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Before "Salem's Lot" returned to the zeitgeist with a highly-anticipated reboot movie, the Stephen King classic was a miniseries that shook the world. Directed by "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" mastermind Tobe Hooper, the two-part 1979 series was event TV at its spookiest.

The original "Salem's Lot" limited series has never been among the best King adaptations out there, but it holds a unique place in pop culture history thanks to its status as one of the earliest on-screen takes on a King book — plus some truly frightening moments. Several members of the show's sprawling ensemble cast, including David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, and vamp actor Reggie Nalder, have passed away in the decades since "Salem's Lot" first beamed its way into our collective consciousness. Of the actors who are still with us, several have gone on to award-winning careers in film and television, while others retired or found fulfillment in other careers.

Mitzi McCall, the trailblazing comedian, actress and half of the comedy duo McCall and Brill, died Thursday in Burbank. She was 93.

Born on Sept. 9, 1930, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, her comedic talents were evident early in life, leading to a distinguished career that spanned over seven decades. She emerged as a prominent voice in the male-dominated comedy world, paving the way for future generations of female comedians.

McCall’s legacy is perhaps most enduringly marked by her work with her husband, actor and comedian Charlie Brill, as part of the comedy duo “McCall and Brill.” The pair became television staples, gracing numerous variety shows, including a memorable appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” during The Beatles’ American debut in 1964 — a moment that has since become television history.

Mitzi’s career began in the late 1940s with a stage debut at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in “Strange Bedfellows” in 1948. In the early 1950s, she...

Comedian and actress Mitzi McCall of comedy duo McCall and Brill died Thursday at 93 years old, according to a statement from her representative. She died in Burbank at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, surrounded by loved ones.

McCall began in the 1950s and made a name for herself on the comedy scene. She was best known for her work as a team with her husband, Charlie Brill. They became mainstays on the era’s variety shows, including “The Ed Sullivan Show” — and were even on the episodes where The Beatles made their American debut.

“Mitzi McCall’s life was a testament to the power of laughter, and her influence on the world of comedy will be remembered for years to come,” the statement from her representative reads. “Her legacy will live on through the countless laughs she inspired and the doors she opened for future generations.”

She appeared on “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In...

Mitzi McCall, the delightful actress and sitcom writer who partnered with her husband, Charlie Brill, in a sketch comedy act that famously floundered between sets by The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, has died. She was 93.

McCall died Thursday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, her family announced.

The pint-sized Pittsburgh native also played the dry cleaner’s wife who wears a fur coat owned by Jerry’s mom on the 1994 Seinfeld episode “The Secretary,” and she was the mother of Carol Leifer’s optometrist character on the 1997-98 WB sitcom Alright Already.

McCall had a thriving career as a voiceover artist; she played Mother Goose on Mother Goose and Grimm and worked on other animated projects including The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, Paw Paws, Darkwing Duck, Yo Yogi! and Ice Age (2002).

And she wrote for shows including 13 Queens Boulevard, Eight Is Enough, One Day at a Time,...

Prior to 1964 -- the year "Gilligan's Island" debuted, comedian and actor Jerry Van Dyke already had an expanding showbiz career. In 1963 alone, he appeared in the films "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," "Palm Springs Weekend," and "McClintock!" He also had a few guest appearances on his brother's sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show," and regularly turned up on talk shows to perform and converse.

It was in 1964 that Van Dyke was offered the title role in Sherwood Schwartz's "Gilligan's Island," still in development at the time. Van Dyke couldn't have predicted that "Gilligan's Island" would last for 98 episodes and become one of the most widely recognized sitcoms in TV history, so turning it down didn't seem like much of an event. As the public now knows, the title role in "Gilligan's Island" went to comedian Bob Denver, star of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." 

Van Dyke would subsequently...

Baywatch star Nicole Eggert has shared a video in which she shaves her head, as she continues to be treated for a “very rare form” of breast cancer.

The actress, who played Summer Quinn on Baywatch from 1992 to 1994, posted the video to Instagram earlier this week. As she took the blades to her hair, the Beastie Boys’ song Fight For Your Right provided the soundtrack. She started the process herself, and was helped by her daughter to finish off.

Eggert shared in January that she had been diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma after suffering with pain in her left breast.

