Regardless of how it plays out in the end, Will Smith seems likely to face some disciplinary action after slapping Chris Rock on stage during the 2022 Academy Awards.

In a statement by the Academy of Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences, “The Board of Governors today initiated disciplinary proceedings against Mr. Smith for violations of the Academy’s Standards of Conduct, including inappropriate physical contact, abusive or threatening behavior, and compromising the integrity of the Academy.”

The statement also clarified that Smith was indeed asked to leave the Awards after the slap, but given Smith remained to accept the award for Best Actor this request was seemingly not enforced.

Will Smith just punched Chris Rock and told him "keep my wife's name out of your f***ing mouth" pic.twitter.com/1f1ytdbMRv

— CJ Fogler (@cjzer0) March 28, 2022

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, the Academy said, “Things unfolded in a way we could not have anticipated. While we would like to clarify that Mr. Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused, we also recognize we could have handled the situation differently.”

The Academy announced it would investigate the issue and appears to be going forward with a disciplinary action, which “may include suspension, expulsion, or other sanctions permitted by the Bylaws and Standards of Conduct.” Mr. Smith will have 15 days' notice of a vote regarding his actions and he can make a written address to the Board.

At the 2022 Oscars, Chris Rock appeared on stage and reportedly told an ad-libbed joke about Will Smith’s wife, Jada-Pinkett Smith by saying he was excited for G.I. Jane 2. Moments later, Smith walked up on stage and slapped Chris Rock.

Following confusion over whether this was a scripted scene, it was later revealed to be a real situation. Smith referenced the incident briefly in his acceptance speech for Best Actor for the movie King Richard but issued a full-length apology to the Academy afterward.

The statement added that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television. Mr. Rock, we apologize to you for what you experienced on our stage and thank you for your resilience in that moment. We also apologize to our nominees, guests and viewers for what transpired during what should have been a celebratory event.”

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Netflix has announced the cast members of the upcoming Bridgerton spinoff limited series about Young Queen Charlotte, including the actors who will play the young queen, young King George, and young Agatha Danbury.

Netflix announced in a tweet that Bridgerton’s Golda Rosheuvel will reprise her role as Queen Charlotte, while Line of Duty India Amarteifio will play young Queen Charlotte in the prequel series.

Although the project is still underway, the cast had their first table read today. The series will focus on the rise of Queen Charlotte and her love life. It will also highlight Violet Bridgeton and Lady Danbury's life.

Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes will serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer on the series, which "tells the story of how the young Queen’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and a societal shift, creating the world of the Ton inherited by the characters in Bridgerton." Tom Verica will be the director and executive producer over the series alongside Betsey Beers as executive producer.

No word on the title of the series or when filming will be expected to start.

Season 2 of Bridgerton premiered on Netflix last week, scoring big on the streaming charts with 193 million hours viewed in its first three days of release.

Here's the full list of the cast:

• Golda Rosheuval will Queen Charlotte
• Adjoa Andoh will play Lady Agatha Danbury
• Ruth Gemmell will Lady Violet Bridgerton
• India Amarteifio will play young Queen Charlotte
• Corey Mylchreest will play young King George
• Arsema Thomas will play young Agatha Danbury
• Sam Clemmett will play young Brimsley
• Richard Cunningham will play Lord Bute
• Tunji Kasim will play Adolphus
• Rob Maloney will play the Royal Doctor
• Cyril Nri will play Lord Danbury
• Hugh Sachs will play Brimsley

Bridgerton premiered back in 2020 capturing the hearts of people around the world. Based on Julia Quinn's best-selling series of novels, Bridgerton takes place in the high society of London competing in a lavishing world in hopes to find that one true love. Since then there have been Bridgerton themed reality shows and parties showcasing their love for the show.

Check out IGN's review of season 2 here.

Kemberlie Spivey is a freelance writer at IGN.

The upcoming Fallout TV series has cast Yellowjackets star, Ella Purnell, in a leading role.

According to Variety, the 25-year-old actress has been cast as the show’s lead, however, Amazon has not released any details about the role.

“According to sources, however, her character is described as upbeat and uncannily direct with an all-American can-do spirit. But an intensity in her eyes says she might just be a tiny bit dangerous.”

Purnell’s casting follows news that Walton Goggins has joined the show in another lead role.

Again, there were no details about his role on the Fallout show, but sources were able to confirm that Goggins will be playing a ghoul – one of the nuclear-ravaged former humans that roams the post-apocalyptic wastelands.

Whether or not Purnell will suit up as a vault dweller remains to be seen.

The Fallout TV series has been in the works since 2020 with Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy on board as producers. Production is expected to begin later this year, with Nolan to direct the show’s pilot episode.

Unfortunately, there’s been little word on what the show will be about, or which part of the Fallout universe it will take place within.

Purnell is perhaps best known for the role of Jackie in the hit TV show Yellowjackets but is also known for her role in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. She also voiced Jinx in the recent League of Legends series, Arcane, and appeared alongside Dave Bautista in Zack Snyder’s recent zombie movie, Army of the Dead.

