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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic At the 58th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, the top prize, entertainer of the year, was handed out to Chris Stapleton, even as Lainey Wilson and Hardy won in the the greatest number of categories, with four each — two of which they shared for the duet “Wait in the Truck.” Technically, Hardy walked away with six trophies, since the ACMs offer double awards for artists who co-write their nominated songs. Accepting for album of the year, Wilson said, “I wrote 300 songs during the pandemic.” Noting that some fans have said listening to her “Bell Bottom Country” album helped save their lives, Wilson said, “Writing these songs saved mine.” She quoted one of her own lines: “Be who you are, ’cause everybody else is taken.”

McKinley Franklin editor Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) executive director Tom Mara has announced the company’s acquisition of the Seattle Cinerama Theater from the estate of late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen. Mara revealed the news at the opening night celebration of the 49th annual SIFF on May 11. The festival runs through May 21. “We are honored to take on stewardship of this historic theater. It’s a film venue adored by the community and speaks to the critical role SIFF plays in bringing the power and art of film to diverse audiences across our region,” Mara said. “So many of us have experienced the magic of this theater, and we are excited to carry on the vision and impact that Paul Allen started so many years ago.”

pic.twitter.com/xzVEgaGeDTRead Cooper’s full remarks below:Many of you have expressed deep anger and disappointment. Many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on the stage in front of a crowd of Republican voters to answer questions and predictably continue to spew lie after lie after lie.And I get it. It was disturbing.

Morgan Wallen has announced new tour dates just days after he canceled six weeks of shows after getting "bad news" from his doctor that he had injured his vocal cords. His canceled May and June dates for his "One Night at a Time" tour have been rescheduled to dates between Aug. 30, 2023, and June 7, 2024.

The 2023 Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMs) is here. The 58th annual award show, co-hosted by country legends Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks, is held in Frisco, Texas this year.This will be Parton's second time hosting the show and Brooks' first time taking on the role.

Dolly Parton kicked off the 2023 ACM Awards on Thursday night (May 11) by joking about having a threesome with co-host Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood.

Mikayla Nogueira is at the center of another controversy on TikTok, this one stemming from claims that she is faking her distinctive accent in videos.

Jennifer Lopez plays a deadly assassin in Netflix film The Mother.Directed by Niki Caro (Mulan), the action thriller follows an assassin who comes out of hiding to protect her estranged daughter.A synopsis reads: “A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.”Lopez also serves as a producer alongside Benny Medina, Roy Lee and Marc Evans. The film’s script is by Misha Green (Lovecraft Country) and Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton).Lucy Paez plays 12-year-old Zoe, the daughter of the titular Mother.

We’ve got bad news for fans who were waiting to hear more about the second season of HBO’s hit show The Last of Us: Casting has been put on hold due to the ongoing writers strike.

Jeremy Allen White and Addison Timlin are calling it quits. actor's wife filed for divorce from him on Thursday in Los Angeles, California, ET confirms. ET has reached out to White, 32, and Timlin, 31, for comment. was first to report news of their split.The longtime couple met in 2008. They welcomed their first child, Ezer, a decade later.

The pandemic complicated production on Season 1 of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, so composer Siddhartha Khosla was elated to be able to assemble musicians to create his dream theme song for Season 2.

In a potentially seismic change on the eve of the broadcast upfronts, word emerged Thursday evening that NBCUniversal sales chief Linda Yaccarino is reportedly in discussions to become Twitter’s new CEO.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper devoted a portion of his primetime program to address the backlash against the network for its town hall with Donald Trump, in which the Republican spewed lies and misinformation before a friendly, cheering audience.

Law enforcement to horn-blowing strike supporters: you may be breaking the law, man!

Olivia Liang took to Instagram today to express her disappointment at Kung Fu’s cancellation by the CW after three seasons, but also her thanks to the people who made the series possible.

We’re finally getting the deets on that infamous lightning bolt necklace!

