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In a post-Oscars interview that aired on LIVE with Kelly and Mark Monday morning, Jimmy Kimmel revealed his live reading of Donald Trump‘s negative post about him almost didn’t happen.

Toward the end of the broadcast Sunday evening, four-time host Jimmy read a scathing review of his performance from his phone, adding, “See if you can guess which former president just posted that on Truth Social?”

“Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching. I’m surprised you’re still up. Isn’t it past your jail time?” he added, drawing laughs from the crowd.

To Kelly and Mark, Jimmy revealed the show’s producers told him, “‘You have a little bit of time.’ I was like, ‘I’m reading the Trump tweet [sic],'” he recalled with a laugh.

“They were, ‘NO, no don’t read that!'” Jimmy insisted, adding, “‘Yes, I am!'”

Kimmel also poked fun at Al Pacino‘s peculiar reading of the night’s final award winner for Best Picture.

The Godfather icon talked about the nominated films as he opened the envelope and then peeked inside and said, “And my eyes see Oppenheimer.”

“I guess he’s never watched an awards show before,” Kimmel laughed. “Seems like everyone in America knows the rhythm of how it’s supposed to go: ‘And the Oscar goes to …’ but not Al, God bless him.”

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Ryan Gosling may be Just Ken, but he’s just dad to Amada and Esmeralda, his two daughters with longtime partner Eva Mendes.

The Barbie Oscar nominee’s showstopper had the stars at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood freaking out, so much so that Emma Stone ripped her custom Louis Vuitton gown.

But viewers at home apparently couldn’t get enough, either: The video already has nearly 1.9 million views on ABC’s YouTube channel alone and millions of other views and likes across TikTok and other social platforms.

That said, Mendes reminded Gosling that once he was finished playing rock star alongside Slash, he had some important matters to attend to.

To an Instagram photo snapped late Sunday night in Ryan’s dressing room — wearing the bedazzled Barbie pink blazer he wore onstage on her shoulders and his cowboy hat — Mendes captioned, “You took Ken all the way to the Oscar’s [sic], RG. Now come home, we need to put the kids to bed.”

Earlier in the day, Mendes again skipped the red carpet, but she wasn’t far: She posted a video of her outside Ryan’s dressing room. “Always by my man,” the casually-dressed star captioned.

Mendes and Gosling met in 2012 on the set of the movie The Place Beyond the Pines.

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Matthew Vaughn‘s spy movie Argylle might have crashed in theaters, but apparently, audiences were just waiting to watch it at home.

The stylish thriller starring Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard and Henry Cavill debuted at the top of the streaming charts on Vudu, Fandango’s on-demand streaming service, for the week of March 4 – March 10.

Jason Statham‘s The Beekeeper ranked second, and Warner Bros.’ Timothée Chalamet-led smash Wonka ranked third.

The hit Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell romcom Anyone But You ranked fourth, followed by Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom to round out the top five.

Ahead of Sunday night’s Academy Awards, viewers apparently wanted to catch up with Emma Stone in Poor Things, which came in at #7 on the chart’s Top 10.

Yorgos Lanthimos‘ movie, which snagged four awards, was one of the few Best Picture nominees viewers couldn’t watch on a subscription service like Netflix or Apple TV+, leaving curious viewers last week with no option but to rent or purchase it on digital.

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Gwyneth Paltrow‘s memory of her time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe could be better, but at least she recalled starring with Robert Downey Jr. in 2008’s Iron Man.

An Oscar winner herself, Gwyneth sat out this year’s ceremony and instead watched the show from her laptop as she was apparently getting highlights, according to an Instagram Story.

In her video, Marvel’s Pepper Pots was revealed to be at the Highbrow Hippie salon where she cheered as Ke Huy Quan announced RDJ as the winner of the Best Supporting Actor trophy for Oppenheimer.

Paltrow then spun her laptop around to reveal her hair was full of plastic and highlight foil on Hollywood’s biggest night.

Text was added over her video, “Robert Downey Jr. takes it!”

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Bradley Cooper may not have won a trophy for Maestro during Sunday night’s Oscars, but he was a trophy after the show ended: He was brought to a class for show-and-tell on Abbott Elementary, following the Academy Awards.

“For show and tell, I brought a famous person I saw outside,” the student declares, waving in the star. The kids weren’t too impressed at first, but Lisa Ann Walter‘s Melissa was immediately smitten.

“You are Bradley Cooper — why are you Bradley Cooper!?” she stammers, asking, “Why are you here?”

Cooper explained “the best hoagies in the city” were across the street.

One student asked, “If you’re famous, are you in Spider-Man?”

“I’m not in Spider-Man, but I’m in Guardians of the Galaxy,” he offers, to which William Stanford Davis‘ surly janitor Mr. Johnson shouts, “No you’re not!”

This leads Cooper to shout in character, “Are you freaking kidding me?! I’m the voice of Rocket Racoon!,”getting laughs from the students.

Janelle James‘ Ava tells him, “You don’t look famous,” to which another student agrees. “Yeah, shouldn’t your teeth be whiter?”

Cooper explains, “They should, but I can’t whiten them because they’re too sensitive.”

“Oh, I just loved you in The Holdovers. It was just so heartwarming,” says Sheryl Lee Ralph as Barbara.

“It’s The Hangover and no it’s not,” corrects Tyler James Williams‘ Gregory.

Guys, he’s literally in a critically acclaimed film right now,” Quinta Brunson‘s Janine insists, to which Melissa nods, “Oppenheimer.”

“Is that the one about Napoleon?” Mr. Johnson asks.

Cooper says, “I wasn’t in Oppenheimer,” only to have Ava ask, “Are you sure? Everybody was in Oppenheimer.”

