“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” is giving Disney another No. 1 at the box office. After making $12.5 million on Friday, “Mistress of Evil” is now projected for a $38 million opening weekend. However, it is well below the $69 million opening earned by the first “Maleficent” in 2014.
Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney officially married over the weekend. The 29-year-old Oscar-winning actress and the art dealer, 34, have tied the knot. The bride wore a Dior dress on her wedding day.
“Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot will produce and star in a film about a Christian woman who helped save Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust. Gadot and her husband, Jaron Varsano, have teamed up with the production company Pilot Wave, and their debut project will be the fact-based historical thriller “Irena Sendler.”
Netflix has released the first trailer for Arsenio Hall’s new comedy special Smart & Classy. The project is Hall’s first stand up comedy special for Netflix. He previously appeared in Adam Sandler’s Netflix film Sandy Wexler.
Actress Gina Rodriguez is facing backlash over a social media post in which she used the n-word. A video posted on her Instagram shows Rodriguez getting her hair done as The Fugees song “Ready or Not” plays in the background. Rodriguez raps “I can do what you do … believe me. (N-word) give me heebie-jeebies.” She later deleted the video but not before people shared it widely on social media.
