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Debbie Reynolds Has Died Debbie Reynolds, the film and stage star best known forSingin' in the RainandThe Unsinkable Molly Brown, has passed away at the age of 84. The tragic news comes just one day after the death of her daughter,Star Warsactress Carrie Fisher. Our thoughts are with her family. Reynolds' death was confirmed by her son Todd Fisher,who said, “She wanted to be with Carrie.” She passed away at Cedars-Sinai hospital, where she had been taken earlier in the day after a suspected stroke....

Dexter: New Blood Will Give The Showtime Series A “Proper Finale,” Says Network President When we last saw Dexter, he was wearing the world’s fakest beard and living as a lumberjack, or something like that. Series finales can’t please everyone, but the"Dexter"series finale was a particularly egregious example. Even viewers who stuck with the show in its lesser final seasons were wondering what the hell the folks running the show were thinking....

Disneyland & Disney World Increase Ticket Prices, So Now Disneyland Could Cost Upwards Of $229 Per Ticket If you’re planning a trip to Disneyland, I have some bad news: your trip just got more expensive. Not long after the opening of the Rise of the Resistance ride in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge on both U.S. coasts, the company has once again raised its prices…just in time for Avengers Campus to open at Disneyland....

Emily Blunt Jumps On ‘My Little Pony’ Hasbro’s attempts to turn its toys into movies have yielded mixed results. For everyTransformers, there’s aBattleship— or worse, aMonopoly, whichstillhasn’t managed to pass Go despite years of efforts. But there’s a lot riding onMy Little Pony, based on one of the hottest properties in its stable. So Hasbro and Lionsgate have enlisted a big-name star to guide the film to success. Fans will get to seeEmily BluntinMy Little PonyalongsideKristin Chenoweth....

Fantastic Beasts' Jessica Williams Had Unexpected Inspiration For Her Secrets Of Dumbledore Role The latest installment of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” may not be quite enough to redeemthe floundering franchise, but the characters joining the wizarding world this time around keep “The Secrets of Dumbledore” from drowning in its own dreariness. One character in question is Jessica Williams' (“2 Dope Queens,” “Love Life”) Eulalie “Lally” Hicks, a charms teacher with a delightful mid-Atlantic accent who joins Dumbledore (Jude Law) in his fight against the very evil — but no less charismatic — Grindelwald....

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Eyes $40 Million Opening Weekend, A New Series Low As"Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore"gets ready to make its way to theaters in North America this weekend, things are frankly not looking good for the latest “Harry Potter” spin-off. While movie theaters around the country will surely be more than happy to see whatever moviegoers make it out for the third installment in the series, Warner Bros....

How Jacob From ‘Lost’ And Luke Perry Helped James Franco Pitch ‘Blood Meridian’ Yesterday a lot of people were surprised when word came out thatJames Francoisactively pursuingtwo very lofty directorial ambitions — he wants to write and direct film versions ofWilliam Faulkner’s landmark novelAs I Lay Dying, andCormac McCarthy’sBlood Meridian. There was some initial skepticism about half of that report, as producer Scott Rudin wrote to IndieWire to suggest that theBlood Meridiannews was either premature or incorrect....

How To Watch America’s Funniest Home Videos Tribute To Bob Saget Fans are still mourning the loss of actor, host, and comedianBob Saget, who tragically passed away last week at the age of 65. The beloved star of “Full House” was the TV dad of a generation, and also the original host of the long-running ABC comedy show, “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” In honor of his legacy, “America’s Funniest Home Videos” is putting on a special tribute to Saget, airing at the beginning of Sunday’s episode at 7:00 p....

Infographic: Which Studios Own The Marvel Characters? When we talk about Marvel movies, we’re usually talking about Marvel Studios movies — the ones that tie intoThe Avengersand are distributed by Disney. But the Marvel Comics stable of characters is actually spread all over Hollywood. Marvel sold off the film rights to various studios in the ’80s, and it wasn’t until the mid-’00s that they began collecting them back to launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Is Sigourney Weaver’s ‘Defenders’ Villain The Leader Of The Hand? There are few details surroundingSigourney Weaver’s Big Bad in the upcoming Marvel/Netflix miniseriesThe Defenders,other than her name is Alexandra and she has a team of mean-looking thugs in suits at her disposal. “The more connections you have, the easier it will be to break you,” Alexandra menacingly says inTheDefenderstrailer, supposedly to the team of streetwise superheroes, Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand....

James Gunn Rules Out Two Big Marvel Villains For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’ Besides some returning core characters, there’s really no saying who’ll appear inGuardians of the Galaxy 2. The film will have nearly a decade of MCU stories to draw from, not to mention several decades of comic book history. But if you’d like to try and narrow down the possibilities, here are two more names (or more accurately, a name and a race) that we can cross off the list....

Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Cast Adds Michael Wincott, To Which We Say “Yep” Today welearnedthe title ofJordan Peele’s new movie:Nope. And that’s…pretty much all we learned, really! Like most of Peele’s movies,Nopeis currently shrouded in secrecy, and will probably stay that way all the way up until release. But there is one new bit of info that’s worth highlighting. Michael Wincott, a great character actor who I honestly thought had retired, is appearing in the film....

Lost Cast Member Confirms Return For Final Season One of the cast members of ABC’sLosthas confirmed that he/she will return for the final season of the television series. This is kinda tricky, as I think some people might consider this a spoiler. I’ve been careful to leave the person’s name out of the headline, and not to include a photo of the person above (although, they are in the photo above somewhere) even though the original source does both (headline and photo)....