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ABC TO BROADCAST LIVE-ACTION ‘BEAUTY AND THE BEAST:' According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC will be celebrating the 30-year anniversary of Disney's Beauty and the Beast with a two-hour live-action/animated special. The special is scheduled to air on December 15th and will be available for streaming on Disney+ on December 16th.

‘STRANGER THINGS' CROSSES ONE BILLION HOURS WATCHED: Deadline reports that, after the final two episodes of Stranger Things dropped on July 1st, the show has passed the billion hours watched mark. Stranger Things is the second show to hit this goalpost, with Squid Game being the first.

THE TRAILER FOR ‘RAP SH!T' IS RELEASED: Variety reports that the trailer for Insecure creator Issa Rae's new show Rap Sh!t dropped on Tuesday (July 5th). The series, which follows two former high school friends who reunite to form a rap group in Miami, will premiere on July 21st on HBO Max.

CHRIS EVANS TO COSTAR ALONGSIDE EMILY BLUNT FOR ‘PAIN HUSTLERS:' Deadline reports that Captain America star Chris Evans is set to star opposite Emily Blunt in the Netflix movie Pain Hustlers. Production for the film, which centers around a high-school dropout named Liza Drake (Blunt) in Central Florida, is expected to begin in late August.

Celebrities had mixed feelings about the Fourth of July this year. Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade last month, many stars shared a post by the user @bitton that reads, "4th of July has been canceled due to a shortage of Independence. Sincerely, Women." Bette Midler, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, and J. Smith-Cameron are among those who shared the post.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye actress Jessica Chastain posted a photo of herself sticking both her middle fingers up to Twitter on Monday (July 4th). "Happy ‘Independence' Day from me and my reproductive rights," she captioned the post.

Zooey Deschanel shared a photo of herself in a shirt that said, "Pro Roe," and wrote, "For when you want to wish America a happy birthday, but also want her to do better." Padma Lakshmi showed off a red, white, and blue cake that had "Separate Church & State" written in frosting on top of it.

Those celebrating the holiday as usual included Emma Roberts, Denise Richards, Mark Hamill, Sofia Vergara, and Candace Cameron Bure. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shared a video of himself with his daughter, Jazzy, showing fans how to make "The Mana Spritz." He wrote in the caption, "HAPPY 4TH from The Johnson family."

Amber Heard's attorneys have filed a motion calling for the verdict in Johnny Depp's defamation trial to be thrown out.

In the memorandum submitted to the Fairfax County Circuit Court on Friday (July 1st), the Aquaman actress' attorneys argue that Depp did not provide evidence of actual malice or defamation. Instead, they state that he "proceeded solely on a defamation by implication theory, abandoning any claims that Ms. Heard's statements were actually false."

Additionally, the document includes a request to investigate "improper juror service." Heard's lawyers claim one of the jurors listed their birth year as 1945, whereas "publicly available information" shows they were born in 1970.

"This discrepancy raises the question whether Juror 15 actually received a summons for jury duty and was properly vetted by the court to serve on the jury," Heard's attorneys said.

In response to this filing, one of Depp's lawyers said it is "what they expected, just longer, no more substantive."

Seven months after sharing that she was engaged to Bader Shammas, Freaky Friday star Lindsay Lohan posted to Instagram revealing that she was a married woman. On Saturday (July 2nd), Lohan celebrated her 36th birthday by posting a photo of herself with Shammas.

"I am the luckiest woman in the world. You found me and knew that I wanted to find happiness and grace, all at the same time," she wrote.

The Mean Girls actress continued, "I am stunned that you are my husband. My life and my everything. every woman should feel like this everyday." When exactly the couple tied the knot remains unclear.

On Monday (July 4th), Rachel Brosnahan took to Twitter to address the tragic shooting that took place during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. "I grew up in Highland Park and this parade is a highlight of the year for so many families," the Marvelous Life of Mrs. Maisel actress wrote.

Brosnahan continued, "I'm sick to my stomach every time news like this comes out, but I don't wish the pit in your stomach as you call your family and friends to make sure everyone is okay on anyone."

In her Instagram stories, the House of Cards actress shared more. "I grew up in Highland Park and spent nearly every day after school and every weekend being stupid with friends directly across from where today's shooting occurred. I never once considered that I be unsafe there," she wrote.

Brosnahan added, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. We have lost our minds. My heart is broken for the families in Highland Park affected by today's shooting."

Minions: The Rise of Gru crushed it at the domestic box office over the Fourth of July weekend. Bringing in $125 million, the Universal movie broke the record for the holiday weekend, beating out Transformers: Dark of the Moon with $115 million in 2011.

