Academy Looks To Stabilize Oscars With Producers Glenn Weiss & Ricky Kirshner

Kristen Wiig and Ricky Martin are hitting the beach!

The cast of HBO Max’s Velma was announced at New York Comic-Con on Thursday by series executive producer and star Mindy Kaling. Alongside Kaling, who portrays the titular character, the leads include Constance Wu (Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile) as Daphne, Sam Richardson (Ted Lasso) as Shaggy, and Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia) as Fred.

After teasing a “big announcement” on social media Monday regarding the future of Moonlighting, creator Glenn Gordon Caron “let the cat out of the bag today” by explaining what he actually meant by that cryptic tweet.

Naman Ramachandran Malala Yousafzai, who heads her own film and TV production company, Extracurricular Productions, is joining “Joyland,” Pakistan’s Oscar submission in the international feature category, as an executive producer. The film had its world premiere at Cannes earlier this year where it won the Queer Palm and the jury prize at the festival’s Un Certain Regard strand. It subsequently had its North American premiere at Toronto. It is currently playing at both the BFI London Film Festival, where it is competing for the Sutherland Award, which recognizes the most original and imaginative directorial debut, and the Busan International Film Festival, where it is in the A Window on Asian Cinema strand.

Hocus Pocus casting its spell on Broadway? The Sanderson Sisters might be flying their brooms a bit closer to the stage after all.

You can never go wrong with a little black dress — especially after a breakup! Camila Morrone proved this is true when she stepped out in a skintight number for a night out in London following her split from Leonardo DiCaprio.

Boxer Ricky Hatton and Manchester United legend Lou Macari have sent messages of support to three dads who are trekking across the UK in memory of their young daughters who took their own lives.

on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Margot Robbie wore a cerulean (insert scene here) polka dot dress with a white collar that's a throwback in the most royal way.The puff around the shoulders, the micro-dots, the gold buttons, the fake pockets, the white lapel…the white lapel! The low-cut cleavage-baring neckline is very 2022, but with a few small adjustments and a slightly rounder shoe you get…And sure, is sitting down with Fallon to talk about a movie and was sitting down with Anwar Hussein to talk about, presumably, a different movie, but still! And I know, , people make Diana comparisons at the drop of a fascinator (that's royal for hat), but blue with polka dots is like, a thing with the women who marry into the Windsor line. Here's Di in the maternity version of this fit…And Kate Middleton has rocked similar patterns…many times! .

Thania Garcia The Recording Academy‘s Black Music Collective (BMC) has added new members to its honorary chairs and leadership council. Together, the group is committed to the “inclusion, recognition and advancement of Black music and its creators and professionals within the Recording Academy and music industry at-large,” according to the BMC. Yolanda Adams, Valeisha Butterfield Jones, Ethiopia Habtemariam and Yvette Noel-Schure will be joining returning honorary chairs Jeff Harleston, Jimmy Jam, Quincy Jones, and John Legend. New on the leadership council are Prince Charles Alexander, Jimmie Allen, Denzel Baptiste and David Biral (Take a Daytrip), Jennifer Goicoechea, Mickey Guyton, Claudine Joseph, Ledisi, Herb Trawick, Ebonie Ward and Yola.

Sacheen Littlefeather has formally accepted an apology from the Academy for the way in which she was treated at the 45th Oscars. 

We wish for peace for Ricky Martin and his sister. This must be so hard on ALL of them! This and much more on our latest podcast! CLICK HERE to listen to the newest episode of The Perez Hilton Podcast with Chris Booker in full at PerezPodcast.com

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences new CEO Bill Kramer explicitly acknowledged there are fixes that need to be made in the Academy’s annual Oscars show and process and promised to address them while speaking at this morning’s AMPAS membership meeting held in person at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles  as well as virtually for members worldwide.

In an effort to get the Oscar telecast back on track, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences today announced that awards show and live television veterans Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner will produce the 95th Annual Academy Awards will will air on ABC March 12, 2023.

J. Kim Murphy Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner will serve as executive producers of the 95th Oscars, which will take place in March 2023. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer announced the producing duo, both of White Cherry Entertainment, on Saturday morning. Along with producing, Weiss will serve as director for the ceremony for an eighth consecutive year. The 2023 Oscars will mark Weiss’ second time and Kirshner’s first time producing the Academy Awards. The two were tapped by the Academy as part of “a focus on expertise in live television event production.” “We are thrilled to have Glenn and Ricky at the helm,” Kramer and Academy president Janet Yang said in a joint statement.  “We look forward to working closely with them, our Board of Governors and the Board’s Awards Committee to deliver an exciting and energized show.”

Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner will produce the 95th Oscars telecast, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Saturday.The announcement was made at the beginning of a meeting open to all Academy members, the first time in eight years that AMPAS has conducted such a forum. The hiring of Weiss and Kirshner means that the upcoming Oscars ceremony, which will take place on March 12, 2023, will be the first with a producing team whose experience does not include a substantial amount of work in film.Weiss, who will also direct the Oscars, for the eighth consecutive year, is a director and producer who known for his work on live telecasts like the Oscars, the Tonys and the Kennedy Center Honors.

Simon Cowell had some very special guests join him on the red carpet!