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Debby Ryan, who rose to fame with her starring roles on Disney Channel, has revealed that she suffered a “life-altering brain injury a few years ago.” During a recent interview for Mythical Kitchen’s Last Meals video series, the actress opened up about her long “hellish” battle with migraines, calling herself a “migraine warrior.” “I had a pretty crazy life-altering brain injury a few years ago, and I was out of commission for like six months, and I went to this neurological rehab for like six months,” she shared. “Went and did this fringe science treatment that was like really sci-fi…
Alfonso Cuarón is headed to South Korea for the first time, with the two-time Oscar winner set to make a prominent appearance at the upcoming Busan International Film Festival. Cuarón is expected to attend the festival’s opening ceremony before giving a master class on the artistic choices and filmmaking techniques that have shaped his career. Busan will also present a special Imax screening of Gravity, for which the director won his first Academy Award for best director in 2014 (he picked up a second directing Oscar in 2019 for Roma). Cuarón will also be attending Busan in support of his…
Inde Navarrette was dead set on prioritizing her work while filming writer-director Curry Barker‘s horror sensation Obsession. Focus Features held a special screening of the movie at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, where Barker and Navarrette took the stage for a conversation following the film. During the discussion, the filmmaker expressed gratitude to the actress for giving her all in the role of Nikki, despite any potential for awkward moments as the character’s behavior gets more extreme and frightening. “There’s a lot of people there on the other side of that camera, and to ask her…
In the new documentary Lorne, a memorable scene sees Lorne Michaels, the Saturday Night Live creator and king of comedy, joining his friend Steve Martin for dinner at Orso in Manhattan. Over the meal, all caught on camera by documentarian Morgan Neville and his team, Martin presses Michaels on whether he will ever actually retire from SNL. Michaels suggests that, whatever his desires may be, he can’t. To protect SNL, and all of its absurd “wasteful” use of resources, he needs to stick around. Once Michaels is gone, all bets are off. Michaels, of course, rules NBC’s late night lineup.…
One of the biggest kids YouTube brands has inked a wide-ranging content and development deal with Disney. Disney has cut a deal with Like Nastya, which has garnered more than 450 billion views across its 25 YouTube channels, with more than 450 million current subscribers. The deal will add a curated selection of Like Nastya library content to Disney+ but will also include a new animated preschool series for Disney Jr. and Disney+, as well as new and original live action content for kids, tweens, teens and families. It’s the first deal with a major entertainment company for the Nastya…
Thunderbolts* and Disclosure Day star Wyatt Russell has joined the cast of John Carroll Lynch’s upcoming comedy Happy. He will appear as Roger alongside Sex Education alum Asa Butterfield and 1917‘s Mark Strong, with Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Brittany O’Grady (The White Lotus) and Patti Harrison (Together Together) also starring. The feature follows Myles (Butterfield) into a “spectacularly dysfunctional introduction to his girlfriend’s family,” a plot synopsis reads. “A shotgun fired at a birthday cake, a voyeuristic mother, a seductive sister, a disarmingly decent ex-boyfriend, way too much booze and nowhere near enough boundaries. What starts as an awkward introduction…
The MTV Video Music Awards have unveiled their performer lineup. Lisa, Shaboozey, Raye, Sienna Spiro, GENER8ION, Gunna and Yung Lean join show opener Madonna as performers at the music-centric awards show, CBS and MTV announced Thursday. Lisa will return to the VMA stage with the television debut of her recently released single “SaWaDiKa,” hailing from her upcoming EP, Press Play. The singer’s documentary, Always Lalisa, premiered in Toronto over the weekend, offering a rare behind-the-scenes look as the singer broke out of the K-pop system. Raye will make her VMA performance debut. The British singer is nominated twice this year,…
Odds are a giant inflatable Santa is looming near the entrance of a nearby big box hardware store as you read this. So Hallmark starting its annual “Countdown to Christmas” programming two-plus months out from the actual day is almost restrained. The cable and streaming outlet announced its full lineup — 34 original movies, plus three new episodes of the Mistletoe Murders series — for the season on Thursday. The slate includes what Hallmark is calling three movie events: Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story (Oct. 17), the company’s third collaboration with the NFL; Holiday Ever After: A Disney World…
Rosalind Ashford, one of the three original members of Martha and the Vandellas who sang on such Motown classics as “Dancing in the Street,” “Heat Wave” and “Jimmy Mack,” has died. She was 83. A native of Detroit, Ashford died Tuesday of natural causes in the suburb of Redford Township, the Detroit Free Press reported. “I am deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Rosalind Ashford,” Reeves told the newspaper. “Rosalind played an important part in the early days of Martha and the Vandellas. Her voice will forever be with us through our great recordings together, and she will…
South Park, one of the longest-running comedy series on television, returned to Comedy Central for its 29th season after making the unexpected move of changing the show’s name to “South America” — a gag that creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced as a possible marketing gimmick but is certainly also a jab at President Donald Trump. Wednesday night’s season premiere provided little explanation as to when and why the name change happened for the fictional Colorado town, but it does offer a vague metaphor for current U.S. politics around immigration. Seasons 27 and 28 of South Park had shifted…