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She was never Josie Grossie! Drew Barrymore stole hearts from the second she hit the big screen in Never Been Kissed.

said “La La Land” beat “Moonlight” for Best Picture or Joaquin Phoenix gave a speech about the barbarism of cow’s milk) or self-inflicted (like Anne Hathaway and James Franco’s terrible hosting, and #OscarsSoWhite), we’re guaranteed at least one whoopsie during Hollywood’s biggest night of ineptitude.The latest fiasco falls into the latter category. The Academy of Motion Picture Oafs and Doofuses has added a “fan favorite” award to the 2022 ceremony on March 27.

READ MORE: Ex ITV GMB presenter Piers Morgan mocks David Beckham and furious fans rush to footballer's defence The last host to take the reins was talk show host Jimmy Kimmel in 2018. The following year the awards ceremony was meant to be hosted by comedian Kevin Hart, however he stepped down over controversial tweets.

Gallery: Happy birthday, Laura Linney! The incredible rise and rise of the Ozark star! (BANG Showbiz)'Girls Trip' producer Will Packer is producing this year's event, and Hall has worked with him in the past on the likes of 'Little' and 'Think Like A Man'. Meanwhile, Schumer and Sykes both have a connection to ABC - the broadcaster for the ceremony - with the former's series 'Life Beth' heading to Hulu, which is owned by ABC's parent company Disney.

Yet some suspect such measures are merely a case of deckchair rearrangement. “I don’t believe the host ever has an impact on ratings,” says Anne Thomson, editor-at-large at IndieWire. Indeed previous efforts to woo the under 30s with hosts such as Seth Macfarlane, James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been spectacular flops.

Sigh. We were oh-so close to spotting Kanye West stomping around in snow boots on Main Street. But just a few weeks before the Sundance Film Festival was scheduled to kick off in Park City, Utah, plans got scrapped because of you-know-what. Long gone are the days of celebrities popping into random screenings — fun fact: I once caught James Franco dozing off during a documentary about Scientology — and rationalizing a meal of popcorn and diet Coke for breakfast and chatting to strangers on the local bus about the cool new movie you saw.

and no one even noticed.That’s how divested we’ve become from Hollywood, movies, moviegoing and celebrity culture in general.Three years into this pandemic, we’ve all become quite happy streaming high-quality content from the comfort of our homes, at a fraction of the price.The screens have gotten smaller — and, apologies to Norma Desmond, so have the stars.It’s a permanent shift, one Gervais addressed at the 2020 Globes, talking “to all you perverts” in the room.“No one cares about movies anymore,” he said. “Most films are awful.

Like most projects in Hollywood, the new Hulu series, “Pam & Tommy,” had previously been in development for years. And as you might expect, there were a lot of different iterations of the limited series well before filming began, including one instance where James Franco was eyed for one of the lead roles.

James Franco will have to answer for much more than admitting he slept with some of his students after the actor gave an interview speaking out about sexual assault allegations for the first time in four years.

James Franco has been served by Johnny Depp‘s lawyers.

SiriusXM, the actor discussed developing a destructive dependency upon “validation” in the form of professional success and sexual approval from women, saying: “It’s such a powerful drug, and I got hooked on it for 20 more years. ”However, lawyers for two of his previous accusers, who agreed a payout from the actor, were unimpressed by the mea culpa and his “despicable conduct”.

Two women who have accused James Franco of sexual misconduct are responding to the actor’s recent interview addressing the allegations.

Two women who accused James Franco of sexual misconduct are now speaking out to criticize him for the comments he made this week about the allegations.

Outside of his role on “The Deuce,” James Franco has largely been absent from mainstream films and TV projects over the past few years. This, of course, is a result of the sexual misconduct allegations against him during his time as an acting teacher years ago.

