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Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ bounds to No. 1 as Warner Bros.’ ‘The Bride!’ is on life support
Disney and Pixar’s environmental adventure “Hoppers” topped the North American box office this weekend with $46 million in domestic ticket sales in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. After adding another $42 million from international showings, the film celebrated an $88 million global launch in total, the biggest...
Fox News apologizes for showing old video of a hatless Donald Trump at dignified transfer ceremonyVideo
Fox News apologized for airing old video of a hatless President Donald Trump during coverage Sunday of his attendance at the dignified transfer ceremony for U.S. soldiers killed in the Middle East war, insisting it was an honest mistake. In a polarized time, some online critics suggested without evidence that...
Daryl Hannah issues scathing response to portrayal of her on TV series about Kennedy and Bessette
Daryl Hannah has issued a scathing response to the new TV series about John F. Kennedy Jr. and wife Carolyn Bessette, denouncing the way she’s been portrayed in the FX and Hulu show as false, damaging and misogynistic. “How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?” was the headline of...
Recap: ‘The Pitt’ delivers some of season’s darkest and lightest moments as ER spirals
Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for the show’s ninth episode of Season 2. “The Pitt” has never shied away from a certain degree of fan service — especially for its Pittsburgh watchers. In “3:00 PM,” it seems we have may have peaked. As the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center staff...
Lindsay Theater celebrates awards season with Oscars talk, contest
Oscars season is well underway, with the biggest awards night in film set for Sunday, March 15. The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center is celebrating this auspicious time of year for the movies with expert talks, film screenings and their annual Oscars contest. Last month, the theater held an Oscars...
TV Talk: Steve Carell in ‘Rooster’ gives HBO comedy to crow aboutVideo
This is the second week in a row we’ve seen the premiere of a show that feels like a duplicate. Last week, MGM+ debuted “American Classic,” the story of a full-of-himself actor (Kevin Kline) who, after a meltdown, returns home to the theater he grew up in, the same premise...
TV Talk: WPXI names Harner sports director, will air Pirates game
Following last year’s news that Alby Oxenreiter was leaving his role as Channel 11 sports director after a 2023 surgery to replace two heart valves, WPXI announced his replacement. As expected, the station promoted from within, naming sports anchor/reporter Jenna Harner as sports director. Channel 11 also hired Shelby Cassesse...
Savannah Guthrie makes offscreen visit to ‘Today’ show, her 1st since her mother went missing
NEW YORK — Savannah Guthrie made an off-camera appearance Thursday at NBC’s “Today” show studios to thank colleagues for their support since her mother Nancy went missing from her Arizona home a month ago. The “Today” show said Guthrie, a longtime co-host of the morning news program, plans to return...
TV Talk: With ‘The Pitt,’ AGH is in a Hollywood success loopVideo
The success of “The Pitt” already influenced HBO Max’s programming strategy going forward — more on that below — but we’re now also seeing reports of renewed interest in a reality show that, like “The Pitt,” also filmed at Allegheny General Hospital. Back in the late ‘90s as basic cable...
An Oscar race that looked like a runaway may be a close call, after all
NEW YORK — Who says to beware the Ides of March? A March 15 Academy Awards may feel late. By then, it will be almost a year since “Sinners” sunk its teeth into moviegoers last April. Some nominees have been on the campaign trail since the Cannes Film Festival in...
Christina Applegate unleashes a raw, probing memoir: ‘You with the Sad Eyes’
NEW YORK — Christina Applegate’s memoir is not a safe, prim thing. It’s raw and angry, lyrical and funny, and more than a bit dangerous — a lot like Christina Applegate. “My words come out of my face hole the way they come out of my face hole and that’s...
TV Q&A: What happened to ‘The Rossen Report’ on WTAE?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Saturday Tribune-Review. Q: What happened to “The Rossen Report” on WTAE? It was off for a while last year, came back for a few months and now it...
WTAE’s Elena LaQuatra: How a cochlear implant helped new Pittsburgh morning anchor rise to the top
As the clock in the WTAE studio counted down, Elena LaQuatra’s bubbly personality turned serious. She scanned scripts behind the anchor desk and made quick adjustments to her hair and dress. With a hand signal from show control operator Taylor Jones, LaQuatra’s face was broadcast live on televisions around Pittsburgh....
