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Gay adult content creator Riccardo Staudt, known online as Noah Segsy, has died aged 22 after being found unconscious in a swimming pool in Cyprus. via: Out The adult content creator’s death was unknown until a young tourist was pulled out of a swimming pool and later identified as Staudt, the Daily Star reports. After mysteriously drowning in a shallow pool in an apartment complex in Paralimni, Cyprus, Staudt was pulled out, and emergency services were contacted around 9:20

Sunny Hostin is defending her decision to license her books to be adapted into movies via AI. via: Deadline Sunny Hostin received pushback from her co-hosts on The View as she defended the use of AI in Hollywood. Hostin, who recently licensed her name and likeness to AI company Fountain 0, argued that generative AI should be considered a “new art form,” noting that it can help the entertainment industry show more Black and Brown representation. “I partnered with this company

Kim Zolciak isn’t the only one facing lingering debt after her son Kroy “KJ” Biermann Jr.’s escalating legal troubles. via: Page Six Kroy Biermann has been ordered to pay a $64,000 gambling debt after his son KJ was granted a $200,000 bond in the 15-year-old’s sexual battery and sodomy case. Biermann’s debt is in connection with a trip to the Bahamas that he took in November 2021, according to court documents obtained by Us Weekly. The former NFL athlete defaulted, so he comp

Practical Magic 2 has conjured up a solid opening weekend at the box office! via: EW After nine weeks of undisputed dominance, The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day have fallen to a witchy new foe. But Practical Magic 2’s spell over the box office may not have been cast to last. Director Susanne Bier and co-writers Akiva Goldsman, Georgia Pritchett, and Kelly Marcel’s spellbinding sequel to the 1998 classic directed by Griffin Dunne and written by Goldsman, Robin Swicord,

Alan Ritchson and his wife Catherine Ritchson are splitting after two decades of marriage. via: Page Six “Reacher” star Alan Ritchson quietly filed for divorce from his wife, Catherine, a full eight months before it was revealed that they were parting ways after 20 years of marriage. According to records obtained by Page Six, the actor filed the paperwork in Williamson County, Tennessee, in December 2025. Ritchson and Catherine, however, waited to announce their split until S

Here's the thing. You finish a great new show, you get emotionally invested, and then… crickets. By the time Season 2 rolls around two or three years later, you’ve completely forgotten who half the characters are, let alone what they were doing. via: Total Film In the prestige TV streaming era, it's not uncommon for new seasons of the biggest shows to take upwards of two years to hit screens. And a new report has confirmed what we all knew deep down: lengthy delays between ne

Hayden Panettiere died last month after ingesting oxycodone laced with fentanyl. via: Page Six Law enforcement sources told TMZ that the “Heroes” actress had a “long-time drug dealer” in Los Angeles, who was allegedly providing Panettiere with black-market prescription drugs. The outlet reported that she consumed several drugs she bought from the dealer on her flight from LA to South Carolina the day before she died. However, investigators told TMZ they believe she took an ox

Pamela Voorhees is about to have some seriously bad days. via: CBM After leaking online over the weekend, the first full trailer for Peacock's Friday the 13th prequel series, Crystal Lake, has been officially released along with a new poster featuring Pamela Voorhees and her "special boy." The trailer introduces Pamela (Linda Cardellini), who witnesses her badly deformed son Jason drowning (or appearing to drown) and sets out to exact bloody revenge on the teens who were sup

Tom Holland is a box office juggernaut! via: CBM Earlier this year, the massive box office success of the latest Avatar movie propelled star Zoe Saldaña past Scarlett Johansson to become the highest-grossing movie star of all time (Saldaña’s cumulative global box office total now sits at approximately $15.46 billion, just topping Johansson’s $15.4 billion). Unfortunately, Saldaña's reign as queen of the box office was short-lived, as another MCU actor has now claimed the crow

In 2021, Bassam Tariq got the opportunity of a lifetime. via: CBM In 2019, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige wrapped up the studio's Hall H panel by announcing that Mahershala Ali would lead a new Blade movie. The project went through multiple writers and directors and, even in a Saga defined by quantity over quality, it somehow never happened. Feige has said he feels like a "gigantic loser and failure" for failing to get Blade off the ground, while Ali has since confirmed

