
Hollywood stars, including Bradley Cooper and feminist activist Emma Watson, have praised Hollywood’s highest-paid leading lady this week for speaking out against the industry’s gender wage gap. Friday, Hillary Clinton joined the conversation.
by Kipp Jones16 Oct 2015, 5:38 PM PST0

California’s newly-enacted Equal Pay Act could have a far-reaching impact on the compensation practices of top Hollywood film and television production studios.
by Daniel Nussbaum8 Oct 2015, 1:53 PM PST0

Comic book legend Stan Lee is optimistic about the upcoming Spider-Man reboot.
by Daniel Nussbaum30 Jun 2015, 11:10 AM PST0

The producers of genealogy series Finding Your Roots violated PBS editorial standards when they omitted information about Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestors from the actor’s recent segment on the program, the public TV station said Wednesday.
by Daniel Nussbaum24 Jun 2015, 3:25 PM PST0

The times are a-changin’, even in the fictional world of superheroes.
by Kipp Jones21 Jun 2015, 6:02 AM PST0

New documents released by Wikileaks Thursday demonstrate an attempt by Sony to prevent the spread of herpes on film sets, according to Radar Online.
by Kelli Serio19 Jun 2015, 9:45 AM PST0

Many experts reckon the first cyberwar is already well under way. It’s not exactly a “cold war,” as the previous generation understood the term, because serious damage valued in millions of dollars has been done, and there’s nothing masked about the hostile intent of state-sponsored hackers. What has been masked is the sponsorship.
by John Hayward20 May 2015, 7:45 PM PST0

In a recent press conference reported by Politico, Air Force Chief of Staff Mark Welsh described the goal of next-generation military electronic operations as cyber weapons that could inflict “blunt force trauma” on the enemy.
by John Hayward20 Apr 2015, 11:58 AM PST0

More than five months after a group of hackers crippled Sony Pictures Entertainment, information from thousands of leaked documents and emails is still surfacing.
by Kipp Jones20 Apr 2015, 10:03 AM PST0

Hollywood superstar and staunch environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio is again being accused of practicing hypocrisy after it was reported he boarded a private jet six separate times in a six-week period last year.
by Kipp Jones18 Apr 2015, 11:50 AM PST0

Ben Affleck asked the producers of PBS’ Finding Your Roots television show to edit out details of an ancestor who owned slaves, according to a Sony internal email exchange leaked this week. In an email sent to Sony CEO Michael Lynton
by Daniel Nussbaum17 Apr 2015, 4:21 PM PST0

In testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirmed that Iran was behind a cyber-attack against Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson’s Sands Corp. in 2014.
by Jordan Schachtel26 Feb 2015, 7:01 PM PST0

Sony Pictures has had to navigate rough seas since last autumn, when the company was hacked, confidential documents were posted online, and The Interview was canceled. But the company is trying to bounce back with a comedy about cars equipped to navigate by themselves
by William Bigelow18 Feb 2015, 5:59 PM PST0

At a Stanford University cyber-security summit on Friday, President Obama is expected to announce yet another executive order bypassing Congress, this time pertaining to Internet security.
by John Hayward13 Feb 2015, 12:23 PM PST0

Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures Chief Amy Pascal is exiting the studio due to a “shakeup at the top.” The news comes as no surprise and just a couple months after a devastating hack revealed that the studio head
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 9:09 AM PST0

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher mocked political correctness and Sony’s pulling of “The Interview” on Friday. “If there was a theme to the news in the time we were off, it would be ‘no joking, no joking.’ There are
by Ian Hanchett9 Jan 2015, 8:35 PM PST0

Actress Charlize Theron decided to take a stand against unequal pay for women in Hollywood, according to leaked documents recently obtained through the Sony hack.
by Kelli Serio8 Jan 2015, 1:55 PM PST0

In Paris and in America, freedom is under assault by extremists from around the globe.
by John Sexton7 Jan 2015, 12:41 PM PST0

According to his Friday schedule, shortly after announcing sanctions against North Korea, President Obama once again took in a relaxing round of golf.
by Warner Todd Huston2 Jan 2015, 9:18 PM PST0

A Florida kid called 911 over Christmas break because he couldn’t log into the Xbox and Playstation Networks to play with his friends.
by Kelli Serio31 Dec 2014, 5:23 PM PST0

According to an FBI warning published at The Intercept, the same hackers who systematically dismantled Sony Pictures will next turn their awful but undeniably prodigious talents to the news media. No specific news organization is named. The intended target will
by John Nolte31 Dec 2014, 10:10 AM PST0

Outside the context of the cyber-terrorist and terrorist-terrorist threats that almost killed it, “The Interview” is par for the Seth Rogen course: crude, cruder, sporadically funny, and ultimately not worth the 112 minute investment. Give Rogen credit, though, he didn’t
by John Nolte29 Dec 2014, 12:56 PM PST0

Victor Cha, Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University and Senior Adviser and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said that he believes the Sony hack came from North Korea and was more sophisticated than anything they
by Ian Hanchett29 Dec 2014, 10:14 AM PST0

A man in Ohio reportedly attempted to to cash in on all the controversy surrounding Seth Rogen and James Franco’s The Interview last week but failed to do so after purchasing $650 in tickets.
by Kipp Jones29 Dec 2014, 7:50 AM PST0

Seth Rogen and The Interview co-director, Evan Goldberg, are planning to live-tweet the film Sunday afternoon, along with James Franco at 5 p.m. ET, just three days after its release.
by Kipp Jones28 Dec 2014, 8:53 AM PST0