The Hollywood Reporter has landed 44 nominations for the 66th annual SoCal Journalism Awards, including print journalist of the year for Rebecca Keegan and best website. Other nominations were bestowed upon THR’s Songwriter Roundtable,…
While the New York courts decide whether convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein should return to California while he awaits a retrial for his overturned 2020 conviction, the former movie mogul will remain jailed in the Empire State, it was…
The Lioness will roar again for Paramount+. The Paramount Global-backed streamer has handed out a second-season renewal for the Taylor Sheridan drama starring Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman. Additionally, Morgan Freeman — who appeared in…
Oscar winner Cate Blanchett will receive the Donostia Award at the 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival. The Australian star, known for her roles in films such as The Aviator, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and more recently the Oscar…
The Venice Film Festival will honor Australian director and screenwriter Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Master & Commander) with its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st edition, running Aug. 28-Sept 7. The…
Lady Gaga’s long-awaited Chromatica Ball will finally hit screens this month following a two-year wait, the singer announced Wednesday. The concert film, originally announced in 2022, will include footage from Gaga’s global Chromatica Ball…
Whoopi Goldberg took a moment this week to spotlight her friendship with Maggie Smith, remembering a time when the British actress offered support amid news that Goldberg’s mother’s health had taken a turn for the worse. Goldberg told…
An intruder was detained in Toronto on Wednesday after allegedly attempting to gain access to Drake’s mansion. The incident comes one day after the rapper’s security guard was shot outside the same residence. “Officers were called after a…
Macklemore has released a new song, praising pro-Palestinian college protesters and calling out President Biden amid the ongoing war in Gaza. The single is titled “Hind’s Hall” after the name given to Hamilton Hall by Columbia University…
A member of the Recording Academy who claimed Neil Portnow, former head of the Grammy Awards, drugged and raped her in a New York hotel in 2018 has asked the court to dismiss her lawsuit. The move is a result of a looming court order that…
When wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Shawn “Heartbreak Kid” Michaels takes to social media and invites you to settle your rap rivalry in the squared circle — or Saturday Night Live takes a deep dive with a sketch — you know your…
Steve Albini, the exacting producer/engineer and frontman of the noisesome indie rock bands Shellac and Big Black, has died. He was 61. According to a staff member at Albini’s Electric Audio Recordings studio in Chicago, Albini died of a…
Hollywood Tries (Just a Little Bit Harder) But Can’t Make a Janis Joplin Film Jim Morrison got one. Jimi Hendrix, too. And Kurt Cobain. And now, with Back to Black, Amy Winehouse is getting one as well. But there is one member of the so…
Early in her career, Andra Day was asked by a reporter which singer she wanted to model her career after. Her answer was Sade. “The person was like, ‘OK, but Sade only releases albums like every nine years,’ and I was like, ‘Well, I’m not…
The world’s largest live music contest is back. The Eurovision Song Contest, a springboard to fame for some of the biggest acts in the world – legendary Swedish band ABBA, or more recently, Italian glam rock band Måneskin, for example –…
South by Southwest is heading to London. The event, which bills itself as “the world’s leading festival celebrating the convergence of creativity, culture and technology,” is expanding with SXSW London in June 2025. The move gives SXSW,…
Charli XCX has confirmed past rumors that she was working on writing music for a potential new Britney Spears album at one point. However, the English singer-songwriter admitted in a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live that she…
Lily Allen took a moment this week to interrogate the “nepo baby” terminology that has become widespread in its use to denote Hollywood professionals whose parents are also famous. “Nepo babies, I think it’s quite like ‘Karen’, in the…
With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president’s hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid to keep silent during the…
Ethan Hawke took a moment to recount how he ended up in Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” music video. The Wildcat director stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to promote the film, which stars his daughter, Maya Hawke. Ahead of their…
Tiffany Haddish has addressed a viral moment from her stand-up performance at this weekend’s Netflix Is a Joke Festival, where she called out the protests happening on college campuses against the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. When speaking to…
Over two dozen pro-Palestine protesters were arrested on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Monday evening while marching from a midtown college campus to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to demonstrate in front of the Met Gala, one of the most…
Drake’s Toronto mansion was the scene of a drive-by shooting early Tuesday, but the Canadian rap sensation is safe and cooperating with a police investigation that as yet has no motive. Toronto Police in a post on X, formerly Twitter, said…
Deep in the lush mountains of the Caribbean island of Dominica, amid stands of lemongrass, giant ferns and palms, three roads converge where two lives ended, violently. A few weeks before Christmas, the bodies of Daniel Langlois, a French…
Kevin Spacey is due to stand trial in the U.K. again, likely in 2025, over a lawsuit by a man, who alleges that the actor sexually assaulted him, Reuters reported. The alleged sexual assault took place in August 2008, with the trial on…
Warner Bros. Discovery said on Tuesday that it has struck a bundling partnership with French pay-TV giant Canal+ for its May 21 launch of streaming service Max in France. Max will also become available in the Netherlands and Belgium on…
Tension at the University of California, Los Angeles, continued over the weekend and into Monday when professors protested outside an A-list gala at the school on Saturday night and another several dozen students were detained on Monday,…
Film critic Justin Chang won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for criticism on Monday for varied and “richly evocative” work that telegraphs how Americans see movies now. The New Yorker‘s current film critic won the prize on Monday for his 2023…
Columbia University is canceling its large university-wide commencement ceremony following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled its campus and others across the U.S., but it will hold smaller school-based ceremonies this week…
The Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud continues to escalate after the Canadian rapper released “The Heart Part 6,” a new diss track Sunday night that pushed back against some of the sexual predator allegations made by Lamar in a series of songs…