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When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the stage at the 94th Academy Awards, it immediately jumped to the list of most controversial sights in the history of the Oscars. And it was all over a mediocre joke tied to a movie pretty much nobody talks about anymore. Now, G.I. Jane star Demi Moore is weighing in on that Oscars moment – and she has clearly taken a side.

Speaking with Deadline, Demi Moore said that Oscars fiasco came from a good place out of presenter Chris Rock, saying assaulter (and eventual Best Actor winner that night) Will Smith read it all wrong. “I think, if I’m interpreting correctly, I don’t think Chris meant it as a slight. I actually think he was paying it as a compliment. And so there might have just been a little bit of a misunderstanding, a misperception of what he was saying.”

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Ted Sarandos, CEO and Chief Comedy Nerd at Netflix “could have basically destroyed SNL the last six years by doing Friday night SNL,” Bill Simmons opined on his podcast this week. But “he loved the show and he didn't.”

Don’t rule it out, says Matt Belloni, former editor of The Hollywood Reporter and current host of The Town podcast. He says rumors have been around forever that Sarandos might launch a Friday or Sunday night sketch comedy show, perhaps even cherry-picking some Saturday Night Live talent to do so. Sarandos has too much respect for producer Lorne Michaels to actually do it today, “but post-Lorne, all bets are off.”

Simmons co-signed on the idea: “The moment Lorne leaves, I think Netflix just takes that entire corner.”

Makes sense. Sarandos indeed loves comedy — witness the millions he’s spent to make Netflix the king of stand-up specials — and of late,...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson famously won an Oscar for his documentary “Summer of Soul” in 2022… just moments after “The Slap.” Now Questlove has threaded Will Smith into a larger discussion in his new film “Sly Lives!” about “the burden of Black Genius” (which is also the new film’s subtitle).

This documentary, as its title implies, tracks the life, times, and art of Sly Stone, the legendary bandleader of Sly & the Family Stone. Questlove interviewed him for “Summer of Soul,” though his health issues were such that he knew going into making “Sly Lives!” that Stone would not be interviewed this time around. He uses the arc of Stone’s career to make larger points about the representational burdens Black artists very often have to bear: That they’re representing the entire Black community, and in their artistic output and personal conduct have to adhere to a much higher standard than white artists.

“Salem’s Lot” is once again getting the adaptation treatment, this time as a film from “Annabelle Comes Home” director and “It” screenwriter Gary Dauberman.

The latest crack at Stephen King’s acclaimed vampire novel managed to pull together a cast of recognizable faces despite being pulled from a theatrical release to go directly to Max. “Salem’s Lot” follows a writer’s return to his hometown, searching for inspiration for his next book, only to find out the place is slowly being overrun by vampires.

Here’s a rundown of the cast and characters in the horror adaptation.

Lewis Pullman as Ben Mears

Lewis Pullman plays writer Ben Mears.

Pullman is likely most recognized for playing Lt. Bob Floyd in “Top Gun: Maverick.” He’s also starred in Apple TV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry” as Calvin Evans and Prime Video’s “Outer Range” as Rhett Abbott, as well as the films...

Jada Pinkett Smith is no stranger to controversy in the public eye, especially when it comes to her current relationship status with Will Smith. However, she recently made her Instagram private without warning. So, what prompted her to do this?

Jada Pinkett Smith Indirectly Involved With The Slap Heard Around The World

Will Smith has always been the “nice guy.” As a Hollywood leading man, he generally stars in films that are never too raunchy or in poor taste. In fact, he is one of those actors who are consistently up for Oscars based on his noteworthy performances.

However, that squeaky clean image that Will tried so hard to cultivate completely went out the window after Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith. What happened next was “The Slap,” where Will Smith got on stage and slapped Chris Rock for the joke he made about Jada.

While it...

Quinto returns to NBC after 14 years in lead role, showcasing his evolution as an actor since Heroes. Brilliant Minds, a medical drama, features Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf, drawing comparisons to his acclaimed past roles. Quinto's success in fantastical roles adds intrigue to Brilliant Minds, with anticipation growing for the show's premiere.

Zachary Quinto is best known for his roles in television and his latest project is an exciting drama that recalls a project from 14 years ago. Quinto's newest project is Brilliant Minds, a medical drama that focuses on the unusual methods of treatment by Quinto's character, Dr. Oliver Wolf. Brilliant Minds is not Quinto's first television role and, over the course of his career, he has become a well-known name in sci-fi and television. In fact, Quinto's acting roles have often become widely popular.

