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(Its likeThe Newlywed Game, but with a significant twist.) ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So the show has an interesting premise how would you describe it in your words? So its a relationship show, but relationship meaning anyone that youre close to. Credit: TBS It sounds complicated and then you watch, youre like,Oh my God, this is so fun! Not all talk show hosts are also comedians. Do you find that you have to pull back jokes to spare the contestants feelings?...

Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff’s second installment hits shelves in October The space saga continues. Readers can expect theIlluminaesequelGeminaby Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff in October. In the meantime, anxious fans get read an excerpt from the book below. Once again, readers can follow the story in a series of emails, dossiers, and classified documents. Check out this note from the authors and see the full excerpt, debuting exclusively on EW, below....

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Why did you want to make a concert movie? Reynolds: I grew up on [concert] DVDs more than shows. I came from a super conservative family. Credit: Patricia Seaton [Reynolds grew up a member of the Mormon Church in Las Vegas.] And I had eight siblings seven brothers and one sister. And also, its something that we, as a band, can hold onto forever. The greatest takeaway of the film, to me, is seeing how all-in you guys go every night....

Since its premiere last week, the remarkable miniseries about the 1994-95 O.J. Simpson trial has been greeted with ecstatic reviews both among TV critics and from audiences on social media. Complaints about Goodings physical likeness to Simpson are born out of our acute recognition of the latter. Credit: FX But looks arent everything. MORE ONTHE PEOPLE VS. O.J. Gooding is 3 inches shorter than Simpson, thats true. was considered to be in the decades before the murders....

No one foresaw the negative reaction prior to release. In fact, the cast found Ahmed Best delightful. Ahmed had Ewan and me in stitches most days, says Liam Neeson. Credit: Lucasfilm They could not have been more wrong. When the reviews finally rolled out, Best was stunned at the sheer force of the enmity. Especially jarring to Best were the charges that his character was a racist stereotype. Lucasfilm To this day, these charges confuse Best rather than anger him....

The finale ofThe Night Ofbegan with a story that played like a bad joke. There were three cops in a bar. The detective and his pal both thought the proposed show sounded terrible. Credit: Craig Blankenhorn/HBO The storyteller had a better, more original idea. How about a series about a cop who doesnt give a s? You write a show like that, and the job will throw you a parade....

If you press links we provide, we may receive compensation. They seem 10 feet tall. To Scout Finch, her father seems even taller than that. Credit: Everett Collection And as played by Gregory Peck, he is. Its a period piece, to be sure. But its lessons of tolerance, kindness, and compassion are timeless. Peck was 45 when he madeMockingbird. By then, he was already Hollywoods standard-bearer of onscreen stoicism and message-movie moral decency....

If you press links we provide, we may receive compensation. Some of this, obviously, rests with the director. Hes a strapping, seafaring cipher. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Read on for more from Nashawatys review and the reviews of other critics from around the country. Its too polite to give us a real feeling of life or death. Its sense of danger is watered down. George Pollard (a dull and miscast Benjamin Walker)....

FromBackdrafttoApollo 13toRush, directorRon Howardhas overseen more than his fair share of physically demanding and logistically nightmarish productions. Physically, right alongsideBackdraft, says the filmmaker. Everything [on that film] was real world, real fire. Credit: Jonathan Prime There was an element of danger, and discomfort, and the mechanics of the filmmaking was complicated. This one was similar to me in that way. And it was mostly in-camera, outside of our whale. Jonathan Prime...

‘In Transit’ begins previews this fall and opens Dec. 11 American Idolalum Justin Guarini is heading back to Broadway for the a cappella musicalIn Transit. The production, with a teamthat includesFrozenco-writer Kristen Anderson-Lopez, announced its full cast and creative lineup on Tuesday morning. Joining Guarini in the cast are David Abeles (Once),Americas Got Talentcontestant Moya Angela (Ghost The Musical), Telly Leung (Allegiance), Erin Mackey (Amazing Grace), Margo Seibert (Rocky), James Snyder (If/Then), Nicholas Ward (On the Town), and Laurel Harris (Beautiful)....

Arms cross, hands go to elbows, knees bend down into squats. The word Encoding flashes on a screen behind them. The two play a British husband and wife struggling with the aftermath of Henrys brain injury. Credit: Joan Marcus Throughout the bare-boned drama, the four actors play a total of 20 characters. But unlike the the Tony-nominatedConstellations,Incognitofeels disjointed. But plot holes aside, the acting is superb. Four chairs line the perimeter of the stage, but the rest of the set is completely bare....

When you look at my movies its always the regular Joe Schmo thats the unlikely hero. A lot of Marvel movies, they show people in funny suits running around. I dont like people in capes, he said. Credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images I find it silly when someone dons a superhero suit and flies. I dont understand it. I grew up in Germany, thats probably why. This is the story of a world that won a war as a total underdog, he added....

Independence Daygave us an alien invasion movie for the ages. Fox), and David Levison (Jeff Goldblum) helped establish directorRoland Emmerichas the cinematic master of destruction. Twenty years later, does the sequel,Independence Day: Resurgence, achieve the same glory? Credit: Claudette Barius Theyre already missing one crucial ingredient: Smith decided to not return, leaving his character to beexplained away. Even as the crew armed themselves with some new blood on the screenplay (Nicolas Wright and James A....