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ABC/AMPAS On Thursday, the producers of the 96th Academy Awards telecast announced another round of presenters. Among them are Dwayne Johnson, Chris Hemsworth, Kate McKinnon, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara, Bad Bunny and Ramy Youssef. Also added were previous Oscar winners Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence and Octavia Spencer. They will be joining previously announced […]

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Oprah Winfrey has parted ways with WeightWatchers after nearly 10 years on the company’s board of directors, two months after her admission in December that she used a prescription medication to help her lose weight. According to the company, “Winfrey will still continue to work as a public advocate on behalf of weight health […]

Apple TV+ The fifth episode of Apple TV+’s star-studded drama The New Look dropped on Wednesday. The series explores what life was like in Paris during the Nazi occupation, and especially what choices designers like Coco Chanel and Christian Dior made at the time.  Chanel cast her lot with the Nazi high command and had […]

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Gary Sinise is honoring his late son, McCanna Anthony “Mac” Sinise, who died Jan. 5 from a rare form of cancer called chordoma. He was 33. The actor, famous for his roles in Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, The Green Mile and CSI: NY, posted a photo of his son on Instagram Tuesday, with text […]

Lionsgate The first images of a long-gestating reimagining of the 1994 hit The Crow have been revealed. Vanity Fair just published a feature on Lionsgate’s forthcoming big-screen adaptation of James O’Barr’s classic graphic novel starring It‘s Bill Skarsgård and actress-singer FKA Twigs. As in the comic and the original film, The Crow centers on musician […]

Courtesy Paramount+ – Photo: Daniel Smith On Wednesday Paramount+, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios jointly announced that Guy Ritchie will direct and executive produce The Donovans, a gangster drama “loosely based” on one of Showtime’s biggest hits, Ray Donovan. The producers tease, “With the most powerful clients in Europe, The Donovans will see family […]

Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Lewis has died, ABC Audio has confirmed. Lewis, a fixture on the stand-up comedy scene in the ’70s and ’80s, who also appeared in comedies like Robin Hood: Men in Tights and dramas including the Oscar-winning Leaving Las Vegas, was 76.  On Wednesday, Lewis’ publicist Jeff Abraham said the comedian […]

Prime Video/Laura Radford A little more than a month after Road House remake director Doug Liman said he “signed up to make a theatrical motion picture for MGM” only to have it instead head exclusively to streaming on Prime Video, the movie’s star, Jake Gyllenhaal, is weighing in. Liman stated in an editorial to Deadline […]

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images (NOTE LANGUAGE) In a chat on the podcast Reign with Josh Smith, Mission: Impossible franchise veteran Rebecca Ferguson had listeners guessing as to whom she was referring when speaking about an “absolute idiot” of an abusive A-list movie co-star. And Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, her co-star in 2014’s Hercules, says he […]

AMPAS The forthcoming 96th annual Oscars will reportedly take a page from the telecast some 15 years ago, having groups of past Oscar winners in a particular category welcome the newest member of their tribe. This news comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which pointed out the popularity of that element from the 2009 telecast. Traditionally, […]