Arguably the character Quinto is most widely recognized for is Spock in the Star Trek movie reboot,...

William McInnes, known for Blue Heelers, is finally gaining international recognition through his role in NCIS: Sydney. Blue Heelers was a hit Australian police drama that kick-started the careers of top actors like Hugh Jackman and Sam Worthington. NCIS: Sydney offers a chance for McInnes to showcase his versatile talent to a global audience in its renewed season 2.

NCIS: Sydney is the first in the NCIS franchise to branch outside the United States, and it's finally putting some of Australia's most iconic but unsung stars on the map. Among the talented cast is William McInnes, who has been a mainstay on Australian television since the '90s. McInnes' filmography reads like a list of Australia's most notable and beloved TV shows of the past three decades. It's exciting now to see the actor finally finding some international recognition through his starring role in the NCIS spin-off.

Among his iconic roles,...

After the success of ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die,’ there is only one thing in the minds of fans; Will Smith was never cancelled.

However true this may be – I mean it is Will Smith we’re talking about – he’s still not permitted to step foot anywhere near the Oscars for almost a decade.

To add to this, he was also forced to step down from his role as a member of the Academy’s voting committee.

Nevertheless, an insider thinks it’s high time Will Smith got his redemption arc. Is the Academy ready to make it happen?

Will Smith Source Compares Star’s Career To Tom Cruise’s Scientology

I bet you you can’t name five actors above fifty without naming Will Smith – if you ask me, the list should go, Jackie Chan, Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Dwayne Johnson, and Hugh Jackman (but nobody’s asking me right?...

The Indian movie Kalki 2898 Ad is projected to pass the $100 million milestone at the worldwide box office. The movie is already the tenth highest-grossing Indian movie in history. It is expected to become the eighth highest-grossing Indian movie by the end of its run.

Kalki 2898 Ad has crossed a major milestone at the global box office. The sci-fi movie is notable for being the most expensive Indian production in history, with a reported budget of roughly $72 million. Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, and Prabhas, the release takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in the title year, when a powerful being believed to be the avatar of Vishnu arrives on Earth. The Kalki 2898 Ad box office has already broken records in its opening weekend, earning the best global debut for an Indian movie.

Per Deadline, Kalki 2898 Ad has earned $95 million at the global box office by the...

It might be the season of The Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff’s “Summertime”, but Will Smith wants you to take your car out of cruise because he has a new song for you to hear, dropping “You Can Make It” at this week’s BET Awards.

Smith hasn’t made too many public appearances since he slapped Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022. But with the release of Bad Boys: Ride or Die last month, he has been popping up more frequently. Now, Will Smith has returned to the awards stage – backed by choir, no less – to deliver the moment of the BET Awards.

As per Rolling Stone, Will Smith’s song had partial lyrics that went: “The darker the hell you gotta endure, the brighter the heaven you get to enjoy/The harder the fall, the higher you soar/God opens a window when the...

The Pursuit of Happyness, Men In Black and others make Smith's personal Mount Rushmore of his own movies. Smith had fun making Aladdin and Bad Boys but doesn't add them to his top four. Despite controversy, Smith's career highlights include an Oscar win and successful film roles.

With Bad Boys: Ride or Die set to hit theaters, Will Smith names the four movies that best define his career. Hes been a sitcom star and a rapper, and hes headed up some of the most iconic Hollywood movies of recent decades, including blockbusters like Independence Day and Men in Black. In 2022, Smith achieved a new artistic height when he won the Best Actor Oscar for King Richard a moment that was marred by The Slap. Still trying to bounce back from that controversy, Smith is back in theaters with the sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

With a Hollywood resume spanning...

Spoiler Alert: This story discusses plot points from “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” which hits U.S. theaters on June 7.

At the climax of “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” — the fourth installment of the buddy cop blockbuster action-comedy franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence — something surprising happens.

The franchise’s heroes (and the titular “Bad Boys”), Miami narcotics detectives Mike Lowery (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence), have spent most of the movie on the run. They begin the action focused on clearing the name of their dearly departed Capt. Howard (Joe Pantoliano), who has been accused of aiding and abetting the cartels, then get framed themselves. It’s all come down to this — one final showdown with the turncoat cops and drug lords that ordered the hit on Howard in the previous film, 2020’s “Bad Boys for Life.”

