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By Scottie Andrew, CNN The 74th Emmy Awards, celebrating the best in television, will presented Monday. See below for the full list of nominees. Winners will be updated throughout the night. Outstanding drama series “Better Call Saul” “Euphoria” “Ozark” “Severance” “Squid Game” “Stranger Things” “Succession” “Yellowjackets” Outstanding comedy series “Abbott Elementary” “Barry” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

By Lisa Respers France, CNN It’s not easy being a Half Blood. That’s the message from the new teaser for the forthcoming Disney+ series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” which debuted over the weekend at Disney’s D23 expo. In the teaser clip, the character of Percy (played by Walker Scobell) explains the hardships of being

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Pete Davidson’s younger sister Casey paid tribute over the weekend to their firefighter father, Scott, who died helping in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Casey Davidson posted a photo of the elder Davidson wearing his New York City Fire Department uniform on her Instagram account. “This year

By Chloe Melas, CNN The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, which celebrate the best television shows and performances of they year, will be presented Monday. Here is everything you need to know ahead of TV’s big night. The host Kenan Thompson will take center stage as this year’s host, live from the Microsoft Theater in downtown

By Brian Lowry, CNN “Succession,” the 2020 Emmy winner for best drama series, will be a top contender at this year’s ceremony on Sept. 12. But if you’re wondering whether the HBO drama can beat last year’s champion, Netflix’s “The Crown,” that matchup of TV’s royal houses will have to wait. Once upon a time,

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN On its surface, the saga of FN Meka appeared to be a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of music powered by artificial intelligence. The digital avatar of a Black man with green braids, face tattoos and a sound reminiscent of 6ix9ine was billed as an “AI-powered robot rapper.” Though the company

By Frank Pallotta and Megan Thomas, CNN Indiana Jones, the world’s most famous archeologist, is back for his next adventure. Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, debuted the first teaser footage for the new, still-untitled film during the studio’s presentation at Disney’s D23 Expo on Saturday. Though the video showed to the crowd has not

By Janelle Davis, CNN “Succession” drops viewers into the high-stakes world of running a media empire and all the top-secret deals, attempted coups and shocking scandals that comes with it. The actors and creators of the award-winning series, which will compete for more statues at Monday’s Emmy Awards, insist that the characters are inspired by

By Catherine E. Shoichet and Austin Steele, CNN What do a pub in London, a 113-year-old apartment building in New York City, a former mental hospital in Atlanta, a luxury resort in Hawaii, a sprawling office complex in New Jersey and a mausoleum in one of the South’s largest cemeteries have in common? On some

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Fox’s Tucker Carlson called country star Maren Morris a “lunatic” after she defended transgender kids — so she used the insult to raise over $150,000 for organizations supporting transgender youth. Morris partnered with GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, and Trans Lifeline to release a shirt emblazoned with the

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Giselle is finding out what comes after happily ever after in the new teaser trailer for “Disenchanted,” the sequel to 2007’s “Enchanted” — and she’s not loving it. The film picks up 15 years since after Giselle (Amy Adams) found her New York prince Robert (Patrick Dempsey). When she begins growing

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Two of the UK’s biggest music stars paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth in concert on Thursday. Harry Styles paused to honor the late monarch during his latest Madison Square Garden show. “From my homeland there’s some very sad news today,” Styles told the crowd Thursday night, before he led the audience

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Producers of the Netflix historical drama “The Crown” are pausing production on the show’s sixth season after news of Queen Elizabeth’s death. “As a mark of respect, filming on ‘The Crown’ was suspended today. Filming will also be suspended on the day of Her Majesty The Queen’s funeral,” producers for “The

By Marianne Garvey Ana de Armas grew emotional at the premiere of her Marilyn Monroe biopic, “Blonde,” at the Venice Film Festival. The film landed a 14-minute standing ovation on Thursday, where de Armas was seen wiping tears from her face and hugging her costar, Adrien Brody. The actress stars as Monroe in the movie,

By Lisa Respers France, CNN What a way to make a living. Dolly Parton has remade her hit song “9 to 5” as a duet, this time with Kelly Clarkson. The song comes more than 40 years after the original and was recorded as part of the forthcoming documentary, “Still Working 9 to 5.” The

By Lisa Respers France, CNN A new trailer for “Black Adam” hints at a switch up for Dwayne Johnson’s character. The DC comic movie also costars Viola Davis, Pierce Brosnan and Aldis Hodge. Johnson plays Teth Adam, who In ancient Kahndaq “was bestowed the almighty powers of the gods. After using these powers for vengeance,

By Jean Casarez and Brandon Griggs, CNN The threatening letters began in March 2007. They came in the mail to Eva LaRue’s Southern California house — sometimes handwritten, sometimes typed — from an unknown sender who called himself “Freddie Krueger” and vowed to rape and kill her and her young daughter. The letters — more

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Once you get past the familiar strains of Blondie’s “Call Me” over the opening credits, the message from “American Gigolo” isn’t worth answering. It is, rather, a misguided and distasteful reboot, seeking to tease the movie’s premise into a larger mystery. Jon Bernthal struts his stuff as the escort trying

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Crossing the streams with its sequels, the fifth season of “Cobra Kai” features heavy dollops of the second and third “The Karate Kid” movies while continue to carve out its own next-generation melodrama, all in extraordinarily nimble fashion. While it’s not the best series on TV (OK, Netflix), there should

By Rafy Rivera and Melissa Alonso, CNN Attorneys for Ricky Martin on Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit in a San Juan, Puerto Rico court against his nephew Dennis Yadiel Sánchez, alleging extortion, malicious persecution, abuse of rights, and damages. Martin’s lawsuit follows a July legal battle in which a judge in San Juan issued a

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Even taking it as a given that Disney’s animated classics will all receive live-action makeovers eventually, “Pinocchio” feels like an unnecessary exercise — a movie so flat that it never sparks to life, and barely feels as if it’s making the leap into a different medium. Tom Hanks and director