Kevin Hart to receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Kevin Hart to receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Photo: Kevin Kwan – 2022The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced on Wednesday that it will present the 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Kevin Hart. The presentation will take place at a gala event on March 24 in Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center Concert Hall and will see Kevin joining…Read More…

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski accident trial becomes UK musical

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski accident trial becomes UK musical

Awkward ProductionsWhile 2022 had the Depp vs. Heard trial, 2023’s celebrity collision with the justice system happened in a Utah courtroom, where Gwyneth Paltrow was on the stand over a 2016 ski accident. Now, that drama is playing out in musical form, thanks to a forthcoming staged production in the U.K. called Gwyneth Goes Skiing. Running December 13 through…Read More…

Cher, Barry Manilow and more to perform on ‘Christmas in Rockefeller Center’

Cher, Barry Manilow and more to perform on ‘Christmas in Rockefeller Center’

NBCThis year’s lineup for NBC’s annual special Christmas In Rockefeller Center has been revealed, and it’s the usual mix of stars from many musical genres. Cher, who just released her first holiday album, will perform, as will Barry Manilow, who’s starring in his own NBC holiday special, Barry Manilow’s A Very Barry Christmas, December 11. Also on the bill…Read More…

Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer post tributes to Matthew Perry

Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer post tributes to Matthew Perry

Warner Bros. TelevisionJennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer posted emotional tributes to their late Friends co-star Matthew Perry on Wednesday. Aniston said his death “cut deep” and expressed, “Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before.” “Being able to really SIT in this grief allows…Read More…

Dakota Johnson gets into the Spider-Verse in ‘Madame Web’ trailer

Dakota Johnson gets into the Spider-Verse in ‘Madame Web’ trailer

Sony Pictures EntertainmentOn Wednesday, Sony Pictures released the trailer to its latest Spider-Man adjacent adventure, Madame Web. Based very loosely on the Marvel Comics character Cassandra Webb, the movie has Dakota Johnson playing the title character, a paramedic in Manhattan who begins to have clairvoyant visions. Set to Billie Eilish’s “bury a friend,” the trailer…Read More…

Director Greta Gerwig opens up on ‘Barbie”s success, and why she hasn’t yet read any reviews

Director Greta Gerwig opens up on ‘Barbie”s success, and why she hasn’t yet read any reviews

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc./Jaap BuitendijkShe co-wrote and directed the highest-grossing movie of the year, but to Vanity Fair, Greta Gerwig explains the movie’s runaway success was certainly not a sure thing. “I always had a hope that it would connect. I had a sense that it might. But Barbie doesn’t fit neatly into a preordained category,” she admits.  “We had…Read More…

In Brief: Robert Downey Jr. to be hailed by film fest, and more

In Brief: Robert Downey Jr. to be hailed by film fest, and more

Robert Downey Jr. is the latest star named who will be feted by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The event, which recently announced it was honoring Ryan Gosling, will be giving Oppenheimer co-star Downey the Maltin Modern Master Award on Friday, February 9th, 2024. The trophy, re-named in honor of festival’s moderator Leonard Maltin,…Read More…

‘Young Sheldon’ to end with upcoming season 7

‘Young Sheldon’ to end with upcoming season 7

Bill Inoshita / 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.Young Sheldon’s upcoming seventh season will be its last, CBS announced on Tuesday, November 14. The prequel to The Big Bang Theory — starring Iain Armitage as the titular character, along with Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Annie Potts, Montana Jordan, Raegan Revord and Jim Parsons as the voice of Sheldon — premiered as the #1 new comedy in…Read More…