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Donald Trump could have done a lot worse than inviting Ben Affleck to his AI lunch with tech CEOs this week at the White House. Unlike the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and more, the Oscar winner and InterPositive founder isn’t playing defense or doom and gloom when it comes to the quickly…

At least 350 people on Wednesday attended a meeting to address the screams coming from Universal Studio’s new Fast & Furious rollercoaster that opened Sept. 16. Neighbors of the amusement park — who were required to RSVP for the meeting that was closed to the press — were greeted at Universal’s…

KPop Demon Hunters has broken streaming records for Netflix, amassing 325.1M views in its first 90 days on the platform and spending 63 consecutive weeks in the Global Top 10. The direct-to-streaming animated Sony title showed a massive box-office potential too — two months after KPop Demon Hunters…

Conan O'Brien remembers the good ol' days but warns things are changing. Asked whether he believed comedians were losing something by having fewer opportunities to be in a writers' room, the former Tonight Show host said it was a "real problem". "When I first was put into a writer’s room…

California gubernatorial candidates Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton agreed on the need for tax incentives to keep or lure production back to Hollywood, but they still sparred over who bears responsibility for the flight of tens of thousands of jobs from the state. Meeting in Burbank for a CNN…

As the human race braces for possible extinction amid the AI age, South Park resurrected its deepfake Trump to roast the “billionaire of Weenietown.” On Wednesday’s episode, Butters discovers Billionaire Weenietown in his literal backyard, a tiny kingdom of anthropomorphic disembodied penises…

As Heated Rivalry fans await the Crave series adaptation’s sophomore season, a page from the Rachel Reid books is coming to life. On Tuesday, the show’s production banner Accent Aigu Entertainment (AAE) launched a real version of the Irina Foundation, which is the nonprofit started by Shane…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the two-episode Season 2 premiere of ABC’s Scrubs revival. Scrubs returned Wednesday night with a two-episode Season 2 premiere that gave us a lot of Dr. Cox (John McGinley), established Tosh (Ava Bunn) as the lead intern following Bunn’s promotion…

Mark Ruffalo has been one of the fiercest critics of the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger, and after the deal became a reality Wednesday, the man who plays the Incredible Hulk in the MCU came out swinging. “This merger will stifle creativity, weaken free speech and cost…

Starz just issued a statement on the status of its negotiations with Verizon on a distribution agreement, warning of the potential loss of all of its channels, Starz on Demand and the Starz app through Verizon FiOs. "Starz has been negotiating in good faith with Verizon on a distribution…

At a time when the major exhibitors are in town for Cinema United’s Fall Summit, Sony made a slew of release date adds and changes Wednesday. Chief among them is that Ridley Scott’s feature take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island starring Hugh Jackman as Long John Silver is coming out on…

EXCLUSIVE: The growing cast of Gina Rodriguez’s feature film directorial debut, The House of Guerrero, will now also include Lisa Vidal (Righteous Thieves, The Baker and the Beauty), Aaron Dominguez (Gossip Girl, Sitting in Bars With Cake), Jesse Garcia (The Odyssey, Flamin' Hot), Edwin Hodge (Matlock…