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Will Smith walks onstage and slaps Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, at the 94th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, on March 27, 2022.

Will Smith was not formally asked to leave Oscars following Chris Rock slap, sources claim

March 31, 2022 at 12:15 p.m.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has claimed that it asked Will Smith to leave Sunday's Oscars ceremony after he slapped Chris Rock. However, sources close to the...

Pamela Anderson at the Elevate Festival in 2019 in Graz, Austria. Anderson will star in the musical "Chicago" in New York.

Pamela Anderson will make her Broadway debut in ‘Chicago’

March 9, 2022 at 1:08 p.m.

After conquering the beach, "Baywatch" luminary Pamela Anderson will now try to dominate Broadway. Anderson will portray Roxie Hart, the morally flexible antiheroine at the heart of "Chicago," the long-running...

Tribeca Film Festival to feature ‘Fargo,’ ‘Royal Tenenbaums’ cast reunions

May 10, 2021 at 8:44 a.m.

The casts of "Fargo," "Raging Bull," "The Five Heartbeats," and "The Royal Tenenbaums" will reunite at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. In addition, the festival, which is returning to in-person events...

‘Downton Abbey 2’ hitting theaters in December with original cast returning

April 19, 2021 at 8:54 a.m.

Lord and Lady Grantham request the pleasure of moviegoers' company at their Yorkshire country estate this Christmas. Rejoice, "Downton Abbey" fans, because Focus Features will shoot a sequel to the hit movie, itself a...

Actor Will Smith attends 'Bad Boys For Life' photocall at the Villamagna Hotel on January 08, 2020 in Madrid, Spain.

Will Smith, Antoine Fuqua won’t shoot ‘Emancipation’ in Georgia because of voting restrictions

April 12, 2021 at 8:27 a.m.

Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith will move production on their big-budget, runaway slave thriller "Emancipation" out of Georgia in protest over the state's controversial new voting restrictions. The announcement continues the economic fallout from Gov. Brian...

This image released by Netflix shows Anya Taylor-Joy in a scene from "The Queen's Gambit." Taylor-Joy accepted the award for best actress in a television motion picture at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. (Phil Bray/Netflix via AP)

‘The Queen’s Gambit’ getting turned into stage musical

March 8, 2021 at 12:05 p.m.

"The Queen's Gambit," the story of a chess prodigy that was streaming smash for Netflix, may become a musical. Level Forward, has acquired the theatrical stage rights to Walter Tevis' novel "The...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt attends the LA Premiere of "The Night Before" in Los Angeles.

Live-action ‘Pinocchio’ casts Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket, Cynthia Erivo as Blue Fairy

March 3, 2021 at 12:31 p.m.

Jospeh Gordon-Levitt will provide the voice of Jiminy Cricket, while Cynthia Erivo will play the Blue Fairy in Disney's live-action retelling of "Pinocchio." That means that Gordon-Levitt will give his pipes a workout, singing "When...

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2006 file photo, Tony Award-winning choreographer Bob Avian poses in front of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, home of the revival of " A Chorus Line," in New York. Avian died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 of cardiac arrest at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, He was 83. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada, File)

Tony Award-winning choreographer Bob Avian dies at 83

January 22, 2021 at 1:22 p.m.

Bob Avian, a Tony Award-winning choreographer who had a role in some of the most beloved and influential shows on Broadway, including "Dreamgirls," "A Chorus Line," "Follies" and "Miss Saigon,"...

PARIS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 12: Greta Gerwig attends the "Little Women" Premiere on December 12, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Female directors behind record number of films in 2019

January 2, 2020 at 8:28 a.m.

Hollywood's glass ceiling may not be shattered, but it's showing some cracks. The number of top-grossing films directed by women reached record levels in 2019, according to a new study...

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Dean-Charles Chapman, left, director Sam Mendes, center, and George MacKay on the set of "1917." On Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, Mendes was nominated for a Golden Globe for best director for the film. (François Duhamel/Universal Pictures via AP)

How Sam Mendes and Roger Deakins pulled off the one-shot war epic ‘1917’

December 10, 2019 at 1:40 p.m.

When cinematographer Roger Deakins opened the script for "1917," he was greeted with the news that the entire, two-hour World War I epic would unfold as one continuous shot. "I...

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