Ed Sheeran just made his debut at the 58th annual ACM Awards and he delivered a powerful performance with some help from Luke Combs.The «Shape of You» singer hit the stage Thursday night at the Ford Center's The Star in Frisco, Texas, and performed «Life Goes On» while strumming his guitar and rocking an appropriately country denim ensemble.Sheeran turned the number — off his just-released album — into a duet with Combs, who joined the English singer on stage in a surprise appearance that gave the song a fantastic country music flair.After the unexpected pairing, host Garth Brooks took the stage to ask the artists about their collaboration and how they made it come together.«We met like 2018, I'd heard Luke's music through a friend… and we've just been friends for years now,» Sheeran said, smiling, «and it's been great.»Sheeran's performance comes exactly one week after a verdict sided with him in a copyright trial over his «Thinking Out Loud» track. A New York City jury ultimately found that the 32-year-old singer did not copy Marvin Gaye's 1973 hit, «Let's Get It On,' for his 2014 hit track. After the verdict was reached, Sheeran, who was forced to miss his grandmother's funeral in Ireland to attend the trial, publicly released a statement about his win and the case as a whole.»I am obviously very happy with the outcome of the case, and it looks like I'm not going to have to retire from my day job after all — but, at the same time, I am unbelievably frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court at all," Sheeran's statement read.

Taylor Swift and Matty Healy are showing PDA! The new couple was spotted out to dinner in New York City on a double date with Jack Antonoff and his fiancee, Margaret Qualley. Photos quickly went viral Thursday of Swift and Healy holding hands while at the restaurant.Taylor Swift and Matty Healy spotted out for dinner with Jack Antonoff. pic.twitter.com/PCgOQToxavAccording to reports from, the couple was having dinner at Casa Cipriani.Earlier this week, ET confirmed that Swift and Healy were reconnected through Antonoff, who has frequently collaborated with both of the artists. A source told ET, «Taylor and Matty like each other.

Matthew Ramsey isn't letting a cane slow him down. Ramsey and his Old Dominion groupmates — Trevor Rosen, Geoff Sprung, and Brad Tursi — stepped out for the ACM Awards on Thursday, and Ramsey used a cane to help him make his way down the red carpet.«This is my first venture into cane-dom,» Ramsey told ET's Rachel Smith of the assistive device, which he's using following a March ATV accident that caused his pelvis to break in three places. Ramsey is currently on the road to recovery and is excited, along with his bandmates, to attend the Academy of Country Music Awards.«You see everyone that you don't get to see all year round,» Tursi said of why it means a lot to be at the event.Their fans are certainly happy to have a chance to celebrate them, as the band keeps releasing hit after hit.

Garth Brooks to host the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday, and they kicked things off with a fun opening number that took a decidedly risqué turn.Brooks hit the stage with a big smile and welcomed the audience with a love-fest between him and his co-host, Dolly Parton, whom he called the G.O.A.T. and introduced with her well-deserved title of the «King of Country Music.»«Did I hear you say you were looking for a G.O.A.T.?» Parton said, coming out onto the stage pulling a cart with a real goat in it. «I've got your G.O.A.T.

Jason Aldean is sharing an update on his friend, Morgan Wallen, following his vocal cord injury.The country star on Tuesday announced that he'll have to reschedule six weeks' worth of shows after reinjuring his vocal cords during three recent shows amid ongoing vocal fold trauma.ET's Rachel Smith spoke to Aldean at the 2023 ACM Awards Thursday, who had to fill in for Wallen at an ACMs pre-show amid his last-minute tour cancellations, about how the «Last Night» singer is doing.«I texted with him a little bit yesterday, and obviously everybody knows what's going on with him and his voice, and ACM Lifting Lives had a show that Morgan was supposed to headline, and it just so happened we were in town,» Aldean explained. «I didn't really have much to do yesterday, so we were able to go in, fill in for him, help him out.

Lainey Wilson is dating! And it appears she had just one rule for her date when they attended the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards: don't steal her thunder!The «Heart Like a Truck» songstress spoke to ET's Rachel Smith on Thursday in Frisco, Texas and before diving into country music's biggest night, Wilson had to get a little something, something off her chest when it came to her date, former NFL quarterback Devlin Hodges.«Yup, yup. I brought me a hot date tonight,» she tells ET.

Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday sporting a baby bump.The Frisco, Texas, appearance was Smith's pregnancy reveal. She and her husband, Rollie Gaalswyk, already share two sons, Lewis, 4, and Thomas, 6.«Baby number three!» Smith exclaimed to ET's Rachel Smith.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In a movie career that stretches back 25 years, Jennifer Lopez has on occasion done flaked-out underworld thriller romance (“Out of Sight”), capery action (“Parker”) and revenge (“Enough”). Yet she has never placed herself at the center of such a down-and-dirty, grimly overwrought, execute-now-and-ask-questions-later B-movie as “The Mother.” I’m tempted to call the film “minimalist,” because if you consider its bare-bones screenplay (by three writers!), its convoluted utilitarian set-up, its 2D villains, and its essential formulaic momentum, it’s a prime example of action filmmaking made basic. Yet “The Mother” is a Netflix action movie, which means that it has a certain flavor of ambition mixed into its pulp stew. The movie, which should have been 90 minutes long (it’s 116), is lumpy and inflated, it’s sketchy yet a touch grandiose, and it’s full of tersely dramatized scenes that somehow feel overly broad. Lopez, as a military sniper turned broker of underground arms deals turned FBI informant turned savagely cool-headed protector of her 12-year-old daughter, is playing a badass not so far removed from those played by Jason Statham or (in his grade-B prime) Bruce Willis, and she’s up to the task. She shoots, she stabs, she chops windpipes, she motorcycles down stone stairways in one of those chase-through-an-ancient-city action scenes (this one takes place in Havana), she tortures a man by punching him with a fist wrapped in barb wire, she grimaces in muscle-torn agony but mostly looks frozen and implacable. Even more important, she puts her own spin on those familiar motions.

