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The actor who played the iconic Ferris Bueller in the 1986 classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” has been cast in FX’s “Katrina: American Crime Story.” FX announced that Matthew Broderick will play Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael D. Brown,…
A 2016 film that has chalked up a series of awards at film festivals has been banned from theatrical release in India. Variety reports that India’s censors banned the Hindi film “Lipstick Under My Burkha,” about female empowerment. Directed by…
The latest round in the ongoing legal battle between the SAG-AFTRA guild and the movie website IMDb produced a key victory for IMDb. Deadline.com reports that a judge in U.S. District Court ruled that the State of California can’t move…
An article by a researcher who studies stress and coping offers the not-too-surprising observation that, as a society, we are consuming too much media. The piece in Recode is written by Mary E. McNaughton-Cassill, a professor of clinical psychology at…
Louis C.K.’s next live stand-up comedy special will be rolling out in a few weeks on Netflix, which has exclusive rights to his next two specials. Variety reports that “2017,” filmed in Washington, D.C., is set to premiere April 4….
There was one winning Powerball lottery ticket sold in last night’s drawing, according to ABC News. The winning ticket “was sold at a gas station in Lafayette, Indiana, which is about an hour northwest of Indianapolis,” the story says. The…
CBS’s prime-time lineup put in a dominant performance during the week ending Feb. 19, based on Nielsen data for total viewers. The network cites live plus same day numbers indicating that CBS had nine of the top 10 broadcasts of…
Video that was just released, which you can watch below, shows actor Harrison Ford piloting his single-engine plane just above a commercial airliner in an incident that took place earlier this month at John Wayne Airport in Southern California. “Ford’s…
A prime-time broadcast drama series has been picked up for a second season. Announcing the renewal for the Lee Daniels series “Star,” Fox Entertainment President David Madden said: “Lee Daniels is a true visionary and he and Tom Donaghy have…
NBC’s venerable late-night sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” has been on a roll lately, and that roll continued with the Feb. 11 show, which the network says ranks as the show’s most-watched telecast in eight years. The network cites…