Restaurant chain TGI Fridays says it has filed for bankruptcy protection as it looks for ways to “ensure the long-term viability” of the casual dining brand.

Snoop Dogg brought out Dr. Dre, Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers all performed from a California beachside during the handover to the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Paris has closed out two and a half extraordinary weeks of Olympic sports and emotion with a star-studded show in France’s national stadium.

Simone Biles stole the show at the Paris Olympics with a captivating comeback that had everyone watching everything she did both in and out of the gymnasium.

The U.S. women’s soccer team has won its fifth Olympic gold medal by beating Brazil 1-0 in the final at the Paris Games.

Covered with pins and adornments, Vivianne Robinson is hard to miss in the streets of Paris.

Many high-profile fans are attending the return to the Olympics of Simone Biles.

The Princess of Wales attended the men’s Wimbledon final at the All England Club and handed out the winner’s trophy to Carlos Alcaraz in only her second public appearance since announcing she was diagnosed with cancer.

Alec Baldwin is going on trial for involuntary manslaughter after nearly 35 years in the public eye.

Nicole Kidman's co-stars like Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon paid her tribute as expected when she received the AFI Life Achievement Award in April.

Fred Roos, the Oscar-winning producer of “The Godfather Part II” who helped launch the careers of numerous superstars from Jack Nicholson to Tom Cruise, has died.

George Lucas will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced Tuesday.

The Academy Awards honor many things in movies but not some of the most important.

Prince William has returned to royal duties for the first time since his father King Charles III announced his cancer diagnosis and his wife, Kate, was hospitalized for abdominal surgery.

After a bruising year for the film industry, Christopher Nolan's atomic hit “Oppenheimer” has emerged the winner of the Academy Awards nomination race.

Bollywood, India’s Hindi language movie industry, made an impressive comeback in 2023 after a pandemic-driven slowdown, audience fatigue, and the streaming platforms taking away a big chunk of viewership.

Martin Scorsese will be honored with the prestigious David O.

The eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise has been postponed a year, signaling a new wave of release schedule juggling for Hollywood studios as the actors strike surpasses three months of work stoppage.

You don't know their names but you might recognize their faces.

After a globe-trotting publicity blitz by star Tom Cruise, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over the three-day weekend.

The very online showdown between Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” all started with a date: July 21.

Superstar actor Tom Cruise made a surprise stop in South Florida on Tuesday night.

There are, as a rule, only so many places you can go as an action movie after leaving Tom Cruise clinging to the side of an Airbus A400M and flinging him out a cargo plane at 25,000 feet.

There is something for everyone at the movies this summer, both in theaters and streaming at home.

Tom Cruise has graced the red carpet in Abu Dhabi for the Middle Eastern premiere of “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.”.

Oscar-winning director-producer Ed Zwick is working on a memoir, with all the highs and the lows and in-betweens.

If last year’s Cannes was partially defined by its tribute to “Top Gun Maverick” star Tom Cruise, this year’s has belonged to Harrison Ford.

Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford swung into Cannes Thursday for the world premiere of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” in one of the most anticipated events of the French Riviera festival.

A host-less, pre-taped and muted MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday became the first big awards show to air during the screenwriters’ strike, offering a commercial-heavy broadcast featuring lots of past recycled live clips.

Ahead of summer movie season that kicks off Friday with the release of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

James Corden bid farewell Thursday to his late-night CBS talk show “The Late Late Show with James Corden" after eight seasons.

Paramount Pictures, still riding high on the success of “Top Gun: Maverick’s” nearly $1.5 billion in worldwide ticket sales, brought a slew of stars from Rihanna to Martin Scorsese to CinemaCon for its presentation to theater owners Thursday.

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Michigan rapper NF, a two-part documentary about Brooke Shields on Hulu, and Kathryn Hahn portraying a character inspired by writer Cheryl Strayed in the series “Tiny Beautiful Things.”.

One surprising loser Sunday: Oscar bait.

The Academy Awards winners have been announced.

The telecast opened with a montage from the nominees, before cutting to Jimmy Kimmel in the cockpit of a fighter jet flown by “Top Gun: Maverick” star Tom Cruise.

