Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks celebrates in the fourth quarter against the Houston Rockets at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 03, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
The king of New York is set to host Saturday Night Live.
Jalen Brunson, the professional basketball player for the New York Knicks who was named the MVP in the 2026 NBA championship game, will take to the stage at Studio 8H to host the premiere of SNL season 52.
Brunson makes his hosting debut on Sept. 26. He will be joined by the musical group Katseye, who also make their debut as the show’s musical guest.
The NBC late night sketch comedy series also announced the hosts and musical guests for the next three episodes.
Dakota Johnson is set to host the show on Oct. 3. This will be her third time hosting the program. The musical guest for the episode will be the band Turnstile, who are making their SNL debut.
Also returning for his third time hosting is Shane Gillis. The comedian is set to host the Oct. 10 show, while Rosalía will return for her second stint as musical guest.
Finally, Obsession star Inde Navarrette is set to make her hosting debut on the Halloween episode on Oct. 31. She will be joined by Gracie Abrams as musical guest. This marks Abrams’ second time performing as the musical guest on the show.
Martin Herlihy attends the premiere of ‘Roommates’ at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on April 13, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Martin Herlihy is saying goodbye to Studio 8H.
The comedian has decided to leave Saturday Night Live ahead of season 52 after five seasons, ABC Audio has learned.
Herlihy spent four seasons appearing onscreen as a member of the comedy sketch trio Please Don’t Destroy. He served as a writer on season 51 while also appearing in a few A Film by Martin Herlihy digital shorts during the season.
Herlihy’s choice to leave the show comes after the departure of cast member Chloe Fineman. She announced her plans to exit the series in an Instagram post shared in July.
The SNL cast has gone through many shake-ups in recent years. Several cast members exited the series after the landmark season 50 of the show. Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow and Emil Wakim all left the cast ahead of season 51. Please Don’t Destroy member John Higgins also departed the show at this time. Additionally, Bowen Yang departed the show midway through season 51.
New cast members for season 51 included Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska. Please Don’t Destroy member Ben Marshall was upped to the show’s cast at the same time.
Designer Mossimo Giannulli and actress Lori Loughlin attend LACMA’s 50th Anniversary Gala on April 18, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. (Donato Sardella/Getty Images for LACMA)
Lori Loughlin has filed for divorce from her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, nearly one year after the couple’s separation became public.
The Full House actress, 62, filed for divorce on Sept. 4 in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences, according to court documents obtained by ABC News.
According to the filing, Loughlin and Giannulli married on Nov. 27, 1997, and separated Aug. 31, 2025, after 27 years and nine months of marriage.
The couple share two adult daughters, Isabella Rose Giannulli, 27, and Olivia Jade Giannulli, 26.
Court documents state that Loughlin and Giannulli signed a premarital agreement on Oct. 28, 1997, about a month before their wedding, and amended the agreement on Aug. 11, 2015. Loughlin is asking for their assets and debts to be divided according to the agreements.
The filing also asks that the issue of spousal support be reserved for future determination and that attorney’s fees and costs be allocated between the parties.
ABC News has reached out to Loughlin’s representative for comment. ABC News attempted to reach Giannulli for comment but was unsuccessful.
The divorce filing comes a little over one year after Loughlin’s representative, confirmed to Good Morning America in October 2025 that the couple had separated.
In an October 2025 report from People, Loughlin’s rep Elizabeth Much said Loughlin and Giannulli were “living apart and taking a break from their marriage.”
“There are no legal proceedings at this time,” Much added at the time.
News of their separation came six years after Loughlin and Giannulli were charged in the 2019 college admissions scandal.
The couple pleaded guilty in 2020 to conspiracy charges after prosecutors accused them of paying $500,000 to get their daughters admitted to the University of Southern California as crew recruits, even though neither had participated in the sport.
Loughlin was sentenced to two months in prison, while Giannulli was sentenced to five months.
At her sentencing in August 2020, Loughlin apologized for her involvement in the conspiracy, saying she “made an awful decision” and “allowed myself to be swayed from my moral compass.”
