Broadway looks set to get a Happy Feet musical based on George Miller’s Oscar-winning animated feature about singing and dancing Emperor penguins. Tony-winning Michael Arden is on board to direct a live stage version being developed by Tony Award-winning producer Dori Berinstein (Legally Blonde, The Prom). The Broadway-bound musical, based on Miller and Warner Bros. Pictures’ 2006 foot-tapping, CG-animated musical movie, […]

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“The Pitt” is headed to the movies. HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television have partnered with Alamo Drafthouse to set a series of advance screenings of the Season 2 finale of “The Pitt.” The screenings will take place on April 13 at 10 Alamo Drafthouse locations nationwide, just days before the episode hits HBO Max on April […]

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Sony Pictures TV, Laura Dern and Adam McKay are teaming up for a limited series about the investigation that blew open the Jeffrey Epstein case. Dern is set to star in the drama, which based on Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown’s book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story. The Ocsar and Emmy winner will play Brown in the series. Sharon Hoffman […]

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The Oscars are leaving Hollywood — or at least Hollywood Boulevard. Beginning in 2029, the Academy Awards will move from the Dolby Theatre, their home for nearly a quarter century, to L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and AEG announced on Thursday. The ceremony will be held […]

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“One Battle After Another,” a political thriller set in a police state version of America, triumphed at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning six Oscars, including best picture. Paul Thomas Anderson, the creative force behind the film, was named best director and picked up an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. “I wrote this movie […]

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“Sinners,” a vampire movie that unfolds in the segregated South, triumphed at the 2026 Actor Awards on Sunday night, winning the top prize for best ensemble in a motion picture while its star Michael B. Jordan was named best lead actor. “The Studio,” a sendup of many of the powerbrokers in the show’s audience, won a leading […]

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Grey’s Anatomy lost one of its own today. Eric Dane, one of the venerable ABC medical drama’s most popular cast members, died Feb. 19 at the age of 53 after battle with ALS. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of Eric Dane,” the network and series producer 20th Television said in a joint statement Thursday night. “His remarkable […]

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Hollywood tributes are pouring out for Robert Duvall, who died on Monday at the age of 95. Duvall’s death was announced on Facebook via a statement from his wife, Luciana Duvall. Adam Sandler, who appeared alongside Duvall in the 2022 film “Hustle,” shared a heartfelt remembrance on Instagram. He wrote that the Hollywood icon was “one of the greatest actors we ever […]

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The 41st Film Independent Spirit Awards took place Sunday afternoon at the Hollywood Palladium as the organization recognized the year’s best in indie movies and TV. Favorites Train Dreams and Sorry, Baby were multi-award winners, with the former taking home Best Feature, Director and Cinematography and the latter being awarded with Best Screenplay and Supporting Performance. Alex Russell’s Lurker also won twice, for […]

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The Walt Disney Co., after a more than two-year saga, has landed on its next CEO: Josh D’Amaro, head of the company’s theme parks and consumer products division. D’Amaro will take over the top job at Disney from current CEO Bob Iger, who cumulatively has served in the post for nearly two decades. The Disney board on Tuesday […]

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Tributes are pouring in for Catherine O’Hara, the multi-award-winning actor who died Friday at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. She was 71. O’Hara had a versatile career spanning comedy and drama. She was known for her role as Delia Deetz in Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice” and its 2024 sequel, as well as voiced Sally […]

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Big news just in from the folks at the Acme Corporation: TCM has become “the ongoing television home” of the iconic Looney Tunes library from Warner Bros. In late 2022, HBO Max eliminated 256 Looney Tunes shorts from 1950-2004 when its license expired and the streaming arm of Warner Bros. Discovery chose not to renew it, Vulture reported. Last year, another […]

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Focus Features’ Hamnet won Best Motion Picture — Drama, and Warner Bros.’ One Battle After Another won Best Picture — Comedy or Musical and three other prizes to lead the 2026 Golden Globes, which were handed out Sunday night in Los Angeles. See the full list below and the lists of wins by film, series, distributor and TV platform here. […]