There’s just one problem: Mike’s having a panic attack,...

Exclusive: Australia is set to welcome some of the biggest names in Hollywood to a new industry conference, Future Vision.

Beef creator Lee Sung Jin, The Bear co-showrunner Joanna Calo and Big Little Lies producer Bruna Papandrea will feature at the event, which will be held in Melbourne on July 15-17. The summit is the latest globally-focused TV event on the crowded international calendar.

More speakers are set to be announced shortly, with the event streaming live around the world. Future Vision has been created with support from Australians in Film, Screen Australia and VicScreen, with Papandrea and The Slap showrunner Tony Ayres the co-chairs and Rebecca Yeldham, who led the content team at MasterClass, the Creative Director.

The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Lee created, wrote, executive produced and directed Netflix miniseries Beef, which starred Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, who also won acting prizes for the series.

Exclusive: Three and a half decades into his career as a playwright and film and TV writer, Jon Robin Baitz has never been busier, coming off one series, with three others in production or preproduction. Baitz has now signed a big multi-year deal with 20th Television, the studio behind the four series, which all hail from Ryan Murphy Productions. Noone is commenting but I hear the pact — said to be in the premium top range for writing talent — spans five years.

Under the deal, Baitz will develop, write and executive produce original series with 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios, for Disney Entertainment Television, as well as collaborate with Murphy on more projects.

The overall agreement comes on the heels of FX/20th Television/Ryan Murphy Prods.’ limited series Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, on which Baitz served as an executive producer/showrunner and wrote every episode.

His...

As much as Will Smith wanted Chris Rock to keep his wife’s name out his f*ckin’ mouth, the comedian wanted to lay as low as possible after The Slap. That included turning down good friend Jerry Seinfeld’s offer to appear in Unfrosted — primarily because his cameo would have spoofed that infamous Oscar moment.

As Jerry Seinfeld revealed on the Fly on the Wall podcast, he reached out to Chris Rock to let him get some remote revenge. “The other thing I wanted to do, that I almost did, was Chris Rock was gonna be the emcee of the Bowl and Spoon Awards. We shot that right after the Will Smith slap, and I was gonna have somebody come up on the stage and have Chris punch them out…Chris wasn’t…he wasn’t up to perform. He was still a little shook from the event. But...

Actress Thandiwe Newton is the latest addition to the cast of the second season of the Netflix series ‘Wednesday’. Exact character details are being kept under wraps. She is the latest new cast member to be revealed, as it was previously reported that Steve Buscemi will also appear in Season 2, reports variety.com.

Newton has held a number of TV roles in her career, perhaps most notably starring in series ‘Westworld’. She received three Emmy nominations for best supporting actress in a drama for that show, winning the award in 2018.

Her other TV credits include ‘The Slap’, ‘Big Mouth’, ‘Human Resources’, and ‘Rogue’. Among films, Newton is known for starring in features such as ‘Crash’, ‘Beloved’, ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’, and ‘W’.

Not much is known about the second season of the show, however, it will have Jenna Ortega returning as the titular Addams Family daughter going through her teenage years.

Season 2 of the hit Netflix Addams Family series Wednesday is expected to start filming in Ireland (season 1 was shot in Romania) by the end of this month, and some new cast members are joining in on the fun this time around. Last week, we learned that Steve Buscemi (Fargo) has been cast as the new principal of Nevermore Academy, and now Variety reports that Thandiwe Newton has signed on to play an unspecified role.

Newton’s previous credits include Westworld, All the Old Knives, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Rogue, The Slap, Vanishing on 7th Street, 2012, ER, W., Norbit, The Pursuit of Happyness, Crash, The Chronicles of Riddick, Mission: Impossible II, Beloved, Jefferson in Paris, Interview with the Vampire, and Flirting, among many others.

The first season of Wednesday consisted of eight episodes. The show comes to us from Millar Gough Ink, Tim Burton Productions, Toluca Pictures, and MGM Television,...

Thandiwe Newton is the latest new cast member to join “Wednesday” Season 2 at Netflix.

Variety has learned exclusively from sources that Newton will star in the second season of the megahit series. Exact character details are being kept under wraps. She is the latest new cast member to be revealed, as Variety previously reported that Steve Buscemi will also appear in Season 2.

