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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have moved into their new Hidden Hills, California, home, a source confirms to People, despite ongoing renovations.

“The new house is not completely finished, but it’s safe for the kids,” the source says. “The plan all along was to move in before the new baby arrives. Kim seems happy. She has help getting everything ready in the new house for all the kids.”

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Some of that help will no doubt come from a new neighbor: Kardashian’s mom,...

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This week the Academy announced the ten finalists for documentary short and the ten finalists for animated short.  The Oscar charts are updated. At least 5 of those 20 are available to watch online. You've probably already seen the wonderful animated coming-out short "In a Heartbeat" that was so popular online earlier this year but it won't be the only tiny Oscar-seeker with big value. That's why the short categories are wonderful, quite often you get much artistic bang for little buck.

Will get to the animated docs later but of the ten doc short Oscar options there are four you can watch online...

A man singing in an oyster costume is YouTube's most viral video of 2017. The non-us video hit No. 1 on the chart, destroying its competition. It's important to note that YouTube is talking about the most viral videos, aka, shared, not by views. The Luis Fonsi song, "Despacito" featuring Daddy Yankee has that honor with over 4 billion views, 24 million likes and 2 million dislikes. However, when it comes to the most viral YouTube videos, The Google-owned site says the top 10 trending videos were watched more than 633 million times, collectively for a combined total of 40 million hours.

The number one honor goes to a clip from a Thai singing competition, showing a man dressed in a full-body oyster suit crooning and rapping a song with a title that loosely translates to "Love you until the world turns into dust." The video only has over 182 million views, but YouTube tracked how viral the video was by tracking views,...

Ten short films are shortlisted by the Academy’s Animations and Shorts branch to vie for the final five nominations for Best Animated Short Film. The shortlist includes Pixar’s “Lou,” written and directed by Dave Mullins. The short premiered at SXSW earlier this year and was shown in theaters ahead of “Cars 3.”

Read More: 2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Animated Feature

Here are the shortlisted animated shorts; no one will be deemed a frontrunner until I have seen it.

Frontrunner:

“Lou”

Director: Dave Mullins (Pixar Animation Studios)

Contenders:

“Cradle”

Director: Devon Manney(University of Southern California)

“Dear Basketball”

Director: Glen Keane (Glen Keane Productions)

“Fox and the Whale”

Director: Robin Joseph (Robin Joseph)

“Garden Party”

Director: Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon (Mopa)

“In a Heartbeat”

Director: Esteban Bravo and Beth David (Ringling College of Art and Design)

“Life Smartphone”

Director: Chenglin Xie (China Central Academy of Fine Arts)

“Lost Property Office...

On the heels of the 2018 Annie Awards nominees that were announced earlier today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have unveiled their shortlist for 10 animated short films vying to be part of the Oscars 2018 consideration. These 10 films will be whittled down into an eventual list of nominees. Some of them stand out from the pack, either because they come from animation powerhouses like Pixar's Lou, or because they've captured hearts and imaginations across social media already this year, like Negative Space and In a Heartbeat. (These titles should be familiar to those …...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 short films that have been selected to advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards. The 10 short films are vying for a nomination for Best Short Film. The shortlist includes the Pixar film “Lou,” written and directed by Dave Mullins. The short premiered at SXSW earlier this year and was shown in theaters ahead of “Cars 3.”

Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Animated Feature

One of the year’s highest profile short films is Don Hertzfeldt’s “World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts,” but it was left off the shortlist. IndieWire gave Hertzfeldt’s sequel an A+ review and the film already had a theatrical qualifying run. Hertzfeldt has been nominated for the Best Short Film Oscar twice: “Rejected” in 2000 and “World of Tomorrow” in 2016.

The 10 qualifying short films are listed...

Kris Jenner misses her old roommates.

In a sneak peek at her Tuesday appearance on Steve Harvey‘s eponymous talk show, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star played a game called “Kris’ Choice” in which she was asked to choose between two options for each question.

“Would you live with Kim and Kanye again, or lose your assistant for a week?” asked Harvey, 60.

“That’s easy — live with Kim and Kanye again,” said Jenner, 61. “In a heartbeat. I actually miss them!”

