Hollywood's most exclusive club is rolling out the red carpet to 774 industry professionals – including such boldfaced names as Kristen Stewart, Gal Gadot, John Cho, Chris Pratt, Elle Fanning and Jordan Peele – in its latest and most dramatic step to diversify its overwhelmingly white and male membership.

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The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of June 19:

1. Logan -- Fox

2. Get Out -- Universal

3. The LEGO Batman Movie -- Warner

4. John Wick: Chapter Two -- Lionsgate

5. Fist Fight -- Warner

6. Beauty & the Beast (2017) -- Disney

7. A Dog's Purpose -- Universal

8. The Shack -- Lionsgate

9. Fifty Shades Darker -- Universal

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LOS ANGELES -- In the bicoastal competition to host the Grammy Awards, New York City scored a major victory last month with the news that the music industry's biggest event would be held there next year.

But now Los Angeles has come roaring back with the announcement Wednesday that the Grammys will return to downtown's Staples Center in 2019 ...Read more

Yes, there are alternatives to warring CGI overload at movie theaters this summer. You don't have to hole up at home praying to the Netflix, Amazon and Hulu gods for cinematic salvation until the fall.

Case in point: "The Big Sick," a small movie that makes a big impact. While a romantic comedy on the surface, it plumbs emotional depths, all ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Film franchises are having a chilly summer at the box office. "Transformers: The Last Knight" stalled out, "The Mummy" got buried, and "Alien: Covenant" drifted off into space.

Now it's up to the yellow Minions of "Despicable Me 3" to help cure the malaise.

The cartoon comedy is expected to gross $90 million to $100 million in ...Read more

Sofia Coppola's "The Beguiled," particularly in its early scenes, eerily captures a mood of ominous beauty. It's the summer of 1864 in rural Virginia, several years into the Civil War, and the Farnsworth Seminary -- a boarding school for young Southern ladies, run by Miss Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) -- is a remote island of women in a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- This week, hundreds of film professionals around the world will receive their industry's equivalent of Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket: an invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

On Wednesday morning, the motion picture academy is expected to announce its newest class of members, the second such round of ...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

JUNE

27: Power Rangers

27: CHIPs

27: The Belko Experiment

27: T2 Trainspotting

27: Absolutely Anything

27: Berlin Syndrome

27: Correspondence

27: Dirty Dancing: Television Special

27: Money

27: Prison Break Event Series

27: Autopsy of Jane ...Read more

Oliver Hirschbiegel's Academy-Award nominated 2004 film "Downfall" was all about Hitler, his final days, in fact. Hirschbiegel's latest, "13 Minutes," is also about Hitler, though the man is scarcely in the film at all. "13 Minutes" takes place six years before Hitler's demise, and documents an incident that could have thwarted Hitler's reign of...Read more

Back in 2010, Illumination Entertainment released the Minions into the world via the first "Despicable Me" film. They were the supporting characters to reformed super-villain Gru (Steve Carell). But it was the impudent little yellow creatures -- their featureless bodies shaped like rubbery tater tots, chattering gibberish language somewhere ...Read more

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (...Read more