Irma P. Hall, the actress known for her matriarch roles, has died at 91 in Dallas. Her relatives shared the news on Wednesday.
She picked up an NAACP Image Award for Soul Food and a Cannes prize for The Lady Killers. She was 60 when she was cast in her first major movie, A Family Thing, alongside James Earl Jones and Robert Duvall.
She taught in Dallas public schools for more than 20 years before acting full time in 1980. She also founded the Dallas Minority Repertory Theatre to help develop young talent.
NBC and the producers of The Voice are weighing a move away from Universal Studios in Los Angeles to a more affordable city. Nashville and Atlanta are among the options being considered, though staying in LA is still on the table.
Season 30 is currently being filmed in Los Angeles, and a celebrity season hosted by Keke Palmer is set to air in 2027.
A recent report from several Hollywood unions found that US studios now spend 42 percent of film production budgets domestically, down from 74 percent 25 years ago.
Netflix's The Hunting Wives is back with a second season, and its cast gathered at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday to celebrate the premiere. The show, based on May Cobb's book, arrives on the streaming platform on November 26.
Brittany Snow plays Sophie O'Neil, a newcomer to a small Texas town who ends up in a close-knit circle of local women led by Malin Akerman's Margo Banks. That bond is tested when a teenage girl is found dead and a murder investigation begins to unsettle the group.
Disney's latest animated feature, Hexed, premiered in Los Angeles on Thursday night, and much of its cast turned out for the event.
Hailee Steinfeld voices Billie Doe, a teenager who learns she has magical powers and sets off into another world. Rashida Jones plays her mother, Jodie Foster voices Queen Celeste, a sinister mother and grandmother, and Yvette Nicole Brown joins the cast as Scared Tea Cup.
The film is rated PG and hits theaters the day before Thanksgiving.
Connie is out of The Great British Baking Show after this caramel-themed episode.
Most millionaire's shortbreads in the technical came out underbaked, with chocolate that never set. The showstopper called for nougatine structures around praline cakes.
Connie's box fell apart when the judges opened it, though they loved her hazelnut cake inside. Moyin won the showstopper, and Paul Hollywood had Connie step away for five minutes to settle down.
How to Rob a Bank opens nationwide on November 13.
The story follows a group of social media personalities who rob banks, saying they want to help people who are struggling. Nicholas Hoult plays the gang's leader, who blames a banking executive, played by Christian Slater, for his child's death and holds a gun to the executive's head.
David Leitch directed the film. He also made the 2022 action comedy Bullet Train, which starred Brad Pitt.