James Franco is opening up about his fractured working relationship with his old pal Seth Rogen. The actors are longtime collaborators, but in a new, in-depth interview about his life – scandals and all – Franco revealed a bit more about the distance between him and Rogen, which was sparked by the sexual misconduct allegations against Franco.

sexually exploitative behaviour by five women, of whom four were his acting students. The allegations were the subject of a lawsuit in 2019, which Franco settled in June with the actor paying $2.

James Franco is opening up about his battle with sex addiction.

James Franco has broken his silence on the string of sexual misconduct allegations made against him in 2018 by five women.The Spiderman actor opened up about how he’s used the last “four years” to “examine” his past behaviour and “patterns” after stepping back from the spotlight.The 43 year old star explained he’d chosen to speak up because he’d done “a lot of work” on himself and didn’t want his brother Dave Franco or acting partner and friend Seth Rogen to have to keep “speaking” for him.

James Franco has admitted to using his fame “as a lure,” sleeping with students at his defunct acting school Studio 4 and being “completely blind” to both “power dynamics” and “people’s feelings” in his first in-depth interview on the sexual misconduct allegations against him, which surfaced in 2018.

Breaking his silence. James Franco just addressed sexual misconduct allegations originally made about him in early 2018. In a snippet of his upcoming interview for Jess Cagle’s SiriusXM podcast, the actor addresses the claims for the first time in nearly four years.

accused by five women of sexual misconduct. An attorney for Franco denied all the allegations at the time.In February 2021, Franco settled a lawsuit with two accusers, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, who were former students at now-defunct acting school Studio 4 – where they claimed he pushed his acting students to perform explicit scenes on camera.

After nearly four years of silence, James Franco, 43, finally addressed his sexual misconduct scandal in an interview on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Podcast, some of which was released on Wednesday, December 22.

Speaking out. In his first interview in nearly four years, James Franco revealed that he has been in recovery for sex addiction since 2016.

James Franco is opening up about how being accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women impacted his friendship with Seth Rogen.

James Franco has returned to the public eye.

James Franco is addressing Seth Rogen‘s comments about how the pair have no plans to work together going forward.

James Franco is speaking out about the sexual misconduct lawsuit against him and taking an extended break from Hollywood.

James Franco sat down for a tell-all interview for the first time in almost four years and addressed not only the sexual misconduct allegations made against him in 2018 but his addiction to alcohol and sex.  The actor, 43, spoke with Jess Cagle on his Sirius XM radio show about how he's changed and what he's learned about himself.  "In 2018, there were some complaints about me and an article about me and, at that moment I just thought 'I'm gonna be quiet.

James Franco is finally ready to share his side of the story in an in-depth interview with SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle.

For the first time in years, James Franco is sitting down to extensively speak about the allegations of misconduct that were leveled against him over the past few years. He previously did speak out about the allegations in a 2018 late night appearance, but has remained relatively quiet on the topic since.

If Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are still your OTP, you may want to know why Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst broke up after the first Spider-Man movie and how Maguire was almost replaced as Spider-Man by Dunst’s next boyfriend, Jake Gyllenhaal.

James Franco and Elon Musk may soon weigh in on Johnny Depp’s libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard.

James Franco walks a little behind girlfriend Izabel Pakzad as they enjoy a day at the coast during their vacation in Greece over the weekend.

James Franco and girlfriend Isabel Pakzad are still going strong!

LA Times released a report in which five women went on record to accuse Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behaviour on set.One of those women, Sarah Tither-Kaplan, is involved in the lawsuit with fellow former student Toni Gaal. Both have also alleged that students of Franco’s Studio 4 Film School were victims of fraud.The sexual misconduct lawsuit first reached a settlement deal in February, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

LOS ANGELES -- James Franco and his co-defendants agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging he intimidated students at an acting and film school he founded into gratuitous and exploitative sexual situations, court filings made public Wednesday showed.The two sides first reached a deal to settle the class-action suit in February, but it took several months to resolve details, and the dollar amount was not previously disclosed.Actresses and ex-students Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni