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'Baby Reindeer' star Richard Gadd rocks a scruffy beard at the SAG Awards red carpet

Feb. 23, 2025

"Baby Reindeer" creator and star Richard Gadd rocks a scruffy look at the 2025 SAG Awards.

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Selena Gomez dazzles at the SAG Awards

Feb. 23, 2025

Selena Gomez dazzles at the SAG Awards in black gown

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'Mickey 17', 'Running Man', more 'Wicked' and other exciting book-to-screen adaptations

Feb. 22, 2025

The next few years will be big for book-to-screen adaptations. We’re starting to see the silver screen aftermath of BookTok’s biggest hits after “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover debuted as a Blake Lively film this summer. Next, Hoover’s “Verity” will be a film starring Anne Hathaway. And there are plenty of other BookTok-popular books that have been greenlit for movies or television, including Rebecca Yarros’ dragon-filled romantasy “Fourth Wing,” “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Emily Henry’s “The People We Meet on Vacation.” "The Housemaid" by Frieda McFadden will star Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney. Even the new “Hunger Games” prequel “Sunrise on the Reaping” has a feature film in the works, despite the book not being out until March.

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Voting for best picture at the Oscars is surprisingly complicated. How a winner is picked.

Feb. 22, 2025

We’ve got many, many questions about what all goes into the Academy Awards. Not least of which, how exactly does best picture get decided? For the last 15 years, the 10,000-plus members of the Academy have cast their votes with what is known as the “preferential ballot.” The ranked voting system aims to level the playing field among best picture nominees, and tends to benefit movies that are crowd-pleasing rather than sharply polarizing. So how does it work? And what could it mean for this year’s especially unpredictable best picture race? We break down everything we know about the

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Independent Spirit Awards 2025: See Demi Moore, Emma Stone hit the carpet

Feb. 22, 2025

Hollywood celebrated indie filmmaking at Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards at the Santa Monica Pier in California. Scroll through for the best photos from the red (OK, blue) carpet, starting with Demi Moore and her dog Pilaf.

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NAACP Image Awards red carpet: See Cynthia Erivo, Gabrielle Union, more stars

Feb. 22, 2025

Stars stepped out Saturday night to celebrate Black excellence at the NAACP Image Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California. See who brought their best looks to the red (well, purple) carpet, starting with Cynthia Erivo.

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Rihanna covers Harper's Bazaar magazine, talks music and motherhood after A$AP Rocky trial

Feb. 22, 2025

Rihanna is opening up in a rare new interview for Harper's Bazaar magazine. The "Close To You" singer is seemingly getting closer to releasing new music and she opened up about her journey back to the medium nine years after the release of her last album "Anti" in January 2016. "I think music is my freedom. I just came to that realization. I just cracked the code on what I really want to do for my next body of work. I am actually feeling really good about this. I know I kept saying this over the years," Rihanna told the publication. The "We Found Love" hitmaker's March cover story for the magazine's legacy issue, on U.S. newsstands March 4, comes after she made a series of rare public appearances at the assault trial of her partner A$AP Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, who was found not guilty Tuesday.

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Tyga announces on Instagram death of mom Pasionaye Nguyen: 'I love you forever'

Feb. 22, 2025

Pasionaye Nguyen, rapper Tyga's mom, has died at 53, he announced Friday. The "Taste" rapper took to Instagram in a lengthy post to share the death of Nguyen with his 46 million followers. "I been trying to understand and process why God takes the most meaningful and most beautifulest people away from us. But I know I’ll never get an answer that will fill the emptiness in my heart," Tyga wrote in the caption of the post, which has 1 million likes. Tyga, 33, continued, writing that he can’t imagine life without his mom, saying she was "the best and most supportive person" in his life, who made things better at his lowest and worst.

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Lynne Marie Stewart, 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' actress, dies at 78 after 'unexpected' illness

Feb. 22, 2025

Lynne Marie Stewart, the star of "Pee-wee's Playhouse" opposite Paul Reubens, died at 78 on Friday. The actress passed suddenly after a tumor was found near her liver and gallbladder in mid-December, Stewart's representative Bette Smith told USA TODAY Saturday. Stewart had been struggling with exhaustion before the diagnosis, Smith said. "This was totally unexpected, and she passed a month or so after her diagnosis," Smith said. "Lynne was the most wonderful actress. She was the kindest and (most) honorable person," Smith added, saying the actress "loved the craft" and "didn't care" about receiving "pay or press."

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'The Apprentice' director Ali Abbasi apologizes for alleged groping of A-list actor

Feb. 22, 2025

Ali Abbasi, who directed a buzzy, but controversial biopic about President Donald Trump released last year, is "truly sorry" after a groping claim surfaced Friday. Entertainment outlet Deadline first detailed the allegations of Abbasi's alleged groping of an A-list actor at a Golden Globes afterparty in a report published Friday. His lengthy apology was first shared by TheWrap on Saturday and later obtained by USA TODAY. "I want to address the recent articles about me directly and openly," Abbasi said in the emailed statement. "I fully understand that my action made someone uncomfortable, regardless of my intent, and for that I am truly sorry."