Malia Obama is being accused of copying an indie filmmaker’s work for her Nike commercial released earlier this month — the first ad the former president’s daughter has directed. Natalie Jasmine Harris, 27, said Obama’s one-minute commercial had scenes that were “shockingly similar” to her own 2024 short film “Grace.” The scene in question is one … Read more
Art horrifically imitates life in “Rust,” the film that Alec Baldwin was working on when he accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a live round loaded into a prop gun. The movie, which premiered last night at the Camerimage Festival in Poland, has a scene that eerily parallels the young mother’s death on … Read more
Alex Rodriguez didn’t sound very original after the Yankees’ Game 4 win on Tuesday night. On the Fox postgame show alongside Kevin Burkhardt, Derek Jeter and David Ortiz, Rodriguez had a curiously familiar take on the Bronx Bombers forcing a Game 5 by taking down the Dodgers, 11-4. “Tonight, Kevin, is an annoyance for the … Read more
Jennifer Lopez revealed to audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival the moving reason she was drawn to her new movie, “Unstoppable.” The star, 55, got personal during an audience Q&A on Friday following the premiere of the inspiring sports drama based on the true story of Anthony Robles, the NCAA champion wrestler born with … Read more
Instagram is rolling out a new feature reminiscent of early 2000s MySpace. Users who want to evoke nostalgia for the early days of social media can now add a song to their profile and curate a vibe with the “song on profile” feature. The music the user chooses to add to their profile will show … Read more
Paramount Pictures has won the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming its 2022 Tom Cruise blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” borrowed too much from a 1983 magazine article that inspired the original “Top Gun” film. In a decision on Friday, US District Judge Percy Anderson in Los Angeles said the sequel was not “substantially similar” to Ehud Yonay’s … Read more
Kate Middleton’s cancer nightmare has been the reality for another Londoner. What happened to the 42-year-old Princess of Wales “can happen to anyone,” a cancer patient from Hackney has warned. “Even royalty, with the best medical care in the world,” Maia Kennedy, 38, told South West News Service. “As a young healthy woman, you never … Read more
It’s a real-life “Gone Girl.” Netflix has announced a new documentary, “American Nightmare,” which covers a bizarre kidnap-for-ransom case. In March 2015, armed intruders wearing scuba suits allegedly invaded the home of California physical therapist Aaron Quinn, where they terrorized him and his girlfriend, Denise Huskins. The scuba burglars told the couple that this incident … Read more
They’ve twin there, done that. Two Floridian identical sisters have taken twinning to an entirely new level. They not only met their husbands on the same day in 2014, but they also got pregnant at the same time and are becoming next-door neighbors. Stephanie Buckman and Sammie Nowakowski, 30, were college roommates who now work as … Read more
Get out while you still can. Psychological researchers have found “no compelling evidence” that opposites actually attract. They say so after reviewing several million couples’ case studies spanning back 100 years to 1903, according to a new report from the University of Colorado Boulder. “Our findings demonstrate that birds of a feather are indeed more … Read more
“Stranger Things” actor Noah Schnapp has come out as gay. The 18-year-old Netflix star addressed his own sexuality in an eight-second TikTok on Thursday that racked up over 3 million views in less than an hour. “I guess I’m more similar to Will than I thought,” he captioned the video, referring to his gay “Stranger … Read more
Earlier this year, fears of a new “super strain” of Omicron were real—and rising. A researcher in Cyprus identified a COVID-19 variant that had features of both the deadly Delta and the highly transmissible, immune-evasive Omicron variants. “Deltacron,” as the new variant became known, was a bit of a “frankenvirus” that combined the two strains. … Read more
Celebrity Jeopardy! is a popular prime time spin-off of traditional Jeopardy!, and not just because it features celebrities. One of Will Ferrell and Saturday Night Live‘s most memorable series of sketches is “Celebrity Jeopardy,” which is based on Ferrell, who played Alex Trebek, becoming frustrated with the contestants’ absurd answers. And Sunday’s real-life episode was … Read more