Tom Hanks News

The composer/lyricist talks to Laura Heywood about his first hit musical and his newest.

British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Skyfall, Spectre) will be the president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival

Beck Center Youth Theater closes its 67th season with big The Musical May 13 - 22, 2016 in the Mackey Theater. Featuring 56 Beck Center students, audiences will follow the adventures of Josh Baskin as he discovers what it really means to be "big". Show times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays, and 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are on sale now. A special matinee performance for 488 students on Thursday, May 19 is sold out.

THE LATE LATE SHOW with JAMES CORDEN's YouTube Channel celebrated a new milestone today, surpassing 1 billion total views. In addition, THE LATE LATE SHOW's YouTube Channel currently has the Top 2 Late Night Clips on YouTube: #1 “Adele Carpool Karaoke” (98 million views) and #2 “Justin Bieber Carpool Karaoke” (73 million views), according to data from Tubular labs.

Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, N.W.A. and Steve Miller are the performer inductees in the exclusive HBO special 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY, debuting SATURDAY, APRIL 30

After the shocking news of Prince's death, Stephen Colbert and bandlander Jon Batiste began Thursday night's LATE SHOW with some thoughts about one of the greatest musicians of our time.

The actress talked about filming her new movie “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” and recalls spending nine hours in a hot tub with Chris Hemsworth

On last night's JIMMY KIMMEL, Alfie Allen talked about what Iwan Rheon's character did to his character on GAME OF THRONES and Michael McElhatton talks about how no spoilers for the upcoming season have come out yet.

Actress CHRISTY MEYER heads to the desert alongside Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks (Forest Gump, Philadelphia) in director Tom Tykwer's (Cloud Atlas, Run Lola Run) highly-anticipated new comedy-drama, A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING.

Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Paul Bettany and Emily VanCamp stopped by last night's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE to talk about their experiences shooting “Captain America: Civil War” and answer some trivia questions about each other.

JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE went out on the street and asked people to name as many Avengers as they could and then we asked them to name as many Presidents as they could. Which do you think they will know more of?

Benedict Cumberbatch stopped by last night's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE to debut the first teaser trailer for his upcoming action film Marvel's DOCTOR STRANGE.

It was announced today by The Theatre World Awards Board of Directors, Golden Globe® and three-time Tony®Award-winner and musical theater icon Bernadette Peters will be honored with the prestigious 4th Annual John Willis Award at the 72nd Annual Theatre World Awards Ceremony set for Monday evening, May 23, 2016 beginning at 7:00 p.m. at Circle in the Square Theatre (West 50th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue), home of the current 2015 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Fun Home.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announces that Courtney B. Vance, Savion Glover, Joe Mantello and David Marshall Grant have joined the Monte Cristo Award program celebration for award-winning stage and film director, playwright, and actor George C. Wolfe. Vance - an O'Neill alumnus who also starred with Tom Hanks in "The Lucky Guy" on Broadway under the direction of Wolfe - will present the Award.

The 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, today announced its jurors - a diverse group of industry leaders, including award-winning actors, acclaimed filmmakers, writers, entrepreneurs, artists and cultural leaders.

Southern Rep Theatre announces its 2016 - 2017 Mainstage Season featuring AIRLINE HIGHWAY by Lisa D'Amour, GROUNDED by George Brant, SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH by Tennessee Williams, and FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2, & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks.

A crowd favorite in NYC's Midtown, Red Stixs will be opening for the season on Friday, May 20th at their Hamptons location. Red Stixs is a fine dining restaurant that offers exceptionally high quality Northern Chinese dishes with modern influences in a high-end meets high-energy atmosphere. Red Stix's continuously keeps their customer's experience in mind while bringing high quality food service in an upscale ambiance.

Bill Murray stopped by last night's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE and explained that the blue pants he was wearing were related to his disappointment at Xavier’s loss to Wisconsin during March Madness.

On last night's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, The Jungle Book's Bill Murray and Neel Sethi sang the classic song, 'The Bare Necessities' - watch the performance below!