The Academy Museum Gala, one of the most star-studded events of the year, has found its 2026 honorees in Charlize Theron, Colman Domingo and filmmaker John Carpenter.
The event, which serves as a major fundraising evening for the Academy Museum, will take place on Oct. 17, with Robert Rodriguez, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw as co-chairs. Theron will receive the Icon Award, celebrating an artist whose career has had a significant global impact, and Domingo will get the Vantage Award, honoring an artist who is helping to challenge dominant narratives around cinema. Carpenter will be presented with the Luminary Award, given to an artist whose singular contributions have expanded the creative possibilities of filmmaking.
Travis Barker didn’t want to do this documentary. He’d been filming Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear since 2017, chronicling his life dealing with the debilitating effects of post-traumatic stress disorder since surviving a plane crash nine years earlier. In an incident that made national headlines at the time, the Blink-182 drummer and three friends were in a private jet, heading home from Columbia, South Carolina, when the landing gear burst into flames. Two of his best friends were killed. A third passenger, his close friend and collaborator DJ AM, died a year later of an overdose. Barker was in intense emotional and physical pain. He was suicidal. He wasn’t sure he’d ever make it back.
Shannon Elizabeth is no stranger to breaking the internet.
Following the release of 1999’s “American Pie,” the cumming-of-age film that launched Elizabeth to stardom (and sex symbol status), she decided she needed a website.
“Heated Rivalry” is continuing to build out its Season 2 cast with five new additions.
Variety has learned that Emily Hampshire (“Schitt’s Creek,” “VisionQuest”), Edvin Ryding (“The Young Royals,” “28 Years Later”), Robert Naylor (“Mile End Kicks,” “Cardinal”), Sabrina Jalees (“I Used to Be Funny,” “Black Mirror”), and Priyanka (“Drag Brunch Saved My Life,” “Meet Me Next Christmas”) are all joining the Crave-HBO Max series.
The promotional materials for Spider-Man: Brand New Day look a bit different in one theater in Canada, and the internet is loving it.
A Famous Players theater in Prince George, British Columbia almost certainly has the most unique movie poster for the record-breaking film led by Tom Holland. It features a hand-drawn illustration by employee Drake Landon that was inspired by the Spooder-Man meme, with the title of the movie written in font strikingly similar to the script in the official promotional materials.
Combs accused the music producer of selling his personal documentary footage to Netflix and making defamatory statements in the 50-Cent produced docuseries
Sean Combs has countersued accuser Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones for allegedly “stealing” the music mogul’s personal documentary footage and selling it to Netflix for the streamer’s 50 Cent-produced docuseries.
Now that Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is officially out in the wild, dataminers have wasted no time digging through the game’s files, and they’ve found some interesting heroes mentioned within them.
Ewan McGregor is putting the pressure on Disney when it comes to playing Obi-Wan Kenobi again. The actor told E! News on the press tour for his latest movie, “The End of Oak Street,” that the ball is in Disney’s court regarding his future with the “Star Wars” franchise. McGregor wants nothing more then to continue playing the legendary Jedi.
