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Emma Stone won, but Lily Gladstone didn't lose
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Academy Awards were full of sure-things, long-awaited anointments and easy predictions. The "Oppenheimer" romp. Ryan Gosling's Ken stealing the show. That put even more focus on the category that was hardest to call: best a...
'Wonka' ends the year No. 1 at the box office, 2023 sales reach $9 billion in post-pandemic best
NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood closed out an up and down 2023 with "Wonka" regaining No. 1 at the box office, strong sales for "The Color Purple" and an overall $9 billion in ticket sales that improved on 2022's grosses but fell about $2 billion shy of p...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Lily Gladstone is standing on the cusp of history
NEW YORK (AP) — Lily Gladstone is named after her great-grandmother. The elder Lily bore many similarities to Gladstone's character in Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon," Mollie Burkhart. Both women, born 10 years apart in the late 1...
Scorsese debuts 'Killers of the Flower Moon' in Cannes to thunderous applause
CANNES, France (AP) — Martin Scorsese unveiled "Killers of the Flower Moon" at Cannes on Saturday, debuting a sweeping American epic about greed and exploitation on the bloody plains of an Osage Nation reservation in 1920s Oklahoma. Scorsese's l...
In Cannes, Scorsese and DiCaprio turn spotlight toward Osage Nation
CANNES, France (AP) — It was well into the process of making "Killers of the Flower Moon" that Martin Scorsese realized it wasn't a detective story. Scorsese, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and screenwriter Eric Roth had many potential avenues in a...
'Indiana Jones' swings into Cannes Film Festival; Harrison Ford honored before joyous festivalgoers
CANNES, France (AP) — Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford swung into Cannes on Thursday for the world premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" in one of the most anticipated events of the French Riviera festival. Fedoras abounded in the t...
Hollywood writers begin strike, late-night shows go dark
NEW YORK (AP) — The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began Tuesday as the economic pressures of the streaming era prompted unionized TV and film writers to picket for better pay outside major studios, a work stoppage that is leading most l...
For once, Cherokee actor Wes Studi cast as romantic co-star
n Wes Studi's potent and pioneering acting career, he has played vengeful warriors, dying prisoners and impassioned resistance leaders. For three decades, he has arrestingly crafted wide-ranging portraits of the Native American experience. But one...
Zelenskyy opens Cannes Film Festival, links war and cinema
CANNES, France (AP) — The 75th Cannes Film Festival kicked off Tuesday with an eye turned to Russia's war in Ukraine and a live satellite video address from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called on a new generation of filmmakers to conf...
Academy condemns Will Smith's actions, launches review
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Monday condemned the actions of Will Smith during Sunday night's Oscars and launched an inquiry into his slapping of presenter Chris Rock. In a statement Monday, the film a...
Q&A: Rita Moreno on finding self-worth and never giving up
NEW YORK (AP) — Rita Moreno emigrated with her mother from Puerto Rico at age five. By six, she was dancing at Greenwich Village nightclubs. By 16, she was working full time. By 20, she was in "Singin' in the Rain." In the documentary "Rita M...
By split screen, Fey and Poehler kick off bicoastal Globes
NEW YORK (AP) — With nominees appearing by remote video and hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on different sides of the country, a very socially distanced 78th Golden Globe Awards trudged on in the midst of the pandemic and a storm of criticism. Fey t...
Amanda Gorman, in a first, brings poetry to Super Bowl
NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who stirred America at the inauguration of President Joseph Biden last month, again commanded the spotlight on one of the country's biggest stages, the Super Bowl. Gorman read an original poem S...
'Wonder Woman 1984' debuts with pandemic-best $16.7M
NEW YORK (AP) — Despite premiering simultaneously by streaming service, "Wonder Woman 1984" managed the best box office debut of the pandemic, opening with $16.7 million over the Christmas weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That's only a...
Testing new release strategy, 'The Croods' opens to $14.2M
NEW YORK (AP) — Testing a novel release strategy, Universal Pictures' animated sequel "The Croods: A New Age" had one of the best opening weekends of the pandemic, grossing $14.2 million over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend, according to s...
Greta Thunberg on 2 very surreal years of protest and fame
NEW YORK (AP) — In the first days of Greta Thunberg's solitary sidewalk protest outside Swedish Parliament in August 2018, most walk right past her. Some pause and ask why she's not in school. But people steadily begin to take notice of the s...
Sunset falls on a historic season for the drive-in
NEW YORK (AP) — Julia Wiggin was still shivering after running out to hang up the weekend's marquee — "Ghostbusters," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" — at her Northfield Drive-in near Hinsdale, New Hampshire. "It's cold," Wiggin said on a bitter, wet morni...
Pandemic chases 'Wonder Woman 1984' to Dec. 25
NEW YORK (AP) — Following the less-than-stellar theatrical debut of Christopher Nolan's "Tenet," Warner Bros. is delaying its next big release, "Wonder Woman 1984," to Christmas. The postponement Friday of the "Wonder Woman" sequel, which had been s...
Launching in U.S. theaters, 'Tenet' tallies $20.2 million
NEW YORK (AP) — In a litmus test for American moviegoing in the pandemic, Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" brought in an estimated $20.2 million through the holiday weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters. The result could be greeted as either the r...
Review: An animal-rights parable in 'The One and Only Ivan'
A sweet if sleepy adaptation of Katherine Applegate's 2012 children's book, Disney's "The One and Only Ivan" is a talking-animal film that takes the lives of its characters a lot more seriously than, say, "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." Directed by Thea...
In an upside-down summer, 'Jaws,' 'E.T.' are hits again
NEW YORK (AP) — When historians look back on the top films at the box office in the summer of 2020, they may feel like they've slipped into a time warp, or maybe "Back to the Future." Over the second weekend in July, "Empire Strikes Back" — 40 yea...
AMC, Universal agree to shrink theatrical window to 17 days
NEW YORK (AP) — In a sign of how the pandemic is remaking Hollywood traditions, AMC Theatres and Universal Studios on Tuesday announced an agreement to shorten the exclusive theatrical window to just 17 days for the studio's films. The standard w...
Movie theaters implore studios: Release the blockbusters
NEW YORK (AP) — A long time ago in a pre-COVID universe far, far away, blockbusters opened around the globe simultaneously or nearly so. In 1975, "Jaws" set the blueprint. Concentrate marketing. Open wide. Pack them in. Since then, Hollywood has turn...
Tom Hanks on COVID-19, 'Greyhound' and wartime mentality
NEW YORK (AP) — Since contracting COVID-19 in March, Tom Hanks has been, by most measures, busy. He and his wife, Rita Wilson, flew home after recuperating in Australia, where he had been shooting Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley film. He hosted a f...
Cases spike in Sunbelt, other states back off on reopening
PHOENIX (AP) — California closed bars, theaters and indoor restaurant dining all over again across most of the state Wednesday, and Arizona's outbreak grew more severe by nearly every measure as the surging coronavirus crisis across the South and W...