Paul Walker‘s brother does not want to be involved in bringing back the late actor’s character, Brian O’Conner, for Universal’s next “Fast and Furious” movie. He knows AI could be used to do it, but he doesn’t think it should be done. via: CBM Is the Fast family preparing for one final reunion with Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner? Walker tragically died in a car crash on November 30, 2013, while filming was still in progress on Fast 7. The director and crew used CGI visual effec

On a box office voyage for less than two months, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has become the highest-grossing film in the history of Universal Pictures. via: CBM As we first reported on SFFGazette.com, Deadline has confirmed that, by the end of this weekend, The Odyssey will become Universal Pictures' highest-grossing movie ever at the worldwide box office with $1.684 billion. That places it above the studio's previous record-holder, 2015's Jurassic World ($1.677 billion

Courteney Cox is throwing her hat in the ring to direct Scream 8. via: Deadline As Courteney Cox returns to the director’s chair for her sophomore feature Evil Genius, she’s ready to take on a franchise she’s been with for 30 years. While discussing the TIFF true-crime film at the Deadline Studio, the Golden Globe nominee revealed she’d be open to directing an upcoming installment in the Scream franchise, in which she’s starred as Gale Weathers since the original 1996 movie.

Goo goo Gaga! via: Page Six The pop superstar and her fiancé, Michael Polansky, were spotted for the first time since Page Six confirmed they recently welcomed their first child. In photos exclusively obtained by Page Six, the singer, 40, was seen carrying the infant close to her chest as she took a stroll alongside the entrepreneur, 42, in Northern California. Reps did not respond to our request for comment. Gaga kept things casual for the outing, wearing loose white pants a

Investigators have reportedly found evidence of Kim Zolciak’s 15-year-old son, Kroy “KJ” Biermann Jr., having sex with an underage relative. via: People On Friday, Sept. 11, the 15-year-old appeared in Georgia’s Fulton County Superior Court for a bond hearing regarding the seven felony charges he’s facing from a separate alleged sexual assault incident involving a female classmate. According to Page Six, Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Caitlin McGillicuddy revealed ahe

The BBC is canning RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – a decision that, in my household, will bring the number of regularly watched programmes on the Beeb down from one to zero. It’s a decision that will no doubt please enemies of LGBTQ+ culture, but otherwise seems inexplicable. For a start, Drag Race UK regularly pulls in 1 million viewers a week, which hardly seems like a show in its death throes (even if this is down from a previous high of 1.5 million). via: Pink News The BBC has co

Hasan Piker reacted with disbelief after a photograph of him in his underwear appeared on giant screens at the Republican National Committee's midterm convention. via: Out Hasan Piker was shocked to discover his bulge was on display for everyone to see at the Republican National Committee's midterm convention. A photo of the left-wing political commentator posing in his underwear was shown on a more than 25-foot-tall display screen in front of a convention center full of cons

Nirvana will be awarded the Video Vanguard Award at the 2026 MTV VMAs next month. Previous recipients of the increasingly meaningless honor include Mariah Carey (2025), Katy Perry (2024), Shakira (2023), and Nicki Minaj (2022). via: EW Nirvana is set to receive the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards’ Video Vanguard Award, which honors artists for their impact on music videos and pop culture, on Sept. 27. The news was announced on Wednesday, falling on the 34th anniversary of the gro

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s NAZA has landed a sensational 25-minute ovation following its world premiere in competition this evening at the Venice Film Festival. via: Variety This marks the longest-ever standing ovation in Venice — besting the 22 minutes for “The Voice of Hind Rajab” last year — and apparently the longest at a major film festival, period. With Venice coming to an end on Saturday, it will easily be the biggest ovation of this year’s edition. Oscar-winning

Starz has set the premiere date for “P-Valley” Season 3, which will also be the show’s final season. via: THR The streaming and cable outlet has set a Dec. 4 premiere date for the critically acclaimed Lionsgate TV series’ third season — and also announced that the coming season will be the last one for P-Valley. When the nine-episode season premieres, it will have been more than four years since the show’s second season concluded (in August 2022). Season three was put on hold