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CELEBRITY - From YahooEntertainment: Actor Todd LaTourrette, who has appeared on TV series like "Better Call Saul" and "Longmire," admitted that he cut off his own arm and is not a veteran who lost it in Afghanistan.
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Sigourney Weaver says that Neill Blomkamp's planned direct sequel to James Cameron's "Aliens" (1986) could still happen.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 10/26 to 10/28/2018 weekend box office is "Halloween" with an estimated take of $32 million.
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MOVIES - From THR: Japanese director Shinichiro Ueda talks about his buzzy zombie film, "One Cut of the Dead."
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MOVIES - From Collider: Aaron Sorkin will direct "The Trial of the Chicago 7" starring Sacha Baron Cohen.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Chris Rock will direct Universal's Kevin Hart comedy, "Co-Parenting," which Will Packer is producing.
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COMICS-FILM - From ThePlaylist: Spike Lee says that he is not directing Sony's "Spider-Man" spinoff film, "Nightwatch."
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STAR TREK - From Variety: The streaming service, CBS All Access, has ordered two seasons of the animated comedy, "Star Trek: Lower Deck."
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CELEBRITY - From YahooEntertaiment: 25 years after his death in 1993, actress Samantha Mathis is finally able to speak about the death of her boyfriend, actor River Phoenix.
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DISNEY - From Deadline: Disney is exploring rebooting "Pirates of the Caribbean" with "Deadpool" and "Zombieland" writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
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PIXAR - From Variety: Ed Catmull, who cofounded Pixar with John Lasseter and the late Steve Jobs in 1986, is retiring from his leadership role at Pixar and at Walt Disney Animation. He will transition into an advisory role in 2019.
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STREAMING - From Collider: Steve Carell is returning to television in an untitled drama from stars and executive producers Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon for Apple TV.
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ANIMATION - From BleedingCool: Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro is co-writing and co-directing a stop-motion animated version of "Pinocchio." The project's home is Netflix.
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SPORTS-MOVIES - From BleedingCool: LeBron James and his Springhill Entertainment production company may reboot Paramount's "Friday the 13th" franchise.
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SPORTS-CRIME - From NFL: Former NFL wide reciever, Rae Carruth (Carolina Panthers) was released from prison, the Sampson Correctional Institution in Clinton, North Carolina, Monday morning, October 22, 2018. Carruth served 18 years of a 24-year sentence for conspiracy to murder his then-pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams, in November 1999. After being shot four time, Adams fell into a coma and died nearly a month later. The child, Chancellor Lee Adams, she was carrying was delivered via cesarean section and will be 19 years old this year.
From SportsIllustrated: The boy they couldn't kill, Chancellor Lee Adams.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 10/19 to 10/21/2018 weekend box office is "Halloween" with an estimated take of $77.5 million.
From TheWrap: With an estimated opening of $77.5 million, "Halloween" has the biggest opening weekend for a film with a lead actress who is older than 55 years old.
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AWARDS - From GoldDerby: The site talks up Regina King's Oscar chances for Barry Jenkins' "If Beale Street Could Take."
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CELEBRITY - From People: Actress Selma Blair reveals that she has MS - multiple sclerosis.
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TELEVISION - From BloodyDisgusting: First footage revealed of Robert Englund as "Freddy Krueger" on the Halloween episode of "The Goldbergs."
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MOVIES - From THR: Steve McQueen ("12 Years a Slave") is back and he never thought of himself as anything other than brilliant.
OBITS:
From ESPN: Former Major League Baseball player, Willie McCovey, has died at the age of 80, Wednesday, October 31, 2018. McCovery played 19 of his 22 MLB seasons for the San Francisco Giants. He was the 1959 National League "Rookie of the Year" and the 1969 National League MVP. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986. He played in one World Series, as the Giants lost the 1962 series to the New York Yankees.
From People: American actress Diana Sowle died at the age of 88, Friday, October 19, 2018. Sowle was best known for playing the role of "Mrs. Bucket," the mother of golden ticket winner, Charlie Buckett, in the film, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
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