What could be more dangerous than swimming with five sharks? How about swimming with six? This year, Shark Tank, which returns to ABC with its eighth season on Friday, Sept. 23 at 9 p.m. E.T., will feature at least two episodes with six moguls fighting for investments at once. “It mixes up the dynamic and the chemistry on the panel,” showrunner Clay Newbill says of the new season, which features regulars Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John, and Kevin O’Leary, as well as relative new guy Chris Sacca.
Abigail Breslin is paying tribute to her late My Sister's Keeper costar Evan Ellingson, who died at 35 on Sunday. The actress remembered Ellingson, a former child actor who played her older brother Jesse Fitzgerald in the 2009 film, as a "kind, funny and extremely talented human being" and asked fans not to speculate on the details surrounding his death in an Instagram post on Monday. "Evan was a genuinely thoughtful person who cared so much about turning in the best performance, which he accomplished.
Warning: Spoilers ahead! If you have not seen The Wolverine and don’t want to ruin one of its best surprises, read no further… Okay, now let’s get into it. I’m already on the record saying that I didn’t love the latest solo outing from everyone’s favorite Adamantium-clawed super-freak, The Wolverine. But there are two moments in it that I absolutely dug. The first is a fight sequence on top of a high-speed Japanese bullet train that is like a syringe full of adrenalin, jolting new life into what’s become one of Hollywood’s laziest and most tired settings for a brawl.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is stitching together an impressive display of costumes from the Hollywood of yesteryear. Ahead of its planned opening in 2020, the long-gestating museum announced Monday several additions to its growing collection of more than 3,500 items representing costume design, production design, makeup and hairstyling, promotional materials, memorabilia, and awards, including Bela Lugosi’s cape from the 1931 classic Dracula, Shirley Temple’s cape, gown, and scepter from 1939’s The Little Princess, Jennifer Jones’ wedding gown from Madame Bovary (1949), Debbie Reynolds’ cloche from Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Gene Kelly‘s sweater and slacks from An American in Paris (1951), and Elizabeth Taylor‘s black wig from 1963’s Cleopatra.
Spoiler alert: This story discusses a major revelation from Game of Thrones, season 6, episode 3, "Oathbreaker"… A Game of Thrones character who has been with the show since the very first episode met his end on Sunday night. Ser Alliser Thorne, played by British actor Owen Teale, was executed by the resurrected Jon Snow along with the rest of the Night's Watch mutineers (yes, Olly, too). Below we speak to Teale about his time on the show, Snow's revival, and his final episode.
English actor Julian Sands, known his work in such films and TV series as A Room With a View and 24, is missing in Southern California. A spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department confirmed to EW on Wednesday that Sands, 65, was first reported missing Friday evening after not returning from a hike. Search-and-rescue teams have been scouring the Baldy Bowl area of Mt. Baldy in the San Bernardino Mountains since that time.
Actor Nick Pasqual has been charged with attempted murder. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday that the actor, whose IMDb page says he appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother and made an uncredited appearance in Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon, was detained at a U.S./Mexico border checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas, after allegedly stabbing his estranged girlfriend multiple times at her home in Sunland on May 23.
Michelle Monaghan (Mission Impossible III, Made of Honor) has given birth to her second child, a boy named Tommy Francis White according to People. She also has has a five-year-old daughter, Willow Francis, with her husband, Peter White, Monaghan, 37, will next star opposite Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in HBO’s True Detective. ncG1vNJzZmidp2OwsLmOmqmtoZOhsnB%2Bj2pqaGlhZH1ze8yimqGdnKGybrnOp5igoJGjeqOtwbJm
Kylo Ren is going undercover again. Adam Driver hosted Saturday Night Live for the third time and delighted fans with the return of an instant classic from his 2016 hosting debut: “Star Wars Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base.” The original pre-taped sketch — an Undercover Boss spoof — saw Driver in character as Star Wars: Force Awakens baddie Kylo Ren going undercover on Starkiller Base as a blond radar technician named Matt to spy on the First Order.
Meet Maroon 5-0! During a skit on Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine went undercover as a meter man and handed out some pretty bogus parking violations to flummoxed drivers. Since parking is one of the most stressful things in Hollywood, it seemed only fair that Kimmel and Levine team up to heighten the difficulty. Disguised as parking enforcement — complete with a hat and shades — Levine handed out parking tickets for everything from standing too close to a meter man when he’s writing out the ticket, driving a Toyota (Japanese cars trigger him apparently), to parkers taking more than 30 seconds to reach the meter and insert their coins.