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'90s Movies That Became Unwatchable With Age

looper.com Learn More '90s Movies That Became Unwatchable With Age The '90s were one of the most bustling and exciting eras ever for filmmaking. Between the apogee of American indie…

The Power of Taylor, Ryan and Zendaya: THR, Launchmetrics Look at Luxury Brands That Won 2024 Awards Season

hollywoodreporter.com Top stars and brands of the 2024 awards season include, from left: Ayo Edebiri at the Emmys; Jeremy Allen White at the SAG Awards; Zendaya at the Oscars; Anne Hathaway at…

Brett Gelman Says Oscars Shouldn’t Be Political After Jonathan Glazer’s Speech Referencing Israel-Hamas War

thewrap.com Brett Gelman told SiriusXM’s Ron Bennington that he doesn’t think awards shows, like the Academy Awards, should get political. The actor mentioned “The Zone of Interest”…

Late Night Rips Into Trump For Confusing Jimmy Kimmel and Al Pacino at the Oscars

vanityfair.com While you'd assume that Donald Trump would be too busy preparing for his criminal trial to keep disparaging Jimmy Kimmel's Oscar hosting gig, you'd be sorely mistaken. The…

Stephen Colbert Tells Trump to Keep Jimmy Kimmel’s Name ‘Out of Your Weird Little Wet Mouth’ After Oscars Outburst; Kimmel Says: ‘This Was Five Weeks Ago!’

variety.com Stephen Colbert stood up for Jimmy Kimmel following Donald Trump‘s latest social media outburst over the Oscars, where host Kimmel dissed Trump live on stage by reading the…

Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert Fire Back at Donald Trump Over Renewed Oscars Criticism

hollywoodreporter.com Former President Donald Trump was roundly mocked on late-night television for an error-laden social media post in which he confused Jimmy Kimmel and Al Pacino as the…

Indie Spirit Awards Set February 2025 Date

thewrap.com The 40th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will take place on Saturday, Fb. 22, 2025. The announcement came Thursday from Film Independent, the arts organization that…

Stephen Colbert Tells Trump to Keep Jimmy Kimmel’s Name ‘Out of Your Weird, Little, Wet Mouth’

thewrap.com Don’t mess with the “Strike Force Five” brotherhood. Stephen Colbert used his Wednesday night monologue to defend late night host Jimmy Kimmel following Donald Trump’s…

Jimmy Kimmel gives Donald Trump a new nickname

newsweek.com Jimmy Kimmel has a new nickname for Donald Trump after the politician posted a "venomous" social media post about him on Wednesday. The talk show host dubbed Trump "Ranta…

Trump Claps Back After Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Ex-President's Hush Money Trial, Plummeting DJT Stock: 'Stupid...Fool'

benzinga.com Former President Donald Trump responded to Jimmy Kimmel‘s jokes about his ongoing legal issues and the plummeting stock of his social media company, Truth Social. What…

An NPR editor is now a former NPR editor after his resignation

poynter.org This is how I led my newsletter on Tuesday: We now have an answer to that question. No, Uri Berliner, the business editor who wrote the scathing essay, no longer works at…

Late Night Skewers Trump’s Review of Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscar Hosting

nytimes.com Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on…

Stephen Colbert Defends Jimmy Kimmel From Donald Trump’s Attacks: “Keep My Friend’s Name Out Of Your Weird Little Wet Mouth”

deadline.com Stephen Colbert is standing up to Donald Trump and defending Jimmy Kimmel after the former POTUS attacked this year’s Oscars host. Colbert addressed Trump’s latest tirade…

Jimmy Kimmel Teases Donald Trump For Confusing Him With Al Pacino After Former President Again Grouses About The Oscars

deadline.com The Oscars took place more than a month ago, but former president Donald Trump continues to grouse about its host, Jimmy Kimmel. But in a post on his social media platform…

Trump Mixes Up Jimmy Kimmel, Al Pacino in Truth Social Rant

thewrap.com Ahead of arriving in criminal court in Manhattan for the third straight day, former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to blast his longtime foe Jimmy Kimmel — but…

Donald Trump Incorrectly Roasts ‘Stupid Jimmy Kimmel’ for ‘Classic Choke’ While Presenting Best Picture at the Oscars

variety.com Donald Trump is keeping his Oscars feud with Jimmy Kimmel alive with a new post on Truth Social in which the former president once again slammed Kimmel for being a…

