LOS ANGELES -- "Transformers: The Last Knight," the fifth installment in the blockbuster franchise from Michael Bay, may have topped the weekend, but all that robot-smashing has gotten a bit rusty at the box office.

The Paramount film, which opened Wednesday, took in $45 million in the U.S. and Canada over the weekend, placing it in the No. 1 ...Read more

"Star Wars" fan Ron Howard is "beyond grateful" to add his voice to the Lucasfilm franchise and hopes "to honor the great work already done" on the upcoming Han Solo film, which he inherited from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

The Oscar-winning director proclaimed his love for George Lucas' universe and eagerness to take the helm on ...Read more

Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher will undertake his first solo tour of the U.S. and Canada this fall, in support of his debut solo album, "As You Were," which is set for release on Oct. 6.

The tour is slated to open Nov. 13 in San Francisco, which is the closest it is scheduled to get to Southern California. So far only nine dates have been ...Read more

DETROIT -- Madonna's childhood home in Rochester Hills, Mich., is up for sale – again.

The current owners put the house on the market Thursday, said Robert Kabbani, the agent in charge of the sale for Re/Max Realty.

He expects a lot of traffic over the weekend just because The Material Girl lived there. She attended Rochester Adams High ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- What's the most impactful show of the past decade? If you said "American Idol" or "Game of Thrones," you're probably well over the age of 35 and use social media primarily to show off photos from your weekend in Branson.

All the cool kids know the correct answer is "Pretty Little Liars" -- and they've got the numbers to back it ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The set of the cable series "Playing House" looks like an Anthropologie catalog come to life with 23 throw pillows in the living room, ceramic owls perched on shelves and chubby pine cones filling a wire basket by the fireplace.

"We wanted it to feel like girl porn," said co-creator Jessica St. Clair, who plays Emma, a sunny-side...Read more

"The Big Sick" begins with a meet-cute, proceeds confidently through flirtation, sex and full-fledged romance, then skids to a halt with a nasty breakup, followed by the kind of dire medical emergency that seems fated to end in reconciliation or grief.

It sounds like the stuff of a conventional romantic dramedy, and on some level it is. ...Read more

The title of "The Bad Batch," Ana Lily Amirpour's arid and feverish new movie, refers to the assorted undesirables who have been exiled by the U.S. government to a vast and barely habitable stretch of Texas wasteland. Under a merciless sun, a sullen new arrival named Arlen (the British actress Suki Waterhouse) is promptly captured by a gang of ...Read more

"The Hero" begins with Sam Elliott's character, a veteran actor, reading a voice-over about barbecue sauce, and that's when it hit me: Sam Elliott's voice is barbecue sauce. Pour it on any movie -- and oh, that voice does pour, in thick, velvety dollops -- and it tastes better.

Not that "The Hero" would taste terrible without him, but it might ...Read more

I am so over TV news' obsession with the big "gets." Maybe Megyn Kelly should be, too.

In her first few weeks anchoring NBC's "Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly," the former Fox News Channel host has made headlines for drawing Russian president Vladimir Putin to the interview chair and for attempting, at least, to introduce conspiracy-peddler Alex ...Read more

As its title indicates, "My Journey Through French Cinema" is personal with a capital P, a passionate, opinionated, drop-dead fascinating documentary essay about that country's film history put together by a clear-eyed enthusiast who was born to tell the tale.

Few people know as much about French film as 76-year-old Bertrand Tavernier, now a ...Read more

MSNBC is expanding its live news programming lineup, including a new Saturday show hosted by conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt.

Hewitt, best known as a host for the right-leaning Salem Radio Network, will have a half-hour Saturday morning program airing at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. The move is likely to get some gimlet-eyed looks from MSNBC viewers...Read more

Continuing what appears to be a concerted effort in recent months to demystify the royal family, Prince Harry granted Newsweek an extensive interview, printed Thursday, detailing his attempts at normalcy and continuing the legacy of his late mother

Harry even suggested that no one in the royal family is itching to take over for Queen Elizabeth ...Read more