Reps for Netflix declined to comment.

Newton has held a number of TV roles in her career, perhaps most notably starring in the HBO series “Westworld.” She received three Emmy nominations for best supporting actress in a drama for that show, winning the award in 2018. Her other TV credits include “The Slap,” “Big Mouth,” “Human Resources,” and “Rogue.” In film, Newton is known for starring in features such as “Crash,” “Beloved,” “The Pursuit of Happyness,” and “W.”

She is repped by WME and Independent Talent Group.

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Evil Does Not Exist Photo: Janus Films Bustin’ used to make me feel goodThe original Ghostbusters is a near-perfect film. It’s just the right blend of comedy and legitimate horror, with Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson in their prime. When it came out, it was...

Graphic: The A.V. Club, Photo: John P. Johnson, Gkids, Neon, Janus Films, Image: Focus Features, Warner Bros., Screenshot: Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube, Searchlight Pictures/YouTube, Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTubeBustin’ used to make me feel goodForeground: Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters (Columbia Pictures/Archive Photos...

Will Smith is indeed the jack of all trades in the entertainment industry. A music artist, a TV icon, a visionary film producer, and an Oscar-winning actor, he has done it all. The Men in Black actor’s career started back in the mid-1980s when he became part of a hip-hop duo with DJ Jazzy Jeff. However, his popularity skyrocketed when he was featured in the popular ’90s sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Will Smith. Credits: Wikimedia Commons

The show opened Smith’s door to stardom as he went on to embrace a wide variety of roles and starred in critically acclaimed dramas like The Pursuit of Happyness, Six Degrees of Separation, Ali, and many more. However, Will Smith threw all his fame and stardom away when he slapped Chris Rock, the presenter of the Best Documentary feature at 94th Academy Awards back in 2022, eventually derailing his career.

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith Screenshot: Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube You can’t keep a bad boy down for long. We haven’t seen Will Smith on the big screen since The Slap (Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation excepted as a straight-to-streaming drama). But he’s finally making his triumphant (hopefully!

Martin Lawrence and Will SmithScreenshot: Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube

You can’t keep a bad boy down for long. We haven’t seen Will Smith on the big screen since The Slap (Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation excepted as a straight-to-streaming drama). But he’s finally making his triumphant (hopefully!) return...

Former kids TV producer Dan Schneider says he has no problem censoring Nickelodeon cult classics he created in the 1990s and 2000s that now may offend viewers.

“All these jokes that you’re speaking of that [Quiet on Set] covered over the past two nights, every one of those jokes was written for a kid audience, because kids thought they were funny, and only funny,” Schneider said of lines he wrote for Nickelodeon shows like The Amanda Show, Victorious and Zoey 101, and which are now being criticized by offended fans on YouTube and social media platforms for having allegedly sexualized young actors.

His comments came as part of a March 19 apology video he released following the two-night docuseries, Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which probed toxic environment claims on sets run by Schneider. The former Nickelodeon producer created hit programs for the network like All That,...

Forget all about Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Rafe Spall and co. That lot are yesterday’s chip paper. The stars of the 2011 One Day film have been superseded by this new bunch, now bringing David Nicholls’ hit 2009 romance novel to life for a new 14-episodes Netflix series. Adapted by Wild Rose and Three Girls screenwriter Nicole Taylor, One Day is a bittersweet love story set across two decades. It’s the story of Emma and Dexter, whose first night together at their university graduation sparks almost two decades of will-they-won’t-they romance.

Read on to see cast members from This is Going to Hurt, White Lotus season two, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Poldark and more.

Ambika Mod as Emma Morley

Sketch and improv comedian Ambika Mod made her name in 2022 BBC One drama This is Going to Hurt. Mod played Shruti, a trainee doctor working on the obstetrics ward alongside...

Prime Video has released the trailer for ‘Expats,’ the six-part limited series directed by Lulu Wang and based on the internationally best-selling novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee.

Set against the vibrant and tumultuous tapestry of 2014 Hong Kong, Expats centers on three American women—Margaret (Nicole Kidman), Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo)—whose lives intersect after a sudden family tragedy. The series interrogates privilege and explores what happens when the line between victimhood and culpability becomes blurred. Brian Tee plays Margaret’s husband Clarke and Jack Huston plays Hilary’s husband David.

