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The Associated Press Here are some good things about the fourth Hotel Transylvania movie: Kathryn Hahn, who is as evocative a voice actor as she…

NEW YORK (AP) — Isla Fisher’s character in the new genre-bending series “Wolf Like Me” is a romantic catch. Kind of. She speaks four languages,…

The Associated Press Take-Two Interactive, maker of “Grand Theft Auto” and “Red Dead Redemption,” is buying Zynga, maker of “FarmVille” and “Words With Friends,” in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider is adding to her list of bragging rights and admirers. Already the highest-earning female contestant in the…

The Associated Press It’s always a little suspect when too much is made of a big action movie being “female-fronted.” Unfortunately, Hollywood has decided lately…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Garner has been named Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, based not just on her career…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a 30-year-old man who alleged that the image of him nude as a…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday set a Jan. 28 date for the resentencing of “Tiger King” Joe Exotic. U.S….

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood closed out 2021 with more fireworks at the box office for “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which topped all films for…

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A year after New Year’s Day passed without a Rose Parade due to the coronavirus pandemic, marching bands and floral floats…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City readied to embrace the new year — and bid good riddance to another pandemic-marred 12 months — as…

The Associated Press Clifton Collins Jr. has made a career out of being a supporting player. Even if the average moviegoer might not know his…

NEW YORK (AP) — The presidential election, pandemic, and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020. To…

The Associated Press Peter Parker’s good fortune continued over the holiday weekend as Hollywood prepares to close the books on a turbulent 2021. Even with…

NEW YORK (AP) — Revelers will still ring in the new year in New York’s Times Square next week, there just won’t be as many…

The Associated Press Two women meet in a maternity ward and their lives become inextricably linked in Pedro Almodóvar’s gentle but penetrating “ Parallel Mothers.” It’s…

The Associated Press How deep does the rabbit hole go? Deep enough, it turns out, to accommodate at least four movies, several videogames, a comic,…

NEW YORK (AP) — With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office, and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays…

The Associated Press Never underestimate your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, even with a mutating virus afoot. Despite rising concerns over the omicron variant, “Spider-Man: No Way…

NEW YORK (AP) — The fate of the annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be decided this week. New York City Mayor…

NEW YORK (AP) — People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021 was indeed inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on “Saturday Night Live,” but the surging…

NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time since the pandemic began, the box office is booming. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” grossed $50 million in…

The Associated Press Motherhood. It’s such a rich subject for art to ponder, you’d think we’d have already seen every kind of mother onscreen. But…

The Associated Press A title like “ Nightmare Alley,” especially when paired with a filmmaker like Guillermo del Toro, suggests a certain kind of movie. Del…

The Associated Press Spider-Man movies have come in such flurries over the last two decades that you could almost tell time by them. Who needs…

The Associated Press Football star and TV celebrity Michael Strahan caught a ride to space with Jeff Bezos’ rocket-launching company Saturday, sharing the trip with…

The Associated Press You know you’re in deep doodoo when that planet-destroying comet on a collision course with Earth isn’t your biggest problem. Your biggest…

LONDON (AP) — Actor Sienna Miller on Thursday accepted “substantial” damages from the publisher of British tabloid newspaper The Sun, which she accuses of hacking…

The Associated Press Leftovers were on the menu for moviegoers in North America this weekend. “Encanto,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” and “House of Gucci” repeated in the…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Nearly two decades after earning a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and more than four years after…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A photo of Betty White, with dimpled smile and guileless gaze, fills the cover of a coffee table book arriving the…

The Associated Press We’re so rife with reboots and remakes today that it can take a moment to gauge just what Steven Spielberg’s “West Side…

NEW YORK (AP) — The holly, jolly, best time of the year got a light-filled launch Wednesday when the towering Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center…

HOUSTON (AP) — Several families of the 10 people who died from injuries in a massive crowd surge at the Astroworld festival have turned down…

NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a famous saying in showbiz: “Never work with children or animals.” NBC is wisely ignoring that as it mounts a…

The Associated Press Everything in “House of Gucci” is over the top. The accents. The performances. The fashion. The settings. The runtime. The music. The…

The Associated Press Busting ghosts is still a fairly lucrative business after almost 40 years. Heading into Thanksgiving weekend, the latest attempt to revive “Ghostbusters”…

NEW YORK (AP) — In Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon,” Joaquin Phoenix plays a New York-based radio journalist who, throughout the movie, records interviews with real…

The Associated Press The Screen Actors Guild has selected Dame Helen Mirren as their 57th Life Achievement Award Recipient, the union said Thursday. The 76-year-old…

The Associated Press “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” — the direct cinematic follow-up to the 1984 classic — is haunted, of course. But not in a good way. Director…

The Associated Press “King Richard” is exactly what you think it will be, which isn’t a bad thing. This is the story of the father…