The red carpet unfurled Monday in Abu Dhabi for Hollywood action megastar Tom Cruise, who was on hand for the Middle Eastern premiere of "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One."

Cruise was met by an enthusiastic crowd of fans and movie buffs eager to catch a glimpse of the star at the Emirates Palace Hotel in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The 2023 BET Awards celebrated 50 years of hip-hop with tributes to the genre's earliest voices, late legends, and new talent during a show packed with spectacular performances that consistently felt like a party.

Sunday's biggest surprise came when Quavo and Offset, the surviving members of Migos, performed "Bad and Boujee" in front of an image of Takeoff, who died in a shooting last December.

Today is Friday, June 23, the 174th day of 2023. There are 191 days left in the year.

In a saner world, we would have already had a dozen Jennifer Lawrence comedies.

When aliens arrive they will surely go directly to IMDB to survey her filmography and wonder why one of Hollywood's funniest and most naturally charismatic stars spent the first decade of her career in dystopias, action movies and whatever it is you call "Mother!"

The sun is shining, the beach is calling, and school is out: It's time to prepare the song of the summer.

Often, there's a clear champion: In 2017, Lusi Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, and Justin Bieber's "Despacito" was unavoidable. In 2019, Lil Nas X's ubiquitous "Old Town Road" foretold future superstardom. Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" did the same in 2021. But that's not always the case.

Unveiling a new chapter in its illustrious history, Louis Vuitton made an indelible mark on Paris Fashion Week's men's shows as they premiered the debut collection by musician-turned-designer Pharrell Williams.

Appointed in February to fill the immense shoes left by the death of Virgil Abloh, Williams unveiled his design prowess to the fashion world with a show that exuded confidence.

French President Emmanuel Macron has created a brouhaha in France after being filmed downing a bottle of beer with Toulouse's rugby players after they clinched the domestic league title at the weekend.

Video has emerged on French TV channels and on social media showing the president being handed a bottle of Corona in the Toulouse changing room after the end of the game at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday, which Macron watched from the VIP enclosure.

Loved "Everything Everywhere All at Once?" Can't get enough of "The Flash" and "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" this month? Then this list is for you. We've compiled a non-exhaustive sampler of fiction about alternate universes and multiverses — from movies to TV to comics to books. It's a great starter kit if your media tastes run to asking: What if?

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The new blockbuster movie "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" was abruptly removed from cinema listings in more than a dozen Muslim-majority countries without explanation, apparently over the inclusion of a blink-and-you-miss-it transgender poster in the background of one frame.

Empire Entertainment, the Middle East distributor for the computer-animated Sony Pictures film, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Nine more women are accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault in a lawsuit that alleges he used his "enormous power, fame and prestige" to victimize them.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Nevada alleges that the women were individually drugged and assaulted between approximately 1979 and 1992 in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe homes, dressing rooms and hotels.