A trend featuring the hashtag #gentleminions showed teens arriving in droves to the movie wearing suits. BBC reports that some theaters in the UK banned the teens in suits from seeing the movie, citing rowdiness inside the theaters.

Box Office Numbers from Friday (July 1st) through Monday (July 4th):

1. Minions: The Rise of Gru, $125.1 million
2. Top Gun: Maverick, $33 million
3. Elvis, $23.5 million
4. Jurassic World: Dominion, $19.7 million
5. The Black Phone, $14.4 million
6. Lightyear, $7.86 million
7. Mr. Malcom's List, $1 million
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once, $673,000
9. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, $483,000
10. Jug Jugg Jeeyo, $391,000

CHRIS ROCK AND LAKE BELL SPARK MORE ROMANCE RUMORS: According to Page Six, comedian Chris Rock and Bless This Mess actress Lake Bell kept the rumor mill going after the pair were seen at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California, Saturday night (July 2nd). They were spotted leaving the restaurant a month after going to a Cardinals game together in St. Louis.

KATE HUDSON POSTS TOPLESS PHOTO OF HERSELF DRINKING COFFEE: On Saturday (July 2nd), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days actress Kate Hudson posted a photo of herself drinking coffee topless to Instagram. Her brother, Rules of Engagement actor Oliver Hudson, commented on the post: "Nope."

KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN CALLS OUT PAPARAZZI FOR ‘MONETIZING' OFF OF TRAVIS BARKER'S ILLNESS: Entertainment Tonight reports that Kourtney Kardashian slammed the paparazzi on her Instagram stories over the weekend for selling old photos of her while her husband, Travis Barker, was in the hospital. "And to the paparazzi who sold pictures of me ‘out and about' while my husband was in the hospital fighting for his life...these photos were actually taken weeks ago, (I can't even remember the last time I wore that sweatsuit in the photos)....I didn't forget about you," she wrote. "A new level of low, monetizing off our of our nightmare," she added.

MILES TELLER'S GRANDMOTHER ADVOCATES FOR HIM TO BE THE NEXT JAMES BOND: According to Today, Miles Teller's grandmother, Leona Flowers, is on a mission to make her grandson the next James Bond. Flowers took to Twitter recently and wrote, "They're looking for an actor to replace Daniel Craig for future 007 movies. I think my grandson, Miles Teller, has proven that he has everything they're looking for- talent, looks, strength,worldwide appeal & oh, so cool. He can be that guy!! Wouldn't he be great?"

JAMES CAMERON MIGHT NOT DIRECT FUTURE ‘AVATAR' MOVIES: James Cameron might be taking a step back from the Avatar franchise. In an interview with Empire, the Titanic director said, "The Avatar films themselves are kind of all-consuming. I've got some other things I'm developing as well that are exciting. I think eventually over time – I don't know if that's after three or after four – I'll want to pass the baton to a director that I trust to take over, so I can go do some other stuff that I'm also interested in. Or maybe not. I don't know."

YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR ‘THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW' IS DELETED: Variety reports that the YouTube channel for The Wendy Williams Show seems to have disappeared. Searches for the channel through YouTube did not yield any results. This comes two weeks after the final episode of the 13th season aired.

‘MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE' DIRECTOR SHARES BEHIND-THE-SCENES PHOTO OF TOM CRUISE: On Sunday (July 3rd), Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie wished Tom Cruise a happy 60th birthday by posting what appears to be a behind-the-scenes photo from the new movie. The image shows Cruise hanging onto the wing of a red vintage biplane. Deadline reports that Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One is scheduled to be released on July 14th, 2023.

KELSEY GRAMMER GIVES UPDATE ON ‘FRASIER' REBOOT: On Monday's (July 4th) episode of The Talk, Kelsey Grammer provided an update on where things stand with the Frasier revival. On when they plan to start filming, he said, "There have been some conversations about starting in maybe October, maybe a little later … But we're in the final stages of the final script for the first episode of Frasier, and it looks pretty good."

The allegations against The Flash actor Ezra Miller continue to pile up. On Thursday (June 30th), Variety published an article on Miller, including an interview with the woman Miller allegedly choked and pushed to the ground in 2020. A video of the incident went viral in April of the same year.

According to the woman, who wished to remain anonymous, she and Miller were talking at a pub in Iceland when she joked, "But just so you know, I could take you in a fight." She said they responded, "You really want to fight?"

