Britney Spears will be the focus of an upcoming Lifetime movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the singer will get the biopic treatment in a two-hour film. Entitled Britney, the filmmakers have cast Natasha Bassett (Hail, Caesar!) to portray the titular role. Touted as a "tumultuous true story," it will chronicle the singer's life, whether it be personal or professional. Starting from her humble beginnings in Louisiana, the film will […]
Greek gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias won the gold medal in men’s rings on August 15, in the Rio Olympic Games with a score of 16.000 points. He was closely followed by Brazilian Arthur Zanetti with a score of 15.766 in second place and Russian Denis Ablyazin in the third place with a score of 15.600 points. Petrounias was born in Athens on November 30, 1990. He began his career in gymnastics […]
Brad Pitt is putting his spy hat on yet again. No stranger to war movies, having appeared in Inglourious Basterds and Fury, Pitt has learned a thing or two about war and spies. In his upcoming movie, Allied, Pitt stars as an intelligence officer in North Africa who forms a relationship with a French resistance fighter played by Marion Cotillard. With the pressures of war looming over them, Pitt and Cotillard's […]
The first trailer for December's 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' debuted exclusively on Thursday night's broadcast of the Summer Olympics, while a new trailer for Tom Hanks' 'Inferno' and a teaser Amy Adams' 'Arrival' premiered during the games earlier this week. There's an unofficial sport taking place during the Summer Olympics in Rio — promoting Hollywood movies in a bid for the gold. Studios are spending many millions to […]
For 16 years, through Olympics in Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London and Rio, African-Americans swam under a microscope for their country. Questions about oddity and identity weighed them down as they tried to outrace history and the competition. Finally, on Thursday night, Simone Manuel's gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle turned a liberating page for black swimmers. Trailing by an ominous half-second at the turn, Manuel used a furious closing charge […]
The showrunner behind the new Star Trek TV series just revealed alot of fresh information about the new series, including that the upcoming series will focus on a female lead character — likely played by an actor with a “level of diversity” — who will be a lieutenant commander on a starship. At the Television Critics Association’s press tour in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, writer-producer Bryan Fuller took questions from […]
Cancellara reclaims men's time trial title Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara won the men's individual time trial and caps his career by reclaiming the title he won at Beijing 2008. It means Great Britain's Chris Froome was denied a Tour de France-Olympic Games double. Froome was a minute behind, finishing with a bronze medal. Dutchman Tom Dumoulin took silver. @Rio2016_en@f_cancellarapic.twitter.com/aRYMp9jMq4 — MiniPeople.ch (@SwissMinipeople) August 10, 2016 Armstrong wins third consecutive […]
Things we learned in Tuesday night's Summer Olympics action: Katie Ledecky is a monster, in the best possible way. Don't talk trash Michael Phelps. Ledecky and Phelps both took home individual golds on Day 4 of the 2016 Olympics, and Phelps added another as part of America's victorious 4x200-meter freestyle relay team to cement USA Swimming's status as biggest fish in the Olympic pool. For Phelps, Tuesday's haul represented his 20th […]
Greece’s Anna Korakaki holds off Germany’s Monika Karsch to win the gold medal in women’s 25m pistol. In an epic gold medal showdown, 20-year-old Korakaki won the first three rounds to go up 6-0, but the 33-year-old German shooter clawed back to win the next three rounds to tie it up. In the final round, Karsch missed two of her first three but Korakaki missed her fourth shot, putting immense […]
