Paramount announced delays in the release of two of its high anticipated blockbusters, Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7, over worries that fans will once again decide to avoid theaters as coronavirus cases continue to spike around the world.
Hollywood crews are blowing the whistle on the studios, claiming their members are being pushed to their limits to make up for lost time under the pandemic and to satisfy consumers’ bottomless demand for streaming content, according to a new report.
Four new films with major stars from Hugh Jackman to Michael Keaton opened in North American movie theaters this weekend and only the one with animated puppies fared well. But it wasn’t enough to beat out Ryan Reynolds’ action-comedy “Free Guy,” which topped the charts for the second weekend running.
Aug. 5 (UPI) — South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have signed a massive new multi-year deal.
Hollywood is putting more drag in the lives of Americans by re-imagining classic TV shows like The “Brady Bunch” as drag queen comedies.
Voice actress E.G. Daily, who voiced Tommy Pickles in Nickelodeon’s hit cartoon Rugrats, said the series cast always sensed the character Betty DeVille was a lesbian, in wake of the upcoming Paramount+ reboot declaring Deville is openly gay.
The Trump-bashing Tony Awards — which hit a record low in ratings in 2019 — will become the first major awards show to move to streaming after finally setting a date for September 26, after being postponed due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
While many Americans lost jobs and income, were evicted from their homes, shuttered their businesses (many forever), and turned away workers and patrons, a majority of Hollywood’s elite executives and CEOs enjoyed a pay hike during the pandemic.
ViacomCBS is the first major Hollywood studio to speak out against Georgia’s voter integrity law, claiming without citing evidence that the legislation intended to fight voter fraud actually impedes the “equal right to vote.” The media conglomerate, which owns Paramount Pictures and the CBS network, stopped short of endorsing the left’s demands to boycott the state.
Filmmaker Joe Carnahan says streaming new-release movies — an industry adaptation to the coronavirus pandemic — is here to stay, postulating that WarnerMedia “made a lot of money” with its high-profile premiere of Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max.
Feb. 24 (UPI) — Paramount+ announced Wednesday that a new Frasier series would come to the streaming service. Kelsey Grammer is confirmed to return in his trademark role.
As small businesses around California struggle to stay afloat amid the latest round of stay-at-home orders, Hollywood studios are able to keep the cameras rolling thanks to the work of highly paid lobbyists whom the studios reportedly hired to sway state politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
Paramount Network is set to premiere a drama starring Emmy-winning actor Michael Chiklis as a former U.S. Border Patrol officer who turns against American immigration laws to illegally smuggle an endangered young woman across the southern border.
Hollywood’s biggest studios have succeeded in shutting down Openload, a popular pirating site that received more online traffic than Hulu, HBO Go, and NBCNews.com. A second pirating site, Streamango, was also shut down.
The top five movies for the second weekend of August is mostly filled with previous releases, with “Hobbs & Shaw” keeping the top spot over newly released “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”
Two Latino activist groups are planning to protest Paramount Pictures, railing against the mega-media company for failing to hire enough Latinos.
Paramount says it has fired the head of its television division, Amy Powell for making comments that drew complaints from employees.
Paramount has released a trailer for Jay-Z’s upcoming documentary about Trayvon Martin, whose death led to the rise of Black Lives Matter protest across the United States.
After delaying its airing in the aftermath of February’s Florida high school shooting, Paramount Network is permanently scrapping “Heathers.”
Deadline’s Michael Cieply points out that every major film studio is heavily promoting blockbuster film “featuring big guns” — all while Hollywood luminaries like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman are fronting public campaigns against law-abiding gun owners.
Gay advocacy group GLAAD slapped Hollywood with a failing grade on its annual report card for the lack of roles for gays and a dearth of gay storylines in films for 2017.
“I don’t think they completed more than 4 songs. It was the strangest, saddest and worst concert I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to a lot.”
Director Dylan Brown was fired off the movie Amusement Park over a report of “inappropriate and unwanted conduct,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Paramount Pictures is defending its latest release, the Jennifer Lawrence-starring horror pic mother!, after the film underperformed at the box office and earned a rare “F” CinemaScore from moviegoers over the weekend.
Former Paramount Pictures chairman and CEO Brad Grey died Sunday at his California home after a battle with cancer, his family has confirmed. He was 59.
Christian Bale is in discussions to play Dick Cheney in a biopic of the former vice president’s life from writer-director Adam McKay, according to a report.
Al Gore is back again to warn about the dangers of climate change in the first trailer for An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Oprah Winfrey is attached to star in a Lee Daniels-directed remake of the 1983 Best Picture winner Terms of Endearment, according to a report.
Mission: Impossible fans, have no fear: the long-running action franchise will be back for a sixth installment.
Thanks to its election year release and a few high-profile speakers at this year’s Republican National Convention, home video sales for director Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi have nearly matched the film’s entire theatrical domestic gross.
Actor Emile Hirsch was sentenced Monday to 15 days in jail for assaulting a female Paramount executive during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in January.
The fallout from the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment over its upcoming film The Interview continues to grow. According to TheWrap, both Carmike Cinemas and ArcLight Cinemas have decided to pull the film from their theaters in the
The historical drama Selma premiered in Manhattan Sunday night, where members of the film’s cast and crew posed for pictures donning “I can’t breathe” shirts over their formal clothing. The group then marched to the steps of the New York Public Library,
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After three weeks of box office dominance, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1” ceded its reign to “Exodus: Gods and Kings.” The biblical epic easily ruled the weekend with a $24.5 million debut, according to
Mark Wahlberg, who recently filed a request with the Massachusetts Parole Board to have a 1988 felony assault conviction expunged from his record, is under fire from Asian activist group 18 Million Rising, who have launched a petition to attempt
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, former CIA Deputy Director Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service, slammed the release of the Senate CIA torture report Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the current chairwoman
Mark Wahlberg wants a 1988 felony assault conviction expunged from his record so that he can become a reserve officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. As Breitbart’s Kelli Serio reported last week, Wahlberg recently filed legal documents with the
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — After working though a buyout issue, Jim McElwain is leaving Colorado State to become Florida’s next head coach. The Gators announced the hiring Thursday at the same time McElwain started a team meeting with players and
Dr. Joanna Rose, who was conceived via anonymous donor-sperm in the UK, has criticized the surrogacy process, saying that it ignores the rights of children. In a radio interview Wednesday, Rose said that there has been a concerted effort to
Politics can be dirty, but also funny. For example, see some guerrilla political street art in California. Poster art making fun of Governor Jerry Brown appeared in Los Angeles on utility boxes and cables near Paramount Studios, the Hollywood Bowl,