She accompanied the shaving video with the words:

“Maybe healing involves not so much changing ourselves but allowing ourselves to be who we are – Madeleine Eames.”

Celebrities including Alyssa Milano and Jennie Garth expressed their support in the comments section of Eggert’s post.

“Grace. You have the most grace,...

Baywatch star Nicole Eggert announced that she has been diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer.

Eggert said something didn’t feel right recently when she observed rapid weight gain and pain in her left breast. The actress thought she was going through menopause. After having mammograms and biopsies in November, a pathology report confirmed that she had stage 2 cribriform carcinoma.

Eggert said she’ll have to go under the knife and is awaiting news as to when chemo and radiation will start.

She stated that she has anxieties about the cancer metastasizing. “I have panics where I’m like, just get this out of me,” she said. “You sit there and it’s in you and you’re like, every second that passes and it’s inside of me. It’s growing, and you’re just like, you just want it out.”

Her daughter, Keegan, 12, is giving her inspiration to get through the fight.

Matthew Perry, who became hugely famous thanks to his role on iconic TV sitcom Friends, has died at the age of 54. He was reportedly found in a jacuzzi at this home, but the investigation is ongoing. He'll be remembered primarily for his work on the comedy series, but enjoyed a long career on screens big and small. Matthew Langford Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on August 19th, 1969. He was raised Ottawa, Canada, where he attended elementary school alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. His mother, Suzanne Morrison, was a journalist and press secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin's father, while his father, John Bennett Perry, was an actor and model.

Perry made his television debut in 1979 on an episode of 240-Robert (which starred his father). After moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting, he would go on to book roles in shows like Not Necessarily The News, Charles In Charge,...

Matthew Perry, who rose to major fame playing Chandler Bing on the smash hit NBC comedy “Friends” from 1994 to 2004, is dead. He was 54,

The actor was found unresponsive Saturday at around 4 p.m. in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. First responding paramedics were unable to revive him. It’s unclear if his death was caused by drowning or cardiac arrest, but there were evidently no drugs found at the scene nor evidence of foul play. Perry had a long and storied history of substance abuse.

Born in Williamstown, Massachusetts on August 19, 1969, Perry was raised in Ottawa, Canada. His mother, Suzanne Morrison, was a journalist and press secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. (His stepfather is “Dateline’s” Keith Morrison.) Perry moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to pursue an acting career. He made his television debut in 1979 on an episode of “240-Robert” and in the...

Matthew Perry, best known for his role as Chandler Bing on Friends, has died. He was 54.

The actor was found unconscious late this afternoon at his L.A. home by first responders who were unable to revive him, law enforcement sources told Deadline.

Perry’s death is considered an ongoing investigation, we hear.

Throughout his career, Perry struggled with addiction, which he detailed in his memoir “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” published last year.

“I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time,” he said in a US Weekly interview several years ago.

Perry made his television debut in 1979 on an episode of 240-Robert. He would go on to book roles in shows like Not Necessarily the News (1983), Charles in Charge (1985), Silver Spoons (1986), Just the Ten of Us (1988) and Highway to Heaven (1988). Perry would be a series regular on Boys Will be Boys...

Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends, has died. He was 54. The cause of death is reportedly drowning, according to TMZ. First responders found him in a jacuzzi in a home in Los Angeles on October 28 after responding to a call of cardiac arrest, the outlet reports, adding drugs were not present nor were there signs of foul play. Perry, who was born on August 19, 1969 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, starred as Chandler Bing in all 10 seasons of the NBC sitcom Friends (1994-2004), but he got his start with an episode of 240-Robert in 1979, followed by guest spots on Charles in Charge, Silver Spoons, and The Tracey Ullman Show. When given the opportunity to showcase some versatility post-Friends, Perry fared well with a guest stint on The West Wing, which inevitably led to a lead role in the short-lived series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, both of...

The TV show Charles in Charge aired on CBS from 1984 until 1990. The show focused on Charles, a live-in housekeeper for the Powell family. Which cast members have the highest net worth today? Here’s what we know.

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Net worth: $100,000

Willie Aames played Buddy Lembeck. As of this writing, Aames has a net worth of $10,000. After Charles in Charge, he appeared in Bibleman (1995–2004), Harvest Moon (2015), and The Guardians (2022).

Aames reveals he made poor choices after the show ended and started to go down the wrong path. This resulted in him “losing everything.”

