After months of rumors, Elizabeth Olsen has finally confirmed that she has joined The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Samuel L. Jackson had seemingly confirmed Olsen's role in an October interview with The Wall Street Journal, and now the actress herself has shared the good news with MTV News. Olsen will be playing Scarlet Witch, Magneto's daughter.
Who knows child stars better than two child talent agents? Mother of All Talent stars Nikki Galarza and Lorrie Tierney (who also happen to be mother and daughter) share their unique perspectives with TVGuide.comabout some of our favorite child stars — where they succeeded, where they went wrong and on the parents pulling the strings.
Castiel's first attempt at hunting on Supernatural was a cartoonish comedy of errors — and that was with his angelic superpowers! So how will it go now that Cas is human? "Now you just have an awkward human being with Dean, whose very comfortable in these shoes and totally understands walking into a crime scene. But you get awkward boy over here doing it all wrong," Jensen Ackles tells TVGuide.com. "It makes for some good comedic moments."
Russian gangsters, car chases, government conspiracies — these aren't things you often see in comedy. At least not on TV. Action-comedy films have been around forever, but no one has attempted to blend the genres within a half-hour comedy slot. Until now. On Monday, Hulu debuts The Wrong Mans, an ambitious comedy-thriller from Gavin & Stacey's James Corden and Mathew Baynton co-produced with the BBC. The duo star as Phil (Corden) and Sam (Baynton), two below-average Joes who unwittingly get sucked into a high-stakes crime caper after answering a cell phone found on the road.
We suggest you sit down for this. That's how mind-blowing it is to see Matt Smith and David Tennant share the screen in the latest trailer for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary.
Jennifer Lawrence has spoken out against the unrealistic body expectations to which women are subjected. During a Yahoo chat, an audience member asked Lawrence to share advice to young girls facing body image criticism, to which she responded, "Well, screw those people."
Nostalgia is all the rage these days, so it comes as no surprise that Bill Cosby is hoping to return to prime time. The comedian told Yahoo TV that he's re-teamed with one of The Cosby Show producers Tom Werner to develop a family comedy that "would [satisfy] the people who have come to me in public places and said, 'Can't you put something on that I can watch?'"
Justin Bieber was charged with vandalism on Friday for tagging a Brazilian building three days prior, People reports. Rio de Janeiro police received a complaint on Tuesday about Bieber and his friends spray-painting the wall of the former Hotel Nacional. By the time authorities arrived on the scene, the singer was already gone, but photos of Bieber in action surfaced on a Brazilian news website later that day. Police then began a three-day investigation, involving the testimony of the photographers who snapped him spray-painting, local authorities and Bieber's security team.
Hurt Locker star Anthony Mackie was arrested Saturday morning for driving while under the influence, TMZ reports. According to law enforcement, the actor was pulled over in New York City for tinted windows around 1:30 a.m. When they approached the vehicle, they saw Mackie had bloodshot eyes and smelled alcohol.
Scott Disick's mother Bonnie passed away last week, People reports. She was 63. Scott and his longtime girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian traveled from Los Angeles to Long Island, N.Y., for the small funeral. None of Kardashian's other family members attended, according to RadarOnline, which first reported the news.
Nothing good lasts forever. Creator Shonda Rhimes has revealed she has a very clear end plan for Scandal and its hero Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington). "I feel like there is a finite amount of Scandal to be told," Rhimes told NPR.
Professor Cakes (Jeffrey Tambor) knows how to give one helluva backhanded compliment. In this exclusive clip from Sunday's China, IL, Professor Cakes doesn't hold back when he tells Frank (Brad Neely) he's "the wooorst communicator to young people that I have ever seen."
Portia De Rossi wasn't afraid to get personal when she reunited with the cast of Arrested Development on Thursday's Inside the Actors Studio. When James Lipton asked de Rossi about her marriage to Ellen Degeneres, the actress revealed her initial anxiety about coming out in Hollywood.
Three years after Kaley Cuoco revealed that she secretly dated her Big Bang Theory co-star Johnny Galecki, the actor has opened up about their relationship — and what it's like to work with his ex. "We're dear friends, still. Kaley's not just an ex, she's a part of my life," Galecki tells CBS Watch! magazine, as excerpted by Us Weekly.
Today will broadcast Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceflight, which will carry Richard Branson and two of his children, NBC announced Friday. Branson and his adult children, Holly and Sam, will be the first private passengers to go into space when they take off on SpaceShipTwo from Spaceport America in New Mexico next year.
After a failed TV reboot, 10 Things I Hate About You is coming back from the grave again. The film's director Gil Junger will write and direct a spin-off film, entitled 10 Things I Hate About Life, Vulture reports. Evan Rachel Wood and Suburgatory's Thomas McDonell will star as two people who meet-cute right when they are about to commit suicide.
Jason O'Mara will star in USA's drama pilot Complications, the network announced Tuesday. The Terra Nova star will play John Ellis, an ER doctor who saves a boy's life in a drive-by shooting. Upon finding out the boy's life is still in jeopardy, John decides to look after the child at all costs. Burn Notice's Matt Nix will executive-produce.
Reality star-turned-waiter Jon Gosselin might not have any regrets about his current home and job situations, but the father of eight is worried about what life in the spotlight has done to his children. "I saw my kids not growing up normally like I grew up, having community," Jon revealed on OWN's Where Are They Now?.
Glee has topped the People's Choice Awards nominations with eight nods, including favorite network TV comedy. Katy Perry and Sandra Bullock follow with five nominations apiece. Bullock will face her fiercest competition yet in the favorite duos category: She's nominated against herself for Gravity with George Clooney and for The Heat with Melissa McCarthy.
The more kids cry, the more we laugh — at least when it comes to Jimmy Kimmel's annual Halloween prank. For the third year in a row, Kimmel asked parents to record themselves telling their children that they ate all their hard-earned Halloween candy. The kids' reactions range from devastated to angry to sweetly in shock, while our reaction remains the same: incredibly entertained.
Though her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber seems to be out to prove that he'smusic's next bad boy, Selena Gomez says that's just not her style. In a new interview with Teen Vogue , Gomez says that after their breakup, she tried being a bit more rebellious, but it just didn't feel right.
Chris Bosh and his wife Adrienne welcomed a daughter early Mondaymorning, E! News reports. Dylan Skye Bosh joins older brother Jackson, 1, and Chris' daughter Trinity, 5, from his previous relationship with Allison Mathis.