Later, the woman said her friend antagonized the situation by telling Miller that he heard the actor didn't want to fight. "My friend didn't have to say that," she told the outlet. "It was just a joke, obviously — but Miller took that literally and got super mad and came running outside," she shared.

The woman continued, "I think it's just fun and games — but then it wasn't. All of a sudden, they're on top of me, choking me, still screaming in my face if I want to fight. My friend who's filming sees they're obviously not joking and it's actually serious, so he stops filming, and pushes them off me as they're still trying to fight me. Two guy friends of mine are actually holding Miller back as they're screaming, 'This is what you wanted! This is what you wanted!'"

In an exposé published by The Los Angeles Times on Thursday (June 30th), Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent claimed her ex-fiancé, Randall Emmett, "tackled" her and pushed her to the ground when she confronted him about cheating. According to Kent, this happened after she tried to grab his phone from him.

"He ran after me, tackled me and knocked me to the ground. I used every ounce of strength to get him off of me as he was trying to pry it from my hands," she said. "That was when I knew, for sure, that there was a lot he was hiding."

Emmett's rep, Sallie Hofmeister, denied the allegations. "These allegations are false and part of a now-familiar smear campaign orchestrated by Randall's ex-fiancée to sway their custody dispute. Lala Kent has lied and manipulated others in her desperate attempt to win full custody of her daughter, keep her name in the press, and remain relevant in reality television," she told the newspaper.

The highly successful sitcom Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004, has received a lot of criticism over the years for focusing on six white, heterosexual individuals living in New York City—one of the most diverse cities in the world.

The show's co-creator, Marta Kauffman, recently addressed the issue, which she said she found "difficult and frustrating" at first.

"I've learned a lot in the last 20 years. Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It's painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I'm embarrassed that I didn't know better 25 years ago," Kauffman said in a Zoom interview with The Los Angeles Times.

In an attempt to apologize for the lack of diversity on the show, Kauffman pledged $4 million to the African and African American studies department at her alma mater, Brandeis University.

"It took me a long time to begin to understand how I internalized systemic racism. I've been working really hard to become an ally, an anti-racist. And this seemed to me to be a way that I could participate in the conversation from a white woman's perspective," she told Brandeis.

To honor the late Goodfellas actor Ray Liotta, who passed away in May at the age of 67, his daughter, Karsen Liotta, and his fiancé, Jacy Nittolo, attended the premiere of Black Bird on Wednesday night (June 29th). Liotta stars in the series as Big Jim Keene, father to Taron Egerton's Jimmy Keene, who is sentenced to 10 years in prison—unless he can get a confession out of a suspected serial killer.

At the premiere, Egerton said of Liotta, "I just kind of fell in love with him immediately. We developed a very, very, very close connection, and I had a very special time filming those scenes. I'm very pleased with how they turned out."

A week ago, Nittolo posted a tribute to Liotta on Instagram. "It's hard to believe a month has gone by. There are no words to properly describe what one goes through with this type of unexpected loss. I miss him every second of every day," she wrote. Karsen posted a Father's Day tribute to the Hannibal star: "Those who knew him, loved him. You are the best Dad anyone could ask for."

ZAWE ASHTON AND TOM HIDDLESTON ARE EXPECTING THEIR FIRST CHILD: Zawe Ashton and Tom Hiddleston confirmed with Vogue on Wednesday night (June 29th) that they are expecting their first child. Ashton debuted her baby bump on the red carpet for the premiere of her new film Mr. Malcolm's List in New York City.

SHANNA MOAKLER HOPES ‘FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY' FOR EX-HUSBAND TRAVIS BARKER: According to E! News, Shanna Moakler addressed her ex-husband, Travis Barker's, hospitalization on Thursday (June 30th). "Thank you to everyone who has reached out with concern to my ex and father of my children. I know he is in great hands and surrounded by loving support and the best medical teams available and his beautiful wife Kourtney," she said in a statement. Moakler added that she's hoping "for a speedy recovery and for the comfort of my children as I know they are very concerned and worried."

SHAILENE WOODLEY SAYS HER HEAD AND HEART FEEL ‘NURTURED' FOLLOWING AARON RODGERS SPLIT: On Wednesday (June 29th), Shailene Woodley posted to Instagram to share that she's feeling "nurtured," following her split from Aaron Rodgers. "to the month of june : putting macro whack world events aside for a minute, on a micro level, you nurtured this woman's head + heart. you gave me oxygen in the form of friends, babies, trees, magic, DANCING, animals, salt, sun, deep conversations, six packs from laughing, availability in the form of tears, PLAY, sunrises, hallway tag, goofiness, spontaneity, pita bread (so much pita!), hellos and goodbyes," she wrote.

