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Conan O’Brien is returning to the Oscars stage in 2026. The late-night host and comedian will preside over the 98th Academy Awards, set for March 15, the film academy’s leadership said Monday.

Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actor who won a top Cannes Film Festival prize for her breakout role in “Rosetta,” has died, a news report says. She was 43.

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs.

Japan’s three historic nuclear events — the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II and the 2011 nuclear plant meltdowns in Fukushima — form a key backdrop for “Wildcat Dome,” a novel by Yuko Tsushima.

TORONTO — Longtime former "Breakfast Television" co-host Dina Pugliese is settling back into the chair.

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 23-29: March 23: Director Mark Rydell (“On Golden Pond”) is 96. Singer Chaka Khan is 72. Actor Amanda Plummer is 68. Actor Catherine Keener is 66. Actor Hope Davis (“The Matador,” ″About Schmidt”) is 61.

Five new movies opened wide in North American theaters this weekend including a starry spy picture from Steven Soderbergh , an A24 thriller, a Looney Tunes movie and a high concept action-comedy with “The Boys” star Jack Quaid .

TORONTO — Shania Twain famously sings “That don’t impress me much," but the "Canada's Got Talent" judge hopes contestants aren't intimidated by the sassy persona the performer embodied in her 1990s hit.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life.