Big Hollywood

Star Wars fans hoped rumors that the franchise’s original trio–Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill–would truly be part of the seventh film in the series. Today, the Force behind the long-awaited sequel showed its hand, confirming not only those

Dinesh D’Souza and the team behind the upcoming documentary America promised they would let hard leftists have a say in their pro-USA feature set for a July 4 release. The film’s latest trailer shows they mean to keep their word.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Some advice for when Willie Nelson slides off his sneakers personalized with the word “Texas”: Don’t mess with him. The country music icon who turns 81 this week received his fifth-degree black belt in the martial

Craig Ferguson to Leave ‘Late Late Show’ in December Craig Ferguson claims there is no tension or drama behind his decision to leave CBS and the “Late Late Show” after ten years in December. But there are reports he had

One of Hollywood’s most influential movie executives is hardly bullish on his own product. Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation and an industry heavyweight, told a global conference today that movies are no longer a “growth business.” Katzenberg, a prominent

LOS ANGELES, April 27 (UPI)–Tori Spelling left a Los Angeles medical center on Saturday after what several media reports described as a multi-day hospitalization. Though it’s unclear why she needed treatment, E! News reported that Spelling spent at least six

Former Congressman Barney Frank says he has no problem with actor Alec Baldwin’s recent homophobic outbursts. Frank, the openly gay politician, happened to be sharing a stage with Baldwin when he was asked a question about the actor’s track record

MTV had a hit on its hands when it gathered a bunch of bawdy southerners together for the reality show spectacle Buckwild. Some West Virginians weren’t pleased by the series, which showed the most boorish side of these attractive southerners. Now,

NEW CANAAN, Conn., April 28 (UPI) — Paul Simon and wife Edie Brickell were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct over the weekend. The 72-year-old Simon and Garfunkel singer and his 48-year-old wife, also a musician, were reportedly involved in

Starting on May 1 with a gala honoring legendary actor Carl Reiner at the newly named Steve Tisch Cinema Center at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, California, the 9th Annual Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) aims to celebrate Jewish heritage and build

‘Die Hard’ Director McTiernan: I Was a Republican Until I Went to Jail “Die Hard” director John McTiernan was just recently released from a federal minimum security prison. He served a little less than a year after being convicted of

Have no fear, John Oliver will soon take his place as another liberal voice in HBO’s lineup of left-leaning stars. The New York Daily News dubbed him “as progressive as they come.” The Daily Show alum John Oliver still used

LOS ANGELES, April 27 (UPI)–Steven Spielberg is the latest director to take on the beloved works of British author Roald Dahl, after Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The Lincoln director will direct

NEW YORK, April 27 (UPI)–Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has beef with Time magazine putting Beyonce on its cover calling her one of the 100 most influential people. He called the decision by Time “nonsense,” saying she’s a negative influence

For a moment it looked like the state of Maryland would lose out on seeing the Netflix smash House of Cards being shot within its borders. And, as a result, a good number of jobs would flee the state as

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have ordered video streaming websites in the country to stop showing four popular American TV shows, including “The Big Bang Theory” and “The Good Wife,” senior staff from two sites said Sunday. The move suggests

CHICAGO (AP)–Rashad Harden, a house music and footwork pioneer who performed as DJ Rashad, was found dead over the weekend in Chicago of an apparent drug overdose, authorities said Sunday. He was 34. Chicago Police spokeswoman Janel Sedevic said a

There’s an old saw about standing on the shoulders of giants and thinking you’re tall. In other words, you take full advantage of what came before you while pretending, or even wrongly believing, that it sprang fully-formed from your own

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A decades-old urban legend was put to rest Saturday when workers for a documentary film production company recovered “E.T.” Atari game cartridges from a heap of garbage buried deep in the New Mexico desert. The “Atari

(AFP) Oscar-winning heartthrob George Clooney, one of Hollywood’s most coveted bachelors, has got engaged to his British lawyer girlfriend Amal Alamuddin, People magazine reported Saturday. “George and Amal are trying to keep things very low-key but they also aren’t really

After Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeted a picture of a tiger-skin rug that he purchased for his Houston office, songwriter Diane Warren said she wished the tiger were smiling over Cruz’s dead body.  Warren, who eventually deleted the tweet, wrote:

Deadline reports that “The Other Woman,” a PG-13 revenge-against-men comedy starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and Kate Upton’s body topped the box office with a $25.4 million debut. Knocked out of the top spot after three weeks was “Captain America:

More faith-based projects are coming to screens large and small. We’ve already seen God’s Not Dead, Noah, Son of God and Heaven Is for Real in theaters this year, and now Fox is prepping a television series focusing on the

LONDON, April 25 (UPI)–Jennifer Lawrence lost her cool as she was being followed by paparazzi in London Thursday night. The Hunger Games star was in a cab with on-and-off beau Nicholas Hoult when photographers captured her giving them the finger

It’s only been a week since Heaven Is for Real hit theaters, but one of the film’s producers says the faith-based drama is changing the dynamic in Hollywood. “The success of the film has the industry talking,” says DeVon Franklin, Sr. VP