“I went from eating at the White House to sleeping in the bushes,” he tells Studio 10 during a 2017 interview (via Daily Mail). “There are a lot of things that I care not to repeat, but the fact of the matter is I made those choices. Never...

The hit TV show Happy Days aired on ABC from 1974 to 1984. Here’s what we know about the cast today.

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Henry Winkler played Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli. After Happy Days,, Winkler appeared in One Christmas (1994), Monty (1994), and The Waterboy (1998). He is currently starring in the HBO series Barry.

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Don Most played the character Ralph Malph. After Happy Days, he continued his acting career. Some of Most’s acting credits include appearances in The Munsters Today (1989), Charles in Charge (1989), The New Lassie (1991), and Bones (2010). His most recent role was in the 2022 film County Line: No Fear.

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Ron Howard played the character Richie Cunningham. After Happy Days, Howard pursued a directing and production career. Some of his credits...

Paul Walker enjoyed a lengthy career in Hollywood that carried him through various roles in several unique movies before his unfortunate death in 2013 at just 40 years old. Fans likely remember him best as Brian O'Conner in the "Fast and Furious" franchise, but the talented and handsome actor also appeared in critical hits such as "Pleasantville," "Joy Ride," and Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers," and served as executive producer on the films "Vehicle 19," "Hours," and "Pawn Shop Chronicles." He even enjoyed a guest spot on National Geographic's "Expedition Great White" in 2009.

In his youth, Walker popped up in a variety of high-profile TV shows, among them "Highway to Heaven," "Charles in Charge," "Who's the Boss," and "Touched by an Angel," before making the leap to schlocky B-movie horror films such as "Tammy and the Rex," opposite Denise Richards, in which his character's brain somehow lands inside a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

TV today has large families like the Duggars of 19 Kids and Counting and the Gosselins of Jon and Kate Plus 8. But before reality shows, there were the Bradfords of Eight Is Enough. The comedy-drama series aired from 1977 to 1981. It was based on the life of syndicated newspaper columnist Tom Braden, who had eight children. He wrote a book, and ABC turned it into a successful TV series of the same name. So, which Eight Is Enough cast members are still alive?

What was ‘Eight Is Enough’ about? ‘Eight Is Enough’ cast portrait, 1978 | Jim Britt/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images

Eight Is Enough centered on parents Tom and Joan Bradford and their eight children: David, Mary, Joanie, Susan, Nancy, Elizabeth, Tommy, and Nicholas. Dad was a newspaper columnist, and mom was a homemaker.

Sadly, Diana Hyland, who played Joan, was diagnosed with breast cancer during season 1 and died.

Michael Jacobs’ romantic comedy attempts to present a universal portrait of the difficulties faced by couples young and old, those just starting out and those married for many years. So it’s ironic that Maybe I Do, which features such stellar screen veterans as Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and William H. Macy plus relative youngsters Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey, has exactly the opposite effect. Instead of relating to the characters onscreen, you marvel at how they all look so good. The dominant message isn’t that all couples have issues, but rather that movie stars age so much better than the rest of us.

Adding to the dissonance is that the film represents reunions for many of the cast members — and that we’ve seen them together before, most of the time in much better films. Gere and Sarandon have played married couples in Shall We Dance...

Harry Flynn, a veteran publicist whose clients over the decades included Bob Hope, Michael Landon, Carroll O’Connor, Donna Reed and various TV networks and film studios, has died. He was 92.

A friend of his family told Deadline that Flynn died October 5 of natural causes in Los Angeles.

He started in the business during the 1950s but left publicity for a while to write for fan magazines. In 1962, Flynn joined the newly formed ABC on-air promotion department as a writer-producer. Two years later he moved to Columbia’s Screen Gems and would run its TV promotion/publicity department for the next five years, working on such classics series as Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, The Monkees, The Donna Reed Show, The Flying Nun and others.

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Tucker Wiard, a five-time Emmy-winning film editor who worked on The Carol Burnett Show, Alice and all 10 seasons of the original Murphy Brown, has died. He was 80.

Wiard died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from heart failure, his wife, Nancy Bradley Wiard, a former producer on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, announced.

Wiard also cut episodes of such comedies as All in the Family, Good Times, Night Court, Charles in Charge, My Sister Sam and The Drew Carey Show before he retired in 2009.

