Authors of books tied to big film franchises such as Star Wars stopped receiving checks after Disney acquired Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox.

The nation has a president-elect. But who will play him on “Saturday Night Live” as he prepares to be sworn into office? The question is open anew after actor Jim Carrey took to Twitter Saturday to tell fans he was leaving behind the impression of Joe Biden he has offered over the course of the first six episodes of the show’s 46th season. Carrey has not appeared in sketches in “SNL’s” last two broadcasts, nor has Alec Baldwin, who has portrayed President Donald Trump for the past four seasons and the early part of the current one.

Sreak, a user over on the Dreamcast-Talk forums, posted the files from an old, broken Dreamcast dev kit hard drive. Users quickly found inside an unreleased, incomplete and odd Simpsons game, which it seems had never been publicly announced or revealed.

The day Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the company wasted no time making clear what it was buying for $4.05 billion, announcing three new Star Wars movies were already in the works. In a shareholder call the day the deal was announced, then-CEO Robert Iger laid out the company’s ambitions: “Our long-term plan is to release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years.”

Actor Giancarlo Esposito has proved he can play anything, from a drug lord in "Breaking Bad" to a Moff in "The Mandalorian" to a rabblerouser in "Do the Right Thing." Hollywood is finally catching up.

Craig Mazin's small screen take on The Last of Us video game franchise is officially coming to the Home Box Office. First announced in May of this year, the post-apocalyptic series has officially been green-lit, the premium cable network announced today. Mazin (scribe of The Hangover II - III and HBO's critically acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries) will write and executive produce the series alongside Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann.

HBO Max is honoring a request by Dave Chappelle to remove “Chappelle’s Show” from the streaming service at the end of this year. Casey Bloys, chief content officer of HBO and HBO Max, made the revelation during the keynote conversation on day one of Variety’s Virtual FYCFest.

It's about to be a busy time for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Last Thursday, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige joined executives from other Disney-owned studios to unveil exciting new content coming to consumers over the next few years. While Feige himself didn't provide dates for most of the new content announced, one new document from the House of Mouse suggests every show he talked about will be released at some point in the next two years.

It wasn't just erratic and violent behavior that wrecked one of the world's most bankable stars. It was his unquenchable thirst for revenge. In the face of mounting bad publicity, Johnny Depp could still count on one friendly industry group — a Polish film festival.

The global live events industry lost more than $30 billion in 2020 due to the global pandemic, including $9.7 billion at the box office, according to the year-end report by live-entertainment industry trade publication Pollstar. At the top of the year, the industry was projected to hit a record-setting $12.2 billion at the box office in 2020, but instead incurred $9.7 billion in Boxoffice losses after the industry effectively shut down completely in March.

FX boss John Landgraf has confirmed an “Alien” television series is in development from Noah Hawley. Ridley Scott is also in talks to serve as executive producer. Per Deadline: “The series is billed as being the first ‘Alien’ story set on Earth, and will blend the timeless horror of the original 1979 movie and the non-stop action of the 1986 James Cameron-directed second.” (Disney, apparently, does not consider the “Alien vs. Predator” series to be part of the official franchise.)

The gang is returning to Paddy's Pub for another four years. "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" was renewed by FX for four more seasons Thursday, making it the longest-running, live-action sitcom in TV history. The Philadelphia-centric show, which aired it 14th season last year, will bump "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," from that title. "Ozzie and Harriet" ran for 14 seasons.

Tommy “Tiny” Lister, a former professional wrestler who was known for his bullying Deebo character in the “Friday” films, has died. He was 62. Lister’s manager, Cindy Cowan, said he was found unconscious in his home in Marina Del Rey, California, on Thursday afternoon. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Disney will massively ramp up the volume of Marvel and Star Wars series on its Disney+ streaming service. Kareem Daniel, Chairman, Media and Entertainment Distribution for The Walt Disney Company, …

Novelists who have strayed into the more intimate realms in their recent writing will have breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday after the Literary Review announced it had cancelled this year’s Bad sex in fiction awards.

There wasn't much to do in this horrible year besides consume entertainment and use the internet. So it will probably not shock you to learn that an awful lot of people were talking about entertainment online this year.

"Saturday Night Live" returned with Kate McKinnon playing Rudy Giuliani as he tried to overturn the election results. The opening sketch of the NBC variety show had McKinnon's Giuliani at a hearing in Michigan, presenting witnesses with testimony regarding allegations of voter fraud.

Charlie Brooker is shooting a mockumentary for Netflix about this dystopian year. Death To 2020 is the latest of his annual round-up shows, which is being directed by Screenwipe's regular helmer Al Campbell (aka inane talking head Barry Shitpeas).

Mike Baxter, meet Tim Taylor. Last Man Standing is staging a Home Improvement crossover, of sorts, for its final season. Star Tim Allen will reprise his former TV role as the Taylor family patriarch and Tool Time host for a surreal Last Man Standing episode which has Allen playing both sitcom dads at the same time.

His show “Big Mouth” is a seriously funny — and surprisingly mature — exploration of humanity’s most horrifying shared experience.