JD Knapp is the morning news editor at TheWrap, with a personal preference for horror movies, bubblegum pop, reality TV, sitcoms, and animation. After growing up in Connecticut and graduating from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, he has gone on to work for national outlets such as People, E! News, The Messenger, and Variety. Outside of work, you can find him hiking Runyon Canyon, playing video games, or winning dodgeball.
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Demi Moore Thinks Hollywood Must Find Ways to Work With AI, Even If We Probably Haven’t Protected Ourselves From It
“AI is here. So to fight it is, in a sense, to fight something that is a battle that we will lose,” the actress and jury member says at the Cannes Film Festival
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Rex Reed, Controversial Film Critic, Dies at 87
The infamous movie reviewer died Tuesday in his Manhattan apartment following a short illness
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Elizabeth Warren Uses ‘Severance’ to Explain Why Paramount-WBD Merger Is ‘Bad for Everyone’ | Video
“Listen, I know I don’t want all my movies and TV shows to be controlled by some Trump-aligned dynasty, and that’s why I’m speaking out on this,” the Massachusetts senator says
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TheWrap Earns 21 SoCal Journalism Awards Nominations, Including Best Website
Other nominees include our coverage of late night TV, AI in Hollywood, “KPop Demon Hunters” and Sharon Waxman’s WaxWord
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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Queens Reveal Their Motivation Behind ‘All Stars 11’ Return
A’keria C. Davenport, Dawn, Lucky Starzzz, Morgan McMichaels, Morphine Love Dion and Mystique Summers battle it out in the Orange Bracket, Friday on Paramount+
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UFOs Disclosed: Pentagon Releases Declassified UAP Files
“The FBI remains committed to supporting this rolling declassification effort with the same rigor and integrity we bring to every national security matter,” Kash Patel says of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon
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‘The Boys’ Cast and Crew Can’t Believe They’ve Gotten Away With Satirizing Hollywood for So Long
Laz Alonso, Karen Fukuhara, Erin Moriarty and creator Eric Kripke celebrate five seasons of making their Sony Pictures Television superhero satire with TheWrap
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Blake Lively Seeks Damages, Attorneys’ Fees After ‘Resounding Victory’ With Justin Baldoni Settlement
“By admitting that Ms. Lively’s concerns ‘deserved to be heard,’ the defendants have ended once and for all the fiction that Ms. Lively ‘fabricated’ claims of sexual harassment and retaliation,” her lawyers say
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Timothée Chalamet Enlists A-List Friends for FIFA World Cup-Inspired Short Film
Lionel Messi, Bad Bunny, Trinity Rodman, David Beckham and more team up with adidas for “Backyard Legends” ahead of next month’s soccer championship
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Jane Fonda Pays Tribute to Ex-Husband Ted Turner: ‘You Are Loved and You Will Be Remembered’
“He swept into my life, a gloriously handsome, deeply romantic, swashbuckling pirate and I’ve never been the same,” the actress shares
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‘Elle’ Teaser Trailer Sets Up a Fish-Out-of-Water Story for ‘Legally Blonde’ Prequel
Lexi Minetree stars as Elle Woods in the Prime Video series from Reese Witherspoon, premiering July 1
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Ted Turner, CNN Founder and Cable TV Pioneer, Dies at 87
“He was and always will be the presiding spirit of CNN,” CEO Mark Thompson says
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Cannes Welcomes ‘The Fast and the Furious’ for 25th Anniversary Midnight Screening
Vin Diesel, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, producer Neal H. Mortiz and Paul Walker’s daughter Meadow Walker are set to attend
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Anna Konkle Explains How ‘The Sane One’ Grew From ‘Pen15’: ‘It’s the Tip of the Iceberg’
“The rawness and brutality that’s in there was just going to be more conducive to a book, and I didn’t want to shy away from it,” the comedian tells TheWrap of her memoir
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Jane Fonda Urges Her Fellow Humans to ‘Stand in Kinship and Humility’ With Animals to End Factory Farming
Charo and Sen. Adam Schiff also receive awards for their work defending animal rights at Farm Sanctuary’s 40th anniversary event