Wiard earned eight of his 12 career Emmy noms for his work on CBS’ Murphy Brown, winning in 1989 for its pilot episode, “Respect,” and for a 1991 installment, “On Another Plane.” From 1988-1998, he cut 160 episodes, including the original finale, of the Candice Bergen starrer.

He worked on CBS’ The Carol Burnett Show from 1976-78, winning his...

Burbank, CA—WarnerMedia Kids & Family announced today exciting news surrounding the hit Teen Titans Go! franchise.To kickstart a super-powered summer, the Teen Titans and DC Super Hero Girls will reunite during Memorial Day weekend to combat Lex Luthor and his unified gang of DC Super-Villains in Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse. The all-new, feature-length animated TV movie event from Warner Bros. Animation promises action, adventure, plenty of hilarious moments and will be available from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-ray Combo Pack (USA $24.98 Srp; Canada $29.98 Srp), DVD (USA $19.98 Srp; Canada $24.98 Srp) and Digital starting May 24

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, 2022. Fans can also catch the movie event on Cartoon Network premiering Saturday, May 28 and then on HBO Max beginning June 28.

Also announced today, Cartoon Network has picked up another season of Teen Titans Go! from Warner Bros. Animation. Season eight will premiere...

A dreamlike exploration of toxic masculinity, new motherhood, and sexual awakening, Quebecois actor-director Monia Chokri debuted her second feature, “Babysitter,” at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. While it’s unclear what “Babysitter” is actually trying to say — or even what its characters learn over the course of its plot — the film is so thoroughly sardonic that it gleefully resists any deeper meaning.

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“Babysitter” centers on Cédric (Patrick Hivon), an engineer whose world is upended when he goes viral for drunkenly kissing a female news anchor.

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Monia Chokri’s “Babysitter” is The story of middle-aged sex pest Cédric (Patrick Hivon), his over-compensating feminist brother Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante), his depressed wife Nadine — a new mother, played by Chokri herself — and their mysterious, youthful nanny Amy (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who seems intent on spicing up their love life, the film arrives with thunderous, uncompromising energy that only lets up when Chorkri decides to veer into the phantasmagorical.

Adapted by Catherine Léger from her play of the same name, the French-Canadian satire opens on the verge of an overdose of testosterone and adrenaline, with Cédric and his skeevy pals Carlos (Stéphane Moukarzel) and Tessier (Hubert Proulx) ogling pictures of women on their cellphones while cheering on a bloody cage-fight. With rapid-fire close-ups of breasts, butts, and the trio’s leery eyes, Chokri, cinematographer Josée Deshaies, and editor Pauline Gaillard yank the audience into an uncomfortably ravenous sensory overload with a sickly,...

A comedy of (bad) manners, Monia Chokri’s Babysitter plays with myriad interesting themes, ranging from toxic masculinity to post-postpartum depression but ultimately can’t fully sustain itself. Playing in the Midnight section at Sundance, the film has some horror undertones but generally doesn’t nearly check any box. It tries its hand at satire, supernatural horror, broad comedy, and ethereal lyricism. Perhaps some of these themes might work for a more focused short film, but this feature throws everything its got into a blender with only mild restraint from a character who proves (not surprisingly) to not be as woke in private as he is in public.

Adapted from Catherine Leger’s stage play, Babysitter opens with Cedric (Patrick Hivon) and his boys enjoying a drunken, hyper-sexualized “boys night out” at a boxing match. In a drunken stupor, he kisses well-known TV reporter Chantel Traumbly while spewing a long...

After bursting onto the international stage with roles in Xavier Dolan’s “Heartbeats” and “Laurence Anyways,” and premiering her own directorial debut, “A Brother’s Love,” at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, Quebecoise filmmaker Monia Chokri approached her sophomore feature as a kind of challenge.

Adapted from the 2017 play by author Catherine Léger, “Babysitter” — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22 — marks Chokri’s first directorial outing working from someone else’s text.

“Taking someone else’s words and transposing them to images was a formative experience,” Chokri tells Variety. “[In doing so] I wanted to focus on my own directing, on how best to highlight and improve my work behind the camera. That’s where I could contribute deeply to the project, and could advance from a visual and technical standpoint.”

Diving into the source material — which tracks a proto-MeToo narrative as it follows a macho engineer Cedric dealing with the fallout...

