Comedian Dave Chappelle has had a live show cancelled at the last minute due to controversy over some of his jokes. The First Avenue venue in Minnesota apologised for booking him and said the show would move to another theatre. Chappelle has received both huge support and intense criticism for his jokes about transgender people in recent stand-up routines.

“Nope” director Jordan Peele thought it might be taking things a little too far when a fan proposed he could be the best horror director of all time. “I know this is a hot take but at what point do we declare Jordan Peele the best horror director of all time?” wrote comic book creator Adam Ellis Wednesday morning on Twitter. “Can you think of another horror director that had 3 great films, let alone 3 in a row? I can’t.”

American television viewers spent more than a third of their time with streaming platforms in June, an all-time high. Nielsen’s monthly platform rankings show streaming taking up 33.7 percent of viewing time for the month, up from 31.9 percent in May and the highest mark since the measurement company began its monthly “Gauge” report in May 2021.

Nvidia’s cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, now supports 120fps game streaming across all Android phones with high refresh rate displays, rather than being limited to specific preapproved models. The rollout was announced last month, 9to5Google reported at the time, but Nvidia spokesperson Stephenie Ngo confirmed to The Verge that it’s officially rolling out this week.

The creators behind the greatest fictional deaths of all time on the scenes they can’t forget.

Honey Boo Boo is going under the knife to live a healthier life. Born Alana Thompson, the reality star will head to New York City in August after her 17th birthday to undergo weight-loss surgery, her manager confirmed to Page Six Wednesday morning.

After enjoying a long reign as the king of streaming, Netflix faces a tough fight to keep its crown. It lost almost a million subscribers between April and July as more people decided to quit the service. The streaming giant has now lost members for two quarters in a row, but the drop was smaller than it feared.

Chris and Andy are joined by Better Call Saul showrunner Peter Gould to talk about the making of tonight’s defining episode (11:17), why Better Call Saul could not exist without Breaking Bad (28:13), and how he’s feeling as the show is coming to an end (45:03).

Starting with WandaVision‘s January 2021 debut, Marvel Studios has rolled out 13 TV series and feature films over the past 18 months. And while there is much more MCU content to come (on screens small and large), any fans looking for a respite should know that one of the bigger pauses in the relentless pipeline… well, it just began!

Comedian and actor Jak Knight’s death was ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, according to reports. An autopsy report obtained by People revealed the 28-year-old star was found Thursday on an embankment in Los Angeles. He died from a gunshot wound.

Zack Snyder was becoming increasingly agitated. Over the course of several weeks in the spring of 2020, the director repeatedly demanded that the names of two producers – Geoff Johns and Jon Berg – be removed from his upcoming re-cut of Justice League, the DC superhero movie that had tanked back in 2017. His high-powered CAA agent began calling Warner Bros.

Matthew Modine’s Dr. Martin Brenner seemed to be one of the definitive deaths in “Stranger Things 4,” but the actor is refusing to believe his character is gone for good. Brenner, commonly referred to as “Papa” by Mille Bobby Brown’s Eleven, was shot several times in the fourth season’s penultimate episode. No character outright proclaimed Papa dead, but he was last seen bleeding out on the desert ground with seemingly no one around to save him.

Emilia Clarke has opened up about her experience surviving two brain aneurysms, expressing gratitude that she has been able to recover after losing “quite a bit” of the organ. Clarke recalled her health troubles during an interview with the BBC’s Sunday Morning, in which she promoted her production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” at the Harold Pinter Theater. The play marks the actress’ West End debut.

M. Night Shyamalan's next movie Knock at the Cabin is an adaptation of The Cabin at the End of the World, author Paul Tremblay has confirmed. Shyamalan's movie has been described as a home invasion horror that takes place during the apocalypse and will star Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ben Aldridge, and Jonathan Groff. Filming wrapped last month.

Game of Thronesstar Emilia Clarke has opened up about the two brain aneurysms she suffered while filming the show. The actor, 35, previously revealed she had survived two brain aneurysms in 2011 and 2013. An aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel caused by a weakness in the blood vessel wall, usually where it branches.

Where Kate Bush goes, Metallica follows… with the veteran rockers looking set to break into the UK music chart for the first time in 40 years, thanks once again to the phenomenon of Stranger Things.

Jak Knight, a stand-up comic, writer, and actor with film, cable and streaming credits, died last night in Los Angeles at 28. His family confirmed the death but did not provide details.

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) is based on Philip K Dick’s 1968 dystopian science-fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? While the film didn’t do well at the box office, it set the visual palette for the cyberpunk subgenre of sci-fi. A complex plot and bleak, mysterious setting was why Blade Runner didn’t enjoy commercial success. It was also the era of space-opera franchise movies like Star Wars and Star Trek.

Joe Dante isn’t thinking of suing Disney and Lucasfilm. But he believes Gizmo, the fuzzy little star of his two “Gremlins” movies, has been, let’s say, an uncredited inspiration.

Souls “scholar” Lokey, who is both a student of the series’ lore and a fluent Japanese speaker, has been digging into the story and themes of the original Dark Souls for years. Now, for the game’s impending 10th anniversary, he’s put everything he knows into two absolutely gorgeous books that are up for pre-order.