The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan will officially announce the 2022 Academy Award nominees in a live presentation on Tuesday, February 8 via global livestream. The 94th Oscars which will take place on Sunday, March 27 live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Jordan and Ross are slated to announce the nominees for 23 Academy Award categories. The announcement will be streamed live on Oscar....

During the Kering Women In Motion conversation at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, presented by Variety, award winner Davis revealed that a male director called her by his maid’s name decades ago. “I had a director who did that to me. He said, ‘Louise!’ I knew him for 10 years, and he called me Louise and I find out that it’s because his maid’s name is Louise,” Davis remembered. “I was maybe around 30 at the time, so it was a while ago....

“WB’s admission leaves no doubt that its coercive conduct is a continuing, thinly-veiled effort to eliminate Village Roadshow’s rights going forward so that it can keep for itself valuable derivative rights to tent pole films, and use those films (and future creative derivative products arising from those films) to steer would-be theatergoers to HBO Max, thereby gaining billions in enterprise value,” states the Village Roadshow filing. Village Roadshow also issued a statement via law firm Kirkland & Ellis that called for a preliminary injunction by March 7....

Buying video games can really add up, but if you’re a budget gamer who wants to cut back on the clutter of collecting too many games while saving money in the process, GameFly might be a good option for you. The monthly subscription service offers a curated collection for gamers and movie buffs alike, with thousands of titles to choose from, including new and used video games for Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS5, PS4, PS3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Switch, older consoles, and more....

We’ll spare readers the obvious “the future is streaming” talking point. What’s weird about this one is “DWTS” is so well suited to broadcast television and just how strange it feels on SVOD. However, there is method to the madness behind the two-season streaming pickup that will make “Dancing with the Stars” the first-ever live Disney+ series. As canaries go, not a bad one to send into that coal mine. First, let’s get the Disney bigwigs’ corporate-speak out of the way....

If that’s the case, Legendary Entertainment’s latest outing in the MonsterVerse will almost certainly be hailed as a return to form. Any gross above the $16.7 million earned in the opening weekend for “Wonder Woman 1984” — the best three-day total for any film in the last year — will do the trick. Beyond the headlines, the reality is a little different. “Godzilla vs. Kong” opens March 31, a Wednesday, to take advantage of the Easter weekend....

Despite the three progressively excellent examples listed above, these kind of stories aren’t easy to do well — especially on TV. Without a steady stream of humor (a la Kaley Cuoco’s zippy new HBO Max original) or satisfying surprises, all that worry can quickly prove exhausting or intolerable over six-to-10 hours, let alone multiple seasons. “Dead to Me,” “Defending Jacob,” and plenty more programs that don’t start with the letter “D” have struggled to balance a constant undercurrent of anxiety with believable twists, effective jokes, and/or enough plot to fill the time....