Charna Flam International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) and Women in Animation (WIA) have announced the selection of the five delegates of the second edition of the Stories x Women program. Stories x Women’s works to support and provide opportunities for African, Asia-Pacific Islander and Latin American women animators who want to tell their authentic stories. The program is sponsored by the Walt Disney Company, with additional support from Sony Pictures Entertainment. The five are “Superpunk” (Brazil) led by Mirtes Santana and Guilherme Petreca, “Negocio de Brujas” (Chile) led by Paulina Sanhueza Meléndez and Alejandra Jaramillo Fanta, “Nerea” (Dominican Republic) led by Fabiola Contreras Rosso and Arima Léon, “The Golden Pig” (Malaysia) led by Hwei Ling Ow and Kate Goodwin and “Papo Hapo” (Türkiye/Kenya) led by Irmak Atabek Ndungu and Mbithi Masya.

Hubba hubba! The 2023 ACM Awards provided Us with major eye candy. 

Dynamic duo! Hosts Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks brought the laughs — and made the crowd blush — during their 2023 ACM Awards opening monologue.

The Mother” is like a lot of Netflix action-dramas of late: A mix of different genres with hints of a darker, possibly richer story, that ended up being excised due to budget and/or time constraints. There is a lot of well-worn inspiration to be found in its familiar plot, from the survivalist parent/daughter relationship found in the 2011 feature “Hanna” to another Jennifer Lopez feature, 2018’s “Second Act” in which Lopez’s character is also at odds with a daughter she gave up at birth named Zoe. All of this is to say a film like “The Mother” shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t completely gel 100 percent.

Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks went all out for their opening monologue at the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards.

American Idol viewers when he joined season 21, and not just because of his soulful voice. The grill cook charmed viewers with his genuine adoration and devotion to his family, which included Crysta Wilkerson, 32, and her three children. When he first auditioned in November last year, Crysta was introduced as Zachariah's wife although how and when their romance started was unclear.

Beyonce's Renaissance world tour kicked off in Stockholm on Wednesday night - almost 20 years to the day since she began her incredible solo career with the release of the album Dangerously in Love. That album, which helped her to win six Grammys and remains one of the best-selling of the millennium, famously featured the singer wearing a pair of dirty men’s jeans and a top comprised of rows of diamonds on its cover. In the years since, Beyonce, now 41, has gone on to model a variety of high-end - and very pricey - one-of-a-kind ensembles from every imaginable designer brand.

The New York Times, Jamie revealed that despite having Oscar-nominated parents, she never expected to be in the running due to the "genre movies" she was involved in, but Freaky Friday marked a turning point. READ MORE: Olly Murs admits 'I wish I could've done more' at Coronation concert after baffling fansShe shared: "The only time in my life where someone mentioned an Oscar was in the New York Times review of Freaky Friday. "The Halloween star said the statement "was shocking" at the time, but joked that now she has a "skinny gold person" of her own.

Rita Ora has revealed her mother was "upset" when she broke lockdown rules by throwing a party in 2020. The Anywhere singer came under fire in November 2020 when she threw a party to celebrate her 30th birthday despite London being under lockdown amid the pandemic. In an interview with Glamour, Rita revealed that her psychiatrist mother Vera Sahatçiu, who worked on the U.

The stars are stepping out for the opening of a new Broadway show!

Good Night, Oscar,” there is no doubt. Whether the end result is a human being or a bag of tricks depends on your taste for ham.One hour and 40 minutes with no intermission.

If ever a play had good reason to front-load itself with exposition, Good Night, Oscar is it. Once among America’s premiere wits and raconteurs, Oscar Levant has gone the way of many another once-famous wits and raconteurs. Which is to say, he needs lots of exposition.