Category Archives: Entertainment News – ABC Audio
Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne Johnson team up for People's Fund of Maui
Courtesy Underwood StudiosOprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson are doing their part to help those devastated by the recent wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The duo teamed up to establish the Peop...
Aug 31, 2023
New Gallup poll says "overwhelming majority" of Americans back striking actors, writers
Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesAs the dual Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes against the studios continue, grinding Hollywood production to a halt in the process, those picketers can tak...
Aug 31, 2023
James Gunn, Rian Johnson mourn death of accomplished assistant director Jamie Christopher
Getty ImagesJamie Christopher, an assistant director who worked with the likes of David Fincher and Rian Johnson and on Marvel films like the Guardians of the Galaxy, died on Tuesday, August 29, at 52...
Aug 31, 2023
Lady Gaga wondered if she was "a really bad actor" ahead of 'A Star Is Born' Venice premiere
Franco Origlia/Getty ImagesThis year's Venice Film Festival kicked off August 30, but most Lady Gaga fans remember the entrance she made there 2018: She arrived by boat in full old...
Aug 31, 2023
Did Selena Gomez break the SAG-AFTRA strike rules with 'Only Murders' post?
HuluSelena Gomez's currently focusing on her music career, having just released the new track "Single Soon." But she's also an actor and actors are currently on strike — which is why some people...
Aug 31, 2023
'Bachelor' alum Matt James reacts to his mom competing on 'The Golden Bachelor'
ABC/Christopher Willard - ABCABC revealed the 22 women who will vie for Gerry Turner's heart on The Golden Bachelor, and one of them should be familiar to Bachelor Nation -- it's Bachelor alum Matt Ja...
Aug 31, 2023
In Brief: McG wants Barrymore, Diaz, and Liu for 'Charlie's Angels 3', and more
Joseph McGinty Nichol, known professionally as McG, and who directed the 2000 film adaptation of Charlie's Angels, starring Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Cameron Diaz, and its 2003 sequel Charlie&rsqu...
Aug 31, 2023
'Bottoms' filmmaker Emma Seligman dishes on her unconventional high school comedy
Orion PicturesThe new movie Bottoms is here to make you laugh, and also slightly alter the paradigm of teen sex comedies. "Bottoms is about Josie and PJ, two horny, unpopular girls in h...
Aug 31, 2023
Hulu cancels 'The Great' after 3 seasons
HuluHulu has pulled the plug on the anachronistic period drama The Great after three seasons, ABC Audio has confirmed. The show, which starred Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, had the former playing C...
Aug 30, 2023
On new podcast, Jimmy Kimmel says he was "very intent" on retiring before the WGA strike
ABC/Jeff LipskyIn the first installment of Spotify's Strike Force Five podcast, Jimmy Kimmel told his fellow late-night hosts he was "very ready" to retire before the Writers Guild of America strike f...
Aug 30, 2023