Sean Bakers film Anora landed a total of six Oscar nominations Thursday morning. Among them, Best Picture, Best Actress for rising star Mikey Madison, and Best Supporting Actor for Yura Borislov, making him the first Russian actor to be nominated in almost 50 years. Speaking to Deadline after the nominations announcement, Madison called the nominations, Exciting, overwhelming, [...

On Thursday morning, James Mangold was celebrating eight Oscar nominations for his film A Complete Unknown. He watched the announcement at 5.30am L.A. time on his cellphone “with one bar of data” because he was without power due to the L.A. fires. “We were evacuated a couple weeks ago,” he said. “Our house is fine, […]

Vin Diesel is returning the Fast & Furious franchise to where it all started: Los Angeles. The actor took to social media to share he had a conversation with co-star Jordana Brewster about filming the rest of Fast X: Part 2 in LA to bring back production to the city following the devastating wildfires. “Last […]

Newsweek takes a look into the lives of A$AP Rocky's mother, father, sister, and brother amid the rapper Los Angeles felony assault trial.

Numerous wildfires have ignited in southern California this month, killing at least 27 people and spanning thousands of acres.

A consortium of orgs are teaming to provide free self-tape home kits for actors who were displaced by the L.A. wildfires. Casting Workbook has teamed withThe Bridge for Actors,IAMA Theatre Company, andShip Bobto provide75 kits for actors that include ring lights, backdrops, and tripods. Weve heard from so many actors who lost their homes or […]

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CBS has set Nate Burleson and Daniela Ruah as the co-hosts of Super Bowl Greatest Commercials: Funniest of All-Time. The interactive special is set to premiere on Wednesday, February 5, at 9 p.m. ET. The CBS Mornings co-host (Burleson) and NCIS: Los Angeles alum (Ruah) will host the show from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, […]

After another good but not good enough season, the Los Angeles Rams face a major decision about one of the best players and fixtures on their team for almost the entire time they have been back southern California. The two-time All Pro who was also 2021 Offensive Player of the Year has been one of […]The post

ATLANTA — Atlanta HIV educator and activist Masonia Traylor is calling for extensive outreach efforts to convey the risks of HIV to Black women and Black gay men in Georgia. She sat down with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to explain how stigma hampers efforts to reach at-risk populations. Q: Atlanta has the third-highest rate of new HIV infections in the U.S., after Miami and Memphis, ...

With a total of eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, A Complete Unknown has taken its place as a major Academy frontrunner (Emilia Prez, the most-nominated film, got 13, while Wicked and The Brutalist tied for 10). one of those eight was for Monica Barbaro’s turn as Joan Baez. Barbaro told Deadline of her shock […]

Lawyers for A$AP Rocky criticized the lack of Black people in the Los Angeles jury pool in the rapper's assault case.

Veteran documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner and her wife, Morgan Doctor, were working on a film in Rome on Jan. 7 when they got a late-night phone call. It was Timoner’s brother. He was calling to inform his sister that he and his family, as well as Timoner’s 21-year-old son Joaquim and their 86-year-old mother, Lisa, […]

Despite recent disasters in Asheville and Los Angeles, Trump suggested that FEMA was part of the problem

The Hughes Fire broke out late Wednesday morning and in less than a day had charred nearly 41 square kilometres.

For more than two decades, filmmakers chased the lightning-in-a-bottle story of Jeff Buckley, one of the most gifted and promising musicians of his generation, who drowned in a Memphis river in May 1997 at the age of 30. Back in 2000, Brad Pitt courted Buckleys mother, Mary Guibert, inviting her to lunch at his Los […]

The Hughes Fire near Castaic, California, has burned 10,176 acres, prompting evacuations and school closures across SoCal. Follow Newsweek's live blog.