Fans went wild during Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony when a teaser clip of the live-action version of “The Little Mermaid” aired during the telecast. The two-minute-long trailer debuted when the film’s stars Melissa McCarthy and Halle Bailey presented it onstage at the Dolby Theatre. Disney is said to have forked over $10 million to unveil … Read more
Nancy Meyers and Netflix have parted ways. The “Parent Trap” director, 73, was set to shoot a new romantic comedy for the streamer, however, they could not agree on the budget, sources told the Hollywood Reporter. The company gave her a cap of $130 million, according to the report, but the filmmaker requested $150 million. … Read more
Losers can be as sour as lemons and as sore as a pulled hamstring. The dream of many A-listers in Hollywood is to win a coveted Academy Award and add it to their shelves of accolades. However, there are only a handful of lucky winners who grab the gold every year, and sometimes fellow nominees … Read more
Just one month before “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was released in theaters, someone leaked a script of the movie, giving some fans a sneak peek into how the movie would go. And now, Marvel wants to get to the bottom of the mystery leak. A 63-page transcript of dialogue from the “Ant-Man” film was … Read more
Frank W. Abagnale Jr. was annoyed. The Times of London had reviewed my 2019 book about serial liars, “Duped,” and a photo of Leonardo DiCaprio in full pilot regalia accompanied the piece. It was the famous still from “Catch Me if You Can,” Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film inspired by Abagnale’s best-selling memoir from 1980. Via … Read more
Neither Angela Bassett nor Austin Butler “did the thing” — but at least they had each other at Oscars 2023. Bassett, 64, and Butler, 31, both lost out on their nominations at the 95th Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night — and now a touching video of the two holding hands has gone viral. Bassett was … Read more
Lady Gaga played a love game at the 2023 Oscars when she gave her “Joker: Folie à Deux” co-star Brendan Gleeson an on-the-mouth smooch on the champagne-colored carpet. The “A Star Is Born” actress, 36, raised eyebrows after sharing a hug and kiss with the Oscar-nominated “The Banshees of Inisherin” star, 67, just before the … Read more
This awards show still slaps — even without Will Smith and Chris Rock. Hollywood A-listers are hitting the “Champagne” carpet and doing for the gold again — likely with less controversy than last year — during the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12. The 2023 Oscars ceremony — held at the Dolby Theatre in … Read more
James Hong brought a piece of “Everything Everywhere All At Once” to the Oscars red carpet. Hong, 94, walked the champagne-colored carpet wearing a bowtie with googly eyes — an ode to the movie. He portrays Gong Gong in the film, the father of Michelle Yeoh’s character, Evelyn Quan Wang. Googly eyes play a big … Read more
2022 won’t be remembered as a banner year for film. But we might look back on it as the storybook time when a new superstar was crowned. That would be Austin Butler, who wowed the world with his performance as the King in “Elvis,” and who’s nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars on Sunday. … Read more
The 2023 Oscars, airing Sunday, March 12 at 8 p.m. on ABC, won’t be the starriest of all time, but there are still plenty of controversies swirling around Hollywood’s biggest night. From getting over “the slap” to totally unexpected nominees crashing the party, here are the biggest scandals going into the 95th Academy Awards, hosted … Read more
Oscars night is here, and award-season behemoth “Everything Everywhere All At Once” looks like a shoo-in for Best Picture — but everything everywhere else this year is anybody’s guess. Here, Post critic Johnny Oleksinski picks who will win and who should win at the 2023 Academy Awards Sunday March 12 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC. Best … Read more
“Scream VI” slashed its way to the top of the box office on its opening night Friday. The horror flick, the first of the franchise to be set in New York, took in $19.3 million, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo. Its star, Dermot Mulroney, told The Post his affinity for the genre could be … Read more
Debating the merits of the Academy’s Best Picture winner is a time-honored tradition for any Oscars fan. As it turns out, even the Academy’s voters sometimes have second thoughts. In 2015, a Hollywood Reporter survey found that a majority would like to go back and change their 1977 votes for “Rocky” to “All the President’s … Read more
“Top Gun: Maverick” — nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture — has a dark secret. The blockbuster, which celebrates the scrappy nature of US fighter pilots flying dangerous missions to keep the world safe, is being targeted for being funded in part by a Russian oligarch named Dmitry Rybolovlev, who is close to … Read more
Well before the grandiloquently dubbed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted its inaugural award ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles on May 16, 1929, the movie industry was already up to it eyeballs in stink. Star Fatty Arbuckle had been acquitted for rape and murder. Director William Desmond Taylor was a cold case, … Read more
To prepare for the release of “Scream VI,” Dermot Mulroney joined Instagram for the first time — and said he is trying to not fall victim to online mania. “It’s like a weird relationship, right? I mean, it takes over your brain at first. So then you go, ‘Oh, I’m not gonna let this take … Read more
The Academy Awards offer a chance for Hollywood to show off its glitz, glam and gold. And it can cost a pretty penny for celebrities to attend the evening in style. The 2023 Oscars ceremony itself has a staggering $56.8 million price tag, according to a report by WalletHub. It’s apparently a boon for the … Read more
Hayden Panettiere is back on the big screen in “Scream VI” after a four-year hiatus — and she didn’t believe she could do it. “It was daunting, honestly,” the 33-year-old said about getting back into the film biz in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly. “I was a little bit worried. I was worried that … Read more
Sir Michael Caine has one word to express how he feels about an anti-terror study determining his movie “Zulu” promotes white nationalism: “Bulls–t.” The 1964 film was included in a study by the British “Prevent Program,” claiming that it — along with works such as the “The Lord of the Rings” books, William Shakespeare’s writings and … Read more