Kimmel Torpedoes Trump After Rant On ‘Stupid Jimmy Kimmel’

mediaite.com Late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel torpedoed former President Donald Trump over a Truth Social rant that got every major and minor detail wrong. Kimmel — host of ABC’s Jimmy…

Donald Trump blasted for "confusing" Jimmy Kimmel for Al Pacino

newsweek.com Former President Donald Trump faced ridicule for appearing to confuse Jimmy Kimmel with Al Pacino in a Truth Social post raging against the talk show host's monologue about…

Studio Ghibli to Receive Honorary Palme d’or in Cannes First

thewrap.com In a festival first, the Cannes Film Festival is giving an honorary Palme d’or to Studio Ghibli, the lauded Japanese animation studio behind greats like “Spirited Away,”…

Participant, studio behind 'Spotlight,’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ shutters after 20 years

apnews.com Participant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners like “Spotlight” and socially conscious documentaries like “Food, Inc,” and “Waiting For…

Participant, maker of socially conscious films like 'An Inconvenient Truth,' is shutting down

latimes.com This photo provided by courtesy of Open Road Films shows, Rachel McAdams, from left, as Sacha Pfeiffer, Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes, Brian d’Arcy James as Matt Carroll,…

Arrest, Prosecute, and (As Appropriate) Deport Every Single Pro-Hamas Anarchist

newsweek.com Get your daily dose of politics, law, and culture with Josh Hammer Premium. As Newsweek's Senior Editor-at-Large, Josh cuts through the noise to dissect American…

Participant Media, Studio Behind ‘Green Book’ and ‘Spotlight,’ Is Shutting Down

hollywoodreporter.com After 20 years, Participant Media is shutting down. Founder Jeff Skoll announced the news in a note to staff Tuesday, noting, “after much reflection, I have made the very…

Participant, Maker of Films With Social Conscience, Calls It Quits

nytimes.com For 20 years, Participant Media has been Hollywood’s pre-eminent maker of activist entertainment, backing socially conscious films like “An Inconvenient Truth,” a climate…

Participant Closing Doors After Two Decades

deadline.com Financier and producer Participant is shuttering after 20 years. Founder Jeff Skoll alerted staff at 10:30AM, Deadline has confirmed. The production’s m.o. was to bring…

Participant Shutting Down Operations After 20 Years: Film Studio Was Behind Oscar Winners ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Green Book’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com Participant, the 20-year-old film and television production company whose mission was to inspire social justice and humanitarian action, is shutting down. Founder Jeff Skoll…

Screen Actors Guild Awards Sets 2025 Date

thewrap.com The 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will stream live on Netflix at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Sunday, February 23, 2025. The guild set Monday, August 29, 2024 as the…

Donna Langley to Receive Women in Motion Award at Cannes

thewrap.com Donna Langley will receive the Women In Motion Award at the 2024 Cannes film festival. Chairman and CEO of luxury group Kering, François-Henri Pinault, president of the…

13 of the Best Chase Scenes in Movie History

hollywoodreporter.com You know the feeling: Your pulse rises as you lean forward, the hairs on your arms are lifting, and suddenly, you’re holding your breath. A good chase scene will leave you…

Writers Guild Awards 2024: Winners List

thewrap.com The Writers Guild Awards is taking place on Sunday at simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. TheWrap will update the list of winners as they are announced. In…

Writers Guild Awards

deadline.com Refresh for latest… The elongated 2023-24 awards season wraps tonight as the WGA presents its strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards in simultaneous ceremonies on both…

Advertising restrictions can have harmful effects on women’s health. Here’s what one company is doing about it

aol.com Anyone who menstruates will tell you: a period often doesn’t look or feel like the rapturous dancing portrayed in a typical tampon ad. Taking aim at the sanitized and…

How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future

theregister.com AI models become better at foretelling the future when asked to frame the prediction as a story about the past, boffins at Baylor University have found. In a paper titled,…

Writers Guild Awards to Celebrate Honorees As New Contract Heralds Industry Changes

variety.com For the roughly 12,000 scribes the Writers Guild of America represents, the last year has been an emotional roller coaster: The guild engaged in a labor stoppage for over…

Hollywood's Ozempic epidemic

newsweek.com Ozempic has become so strongly associated with celebrity weight loss that it often takes reminding that the pharmaceutical drug was intended for diabetics. In recent years,…