MEREDITH VIEIRA JOKES THAT SHE ‘DID HER TIME' ON ‘THE VIEW:' In a recent interview with E!'s Daily Pop, former co-host of The View Meredith Vieira commented on the years she spent on the show. When asked if she would ever return, she said, "You know, there's a time for everything, I like to say, and I kinda did my time. That sounds like a prison term, actually." Vieira added, "I did nine years and I loved it. The show has evolved and it's a different show and I think it's fantastic."

HALLE BAILEY GIVES BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT ‘THE COLOR PURPLE:' On Thursday (June 30th), Halle Bailey posted a series of photos and videos from the set of The Color Purple. One video shows Oprah giving Bailey a bouquet of flowers, while the cast and crew clap for her. "and that's a wrap for me on the color purple. i'm so very grateful to have had this experience, my second major motion picture complete in the last year and a half. God is so good. here's a few of my fav moments without showing too much," she captioned the post.

SARAH HYLAND TO HOST NEW SEASON OF ‘LOVE ISLAND:' E! News reports that Modern Family actress Sarah Hyland will host the newest season of Love Island. The fourth season, titled Love Island USA, will be filmed in California and will stream exclusively on Peacock.

MIRA SORVINO AND LISA KUDROW COMMENT ON ‘ROMY AND MICHELE' SEQUEL: On Wednesday (June 29th), Mira Sorvino appeared on the Today show and hinted at a Romy and Michele's High School Reunion sequel. "There's nothing official to report but I can unofficially hint that we're closer than we've ever been to getting something to happen," she said. Lisa Kudrow appeared on The Jess Cagle Show the same day and said the writer of the original film, Robin Schiff, is "thinking about it and coming up with something." Kudrow added, "Isn't that thrilling?"

‘DUNCANVILLE' IS CANCELLED AFTER THREE SEASONS: Deadline reports that the third season of the Fox animated series Duncanville will be its last. The family comedy comes from Amy Poehler, Mike Scully, and Julie Scully.

Eva Mendes requested a special souvenir from her partner, Ryan Gosling, from the set of the new Barbie movie. On an episode of The Talk earlier this week, the Hitch actress commented on the first-look photo of Gosling as Ken.

"There was something about the image that sparked my, you know, that little teenage....," she said, while also admitting that she asked to keep the underwear he was sporting.

"It's a funny photo and he's trying to be funny, so it worked on all levels. But when I saw it, when he sent it to me from work, I was like, 'Can I please have that underwear? Please, I never ask for anything,'" she said.

She added, laughing, "So, anyway, I do have it. I'm wearing it right now."

Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick and Trainwreck actor Bill Hader have reportedly called it quits. A source told Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday (June 28th) that they have "broken up."

Kendrick and Hader starred in the 2019 Disney+ Christmas movie Noelle together, but it is unclear exactly when they started dating.

The pair have worked hard to keep their relationship under wraps, but Vanity Fair reported in January that they had been dating "quietly" for over a year.

The news of the breakup comes two months after Hader said, "Oh no," when he was asked if Kendrick would be appearing on his hit show Barry.

A year ago, Elizabeth Olsen referred to Robbie Arnett as her husband, which got the rumor mill going. However, the pair hadn't confirmed that they are in fact a married couple until now.

On a recent episode of The Jess Cagle Show, Olsen and Arnett appeared together and broke the news. "We eloped and then we had a wedding at another time and it was before COVID," the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness actress said. "I just never talked about it," she added.

"We, luckily, timed things out, accidentally, really well," the WandaVision actress said, commenting on the influence of the pandemic at the time. "Everything was so backed up. You couldn't even, like, try to get married then. But it ended up working out."

Kim Kardashian is facing some legal trouble regarding her new skincare like, SKKN by Kim. A black-owned and Brooklyn-based small business called Beauty Concepts is claiming ownership over the name.

Apparently, Beauty Concepts provides salon services under the name SKKN+. The LLC sent a cease and desist letter to Kardashian's legal team, with the company's founder, Cyndie Lunsford, saying she's owned the SKKN+ name since 2018.

Kardashian's attorney called the claims a "shakedown effort," saying, "This lawsuit is not what it seems."

He continued, "We applaud Ms. Lunsford for being a small business owner and following her dreams. But that doesn't give her the right to wrongfully claim that we've done something wrong. In its letter, Beauty Concepts claimed to own rights to a logo made up of SKKN+, and had just filed for trademark protection for that logo."

