Month: June 2023

Diddy’s eldest son, Justin Combs, was arrested early Sunday morning for DUI near Beverly Hills.

Police told TMZ that the 29-year-old Combs was pulled over by a police officer after he ran a red light around 8 a.m. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department said that after authorities smelled alcohol from Combs’ vehicle they performed a sobriety test, which he failed, Combs was taken into custody after the officer determined that there was probable cause for him to be arrested for suspected DUI, and was then booked into an LA County jail in connection with a misdemeanor DUI charge with bail was set at $5,000, Combs was released on his own recognizance Sunday afternoon.

Justin is Diddy’s eldest son with Misa Hylton; he played football in college at UCLA. He graduated from the university in 2016 with a degree in business administration, and has pursued several business ventures in the entertainment industry over the years.

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“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”,  the multiverse spinning animated ‘Spider-Man’ spinoff, opened in North American theaters over the weekend with earnings of over $120.5 million – triple the amount of the debut of the original film Oscar-winner from 2018, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (that film opened with $35.4 million, and earned $384.3 million worldwide) .

‘Across the Spider-Verse’ surpassed expectations and earned great reviews, and become the second largest domestic opening of 2023, trailing only “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”  Across the Spider-Verse, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, topped “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” which debuted with $118 million.

In the film, the teenage webslinger from Brooklyn, Miles Morales ( Shameik Moore ), swings into another adventure – this time across multiple worlds.  Written and produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the film is Part 2 in a trilogy that will conclude with a third chapter to be released next year, dubbed Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. 

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Netflix dropped the official trailer for the sixth season of “Black Mirror,” and revealed the series is returning on June 15.

The new season includes a star-studded list of guest stars including Aaron Paul, Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel Blenkin and Zazie Beetz.

‘Black Mirror’ first premiered in December 2011 on Channel 4 in the U.K., and was purchased by Netflix ahead of the third season in 2016.  In the Season 6 trailer, viewers are given a sneak peek at some of this season’s episodes, including one called “Joan Is Awful,” in which an average woman (Annie Murphy) discovers that a global streaming platform has launched a prestige drama based on her life, played by Salma Hayek Pinault.

Watch the Season 6 trailer for “Black Mirror”  – here.

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Benedict Cumberbatch’s London home was attacked and property was damaged by a former chef, Jack Bissell, wielding a fish knife while the actor, his wife Sophie Hunter and their three children were home at the time. A British court heard the case on May 10th involving Bissell, who was charged with kicking through the front garden gate of Cumberbatch’s home, pulling up a plant and throwing it at a garden wall, then spitting at the intercom and tearing it loose with a fish knife.

BBC News reported that Bissell pleaded guilty to criminal damage at the home located at Wood Green Crown Court on May 10th. The 35-year-old Bissell was fined £250, and given a three-year restraining order preventing him from going near Cumberbatch’s family and their residential area. It is not clear why Bissell targeted Cumberbatch and he offered no defense in court. Bissell has a previous conviction for theft, and in 2015 he was photographed being arrested during protests against military intervention in Syria in central London.

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Samantha Jones is back. Kim Cattrall will be reprising her role as Samantha Jones for the Season 2 finale of Max’s ‘And Just Like That…’, the revival of HBO’s hit sitcom, Sex and the City. Max confirmed the news on social media, retweeting an article from the New York Post with the caption: “Secret’s out…”

Cattrall starred as publicist Samantha Jones for six seasons on the HBO series — alongside Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes and Kristin Davis as Charlotte York Goldenblatt. She also reprised the character for two subsequent films.  Cattrall’s return comes as a surprise since she has repeatedly said that she would never return to the series, due in part to her very public feud with former Sex and the City co-star Sarah Jessica Parker. In May 2022, Cattrall spoke with Variety about leaving behind the character of Samantha Jones, saying: “It’s a great wisdom to know when enough is enough… I also didn’t want to compromise what the show was to me.”

Cattrall is set to make a cameo appearance in the cliffhanger finale for the second season of  ‘And Just Like That…’ Variety reported that Cattrall reportedly shot only one scene for the episode, filming it in one day back in March. The new season of the spinoff series will also feature John Corbett’s anticipated return as Aidan; and showrunner Michael Patrick King confirmed that Candice Bergen, who played Carrie Bradshaw’s Vogue editor, Enid Frick, on SATC and in the first of the franchise’s films, is officially reprising her role in the new season as well.

Season 2 of ‘And Just Like That…’ officially debuts on Max on June 22.

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