For more than a decade Brad Pitt has been carefully building a plan B, as a producer. It looks to be paying off big time.

The New York Times will air its first TV ad in seven years during the Academy Awards, as the paper looks to highlight independent journalism amid US President Donald Trump's attacks on the media as "fake news".

Here's some news that might make you quit your job.

In the past, the statue might've kickstarted a career, earning its winner plum roles and hefty paycheques. But that's not the case anymore.

Just like TV, it seems the future of cinema is streaming.

Before his presidential campaign, the former reality TV show host thought he'd make a great host for the Oscars.

Pregnant singer Beyonce on Thursday pulled out of performing at California's Coachella music festival in April, citing doctor's orders.

Hit TV mini-series House of Hancock will not be broadcast or streamed again after Channel 9 made a grovelling apology for its portrayal of mining magnate Gina Rinehart and her family.

Antigone Kefala's Fragments and Diana Fahey's A House by the River are marked by a strong thematic coherence.

So we see that Oscar, who was so white last year he was reduced to a snarky hashtag, has got some significant colour up.

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey says she has never regretted not having children

Two drug overdoses and 28 drug detections were made at an electronic music festival south-west of Sydney on Friday.

After 40 years as the front-man for legendary Australian band Icehouse (née Flowers), Iva Davies has that confidence in spades.

When it comes to handing out Oscars, should the off screen behaviour of the likely recipient count a little, a lot or not at all?

The Opera House positively shook with song when post-rock behemoth Explosions in the Sky sent their sound gushing over all and sundry.

Quirky cafes, fetish shops, avant garde theatre and indy music: new book captures the heyday of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

Actress Emma Thompson will not reprise her role in the romantic comedy after the death last year of co-star Alan Rickman.

Circus's death may be greatly exaggerated.

Hundreds of parents and children will be able to enjoy a special matinee performance of Disney's Aladdin The Musical in a judgement-free "autism-friendly" environment, presented in association with Autism Awareness Australia.

Australian schools pay $9 million each year to display web pages that are  available freely available on the internet. They are even charged for displaying thumbnail images of book covers on their library intranet sites.

Certain results are sure things but there are reasons hot favourite La La Land might not win best picture.

In this Los Angeles band it is an instrument normally in the background which leads and creates the room for everyone else.

The visual effects supervisor saw a scene that made him think "that's my dream job".

The actress played the grim-faced daughter of The Addams Family before she could even read.

Our job is becoming other people, taking on another life, says the 76-year-old star of Star Trek and The X-Men.