No, that infamous 2022 musical from Robert Zemeckis didn’t win an Oscar. “Animation is cinema. Animation is not a genre, and animation is ready to be taken to the next step. Kevin Winter/Getty Images We’re all ready for it,” del Toro said during his acceptance speech. “kindly help us. Keep animation in the conversation.” It’s about disobedience, and disobedience is urgent in the world now. How we can love each other in our failings, in our flaws, in our humanity....

EMIKO JEAN:Hi! I am always so fascinated by the writer’s journey. Did you always want to write? Credit: Jackson Berlin; Susan Doupe Or is it something you found later in life? Now I do both. Now, to answer your question…. Flatiron Books (2) Yes, I absolutely always wanted to be a writer. If they had their way, I’d be a lawyer now. What about you, what’s your how-I-became-an-author story? JEAN:My path to writing was a little more circuitous....

I truly… deeply… love them. Yes, the script is clunky. The intense, agonizing yearning Anakin and Padme have for each other is romance 101. Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman in ‘Attack of the Clones’.Lisa Tomasetti/Lucasfilm Ltd. And now that I’m with you again… I’m in agony." That is some clinch cover, romance hero shiz right there. Lucasfilm Ltd. Padme gets her own scorching confessions too, like “I’m not afraid to die....

Though some of the magazine’s and Hefner’s own ethos has soured as times have decidedly changed. His treatment of these women comes into view in the first look fromSecrets of Playboy. “I came back with short hair and he flipped out on me,” Madison recalls. Holly Madison and Hugh Hefner.Michael Bezjian/WireImage “And he was screaming at me that it made me look old, hard, and cheap.” Hefner, it seems, reserved a particular ire for Madison....

See what the players have been up to since the show ended in 1994. But the supernova status ofIn Living Colorwould only last for so long. In Living Color’s impact would not be soon forgotten. Credit: Everett Collection By season 3, however, Wayans stopped going on camera. AfterColor, Wayans went on to a wildly successful career making spoof movies, including launching theScary Moviefranchise. and Anton Jackson (“Two snaps up!"). Keenen Ivory Wayans on ‘In Living Color’ and Keenen Ivory Wayans now....

We’ll miss this show when it’s gone. If the little boy doesn’t get bone marrow he dies. Weekend plans go out the window when Ri’Chard (Andre Braugher) calls an emergency Saturday-morning Zoom. Charmaine Bingwa, André Braugher, and Che Tefari on ‘The Good Fight’.Elizabeth Fisher/Paramount+. His nephew Dustin (Walter Russell III) was minutes from a transplant operation when the donor backed out. “We’re lawyers,” says Ri’Chard. “There’s always a Plan B.”...

“Hurry up before we get caught.” My best friend, Tristan, waves me forward into the Children’s Center. The metal screech echoes. We tiptoe into the darkening room. Tristan thumps my arm. “I told him I’d emcee,” he says in his signature podcast radio voice. “Can’t let my boy down.” “It could be like From theMixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, but like the library edition,” I tease. “A slumber party....

The Indian action film of the decade is getting a sequel. Rajamoulihas confirmed that he is currently at work on a follow-up to the film. His father, the screenwriter V. Vijayendra Prasad, is developing the script. “My father is the story writer for all my films. Set in the 1920s,RRRfollows real-life Indian freedom fighters Komaram Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr.) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan). The Telugu-language historical fiction narrative centers on their friendship and their fight against British imperialists....

The actors starred together in 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Dr. Jones and his old pal Short Round finallyfound time for love. He went on to play another memorable role as Data inThe Gooniesbefore taking a 35-year break from acting. Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan at D23.Ke Huy Quan/Instagram Ford, meanwhile,made an appearance at the Disney conventionto introduce the first trailer forIndiana Jones 5. I will not fall down for you again....

There were afew incarnations ofObi-Wan Kenobibefore becoming the final product that is now unfurling on screens on Disney+. (Hello, Darth Vader!) Played byGame of Thrones’Indira Varma, Tala was first shownin theObi-Wan Kenobitraileras a very intense looking Imperial officer. Indira Varma as Tala in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’.Lucasfilm Ltd. (Then again, she also got Leia captured, but you win some, you lose some.) “There had already been different incarnations of the script and the story line,” explains Varma....

Warning: This article contains spoilers forIndustry, season 2, episode 7. Industryis highlighting the harsh realities of abuse in the workplace. Venetia’s coming forward exposes just how deep the problems at Pierpoint run. Simon Ridgway/HBO “That level of clarity in wrongdoing hasn’t really been something that they’ve had to breach before. The episode makes the point that the institution is often valued over the individual. No one actually asked how it affected Venetia as a person,” co-creator Mickey Down explains....

Life changes in major ways for both Harper Stern and Yasmin Kara-Hanani in the Industry season 2 finale. Eric Tao (Ken Leung), what did you do?! “Eric fed them that information. Nick Strasberg/HBO Why’d he do it? MICKEY DOWN:His motivations are intentionally ambiguous. We never see Danny and Harper interact after he’s let go. Simon Ridgway/HBO Have we seen the last of him? DOWN:It’s hard to say. It is a very callous way of letting someone go and we wanted to represent that....

The pandemic is a jumping-off point for the season. For Harper, the isolation has taken a toll, but Yasmin’s experience is a different story. When we meet her again, she’s more confident in her skin. Marisa Abela as Yasmin Kara-Hanani and Myha’la Herrold as Harper Stern in ‘Industry’.Nick Strasburg/hbo Harper’s anxiety about returning to the office concerns more than the pandemic. Those bolder moves take Harper and Yasmin, andIndustryoverall, into uncharted territory....