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Chris Rock has revealed that he was offered an opportunity to host the Oscars once again for 2023.

Chris Rock to be emceeing the Oscars anytime soon. According to multiple eyewitness, Rock revealed during his Sunday night show in Phoenix, that he was asked to host next year's show, but refused.As many will remember, it was at the 2022 Academy Awards that Will Smith slapped Rock in the face after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith before presenting the award for Best Documentary Feature. «Chris Rock said he was asked to host next year's Academy Awards at his Sunday night show at Arizona Financial Theatre, and that he refused the offer,» the eyewitness shared. «He also noted that he was offered the chance to do a Super Bowl commercial that he also declined.»Eyewitnesses also told ET that Rock compared hosting the Oscars to returning to the scene of a crime, referencing the murder trial of O.J.

The Joker.Lady Gaga announced the casting in a video on her official Twitter page. Silhouettes of Phoenix and Gaga slowly dance over a red background as an instrumental version of the jazz standard “Cheek to Cheek” plays in the background. The two silhouettes dance together as Phoenix's laughter can be heard in the background over the title card.

Stevie Nicks is hitting the road once again for her fall 2022 tour.The "Edge of Seventeen" singer has a busy couple of months ahead after she announced on Monday via Instagram that she was going on a fall tour with special guest Vanessa Carlton.  "Here we go! I’m so excited to be back on the road and can’t wait to see everyone," Nicks wrote on her Instagram post.  The tour kicks off on September 13 in Clarkston, Michigan and wraps up on October 28 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Some of Nick’s other stops include Los Angeles, California, Phoenix, Arizona and Nashville, Tennessee.

Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris grossed $1.35 million in week two with a mix of arthouse and commercial theaters among top ten locations and a nice hold from opening weekend (-31%). Cume to date is $4.65 million for the film starring Leslie Manville as a British housekeeper who dreams of owning a Christian Dior gown. It was no. 10 in North America in 1,001 theaters.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterFor years, Arizona has watched with envy as New Mexico developed a thriving film economy thanks to a generous tax break.So now the state is getting in on the action.Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, is expected to sign a bill this week creating a refundable tax credit equal to 15-20 percent of production expenses.

Halsey has responded to reports that some fans walked out of their recent concert in Phoenix during a speech about abortion rights.At Sunday’s (June 26) show, Halsey encouraged fans to take a stance on reproductive rights, delivering a powerful speech about the need to be active following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.“This has been happening for a very long fucking time,” Halsey said to approximately 20,000 concert-goers at the Ak-Chin Pavilion.

Halsey isn’t letting anyone silence her political views.

Halsey encouraged fans to take a stance on reproductive rights, delivering a powerful speech about the need to be active during political turmoil.In early May, leaked documents showed that the US Supreme Court voted privately to overturn Roe v. Wade, a 1973 case that made abortion legal on a federal level.

IFC Films opened Official Competition starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez at four theaters in NYC and LA for an estimated three-day gross of $34,000 and per-theater-averages of $8,500 for the comedy directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat following it U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Festival last week.

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the Blumhouse-produced feature documentary, The Youth Governor, slating it for release on August 26.

Olivia Rodrigo gig due to the event’s vaccine mandate.In the Facebook post, self-proclaimed millionaire Doug Wood revealed that he had spent thousands on tickets for Rodrigo’s gig at the Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix as part of the singer’s ‘Sour’ tour.In the post, he revealed that he only realised after buying the tickets that proof of vaccination was required for entry to the gig for anyone aged 12 or older, saying that “maybe it was in the fine print” and so he didn’t notice the rule.“Not even a negative COVID test will work. v_a_x only,” he said in the video’s caption.

Morrissey played the first night of his 2022 US tour last night (May 10), debuting his upcoming single ‘I Am Veronica’ as well as airing some rarely played solo and Smiths tracks. Check out footage and the setlist below.Performing at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix, the indie veteran aired a new song – which is the opening track from his long-mooted new solo album, ‘The Bonfires Of The Teenagers‘.“It’s very hard to believe in these ridiculous times, but we are about to release a new single,” Morrissey told the crowd.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, P!nk, The Chicks, SZA, Kacey Musgraves, Flume, Paramore and Lil Nas X all set to perform headline sets across the six-day festival. As it has for the past eight IRL editions, ACL ’22 will be held over two weekends in October. Each will feature a vastly different bill, though many acts – including the likes of Diplo, Wallows, The War On Drugs, Conan Gray, Spoon and Japanese Breakfast – will perform sets on both weekends.Other names appearing on both line-ups include Sofi Tukker, Omar Apollo, Arlo Parks, Pinkpantheress, Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats, The Midnight, Oliver Tree and Genesis Owusu. 39 names are down to perform exclusively during the first weekend, with standouts including Lil Durk, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rag ’N’ Bone Man, Slayyyter, James Blake, Manchester Orchestra and Muna.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRed Hot Chili Peppers, P!nk, the Chicks, Kacey Musgraves, SZA, Flume, Paramore, and Lil Nas X are the headliners for the 2022 Austin City Limits Music Festival, along with performances from Phoenix (weekend two only), PinkPanthress, Wet Leg (weekend two only), Diplo, Zhu, Lil Durk (weekend one only), Billy Strings, James Blake (weekend one only), Jazmine Sullivan, the War on Drugs, Spoon, Sabrina Claudio and many more. The nine-stage, two-weekend event will take place October 7-9 and October 14-16, 2022, at Zilker Park in Austin.

