Mark Ruffalo Decries Paramount Job Losses, Says Anti-Merger Movement Won’t “Fade Away”

Mark Ruffalo wants to Hulk smash the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.

The Marvel actor slammed the deal after a federal judge cleared the final hurdle for the settlement of an antitrust lawsuit brought by a group of state attorneys general on Wednesday.

DDA Hires Luxury Hospitality Exec Keith Iddins as Longtime Event Management Boss Caroline Warburton Sets Retirement (EXCLUSIVE)

Marketing and communications agency DDA has hired Keith Iddins, a luxury hospitality and entertainment veteran with more than 30 years experience, to the newly created role of travel relationship director for its DDA Travel and Logistics (Live) arm.

Carly Rae Jepsen Announces ‘Day and Night’ North American 2027 Tour Dates

Carly Rae Jepsen has announced her upcoming “Day and Night” 2027 North American tour, with stops at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum and New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

The trek supports her eighth album, “Day and Night,” a double-disc offering split between more folk-oriented tracks and dance bangers. The tour kicks off in Canada on April 15 at Edmonton’s Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, then hits Calgary and Vancouver before heading across the United States. Stops include San Francisco, Austin, Nashville and Philadelphia before curving back up to Canada for a show in Ottawa and a closing-night performance on May 29 at Montreal’s MTELUS.

Chris Pratt Thanks Kevin Feige For Casting Him in the MCU When He Was “Kind of Fat”: “Nobody Was Thinking, ‘Now There’s An Action Star'”

In the middle of a big moment for Marvel — fresh off the huge success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and with Avengers: Doomsday looming — Kevin Feige was honored as Pioneer of the Year by the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation.

Freeform’s ‘Coven Academy’ Is Magical, Dark and Totally Captivating: TV Review

From “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” creator Tim Federle, Freeform’s latest YA drama, “Coven Academy” — originally intended for Disney+ — follows three young witches as they navigate their burgeoning powers and friendship amid the chaos, anxiety and joy of being teenage girls. Intriguing and heartfelt, with sinister elements, the show highlights the importance of sisterhood, the confounding nature of first love and why secrets can never really be vanquished.

John C. Reilly Joins Chicago International Film Festival Jury

John C. Reilly will join the international competition jury at the 62nd Chicago International Film Festival, which runs Oct. 14-25.

The actor, whose credits include Hard Eight, Magnolia, The Lobster and The Sisters Brothers, will lead a five-person panel awarding the Gold Hugo for best film and Silver Hugos recognizing achievements including directing, acting, cinematography and screenwriting.

Ed Sheeran Told U2 He Didn’t Want to ‘Get Into Politics’ on Song About Ukraine’s War With Russia, Says Bono

U2 and Ed Sheeran collaborated earlier this year on the song “Yours Eternally” off the band’s “Days of Ash” EP, which dropped in February. Bono told Rolling Stone UK in a new interview that Sheeran expressed his resistance to U2 about doing such a politically-minded song. “Yours Eternally” features Ukrainian musician Taras Topolia, and the lyrics take the perspective of a Ukrainian soldier writing to his friends back home amid the country’s ongoing war with Russia.

Pro-Trump Ads Funded With Taxpayer Dollars Air on CNN and MS NOW; White House Has Spent $2.9 Million on the TV Spots to Date

Even as President Donald Trump has tried to block CNN and MS NOW from covering the White House, his administration has purchased pro-Trump TV ad time on the news networks — using taxpayer money.

The IDF Calls Gaza Documentary ‘NAZA’ “Distorted, Misleading and Disingenuous”

The Israeli Defense Force on Thursday came out with an official, and lengthy, response to NAZA, the Israeli-army whistleblower documentary about the war in Gaza.

The doc, from Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (No Other Land), is a series of anonymous interviews with two dozen IDF veterans of the Gaza war. They lay out, in extraordinary detail what they claim is Israel‘s deliberate and systematic targeting of civilians in the war, (the NAZA of the title, an acronym of a Hebrew expression meaning “collateral damage”).

Jesse Eisenberg Already Stressed Over ‘The Debut’ Oscar Buzz: “It’s Not About Awards”

Jesse Eisenberg’s musical comedy The Debut moved audiences to tears and laughter out of Telluride and Toronto, and has already generated buzz about a best picture and an acting nomination for Julianne Moore at the Academy Awards.