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Angelina Jolie has signed on to provide the voice of Stella in Disney's long-gestating adaptation The One and Only Ivan, becoming the first voice cast member to come aboard. The actress was already attached to produce this adaptation, alongside Allison Shearmur, who has helped produce Disney hits such as Cinderella and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but now she is lending her voice to the project as well. Now that Angelina Jolie has been cast, the studio is searching for an actress who will play the key role of a janitor's daughter, who is instrumental in the rescue of both Stella the elephant and Ivan the silverback gorilla.

The project is based on the Newbery Medal-winning book of the same name, written by Katherine Applegate and illustrated by Patricia Castelao, which was published in 2012. The story centers on Ivan the silverback gorilla, Stella the baby elephant and a stray dog named Bob,...

"Weird Al" Yankovic is known for countless parody songs including "Eat It," "Amish Paradise," and "White & Nerdy," all covering different genres with different subjects used to populate the new lyrics. One subject Weird Al has covered twice is Star Wars. in 1985, Weird Al released the song "Yoda" on his Dare to Be Stupid album, a parody of the song "Lola" by The Kinks. Then, when a new Star Wars trilogy arrived in 1999, he released the parody of "American Pie" titled "The Saga Begins." This song was especially remarkable, with Weird Al singing the entire plot of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, a song I can sing every lyric to, even today. So, with another new Star Wars trilogy already begun, will there ever be a third Star Wars song by Weird Al?

Yankovic was asked just this during his panel at Denver Comic Con 2017. When will he do another Star Wars song?...

Week Four saw The X Factor contestants perform the most frightening songs ever recorded in honour of Halloween.

Digital Spy rounds up what Simon Cowell, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Mel B and Louis Walsh had to say about Saturday night's (November 1) acts - and if you missed the show, you can catch up with all the performances below, too:

1. Ben Haenow: 'Highway to Hell' by AC/DC

Louis: "What an opening! You are the real deal, an authentic rock voice and it would absolutely get a recording deal."

Mel B: "Wow! What just happened?! By far, your best performance to date."

2. Lola Saunders: 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley

Mel B: "Cheryl, this week you have got it spot on. This is the Lola I want to see. Well done to you."

Simon: "By a mile your best performance so far [and] the first time I've seen you confident.

Woah, time flies! Madonna's daughters are all grown up and the pop icon is keen on showing them off in her latest Instagram pics. In one adorable snapshot, Madge shared a pic of Mercy giving her best Michael Jackson lean in the sand at the beach. "Smooth Criminal!" the proud mama wrote. And before that, the Material Girl posted a pic of her eldest Lourdes Leon posing with several of her girlfriends. "Pre prom turn up #yaaaaaassssssbitch," she captioned the cute photo. Lourdes (who goes by Lola) looks beautiful in a polka dot dress with bold red lips and big hook earrings. Pretty major! The 17-year-old recently graduated from high school and is...

New York — While all haircuts are important, the one Billy Porter got late last week was even more critical: It was his last trim before Sunday's Tony Awards.

"I just need a trim," he tells stylist Valjean Guerra, crunching his hair with both hands to show the textured look he hopes to maintain. "I want to keep the same shape."

Porter, nominated for best actor in a musical for his role as a drag queen in "Kinky Boots," then settled into a leather chair in a chic Harlem salon for an hour of pampering before a cast album party and another grueling show.

It was nine days before the Tonys – the perfect amount of time to wash and trim what he calls his "chunky thing." If done too close to the awards, his haircut might look forced.

"I like it to breathe a little bit. I don't want it to...

Apologies for the delay this week. Technical issues. It’ll be worth the wait, I promise.

Studies have shown that Hidden Gems of the Week, EW.com’s collection of reader-submitted ridiculata, is the best way to enjoy Dancing With the Stars without ever having to turn it on. It’s a visual feast of sparkles, fringe, and flesh. Ready to go down the rabbit hole? Behold this bountiful smattering of Visible Gems!

Gem Mystery of the Week: What Was Hidden in Brooke’s Ridiculous Gown?

Oh, my! So many of you DANCMSTRs nominated this blatant yet phantom gem — and with so many creative ideas!

You can bring home the latest critically-acclaimed drama from fimmakers Pedro Almodovar on DVD and Blu-ray this March. Broken Embraces will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 16. The standard DVD will be priced at $28.96 Srp while the Bd will cost $34.95 Srp. The film stares Penelope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Blanca Portillo, Lola Duenas and Angela Molina.

A luminous Pen&#233lope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in Broken Embraces, Academy Award-winning filmmaker (2003, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk to Her) Pedro Almod&#243var's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema. When her father becomes gravely ill, beautiful Lena (Cruz) consents to a relationship with her boss Ernesto (Jos&#233 Luis G&#243mez), a very wealthy, much-older man who pays for her father's hospitalization and provides her a lavish lifestyle. But Lena's dream is to act and soon she falls for the director of her first film...

Heralded Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar is back with his latest dramatic masterpiece Broken Embraces, which will be released on November 20 in New York City and will expand to Los Angeles and additional markets on December 11. For his new film, Almodovar enlisted the help of familiar faces like Penelope Cruz, who worked with Almodovar in Volver, Lluis Homar, who appeared in Bad Education, and Blanca Portillo who also starred in Volver.

We recently had the chance to speak exclusively with Homar and Portillo about this heralded new movie, and here's what the had to say.

Broken Embraces stars Penelope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Blanca Portilla, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave, Lola Duenas, Angela Molina and will be released on November 20 in New York City and on December 11 in Los Angeles and other markets.

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up rights to distribute Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces" in North America. Penelope Cruz stars in the film which has been filming in the Canary Islands and Madrid. Almodovar directs from his own screenplay, the '50s film-noir-styled film which apparently follows four characters (played by Penelope Cruz, Blanca Portillo, Lluis Homar and Jose Luis Gomez). Also cast are Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave, Angela Molina, Kiti Manver and Lola Duenas. Augustin Almodovar produces. Spc makes this the tenth film they are distributing by Almodovar.

Sony Pictures Classics, renewing its longtime ties to Pedro Almodovar, has acquired North American rights to the writer-director's latest film, "Broken Embraces," starring Penelope Cruz.

Cruz, who received a best actress Oscar nomination for Almodovar's previous film, "Volver," will play a provincial actress in the movie, which has been shooting in Madrid and the Canary Islands. Working from his own screenplay, Almodovar has described the movie as an amour fou involving four characters (played by Cruz, Blanca Portillo, Lluis Homar and Jose Luis Gomez) in the style of a hard-boiled, '50s American film noir. The cast also includes Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave, Lola Duenas and Angela Molina, who will play Cruz's mother.

Produced by the director's brother, Augustin Almodovar, "Embraces" is the 10th Almodovar film that Spc has handled. In addition to "Volver," Spc was the domestic distributor for Almodovar's foreign-language Oscar winner "All About My Mother,...