Jenner’s daughter Kim Kardashian West, 37, previously spent quite a bit of time living at her momager’s...

For many Batman fans there is no question as to who portrayed the iconic Catwoman best. Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Pfeiffer says she "loved" playing Catwoman in Tim Burton's 1992 Batman Returns. Now in a recent interview with the New York Times Pfeiffer reveals that she would have loved to play the patent leather villainess in her own solo film:

“Are you kidding me? In a heartbeat,” Pfeiffer said. “I loved that part. I felt like I was just getting comfortable and getting used to the claws and the mask, just figuring out how to move in all of that. There was a little bit of talk about that, then that kind of faded away.”

You might recall that earlier this summer Pfeiffer called her Catwoman outfit "the most uncomfortable costume I've ever been in," as she recalled how difficult it was for costumers to get her into the skin-tight suit.

Michelle Pfeiffer says a standalone “Catwoman” movie was almost made in the ’90s following her memorable take as the femme fatale feline in “Batman Returns,” and had she been asked to reprise her role, she would have done it “in a heartbeat.” Would the “Murder on the Orient Express” actress have slipped the cat suit back on a decade before Halle Berry stepped into the role? “Are you kidding me? In a heartbeat. I loved that part,” Pfeiffer said in a new profile in the New York Times. “I felt like I was just getting comfortable and getting used to the.

Michelle Pfeiffer will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year when she debuts as Janet Van Dyne Aka the original Wasp in 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp. However, as old school superhero film lovers will know, this isn’t the actress’ first time in a comic book movie. That’s because Pfeiffer previously starred as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in 1992’s Batman Returns.

Though the flick itself often divides people over its surreal, dark content, pretty much every Batman fans agrees that Pfeiffer is tremendous in it, arguably remaining the finest cinematic take on the character to this day. Could she ever play the role again, though? That remains to be seen, but Pfeiffer herself is up for the idea.

While chatting with The New York Times, the actress said that she would love to reprise the part and also revealed that at one point, there was talk of doing a spinoff.

2017-10-17T12:46:04-07:00'Fixer Upper' Stars Aren't Ruling Out a New Series

Last week, we pointed out a report that said Chip and Joanna Gaines ended their series Fixer Upper because they were unhappy with their contract at Hgtv. A source said the Gainses would do another series if the price was right. Chip and Joanna immediately denied that claim, saying they were ending the series for personal and family reasons. Now in a new interview, Chip Gaines says they'd do a series again "in a heartbeat," raising hope that the Gainses might be back on the air again soon.

Via Page Six.

Chip and Joanna Gaines thought Hgtv stardom would be easy money, not realizing the restrictions of their contracts and the work they’d have to put in to make “Fixer Upper” successful, but they’d do it all again.

“Nobody knows...

Students from Nyu, Berkeley and Ringling College of Art and Design have won gold medals at the 2017 Student Academy Awards, which were handed out on Thursday night at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy’s Beverly Hills headquarters. Nyu’s Max R. A. Fedore won gold in the alternative category for “Opera of Cruelty,” while the school’s Kevin Wilson, Jr. won gold in the narrative category for “My Nephew Emmett.” Berkeley’s Brad Bailey took the documentary gold for “Hale,” while Ringing’s Beth David and Esteban Bravo received the top award in animation for “In a Heartbeat.

When Popsugar had a chance to sit down with the creators of In a Heartbeat, the animated short that had over 29 million people tearing up after it hit the web, we knew we needed tissues handy. The film introduces us to a boy coming to terms with his crush on a male classmate. While he is deeply reluctant to make his true feelings known, his heart has other plans. Esteban Bravo and Beth David, the brilliant minds behind In a Heartbeat, told Popsugar about how their real-life experiences led to the film's creation. They also got real about the importance of Lgbtq+ representation in animation, as well as how they're coping with the multitude of reaction videos of people having "all the feels." Check out the full interview above!

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 44th Student Academy Award winners today. The 17 winners were selected from 1,587 films, which came from 356 different international colleges and universities — 267 domestic, 89 international — and were voted on by Academy members.