The series stars Academy Award- and Emmy-winning actor Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Brian Tee, and Jack Huston. Kidman and Lulu Wang also serve as executive producers on the series.

Lulu Wang serves as a creator, director, and writer for Expats. Wang also executive produces the series with Daniele Melia for Local Time.

Grief takes many forms. It gets inside your bones and could change you after siphoning your energy and reducing you to a shadow of your former self. In today’s Expats trailer, Margaret (Nicole Kidman) encounters a level of grief no parent should suffer, and as her emotions pull her into an abyss, loved ones attempt to remove her from the brink of darkness. Expats, the six-part limited series from the brilliant directorial eye of Lulu Wang (The Farewell), comes to Prime Video on February 23, 2024.

“Set against the vibrant and tumultuous tapestry of 2014 Hong Kong, Expats centers on three American women—Margaret (Nicole Kidman), Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo)—whose lives intersect after a sudden family tragedy,” reads the official Expats synopsis. “The series interrogates privilege and explores what happens when the line between victimhood and culpability becomes blurred. Brian Tee plays Margaret’s husband Clarke, and Jack Huston...

After starring in Season 12 of “American Horror Story,” Kim Kardashian is making more moves as an actress. She will continue to work with “AHS” co-creator Ryan Murphy, this time in a procedural.

The legal drama has been given a series commitment at Hulu — which also airs reality series “The Kardashians” — and will see Kardashian play a successful divorce lawyer who leads an all-female law firm in Los Angeles. Jon Robin Baitz, the showrunner of the Truman Capote-focused upcoming season of Murphy’s “Feud,” will write the series alongside Joseph Baken, a writer on “AHS” spinoff “American Horror Stories.”

Aside from “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” Baitz is best known as the creator of “Brothers & Sisters,” which ran on ABC for five seasons from 2006 to 2011, and developing NBC’s “The Slap” based on the Australian series of the same name. Other writing credits include episodes of “The West Wing...

The comedy “Colin From Accounts” tends to surprise viewers who tune in expecting one thing, and realizing it’s something else altogether. It’s a romantic comedy with a most unusual name (read on if you want to find out who “Colin” actually is) and has become a phenomenon first in Australia, then on the BBC in the U.K., followed by the Nordic region and now in the U.S. via Paramount+, where it premiered earlier this month.

“Colin From Accounts” is written by and stars a married actors Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall, who are Australian but live in Los Angeles. It’s co-produced by CBS Studios, which means it’s eligible for the U.S. Primetime Emmys — but it was filmed Down Under and has become an international awards juggernaut, including nominations at the Venice TV Awards, the European Broadcasting Union’s Rose D’Or awards, Content...

Parents just don’t understand, and they haven’t been alone in trying to make sense of Will Smith’s angry assault on Chris Rock a year and a half ago at the Oscars. Perhaps to remind the world that he was once wholesome and didn’t have to cuss in his raps to sell records, he’s reuniting with his old compatriot DJ Jazzy Jeff for a surely noncontroversial performance at A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop.

The event, which Billboard reports will tape at YouTube Theater in Inglewood,...

It may be time for Jada Pinkett Smith to bring herself back to the red table.

For years now, the actress and personality — known for movies like “Set It Off” and “Girls Trip,” as well as for her high-profile marriage to Will Smith and family life — has traded on a sort of tactical openness. “Red Table Talk,” a streaming series in which she, her daughter Willow Smith, and her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris discuss personal matters, has, from its 2018 launch to its leaving Facebook Watch and going on hiatus earlier this year, helped rebrand a performer already recognized for her flair and edge as a say-almost-everything matriarch. And the vivid public life of Will Smith — including his dishy 2021 memoir “Will” and his turbulent 2022 Oscar night — has kept Jada’s name in headlines, too.

Now, though, Pinkett Smith seeks to thread a very narrow needle: Correcting a record that she has helped...

While Will and Jada Pinkett Smith aren’t exactly getting the attention of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, their love life (or lack thereof) and marriage has been swirling around pop culture in the past couple of weeks. After Jada revealed that she and Will Smith have been separated since 2016, the Oscar-winning actor has been forced to give his side of the story. And, not surprisingly, he still comes off like a bit of a wimp…

In an email to The New York Times (via Deadline), Will Smith said Jada’s comments “kind of woke [him] up”, adding that his wife was more “resilient, clever and compassionate than [he’d] understood.” Smith added, “When you’ve been with someone for more than half of your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in…And you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties.”

