Tag: Hollywood Reporter

Hollywood isn’t doing all it can to let the public know about global warming er, rather, climate change. So sayeth Al Gore, the prophet of the green movement. Al Gore slipped into town Dec. 6 for a quick chat with

Veteran film producer Gerald Molen wasn’t surprised his documentary hit “2016: Obama’s America” didn’t make the cut for Oscar consideration this year. That doesn’t mean the Oscar-winner isn’t ready to call out his own industry all the same. “The action

(AFP) The prestigious New York Film Critics Circle gave “Zero Dark Thirty,” Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a new shove in the direction of Oscar glory Monday. The director of the Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker”

Aaron Sorkin’s horrendous drama Newsroom on HBO will now be hiring Joel Johnstone to play a Mitt Romney staffer, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sorkin’s Newsroom has already featured news anchor Will McAvoy calling the Tea Party the “American Taliban“:

Sandra Fluke’s 15 minutes of fame aren’t over quite yet. The nation’s foremost expert on free birth control will be part of The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Breakfast to be held Dec. 5. Fluke, who became one of President

The pay channel Starz has its work cut out for it chasing big-name competitors HBO and Showtime. Those channels made themselves indispensable to TV watchers thanks to content like “The Sopranos,” “Weeds” and “Homeland.” So why would Starz cancel the

Robert Redford has a serious case of projection. The actor/activist, best known these days for his work on behalf of the Sundance Film Festival, is blasting those who disagree with him on global warming climate change as being ideological extremists

Hollywood types love to wrinkle their collective brow over the 1940s-era Blacklist. Witness the gaggle of stars (Joan Allen, Michael Douglas, Liam Neeson) who participated in the 2007 documentary “Trumbo,” the tale of gifted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo who got entangled

Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx used to make people laugh for a living, and he says cracking up conservatives is harder than it should be. Today, the “Django Unchained” star is best known as an actor who can also sing and

Judd Apatow, the producer of some of the biggest comedy hits from the last decade, isn’t laughing about “The Innocence of Muslims.” The crude video inflamed Muslims across the Middle East and was temporarily blamed by the Obama administration for

Conservatism’s best hope for taking back popular culture rests with a man once described as “not Taco Bell material.” Adam Carolla isn’t a Tea Partier, but he’s precisely the kind of voice needed to help the Right stake a claim

The Hollywood Reporter:  President Barack Obama arrived Sunday in Los Angeles and went directly to the Beverly Hills home of DreamWorks Animation Chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, where he joined former President Bill Clinton in a private meeting with 12 deep-pocketed Democratic donors…. The Obama campaign said

ATLANTA, Sept. 30 (UPI) — A fight broke out between rappers Rick Ross and Young Jeezy backstage at the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta, although police said reports of gunshots are untrue. Rapper Funkmaster Flex tweeted about the incident Saturday

A prominent rabbi says media organizations engaged in a “blood libel” by spreading false reports that said a Jew made the Internet film that allegedly outraged Islamic radicals to storm the U.S. Embassy in Egypt and the U.S. consulate in

The Hollywood Reporter: The Innocence of Muslims, a movie that has enraged radical Islamists who have rioted and committed murders in the Middle East this week, was partially shot on a set that Paramount helped to build for its TV show JAG,

Members of the Church of Scientology are feverishly letting Harvey Weinstein’s studio know they strongly object to Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie “The Master,” which loosely is about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. According to The Hollywood Reporter, concerned

The Hollywood Reporter: Another documentary is drawing controversy at the Republican National Convention — the filmmakers of Occupy Unmasked, starring the late Andrew Breitbart, say they’ve received dozens of threats of physical violence in advance of Thursday’s screening of the critical look at

(AP) NEW YORK Universal Pictures is continuing to pursue a sequel to “Snow White and the Huntsman” in the wake of Kristen Stewart’s affair with the film’s director. Universal co-chairman Donna Langley said in a statement Wednesday that the studio is

The Hollywood Reporter: Robert Iger, the CEO of the Walt Disney Co., didn’t take the bait on Tuesday when he was given the opportunity to get politically partisan, though he did make an appeal for a lower corporate tax rate….

Harry Belafonte is better known these days for his progressive believes than his Calypso crooning. But the aging singer’s latest Q&A courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter includes some of his most outrageous claims to date. Would you believe he considers

Peter Bogdanovich recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how he believes movies, not the man named James Holmes who pulled the trigger, are behind the Aurora tragedy. It’s too easy to show murders in movies now. There are too many of