Michael Cieply: In The Filings, The Academy Museum Shifts Its Mission Statement

Michael Nordine author There’s no shortage of great movies about baseball, but there is a severe lack of films about the Negro leagues. The fifth inning of Ken Burns’ expansive “Baseball” covers them with admirable reverence, but feature-length projects — whether narrative or documentary — are vanishingly rare. “The League” is therefore something close to required viewing for devotees of our national pastime just by virtue of its existence, so it comes as a relief that Sam Pollard’s documentary (exec produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson) is also quite good on the merits. Given his résumé, that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Pollard’s prior work as director includes “MLK/FBI” and “Citizen Ashe,” and he’s also edited several Spike Lee joints; in addition to a Peabody Award and career achievement prize from the International Documentary Association, he shared an Oscar nomination with Lee for 1997’s “4 Little Girls” about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

Michael Cera‘s super bad old phone prevented him, albeit slightly, from forming an even stronger bond with the cast of Barbie. All good though. Cera says his character in the film would have probably kept a distance anyway.

Michael Cera's super bad old phone prevented him, albeit slightly, from forming an even stronger bond with the cast of . All good though.

Larsa Pippen and Marcus Jordan say that Michael Jordan gave them his stamp of approval on their relationship, contrary to what he recently said. The couple recently sat down with ET's Brice Sander at Marcus' Miami penthouse for their first and only joint, in-person interview, where the  podcast hosts opened up about their relationship and how the people closest to them feel. «We had just started hanging out as friends, I feel like that’s kinda what the motivational thing for us, we were like, 'OK fine, now we're dating, so now should we tell everyone?'» Larsa said. «Well, we spent some time together during the holidays. She came and visited some of my family, I visited some of her family, so I think that’s kinda what, once we realized our families were OK with it, then I feel like that was easier for us,» Marcus said. On Sunday, after the couple sat down with ET, Marcus' dad, Michael, was spotted leaving a restaurant in Paris, France, where he was asked about Marcus' relationship with Larsa.Laughing at first, Michael brushed off the question, but when the photographer doubled down and asked if he approves, the former Chicago Bulls star replied with a blunt «No.» The photographer asked again, confirming Michael's response, to which he answered by shaking his head no.Basketball fans will remember that Larsa was married to Michael's former Bulls teammate and friend, Scottie Pippen, for over 20 years, with the pair finalizing their divorce in 2021.

Those who have been working hard throughout the summer by dieting and working out may be worried that their holidays abroad could ruin all their progress.

I have just two words for producer Lawrence Turman, who died Saturday at 96. “Thank you.”

The Sopranos, The White Lotus, Goodfellas or any movie or TV show I’ve been in.“Thank you Supreme Court for allowing me to discriminate and exclude those who I don’t agree with and am opposed to. USA! USA!”A post shared by @realmichaelimperioliIn response to his own post, the actor added that “hate and ignorance is not a legitimate point of view” and “America is becoming dumber by the minute”.Speaking to Variety, Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect) described the ruling as “backwards”.

Given the stories that Russell Crowe was still celebrating his open-air concert at Karlovy Vary’s Thermal Hotel until the small hours of the morning, there was little surprise that the actor was late for his meeting with a group of international journalists. However, the 59-year-old showed no signs of wear and tear, and even graciously insisted the press conference go on past its strict 30-minute cut-off time.

Michael Douglas is remembering Alan Arkin.

Kim Cattrall is making her return to the  universe. After previously disavowing , the actress revealed that she has a cameo on the second season of the spinoff series, shocking fans and prompting her co-stars to speak out.Cattrall will reprise her beloved character, Samantha Jones, for the first time since the 2010 film,  The main question on everyone's mind is how showrunner Michael Patrick King convinced her to return, and if she's still embroiled in drama with her former co-star and lead, Sarah Jessica Parker.While the alleged feud came to light just a few years ago, it has fascinated fans ever since and led to her character being written out of the show — although not killed off — when  was picked up in 2021.In light of the unexpected casting news, ET is looking back at the years-long public drama between Cattrall and Parker to examine when things went south, and what both actresses have said about the headline-grabbing drama ever since.When was shooting its final season, Cattrall sat down for a chat on the British talk show,, and vented a bit about the financial elements that led to the show ending after six seasons. Cattrall claimed at the time, «I felt after six years it was time for all of us to participate in the financial windfall of . When they didn’t seem keen on that I thought it was time to move on.»King also claimed, in an interview in August 2018, that tensions ran high between the stars of the show — Cattrall, Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis — from early on in the series.

Celebrated Hollywood costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis has said the time is ripe for an overhaul of the contracts covering pay and conditions as well as Intellectual Property rights for her profession.

Jennifer Lawrence is addressing rumors she filmed a cameo for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Columbus’ production company 26th Street Pictures has optioned the David Michael Slater novel The Vanishing for film, tapping Jay Lender (SpongeBob SquarePants) to script an adaptation.

In January 2021, amid COVID-19, a short squeeze of the stock of video game retailer GameStop by a group of Redditors took the news world by storm. Now this Fall, the tale of /wallstreetbets hits the big screen in “Dumb Money,” Craig Gillespie‘s film about the stock tip that went viral.

Like a disastrous first date where there’s still something there (that zsa zsa zsu, perhaps), season two of “And Just Like That…” proves that everyone deserves a second chance. In its first ten episodes, back in 2021 and 2022, the “Sex and the City” reboot was grating and clumsy, full of cringe-inducing dialogue and misguided attempts at relevancy, absent everything that made the original series a must-watch for generations of women.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Most of this year’s limited or anthology series Emmy frontrunners had several choices on where to compete. “Dahmer: Monster — The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” is part of a new “Monster” anthology series, but it could have gone drama. “Beef” might have found a home in drama or comedy, but landed in limited (same goes for “Mrs. Davis”). All of these series have a trailblazer to thank for the flexibility that comes with the limited/anthology category: HBO’s “From the Earth to the Moon.” It’s been 25 years since that landmark miniseries was an Emmy contender — and it’s remarkable to look back at what a controversial decision it was at the time to even call it a “miniseries.”

The Charlotte Hornets has officially approved the sale of a majority stake in the team from basketball legend Michael Jordan to “The Buyer Group,” an organization that includes J. Cole.

A bunch of hot celeb guys have opened up about the size of their manhood in interviews over the years. Some of them have revealed they are packing while others weren’t afraid to admit that there’s not much there.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ “The Flash,” now playing in theaters. Ezra Miller’s speedy superhero tears apart the DC Universe in the multiverse-hopping movie, “The Flash.” After first appearing in cameos in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad,” the Flash finally gets his own standalone movie, full of surprise appearances and shocking cameos.

A New Wave of K-Cinema: Korean Women Directors,” The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is hoping to change that. Across the month of June, the Los Angeles museum is showing 10 contemporary Korean films made by women that “explore the complexities of diverse conditions, including the trauma of domestic violence, investigations into gender and class politics, humanity’s relation to nature and the environment, and love and friendship.” Hyesung ii, who organized “A New Wave of K-Cinema,” told TheWrap it is a series she has had in mind since she began working at the museum.