Tom Cruise lands Best Actor nomination from Critics Choice after he was snubbed by Golden Globes

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Kim Kardashian is closing out 2022 with more candid confessions, sitting down with Gwyneth Paltrow to talk about her past and present love life.

Following the 2019 release of the fan-favorite mystery, Knives Out stars such as Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas and Chris Evans have only continued to find success with other projects.

Focusing on family. Andrew Shue’s son Nate shared a rare glimpse at the actor after wife Amy Robach made headlines for her relationship with GMA3 coanchor T.J. Holmes.

Judy Woodruff will step away from the PBS NewsHour anchor desk on Friday, ending a chapter as one of the most trusted and well respected figures helming a newscast.

It’s official: Damien Chazelle‘s “Babylon” is a box office bomb, and one of the biggest bombs of 2022, to be precise. The film made only $5.3 million over the four-day holiday weekend off a budget of $80 million.

You’ve probably heard many of the legends around David Fincher’s “Fight Club,” which include casting. It’s been reported in the past that Fincher considered Winona Ryder Janeane Garofalo, and the studio really wanted Reese Witherspoon.

Yikes! Sounds like Bella Thorne was getting sexualized from both directions when she was a kid!

AARP is out with the nominees for its 21st annual Movies for Grownups Awards for the best films, TV and filmmakers of 2022. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans leads with the way with six noms, followed by fellow awards-season favorites Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Woman King are next with five each, and Tár and She Said with four apiece.

The Banshees Of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once head the nominations for the 12th edition of the AACTA International Awards, with six nods apiece. They were followed by Elvis with four nominations.

Tom Cruise is on a roll.On Wednesday he was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Actor for his work in Top Gun: Maverick, which made more than $1.48 billion worldwide at the box office, and will debut December 22 on Paramount+.And the next day the movie star landed in the same category for the same blockbuster film for the AARP The Magazine Movies For Grownups Awards which will air in January. Flying high: Tom Cruise is on a roll.

The Whale director Darren Aronofsky has hit back at criticism over Brendan Fraser wearing a prosthetic 'fat suit' to play an obese man in the critically-acclaimed film.The film sees Fraser play a 600-pound gay man confined to a wheelchair and hoping to reconnect with his estranged daughter - with The Mummy actor donning the 300 pound 'fat suit' filled with airsoft pellets, dried beans, and marbles for his scenes.After reviews accused the film of lacking 'empathy' due to the 'frightful' physical portrayal of Fraser's character Charlie,  Aronofsky lauded the make-up and prosthetics on his team for lending a 'realism' to the scenes.Saying the criticism 'made no sense' to him, he told Yahoo Entertainment: 'Actors have been using make-up since the beginning of acting—that’s one of their tools.  Response: The Whale director Darren Aronofsky has hit back at criticism over Brendan Fraser wearing a prosthetic 'fat suit' to play an obese man in the critically-acclaimed film'And the lengths we went to portray the realism of the makeup has never been done before. One of my first calls after casting Brendan was to my makeup artist,'I asked him, "Can we do something that’s realistic?"  Because if it’s going to look like a joke, then we shouldn’t do it.' He added that he wanted to change the perception of obese people on screen who are 'generally written as bad guys or as punch lines' - to create a 'fully worked-out character.'Aronofsky also told The Los Angeles Times’ The Envelope podcast about his work with  the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC), saying: 'They really feel this is going to open up people’s eyes.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Colin Farrell have more in common than being great actors. They have also struggled with addiction. In a conversation for Variety's Actors on Actors the pair were discussing their latest films - Jamie Lee's Everything Everywhere All At Once, for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe nomination Monday, and Colin's The Banshees of Inisherin, for which he was nominated for Best Actor.When the conversation turned to their legacies, Jamie Lee, 64, stated unequivocally hers was staying dry: 'Being sober is going to be a legacy, for sure, because you're stopping what has been a generational issue in my biological family,' she said.  Legacy: Jamie Lee Curtis, 64, told Colin Farrell, 46, her greatest legacy was sobriety in a conversation for Variety's Actors on Actors.

George Lopez was forced to drop out of a gig announcing the nominations for the 80th annual Golden Globes on Monday morning after testing positive for COVID-19.The 61-year-old television personality was set to appear on NBC Monday morning live from Beverly Hills in order to present the nods for the highly-anticipated award show.Instead his daughter Mayan Lopez and actress Selenis Leyva - who both star with him on sitcom Lopez Vs. Lopez - took over the announcements.

Now that we’ve started our process of looking back at the Best Films of 2022, it’s time to dig deeper into one facet that can make them so impactful—the mesmerizing work of their actors. Of course, every great film year leads to a surplus of great performances, and our favorites from 2022 are picked from quiet Sundance fare, auteur-driven blockbusters, future Oscar nominees, and much more.

Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale from A24 swam to the biggest limited opening of the year in NY and LA this weekend, beating the per screen record set by in late spring by the indie distributor’s Everything, Everywhere All At Once.

Brendan Fraser is seemingly a surefire lock for his first Oscar nomination for his performance in The Whale, with the actor reflecting on a sequel that never was.The 54-year-old actor starred in the 1997 Disney film George of the Jungle, based on the popular 1960s animated TV series of the same name, with Fraser recently revealing he starved himself for the role.The film, which also starred Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church and Richard Roundtree, was a modest success, earning $174 million worldwide from a $55 million budget, though when Disney approached Fraser for a sequel, they didn't seem to want to pay him accordingly. Oscar lock: Brendan Fraser is seemingly a surefire lock for his first Oscar nomination for his performance in The Whale, with the actor reflecting on a sequel that never was Brendan as George: The 54-year-old actor starred in the 1997 Disney film George of the Jungle, based on the popular 1960s animated TV series of the same name, with Fraser recently revealing he starved himself for the role A sequel did ultimately happen, though it went straight-to-video, with Christopher Showerman replacing Fraser as George and Julie Benz replacing Mann as Ursula, with Thomas Haden Church, John Cleese and Keith Scott reprising their roles.When asked about the sequel in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Fraser referenced a scene in the 2003 follow-up where Disney seemingly referenced their own lowball offer to Fraser.

The Banshees of Inisherin lead the list of winners of the National Board of Review's 20 categories honoring the best that cinema had to offer in 2022.The 113-year-old non-profit organization of New York City film enthusiasts will enlist NBC's Willie Garson to host the NBR Awards Gala happening January 8 at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan.Colin Farrell received best actor for his role as Pádraic Súilleabháin while Brendan Gleeson received best supporting actor for his role as Colm Doherty in the black tragicomedy.Scroll down for full list of winners...  Triumphant: The Banshees of Inisherin lead the list of winners of the National Board of Review's 20 categories honoring the best that cinema had to offer in 2022 Director Martin McDonagh won best original screenplay for the tale of two former friends during the tail end of the Irish Civil War in 1923.The Banshees of Inisherin - which also landed in NBR's top 10 films - has a 'certified fresh' 97% critic approval rating (out of 258 reviews) and 76% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.Steven Spielberg won best director for his semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama The Fabelmans, which also landed in NBR's top 10 films.Gabriel LaBelle, the 20-year-old actor who played Sammy (a thinly-veiled version of the 75-year-old filmmaker as a teen), was singled out with a breakthrough performance award.

The National Board of Review today named the top-grossing film of 2022 as its Best Film of the year.