Month: January 2022

Harry Potter and co. got together again for a trip down memory lane -- and even though J.K. Rowling doesn't sit for an interview herself ... she still magically appears (kinda). The author and creator of the wizarding franchise was notably absent for HBO Max's 20th Anniversary 'Return to Hogwarts' reunion special, which hit the airwaves Saturday ... just in time for the new year. While JKR did not appear in person to mingle with the rest of the cast and crew -- including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint -- she was there in spirit ... but more specifically, there in old archival footage from a couple years ag...

As she morphed into one of the most endearing and enduring faces on television, White acknowledged in her 1987 autobiography that her “list of fears keeps growing until I begin to wonder if I have always been chicken.” Among her deepest individual fears was dying, a topic, she wrote, that was handled gracefully by her parents. The way her parents first handled the loss of White’s pet made the death of her grandmother “a little easier to comprehend,” she wrote in “Betty White In Person.”

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: The first weekend of 2022 for all movies is looking at $100.6M, an amount that’s 700% ahead of New Year’s weekend 2021 when most theaters where closed due to Covid, but behind 29% two years ago in 2020 when Covid didn’t seem to be a threat stateside. A handful of adult-skewing and family titles saw upticks on New Year’s Eve over Christmas Eve in ticket sales, i.e. The King’s Man, West Side Story, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Nightmare Alley and Licorice Pizza, while the alpha movie Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home recessed with $15.45M, -21%. Sony is expecting $48M for weekend 3 of the MCU title, while industry estimates are higher between $50M-$60M, based on moviegoing powering back today. Off Sony’s estimate, Spider-Man: No Way Home gets to $605.1M by EOD t...

During her "Miley's New Year's Eve Party" on NBC, Cyrus lost part of her silver top while transitioning between songs. She held it in place, turned her back to the camera, then exited the stage while her band and backup singers played "Party in the U.S.A." Cyrus barely missed a beat, quickly returning to the stage in a red jacket she had been wearing earlier in the show. "Everybody's definitely looking at me now," Cyrus sang, adapting the lyrics to her 2009 hit. "I'm still in the most clothes that I've ever worn on stage," she added. Cyrus even turned the moment into a lesson for the new year. "Tonight's show was all about being flexible, rolling with the punches, and making the best out of even the worst circumstances. And that resilience shouldn't end here. Let's bring that into t...

Andy Cohen tore into outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de BlasioBill de BlasioPope cancels New Year's Eve Nativity visit to discourage large crowds De Blasio says Times Square celebration 'moving forward' despite omicron surge Eric Adams to be sworn in as NYC mayor at Times Square New Year's Eve celebration MORE (D) in a rant standing alongside Anderson Cooper during CNN's televised New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, where he called de Blasio a "horrible mayor" in remarks that included a salute while saying, "Sayonara, sucka." "Watching Mayor de Blasio do his 'victory lap' dance after four years of the crappiest job as the mayor of New York," Cohen said, with Cooper interjecting, "Oh, don’t go on a rant. Don't go on a rant." "The only thing that Democrats and Republicans ca...