Watch TheWrap’s Joseph Kapsch Make His Oscar Picks on CNN’s New Day (Video)
Will Leonardo DiCaprio finally get an Oscar for “Wolf of Wall Street?” Who will win the three-way race for Best Picture? Can anyone stop Cate Blanchett? TheWrap executive editor Joseph Kapsch, along...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel Mocks Los Angeles TV Reporters’ Ridiculous Reaction to Rain (Video)
Jimmy Kimmel’s thoughts and prayers were with the brave local TV reporters who had to cover the “much-needed” rain that fell from Los Angeles skies on Thursday morning. “It doesn’t rain much here in...
View ArticleOscar Winners’ Bump Will Come Via DVD This Year – Not the Box Office
The Oscar-winning movies will get a bump this year, but it will come via DVD and downloads more than at the box office. That’s in part because this year’s Academy Awards are coming about a month later...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Makes a Cake for Gays (Video)
Stephen Colbert addressed his “Colbert Report” audience Thursday while applying icing to a cake. “I’m sorry,” he said. “Apparently all straight people are now legally required to make wedding cakes for...
View ArticleEsquire Network Denies Senator’s Charges That ‘Friday Night Tykes’ Is...
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is working to sack the Esquire Network’s kids’ football docu-drama “Friday Night Tykes.” The Assistant Majority Leader in Congress’ upper chamber, Durbin said in a statement...
View ArticleRatings: ‘American Idol,’‘Parenthood’ Hit New Lows
CBS topped Thursday as “American Idol” and NBC’s “Parenthood” hit new lows. Fox’s other show on the schedule, “Rake,” also fell to a new series low, shortly into its existence. For NBC, “Parks and...
View ArticleJustin Bieber Is a Shirtless, Crotch-Grabbing ‘Bad Boy’ on Rolling Stone...
Justin Bieber has officially been declared the “bad boy” of pop music by preeminent music publication Rolling Stone magazine. The 19-year-old singer (who turns 20 on Saturday — happy birthday, brah!)...
View ArticleOscar Season 2014 Comes To An End: My Pick, Our Picks – And Thanks
We made it. Here we are at the end of another Oscar season, knowing as little about the likely winner for Best Picture now as we did back in September. But it’s been a fantastic ride, an awards season...
View Article‘The Daily Show’: Jon Stewart Says BitCoin ‘Is the Tamagotchi of Currency’...
Jon Stewart says bitcoin is the “Tamagotchi of currency.” You remember Tamagotchi, right? Neither did we. A Tamagotchi is a Japanese digital pet that lives on a keychain and acts cute, until it dies....
View ArticleScandal’ Cast Creates Mexican Spoof Version With Jimmy Kimmel (Video)
Sex. Power. Corruption. Lies. Poison blow darts. Futbol. Jicama juice. “Escandalo” has absolutely everything you could ever want in a television show. If only it were real. Watch video: 5 Things to...
View ArticleOscar Host Ellen DeGeneres Stole a Role From Jennifer Aniston, Inspired a...
Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres and Jennifer Aniston may have taken vastly different career paths in Hollywood since their sitcom star days, but both collided in 1999 when auditioning to play a reality...
View ArticleJohn C. Reilly Recalls the Time He Robbed a Freight Train on ‘Conan’ (Video)
John C. Reilly is a certified badass. The last time the comedic actor appeared on “Conan,” he shared a story about making a bomb. He told host Conan O’Brien Thursday about the time that he and his...
View ArticleOscars Brace for Soggy Sunday as Downpour Hits
With a heavy rainstorm hitting Southern California on Friday and expected to last for a couple of days, the Academy is preparing for a wet Oscar Sunday. And they’re not the only ones who will be...
View Article‘Ernest & Celestine’ Review: Oscar Got It Right, Nominating This Animated...
Computers have become capable of infinite wonders when it comes to animated movies, but every so often it’s nice to get a “Lilo and Stitch” or a “Spirited Away” (which employed partial CG) or a...
View ArticleWes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’: Director Made Fully Animated Version...
Wes Anderson was so concerned with getting every little detail exactly right in “Grand Budapest Hotel” that he made an early, animated version of the picture before production on the star-studded...
View ArticleCW’s ‘The Flash’: First Look (Photo)
Don’t blink: The first image from The CW’s superhero project “The Flash” has been released, featuring Grant Gustin in costume as the titular speedy hero. The costume was designed by three-time Oscar...
View ArticleLena Dunham Has Cat Keychain That Could ‘Gut Somebody’ and Almost Got Her...
Do not try to rob Lena Dunham. The “Girls” creator, writer and star carries around an over-the-knuckles keychain shaped like a cat with “two ears that could, like, gut somebody,” she told “Late Night”...
View ArticlePBS Names Ira Rubenstein New General Manager of Digital
Ira Rubenstein has been named general manager of PBS Digital. Rubenstein will oversee PBS’s websites, apps and partnerships with entities such as Hulu and Apple TV, as well as PBS Digital Studios, the...
View ArticleJimmy Fallon Takes On Lebron James In ‘Wastepaper Basketball’ (Video)
“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon dropped old-school rhymes with the Miami Heat’s Lebron James in a skit about their favorite “sport:” Trash can basketball. That’s right — Fallon vs. Lebron, sinking...
View ArticleFunny or Die Channels Comcast: ‘We Don’t Give a F— About You’ (Video)
Funny or Die has offered what it believes to be Comcast’s response to its critics: “We don’t give a fuck.” Also read: Why Comcast’s Time Warner Cable Purchase Could Choke Internet Access A new...
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