The opening of the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday is going to be a “moment,” the show’s producers promise.

“A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” solidified its status as the frontrunner for the best picture Oscar by taking the top prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards.

Boeing says it expects to end production of the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet in late 2025.

Motion picture academy president Janet Yang told a room full of Oscar nominees that the organization's response to Will Smith's onstage slap of Chris Rock during last year's ceremony was inadequate.

Glittering rock ‘n’ roll, women warriors and kings, spellbinding multiverses and stories of friendship and family permeated 2022 cinema and the AP Top 25 Movies list.

The films from 2022 that topped the AP's inaugural Top 25 Movies poll yield a host of other numbers, facts, figures and trivia on close examination.

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This week’s new entertainment releases include Mariah Carey in concert on CBS singing Christmas songs, a free stream of the beloved 1965 animated special “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and megahit "Top Gun: Maverick” lands on Paramount+ on Thursday.

The 80th Golden Globe Awards nominations have been announced, with “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” leading the pack.

Next month’s AFI Awards will honor films including the “Avatar” sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Elvis” and popular television series like “Abbott Elementary,” “Better Call Saul” and “The White Lotus.”.

“Top Gun: Maverick,” 2022′s biggest box-office hit, has been named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review.

Taylor Swift was up.

Tom Cruise is getting his first major honor of awards season.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

Taylor Swift has won big at Sunday’s MTV EMAs.

The #MeToo movement is having another moment in the spotlight, with a slate of high-profile sexual assault trials playing out in courtrooms from coast to coast.

After a year spent off air, the Golden Globe Awards are returning to NBC in January, when the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association will seek a primetime comeback.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” swings back on top of the box office during a holiday weekend where American theaters aimed to lure moviegoers with discounted $3 tickets.

Everyone wanted to make Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling.”.

Movie fighter pilots are depicted as highly trained military aviators with the skills and experience to defeat adversaries in thrilling aerial dogfights.

Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss as the two finalists in an election to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“Thor: Love and Thunder” earned $143 million in its opening weekend in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Centre Court at the current Church Road location of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club opened in 1922.

“Elvis” has won its box-office dance-off with “Top Gun: Maverick.”.

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic “Elvis” shook up theaters with an estimated $30.5 million in weekend ticket sales, but — in a box-office rarity — “Elvis” tied “Top Gun: Maverick,” which also reported $30.5 million, for No. 1 in theaters.

A floating restaurant that fed Cantonese cuisine to Queen Elizabeth II, Tom Cruise and millions of other diners has been towed from its Hong Kong harborfront location after falling victim to the pandemic.

The widow and son of the man who wrote the 1983 article that inspired the original “Top Gun” are suing Paramount Pictures over its sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick.”.

Denny Hamlin has warned Ross Chastain that there's still some retribution due after the eighth-generation watermelon farmer wrecked him in Sunday's race at World Wide Technology Raceway.

The high-flying “Top Gun: Maverick” continued to soar in its second weekend, dropping just 32% from its opening with $86 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Jennifer Lopez will be honored for her film and television achievements at the MTV Movie & TV Awards.

Tom Cruise got his first $100 million opening weekend with “Top Gun: Maverick.”.

The war in Ukraine took a starring role on the opening night of the 75th Cannes Film Festival and it has rarely been far out of frame since.

After sitting on the shelf for two years due to the pandemic, “Top Gun: Maverick” is flying full throttle into theaters this week.

Doctor Strange and his multiverse got to linger a little longer atop the weekend box office while Tom Cruise waits in the wings.

James Gray’s autobiographical coming of age film “Armageddon Time,” starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, has made the biggest splash of an American film not starring Tom Cruise at the Cannes Film Festival.

Tom Cruise has said he and Prince William “have a lot in common” as the Hollywood star and the royal met on the red carpet in London for the U.K. premiere of the new “Top Gun” movie.

Tom Cruise mania descended Wednesday in Cannes where the actor made a whirlwind appearance at the French film festival to screen “Top Gun: Maverick,” exalt the big screen and sit for a rare interview.

During a week in mid-May, broadcast television networks traditionally unveil their fall plans in flashy presentations before advertisers in New York.

“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” stayed on top of the box office charts in its second weekend in theaters.

