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"I never set out to play the hero, but since I'm usually cast as one I want to be the best paid hero." That's what Sean Connery said at a moment when he was re-negotiating his James Bond deal. As a serious actor, Connery admitted he never understood what traits audiences wanted from their movie…

Kanye West is back on Instagram, and he’s a new man, he claims. His first message proclaimed a new-found love for the Jewish people. Why? Jonah Hill's acting in the 2012 film 21 Jump Street was the apparent tipping point. "Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump street made me like Jewish people…

Andrew Lloyd Webber is thanking fans for their outpouring of support in the wake of his eldest son’s diagnosis with gastric cancer. The composer issued an Instagram video and revealed that his son, Nicholas, 43, has entered hospice care. “I want to thank you for the outpouring of messages of…

A.O. Scott this week ends his 23-year run as film critic for the New York Times and most movie people are glad to see him go. So is he. "If the film world is to become relevant again, it needs critics whose work reflects passion and advocacy, and that's…

Watching Jesus Revolution surge past $45 million in ticket sales for Lionsgate—matching or besting The Fabelmans, The Banshees Of Inisherin, Tár, Women Talking and Triangle Of Sadness, combined—it finally seems safe to say it. The faith-based audience is back. Between Covid and the culture wars, it's…

Bill Maher celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on Friday during his Real Time on HBO – or, as he referred to it, “Alcoholic Christmas” – by bringing up the dangerous parallels between the religious hatreds that fueled politics in last century Ireland and the turmoil in today’s United States between Democrats and…

Unless the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame can find a way to be more inclusive, it can “go to hell in a handbag,” according to rocker Courtney Love. While there’s an annual debate over nominees and inductions, who is nominated and inducted is far from a silly matter. The Hall has a real economic impact on…

Jeremy Renner shared an upbeat note from his nephew Auggie via Instagram Stories today, as he continues to keep up the recovery effort from his horrific snow plow accident. Auggie’s note focused on his gratitude that his 52-year-old uncle survived his New Year’s Day accident, which resulted in…

There's always a reckoning. There has to be. A studio chief tells me that next awards season they're going to recalibrate how they screen to voters “because there are a bunch of movies that people did not bother to see. Good movies that people did not watch because they were drawn to the noise. And the…

As far as this year’s Oscars goes, it was undoubtedly the year of the comeback. It was a huge comeback for Best Actor and Supporting Actor winners Brendan Fraser and former child actor Ke Huy Quan (who co-starred way back in in 1991’s Encino Man) who…

Roger Deakins, legendary cinematographer and knight of the British realm, cut to the chase: In his view several of the best examples of cinematography are missing from this year's Oscars list. "The best cinematography hasn't been nominated," he tells me at the British consul general's Oscars…

It’s Oscar weekend in Hollywood, and the Real Time live audience was in the mood for some show business insight. Host Bill Maher didn’t disappoint. This year’s Oscars has some changes, Maher said. “They’re asking, ‘Who are you slapping?’ He also noted that it’s hard to remember who won what…