Month: May 2021

Lindsay Lohan is set to return to the screen. The actress, who has only had limited acting roles for several years now, is set to star in a romantic comedy Christmas movie for Netflix, a rep for the star confirmed to Fox News. According to a tweet from Netflix confirming the project, Lohan, 34, will play a "newly-engaged spoiled hotel heiress," who suffers from amnesia after a skiing accident. The heiress finds herself being cared for by the good-looking, blue-collar lodge owner and his daughter in the days before Christmas. LINDSAY LOHAN'S MOTHER DINA TELLS CHRISSY TEIGEN TO ‘OWN’ HERSELF AFTER TWEET ABOUT HER DAUGHTER RESURFACES No additional casting or release date has been set, though production will not begin until November, so it will be released in late 2022 at the earliest. ...

J.J. Abrams has said that a movie based on Valve’s Portal is still in the works, and that a script is finally being written, according to IGN. Abrams is light on details, but says that Warner Brothers is excited about the direction the movie is going in, and that it “feels like that thing’s finally on the rails.” We originally heard about the movie all the way back in 2013, when Abrams and Gabe Newell were on stage together at the DICE Summit. At the time, Abrams apparently told Polygon that the plan was “as real as anything in Hollywood ever gets.” That was eight years ago, so it seems he was right to couch it like that. From the archives: Abrams and Newell on stage at DICE 2013 Summit, talking about movies and games. ...

Concert venue bookings are rebounding as artists start to plan for in-person events later this year and into next year, according to Live Nation Entertainment. The company is optimistic that demand for ticket sales will follow as more concerts are announced. "What we are seeing so far is that the number of shows we have booked in our large buildings, our arenas, our amphitheaters, our stadiums, those are pacing double digits ahead of where we were in 2019. Not all of those tours have gone on sale yet, we have a lot that are going on sale now every week," Joe Berchtold, its president, told CNBC's "Closing Bell" Monday. The company predicts that demand for concerts will continue to be high in the next few years as a result of the pandemic. The company's stock is up nearl...

Mark York, who contributed to some of The Office's best-loved early episodes, has died at age 55. The actor was at Ohio's Miami Valley Hospital when he succumbed to a 'brief and unexpected illness' on May 19, according to his obituary. York was raised in Ohio before heading west to California, where he picked up a series of television roles on shows including CSI: NY and 8 Simple Rules, though it was NBC's iconic workplace comedy that he's best known for. TV star: Mark York, who contributed to some of The Office's best-loved early episodes, has died on May 19 at age 55 The actor, whose lower body had been paralyzed since 1988, is best known for appearing in The Injury, a season-two episode of The Office that ranks among its funniest and most popular. He played Billy ...

Lauren Crew for BuzzFeed News From left: Lucia, Mila, Bela, and Eloise of the Linda Lindas LOS ANGELES — It’s Friday and the Linda Lindas are jamming in their family’s living room, bouncing around in their socks and whipping their hair around their faces. It feels like a normal afternoon, but for this teen/tween punk rock band it’s a surreal moment. In the past 24 hours, a video of the half-Asian, half-Latinx group — two sisters, their cousin, and close friend who range in age from 10 to 16 — performing their song “Racist, Sexist Boy” at the Los Angeles Public Library rocked the internet. “[It’s been] really intense and overwhelming,” Lucia, 14, told BuzzF...