Such apparent nuances and...

In a rare joint appearance, the heads of the organizations behind the Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and Grammys expressed optimism about strike talk progress and also tackled the task of producing live events.

“The planning continues,” Bill Kramer, CEO of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said when asked about the upcoming Oscars. “We don’t stop planning. We’ve all had to deal with years of pivoting. This is just the latest pivot moment. We’re supportive. We see all sides of this. We want a solution. … There’s just a lot of planning and pivoting right now.”

After a breakthrough Wednesday, WGA negotiators are meeting again with the AMPTP today, and optimism is growing about a potential settlement to the nearly 5-month-long impasse. Award shows have been particularly hard-hit by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, with the Emmys pushed back to January, putting them in the first-quarter corridor with the Grammys and Oscars.

Prime Video has released first-look images for ‘Expats,’ the six-part limited series based on the internationally best-selling novel ‘The Expatriates,’ by Janice Y. K. Lee.

The Lulu Wang-directed series stars Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning actor Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Brian Tee, and Jack Huston.

Set against the vibrant and tumultuous tapestry of 2014 Hong Kong, Expats centres on three American women—Margaret (Nicole Kidman), Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo)—whose lives intersect after a sudden family tragedy. The series interrogates privilege and explores what happens when the line between victimhood and culpability becomes blurred. Brian Tee, who plays Margaret’s husband Clarke and Jack Huston, who plays Hilary’s husband David also star in the series.

Lulu Wang serves as a creator, director and writer for Expats. Wang also executive produces the series with Daniele Melia for Local Time. Nicole Kidman serves as an executive...

Penn Badgley and Taylor Momsen, stars of Gossip Girl, have reunited after more than a decade. Neither actor reprised their original roles in the Gossip Girl reboot, making this reunion even more special. While Momsen focused on her music career after the show's end, Badgley found further success on television, including his current role as Joe Goldberg in the Netflix show You.

Gossip Girl stars Penn Badgley and Taylor Momsen have reunited more than a decade after the show went off the air. The CW title, which followed the dramatic goings-on at a wealthy Upper East Side high school and lasted for six seasons, ran from 2007 through 2012. Badgley played scholarship student Dan Humphrey on all 121 episodes of the show while Momsen played his aspiring fashion designer sister Jenny on the first four seasons before leaving the show, though she did return for the series finale in December 2012.

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Exclusive: Stan has ordered a trio of original drama series as part of its content boss Cailah Scobie has called “a massive week” for the Australian streamer.

We can reveal Stan has commissioned Bluey producer Ludo Studio to make eight-part road series Thou Shalt Not Steal, and also ordered coastal mystery thriller Exposure and Invisible Boys, a contemporary drama about a closeted gay teenager in small-town Western Australia. A trio of UK-based international distributors have signed on for the shows.

Stan has been working closely with international partners as it builds out its slate, with Deadline in the past year revealing comedy series C*A*U*G*H*T, which stars Sean Penn and Matthew Fox, and epic family drama Prosper, developed with Lionsgate.

“The shows are representative of our entire slate,” Stan Chief Content Officer Scobie said of the new originals in an exclusive interview with Deadline. “We back distinctive voices and tell Australia...

He’s baaack! Zachary Quinto appeared in the first two “American Horror Story” installments as gay homeowner Chad Warwick (Season 1’s “Murder House”) and as fan-fave serial killer Bloody Face (Season 2’s “Asylum”), but then he took a nine-year hiatus before popping up last year as erotic art curator Sam (Season 11’s “NYC”). Well, “AHS” viewers won’t have to wait another nine years to see Quinto again, as he’ll return to the franchise in Season 12’s “Delicate” in a mysterious role, which brings his tally to four total characters.

Quinto confirmed the news at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his movie “He Went That Way.” Speaking about new “AHS” cast member Kim Kardashian, the bearded actor told reporters, “I did a cameo on this season of ‘American Horror Story’ and I got to meet her. She was so lovely and warm and, really, I don’t think she needs my advice.

