of eight episodes, HBO confirmed that Tom Taylor, who starred opposite Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey in 2017's The Dark Tower, will play Lord Cregan Stark, the current Lord of Winterfell in the timeline of House of the Dragon.
Meg Ryan went to Dildo with Carrie Fisher and all she got was a t-shirt. The actress, who directs and stars in the upcoming rom-com What Happens Later, explained on Wednesday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live that she once served as Fisher's official photographer while the Star Wars legend and her family visited the Newfoundland fishing town for a 2005 story for the New York Times. "Carrie wanted to do a piece on the Napoleon surrendering to the British historical reenactment in Dildo, so we did that,"
It may not be fall yet, but we're ready to send Meg Ryan a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils. Ryan, beloved in rom-com classics such as When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail, is returning to the genre that made her a star. In What Happens Later, which Ryan also co-wrote and directed, she stars as Willa, who ends up snowed in at a regional airport with ex-lover Bill (David Duchovny), whom she has not seen in years.
Depending on your age, you're probably still wondering what TikTok is, making fun of anyone who doesn't know what TikTok is, or somewhere in between. But whether you're aware of it or not, the popular social media app has emerged as a major force in music over the last two years, helping propel new artists to mainstream success, turn freshly-released songs into ubiquitous hits, and give decades-old tracks a new life on the charts.
Meghan Markle is adding children's book author to her long list of accomplishments. On Tuesday, Pengiun Random House announced that the Duchess of Sussex will make her publishing debut with a new children's book called The Bench, due out July 8, 2022. Based on a poem Markle wrote for her husband Prince Harry after their son Archie was born, The Bench will be illustrated by Caldecott-award winning artist Christian Robinson, who has also worked with Sesame Street Workshop and Pixar Studios.
There’s a curious thing that happens when a comedy that should work doesn’t. The premise can be clever and edgy, the jokes may all arrive on time, the punchlines placed where they ought to be. But something’s missing. The involuntary laughs never come. The Happytime Murders is a perfect example. As high-concept pitches go, this one’s a honey: A hard-boiled detective noir set in a skeezy underworld where humans and puppets uneasily coexist, it’s like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but with puppets instead of ’toons.