‘The Pitt’ wins big, ‘Sinners’ takes home top prize at Actor Awards
Noah Wyle and “The Pitt” continue to rack up accolades this awards season. With his win for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series at Sunday night’s Actor Awards, presented by SAG-AFTRA, he made history by winning all five major acting awards in one season for his...
Sean Penn, Catherine O’Hara win at Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards
Sean Penn won best supporting male actor for his performance in “One Battle After Another” and Catherine O’Hara won a posthumous award at the 32nd Actor Awards. In the ceremony, streaming live Sunday on Netflix from the Shine Auditorium on Los Angeles, O’Hara won best female actor in a comedy...
From box office bomb to media powerhouse: Skydance’s 20-year rise to overtake Paramount, Warner Bros
NEW YORK — In its debut film, Skydance Productions released a special effects-laden World War I drama about fighter pilots with a starring role for an unknown actor, the company’s founder, David Ellison. It was a box office bomb. Twenty years later, in a twist fit for Hollywood itself, the...
How ‘The Pitt’ grosses you out
Producers of “The Pitt” insist the show doesn’t pick medical cases for shock value. But they are still often shocking. Throughout its run so far, the series, about a Pittsburgh emergency room, routinely presents cases that test viewers’ gag reflexes with protruding bones, visible organs and buckets of blood. (Season...
Hannah Montana 20th anniversary special to appear on Disney
Miley Cyrus will once again step into her famous blonde wig pop star persona for a “Hannah Montana” 20th anniversary special airing on Disney+ in March. “Hannah Montana” first aired on March 24, 2006 on Disney Channel. The anniversary special, which Disney+ said will air this March 24, will be...
TV Talk: Michelle Wright anchors her final WTAE broadcastVideo
And then she was done. After 30 years at WTAE, most of that time as a morning news anchor, Michelle Wright said farewell to viewers Friday just before 7 a.m., capping a sweeps month of on-air walks down memory lane, including a live visit with “Good Morning America” host Robin...
‘The Pitt’ takes on cyberattack chaos in latest episode
Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for the show’s eighth episode of Season 2. Each episode of “The Pitt” takes on new angles of the health care profession and introduces new maladies. In “2:00 P.M.,” the latter include margarita burn, eye strokes and a particularly gruesome tongue laceration. “This is...
TV Talk: ‘Watson’ returns; ‘Yellowstone’ spinoff, ‘American Classic’ debutVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Sherlock Holmes’ partner, John Watson (Morris Chestnut), is in a precarious situation, facing a mystery even Holmes would have trouble solving: “The Case of the Shrinking Audience.” After a strong ratings start in January 2025...
Netflix walks away from Warner Bros. deal, clearing the path for Paramount
NEW YORK — Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business, in a stunning move that effectively puts Paramount in a position to take over its storied Hollywood rival. On Thursday, after Warner’s board announced that Skydance-owned Paramount’s offer was superior to...
TV Talk: Soapy Civil War drama on Amazon; KDKA-TV anchor goes full-timeVideo
It’s been a minute since we’ve had a Civil War-set miniseries, a genre that proved popular in the 1980s thanks to ABC’s “North and South” (and its soaring Bill Conti score) and CBS’s “The Blue and the Gray.” PBS took a crack at a Civil War story with the 2016-17...
TV Q&A: Will season 1 of ‘The Pitt’ come out on DVD?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Saturday Tribune-Review. Q: Will “The Pitt” season one be available on DVD anytime soon? — Jack, via email Rob: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, the entity that would release...
Jack Hughes’ OT goal for Team USA vs Canada in Olympic final averages 26M live viewers on NBC, Peacock
Jack Hughes’ overtime goal, which gave the United States its first Olympic gold medal in men’s hockey since 1980, drew an average audience of 26 million viewers on NBC and Peacock in the U.S., according to Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel ratings and Adobe Analytics digital data. Team USA’s 2-1...