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One Battle After Another won Best Feature at the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night, after Paul Thomas Anderson pulled off an upset for Best Director and won Best Adapted Screenplay for the Warner Bros thriller. Timothée Chalamet won Best Actor for A24’s Marty Supreme, and Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Focus Features’ Hamnet. Best Supporting Actor […]

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Lainey Wilson, Ella Langley and Riley Green each scored three honors at the 59th annual CMA Awards show Wednesday night, with Wilson taking away the most coveted prize, entertainer of the year. Surprises were in order in some of the categories considered long held by intractable repeat winners, Cody Johnson won for best male vocalist, finally moving Chris Stapleton […]

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Channing Tatum will venture into the underworld alongside Oscar Isaac and Zazie Beetz in “Kockroach,” the story of a mysterious stranger who transforms himself into a larger-than-life crime boss. The film is an adaptation of the novel by William Lashner, who wrote it under the pen name Tyler Knox. Matt Ross, the filmmaker behind “Captain Fantastic,” will direct from a screenplay written […]

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Julia Roberts got emotional as her new movie, “After the Hunt” — Luca Guadagnino’s drama in which she plays a troubled professor — wowed Venice on Friday night. The Amazon MGM Studios release premiered on the Lido to a six-minute standing ovation. As the clapping continued, Roberts wiped away tears, blew kisses to the crowd and hugged […]

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Employees of Paramount Global have been through the wringer over the last year and a half. And the uncertainty hanging over their heads is far from over. After M&A talks with Skydance Media that started in late 2023 whipped back and forth, the parties in July 2024 announced they had reached a deal to merge. Then Paramount endured another year […]

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 The Warner Bros Motion Picture Group is undergoing 10% cuts, we’ve learned. This follows Monday’s news about how leadership is getting split between the new Warner Bros and Discovery Global. Layoffs are across marketing, distribution, production, strategy, operations and theatre ventures. We hear these cuts have been in the planning since the early part of this year. Leadership assessed what […]

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“After months of cowardly capitulation to this Administration, Paramount finally got what it wanted,” Gomez said in her dissent. “Unfortunately, it is the American public who will ultimately pay the price for its actions.” The approval by the FCC, led by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr, comes after Skydance made commitments in to the agency in two areas: ensuring […]

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Theodore “Theo” Huxtable across all eight seasons of “The Cosby Show,” has died in an accidental drowning, according to reports. He was 54. Per ABC News, Warner was on a family vacation in Costa Rica and drowned while swimming after he was caught by a high current. He died of asphyxia […]

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George Wendt, best known for playing the beer-swilling Norm on Cheers, died peacefully in his sleep while at home early Tuesday morning, according to a family representative. He was 76. Wendt was on Cheers for the entirety of the show’s epic run from 1982–1993. On a series full of beloved characters, his Norm Peterson was arguably the most […]

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The star-studded cast of Guy Ritchie’s crime drama MobLand is adding another notable name. Janet McTeer will be part of the Paramount+ series, which is set to premiere March 30. The Emmy and two-time Oscar nominee joins an ensemble led be Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren. MobLand centers on a London-based Irish crime family headed by Brosnan’s Conrad Harrigan, […]

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The Oscars want more Conan! After a rapturous reception at this year’s Academy Awards, emcee Conan O’Brien will return to the Dolby Theatre for the 98th Oscars on March 15, 2026. The announcement comes from Bill Kramer, Academy CEO, and Janet Yang, Academy president, who also confirmed the return of the Emmy-winning producing team Raj Kapoor and Katy […]

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“Conclave,” a thriller about the election of a new pope, triumphed at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, winning the top prize for best motion picture cast. “Shōgun,” an epic look at feudal Japan, and “Only Murders in the Building,” a mystery satire, won the TV ensemble prizes in the drama and comedy […]

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