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“Shocked and stunned” and “still triggered” Amy Schumer unpacks Oscars slap
ABC One of Sunday night’s Oscars hosts, Amy Schumer, has broken her silence about the so-called “slap heard ’round the world.” “Still triggered and traumatized,” she said on Instagram. “I love my friend @chrisrock and [Read More…]

In Brief: ‘It’ prequel series coming to HBO Max, and more
HBO Max is developing a prequel to the Stephen King novel It, according to The Ankler. The series, tentatively titled Welcome to Derry, will be set in the 1960s in the time leading up to [Read More…]

Debuting today on Disney+: Marvel Studios’ ‘Moon Knight’
Marvel Studios Marvel Studios’ newest series, Moon Knight, debuts today on Disney+. It centers on Oscar Isaac‘s Steven Grant, a geeky museum gift shop employee plagued by blackouts and haunting visions of another life. He suffers from dissociative [Read More…]

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ alum Jesse Williams wants $40K child support payments reduced
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Grey’s Anatomy alum Jesse Williams is seeking a reduction on his $40,000 a month child support payment. The 40-year-old actor, who shares joint custody of eight-year-old daughter Sadie and six-year-old son Maceo with ex-wife Aryn [Read More…]

“A blessing and a gift during such uncertain times” — Hilaria and Alec Baldwin expecting baby #7
Monica Schipper/Getty Images Hilaria Baldwin broke a social media break to share the news that she and Alec Baldwin are expecting their seventh child. “After many ups and downs over the past few years, we [Read More…]

“From $50 to $500”: Chris Rock’s tour ticket sales skyrocketed after Oscars slapping altercation
ABC While Chris Rock may be keeping his silence on the infamous Oscars slapping incident, his fans are loudly speaking up for him. After Sunday night’s unexpected altercation, online ticket marketplace TickPick, saw a huge increase of [Read More…]

‘Flash’ star Ezra Miller arrested after incident at karaoke bar in Hawaii
Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images Ezra Miller, who plays Barry Allen/The Flash in the DC movie universe, was arrested by police in Hilo, Hawaii, on Sunday evening after allegedly making a scene at a karaoke bar. [Read More…]

No, Chris Rock didn’t apologize for Oscars night joke
ABC Chris Rock is never known to hold his tongue, so when an alleged apology for his Oscar night dig at Jada Pinkett-Smith started making the rounds online, it raised some eyebrows. However, a rep for the Emmy winner had [Read More…]

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s mother speak out after Oscars slapping incident
ABC (NOTE LANGUAGE) Two days after the very shocking “slap heard all around the world” at the Oscars, actress Jada Pinkett Smith posted a note on social media. “This is the season for healing and I’m here for [Read More…]

Amy Schumer says her “queen” Kirsten Dunst was in on Oscars “seat filler” joke
ABC While it went unnoticed by some in the wake of the “slap heard ’round the world,” some fans of Kirsten Dunst took issue with an Oscars moment in which co-host Amy Schumer referred to the nominated actress as a “seat [Read More…]

Good morning, aviators: Check out the high-flying new trailer to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved./Scott Garfield After a series of movie theater fly-bys, Top Gun: Maverick is finally coming in for a landing May 27, and Paramount Pictures has just debuted a new trailer [Read More…]

Late-night hosts react to Will Smith slapping Chis Rock at the Oscars
Scott Kowalchyk/CBS ©2021 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Late-night hosts had a field day addressing the “slap heard around the world,” using their opening to lay into Will Smith for slapping Chris Rock at Sunday night’s Academy Awards over [Read More…]

In Brief: Oscars slap surges Chris Rock’s concert ticket sales, and more
The slap in the face Chris Rock got from Will Smith at Sunday’s Oscars have given Rock’s ticket sales a shot in the arm. TickPick reports the comedian’s ticket sales rose 641% between Sunday night and Monday [Read More…]

‘American Idol’ recap: Judges deliver game-changing curveball after Hollywood week genre challenge
ABC/Eric McCandless Hollywood week is in full swing on American Idol. Getting right to business, the first round of Hollywood week saw the singers choose the genre they felt best represented them and give their best audition for the judges, [Read More…]

Will Smith apologizes to Chris Rock, Academy after slapping comedian during Oscars
ABC/AMPAS (NOTE LANGUAGE) Actor Will Smith apologized Monday for slapping Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, at the Oscars. “I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of line [Read More…]

Academy launching “formal review” of Will Smith after slapping Chris Rock at Oscars
ABC The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is launching a “formal review” of the confrontation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars when Smith walked on stage and slapped Rock [Read More…]

Kim Kardashian says her “work” comments to women were “taken out of context”
ABC News (NOTE LANGUAGE) Kim Kardashian has responded to the backlash she received after telling women to hustle harder. Kardashian told Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts in a new interview that the comments she made in a Variety profile earlier this month [Read More…]

Oscars ratings rise from last year’s least-watched telecast
ABC News There’s good news and bad news when it comes to the ratings for Sunday night’s Oscars telecast. First, the good: the telecast saw a 56% jump in viewership from last year, according to [Read More…]

Ready for ‘Dune II’? Oscar winning cinematographer promises a “bigger and better” sequel
David Livingston/Getty Images While the Denis Villeneuve film Dune scored six Oscars Sunday night, he and the craftspeople behind it are already working on its sequel. Backstage at the Oscars Sunday night, with his newly-engraved Academy Award in hand, [Read More…]

Simone Biles, Kamala Harris among ‘USA Today”s Women of the Year
Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images USA Today announced its 2022 Women of the Year on Monday, and the list includes Vice President Kamala Harris and Olympic Gold medalist, Simone Biles. In recognizing the 64 honorees who “are strong and resilient women [Read More…]