It won’t just be Chris Rock keeping Jada Pinkett Smith’s name out their mouth, as her online talk show, Red Table Talk, has joined the lengthy list of series canceled following Facebook Watch’s shuttering. So maybe she has time for G.I. Jane 2 after all…

Jada Pinkett Smith addressed the cancellation in an Instagram post, writing, “We are so grateful to have had such a beautiful partnership with Facebook Watch and we are sorry to see the entire team disband. We wish everyone well in their new journeys to come…We at Red Table are in talks of finding a new home and we’ll see you soon.” Red Table Talk launched in 2018, running for five seasons and nearly 130 episodes.

While the cancellation of Jada Pinkett Smith’s show is a direct result of Meta shutting down Facebook Watch originals, one would be justly skeptical if Westbrook...

A producer behind the scenes at this year’s Oscars has given some insight into the decision to limit the jokes made about the major talking point from the 2022 ceremony – The Slap.

Last year, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage for making an ill-judged joke about the hair of his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

While giving his opening monologue for the 2023 Academy Awards on Sunday (12 March), presenter Jimmy Kimmel revisited the extraordinary incident and told those present why there would be no repeats this time around.

However, there were some additional jokes that were written about the Smith-Rock moment that didn’t make it to the final script.

Molly McNearney, an executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Kimmel’s wife, explained that the writing team made a choice to restrict the number of jokes made about the moment as they didn’t want to dwell on the past.

It’s been one year since the infamous Will Smith/Chris Rock debacle known as The Slap, and the industry-wide mission for a smooth, if uneventful Oscars night in 2023 seems to have been a success.

Whether it was Ke Huy Quan honoring his mom or Charlie Mackesy missing his dog, the 95th Academy Awards were generally pleasant. Host Jimmy Kimmel marked the occasion at the show’s end by updating a sign backstage to read “Number of Oscar Telecasts Without Incident: 1.”

But just because no one got smacked doesn’t mean the biggest night in Hollywood went off without a hitch. The drama of last year inevitably impacted how audiences perceived Sunday’s ceremony, as IndieWire’s Ben Travers explains in his review of ABC’s telecast.

“In 2023, with plenty of feel-good winners predicted to win, it makes some degree of sense for producers to go all-in on an average...

Whether it was the lingering drama of The Slap or the prominence of blockbusters in the best picture race, a bigger audience was lured back to the Oscars this year.

The 95th Academy Awards, which aired Sunday night on ABC, was viewed by an estimated 18.7 million, according to preliminary Fast National Live+Same Day numbers released Monday by ABC. That’s up 12% from last year’s show, but still low compared to most years.

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The evening’s main counterprogramming, the season finale of “The Last of Us” pulled in 8.2 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max. The show began at 9 p.m. Est, an hour after the Oscars started.

A frequent criticism of the Oscars is that the show celebrates films that don’t have wide appeal. This year was markedly different, however, with two billion-dollar blockbuster sequels in...

One year after delivering The Slap heard ’round the Internet, the Oscars saw its audience rise — and for a second straight year.

Sunday night’s ABC telecast averaged 18.8 million total viewers (per Nielsen finals), up 13 percent from last year’s tally. And in the demo, the ceremony drew a 4.0 rating, up two tenths from 2022.

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As the credits began to roll at the end of the 2023 Oscars, host Jimmy Kimmel walked to the side of the stage, where somebody had placed an industrial workplace sign reading “Number of Oscars Telecasts Without an Incident,” and he triumphantly flipped the “00” to “01.”

That pretty much sums up the night.

Maybe you’re a person who loves chaos, in which case the Oscars telecast was doubtlessly a large disappointment. Maybe you’re a person who hates Everything Everywhere All at Once, in which case the Oscars telecast was doubtlessly infuriating. Maybe you hate Hollywood folks and think it’s inappropriate for the recipient of a professional honor to get emotional, in which case the Oscars telecast gave you plenty to be snide about.

I’m going to complain about things in the Oscars telecast. It’s what I do, and the telecast was hardly without flaws. But those flaws...

Just as the Coca-Cola company, after smudging a perfect product in 1985 with the New Coke, brought that product back and called it Coca-Cola Classic, the 95th Academy Awards telecast made a game attempt to rectify the mishaps of the past few years — the ratings slippage, the pared-down-like-a-skeleton-in-a-train-station 2021 edition, the debacle of The Slap — by bringing back something that we might call Oscar Classic. It was safe, it was familiar, it was tasteful, it was reassuring. It didn’t rock the boat, it didn’t overstay its welcome, and it left you feeling that the world’s preeminent awards show, all doom-saying punditry to the contrary, is still, on balance, a very good thing.

