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Yorgos Lanthimos celebrated his Golden Globes win by giving a shoutout to Bruce Springsteen.

Actor Gene Hackman was seen out on a dinner date in New Mexico on Thursday, using a cane to walk and holding the arm of his wife, Betsy Arakawa.The couple dined at Pappadeaux’s Seafood Kitchen in Santa Fe, where the legendary actor has lived since the 1980s.Earlier in the day, Hackman, who turned 94 in January, was spotted grabbing a cup of coffee and an apple pie from a local Speedway store.Ever the outdoorsman, he sported hiking pants, a checkered shirt, gray vest, a cap and shades.Although the “Unforgiven” actor and Arakawa, a 62-year-old pianist, got married in 1991, they’re rarely seen together in public. The pair was last photographed 21 years ago in a much more glamorous setting — on the red carpet of the 2003 Golden Globe Awards.At that glitzy Los Angeles ceremony, Hackman received the Cecil B.

Beef is having a good night at the Golden Globes.

Refresh for latest: The 2024 awards season is officially underway with the 81st annual Golden Globes being handed out tonight, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced. Check out the list so far below.

Meryl Streep has broken a Golden Globes record. Her own. Streep came in to today’s Globes nominations with 32 noms and eight wins and she has now notched her 33rd nomination — for her supporting turn as aspiring actress Loretta Durkin in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building.

Martin Scorsese has has received virtually every award possible for his work, including an Oscar, a Grammy, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTA and DGA awards, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the HFPA’s Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Kennedy Center Honor.

The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood turned 100 last year — and now the venue is ready for its closeup. Netflix said today that the storied movie palace and birthplace of the red carpet will reopen next month after a three-year renovation and retrofit.

It’s not every day that a filmmaker will rise up during an interview and recite Old Testament tales and sing out their favorite hymn. Well, hallelujah, brother Jeymes Samuel for spreading the gospel’s good news.

The Daily Beast about the film, which follows his character, a wealthy investment broker, switching places with a broke con artist (played by Murphy, 62).In one scene of the R-rated comedy, Aykroyd appears in blackface while wearing dreadlocks and speaking in a Caribbean accent.“I was in blackface in that film, and I probably couldn’t get away with it now,” Aykroyd told the outlet last week. “Eddie and I were improvising there. Eddie is a black man, and his entourage were all black people, and I don’t think they batted an eye.

Eddie Murphy is sparking talks of potentially starring in a reboot of “The Pink Panther”.

Star Wars film, which he says is about “the discovery of the Force”.This week (April 7) Star Wars confirmed that three new films are in the works for the franchise, the first of which will be directed by Mangold, who has also directed this year’s upcoming Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny.According to LucasFilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who appeared at this year’s Star Wars Celebration in London, the film will explore “the first Jedi to wield the force”.Speaking to Empire, Mangold has opened up more about the film and when it will be set.He said: “It takes place 25,000 years before Episode IV, and it’s about the discovery of the Force.“I told Kathy [Kennedy] I wanted to make a kind of Bible movie, a kind of Ten Commandments of Star Wars – kind of a Cecil B DeMille film about the arrival of the Force, and that’s what I’ve been pecking away at between press events. That’s the idea.”He continued: “It’s a movie that both connects to the worlds we know, but is also far enough away from it that I think there’s a lot of opportunities to tell a story freely, also…and not be so incredibly tied in by the knots and different story strands that are already in place.”A post shared by Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) The second new Star Wars film will be directed by The Mandalorian co-creator Dave Filoni.

The first time Cecil B. DeMille parted the waters of the Red Sea, to film the 1923 version of The Ten Commandments, he did it at Seal Beach, CA, just 30 miles down the Pacific coast from Santa Monica. Three decades later, when Paramount Pictures decided to remake the Old Testament tale in Technicolor and VistaVision, the same director returned to do it again, only this time on location on the Sinai Peninsula with thousands of extras provided by the Egyptian army — no matter that the country’s military was rather busy with urgent geopolitical matters at the time. Both versions were massive hits, with the remake serving as the capper to DeMille’s illustrious career.

It’s not often that Cecil B. DeMille award recipients come backstage at the Golden Globes, but Eddie Murphy did for a brief three minutes.

Eddie Murphy was the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes on Tuesday for his work in Hollywood. The actor ended his speech with the “blueprint” for up-and-coming actors to achieve success in the industry.

He went there! As Eddie Murphy was honored with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, he addressed Will Smith’s now-infamous Oscars slap.

The Golden Globes return to NBC after a year’s hiatus and are set to air Tuesday, January 10 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT live on the network as well as on the Peacock streaming service. Jarrod Carmichael will host the ceremony taking place at the Beverly Hilton.

Can we finally talk about movies for a minute? I mean, those of us who aren’t full-blown, always on-it awards professionals.

Refresh for more The first string of presenters for the 80th Golden Globe Awards were unveiled this morning and that includes Ana de Armas, Ana Gasteyer, Billy Porter, Colman Domingo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Natasha Lyonne, Nicole Byer, Niecy Nash, Quentin Tarantino and Tracy Morgan. As the Hollywood Foreign Press Association looks to get back on its feet after weathering diversity controversies, it has been buzzed that personal reps wouldn’t allow their clients to get back on stage. However, as the HFPA has expanded its ranks with journalists of color, it appears that the industry is pivoting in its attitude toward the organization.

