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Universal Music Group is set to relocate its New York offices, the company announced Tuesday, as the world’s largest music company has signed a lease in the Penn 2 building in Manhattan. Umg is expected to make the move in 2027.

The new offices will serve as the headquarters for Umg’s East Coast Republic Collective, the label group comprised of Republic, Def Jam, Island Records, and Mercury. It will also house Bravado, Umg’s merch arm, and the Verve Music Group as well as Universal Music Publishing Group’s east coast offices.

“Umg’s relocation of its New York offices to the new Penn 2 Tower reflects our vision and ambition,” Umg chief operating officer Boyd Muir said in a statement. “Located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan and literally adjacent to Madison Square Garden, one of music’s most storied venues where so many of our artists perform to a packed house,...

Tom Cruise will not be at the 95th Academy Awards.

Et has confirmed the Top Gun: Maverick star’s absence is due to him already being back on set overseas for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part II in the United Kingdom. Top Gun: Maverick is nominated for six Oscars. Should the film win the night’s biggest category (Best Picture), producer Jerry Bruckheimer will accept the award.

Besides Best Picture, the film is also nominated for Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Film Editing, Sound, Music (Original Song) and Visual Effects.

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News that Cruise will not be in Hollywood for the event comes just hours after it was revealed Lady Gaga will, in fact, perform her Oscar-nominated Top Gun: Maverick single, “Hold My Hand.” It had previously been...

Just hours before the live telecast of the 95th Academy Awards, Et can confirm that Lady Gaga will be performing at the awards ceremony. The news comes after it was first reported that she would not be able to make the event.

Prior to Sunday, 2023 Oscars producer Glen Weiss said Gaga — who is nominated in the Best Original Song category for her song, “Hold My Hand,” from “Top Gun: Maverick” — was invited to perform but was unable to make the commitment at the time. “We have a great relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp,” Weiss said during a press conference last week.

Because she’s in the middle of shooting a new movie, Weiss said Gaga didn’t feel like she could deliver a performance at the caliber that she’s used to doing at the annual awards show. But apparently that has changed, with Gaga now slated to...

Just days before the live telecast of the 95th Academy Awards, it’s been revealed that Lady Gaga will not be performing. The revelation comes after it was first revealed in January that the pop star was nominated for Best Original Song for her “Top Gun: Maverick” single, “Hold My Hand“.

According to the 2023 Oscars producer Glen Weiss, Gaga was invited to participate in Sunday’s ceremony, but she was unable to make the commitment. “We have a great relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp,” Weiss said during a press conference.

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Because she’s in the middle of shooting a new movie, she didn’t feel like she could deliver a performance at the caliber that she’s used to doing at the annual awards show. “So, she is not going to perform on the show,...

Jimmy Kimmel will return as host of the 95th Oscars in 2023, it has been revealed.

Kimmel returns after five years away to host for the third time.

The late-night star previously hosted the 2017 and 2018 telecasts.

The announcement was made by Glen Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, who will serve as showrunners and executive producers for the star-studded event.

“We’re super thrilled to have Jimmy score his hat trick on this global stage. We know he will be funny and ready for anything!” said Weiss and Kirshner in a statement.

“Jimmy is the perfect host to help us recognize the incredible artists and films of our 95th Oscars,” added Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang.

“His love of movies, live TV expertise and ability to connect with our global audiences will create an unforgettable experience for our millions of viewers worldwide.”

“Being invited to host the Oscars for...

The 2014 Directors Guild Awards were handed out earlier this evening, and Alfonso Cuaron took the top prize for Gravity, launching him (and the film) into frontrunner status heading into the Oscars. The DGA winner is a very solid predictor of the eventual Oscar winner for the Best Director category, as the two have only failed to match up seven times in the past 65 years. Moreover, the DGA winner’s film has won the Best Picture Oscar on all but 13 occasions. We’ve known it’s going to be a very tight race since the PGA split its top award between Gravity and 12 Years a Slave, but this DGA win for Gravity puts it ever so slightly ahead. Elsewhere at the DGA Awards, Steven Soderbergh took home the Miniseries/TV Movie prize for Behind the Candelabra and Vince Gilligan won TV Drama for the series finale of Breaking Bad, beating out...

