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(CNN) Korean pop supergroup BTS appeared at the White House press briefing on Tuesday and will meet with President Joe Biden as part of a visit aimed at discussing Asian inclusion and representation and addressing anti-Asian hate crimes and disinformation. "While many of you may know BTS as Grammy-nominated international icons they also play an important role as youth ambassadors promoting a message of respect and positivity," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. Each member of the boy band spoke at the podium -- most in Korean -- following Jean-Pierre's introduction. RM, the group's leader and only member of the band fluent in English, began by thanking Jean-Pierre for her "kind words," and introducing the group. "Hi, we're BTS and it is a great honor to be invited to the White House today to discuss the important issues of anti-Asian hate crimes, Asian inclusion and diversity," he said. The rest of the group, speaking...

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(CNN) The "Star Wars" franchise is sticking up for actor Moses Ingram after she revealed she had received hundreds of racist messages and comments on social media. The franchise tweeted that it was "proud to welcome" Ingram, who just made her debut as Reva in the Disney+ series " Obi-Wan Kenobi ." "If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say: we resist," the "Star Wars" account tweeted. "There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don't choose to be a racist ." Ingram posted multiple examples of racist messages and comments on Instagram, noting that she has received hundreds of messages, some of which included the N-word. "There's nothing anybody can do about this. There's nothing anybody can do to stop this hate," she said, in a video posted to her Instagram stories . "The thing that bothers me is ... this feeling of...

David Letterman, Dave Chappelle, Adam Sandler, Conan O’Brien, Molly Shannon and David Spade shared memories and reflected on the death of their friend Norm MacDonald at the end of the late comedian’s new Netflix special, “Norm MacDonald: Nothing Special.” After watching a screening of MacDonald’s performance, which was recorded in his home, friends of the late “Saturday Night Live” star, discussed his impact on the comedy world. During their conversation, several of them admitted they didn’t know the star, who died in September 2021 after a nine-year battle with cancer, was sick. “I don’t know how everyone else felt here, but Norm was sick for quite a while, and he got sicker and I didn’t know and I talked to so many people who I was sure knew,” O’Brien said. “I thought, ‘Maybe I’m the only one that doesn’t know.’ … He didn’t want anybody to know and so, being the self-absorbed person I am, I think a lot of us, we thought, ‘Is he mad at me? Is there something I did?’ because we kept...

Bradley Cooper will completely transform into American conductor Leonard Bernstein for Netflix's Maestro, an upcoming drama based on Bernstein's life. The film will follow Bernstein's marriage to Felicia Montealegre, and in photos Netflix has released from the set, you can see Cooper is significantly aged up in one of the shots, to the point where he is barely recognizable. From the set of MAESTRO. pic.twitter.com/y3qsYILk6P — NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) May 30, 2022 Earlier this year, Cooper confirmed to Variety that the film would start production this month. The movie is Cooper's first time back in the director's chair since 2018's A Star Is Born , which he starred in with Lady Gaga. For Maestro, Promising Young Woman's Carey Mulligan will star alongside Cooper as Montealegre. The movie is expected to come out sometime next year. Bernstein was a conductor, composer, and pianist who lived from 1918 until 1990. His best-known work is the music for Wes...

London (CNN) US actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Spacey was also charged with one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent, the CPS said. The charges relate to two alleged incidents in London in 2005, another two in 2008, and a further incident in Gloucestershire, western England, in 2013. The alleged victim of the 2005 incidents is now in his 40s, while the two men allegedly involved in the 2008 and 2013 incidents are now in their 30s, London's Metropolitan Police said. The decision to charge Spacey "follows a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police Service in its investigation," the force said. While the charges were authorized on Thursday, Spacey is not currently in England or Wales and the charges cannot formally be applied until he enters one of those countries, a CPS spokespers...

FRIDAY MIDDAY UPDATE: It’s looking like a record opening for Memorial Day weekend as Joseph Kosinski’s  Top Gun: Maverick is set to earn $142.4M over four days, which will easily overtake Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End which did $139.8M. It’s taken 15 years for that record to be broken. Friday for the Tom Cruise sequel is looking like $50M with an estimated 3-day of $117M. That will make Top Gun: Maverick the second biggest opener for Paramount after Iron Man 2 which debuted to $128.1M, and ahead of 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($100.1M).  Top Gun 2  is also the second biggest opening day for a Paramount title after  Iron Man 2 ‘s $51.1M. Look, even if these numbers recede, this is far and away (no pun intended, Mr. Cruise) the biggest opening for the 3x Oscar nominated, near 60-year old blockbuster star. See, industry, it certainly paid off for some studios to hold their movies during the pandemic until cinema...

