The rumors are true: Mads Mikkelsen will replace Johnny Depp as dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in "Fantastic Beasts 3," Warner Bros. confirmed Wednesday. The casting news comes just weeks after Depp was pushed out of the role and resigned at the studio's request.

Danish actor Mikkelsen, 55, appeared as Dr. Hannibal Lecter for three seasons on ...Read more

In the annals of show-business rechristenings, few boast a better origin story than the Mexican singer-actress Flor Silvestre.

Born Guillermina Jimenez Chabolla in 1930, she moved at 13 with her family from their native Guanajuato to Mexico City because her mother wanted to live in the megalopolis. The ingenue quickly established herself as an ...Read more

She believes in life in the wild.

Pop goddess Cher met with the prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, on Friday, to help save Kaavan — known as "the world's loneliest elephant."

The legendary singer and Oscar-winning actress was celebrating the departure of Kaavan, who'll soon leave a Pakistani zoo for an animal sanctuary in Cambodia.

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Yes, anxious viewers, there will be a network-television airing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" this year. Also, the 56-year-old "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." And for all you wild and crazy youngsters out there, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" will be barreling your way, its unfathomable charms still a mystery after 20 years.

While it ...Read more

Just how stressed is Hugh Grant, you ask? Let him tell you:

"Well, apart from the fact we're having a second spike of coronavirus and we're about to be smashed by a no-deal Brexit, and food shortages and medicine shortages, and everyone is furious and terrified in the streets, and my children won't sleep and I've got a terrible hangover, ...Read more

DETROIT — Garth Brooks couldn't have known it at the time. Back in late February, none of us did.

But when the country star stepped onstage for more than 70,000 concertgoers at Ford Field on Feb. 22, he and those Detroit fans became part of an unlikely and unfortunate milestone.

Brooks' high-energy, hits-laden affair inside the Detroit Lions...Read more

It was Thanksgiving eve, 1971, when a mystery man known only as Dan Cooper hijacked a commercial airliner out of Portland International Airport. He sat in the last row of seats on the plane, where he slipped a note to the flight attendant, informing her he had a bomb in his attache case. He demanded a $200,000 ransom and four parachutes, which ...Read more

Billy Corgan is no stranger to upsetting people on the internet. But on a November morning, he seems remorseful to have upset a particular demographic: witches.

"It's Witchgate!" he announces.

Smashing Pumpkins' latest album, "Cyr," released Friday, is a roving 20-song double album that courses with currents of '80s synth-pop and darkwave ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Pete Docter's life has a way of making its way on screen. The Minnesota native and chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios regularly draws from his own experiences, even if the results aren't always as personal as his latest work, "Soul," which he co-wrote and -directed. (It debuts on Disney+ in December after a couple ...Read more

In the Showtime drama "Your Honor," which premieres next month, Bryan Cranston plays a New Orleans judge whose wife was murdered a year before the events of the show begin. Amy Landecker plays the detective who investigated that unsolved murder, and she is pulled back into the family's orbit when the judge's son is involved in a fatal hit-and-...Read more

That true love prevails is a well-known tradition in romantic comedies, so it's neither a spoiler nor a secret that "Happiest Season" ends with a happily ever after.

The lovers in this Christmas rom-com are Abby, a student pursuing a doctorate in history portrayed by Kristen Stewart, and Mackenzie Davis' Harper, a journalist. Harper might be ...Read more

Beloved "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek offered an uplifting vision for the future of the world in a video he taped shortly before his death to be aired as part of the game show's Thanksgiving episode.

"You know, in spite of what America and the rest of the world is experiencing right now, there are many reasons to be thankful," said Trebek in the...Read more

The ongoing collaboration between the husband-and-wife team of Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy continues to yield mixed results with "Superintelligence." The fourth film directed by Falcone and starring McCarthy, the movie is first and foremost a spotlight for McCarthy's genuine gift for blending broad comedy with emotional sincerity, but to ...Read more

"Saturday Night Live" is giving country singer Morgan Wallen a do-over after booting him from its Oct. 10 lineup over COVID-19 safety concerns.

The "More Than My Hometown" singer will return to the sketch-comedy series for its Dec. 5 show, hosted by Jason Bateman. Wallen was replaced in October by Jack White after video clips surfaced on social...Read more

DON'T MISS: "CMA Country Christmas" — Set to ring in the holidays, married co-hosts Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins headline this annual music-filled hour in an intimate, at-home setting. The show, shot in Nashville, Tennessee, features performances by Kelsea Ballerini ("Santa Baby"), Gabby Barrett ("The First Noel"), Lady A ("Wonderful ...Read more

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In the final scene of "The Christmas Chronicles," a ...Read more