Soon, the hoagie calls to Bradley, and he agrees to take a photo before leaving.

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At the Oscars on Sunday night, Da’Vine Joy Randolph continued her winning ways for her performance in The Holdovers.

As she accepted her Best Supporting Actress trophy, a visibly moved Randolph spoke of those who supported her career early on and the challenges of being in an industry where too many people aren’t willing to take a chance on you.

Backstage, a “grateful” Randolph tried to inspire the next generation of actors. “You have to fortify yourself in a way that some people never, ever have to do,” the performer explained.

“I would say, also … just keep yourself grounded, surrounded by people who care and love you and stay close to what’s real. And again, I’m just very adamant about, it would not be on your heart if you weren’t meant to do it,” she advised. “And I know it can be challenging to wait that wait. But when it happens, it’s a full circle moment, and, you’ll know it was worth it.”

She also said, “I think you’d be selling yourself short if you make it about the awards. It’s too hard of a career.”

Da’Vine expressed, “The beautiful thing and the hard thing about being an actor is that it requires you to have resilience and self-confidence, and belief in yourself, when no one else does. When you’re constantly getting no’s and you’re saying, ‘Nope, I’m going to keep going.'”

She concluded, “So actually, in many ways where that can challenge mental health” but offers that acting “also can strengthen it, because you have to fortify yourself in a way that some people never, ever have to do.”

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Oppenheimer was the big winner at Sunday night’s 96th Academy Awards, and two of the film’s seven wins were from, respectively, its cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema and its editor Jennifer Lame.

Backstage following his win, van Hoytema said he literally had a one-of-a-kind view of the Oscar-winning picture in the making. “You know, I watch through the viewfinder which is a huge privilege,” he expresses.

“The first performance of the actor you see optically through it, through the viewfinder of a camera,” he continues. “So the judgment about that picture comes very much down to that moment and … when their magic happens, you know, you’re kind of the first witness of that, which is extremely exciting.”

For Lame, some of the most challenging aspects of the film were having to trim some scenes of Oscar winner Cillian Murphy‘s “mesmerizing” performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer.

“Some of my favorite scenes are when he’s vulnerable,” Lame said backstage. “Like in Truman’s office, when he actually wants to take a stand and he’s bumbling, and he’s acting like you can’t make a sentence which you’ve never seen him do before,” Lame explains.

“And I had a way longer cut of that scene, or when he’s in the Casey Affleck scene and he’s really bad at lying,” she continues. “So yeah, there were so many of my favorite scenes with Cillian that I did have to cut down. Because he’s fantastic.”

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It’s the start of something new for Vanessa Hudgens. The High School Musical star revealed that she’s pregnant while co-hosting the red carpet show ahead of the 2024 Oscars. It’s her first child with her husband, baseball player Cole Tucker. The two got married in December …

Ramy Youssef is hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time. The comedian and Ramy star will take the stage at New York City’s Studio 8H on March 30, a week after his new HBO special, Ramy Youssef: More Feelings, premieres on March 23. Rapper Travis Scott will be the musical guest …

True Detective may be coming back for a fifth season, but it won’t be with Jodie Foster. After starring in the HBO series’ recently concluded fourth season, the Oscar winner tells Variety that she isn’t returning for another round. “It’s an anthology,” Foster said of the show, adding that her True Detective stint was “one and done.” …

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Kung Fu Panda 4 topped the North American box office, earning an estimated $58.3 million in its opening weekend — the biggest debut for the franchise since the first Kung Fu Panda‘s $60 million plus in 2008.

Overseas, the film, featuring the voice of Jack Black as the titular character, added an estimated $22 million, for an opening weekend total of $80 million.

Dune: Part Two slipped to second place with an estimated $46 million in its second week of release, bringing its domestic tally to $157 million.

The weekend’s second new major release, the thriller Imaginary — starring DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Matthew Sato, Veronica Falcón and Betty Buckley — collected an estimated $10 million in its domestic debut.

Fourth place went to another newcomer, the faith-based drama Cabrini, delivering an estimated $7.6 million in its North America debut.

Rounding out the top five was Bob Marley: One Love, grabbing an estimated $4 million at the domestic box office. The film, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the legendary reggae artist, has collected $89 million in North America and $160 million globally to date.

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Oppenheimer won Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday night, and backstage, its big winners were in the mood to celebrate — minus Best Supporting Actor winner Robert Downey Jr., who was a no-show for the assembled press. 

Christopher Nolan was “thrilled,” joking he could now “do curls” after winning both a Best Director and Best Picture trophy for the nuclear biopic: “They’re very heavy,” he quipped.

He called the blockbuster success of the film “just the most incredible thrill” that “far exceeded anything that I imagined possible.”

“And, you know, winning this recognition from my peers is just, I mean, the icing on the cake,” he added, calling Oscar night, “a wonderful finish to what’s been an incredible year.”

Cillian Murphy explained winning with Nolan was especially sweet. “I did a screen test for him when I was a kid, and I thought that would be it … And here we are,” said the “humbled and thankful” Best Actor winner. 

Murphy’s Oscar was the first for an Ireland-born actor. He called that “really, really meaningful to me,” adding, “in Ireland, you know, we’re really great at supporting artists,” calling continuing to do so, “vitally important.”

Emma Stone admitted she was as “shocked” as she appeared to be when accepting her Best Actress win for Poor Things. She also dished on her wardrobe malfunction before her speech. “They sewed me back in!” she revealed. 

“I genuinely do think I busted it during ‘I’m Just Ken.’ I was so amazed by Ryan [Gosling] … that number just blew my mind. And I was right there, and I just was going for it. And, you know, things happen!” she added with a giggle.

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