Tag: Hollywood Reporter

How can an industry that relentlessly preens and poses as the vanguard of progressivism, an industry that constantly lectures the rest of us on racial matters, be in a bind where they have not groomed enough minority actors into stars — where they do not have a solid farm team of non-white actors to step in and take these roles?

Some of Hollywood’s most powerful producers and executives opened up about how President Donald Trump’s early tenure has affected their work and their mental health.

Just three weeks into her new Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly program, Megyn Kelly’s “star is dimmer than ever,” according to television industry publication Variety.

NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke still believes that Megyn Kelly is a “big star” even though her Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly program has precipitously tanked in the ratings and has yet to beat out a rerun of 60 Minutes.

California Governor Jerry Brown attacked President Donald Trump for withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords on Thursday.

Lorne Michaels, the creative mind behind Saturday Night Live, said that the long-running variety show never reached out to Rosie O’Donnell to take on the role of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon because she would have approached the role “from hate” rather than from comedy.

In a column for the Hollywood Reporter, Senior Editor Eriq Gardner notes that Hollywood’s major film industry players — who have often been the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies — could actually be among the greatest beneficiaries of the president’s proposed tax cuts.

Jeff Kwatinetz, founder of the Hollywood management company The Firm, has told the Hollywood Reporter that Stephen K Bannon — his former partner, the former Breitbart executive chairman, and now White House senior adviser — is “not a racist or anti-Semitic.”

The Hollywood Reporter has just published its “35 Most Powerful People in New York Media” list and this year’s roundup includes some of entertainment’s most anti-Donald Trump television personalities.

The stars and producers of ABC’s political drama Scandal are celebrating the show’s centenary episode and sharing their thoughts about how Donald Trump’s election caused anxiety both on and off the screen.

Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” the Hollywood Reporter’s Michael Wolff defended a recent Newsweek column of his in which he took aim at the media for it’s aggressive coverage of President Donald Trump, including a specific criticism aimed at show

Disney CEO Bob Iger, one of the few entertainment industry executives asked to attend President Donald Trump’s policy forum at the White House this week, has refused the invitation.

In a guest column at the Hollywood Reporter, social critic Camille Paglia pins down why so many women in Hollywood are apparently finding it difficult to accept their age with grace.

In another feature story timed to the release of her first book, this time with the Hollywood Reporter, Fox News star anchor Megyn Kelly dishes on her scuffles with now-President-elect Donald Trump, her reported $20 million contract offer from Fox, why she does not identify as a feminist and how her alleged mistreatment at the hands of former network chief Roger Ailes caused her to feel a “sense of loss.”

In a feature for the Hollywood Reporter, Wang Jianlin says he hopes to acquire one of the six major Hollywood studios. But for now, the man known in Hollywood simply as “The Chairman” is content to invest heavily in feature production slates at all six of those studios.

On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival in France, journalist and former television personality Ronan Farrow penned a blistering critique of his father, Woody Allen, in which he compares the behavior of the filmmaker to another alleged serial sexual abuser, comedian Bill Cosby.

A shocking new report from the Hollywood Reporter on Friday reveals that the site of the Cannes Film Festival in France sits just 600 meters from a mosque linked to Islamic jihadi terrorism.

Now that Oscar season is over, major Hollywood studios are getting behind a concerted, industry-wide effort to increase the diversity of talent both in front of and behind the camera.

Real Time host Bill Maher took his fellow liberals to task in a wide-ranging essay in The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, questioning how any well-intentioned progressive could protest apartheid in South Africa while ignoring the roughly 40 countries around the world who have implemented Sharia law.

While Hillary Clinton has made a half-dozen successful fundraising trips to California, the Democrat presidential frontrunner has so far failed to earn the support of a key fundraising bloc in the state: Hollywood’s most powerful female executives.

Oscar-winning actor and musician Jared Leto has filed a lawsuit in California federal court against TMZ for publishing an alleged “stolen” video in which he insults pop singer Taylor Swift.

The Hollywood Reporter issued a pre-emptive “mea culpa” for the fact that all of the actresses on their annual roundtable discussion with female awards contenders happened to be white.

Much like the film business, music is dominated by men, according to multi-platinum recording artist Jewel, who says she never took the easy way out to find success.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has landed his first magazine cover of this election cycle.

Amnesty International is set to review an internal policy document regarding the group’s stance on sex work at a meeting in Ireland next month, and a slew of Hollywood celebrities are banding together to stand against decriminalizing the sex trade.

In a partnership with STX Entertainment, The Jim Henson Company is currently developing an adult-themed black comedy puppet film, of which the plot will center on a bizarre murder mystery.

Renowned TV producer Mark Burnett is looking to launch a reality series following the lives of global leaders, and has his sites set on Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Corey Lewandowski, senior political adviser at The Trump Organization, spoke to Breitbart News Wednesday about the allegations made by The Hollywood Reporter that Trump supporters were paid to attend his presidential announcement.

As one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood history, Marlon Brando died in 2004 at the age of 80, but not before leaving behind a legacy that we now know included more than cinematic masterpieces.

For the June 19 issue of the Hollywood Reporter magazine, the trade publication sat down with six renowned female Emmy contenders for a discussion about life, family, career challenges, and their often sexually charged TV characters.