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Loni Anderson, star of Wkrp in Cincinnati, has passed away at 79. Anderson was born in Minnesota in August 1945, and at age 21, she made her acting debut in the Steve McQueen-led Western Nevada Smith.

Her acting career spanned decades and included multiple well-known titles, like All Dogs Go To Heaven,Sorry, Wrong Number, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She documented her life, and most notably her marriage to and public divorce from Burt Reynolds, in her 1997 autobiography My Life in High Heels.

On August 3, 2025, Anderson sadly passed away in a Los Angeles hospital from an ongoing illness, two days before her 80th birthday. She leaves behind two children. Steve Sauer, Anderson's manager of 30 years and president/CEO of Media Four, shared that "Loni was a class act. Beautiful. Talented. Witty. Always a joy to be around." He went on to say:

She was the ultimate working mother. Family first … and...

Loni Anderson, the famed CBS actress of the late 70s, passed away on Sunday, August 3, just 2 days before her 80th birthday. She was best known for her role as Jennifer Marlowe on the CBS sitcom Wkrp in Cincinnati, the empowered, good-looking, and intelligent receptionist of the Ohio radio station trying to reinvent itself with rock music.

Per the details by the Associated Press, citing her longtime publicist Cheryl J. Kagan, the actress took her last breaths at a Los Angeles hospital following a prolonged illness. While details are yet to be revealed, it is known that, growing up, she witnessed the effects of the lung disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Copd), which is often caused by smoking.

Following her devastating demise, her family said in a statement:

We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear wife, mother and grandmother.

Anderson is survived by her husband Bob Flick, son Quinton Anderson Reynolds,...

One of two Christmas movies starring a wrestler-turned-actor was a critical disaster and is considered one of the worst movies of all time. The other movie led by a former WWE star fared significantly better due to its R-rated horror comedy style and embrace of the wrestler's heel persona. The latter movie also had a stronger cast and stayed true to what viewers expected from a wrestling superstar's Christmas movie, ultimately outperforming the former.

Two famous WWE wrestlers have played Santa Claus in two unrelated Christmas movies, and only one of these was a critical disaster. While Dwayne Johnson made the transition to movie stardom look easy, not every WWE wrestler who wanted to become a mainstream Hollywood actor has been so lucky. For every John Cena and Dave Bautista, there are many stars like Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin who couldn’t make the jump from the ring to the big screen.

Hulk Hogan starred in a 1996 comedy that might be the worst Christmas movie ever made. The film lacks comedic value and fails to provide any memorable or entertaining moments. Despite Hogan's previous success as an actor, his performance in Santa With Muscles falls flat and fails to meet expectations.

27 years ago, wrestler-turned-actor Hulk Hogan proved his transition to movie stardom wasn’t a guaranteed success when the WWE superstar headlined one of the worst Christmas movies ever made. The 1996 comedy in question put Hogan in the role of a callous, unpleasant playboy millionaire who made his fortune from bodybuilding supplements. After he took a nasty fall while being pursued through a mall by the police, he suffered amnesia. Waking up in a Santa suit that he donned to evade the cops, Hogan's character assumed that he was the real Santa Claus and began to live accordingly.

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A few weeks ago, Variety reported that Paramount’s Republic Pictures had acquired the distribution rights to the serial killer horror thriller Vindicta and were planning to release the film sometime in October. Now a trailer for the film has arrived online (you can watch it in the embed above), and along with the trailer comes details on Paramount Global Content Distribution’s release plans: Vindicta will be reaching select theatres and will be available to buy on digital as of October 6th.

Starring Elena Kampouris of the most recent Children of the Corn movie, Sean Astin (The Goonies), and Jeremy Piven (Judgment Night), Vindicta has the following synopsis: When a city is terrorized by a sadistic serial killer, a seasoned detective and a newly recruited paramedic are forced into a deadly game of vengeance, only to discover the key to stopping the bloodshed lies in unlocking the truth of their own haunted pasts.

Sean McNamara has racked up a ton of directing credits over the last thirty years, including Casper: A Spirited Beginning, 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, Casper Meets Wendy, The Even Stevens Movie, Bratz, The Suite Life Movie, Soul Surfer, Spare Parts, Cody the Robosapien, Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite, On a Wing and a Prayer, a couple Sister Swap movies, Aliens Ate My Homework, Aliens Stole My Body, and multiple Baby Geniuses movies. His latest is a serial killer horror thriller called Vindicta, and Variety reports that Paramount’s Republic Pictures has acquired the distribution rights. They’re planning to release the film sometime in October.

Starring Elena Kampouris (the most recent Children of the Corn movie), Sean Astin (The Goonies), and Jeremy Piven (Judgment Night), Vindicta has the following synopsis: When a city is terrorized by a sadistic serial killer, a seasoned detective and a newly...

Kirk Baily, the actor best known for his role as dim-witted camp counselor Kevin “Ug” Lee on the early Nickelodeon sitcom “Salute Your Shorts,” died Feb. 27 in Los Angeles. His domestic partner, Ranjani Brow, confirmed that he died after battling lung cancer. He was 59.

Baily got his start as a sound coordinator for the 1988 cult classic “Killer Klowns From Outer Space,” before he was cast in “Salute Your Shorts,” which premiered in 1991. Created by Steve Slavkin and based on a book of the same name he wrote with Thomas Hill, “Salute Your Shorts” premiered July 1991 and ran for two seasons. The series starred Danny Cooksey, Erik MacArthur, Blake Soper, Michael Bower, Trevor Eyster, Venus DeMilo Thomas, Heidi Lucas and Megan Berwick as various campers at the fictional Camp Anawanna. Baily’s character, Ug, acted as an antagonist toward the kids, as well as the most frequent victim of their pranks.

Japan: Where undead Hollywood franchises go to get a new lease on life. It worked for “The Fast and the Furious” with “Tokyo Drift.” It worked for “X-Men” with “The Wolverine.” It even worked for “3 Ninjas” with “3 Ninjas: Kick Back,” at least so far as that movie paved the way for Hulk Hogan to star in “3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain” a few years later. And now — to a surprising degree even despite that precedent — it works for “G.I. Joe” with “Snake Eyes,” a back-to-basics origin story which that was right on the brink of being forgotten.

Arriving in theaters more than eight years after the mild success of Jon M. Chu’s “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” and requiring exactly zero knowledge of either the previous movies or the Hasbro toys that inspired them, “Snake Eyes” is such a generic “cage-fighting orphan gets recruited into the Yakuza and...