The first movie was a hit of winter 2018 and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature — now, Miles Morales, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is back in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. This sequel to Into the Spider-Verse follows Miles, Gwen, and a force of interdimensional Spider-People as they travel through the multiverse to tackle a new threat. Also in theaters, the horror movie The Boogeyman, and travel back to Lebron James' high school days with the Peacock movie Shooting Stars.
For ”Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson, the Precious may not be a gold ring but a shiny statuette. He’s a favorite to win a Best Picture or Best Director prize at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony (Feb. 29, ABC, 8-11 p.m. ET). EW.com talked to Jackson about his Oscar attitude, the emotional trauma of wrapping up ”Rings,” and why his next ”King” will be larger — and yet smaller — than ”Return.
Wheel of Fortune giveth, and Wheel of Fortune taketh away... and Audi giveth instead. After a contestant on the long-running game show lost out on a prize due to a technicality (yet again), the luxury car company is stepping in to provide that contestant with (read the following in your best TV announcer voice) a BRAND NEW CAR!!! On Tuesday's episode of Wheel, player Charlene Rubush made it to the show's final challenge, the bonus round, to go for the grand prize of a new Audi Q3.
The bench that cradled Tom Hanks’ rump in the $330 million-grossing Forrest Gump has become a valuable pop-cultural artifact — one of the hottest Hollywood collector’s items since Judy Garland’s ruby slippers. But controversy is raging over who has the real 12-foot-long green prop. The players: Christie’s
The auction house raised eyebrows when it reneged on plans to sell a Gump bench — one of two it claims were used in the film-in June.
Set against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War, The Banshees of Inisherin follows Colm (Brendan Gleeson) and Pádraic (Colin Farrell), best friends until April 1, 1923 when Colm decides he wants nothing to do with Pádraic anymore. And that's fecking final, according to Colm. But Pádraic cannot accept the friendship breakup, instead embarking on an emotional and psychological spiral that has huge — and deadly — consequences for everyone on the remote island of Inisherin.
There's only one thing that pairs beautifully with both Krackle and candy canes. It's The Nightmare Before Christmas, sitting behind the door to Halloween Town and Christmas Town, demanding an annual rewatch in October and December. The Tim Burton-conceived, Henry Selick-directed Nightmare Before Christmas is returning to select movie theaters for its 30th anniversary this October. The beloved stop-animation tale is also available on streaming platforms throughout the month. Though, if you don't have the right service, you'll also find Jack Skellington singing and dancing on TV throughout the month as well.
The Pearson family have a few defining connective features: their love for the Steelers, their shared grief over the loss of superdad Jack Pearson, and now, in this week’s funeral episode, we learned of a mutual appreciation of Bruce Springsteen. In the days before his sudden death, Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) bought tickets to a Springsteen show to surprise the entire family, and the concert ended up coinciding with the day of his funeral.
You know you’re a powerhouse stylist when one of your most famous clients moonlights as your interior decorator. Leslie Fremar — who counts Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon and Scarlett Johansson among her A-list clients — landed the top spot on The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual list of the 25 Most Powerful Stylists, appearing on the cover of the issue with longtime client Julianne Moore, with whom she shares more than just a passion for fashion.
There is a voice on Michael Keaton’s cell phone. It’s scratchy and utters nonsensical phrases. It is his agent, telling him to star in White Noise, a slapdash goose-and-run hybrid of The Ring and Final Destination, where he will play Jonathan Rivers, a widower who receives staticky messages (Electronic Voice Phenomenon, or EVP for the initiated) from his dead wife (Chandra West). Keaton, stretching those long-dormant eyebrow muscles, accepts, and what might have been a rote horror exercise becomes instead a twitchy, mannered, often amusing rote horror exercise.
CHLOE O’BRIAN
Mary Lynn Rajskub WHAT’S HER STORY? A senior analyst at CTU, Chloe is a cyber-savant: In the time it takes you to read this sentence, she can hack into three top secret government databases and pay her utility bills online. While she’s hardly a joy to work with — alternating between cranky, impatient, and downright rude — Chloe has proved loyal to a fault, frequently jeopardizing her job by bailing Jack out of trouble with ill-gotten intel.