The clumsy, drunken lunge and uninvited cheek-kiss that precipitates the action in wildly uneven French-Canadian comedy “Babysitter” is oddly appropriate for a film that can also feel like the victim of misguided, intrusive, if hardly malevolent exuberance. Far less coherent than her more focused and confident debut “A Brother’s Love,” Monia Chokri’s second feature is basically a series of sketches, some of which comment on ingrained, unconscious misogyny, while others lampoon the culture of hypersensitivity around less severe examples of unexamined sexism, such as that forced kiss. This makes it apt, too, that “Babysitter” has such a sugary aesthetic: It often looks like the cake it wants both to have and to eat.

An awkward prologue bears the scars of restrictive pandemic shooting. Through headachey close-ups, whip-pans and crash zooms, Chokri tries to fabricate the atmosphere of a crowded arena where an Mma title fight is underway. The pans...

Whimsical colors and frenzied editing help define Monia Chokri's "Babysitter," a screwball suburban fairy tale about embedded misogyny and hidden hypocrisies. After a drunken outing to see an Mma fight, middle-aged office drone Cédric spots a familiar face while walking home with his friends. A local TV news reporter is broadcasting in the crowd in the aftermath of the fight, and in a moment of inebriated glee, Cédric interrupts the broadcast by shouting, "I love you, Chantal!" and kisses her on the side of the head. Naturally she's horrified and pushes him away,...

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They think it's the pizza man at the door, but one family and their resourceful babysitter are about to discover that their new visitor is delivering pain instead in our exclusive clip from the action horror thriller Babysitter Must Die.

Below, you can watch our exclusive clip from Babysitter Must Die, which is now on VOD from Blue Fox Entertainment. To learn more about the film, visit:

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Directed by Kohl Glass from a screenplay by Julie Auerbach and Kevin Tavolaro, Babysitter Must Die stars Riley Scott, Scarlett Hazen, Nathan Stevens, Melinda Yeaman, Kristin Jensen, and Robert Scott Smith.

Synopsis: "Isabelle is a geneticist recovering from a broken marriage and raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her toxic ex-husband. When an unexpected tragedy strikes, Isabelle takes the girl’s fate into her own hands."





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Hong Kong- and Paris-based All Rights Entertainment has added “The Thing Behind the Door” to its pre-Cannes and Cannes Market slate of films. The picture is a female-led French horror which is currently shooting and is to be delivered by the fourth quarter of this year.

All Rights pitches the film as a “Lovecraftian creature feature.” The story follows a young widow struggling to make ends meet as World War I rages on. Crippled by grief, feeling unable to keep going without her husband, she resorts to black magic, and is guided by an ancient manuscript. She enjoys success in reviving the dead man, but at a terrible cost.

“Thing” is the feature debut of Fabrice Blin. He is teamed up with experienced producer Fabrice Lambot, whose Phase 4 Productions is behind Monia Chokri’s new film “Babysitter.”

Visual effects for the new film are produced by with vfx by Trimaran,...

Romy Walthall, who starred in 1989’s The House of Usher opposite Oliver Reed and Donald Pleasence, was a regular on Steven Bochco’s Murder One and appeared on Hotel Malibu opposite Jennifer Lopez, has died at 57. Her son, Morgan Krantz, confirmed Walthall’s passing on Twitter.

Often going by the stage name Romy Windsor, the actress had a steady run of TV work in the ’80s and ’90s, including a recurring role on the short-lived TV series Man of the People starring James Garner and six episodes on another Bochco-created series, Civil Wars. Walthall also appeared on some of the biggest shows of the era including T.J. Hooker, Moonlighting, Quantum Leap, Jake and the Fatman, Matlock, L.A. Law, Diagnosis Murder and The X-Files.

Whitehall’s onscreen career began in 1984 with a trio of performances: a small part in the Jerry Bruckheimer/Don Simpson-produced film Thief of Hearts, two episodes...

Romy Walthall, an actor known for her roles in “Face/Off” and “The House of Usher,” died on May 19 in Los Angeles after experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. She was 57.

Walthall’s son, actor and director Morgan Krantz, confirmed her death to Variety.