After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back — even kisses were forbade on the red carpet — the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal.

Hollywood is bringing out some of its biggest and most reliable players for the 2022 summer movie season, which unofficially kicks off this weekend with the help of Marvel and Disney’s “Doctor Strange and the Multitverse of Madness” and runs through the end of August.

Kim Kardashian shut down the Met Gala red carpet Monday in one of Marilyn Monroe’s most iconic dresses.

With tensions around the war in Ukraine as a backdrop, the Cannes Film Festival plans to host some 35,000 people as the movie industry looks to reclaim its pre-pandemic glamour.

It will be another year before a new “Mission: Impossible” movie hits theaters.

Even though NBC dropped the 2022 Golden Globe Awards, the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association proceeded with its 79th edition Sunday night without a telecast, nominees, a red carpet, a host, press or even a livestream.

Snoop Dogg has read the nominations for the 79th Golden Globes.

Gothic novelist Anne Rice has died due to complications from a stroke.

A Russian actor and a film director who spent 12 days in orbit to make the world’s first movie in space say they were so thrilled with their experience on the International Space Station that they felt sorry to leave.

Tom Cruise is getting a sneak preview of what it's like to circle Earth in a SpaceX capsule.

Paramount Pictures on Wednesday postponed the release of “Top Gun: Maverick,” sending another of the fall’s top movies out of 2021 due to the rise in coronavirus cases and the delta variant.

The speed limit for most of Paris is now 30 kilometers per hour (less than 19 miles per hour).

Police say the rider of an unlicensed electric scooter involved in the hit-and-run death of “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes was well aware he hit her and fled to a repair shop afterward seeking to fix damages on the vehicle.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Thursday announced reforms to its bylaws and an overhaul of its membership process in a bid to diversify its ranks and potentially restore the heavily criticized Golden Globes.

Seventh-seeded Neal Skupski of Britain and Desirae Krawczyk of the United States have reached the mixed-doubles final at Wimbledon.

Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire” is rising again on screen, this time for TV.

“Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes has died 10 days after being injured in a hit-and-run accident in New York City.

“Gone Girl” and “Cocktail” actor Lisa Banes remains hospitalized in critical condition after being injured in a hit-and-run accident in New York City.

Paramount Pictures has temporarily shut down shooting on the British set of Tom Cruise’s seventh “Mission: Impossible” film after someone tested positive for coronavirus.

Alex Bowman won the the NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway to led Hendrick Motorsports to a 1-2-3-4 finish.

Amid growing pressure on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, NBC said Monday that will not air the Golden Globes in 2022.

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2019 file photo, actor John Travolta attends the LA premiere of "The Fanatic" at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. The Maine mansion that Travolta shared with his late wife, actor Kelly Preston, has been put up for sale. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)ISLESBORO, Maine – The Maine mansion that actor John Travolta shared with his late wife, actor Kelly Preston, has been put up for sale. Built in 1903, the 10,830-square-foot home has 20 bedrooms and sits on a 48-acre estate along the ocean. Travolta became a Hollywood star in the 1970s and was nominated for an acting Oscar for his 1977 performance in “Saturday Night Fever.” He was nominated again for his role in 1994's “Pulp Fiction.”

On Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, Axiom announced they will be the first private space station crew, a year ahead of the planned launch. (Courtesy Axiom Space via AP)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The first private space station crew was introduced Tuesday: Three men who are each paying $55 million to fly on a SpaceX rocket. “This is the first private flight to the International Space Station. It’s never been done before," said Axiom's chief executive and president Mike Suffredini, a former space station program manager for NASA. Russia has been in the off-the-planet tourism business for years, selling rides to the International Space Station since 2001.

“The Midnight Sky,” which Clooney directed and stars in, is an apocalyptic sci-fi drama with some striking solitude. Debuting Wednesday on Netflix, “The Midnight Sky,” based on Lily Brooks-Dalton's novel “Good Morning, Midnight," is Clooney's seventh film as director and his biggest scaled production yet. ___AP: You finished shooting “The Midnight Sky” in February, right before the pandemic began. AP: What drew you to “The Midnight Sky”? I know people who are older -- older than me, even -- who live with real regret.