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Even if you don’t know the name Phil Tippett, you definitely know his work. The legendary VFX artist has revolutionized creature design, stop-motion, and CG-character animation, having worked in everything from “Star Wars,” and “RoboCop,” to “Piranha” and “Jurassic Park.” His passion project, “Mad God,” is 30 years in the making, with Tippett shooting early footage during the making of “RoboCop 2” before shelving the project until the ’00s, when he started slowly adding to the epic production....

“Blown, super-turbo charged and armed to the teeth with weaponry and War Boys, the machines that outran the end of civilization have been unearthed in the greatest barn-find ever recorded,” reads Lloyds Classic Car Auctions description of the event. “Nitrous, noxious, and no-nonsense harbingers of hell, marking man’s uncanny ability to wring beauty even from that designed for death and destruction, art from power, meaning from machine.” Included in the auction are two of the most iconic vehicles featured in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” including Furiosa’s War Rig (going by its official name of War Rig: Prime Mover Inc....

Four years after sequel film “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” wowed with a soaring finale musical sequence and turned back the clock to see just how the iconic foursome of Meryl Streep’s Donna and her three potential baby daddies came to be, star Colin Firth teased that he would return for a third film in a heartbeat. “I think it could happen,” Firth said during “Good Morning America” on May 5....

“Jeanise is a true angel. I will probably always think of her as my godmother, a real hero and life coach,” Bakalova said. “She just wanted to help this girl become a strong woman. We had a real human connection from the very first day we met. I called her on Thanksgiving: It was my first American Thanksgiving and was also my best. I was so happy to talk to her that I started to cry....

In an excerpt from his posthumously published memoir “Scenes from My Life” (via Vulture) Michael K. Williams revealed that he wasn’t fully on board with Simon’s plan to make Season 2 about white dock workers in Baltimore after spending Season 1 focusing on drug dealers in the inner city. “When I got my first scripts for season two and I saw the storyline had switched to white workers on the Baltimore docks, I was livid,” Williams wrote....

Five-time Emmy nominee Williams died of a drug overdose in September 2021 at age 54. The “Lovecraft Country” and “Boardwalk Empire” actor portrayed gay drug dealer Omar in “The Wire” from 2002 to 2008. “As for Omar’s homosexuality, it was groundbreaking 20 years ago, and I admit that at first I was scared to play a gay character,” Williams penned in an excerpt from his memoir “Scenes From My Life” co-authored with Jon Sternfeld, via Vulture....

“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” reunites fellow Emmy winners Peters and series creator Ryan Murphy for a haunting look at the life of cannibal and necrophile Dahmer. The series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade. The show premieres September 21 on Netflix....