“ Obi-Wan Kenobi ” is premiering on Disney+ a few hours earlier than planned, the “Star Wars” show announced Thursday night. West Coast viewers will be able to stream the first two episodes of the show, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, starting at 9 p.m. PT. Originally, they were set to become available at midnight. The news was announced in a tweet from the official “Star Wars” account. “The time for @ObiWanKenobi has arrived… early,” the tweet reads. “Start streaming the first two episodes TONIGHT at 9 p.m. PT on @Disneyplus.” The time for @ObiWanKenobi has arrived…early. Start streaming the first two episodes TONIGHT at 9PM PT on @Disneyplus . pic.twitter.com/LgdRC51GW2 — Star Wars (@starwars) May 27, 2022 Earlier today at the Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim, Calif., “Star Wars” fans were surprised with a premiere screening of the show at 7 p.m. PT — and now viewers at home will be able to watch “Obi-Wan Kenobi” early as well. The Disney+ series ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Breast Cancer Research fundraiser, mother to famous actors Carol Baldwin has died    CNYcentral.com Alec Baldwin Announces the Death of His Mother Carol, 92: She 'Taught Me About Second Acts'    PEOPLE CNY’s Carol Baldwin, philanthropist and matriarch of the Baldwin family, dies at 92    syracuse.com Carol M. Baldwin, founder of breast cancer research fund and mother to famous sons, dies    WSYR View Full Coverage on Google News Article From & Read More ( Breast Cancer Research fundraiser, mother to famous actors Carol Baldwin has died - CNYcentral.com ) https://ift.tt/ZdsjlLM Entertainment

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So, how did the Pearsons’ story end? Silly! If you’ve been watching  This Is Us for the past six seasons, you already know the answer : The Pearsons’ story will never end! After all, as Kevin told us in Season 1 , “I think that’s maybe the point of the whole thing. There’s no dying. There’s no you, or me, or them… it’s just us. And this sloppy, wild, colorful, magical thing that has no beginning, no end, that’s right here? I think it’s us.” The NBC drama’s series finale serves as a quiet epilogue to its gorgeous penultimate episode, “ The Train ,” which witnessed the death of Pearson matriarch Rebecca. Together, the two installments serve as a very fitting send-off for a show that stayed true to itself throughout its six-season run. And without further ado, let’s review what happens in “Us.” (And make sure to check out our post mortem chat with series creator Dan Fogelman , as well as a breakdown of the show’s final flash-forward .) HYMN FOR THE WEEKEND | In a flashback, Rebe...

Through five weeks of trial, one mystery with a multimillion dollar question mark has lingered: How much were Johnny Depp or Amber Heard ’s careers harmed by the actors allegedly defaming each other? Hollywood insiders, typically tight-lipped on dealings in the industry, have taken the stand largely to push back on accusations that the duo’s public mudslinging played a part in their tumbling careers. Keeping in line with studios insulating themselves from appearing to take sides in the high-profile dispute put in motion at the height of the #MeToo movement, Walter Hamada, president of DC Films and the highest-ranking studio officer to appear in the trial, said on Tuesday that “there were conversations about potentially recasting” Heard in the Aquaman sequel but that they didn’t relate to her legal battle with Depp. Related Stories Hamada attributed the discussions to “chemistry” issues with leading man Jason Momoa . The testimony mirrors Disney production executive Tina Newman...

CBS has pulled the Season 4 finale of “ FBI ” in light of the shooting at a Texas elementary school that saw over a dozen children murdered on Tuesday. The episode has been pulled due to the fact that the storyline concerned a school shooting. The official synopsis reads: “As the team investigates a deadly robbery that garnered a cache of automatic weapons for the killers, they discover one of the perps is a classmate of Jubal’s son, who is reluctant to cooperate with the case.” A repeat of “FBI” will air in the finale’s place. A new airdate for the finale has yet to be determined. Tuesday’s shooting took place at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. Per Texas Governor Greg Abbott, 14 students and one teacher were killed by the gunman, whom Abbott named as Salvador Romas. Romas is also dead and it is believed that he was killed by responding officers. Romas also allegedly shot his own grandmother before he went to Robb Elementary. This is the latest deadly mass shooting in the ...