Born on Sept. 16, 1963 in Pasadena, Texas, Walthall got her start in the entertainment industry by winning the Mother/Daughter USA pageant in 1980. At age 17, Walthall was signed to Ford Models and began modeling in Europe. She eventually moved back to Los Angeles and dipped her toes into the acting world, sometimes going by her stage name, Romy Windsor.

She landed her first major role in Jerry Bruckheimer’s 1984 thriller “Thief of Hearts,” and played Bobbi in 1985’s “A Bunny’s Tale,” which was based on Gloria Steinem’s investigation of Playboy Bunnies’ working conditions. Walthall also starred in the cult horror films “Howling IV: The Original Nightmare” in 1988 and...

Netflix is upping its anime offerings with two new series drawing from the world of Legendary’s monsterverse as well as Square Enix’s Tomb Raider video games.

Legendary Television’s Skull Island will see a group of shipwrecked characters trying to escape a dangerous and mysterious island. Brian Duffield, known for Underwater and The Babysitter, will write and executive produce. Jacob Robinson also executive produces via his Tractor Pants banner. Powerhouse Animation, the studio behind Castlevania, is also behind the project.

The anime series comes after the 2017 feature Kong: Skull Island re-introduced the world to King Kong and comes ahead of March’s upcoming Godzilla vs. Kong movie from Warner Bros. and Legendary....

Netflix is upping its anime offerings with two new series drawing from the world of Legendary’s monsterverse as well as Square Enix’s Tomb Raider video games.

Legendary Television’s Skull Island will see a group of shipwrecked characters trying to escape a dangerous and mysterious island. Brian Duffield, known for Underwater and The Babysitter, will write and executive produce. Jacob Robinson also executive produces via his Tractor Pants banner. Powerhouse Animation, the studio behind Castlevania, is also behind the project.

The anime series comes after the 2017 feature Kong: Skull Island re-introduced the world to King Kong and comes ahead of March’s upcoming Godzilla vs. Kong movie from Warner Bros. and Legendary....

Chokri’s debut feature A Brother’s Love premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2019.

Bac Films International is launching sales on Canadian actress/filmmaker Monia Chokri’s #MeToo-era comedy drama Babysitter at next week’s AFM.

The film successfully wrapped in Quebec in October, just as the Canadian province went into partial lockdown due to a second wave of Covid-19 cases.

It is Chokri’s second feature after A Brother’s Love, which opened Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2019 and shared the jury’s Coup de Coeur prize with The Climb.

Patrick Hivon, who also co-starred in A Brother’s Love, plays...

After partnering on ultra-popular high school rom-com franchise The Kissing Booth, Joey King and Netflix are reteaming for the feature adaptation of popular young adult novel Uglies.

McG, who directed Babysitter for the streamer, will direct the feature that is based on Scott Westerfeld’s novel, which set in a dystopic world where cosmetic surgery is administered to everyone at the age of 16 to make them “pretty.”

Krista Vernoff will pen the screenplay.

John Davis and Jordan Davis will produce for Davis Entertainment Company, along with Robyn Mesinger for Anonymous Content, Dan Spilo for Industry Entertainment and McG and Mary ...

After partnering on ultra-popular high school rom-com franchise The Kissing Booth, Joey King and Netflix are reteaming for the feature adaptation of young adult novel Uglies.

McG, who directed Babysitter for the streamer, will direct the feature based on Scott Westerfeld’s novel, which set in a dystopic world where cosmetic surgery is administered to everyone at the age of 16 to make them “pretty.”

Krista Vernoff will pen the screenplay.

John Davis and Jordan Davis will produce for Davis Entertainment Company, along with Robyn Mesinger for Anonymous Content, Dan Spilo for Industry Entertainment, and McG and Mary Viola for Wonderland....

It’s been four years since Trent Reznor dubbed avant-garde electronic artist Tobacco’s Sweatbox Dynasty the “record of the year.” Since then, Tobacco has opened for Nine Inch Nails live both with his psychedelic electro-rock group Black Moth Super Rainbow and as a solo artist. Now the two artists have collaborated on a gritty, fuzzy track called “Babysitter.”

“I’m the new babysitter,” Tobacco sings like a robot over a jittery drum line. Both his and Reznor’s vocals on the track are obscured almost to the point of incoherence,...

There’s a ridiculous amount of TV content out there waiting to be streamed during your downtime — and a lot of it won’t cost you one shiny penny.

