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“Top Gun: Maverick” won Best Picture at the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, held Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The Tom Cruise-starring sequel beat out competition for the marquee award that included fellow Oscar nominees “Elvis”, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, “The Fabelmans”, “Women Talking” and “The Woman King”.
After passing “Avengers: Infinity War” at the global box office on Thursday, “Avatar: The Way of Water” has now passed “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” for the #4 spot on the all-time box office list. After its seventh Friday in theaters, “Avatar 2” had totals of $608 million domestic and just over $2 billion worldwide.
Amazon Studios has tapped Phoebe Waller-Bridge to write a TV series as part of a potential “Tomb Raider” universe that would span television, film and games. Reportedly, the TV series is in the works from Phoebe, who was a writer on “No Time To Die” and “Solo: A Star Wars Story”.
Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ has become the most streamed song in a week in Spotify history for the second week in a row (week of Jan. 26). While Spotify didn’t share specific numbers, the hit first achieved the feat the week of Jan. 19.
Weezer is one of the acts participating in “A Grammy Tribute to the Beach Boys”, a special that will tape Feb. 8 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, 3 days after the Grammys. Other artists influenced by the Beach Boys who are taking part: Beck, Brandi Carlisle, Fall Out Boy, Lady A, John Legend, Charlie Puth, Hanson and more.
Drake is making sure his 5-year-old son Adonis knows his family. An Instagram photo shows Adonis hanging with his grandparents, Dennis and Sandi Graham. Drake is also in the image. The group was attending a family event.
Neilsen has released its streaming data for 2022 and Disney’s ‘Encanto’ topped the list for movies with over 27.4 billion minutes viewed. Only one superhero film made the top 15 for most streamed last year; ‘Eternals’ racked in over 4.2 billion minutes of viewing.
CNBC is canceling ‘Jay Leno’s Garage’, a show the former late night host has had on television since 2015. TV execs reportedly want to focus on other CNBS shows like ‘Shark Tank’, which comes at a bad time for Jay as he recovers from a motorcycle accident. This is the end of an era for Jay, who has been on the air with NBC for 30 years.
Kendall Jenner was photographed a while back walking in the rain, with a guy holding an umbrella over her, and the Internet gave it to her. So she just reposted a picture where she’s holding HER OWN umbrella.
ABC has parted ways with “Good Morning America” co-hosts Amy Roback and T.J. Holmes. They were removed from the air in December after it was revealed they were having an affair.
It’ll be the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 57. It takes place in two weeks . . . on February 12th at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
Remember when Pamela Anderson was married to movie producer Jon Peters for 12 days in 2020? Well, there are apparently no hard feelings there. He’s leaving her $10 million in his will.
Harry Styles split his pants during a show in L.A. the other night . . . and his celebrity crush Jennifer Aniston was in the crowd. Also, Harry is performing at the Grammys next weekend.
Sam Smith released “Gloria”, their fourth studio album, Friday. The official video for the artist’s new single, “I’m Not Here To Make Friends,” dropped at the same time, and it’s stirring up controversy. The visual includes a lot of sexualized content, including Sam wearing pasties, causing several right wing pundits to call for the video to be given an age restriction limit on YouTube.
Katy Perry is kicking herself for turning down the chance to work with Billie Eilish. The singer told the crowd at a recent event that a colleague at her Capitol Records encouraged her to link up with the teenage singer. Katy recalled, “It was a song called ‘Ocean Eyes’ and it was just a blonde girl, and I was like ‘Meh, boring.’ Big mistake. Huge mistake!”
Olivia Wilde was photographed hugging her ex-fiancé, Jason Sudeikis, in Los Angeles Friday. This comes after her split from Harry Styles in November, which a source told the press has been hard on the actress.
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