Hollywood is pulling out the stops this summer movie season, which kicks off with Friday's release Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*.”.

Actor Ralph Fiennes will make his opera directing debut in Paris next season with Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.”.

Adrien Brody has clinched his second Oscar for best actor, winning at Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards for his role as a visionary Hungarian-Jewish architect in “The Brutalist.”.

The patio of the storied Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel was packed to the brim with Hollywood stars on the night before the Oscars.

"Anora,” a strip-club Cinderella story without the fairy tale ending, was crowned best picture at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Sean Baker’s gritty, Brooklyn-set screwball farce Hollywood’s top prize.

There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to speculate about the election of a new pope while the current one is fighting for his life.

“Conclave” author Robert Harris isn’t staying up to watch the Oscars.

Five days before the Academy Awards, nearly every nominee gathered for a cocktail reception, dinner and class picture that served as a sort of Oscars orientation.

By the time the Oscars wind around after months of other award shows and constant handicapping, the prizes can feel almost predetermined.

The cast of “Conclave” has accepted congratulations from generations of big stars backstage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

The papal thriller “Conclave” won best ensemble at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards, a surprise twist that added one final wrinkle in an unusually unpredictable awards season.

Papal thriller “Conclave” won four prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Awards, at a ceremony with no single dominant winner, “The Brutalist” also won four trophies on Sunday including best director for Brady Corbet.

The inner-Vatican machinations of “Conclave” have nothing on this year’s Oscar race.

Mikey Madison of “Anora” watched the Oscar nominations from her hotel room bed, screaming along with her mother on FaceTime.

The 2025 Oscars season is in full swing but figuring out where to watch everything can be overwhelming.

Papal thriller “Conclave” leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with nominations in 12 categories.

Two wildly audacious films — Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar epic “The Brutalist” and Jacques Audiard’s Spanish language, genre-shifting trans musical “Emilia Perez” — have won top honors at the 82nd Golden Globes.

The griping Vatican-based movie thriller “Conclave” about picking a new pope and Stephanie Hsu starring in the dark comedy series “Laid” as a woman whose former lovers keep unexpectedly dying are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases.

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche became friends while playing lovers in “Wuthering Heights.”.

“Venom: The Last Dance” showed less bite than expected at the box office, collecting $51 million in its opening weekend.

With Pope Francis a few weeks away from his 88th birthday, the plotting for his successor is well underway at the Vatican.

A bunch of old men in robes sitting inside and picking a pontiff is not your average pitch in Hollywood.

In a story published Aug. 28, 2023, about new offerings on streaming services, The Associated Press erroneously reported that “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is the fourth installment in the series.

Much has been made of Wes Anderson’s often-recurring troupe of actors like Bill Murray, Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson.

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from veteran Iggy Pop and rising star Brandon Ratcliff, Lifetime concludes its coverage on R. Kelly’s victims with a two-night special, and Christian Bale stars as a detective in an 1830 whodunit alongside a young Edgar Allen Poe.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” extended its box-office reign in its second week of release with $67 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates.

A rundown of notable films coming out this fall, which range from Disney+'s “Pinocchio” adaptation to Ana de Armas playing Marilyn Monroe in the Netflix film “Blonde.”.

A book coming out this fall will show readers a more personal side of the late John le Carré.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a musical reunion of Leon Bridges and Khruangbin, the first take of a multi-part documentary on Kanye West and the return of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” for its pandemic-delayed fourth season.

Even with some mighty competition from new Matrix and Sing movies and rising concerns over the omicron variant, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” stayed in the No. 1 spot, with $81.5 million according to studio estimates Sunday.

This image released by Syfy shows Alan Tudyk as Harry Vanderspeigle in a scene from the new series "Resident Alien," premiering Wednesday on Syfy. — AP Film Writer Jake CoyleMUSIC— iHeartRadio’s fifth annual ALTer EGO show dedicated to contemporary rock artists starring Billie Eilish, Foo Fighters and Coldplay will air virtually on Thursday night. — British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks is having a breakthrough, and she can count former first lady Michelle Obama as a fan. — If a wacky sci-fi series sounds appealing, check out “Resident Alien.” Alan Tudyk plays Harry, masquerading as a small-town doctor — and a human — after crash-landing on Earth. Based on the comic book series of the same name, “Resident Alien” debuts 10 p.m. EST Wednesday on SyFy.

Stempel's former wife, Ethel Stempel, told The Associated Press on Sunday, May 31, 2020, that he died at a New York nursing home on April 7. Stempel's former wife, Ethel Stempel, told The Associated Press on Sunday that he died at a New York nursing home on April 7. Interest was revived by the 1994 movie Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford and starring John Turturro as Stempel and Ralph Fiennes as Van Doren, who died last year. Stempel and Van Doren were an obvious contrast: The fair-haired and handsome Van Doren, and the relatively plain Stempel, a stocky, dark-haired man with glasses and a flat, nasally accent. Van Doren, who had no further comment on the scandal until a 2009 essay in The New Yorker, was among those given suspended sentences for lying to the grand jury.