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If you think the Oscar voting process is weird—with all those short lists, screening deadlines, members-only streaming arrangements, branch nominations, and hors d'oeuvres counts (or whatever passes for the latest feeding restrictions)—you'll be wholly befuddled by the latest Board of Governors election at the Academy…

The list of candidates for the 2020 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors election is now out, with the winner in each branch being chosen directly from these entries rather than whittling it down to four finalists in each, as has been done previously. The list of candidates is made up of…

Rita Wilson talked about her experience with the coronavirus on CBS This Morning on Tuesday, in one of her first interviews since she and husband recovered after weeks in quarantine. Speaking to Gayle King, Wilson said that she first felt symptoms where she was “very tired. I felt extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn’t…

Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, have returned from the coronavirus desert island. The two have been spotted in Los Angeles after flying on a private jet from Australia, where they were quarantined with the first publicized celebrity cases of coronavirus. Their March 11 announcement shocked the world and may have…

Even movie stars go a little stir crazy these days. In an Instagram posted by Rita Wilson, the sheltering in place actress does the kind of rap video even the feverish might usually wish to keep private. Truth be told, though, she’s not bad, inasmuch as she nails the words to the Naughty By Nature’s 1992 hit “Hip Hop H…

Baz Luhrmann has confirmed that his Elvis Presley movie, which is set to star Tom Hanks and Austin Butler, will not begin production next week in Australia due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The film had been in the advanced stages of pre-production, though was disrupted when Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson tested…

Richard Wilkins, a veteran Australian entertainment journalist, has tested positive for coronavirus after an encounter with Rita Wilson. The 65-year-old Channel 9 reporter ran into Wilson at the Sydney Opera House on March 8, where she was performing songs from her album Halfway To Home in the intimate Utzon Room…

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson may have temporarily lost their freedom of movement, but are apparently in good spirits as they endure isolation caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus. Hanks sent out a tweet today thanking fans for their support in the wake of the duo’s stunning announcement that they had contracted the virus…

UPDATED with Chet Hanks Instagram video: Colin Hanks and Chet Hanks have taken to social media to give an update on their parents Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson after they revealed that they’d been diagnosed with COVID-19. “We are so grateful for the outpouring of support from everyone," former Life In Pieces star Colin…

EXCLUSIVE:  The worldwide rights to Simple Wedding, executive produced by and starring Rita Wilson, with Shohreh Aghdashloo and Tara Grammy, has been reached in an agreement with Blue Fox Entertainment for domestic distribution. Blue Fox is introducing the film to buyers this week at the European Film Market in…

EXCLUSIVE: Everyone’s had those awkward family dinners where the discussion turns uncomfortable, if not downright unpleasant. That’s certainly what happens in this clip from Simple Wedding, a comedy directed by Sara Zandieh and starring and executive produced by Rita Wilson, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Tara Grammy that…

Forrest Gump as Sir John Sack-and-Sugar? Believe it. Tom Hanks is set to make his L.A. stage debut in Henry IV, which the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles will raise the curtain on in June. Rita Wilson also will star, but her role wasn’t revealed. Daniel Sullivan, who won a Tony for directing 2000’s Proof and has…