National Entertainment

Apple TV app - Movies US charts: 1. Sonic The Hedgehog 2. The Assistant (2020) 3. Bad Boys for Life 4. The Gentlemen 5. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 6. Jumanji: The Next Level 7. Black and Blue 8. Trolls World Tour 9.

Toronto's postponed Hot Docs festival will launch an online version for the public in Ontario later this month, setting the stage for what other major Canadian film festivals could do if the COVID-19 pandemic forces cinema closures through fall.

NEW YORK — Former President Barack Obama will deliver a televised prime-time commencement address for the Class of 2020 during an hour-long event that will also feature LeBron James, Malala Yousafzai and Ben Platt, among others.

TEHRAN, Iran — The new coronavirus pandemic has brought back something unseen in Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution: a drive-in movie theatre .

NEW YORK — Kristin Hannah’s new novel will be timelier than she had wanted it to be. “The Four Winds” is set during the Great Depression, focusing on the drought that devastated the Great Plains. It comes out next February, St.

NEW YORK — In the backstage hallways of Washington D.C.’s Capital One Arena, Michelle Obama walks arm-in-arm with her husband, Barack Obama.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Guitarist Christone “Kingfish” Ingram took home five Blues Music Awards in an online ceremony that featured appearances by Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray and other musicians.

NEW YORK — Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, “The Nickel Boys,” was awarded the fiction prize Monday.

NEW YORK — The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for illuminating the sparse policing of remote Alaska villages, as a delayed awards ceremony recognized writing, photos and — for the first time — audi

NEW YORK — Journey is the latest act to cancel their 2020 tour because of the coronavirus pandemic. The rock band was supposed to kick off their new tour on May 15 but announced Monday that they would no longer hit the road.