Giannulli also expressed regret at his sentencing, saying at the time he took “full responsibility” for his actions.
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Ryan Gosling and Flynn Gray on the set of ‘Star Wars: Starfighter.’ (Ed Miller/Lucasfilm)
Fans will be able to visit a galaxy far, far away in IMAX.
Disney and Lucasfilm have announced that the original 1977 Star Wars film, as well as the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter, are set to debut on IMAX screens in 70mm film in 2027.
The original film will be presented in IMAX for the first time ever, whether it be digital or on film, in celebration of its 50th anniversary. That rerelease heads to theaters on Feb. 19, 2027. The film, which was later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope, will be screened in a newly restored version in a select amount of IMAX 70mm film locations. It will also play digitally in select theaters.
The latest Star Wars film, Star Wars: Starfighter, is set to release on the 50th anniversary weekend of the original film’s premiere. It debuts on May 28, 2027, as a filmed for IMAX release that was shot with IMAX-certified film cameras. The movie has been converted to IMAX 70mm film prints for release in a select number of IMAX film locations, according to a press release from Lucasfilm.
Ryan Gosling stars as the cynical rogue Kade Auberon in the Shawn Levy-directed film. As he’s “confronted by his mysterious past, he is hurled into a dangerous adventure across the galaxy that puts him on a crash course with destiny,” according to the movie’s official description.
Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, Flynn Gray and Amy Adams also star in the upcoming, standalone Star Wars film.
Disney is the parent company of ABC News and Lucasfilm.
Connor Storrie attends the 2026 Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on Sept. 6, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Scott Kirkland/FXX via Getty Images) | Danielle Deadwyler attends FYC Event for ‘Rooster’ at Universal Studios Hollywood on April 26, 2026, in Universal City, California. (Leon Bennett/WireImage via Getty Images)
Production on The Bell Jar is in the can.
Focus Features has announced that production on its film adaptation of the classic Sylvia Plath novel has wrapped.
Oscar winner Sarah Polley directs the film from her own adapted screenplay. It marks her first project since she won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 2023 for her film Women Talking.
Billie Eilish makes her feature film acting debut in the starring role as Esther Greenwood. Carey Mulligan acts alongside her as Mrs. Greenwood.
The film’s ensemble cast is now confirmed to also include Danielle Deadwyler as Dr. Nolan, Dylan Hawco as Buddy Willard, Lili Taylor as Jay Cee, Ella Beatty as Joan, Maggie Kuntz as Doreen, Ike Barinholtz as Lenny and Heated Rivalry breakout star Connor Storrie as Marco.
The Bell Jar is Plath’s only novel. It is a supposed semi-autobiographical book published in 1963 that chronicles a young woman’s descent into mental illness. Plath died by suicide a month after the book was first published in the U.K.
Pamela Anderson is seen at the Hotel Excelsior Venice Lido Pier during the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 7, 2026, in Venice, Italy. (Carlo Paloni/Getty Images)
Pamela Anderson opened up about her experience living with hepatitis C in a moving speech over the weekend.
The actress delivered the remarks, which were posted in part by Variety on Sunday, at a gala hosted by amfAR, an organization focused on global health and ending AIDS, where the actress received the award of courage.
“Back in the late ’90s, when I was diagnosed with hepatitis C, there was no cure,” Anderson said in her speech. “It was a death sentence — that’s what my doctor told me, that I probably had around 10 years to live.”
Anderson said the diagnosis and life expectancy prediction had a significant impact on her decision-making.
“I’m sure that colored and corrupted my decisions,” she said. “It was not fear of death, but fear of what might happen to my young children. It turned my life inside out.”
The Last Showgirl actress said when a cure finally came “10 blurry years later,” she was able to take it.
“I was lucky. I was offered it in its early stages. And it took everything I had in my bank to pay for it,” she said, noting the cure “wasn’t covered by insurance yet.”
“I felt tremendous guilt that others weren’t granted the same access,” she said.
Anderson, who said she is now free of hepatitis C — the model and actress first announced she was free from the disease in 2015, according to People — said her “experience of shame and guilt was also an unconscious journey” that has stayed with her years later.