Fallout is based on the hit video game series, of which the most recent installment was Fallout 76. The games are known for their post-apocalyptic humor and witty characters, as well as their over-the-top sci-fi setting.

Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner will serve as showrunners on the Fallout TV show, with Bethesda’s Todd Howard as executive producer.

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Netflix is officially bringing back Spy Kids.

The kids action franchise that played a role in defining the 2000s is headed to the streaming giant courtesy of Robert Rodriguez, who will relaunch and reimagine the property, THR reports.

Rodriguez, who is fresh off working on Book of Boba Fett, will write, direct and produce the new movie, which will reportedly introduce a new family of spies. Rodriguez inked a deal with Spyglass Media in 2021 to revive the series.

Originally released in 2001, Spy Kids featured Alexa PenaVega and Daryl Sabara trying to save their super spy parents. It went on to receive three more sequels between 2002 and 2011, including Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, which has Juni Cortez venturing into a video game. Rodriguez directed all of the films.

In addition to the movies, Netflix published an animated series titled Spy Kids: Mission Critical, which premiered in 2018. It went on to feature two 10 episodes seasons.

The latest Spy Kids revival does not yet have a release date.

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Spoilers ahead for episode 1 of Paramount+'s Halo TV series.

343 Industries community writer Alex Wakeford has shared a bit of the thought process on Master Chief removing his helmet in Paramount+'s Halo series, revealing that "it had to be a moment that was earned and meaningful."

While we knew before the series aired that Master Chief would be removing his helmet - which had never been done in the games - it was still one of the biggest and most divisive moments in the series' first episode.

The team behind the series took the creation of this moment very seriously and felt the jump from games to TV allowed for it to make sense narratively as there was a distinct shift from playing as Master Chief to watching his story unfold.

The games are a place where you can "step into the boots of humanity’s greatest hero while playing as him and see through his eyes." This means Master Chief is a "vessel for your adventure" and allows players from all over the world to become the one who saves the day.

"That sense of ownership—or ‘shared authorship’—of the character really derives itself from the interactive framework that defines video games as a medium," Wakeford wrote. "The player is given agency to act upon the world given to them, that freedom gives a unique sense of ‘co-creating’ the story to some extent because you are a part of it. That is the heart of what gaming is, because if you ask a dozen people about how they handled a single encounter you’ll probably hear a dozen different stories."

Television, on the other hand, is a "totally different medium to video games" and that changes the approach to how a story is told and how the viewer experiences it.

"The participatory, interactive aspect that defines gaming is not there, which—much like the books, comics, and other media over the last twenty years—brings its own challenges and opportunities for telling a great Halo story and a great drama," Wakeford said. "Revealing the Chief’s face was one of those things."

Speaking of reveals, Master Chief's face is shown in the first episode. It isn't some shocking revelation that builds for many episodes or a mind-blowing moment, it was a key part of telling the story and showing Master Chief's humanity.

"A moment like this is not a plot point or even explicitly a ‘reveal’ of what he looks like, but a means to tell his story. It had to be a moment that was earned and meaningful. This is also part of why it happens in the first episode: it’s not a twist, it’s a mission statement."

Having the face reveal happen in the first episode also sets the stage for the rest of the eight-episode season.

"This exciting moment sets the stage for a new Halo story that will be told over the next eight episodes about identity and self-discovery; about systems and morality, and to whom you are loyal (whether that be to yourself, your past, your colleagues, your beliefs); and about what—in the circumstances of the Silver Timeline—it truly means to be human," Wakeford concluded.

For more on Halo, check out our review of the first episode, a history of Halo's hard-fought battle to TV, and Master Chief actor Pablo Shcreiber's thoughts on showing his character's face.

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Oscar Isaac says he sees Moon Knight, which released earlier today, as a "celebration of the power of the human mind."

Moon Knight stars Isaac as Steven Grant, a man with dissociative identity disorder who finds himself tangled in a supernatural mystery involving Egyptian gods and multiple personalities. Speaking to Esquire, Isaac opened up about the ways in which the new Disney Plus series tackles mental illness and works at removing the stigma often attached to it.

“It’s a celebration of the power of the human mind,” he said. “It’s basically saying, We have a superpower and it’s the human brain, particularly for those who deal with trauma and sustained abuse. There’s this thing that the brain can do to allow them to survive.”

The ways in which Moon Knight takes on these issues is very personal for Isaac, too. He talked about how his uncle, who struggles with mental health, was affected by the actor's performance and the manner in which the show deals with these themes.

“He started crying watching an episode of Moon Knight because, I think, it just felt like being seen," he said. "There was something there that felt like an acknowledgment of the pain and what people do with pain, and the forgiveness, of how you forgive yourself, and how to come to terms with the child within you.”

Co-star Ethan Hawke, who plays the show's terrifying villain Arthur Harrow, called Isaac's performance "masterful" and "intensive," singing the actor's praises for his dedication to the role.

“There are some actors—and you see them in a Marvel movie, or any big studio movie—and, like, they cashed out," he stated. "They got to a certain level of fame and now they’re going to make a bunch of money and phone in a performance and they’ll get back to what they really love. Oscar didn’t do that. He worked on both of these characters differently."