"The business was a one-person shop offering facials from a single Brooklyn location. The salon had no signage and was by appointment only. To our knowledge, Beauty Concepts sold no products under the SKKN+ name," he added.

The mystery has been revealed as to why Blink-182's Travis Barker is in the Hospital. TMZ now reports that he was admitted on Tuesday (6-28) while suffering from pancreatitis.

The story emerged when photos appeared of him on a stretcher with wife, Kourtney Kardashian at his side. He entered the hospital complaining of cramps. After being rushed in, he was later transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for better care.

Symptoms include nausea, intense stomach pain and vomiting. Barker's current condition is unknown, but doctors believe the attack was triggered by a colonoscopy.

TL;DR:

• Blink-182's Travis Barker is in the suffering from pancreatitis.
• He entered the hospital complaining of cramps.
• Barker's current condition is unknown.

MAYA HAWKE SAYS ‘FUCK THE SUPREME COURT:' Stranger Things actress Maya Hawke appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Tuesday (June 28th) and spoke out against the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Referring to her mother, Uma Thurman, she said, "My mom wrote this really beautiful essay about her abortion that she got when she was really young, and about how if she hadn't have had it, she wouldn't have become the person that she'd become, and I wouldn't exist, and how both of my parents' lives would've been totally derailed if she hadn't had access to safe and legal health care — fundamental health care." She added, "I can say, ‘Fuck the Supreme Court'? Oh, fuck the Supreme Court. Yeah, rock on. But we're going to keep fighting, and we're gonna win, like our grandmothers did."

CARA DELEVINGNE SAYS HER KISS WITH SELENA GOMEZ ‘WAS JUST FUN:' Cara Delevingne, who plays Selena Gomez's love interest on Only Murderers in the Building, said kissing Gomez "was just fun." On E! News' While You Were Streaming, Delevingne said, "Would anyone in the world not like to kiss Selena? It was just hysterical. It's just one of those things, especially when you know someone so well, it's the comfortability and you kind of have fun with it."

BUSY PHILIPPS CLAIMS SHE'S NEVER USED BOTOX OR FILLERS: On the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast Tuesday (June 28th), Freaks and Geeks actress Busy Philipps shared that she has had "no Botox, no fillers" injected into her face. "People have actually accused me of work," she said, before making it clear that she hasn't had any done. However, Philipps added that she has "no judgment" toward people who have.

BRODY JENNER WAS ‘SO STOKED' THAT ‘THE HILLS' REBOOT WAS CANCELLED: Reality TV star Brody Jenner told People recently that he was "so stoked" when The Hills: New Beginnings got cancelled. "To be honest, yeah. It just wasn't the same experience. It was very stressful. There was a lot of manipulation involved. It was just a lot," he said.

MARY MARA'S CAUSE OF DEATH IS REVEALED: According to The New York Post, ER actress Mary Mara died Sunday (June 26th) from asphyxiation due to water. Mara's representative, Craig Dorfman, said investigators found that the actress might have slipped and hit her head while swimming in the Saint Lawrence River. "Mary was one of the finest actresses I ever met. I still remember seeing her onstage in 1992 in ‘Mad Forest' off-Broadway. She was electric, funny and a true individual. Everyone loved her. She will be missed," Dorfman said.

CAMERON DIAZ RETURNS TO ACTING FOR ‘BACK IN ACTION:' Variety reports that Cameron Diaz is stepping out of retirement and into a role for Netflix's action-comedy titled Back in Action. Diaz will star alongside her Annie costar, Jamie Foxx.

THE TRAILER IS RELEASED FOR ‘TICKET TO PARADISE:' According to Today, the trailer for Ticket to Paradise dropped on Wednesday (June 29th). Julia Roberts returns to the rom-com alongside her Ocean's Eleven costar, George Clooney. The film is scheduled to hit theaters in October.

WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘SEE HOW THEY RUN:' Variety reports that Searchlight Pictures released the first trailer for See How They Run on Wednesday (June 29th). Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan star as two detectives trying to solve a murder mystery. The film will reach theaters on September 30th.

On Tuesday (June 28th), Travis Barker was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles. The Blink-182 drummer was seen on a stretcher outside of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife, Kourtney Kardashian, following closely behind.

The reason for Barker's hospitalization remains unclear. Earlier on Tuesday (June 28th), he tweeted, "God save me," but fans have since pointed out that this could be in reference to a song by his friend, Machine Gun Kelly.

Shortly after Barker was reportedly taken to the hospital, his 16-year-old daughter, Alabama, posted to her Instagram stories, "please send your prayers."