Five-time Golden Globe winner and 16x nominee Ryan Murphy is receiving the Carol Burnett Award at the 2023 Golden Globes.

The Beverly Hills Cop franchise actor and SNL alum will be bestowed with the Cecile B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes in January.

Toronto International Film Festival, has been shrouded in secrecy for months. About all we knew going in was that the movie is based on the famed director’s own life, and stars Williams, Paul Dano and Seth Rogen. Running time: 151 minutes.

There is definitely a trend of late for film directors to take a look in thinly disguised cinematic memoirs of their early influences that shaped the artist and person they have become. Kenneth Branagh with Belfast and Paolo Sorrentino with The Hand Of God did it last year. Of course there is Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, others over the years. Sam Mendes, while not drawing a portrait of his younger self revisits the movie palaces of his youth in another 2022 offering, Empire Of Light, which premiered last weekend at Telluride and will also hit the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF is also where the man I recently described as the GOAT, Steven Spielberg, has chosen to debut his own story where the names have been changed but the story is  clearly his. The Fabelmans basically chronicling his early Jewish family life and infatuation with making movies  had its World Premiere Saturday night, the first of Spielberg’s directed movies ever to premiere at a film festival. This one seems entirely appropriate, and it has been gestating in the director’s head ever since he and his co-writer Tony Kushner started kicking it around during the making of Lincoln over a decade ago. He says he finally made it primarily as a way to bring his late parents Leah and Arnold (to whom the film is dedicated) somehow back to his life. Movies can do that, and no one knows it better than Steven Spielberg.

Anne Heche’s son has explained why the star is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, calling it “a living place”. According to the late actress' death certificate - obtained by Extra TV - Heche’s remains were buried at the famous cemetery after she was cremated on 18 August. Heche died earlier this month at the age of 53 after her Mini Cooper crashed into a Los Angeles home.

Anne Heche's sons are addressing their choice for the late actress' final resting place.The actress' 20-year-old son, Homer, released a statement on Tuesday, via his rep, on behalf of himself and his 13-year-old half-brother, Atlas Tupper, regarding the family's choice to inter Heche's ashes at the iconic Hollywood Forever Cemetery.«My brother Atlas and I want to thank Tyler, Noelle and all the amazing people at Hollywood Forever for their kindness, compassion and generosity of spirit,» the statement read. «We are convinced our Mom would love the site we have chosen for her; it’s beautiful, serene and she will be among her Hollywood peers.»«Most importantly, Hollywood Forever is a living place, where people attend movies and concerts and other events,» Homer added.

Anne Heche has found her final resting place among Hollywood's brightest stars.According to the actress' death certificate, obtained by ET, Heche's body was cremated on Aug. 18 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, where she will also be buried. Details on a burial or a memorial service have not been shared. Heche was taken off life support on Aug. 14 after getting into a serious car accident a week prior in Los Angeles.

Wilson Chapman editorDenzel Washington can now add Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient to his list of accolades.President Joe Biden announced the 17 honorees on Friday. Presented annually, the medal recognizes public figures who have made notable contributions to American society, culture, politics or world peace.

Todd Gilchrist From “The King of Kings” to “The Northman,” hundreds of films have premiered within the storied walls of the TCL Chinese Theatre, which celebrates its 95th anniversary May 18.Indeed, as early as 1933, the famed movie house appeared in other media as a boilerplate for how a premiere should, and often does, look like. Since then, the theater played itself in dozens of television shows and movies, some of which went on to debut on its iconic screen.

It took forever — well, 122 years — but Hollywood Forever Cemetery was designated a historic-cultural monument by the Los Angeles City Council today following a unanimous recommendation from the city’s Cultural Heritage Commission.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorAida Takla O’Reilly, the longest-serving member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who served two times as the organization’s president, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 90.Born in Egypt, she joined the HFPA in 1956 and served as president of the organization that hands out the Golden Globes in 1994-96 and in 2011-13. She covered the entertainment industry for Nisf El Dunia and El Ahram in Egypt.After becoming Egypt’s youngest female pilot, Takla O’Reilly moved to the U.S.

Sheila Benson, who was chief film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1981-1991, died February 23 in Seattle. She was 91.

Matt Hancock and his lover Gina Coladangelo have finally made their social debut. The pair surfaced at a glittering party for nearly 400 guests held in belated honour of Jeffrey Archer’s 80th birthday.

Vanessa Hudgens showed fans around her stunning Los Feliz, Los Angeles, home in a new Architectural Digest video.

Jane Fonda said Hollywood has been “afraid” to tackle its diversity problem as she delivered a powerful speech during the Golden Globes. The ceremony was marred by controversy after it emerged the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the body which votes on the awards, did not have a single black member.

The 78th Golden Globe Awards inspired a whole lot of Google searches.

Jane Fonda called for Hollywood to "expand that tent" of who is allowed to tell stories in the industry, while Norman Lear thanked a series of creators he has worked with over his decades-long career while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille and Carol Burnett awards, respectively, at theGolden Globeson Sunday night.

On Sunday, during her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award, Jane Fonda, who has always been an activist, ally and advocate to marginalized voices, talked about how she has seen “a lot of diversity” in her lifetime and that she has been challenged to understand some of the people she has met. It was one of those moments in which the next part could be really profound or take a turn for the worse. Luckily, it’s Jane Fonda so we know where it’s headed.