Bret Michaels, frontman for Poison, is suing the Tony Awards, alleging that his near-fatal April 2010 brain hemmorhage stemmed from an injury he sustained while performing on the June 2009 telecast. Michaels and the rest of his band had joined the cast of Best Musical nominee "Rock of Ages" to perform at Radio City Music Hall. As he exited the stage after finishing "Nothin' But a Good Time," Michaels was knocked off his feet by a piece of descending scenery resulting in a broken nose and three stitches to his lip (photo, right). Michaels' claims include negligence, civil battery, negligent misrepresentation and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage. Among those named in the action are Tony Awards Productions, CBS Entertainment, White Cherry Entertainment, Inc, Alan Wasser Associates LLC, Alan Wasser, Richard Kirshner, Glen Weiss and Allan Williams. The suit states that "One of the most common causes of this type of hemor.

By Roger Friedman

HollywoodNews.com: The Directors Guild of America has given its Best Director award to Tom Hooper for “The King’s Speech.” It’s a total upset over David Fincher and “The Social Network.” Other awards were: for Best Documentary to Charles Ferguson for “Inside Job.” “Modern Family” won for Best comedy series. “Boardwalk Empire” and Martin Scorsese won Best TV drama. “Temple Grandin” got Best Mini Series or TV Movie with director Mick Jackson.

Hooper and “The King’s Speech” are now poised to take everything at the Academy Awards. Add this to their Producer’s Guild award. Yowza.

And this was quite a night anyway. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and spoofed himself with guest host Jesse Eisenberg, who plays him in “The Social Network.”

At Sundance, Drake Doremus’s “Like Crazy” won the jury prize for Best Dramatic film. “How to...

The Tony Awards, or Broadway's version of Gay Pride Night, was a mix of the sublime and the simply tolerable, which is hardly unexpected when an awards show telecast fills three hours.

Easily the trophy show with which fewest viewers can identify, but nonetheless capable of electrifying moments, Sunday's Tony presentation survived a splashy but uninspired start and a tepid host mainly with several spirited production numbers and a few well-crafted tape pieces.

Hugh Jackman did his best, but even he jokingly acknowledged his shortcomings early on. "They'll be thinking that he isn't Billy Crystal, and they're right," he said.

The strained rationale for his choice, explained in the second hour, had to do with his upcoming Broadway debut in "The Boy From Oz". The reasons for choosing other presenters, including Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace, were even less apparent.

Some presenters even felt obliged to start their spiel with what sounded like openings for a New York 12-step program. "I grew up in New York and got my start in theater," explained John Spencer of "The West Wing". "I grew up on Long Island", chipped in Billy Joel. "I'm from Brooklyn", Rosie Perez confessed in an accent that made the statement redundant.

If the Tony Awards has one overriding purpose, other than to honor the best work on Broadway and repeatedly plug the American Theater Wing and Actors Equity (Benjamin Bratt actually gave thanks for, among other things, the health benefits), it is to sell the vast American public on attending theater, in general, and Broadway theater, in particular. For that reason, it lavished time on nominated productions.

That paid off big time with a colorful and spirited excerpt from "Hairspray", a rousing rendition of "The Impossible Dream" by Brian Stokes Mitchell of "Man of La Mancha", the explosive performance of Bernadette Peters from "Gypsy" and a strong number by Antonio Banderas and the cast of "Nine".

Less enticing were the confused and confusing subtitled excerpt from "La Boheme", the bland piece out of "A Year With Frog and Toad" and the acoustically challenged rendition of "I Write America", from the cast of Russell Simmons' "Def Poetry Jam on Broadway", which competed with noise from Times Square.

The show was equipped with a fine orchestra, which acquitted itself well on round after round of "There's No Business Like Show Business," the number specially selected to play off long-winded winners, of whom there were many. Considering the number of pro-gay comments from gay and straight winners, who could argue with the musical selection?

Awards for best taped piece should include one that featured each of the nominated choreographers explaining the approach they took to their work. Best acceptance speech honors should include an exuberant Marissa Jaret Winokur of "Hairspray", winner for actress in a musical.

Director Glen Weiss mostly kept up with reaction shots and missed only one shot of a nominee -- featured actor Dennis O'Hare -- who, naturally, won in his category. And then there was the nonsensical and useless CBS Web site poll which yielded the results that the best play ever was Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman". What do you say we leave that kind of stuff to the AFI?

THE 57th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS

Airdate: 8-11 p.m. Sunday, June 8, CBS

Tony Award Prods.

Credits:

Executive producer: Gary Smith

Producer: Ricky Kirshner

Managing producer: Liz McCann

Director: Glenn Weiss

Writer: Jonathan Tolins

Contributing writers: Larry Gelbart, Thomas Meehan

Musical director: Elliot Lawrence

Set designer: Tom H. Johh

Lighting designer: Bob Dickinson

Talent executive: Danette Herman

Host: Hugh Jackman...