TVLine already offers a premium streaming guide, which delivers a rundown of subscription rates, original series and select library content offered by established, new and forthcoming streamers. We also publish a monthly list of TV shows and movies coming and going on Netflix.

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Television producer and executive Al Burton, known for his work on “The Jeffersons” and “Diff’rent Strokes,” died Tuesday at his home in San Mateo, California. He was 91.

Burton leaves behind a six-decade legacy of hit television shows that also included “One Day at a Time,” “Silver Spoons,” “Square Pegs” and “Facts of Life.”

However, long before Burton started working with producer Norman Lear on several television hits, Burton was a student at Northwestern University where he completed his degree in 1948. In 1970, he teamed up with Lear to co-create the soap opera farce titled, “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and continued to work alongside the television legend at T.A.T Communications/Tandem Productions, producing and creating a number of successful network sitcoms.

Burton also developed and executive produced for Universal Television, helping to create “Charles In Charge,” a series starring Scott Baio, and the series “The New Lassie,” which starred Dee Wallace.

As pop-culture reboots continue to reach new thresholds of frenzy, it was only a matter of time before the trend seeped into music videos.

How refreshing, then, that La-based musician Dexter Tortoriello was quick to flip the trend on its ear for a series of short films to promote his latest project as Houses, the new 4-track Ep “Drugstore Heaven.” Rather than have ’80s and ‘90s film/TV icons Jaleel White (“Family Matters”), Nicole Eggert (“Charles In Charge”), Jason James Richter (“Free Willy”) and Patrick Renna (“The Sandlot”) recreate their most famous roles, Tortoriello and his directors Brook Linder and Nick Roney cast each actor in macabre, “Twilight Zone”-esque scenarios that touch on the Ep’s themes.

The cinematic clips often skirt music video conventions altogether, with the music often serving as a more incidental back-drop to the interpretations of the Ep’s themes. Lead single “Fast Talk,” which touches on drug abuse,...

What do Scott Baio, Eddie Deezen, Michael Pare, Todd Bridges, Didi Conn, Corben Bernsen, Lorenzo Lamas, and Tawny Kitaen have in common? They’re coming to St. Louis This Weekend!

Over 25 Celebrities / Pop Culture stars & icons will be invading the St. Charles Convention Center the weekend of August 17-19th, 2018! Celebrities from the Iconic film “Grease” to “Pirates of the Caribbean” to “Growing Pains”, “Happy Days”, “He-Man & the Masters of the Universe” to WWE/WWF stars and Much more to come!

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Check out this line-up of celebs!

Scott Baio– Best known for his role as Chachi Arcola on the sitcom Happy Days (1977–1984) and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi (1982–1983), as well as the title character on the sitcom Charles in Charge (1984–1990), Dr. Jack Stewart in the medical-mystery-drama series Diagnosis: Murder (1993–1995), and the titular hero of the musical...

Nicole Eggert, an actress on 1980’s sitcom Charles in Charge, publicly claimed that fellow actor Scott Baio sexually abused her during their time on the show when she was a minor earlier this year. Eggert filed a police report in February after Baio “dared” her to. However, prosecutors have now dropped the investigation due to an […]

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Former “Charles in Charge” star Scott Baio won’t face charges from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office over accusations made by his former co-star Nicole Eggert.

According to paperwork obtained by TheWrap, the Da’s office chose to decline the case on Monday because the statute of limitations had expired.

Alleging that Baio had sexually abused her while she was a teen working on “Charles in Charge” in the 1980s, Eggert filed a police report against Baio in February.

The paperwork from the Da’s office indicated that Eggert accused Baio of sexually assaulting her “in various ways between the ages of 14 and 17.”

During an interview with NBC’s Megyn Kelly in January, Eggert said that Baio penetrated her with his finger when she was 14.

“That happened quite often, through the age of 16,” she said of the alleged touching. “More than 10 times, more like probably once a week. And then on set, there was just a lot of groping, a lot of fondling, a lot of pulling me on his lap, trying to sneak kisses in the back, which other cast members saw.”

Baio had denied Eggert’s accusations, saying that he had a consensual encounter with Eggert when she was of age.

In a Facebook Live video in January,the actor said that Eggert “seduced me,” though she wasn’t a minor at the time.

“My reputation is being damaged, my family is being put through this, and I’m done,” Baio added.