There’s a long history of Student Academy Award winners going on to have successful filmmaking careers, with previous winners including Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Cary Fukunaga, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, Trey Parker, and Robert Zemeckis.

Also of note, the 17 winners are automatically Oscar eligible in the Best Short Film categories: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Past student award winners have gone on the receive 57 Oscar nominations and won 11 times.

The 44th Student Academy Awards ceremony will held at the The Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on October 12th. Tickets to the ceremony are free and available to the public at the Academy’s website. A complete list of the winners is below.

Actor-musician and social media powerhouse Troye Sivan has joined the starry cast of Joel Edgerton‘s “Boy Erased.” The memoir adaptation, billed as “coming-of-age and coming-out drama,” was written and directed by Edgerton, who also stars alongside Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman and “Manchester by the Sea” breakout Lucas Hedges. Joining Sivan in this round of casting is buzzy French director Xavier Dolan, who will put on his acting hat, as well as Cherry Jones and Michael “Flea” Balzary from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Also Read: 'In a Heartbeat': Watch the Lgbt Animated Short That Has Internet Crying...

In a Heartbeat Short Film Esteban Bravo and Beth David‘s In a Heartbeat (2017) short film stars Nicholas J. Ainsworth and Kelly Donohue. In a Heartbeat‘s plot synopsis: “A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy [...]

Continue reading: In A Heartbeat (2017) Short Film: An Undaunted Human Heart Finds True Love...

In This Week in Animation News, I’ll take a look at the previous week in the world of animation in order to get you caught up on everything you might have missed. It’s your one-stop shop for news regarding cartoons, anime, and animated web series. We’re talking movies, TV shows, digital shorts, and everything in between! This week saw a heartwarming animated short by the name of In a Heartbeat sweep across the internet to the tune of more than 16 million views. And since Voltron returned to Netflix for Season 3, we have early looks …...

A short, animated film from an animation intern working at Blue Sky Animation and another student who is now an employee of Jib-Jab and on her way to work as an an animator at Sony on a big Hollywood movie is getting a lot of attention online for its subject matter — Lgbt love. Views for the film have grown by over 3M since yesterday afternoon on YouTube and it currently has 14.6M views since releasing only four days ago. In a Heartbeat, about a school boy crush on…...

Two young filmmakers are taking the internet by storm with their heartwarming and endlessly relatable animated film about two boys who fall in love.

Just two days after Beth David, 21, and Esteban Bravo, 24, posted In a Heartbeat to YouTube, the short has gone nuclear — racking up seven million views and spurring an outpouring of positive twitter responses and fan art.

Produced while they were students at the Ringling College of Art and Design, the film follows a teenage boy who is afraid to approach his same-sex crush — so his heart literally takes the leap for him.

“It’s crazy, we...

Warning: the above short film may cause feels.

The touching animated short In a Heartbeat, which tells a charming story of teen love, has taken the internet by storm, garnering nearly 7 million views since it was uploaded to YouTube on Monday.

Created by filmmakers Beth David and Esteban Bravo and produced at the Ringling College of Art and Design, In a Heartbeat follows a young man who’s afraid to approach his crush, so his heart literally takes the leap for him.

“The original pitch was a story between a boy and a girl,” David told NBC News. “But it...

Well, this will definitely fill your heart with an extra dose of love today. In a Heartbeat is a wonderful new animated short film made by Beth David and Esteban Bravo, produced at Ringling College of Art and Design where they are students. It has a very simple premise - a boy's heart pops out of hist chest and chases down the person of his dreams, embarrassing him in more ways than one. This is such a beautiful short that will really hit you emotionally, just because it is so simple and yet realized in such a lovely way. The music is also charming, and the animation is excellent, making you real feel for these characters. Watch in full below. Thanks to filmmaker Ja Bayona on Twitter for the tip. Original description from YouTube: "A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops...

Movies don't need to be full-length in order to make people shed a few tears and crack a few smiles – especially when the movie is as adorable and sweet as the animated short film In A Heartbeat. Directed by Beth David and Esteban Bravo and produced at the Ringling College of Art and Design, this tale of teenage yearning is given a contemporary twist by focusing on one young boy’s fear... Read More...