Scarlett Johansson

NEW YORK: Move over Emma Stone, the world has a new highest-paid actress. Scarlett Johansson leads this year's ranking with $40.5 million in pretax earnings between June 1, 2017, and June 1, 2018, making her acting's top-earning female lead. Playing Black Widow in Marvel's Avengers movies has become a lucrative role for Johansson, who quadruples her 2017 earnings to bump Stone from No. 1. She'll return onscreen for the fourth installment of the superhero conglomerate series in 2019. "The percent of budget…

LOS ANGELES: Scarlett Johansson on Friday pulled out of a movie in which she was cast to play a transgender character following a backlash from some members of the LGBT community who believed the part should have gone to a transgender actor. Johansson, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, had agreed to take a role in “Rub & Tug” as Dante “Tex” Gill, a real-life American crime kingpin who used his massage parlor as a front for prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s. Gill was born a woman but identified as a man. It was the…

A film starring Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel Cinematic Universe character has been rumored for the past few years, but that rumor now seems much closer to reality. Female director Cate Shortland has been signed on to direct the long-overdue film. Set before the first Avengers film, the movie will be Marvel’s second female-fronted film after Captain Marvel, due in 2019. Johansson is poised to reprise the role of the marvel’s black widow for the much-anticipated standalone movie, and the 33-year-old has previously spoken…

LOS ANGELES: American actress Scarlett Johansson filed for divorce from French journalist Romain Dauriac in New York this week and asked for full custody of the couple's daughter, as her estranged husband asked her to return to the negotiating table. Johansson, 32, filed for divorce in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday on grounds of "the marriage being irretrievably broken." She requested joint legal custody and residential custody of the couple's 2-year-old daughter, Rose, according to court documents. The couple…

LOS ANGELES: "Avengers: Age of Ultron" scored the second-biggest domestic opening in history this weekend, kicking off summer blockbuster season with a mammoth $187.7 million debut.

LOS ANGELES: "Avengers" superhero actors Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans apologized Thursday for calling co-star Scarlett Johansson's character in the blockbuster movie a "slut," saying it was just a tasteless joke.

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson quietly tied the knot with her fiance Romain Dauriac, in October, US media reported Monday.

ABU DHABI- Egyptian actor and film-maker Amr Waked, equally at home in Cairo and Hollywood, says the time is ripe for a host of other Arab stars to make it big abroad.

LOS ANGELES: Actress Scarlett Johansson has given birth to a girl, her first child with her journalist fiance, the actress' representative confirmed on Thursday.