Christian Toto

Box office observers probably thought things couldn’t get worse than the recently wrapped summer movie season. They were wrong. The weekend’s box office results are in, and the numbers were bad even by the most modest of expectations. The weekend

How could a pair of food-related films like Chef and The Hundred-Foot Journey compete with the summer’s noisiest blockbusters? Talk about an unfair fight. Yet both Chef and Journey, films that traffic in the wonders of a well-cooked meal, are hanging

Veteran director Ivan Reitman says the knee-jerk nature of social media, and our politically correct times, makes producing edgy content more challenging. Reitman, the man behind Ghostbusters, Stripes and Kindergarten Cop, notes how sites like Twitter pounce on artists when

Billy Crystal stood on the Emmy stage Monday night, tasked with paying tribute to Robin Williams. Audiences had mourned Williams’ loss for weeks on social media following the comic’s suicide. Now, a longtime pal and colleague had to make audiences

Seth Meyers kept politics out of his Emmy opening monologue Monday night, but he aimed most of the jokes at the industry crowd, not audiences at home. We’re in a gold-plated age of television, witness the crush of great shows

Russell Brand, who recently called MSNBC an “extremely conservative” news outlet, thinks Fox News star Sean Hannity is out of his depth when it comes to political commentary. Brand’s film career hasn’t realized the potential from his funny supporting turn

President Barack Obama’s unwillingness to give up golf while the world churns and burns finally caught the attention of the late night crowd. Jimmy Fallon mocked Obama’s golf obsession on Thursday’s The Tonight Show, mixing humor with the serious notion that

Did you know harshly criticizing the looters who are ransacking the businesses of innocent, hard-working Ferguson, MO residents is both “racist” and “insane?” So says Salon.com, dealing the race card against conservative actor Kevin Sorbo for daring to call out

James Cameron’s Avatar thrilled crowds with its intense action and groundbreaking special effects. You didn’t need those 3-D glasses to see the eco-messages careening off the screen, though. Cameron, who once said he “loves eco-terrorism,” used the film as a

An exhaustive peek at an updated edition of Live from New York, a portrait of Saturday Night Live, reveals the intractable biases that shape the show’s comic agenda. Washington Post television critic Tom Shales and James Miller wrote the SNL tell-all in 2002. Now, with

Don’t tell Jim Caviezel that inspirational sports movies can’t make a difference. The Passion of the Christ star tells Breitbart News how he leaned on 1986’s Hoosiers as a senior playing point guard for his high school’s basketball team. He remembers

Brad Paisley’s latest song isn’t cynical, or ironic. It’s a plainspoken love letter to his fellow Americans. Breitbart News is proud to share Country Nation with our readers. The best-selling artist recruits some new friends for a song that honors

Want to see Holy Ghost, the new documentary from the studio behind Finger of God, Furious Love and Father of Lights? It won’t cost you a penny, but the studio behind the project has faith consumers will pay for the

Looks like Fox won’t be bringing Tina Fey’s latest comedy into living rooms nationwide. Variety reports that the network is passing on Cabot College, a show co-produced by Fey set in college. Project from Universal TV had received a series

The Parents Television Council doesn’t want MTV to hit the rewind button next week. The music channel’s VMA telecast from last year introduced the uber-sexualized reboot of Miley Cyrus’ career. Her twerk-heavy romp with Robin Thicke trashed her family-friendly image

Even liberals like actress Mia Farrow find this week’s indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry suspect. The actress, who uses her Twitter account to share her progressive views and champion left-of-center causes, sent out a Tweet over the weekend questioning

The Giver offers a pro-life message as well as a warning of what nanny state policies could lead. So why is Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most prominent liberals, teaming up with Walden Media to bring Lois Lowry’s story to

Netflix is now in the Bill Cosby business. The streaming giant just secured new comedy specials from the avuncular comic along with younger performers including Jim Jefferies, Bill Burr and Chelsea Peretti, Variety reports. The Cosby special, “Bill Cosby 77,”