Awards Season Calendar: Key Dates for Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and Other Major Events

hollywoodreporter.com With the 2024 Oscars in the past, Hollywood’s focus turns to Emmy season, with a number of TV awards shows set to take place over the next few months, including the BAFTA TV…

Ryan Gosling Initially Said ‘100% No’ to ‘I’m Just Ken’ Oscars Performance: ‘There’s a Lot of Ways That Could Go Wrong’

billboard.com Ryan Gosling absolutely crushed it as this year’s Academy Awards. The triple-threat superstar’s “I’m Just Ken” performance was a song-and-dance tour de force… which almost…

John Legend Reflects On 13 Photos From His Life

youtube.com One of music’s most prolific stars, John Legend has scored countless hits, coached winning contestants on ‘The Voice’ and joined the esteemed list of EGOT winners. Outside…

A24 Boards Rungano Nyoni’s Cannes Entry ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” the second feature from Zambian-Welsh writer-director Rungano Nyoni, has been picked up by A24 for international sales ahead of its world…

Cannes Film Festival Unveils Competition Lineup (Updating Live)

hollywoodreporter.com The wait is over. The 77th Cannes Film Festival is unveiling this year’s competition lineup, highlighting the titles competing for the 2024 Palme d’Or at a Thursday press…

The 2025 Oscars: Everything We Know So Far About The Nominations, Ceremony, Date & Host

deadline.com The 2025 Oscars ceremony is months away, but we already know some things about the show, the potential nominees and who may host it. Read on below for answers to your…

Dan Wallin, Oscar-Nominated and Emmy-Winning Music Mixer, Dies at 97

variety.com Dan Wallin, the music scoring engineer who recorded such classic film scores as “Spartacus,” “Bullitt,” “The Wild Bunch” and “Out of Africa,” has died at his home in Hawaii.…

Academy Sets March Date for 2025 Oscars

thewrap.com The 97th Academy Awards ceremony is set for March 2, 2025. Hollywood’s biggest night will air at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide from…

Oscars 2025: Academy Sets Date and Nominations Timeline for 97th Ceremony

variety.com The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC announced on Wednesday. This continues the trend of holding the…

Oscars: 2025 Ceremony Will Take Place A Week Earlier Than 2024’s, Other Key Dates Announced

hollywoodreporter.com The 97th Academy Awards ceremony in 2025 will take place a week earlier than the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on…

Oscars 2025 Date & Timeline Set; Academy Sticks With Earlier Start Time

deadline.com The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today set the date and timeline for the 97th annual Academy Awards. The envelope, please… The Oscars will be handed out…

Women are underrepresented in the stunt-driving industry. These drivers are fighting for change

latimes.com Olivia Summers, left, and Dee Bryant lead the Assn. of Women Drivers, billed as Hollywood’s first all-female stunt-driving team. Four months after her father died in June…

L.A. County Fed joins labor groups calling for cease-fire in Gaza

latimes.com The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor has joined the growing ranks of labor groups calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war following pressure from its…

‘Furiosa’: George Miller Shows the Origin of His Wasteland Warrior in Extended Sneak Peek

thewrap.com Acclaimed filmmaker George Miller just rocked the CinemaCon crowd in Las Vegas and premiered a bunch of new footage of “Furiosa” at the annual confab. Miller was joined…

Zendaya said she snuck onto her first Oscars red carpet, leading to one of the biggest fashion moments of her career

aol.com None Zendaya revealed to Vogue that she wasn't actually supposed to walk her first Oscars red carpet. • None She said she snuck in front of photographers to showcase her…

For most film fans, the 2024 Oscars are about 'Oppenheimer' and 'Barbie'

today.yougov.com Around 27% of Americans say they'll watch some or all of the 2024 Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. Most of those who do watch say they'll be rooting for either…

Oppenheimer is Americans' top pick for Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars

today.yougov.com Oppenheimer is the frontrunner in this year's Oscars Best Picture race: More Americans say it should win than any other nominee, and the same is true for opinion of who will…

‘Harry Potter’ Star Miriam Margolyes Calls on Jews to “Scream for A Ceasefire” in Gaza: “To Me, It Seems as If Hitler Has Won”

hollywoodreporter.com Miriam Margolyes has called on all Jews “to shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire” in Gaza as the Palestinian territory continues to deal with rising death tolls and, according…