“I worked with organizations in those times to bring awareness, I promoted getting tested, reducing the stigma, but who was I kidding, my words did not match my feelings. I was angry and scared,” she said.
“I don’t think I’ve ever fully recovered from that news. I’ve assimilated it, I’ve finally come to terms, maybe,” she added.
Anderson said she found healing through the arts, adding that her experience helped fuel her career in film.
“Courage expands one’s life, while fear diminishes it. The choice is ours,” Anderson said in her closing remarks, echoing a famous quote from French-born author Anais Nin. “As we look at others across the room tonight, be kind, because we’re all in this together, and all of us fight some invisible battle.”
Hepatitis C is a viral infection that causes inflammation of the liver, according to the World Health Organization.
The potentially life-threatening disease is typically spread through contact with an infected person’s blood, including through “unsafe injections and procedures in health care, unscreened blood transfusions, sharing of needles and syringes among people who inject drugs and sexual practices that lead to exposure to blood,” according to the WHO.
Most individuals who are infected initially do not have symptoms. Symptoms can take two weeks to six months to manifest after infection and may include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine and yellowing of the skin or eyes, the global health organization states.
Hepatitis C infection can often go undiagnosed for years, if not decades, due to lack of symptoms. For those unknowingly living with hepatitis C long-term, they can develop signs of serious liver damage or liver cancer years later, according to the WHO.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that “many people with hepatitis C don’t look or feel sick, so might not know they have the virus.”
Between 2017 and 2020, the CDC estimates between 2.4 million and 4 million people in the U.S. had hepatitis C.
“Most people can be cured of hepatitis C with timely treatment,” the agency states.
Treatment typically involves eight to 12 weeks of oral medication, according to the CDC, with more than 95% of patients being cured of the disease, “usually without side effects.”
There is currently no vaccine available for hepatitis C.
Dr. Jennifer Miao, a board-certified cardiologist at Yale New Haven Health and a fellow in the ABC News Medical Unit, contributed to this report.
The logo for ‘The Legend of Zelda.’ (Nintendo, Sony Pictures)
Nintendo has revealed the official title for its upcoming Legend of Zelda film.
The live-action video game film adaptation is officially titled The Legend of Zelda, the company announced Tuesday. Nintendo has also shared that the release date for the movie has shifted slightly. The film is now set to release in theaters on April 30, 2027.
Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth star as Princess Zelda and the swordsman Link. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto revealed their casting on his social media back in July 2025.
Wes Ball, who helmed The Maze Runner and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, directs the upcoming film.
This movie is based on The Legend of Zelda action-adventure video games. The series’ first game launched for the Family Computer system in Japan in 1986.
Sony Pictures Entertainment will handle the film’s worldwide theatrical distribution. The movie is being co-financed by Nintendo and Sony Pictures Entertainment, with Nintendo noting in a press release that it is providing more than 50% of the financing.
Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever in ‘Artificial.’ (Neon)
Andrew Garfield stars as Sam Altman in the Artificial teaser trailer.
Neon has released the first trailer for director Luca Guadagnino’s comedic drama film about the world of artificial intelligence. The studio also announced the movie will release in select theaters on Christmas Day before expanding to wide release in January.
Artificial explores Altman’s OpenAI during a period in 2023 when Altman was fired and rehired in a matter of days. Guadagnino directed it from a script by Saturday Night Live alum Simon Rich.
Alongside Garfield, the film’s cast includes Mark Rylance, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Billie Lourd, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Cooper Hoffman and Ike Barinholtz.
The teaser trailer finds Garfield’s Altman arriving to an idyllic cabin on the water. In voice-over, we hear him ask, “What is the image of the future that you see?”
As he travels through the cabin, Garfield goes into a secret bunker filled to the brim with weapons.
“We opened Pandora’s box together. The future is inevitable. Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse. And we get to be the ones to shepherd people in to this new world,” Garfield’s Altman says.
Neon picked up Artificial after its original distributor, Amazon MGM Studios, decided it would no longer release it. Amazon MGM Studios confirmed to ABC Audio it would no longer release Artificial in a statement shared on June 19.
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