Olivia Rodrigo has brought a new cover into the setlist of her ongoing North American ‘Sour’ tour: No Doubt‘s 1995 hit ‘Just A Girl’.The cover was added to the set in Philadelphia, where she performed at the Metropolitan Opera House last Friday (May 6) and Saturday (May 7). Per setlist.fm, the cover followed a performance of the song ‘All I Want’ from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, on which Rodrigo stars as Nini.Have a look at fan-shot footage of Rodrigo’s performance below:‘Just A Girl’ joins a growing list of pop-rock classics that Rodrigo has covered on the ‘Sour’ tour, with her takes on ‘Complicated’ by Avril Lavigne and ‘Seether’ by Veruca Salt becoming staples of her set.

Flash Before the Bang,” which is being produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Pearl Street Films. He’s also appeared on “CSI: NY,” “Scrubs, “Criminal Minds” and directed his first film, “No Ordinary Hero.” Kotsur grew up in Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona, where his father was police chief. Kotsur studied theater, television and film at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., but left after two years to join the Deaf West Theatre in Los Angeles, where he starred in productions including “Cyrano,” “Of Mice and Men” and “A Streetcar Named Desire.” He was nominated for the 2015 LA Drama Critics Circle Award in the Deaf West Theatre production of “Spring Awakening” and appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated ASL (American Sign Language) production of “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Troy Kotsur lives in Mesa, Arizona, with his wife, deaf actress Deanne Bray, and his daughter.

Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died. She was 76.

Former Partridge Family actor Danny Bonaduce, 62, announced on Twitter today that he is taking a medical leave from his Seattle radio program “The Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Morning Show” on KZOK.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. If you haven’t been able to get the tunes of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” or “Dos Oruguitas” out of your head since “Encanto” came out last November, you aren’t alone. Lin-Manuel Miranda packed ear worm after ear worm in the Academy Award-winning film, which received a nod for best original score at the 2022 Oscars.

Wet Leg have announced a string of 13 headline shows for cities in the US, Canada and Mexico, bridging the gap between a handful of festival sets and their trio of gigs supporting Florence + The Machine.Following their appearances as this year’s Lollapalooza, Mo Pop and Osheaga festivals, the Isle of Wight duo will take to the Phoenix Concert Centre in Toronto, Canada on Monday August 1. They’ll head to Vancouver next, playing the Commodore Ballroom that Thursday (August 4).After another handful of festival sets – including Outside Lands in San Francisco, as well as the Netherlands’ Lowlands – Wet Leg will return to theatres for gigs in San Antonio, New Orleans, Orlando, Atlanta, Louisville, St Louis, Kansas City, Abiquiu, Salt Lake City and Phoenix.

A woman has died after becoming unwell while at a McDonald's branch in Paisley.

NEW YORK -- After Emily Pina's parents separated, the 27-year-old in Phoenix said she spent years listening to her dad beg for the return of his family. He turned up the volume once her mom started dating.Sound familiar?“It's the same thing as Kanye and Kim,” she said.And like the celebrity couple, her dad's digital life played a role in his breakup as it often does in contentious divorces.Kanye West, now legally known as Ye, has gone quiet on Instagram after weeks of ranting publicly about Kim Kardashian in the name of fatherhood, which many saw as bullying and intimidation.

Lil Durk's video for "What Happened To Virgil" was always likely to be a heart-rending moment and the finished product, which arrived overnight, makes good on the promise. The video is dedicated to Virgil Abloh, who passed away in 2021, as well as Durk affiliate King Von, plus his late brother, DThang.

EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars and The Perfectionists alumna Sasha Pieterse has signed with Paradigm for representation in all areas.

NEW YORK -- Elton John has added 11 new dates on the North American leg of his farewell tour, including concerts in New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, Arizona and Washington state.John begins his final run of dates in North America in Philadelphia on July 15, finishing with a three-night engagement at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 19 and 20.The new dates include concerts on July 24 in East Rutherford, New Jersey; July 27 in Foxborough, Massachusetts; Sept. 8 in Toronto; Sept.

“The Cartographers," by Peng Shepherd (William Morrow)Nell Young has lived with maps her entire life, first as the only child of eminent cartographers and later as an expert in cartography herself.Even so, Nell doesn't realize just how magical maps can be until her estranged father dies suddenly in his office at the New York Public Library and she finds a document that offers a surprising pathway into a strange, secret world.The gripping story plotted out in “The Cartographers” is the latest product of Peng Shepherd's creative imagination, providing readers with many tantalizing twists and surprises along the way as she explores the intersection between science and art, mathematics and magic.Shepherd knows a bit about maps from her life as a globetrotter. Born and raised in Phoenix, she has since lived in far flung cosmopolitan cities including Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London and New York.Like her earlier dystopian tale “The Book of M,” Shepherd's latest novel is sometimes dark, describing mystical happenings that science cannot explain.“The Cartographers” constantly astonishes readers as Shepherd sweeps us into the past when Nell's parents are among a group of graduate students drawn together by their goal of creating the world's ultimate map.

Lil Durk was the musical guest on Tuesday's episode of The Tonight Show where he played two songs from his recently released album 7220. The Chicago rapper performed "AHH HA" before bringing out Future for their latest collaboration, "Petty Too." Check out the performance above.

Joaquin Phoenix is ready to conquer Europe.