You may find yourself watching “Joker: Folie à Deux” wondering if its subtitle (which roughly translates as “a shared madness”) applies to the characters or the filmmakers. Todd Phillips’ sequel to his 2019 hit “Joker,” which brought Joaquin Phoenix an Academy Award in the title role, is a big swing: It’s a courtroom drama/...Read more

Country superstar and long-running Las Vegas headliner Garth Brooks, saying he feels like he’s “having a loaded gun waved in my face,” has been accused of sexual assault and battery.

The allegations have been leveled in a lawsuit from an unidentified woman who claims to have worked as a hairstylist and makeup artist for the country artist...Read more

Jennifer Aniston says she and Barack Obama are just friends — and barely even that.

The “Friends” star appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday night where she was asked about a tabloid story indicating she and the 44th president are “obsessed” with one another.

According to an In Touch magazine cover story from a few weeks ago...Read more

Elon Musk is having trouble distancing himself from questions over which of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ powerful friends and business associates possibly enabled his alleged “criminal enterprise,” which authorities say was focused on fulfilling his sexual desires through sex trafficking and sexual assault of multiple people, including a 9-year...Read more

Country star Garth Brooks was accused of raping and sexually harassing a makeup artist in a lawsuit filed Thursday in California.

The alleged victim, identified as Jane Roe in the lawsuit, claims Brooks raped her in a hotel room in Los Angeles in 2019.

According to the suit reviewed by the Daily News, Brooks and Roe flew to Los Angeles so he ...Read more

Luke Bryan is venturing a guess at why Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" was snubbed by the Country Music Association Awards.

Despite the album debuting at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart — making Beyoncé the first Black woman ever to top the chart — it was shut out of the 2024 CMA Awards nominations, which were announced last month...Read more

DETROIT — Eminem pays tribute to his daughter Hailie Jade — and learns he's going to be a grandfather — in the music video for "Temporary," released Thursday.

The video is compiled of home video footage of Eminem, 51, and his daughter from over the years, and features footage from her wedding to Evan McClintock earlier this year.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ron Hale, a soap opera star who played Mike Corbin on "General Hospital" and Dr. Rodger Coleridge on "Ryan's Hope," has died. He was 78.

The actor died in St. George, South Carolina, on Aug. 27, according to South Carolina-based Bryant Funeral Home. His cause of death was not disclosed.

His niece Lori Brown said he died ...Read more

For Lana Del Rey, heaven is a place on earth with you — and without paparazzi.

The "Video Games" and "Say Yes to Heaven" singer said this week that she and her loved ones, including new husband Jeremy Dufrene, "would feel a lot safer" if local papz in Louisiana would leave them alone. In the comments section of a fan account, the Grammy-...Read more

The average sequel to a huge commercial success doesn’t try much of anything. Director Todd Phillips knows this. He is, after all, the director of all three “Hangover” movies.

Surprise! “Joker: Folie à Deux” is a lot of things, but a pro forma sequel it is not. This genuinely nervy jukebox musical (?) (!), very nearly a rebuke of the...Read more

It would take a mighty generous read to extract anything of worth out of "Joker: Folie à Deux," the tepid, sort-of musical sequel to 2019's transgressive origin story of the famed Batman villain.

Where the original film took the Joker story as a jumping off point to hold a mirror to a decaying society and its treatment of mental illness, for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on the set of "Rust," the movie is set to make its world premiere in Europe.

The organizers of Poland's EnergaCamerimage international film festival announced Thursday that "Rust" will be screened at the event, followed by a panel discussion honoring Hutchins. ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Following the much-anticipated announcement of Oasis‘ reunion tour, the band has added a second show at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena on Sept. 7, 2025.

The Oasis Live world tour, which marks the British rock legends’ return to the stage, will see the “Wonderwall” hitmakers performing multiple nights at major ...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: I wonder if you know why Apple TV+ is misspelling the title of their big new movie "Wolfs." The dictionaries I've consulted say the only proper plural form is "wolves." I watched the movie, and I didn't see anything that explains what I assume is a deliberate error. Any ideas? I just find it very ...Read more

When Disney in 2021 announced Rachel Zegler as the lead in its "Snow White" revival, some consumers pledged to boycott the film for its "woke" casting. To them, a Colombian actor wasn't qualified to play a princess with a canonical history of having "skin as white as snow."

So the production turned to some other history.

"It fell back to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two-thirds of the professional musicians who will decide the results of next year's Grammy Awards weren't members of the Recording Academy as recently as 2018.

That's one of the key findings of a report the academy released Thursday, one day before the start of first-round Grammy voting, during which the organization's roughly ...Read more

Making a movie about famous funny people: super hard. Audiences spend half the time watching it performing stupid checklist tricks in their minds. (Is the nose right? Did that really happen? Wasn’t the real person taller? Sexier? More talented?) It’s no way to give any docudrama, or docu-comedy, a fair shake.

Backstage stories about those ...Read more

There's a bit of a "Stranger Things" current running through "Monster Summer," a spooky-enough piece of gateway horror which unfolds in the era when kids rode their bikes until the streetlights came on and entertained themselves with tall tales about their neighbors.

There's also nods to "The X Files," "E.T." and "The Sandlot" in this adventure...Read more

Hollywood loves a navel-gazing satire about the movie business. Audiences do too, when given a good reason, from the upbeat mockery of 1952’s “Singin’ in the Rain,” to the excoriation of a studio executive in 1992’s “The Player,” to the empty platitudes about representation in 2023’s “American Fiction.” But don’t look for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former daytime-talk staple Wendy Williams is no longer on air, but that hasn't stopped her from weighing in on one of the music industry's most damning scandals in recent years.

The host of "The Wendy Williams Show" — who has shied away from the spotlight since before her aphasia diagnosis — weighed in on Sean "Diddy" Combs ...Read more