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If there's any actor we'd gladly take words of wisdom from, it's the ever-soulful Oscar winner Viola Davis. She's a performer who is as capable of being a fount of warmth in The Help (even if she has good reason for regretting that role) as she is a force of nature in The Woman King. The acting legend offered up some sage advice through a recent Instagram post, in which she posited this question to her 12 million followers: You meet your 18 year old self, you are allowed to say 3 words...what do you say?The 58-year-old…

By ANDREW DALTON | AP Entertainment Writer Christian Bale broke ground Wednesday on a project he’s been pursuing for 16 years — the building of a dozen homes and a community center in Palmdale intended to keep siblings in foster care together. The Oscar winner stood with a grin and a shovel full of dirt alongside local politicians and donors in the decidedly non-Hollywood city of Palmdale, 60 miles north and across the San Gabriel Mountains from Los Angeles. But Bale, who was Batman in director Christopher Nolan ‘s “Dark…

By Ramishah Maruf | CNN New York — Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour movie will stream exclusively on Disney+ starting on March 15, Disney announced Wednesday. “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)” is a concert film for the show in its entirety. Disney said the stream will include four additional acoustic songs and the wildly popular single “cardigan.” “The Eras Tour” film grossed more than $260 million in the global box office, making it the top selling concert film in box office history. The concert…

It was just a month ago that Lily Gladstone made Golden Globes history, becoming the first Indigenous person to win a Golden Globe for best actress for her role as Mollie Burkhart, the Osage woman at the center of “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Based on the 2017 bestselling nonfiction book of the same name, Martin Scorsese’s true-crime epic reflects on the racism and gruesome murders of members of the Osage Nation during the early 1900s, spurred by oil and greed. Gladstone, now nominated for best actress at next month’s…

Twenty-two years before Brad Pitt’s seemingly happy family life with Angelina Jolie fell apart when he allegedly became violent with her and his children on a private plane ride from Europe, the actor was known to turn “volatile when riled” while working on the 1994 film “Legends of the Fall.” The film’s director, Ed Zwick, reveals Pitt’s inner turbulence, masked by an outwardly “easygoing” demeanor, in his explosive new memoir, “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood,” which is excepted in…

TV and film star Felicity Huffman has revealed that she has barely worked since she was embroiled in the college admissions scandal four years ago and served 11 days in federal prison. “I did a pilot for ABC recently that didn’t get picked up,” the “Desperate Housewives” star said in an interview with The Guardian published this week. “It’s been hard,” Huffman continued. “Sort of like your old life died and you died with it. I’m lucky enough to have a family and love and means, so I had a place to land.” This may be a…

Celebrities might have first-hand experience with discretion, as they are not only trained to keep certain personal information private but also have first-hand knowledge of the importance of privacy.Nevertheless, celebrities are also human beings with flaws and, sometimes, a memory that might need some caffeine before being put to work.As a result, some A-listers have become the victim of their inner circle, having some of their deepest secrets revealed for the whole world to see.Bored Panda takes a look at 10 famous…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCelebrity biopics are inevitably dicey. Be too nice and you wind up with sanitised guff like Bohemian Rhapsody. Entirely avoid approval from celebrities themselves and prepare to face their eternal wrath.In some cases, such as Mark Zuckerberg’s dislike of The Social Network, upset is rooted less in the biopics being bad and more their own less-than-flattering depictions. Other times,…

Throughout his career, actor Matthew Modine has been a lot of things: a soldier in the Vietnam War, a World War II pilot, an earnest FBI agent and a manipulative scientist on “Stranger Things.” And next month, he can add Maverick Spirit Award winner to the list. Modine will receive the honor at the Cinequest film festival in March, joining the likes of Harrison Ford, Rosario Dawson, Nicolas Cage and Tatiana Maslany. The presentation will be part of closing night events on March 17 at the California Theatre, which will…

By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press NEW YORK — Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing-off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” has died. He was 76. Matt Luber, his manager, said Weathers died Thursday. His family issued a statement saying he died “peacefully in his sleep.” Weathers was as comfortable flexing his muscles on the big screen in “Action Jackson”…