In our review of Moon Knight's series premiere, we said that the debut "asks for patience as it offers very few specifics about poor Steven's mental state, but Isaac's "everyman" is such an endearing rom-com style fool that it all makes for an enticing introduction to a very unique crusader."

Moon Knight's first episode is available to stream exclusively on Disney Plus right now and will release a new episode weekly through May 4.

Billy Givens is a freelance writer for IGN

Disney has censored two scenes in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, removing blood and generally sanitizing the otherwise violent show on Disney Plus.

As first reported by The Direct, and independently verified by IGN, both scenes take place in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's third episode. The first features Hydra scientist Wilfred Nagel, who is shot in the head by Baron Zemo and shown lying on the ground with blood covering his face. The updated version removes the blood.

The second shot takes place in the same episode. In the original version, Bucky throws a pipe through an enemy soldier's shoulder, while in the updated shot the pipe bounces off the soldier and injures them.

Neither change materially changes the tone or content of the scene save to make them slightly less violent, though some fans have suggested that it looks like Nagel is merely knocked out rather than dead. But with censorship an ongoing discussion on Disney Plus, it has sparked discussion among fans about Disney's varying standards.

One highly-upvoted Reddit comment asked, "Daredevil is literally on the service; why censor?"

Censorship continues to be a moving target on Disney Plus. When Netflix's Marvel shows moved over to Disney Plus, many fans worried that the more violent shows would be censored. Instead, as reported by IGN, all of them made it through fully intact, including scenes like a man being show in the face and Wilson Fisk smashing a thug's head with a car door.

The newest MCU show to debut on Disney Plus is Moon Knight, which debuted earlier today. You can read our spoiler-free Moon Knight series premiere review here, as well as our look at the most powerful characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Bruce Willis is "stepping away" from his career in acting due to health issues, Willis’ ex-wife and close friend Demi Moore revealed in an Instagram post from earlier today.

The post reads:

To Bruce’s amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities. As a result of this and with much consideration Bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him.

This is a really challenging time for our family and we are so appreciative of your continued love, compassion and support. We are moving through this as a strong family unit, and wanted to bring his fans in because we know how much he means to you, as you do to him.

As Bruce always says, “Live it up” and together we plan to do just that.

The 67-year-old actor made a name for himself in the 1980s with Blind Date and Die Hard before going on to score iconic roles in blockbuster films including Armageddon, Pulp Fiction, and The Sixth Sense throughout the 1990s. In more recent years, the award-winning actor has been known for taking on a wide selection of roles in direct-to-video films.

Aphasia is a brain disorder that affects a person's ability to understand and recall written and spoken language, often as a result of a trauma such as a brain tumor or stroke. The family has not shared whether Willis suffers from an underlying disease at this time.

Willis currently has multiple projects in post-production, including White Elephant, Vendetta, and Fortress: Sniper's Eye. He was expected to reprise his role as Robert Michaels in Fortress 3, the final film in the planned trilogy. The movie is currently in pre-production, so Willis' retirement leaves its fate unclear.

Billy Givens is a freelance writer for IGN.

The second annual Meta Quest Gaming Showcase will take place on April 20 and will give fans a glimpse at the future of VR.

The Meta Quest Gaming Showcase, which was previously known as the Oculus Gaming Showcase, will air on April 20 at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm BST and will have "new game announcements, gameplay first-looks, updates on games coming in the next year, and a whole lot of surprises."

While no teases were given for what specific games fans can expect from the show, last year's show featured updates on Resident Evil 4 VR, Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge, Pistol Whip, and Lone Echo 2.

We very well learn more about the Splinter Cell and Assassin's Creed VR games that were announced last year, as well as the VR version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

The Meta Quest 2 is one of the leading VR platforms, but it will have some heavy competition in the near future as Sony is gearing up to launch PlayStation VR 2. No release date has been given for PSVR 2, but you can see how it compared to the original PSVR, Meta Quest 2, and Valve Index here.

For more in the world of VR, check out our review of Resident Evil 4 VR and the NFL's announcement of its partnership with StatusPRO to make an official, annual VR football game.

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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will come to Steam, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One on April 27.

Described as a "significant expansion" to the 2013 original, Ultra Deluxe brings the cult classic to console for the first time, with the new content's script being longer than the original game.

The Stanley Parable is an experimental, narrative-driven first person game about choice, or lack thereof, and freedom. As described by developer Crows Crows Crows, "the rules of how games should work are broken" as "The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you".

Ultra Deluxe was revealed at The Game Awards in 2018 and was originally expected to launch in 2019, but following three separate delays across three years it's finally being released.

The scope of the game has grown considerably since the original was revealed, Crows Crows Crows said: "Early in development, the plan was just to bring The Stanley Parable to consoles with a few small tweaks, but as time went on we kept getting more and more excited about what else we could do with the game.

"Since The Stanley Parable was a game about surprises, we've tried to implement new content in ways that players won't be expecting."

In our 8/10 review of the original game, IGN said: "Witty, unusual and quietly discomfiting, The Stanley Parable is a successful experiment in interactive narrative."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.