It was clear that the evening would be ruled by a certain traditional spirit as soon as you heard Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue, which featured a mild reference to The Slap and one joke that got...

After a whopping three hours and 35 minutes, the 2023 Oscars ended with a wave. Best Picture (and Director and Screenplay) winner Daniel Scheinert used his few seconds of stage time (following “Everything Everywhere All At Once” producer Jonathan Wang and fellow director Daniel Kwan) to look directly into the camera, thank the audience for watching, and wave goodbye. Like his movie, the parting words were a little cheesy, and like the ceremony that honored the A24 hit with seven trophies, it was delivered with low-key sincerity — maybe you won’t remember his wave next year, but that’s Ok.

Why? Because it wasn’t a slap.

The less said about last year’s Oscars incident the better — after a year of reacting, analyzing, investigating, and revisiting Will Smith’s assault on Chris Rock, we simply must move on — but it would be disingenuous to act as though it didn’t affect...

On Sunday evening, the reveal of the 2023 Oscars winners list brought to a close one of the longest awards seasons in recent memory. It probably felt even longer to the ultimate Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing winner, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which premiered one year ago at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival. It was on March 11, a full 16 days before the now-infamous 2022 Academy Awards ceremony, that David Ehrlich reviewed the now Best Picture winner for IndieWire. Even before The Slap, there were hot dog fingers.

At the Oscars, the Daniels-directed film won the most awards that any Best Picture winner has taken home since “Slumdog Millionaire,” which picked up eight in 2008. With seven wins, “Everything Everywhere” actually won the most Oscars of any film full-stop since 2013’s “Gravity” also won seven Oscars. But the Daniels’ film was...

Update, with video: Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel went there: With everyone wondering whether he’d use last year’s big moment – the Slap of Chris Rock by Will Smith – for monologue source material, the host wasted little time providing an answer.

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“If anyone in this theater commits an act of violence at any point during the show,” Kimmel snarked, “you will be awarded the Oscar for Best Actor, and permitted to give a 19-minute long speech.”

Kimmel also took aim at the audience response to The Slap: “If anything happens,” he told this year’s crowd, “just do what you did last year – nothing. Just sit there and do absolutely nothing. Maybe...

Hollywood is gearing up for the Oscars with the 95th Academy Awards taking place tonight (12 March) at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Everything Everywhere All at Once has the most nominations and is considered the frontrunner for best picture having won a string of top prizes at the guild awards that precede the Oscars.

Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are tipped for best director, and former child star Ke Huy Quan is expected to pick up best supporting actor. First-time nominee Michelle Yeoh could also become the first Asian best actress winner.

In a field of ten best picture nominees, Netflix’s German anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front could sneak an upset having picked up the best film trophy at the BAFTAs.

Host Jimmy Kimmel has said that he will address last year’s “The Slap” incident involving Will Smith and Chris Rock, noting it would be “ridiculous” not to.

The 95th Academy Awards have finally arrived – here’s what you need to know, when you need to know it by and who (we think) will win the key prizes

It’s been a bit of a weird run-up to the Oscars this year, what with the shadow of The Slap still hanging over it and the deployment of a crisis team to deal decisively with any untoward events. Added to which an unseemly squabble over the best actress nominees, in which a high-powered “grassroots” campaign on behalf of Andrea Riseborough ran into the film industry’s attempts to promote diversity, has cast a sorry pall over a portion of the proceedings. Meanwhile, reports suggest that the Academy has (again) knocked back a request by Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to address the assembled throng.

With all that rumbling away in the background, what are the odds that an actual awards show might break out?...

The Oscars are upon us.

The competition between “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Tár,” “Elvis,” “The Fabelmans,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Women Talking” and more in categories other than Best Picture nominees will come to a head almost a year after the theatrical release of frontrunner “Everything Everywhere.”

Actors and actresses from these films as well as “Causeway,” “Blonde,” “To Leslie,” “The Whale,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Living” will compete in the acting categories, and many of those titles have nods in other categories as well.

Host Jimmy Kimmel will follow up the 2022 trio of Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and and Regina Hall, who guided last year’s ceremony through “The Slap” and more. Film fans around the world are no doubt eager to tune in to see how this awards season comes to a close.

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