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What do Scott Baio, Eddie Deezen, Michael Pare, Todd Bridges, Didi Conn, Kathy “Cissy” Garver, Corben Bernsen, Lorenzo Lamas, and Tawny Kitaen have in common? They’re coming to St. Louis This Summer!

Over 25 Celebrities / Pop Culture stars & icons will be invading the St. Charles Convention Center the weekend of August 17-19th, 2018! Celebrities from the Iconic film “Grease” to “Pirates of the Caribbean” to “Growing Pains”, “Happy Days”, “He-Man & the Masters of the Universe” to WWE/WWF stars and Much more to come!

The Con’s site can be found Here

Ticket information can be found Here

Check out this line-up of celebs!

Scott Baio– Best known for his role as Chachi Arcola on the sitcom Happy Days (1977–1984) and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi (1982–1983), as well as the title character on the sitcom Charles in Charge (1984–1990), Dr. Jack Stewart in the medical-mystery-drama series Diagnosis: Murder (1993–1995), and the titular hero...

Scott Baio is taking a stand.

During a press conference on Wednesday, Scott Baio denied the sexual harassment and abuse claims made against him by his former Charles in Charge costars Nicole Eggert and Alexander Polinsky via a statement read by his spokesperson Brian Glicklich and civil attorney Jennifer McGrath.

“For reasons I don’t understand, I am the target of false claims that threaten everything that is important in my life. I am hurt and I am angry. But mostly, I am stunned that anyone could be so cruel as to attack not just me, but my entire family with lies,...

Alexander Polinsky has come forward with allegations of sexual harassment and assault by Scott Baio on the set of ’80s sitcom “Charles in Charge”. Related: Scott Baio Issues Statement, Is ‘Genuinely Appalled’ After Nicole Eggert Files Police Report Alleging Sexual Abuse The 43-year-old said Wednesday at a press conference with attorney Lisa Bloom and former co-star...

Alexander Polinsky, the former child actor who co-starred with Scott Baio and Nicole Eggert on ’80s sitcom Charles in Charge, called Baio a “tyrant” who relentlessly bullied Polinsky with homophobic taunts, pulled the younger actor’s pants down in front of the crew, and even threw a cup of hot tea in the boy’s face after being startled by a faked basketball toss. "I dreaded the teasing and daily attacks on my personality," Polinsky said during a press conference today at…...

“Charles in Charge” star Alexander Polinsky on Wednesday joined his former co-star Nicole Eggert in accusing Scott Baio of abuse, saying that he “was sexually harassed by Scott Baio and ultimately assaulted by him” while appearing on the 1980s sitcom as a minor. During a press conference that was also attended by Eggert and attorney Lisa Bloom, Polinsky said that the was subjected to “a pattern of abuse that was unrelenting,” including an incident during which he said “Scott pulled down my pants in front of over 100 people.” Polinsky also said that Baio assaulted him by throwing a burning-hot cup...

Charles in Charge‘s Alexander Polinsky is accusing his former costar, Scott Baio, of sexual abuse.

Polinsky, 43, has hired attorney Lisa Bloom to represent him and is scheduled to make a public statement on Wednesday, according to a press release shared on her Twitter account Tuesday.

“Alexander Polinsky, who was a child actor on the popular 1980s sitcom Charles in Charge, will speak out for the first time to describe the sexual harassment and abuse he alleges against actor Scott Baio at a press conference ,” the statement reads.

“His attorney Lisa Bloom will speak out as well regarding the legal options available to Mr.

Nicole Eggert has filed a police report alleging that Scott Baio sexually abused her while they worked together on “Charles in Charge” when she was underage, accusing the former “Happy Days” star of molesting her when she was 14, 15 and 16, reports TMZ. According to TMZ, Lapd detectives met with Eggert in the offices...

Scott Baio’s former “Charles in Charge” co-star Nicole Eggert, who has accused Baio of molesting her when she was a minor, has now taken her accusations to the police, meeting Tuesday with the Los Angeles Police Department and saying that Baio sexually abused her when she was a minor, her attorney Lisa Bloom told TheWrap in a statement. “Today Nicole Eggert and I met with two police detectives from the sexual assault unit at my law firm,” Bloom said. “Nicole answered all of their questions and told her story of sexual abuse by Scott Baio when she was a minor.” In...