
Variety Film Critic: Michael Moore’s Movie ‘An Embarrassment to America’
In evaluating his least favorite films of 2015, Variety film critic Peter Debruge slammed leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest project as “an embarrassment to America.”

In evaluating his least favorite films of 2015, Variety film critic Peter Debruge slammed leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest project as “an embarrassment to America.”

While discussing wage inequality for women in Hollywood, actress Sandra Bullock said she’s glad the film industry is being held accountable for its business practices.

In Variety’s new “Power of Women” issue, actress and activist Ashley Judd claims she was sexually harassed by one of Hollywood’s “most famous, admired-slash-rivaled bosses” in the late 1990s.

The actor who plays a character that is generally on the right side of the ruse might have been deceived out of a large sum of money. Two months ago, James Bond actor Daniel Craig gave nearly $50 thousand to a super

NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt downplayed the network’s severed relationship with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Thursday, when announcing Celebrity Apprentice will return, just not for the upcoming season. Speaking at the Television Critics’ Association press tour in Beverly Hills, CA,

Pirated HD-quality pilots for a number of upcoming 2015-16 season TV shows began showing up on torrent sites Monday, in what is being called a coordinated action by Variety.

Jill Soloway, the creator of Amazon’s transgender-themed original drama Transparent, wants to change the way stories are told in TV and film by ridding the industry of its so-called “male privilege.”

During Variety’s fourth annual Purpose: Family and Faith-Based Summit Thursday, family-friendly entertainers gathered to discuss the state of the industry, as well as strategies to make faith-based stories more enticing to mainstream audiences.

Author E.L. James has announced she will be releasing a new novel edition of Fifty Shades of Grey, titled “Grey,” that will be written from character Christian Grey’s point of view.

While doing promotional interviews for her upcoming film Carol, a lesbian love story, Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett revealed to Variety magazine that she has had “many” past relationships with women.

Hollywood trade publication Variety published its guide to “7 Names to Know in Transgender Hollywood” on Wednesday.

Lena Dunham isn’t the only victim of her sexual assault, and yet despite the fact that her unconscionable behavior resulted in an innocent family man being accused of her rape, the “Girls” creator is still being celebrated and honored as

A new study commissioned by both the Sundance Institute and Women in Film found the gender gap between directors to be at its widest in top-grossing films.

More than five months after a group of hackers crippled Sony Pictures Entertainment, information from thousands of leaked documents and emails is still surfacing.

Lena Dunham and Kim Kardashian are among this year’s Inspiration Impact Honorees at Variety’s biannual Power of Women: New York luncheon on April 24. The event recognizes the philanthropic efforts of women in the entertainment industry.

Hollywood executives are opening their checkbooks–and new Super PACs–for Hillary Clinton as she makes a second run at the presidency. Ted Johnson and James Rainey report for Variety that Hollywood is far more unified behind Clinton than they were in 2008, when Barack Obama successfully split the liberal donor base. This time, heavyweights such as Jeffrey Katzenberg are joining Clinton loyalists like Haim Saban to provide the big money to fuel her 2016 campaign.
While awards season often ends with a race to the finish line for film nominees, action star Vin Diesel seems quite confident his upcoming film, Furious 7, will face no competition at the Oscars next February.

Because their “American Sniper” analysis is much more thoughtful than what we saw from Salon’s Andre O’Hehir’s lunacy Wednesday, I want to be clear that I’m no in any way lumping the LA Times’ Steve Zeitchik and Variety’s Scott Foundas

Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson opens a Variety op-ed about “Selma’s” Oscar snub by defaming America: “Are we a racist country? Yes,” Levinson writes. He does throw America a bone by saying we are getting better, yet offers no proof to

Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein penned a column for Variety titled, “Paris Attacks a Fight Between ‘Good Versus Evil.’” In it, Weinstein mentions Charlie Brown, Little Orphan Annie, and Socrates. One word conspicuously absent, though, is “Islam.” You won’t find “Muslim,”

The Interview, made available for streaming online Wednesday, has been labeled “culturally insensitive,” according to a new online survey.

A cinematographer was killed Wednesday while on the set of Jackie Chan’s new film Skiptrace. According to The South China Morning Post, Chan Kwok-hung is believed to have drowned after a boat he was on capsized off Lantau Island, at

After failing at the ratings game on cable, left-wing cable news network MSNBC plans to take its “progressive sensibilities” to a series of some 14 new Internet-based shows on topics ranging from the gay lifestyle, to politics, to journalist navel

France sought to stamp out a new electronic cigarette containing cannabis, launched Tuesday with the claim it provides all of the relaxation but none of the mind-altering effects of marijuana. Health Minister Marisol Touraine said the product would “incite the

After crippling Sony Pictures and side-swiping all of Hollywood with a devastating and criminal hack attack, the hackers have just upped the ante considerably with the threat of 9/11-style terror attacks against any movie theatre that screens the Seth Rogen,