Ricky Gervais ’ new Netflix special has stirred up a swift backlash over his use of shock humor at the expense of trans women. Only minutes into his latest special for the streaming giant, Gervais jokes: “I love the new women. The new ones we’ve been seeing lately. The ones with beards and cocks. They’re as good as gold, I love ’em. No, it’s the old-fashioned ones, they go, ‘Oh, they want to use our toilets.’ ‘Why shouldn’t they use your toilets?’ ‘For ladies!’ ‘They are ladies — look at their pronouns! What about this person isn’t a lady?’ ‘Well, his penis.’ ‘Her penis, you fucking bigot!’ ‘What if he rapes me?’ ‘What if  she rapes you, you fucking TERF whore!’” Related Stories TERF is an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist,” an ideology that excludes trans women as women. In his stand-up special Ricky Gervais: SuperNature , which debuted on Tuesday, Gervais cited today’s “woke, progressive times” as he discussed fellow comics and what is considered funny. H...

(CNN) The head of DC Films, which produced "Aquaman," testified that the creative team had concerns about Amber Heard's role in the film's sequel over a lack of chemistry with co-star Jason Momoa. On Tuesday, a March recorded deposition of Walter Hamada, President of DC Films, which is a division of Warner Bros., was played for the jury in the defamation trial between Heard and her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. Hamada testified that "Aquaman" was the highest grossing film ever for the company. He said the studio never planned to portray Heard as a co-lead in "Aquaman 2" and that Heard's role was not reduced in the forthcoming film, titled "Aquaman the Lost Kingdom." "The size of the role of the film that she has was determined in the early development of the script, which would have happened in 2018 I would say. The character's involvement in the story was sort of what it was from the beginning," Hamada testified in the d...

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With Mjölnir in hand and some friends by his side, Thor is returning to the big screen in “ Thor: Love and Thunder ,” coming to theaters on July 8. The full trailer dropped during Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, revealing a first look at Christian Bale as the film’s villain Gorr the God Butcher. The Taika Waititi -directed Marvel film is the sequel to 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok” and marks Thor’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe following “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019. Starring Chris Hemsworth in the title role, it also features Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, Chris Pratt as Star-Lord, Waititi as Korg and Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, in her first appearance in the MCU since 2013’s “Thor: The Dark World.” Following the fall of Asgard and the events of “Endgame,” Thor attempts to find inner peace, but is hindered by the threat of Gorr extinguishing the gods. Thor enlists the help of Korg, Valkyrie and Foster in his mission and teams up with the Guardians of the Galaxy, w...

Despite being booted from the sixth installment of "Pirates of the Caribbean," Johnny Depp is still using his former role as the swashbuckling Captain Jack Sparrow to his advantage amid his defamation court case against ex-wife Amber Heard . Last week — the ongoing trial's fifth week — the actor entertained his supporters with a Jack Sparrow impersonation outside of Virginia's Fairfax County Circuit Court, where the case is being heard. Per CNN , a fan yelled out "You'll always be our Captain Jack Sparrow!" as Depp left the courthouse via an SUV. "He's still around somewhere," Depp then responded in his character's classic drunken voice . "I see him now and again. He shows up now and again." RELATED: Why Fox News is obsessed with Johnny Depp, its Manliness Under Siege mascot Depp was officially dropped from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise in December 2018, shortly after Heard's Washington Post o...

In David Cronenberg ’s “ Crimes of the Future ,” characters can feel no pain. Unfortunately, the same wasn’t true for the dozens of attendees at the Cannes premiere of the horror-drama that walked out midway through the film, unable to stomach just exactly what was happening onscreen. The movie also earned a seven-minute standing ovation, suggesting that it could be the most polarizing title to debut at this year’s Cannes. The film reunites Cronenberg with Viggo Mortensen (“A History of Violence,” “Eastern Promises”) alongisde Cannes darlings Kristen Stewart and Lea Seydoux. It also finds Cronenberg back in his science-fiction/horror mode for the first time since 1999’s “Existenz.” “Crimes of the Future” may not win the Palme d’Or, but it would land a prize for the weirdest movie of the festival. Mortensen plays a performance artist who has his organs operated on in some pseudo-sexual ritual in this dystopian universe. Stewart plays an employee at the transplant center, who in one...