Emmys in memoriam segment forgets Shelley Duvall, Chita Rivera and more
It’s nearly inevitable that after any awards show, people will notice some celebrity names were omitted from the in memoriam segment, and Sunday night’s Emmys were no exception.
The names of Shelley Duvall, Chita Rivera, Tyler Christopher and Johnny Wactor didn’t appear during Jelly Roll‘s heartfelt song tribute to the stars who had recently passed.
Former General Hospital star Christopher passed away at age 50 on Oct. 31, 2023; Chita Rivera died at 91 on Jan. 30. Wactor, another veteran of General Hospital, was fatally shot in Los Angeles during a robbery on May 25. He was 37. Duvall died at 75 years old on July 11.
At Prime Video’s panel for The Boys at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, the show’s creator, Eric Kripke, announced that Jensen Ackles‘ popular Soldier Boy character and Aya Cash‘s Nazi-Supe Stormfront will have their own show, a prequel series called Vought Rising.
Ackles made a surprise appearance at the panel, which was moderated by The Boys season 4 star Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Cash popped up via video.
Vought Rising will be set in the 1950s, when, as the show’s name suggests, the multinational conglomerate-to- be was in its infancy, thanks to the superhero-producing formula known as Compound V.
Prime Video calls the “deranged” new spin-off “a twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought in the 1950s, the early exploits of Soldier Boy, and the diabolical maneuvers of a Supe known to fans as Stormfront, who was then going by the name Clara Vought.”
The streaming service adds, “We cannot wait to blow your minds and trouble your souls with this salacious, grisly saga drenched in blood and Compound V.”
Ackles and Cash will serve as co-executive producers on the show.
Past spin-offs from the world of The Boys include Gen V and the animated The Boys Presents: Diabolical, both streaming exclusively on Prime Video.
The drama behind the drama It Ends with Us shows no signs of ending, three days after the movie scored an impressive $50 million box office debut.
The Hollywood Reportersays the movie’s star and director Justin Baldoni has hired a PR crisis team to help smooth over seemingly daily headlines and online posts of a reported rift between him and co-star and co-producer Blake Lively.
The trade notes Baldoni hired Melissa Nathan, whose PR firm specializes in “communications, crisis, reputation management, personal publicity and digital team services,” and that she was the person hired by Johnny Depp amid his court battle with Amber Heard.
Baldoni recently posted to TikTok an interaction with some fans, one of whom fawned over him, and although she knew he had appeared in Jane the Virgin and It Ends with Us, she thought his name was Ralph. “This is very humbling,” he says, smiling in the clip, which he captioned, “Dear mom…I’ve finally made it. With love, Ralph.”
He also posted an Instagram video from Sweden, thanking fans for embracing the movie. “Seeing this packed theater, connecting with some of you, and hearing your stories is a powerful reminder of why we brought this story to life,” he said in part.
Meanwhile, after taking flak online for her lighthearted promotion of the film, in which her character is abused by her partner played by Baldoni, Blake posted to Instagram statistics about domestic violence, and resources victims can access, including the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
Halle Berry knows how to laugh at herself — after all, she’s the only Oscar winner to personally pick up a Razzie Award — and she just proved that again with a hair-raising promotion for her new thriller, Never Let Go.
To celebrate the infamous wig she wore as a 911 operator in the 2013 thriller The Call — which, she explained on Instagram, fans have been “jokingly ‘dragging’ me [about] for years” — she held “special wig screenings” of the new film.
Fans who got to see the Sept. 20 release early were invited to wear a wig inspired by Halle’s headwear in various films — and more than a couple chose to callback The Call.
In the video posted online, Halle surprised fans, showing up to one such showing wearing the frizzy “abomination” she wore in that film, which she explained was identical to one worn by a real-life 911 operator she met while doing research.
Moviegoers who went uncovered were supplied by Halle, who tossed wigs into the crowd à la Oprah, saying, “YOU get a wig! And YOU get a wig!”
The superstar added, “This means so much to me that you guys would come out tonight, put on a wig, take the time [and] come support this movie I’m so proud of.”
She added, “And you know, there’s another wig in it — another f***** up wig.”
In the movie, she plays a haunted mother trying to keep her two sons safe in a post-apocalyptic world.
Referencing the plot of The Call, Halle added, “But you know, I saved Abigail Breslin from the trunk, I got her a** out, and I’m gonna save these kids, too.”