Yasiel Puig’s harrowing journey from Cuba to the United States and eventually to Chavez Ravine will be turned into a blockbuster movie. According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter, Brett Ratner acquired the rights to Jesse Katz’ Los Angeles
Yasiel Puig’s harrowing journey from Cuba to the United States and eventually to Chavez Ravine will be turned into a blockbuster movie. According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter, Brett Ratner acquired the rights to Jesse Katz’ Los Angeles
Embroiled Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber has been released after being held and questioned for close to four hours by authorities at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol area Thursday on his way back from Asia, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A federal judge dismissed director Quentin Tarantino’s lawsuit against Gawker.com for linking to a leaked screenplay he wrote. The legal battle may not be over, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The California judge which granted Gawker’s motion to dismiss the
Far-left filmmaker Michael Moore stuffs his documentaries with experts who think more or less like him. The folks behind America, the follow-up to the smash 2012 hit 2016: Obama’s America, say they want a more open film dialogue. Toward that
Sharon Waxman is no stranger to Hollywood. The award-winning journalist who founded TheWrap.com in 2009 has covered the entertainment industry for years, including a stint at The Washington Post. She also authored Rebels on the Backlot, a book focusing on
The Daily Mail reports that 31-year-old Michael Egan, the man accusing “X-Men” director Bryan Singer of drugging and raping him some 15 years ago, is working with documentary filmmaker Amy Berg on a “bombshell exposé of Hollywood’s sordid underbelly.” Berg
The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond reports that during a ceremony at the legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Oscar-winner Charlton Heston became only the 18th person honored in the U.S. Postal Service’s “Legends of Hollywood” series. The first class stamp is
Harvey Weinstein, who never misses a chance to genuflect at the altar of President Barack Obama, is releasing a film Friday centering on waterboarding to remind Americans just how inhumane the Bush Administration was. The Railway Man, based on the
The Hollywood Reporter writes that the Vatican Newspaper “Avvenire” blasted Russell Crowe’s “Noah” as a “lost opportunity” that presented “Noah without God” and turned the Genesis story into something “ecologically, and vaguely new age, transforming the Biblical tale into a
Yancey Strickler, CEO of the fundraising site Kickstarter, sent a tweet to Breitbart News Thursday claiming that a story published that same day about his fundraising company Kickstarter is incorrect. Strickler claims he did not reject a project submitted by
Judging by the quotes in the Hollywood Reporter article, no one involved in the first “Inconvenient Truth” film intends to do anything except tell another bunch of lies. [Producer Lawrence] Bender believes that during the ensuing years, the fossil-fuel industry
God’s Not Dead didn’t have a massive marketing budget, a liberal A-list star above the title or even the same number of screens most mainstream movies receive. The film is still on pace to snare the fourth spot in the
Hollywood continues to plead with state officials to broaden California’s existing tax incentives. This week, a new, favorable talking point for the industry fell in its lap. The Hollywood Reporter says the state’s current tax breaks added about $4.3 billion
Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. flashed her middle finger–to offend or signify her one U.S. hit, she has never explained–during the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. The NFL has been quietly pursuing restitution ever since. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the
One thought amused me while watching the otherwise appalling A Good Old Fashioned Orgy–man, Jason Sudeikis has a real Chevy Chase vibe going for him. Today, we learned that vibe helped him land the role of ace reporter I.M. Fletcher
The upcoming Biblical blockbuster Noah has divided the faith community before its March 28 release date. Several Middle Eastern countries didn’t wait that long before casting judgment on director Darren Aronofsky’s film. Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates will
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (UPI)–The National Enquirer admits it published an erroneous story about Philip Seymour Hoffman and is now funding an annual scholarship in the late actor’s name. The announcement came after Hoffman’s longtime friend, New York playwright David
The Hollywood Reporter has a long article about the backlash director Darren Aronofsky has been getting from some Christians in the test audiences for his upcoming “Noah” epic, starring Russell Crowe as the Bible hero. Aronofsky says only ten or
Director Darren Aronofsky initially described his vision for Noah, the big-budget interpretation of the Biblical story, as a look at the world’s first environmentalist. A person who caught an early test screening of the film says Aronofsky’s template is still
Famed film director Woody Allen struck back at renewed accusations that he is a child molester by claiming that ex-wife Mia Farrow implanted false memories in their children, but Dylan Farrow, one of those children, has again attacked Allen’s denials.
Woody Allen may have issued a statement Tuesday declaring he is innocent of charges he once sexually molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, but the Annie Hall director doesn’t appear concerned the accusation will hurt his career. Allen made his
Christian activist Joni Eareckson Tada accuses Hollywood of “shunning Christ” after the Academy Award rescinded a Best Original Song Oscar nomination to the independent Christian film Alone Yet Not Alone. Tada – a severely disabled evangelical author, radio host, and public
Even critics who applauded director Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street admitted the film paid little to no attention to those “bitten” by the titular wolf. That prompted an impassioned op-ed by Christina McDowell, a woman whose life was
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (UPI)–NBC has canceled “Sean Saves the World,” a freshman sitcom starring Sean Hayes as the gay single father of a teen daughter, the Hollywood Reporter said. No new episodes are to be taped and it is
