Big Hollywood

Alan Benyak, an unknown actor who appeared in an ad for Tom Wolf, a Democrat running for governor of Pennsylvania, is being held up for public ridicule by BuzzFeed. His sin, according to BuzzFeed, is appearing in a direct-to-video film

Neil Patrick Harris confirmed that he married his longtime partner David Burtka this past weekend in Italy. “Guess what? David Burtka and I got married over the weekend. In Italy. Yup, we put the ‘n’ and ‘d’ in ‘husband,’” Harris

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

Comedian Drew Carey has offered $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of those who dumped a bucket of urine and feces on an autistic Ohio boy fooled into thinking he was participating in the ALS ice bucket challenge. Last

Twenty-five years ago, maybe longer, my dad decided to convert his massive music collection from vinyl to CD. He’s still working on it but the technological leap from then to now boggles the mind. When he started, a desktop computer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Guardians of the Galaxy” continues to rule the box office universe. The cosmic Marvel adventure arrived in first place at the box office for a fourth weekend with $10.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The

NEW YORK (AP) — Howard Stern delivered the eulogy, Broadway singer-actress Audra McDonald sang “Smile” and bagpipers played “New York, New York” at Joan Rivers’ funeral Sunday, a star-studded send-off that — like late comedian herself — brought together the

Under Armour recently launched a multi-million-dollar women’s campaign to attract female customers, but their newest ambassador and “athlete,” Gisele Bündchen, was slammed by social media critics. Ballerina Misty Copeland’s “I will what I want” advertisement was well-received by the public, but media

The nude photographs of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton that were illegally obtained by a hacker last weekend will be put on display during an art exhibit at The Cory Allen Contemporary Art Showroom in Florida next month. Cory Allen,

Despite being in nearly 2000 theatres, this weekend’s only widely released newcomer, the faith-based “The Identical,” crashed and burned with a mere $1.86 million take, which is about half of what was projected. Summer 2014’s two big bombs, “Expendables 3”

Unless bundled cable providers find a way to move their racket online, the demographic reality of younger people moving online looms as an existential threat to the most lucrative business in entertainment and the news media. In just four years

“If at first you don’t succeed, then you know you’re gold mining” — Steve Riedel, “Bering Sea Gold” Airing Fridays on Discovery Channel, the reality series Bering Sea Gold travels to Nome, Alaska, a coastal hamlet set amid endless tundra,

For a time in the 1950s, Bishop Fulton Sheen was one of the biggest television stars in America. His prime-time show “Life is Worth Living” had one of the biggest audiences in TV history. He went up against Milton Berle

Speaking to assembled TV critics back in the summer of 2010, FX Entertainment Chief John Landgraf said that the basic cable network’s dramas had a “tendency to want to do the literature of the common woman and the common man.” At

For the past week or so, Russell Brand and I have been jabbing at each other on the web and TV. It all began when Brand attacked Fox News Contributor and Wall Street Journal editorial board member Jason Riley for

Gene Simmons told his son during a candid interview for Esquire that rock music has been “murdered” by file-sharing and that rich, white, and entitled native-born Americans are partially to blame. “My sense is that file-sharing started in predominantly white,

What a sad state of affairs that after perusing all the Major Hollywood Trades this morning, it was at Cinema Retro that I finally learned of Andrew V. McLaglen’s demise. The man deserves better. Much better. McLaglen, the legendary director

It’s official. Nicolle Wallace, who enhanced her profile after 2008 while bashing former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on MSNBC to make up for Wallace’s shortcomings as a political adviser, and liberal actress Rosie Perez, the pro-Obama advocate who trashed Mitt

With the death of Joan Rivers at 81 Thursday, we lost one more icon in a dwindling breed: the comedian who does not seek the good opinion of the powerful media and entertainment elite. Just two months before her death,

George Clooney has signed on to direct a new film that highlights the Rupert Murdoch media scandal, which involved the habitual voicemail hacking of politicians and other high-profile figures by one of the worlds largest media organizations–News Corp. The movie

Michelle Obama, also known as @FLOTUS on social media, sent a birthday tweet to her role model and friend, Beyoncé, this afternoon. Happy Birthday, @Beyonce! You’re an incredible role model, a phenomenal mother, and a wonderful friend. Hope you have an amazing day!

THR: Joan Rivers, the blunt, tart-tongued celebrity and talk show host who reconstructed her career time and time again en route to becoming one of the most memorable female comics of all time, has died. She was 81. The breakthrough

The celebrity photo scandal has taken a shocking turn after lawyers for Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney demanded the removal of their 18-year-old client’s nude photos from various pornography websites, claiming that she was underage at the time they were taken.