Aaron Sorkin

Hollywood writer-director Aaron Sorkin is once again defending his casting choice of Spain’s Javier Bardem to play the Cuban-born Desi Arnaz in the Amazon Studios movie Being the Ricardos, saying casting based on race is the “mother of all empty gestures.”

Writer-director Aaron Sorkin has defended his decision to cast Javier Bardem as I Love Lucy star Desi Arnaz in the upcoming movie Being the Ricardos, saying there is nothing offensive about a Spanish actor playing a Cuban character.

Hollywood elites who have collaborated with Scott Rudin are refusing to comment on the mounting abuse allegations brought by former assistants against the Oscar-winning producer. The New York Times also killed a story last year detailing his decades of alleged workplace bullying, according to a new report from The Hollywood Reporter.

The film shoot for director Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos was canceled at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, California, over a boycott of the landmark hotel, which is facing widespread claims of racial discrimination and sexual misconduct from former staffers, according to a report by the Hollywood Reporter.

As Hollywood continues its reckoning with bad managerial behavior, former assistants to Oscar-winning movie producer Scott Rudin are once again coming forward to spill the beans on his pattern of abusive workplace practices, including an incident in which he allegedly smashed a computer monitor on an assistant’s hand and another in which he allegedly threw a stapler at an assistant and called him a “retard.”

Hollywood screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin has smeared Trump supporters, tens of millions of Americans, as racists and bigots. Now he is attacking Americans who tolerate Trump supporters, claiming that they are akin to apologists for racists.

Screenwriter-director Aaron Sorkin used his Golden Globes win on Sunday as an opportunity to get on his political soapbox, quoting radical leftist Abbie Hoffman to condemn the Capitol Hill riots of January 6.

The cast of the political drama “The West Wing” will reunite two weeks before the presidential election for a televised theatrical special, featuring commentary from former President Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama, HBO Max announced.

Netflix’s upcoming movie “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, takes place at the height of the anti-Vietnam War protests during the late 60s. But the first trailer bears an unmistakable resemblance to today’s Black Lives Matter protests and features a distinctly anti-police tone.

“The West Wing” cast, along with show creator Aaron Sorkin, is reuniting for an HBO Max special that will raise money for When We All Vote, the Michelle Obama organization that is moving aggressively to register young voters and push vote by mail.

Cast members of the political drama “The West Wing” will host a fundraiser with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on Tuesday to ensure that the rustbelt swing state is where the “Trump nightmare ends.”

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has lambasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an opinion-editorial published Thursday, accusing the Silicon Valley billionaire of allowing the spread of “crazy lies” after refusing to prohibit political ads on his social network.

Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin suggested that “better voters” are key to defeating President Trump in 2020, telling the audience at Friday’s 20th-anniversary screening of Two Cathedrals at New York’s PaleyFest that we are living in “unnerving times.”

The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has called President Donald Trump “staggeringly, breathtakingly dumb” in a recent interview, and said that the current West Wing is filled with “a lot of mustache twirling and cowardice.”

Actor Jeff Daniels insisted during an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday that President Donald Trump has gone off the rails and “completely soiled” the Oval Office.

The LA Times recently interviewed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin about his new take on To Kill a Mockingbird and the criticism he received for adapting the work of a female author as a white man. As part of the interview, Sorkin said that if he wrote a sequel to the movie The Social Network, it would focus on Mark Zuckerberg’s inability to deal with “bad actors” on Facebook, and how the company has “helped damage democracy.”

Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin described President Donald Trump as a “dumb guy” with an “observable psychiatric disorder” in a feature interview with The Hollywood Reporter this week.

STXfilms released the first trailer for Molly’s Game on Tuesday, the Jessica Chastain-starring, based-on-a-true-story thriller that marks the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.

Sunday night’s Writer’s Guild of America awards show turned into a full-fledged array of anti-Donald Trump-bashing as Hollywood’s top writers repeatedly skewered the president during presentations and acceptance speeches.

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin slammed President Donald Trump as “out of touch,” defended the establishment media, and denounced climate change deniers Sunday in a Network-style acceptance speech at the Writer’s Guild of America Awards.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin unloaded on Donald Trump in a letter Thursday, calling his historic election a win for every racist and misogynist in America.

Cast members from the TV show The West Wing plan to campaign for Hillary Clinton in Ohio this weekend, while the Democratic nominee prepares for her first debate performance.

The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin ventured a guess as to how the TV president he created, Martin Sheen’s President Josiah Bartlet, would vote in this year’s real-life presidential election — and the screenwriter made clear that Bartlet’s vote would not be for Republican Donald Trump.

Actor Jeff Daniels reprised his character from The Newsroom, news anchor Will McAvoy, and went on a television-style tirade about whether or not Donald Trump’s candidacy represents a “best-case scenario” for Democratic presidential candidate Hilary Clinton in a new video produced by Bloomberg Television.

More than two dozen entertainment industry leaders — including Anne Hathaway, Rob Reiner, Lee Daniels, Aaron Sorkin and Seth MacFarlane — have joined in threatening to never work in the state of Georgia again if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto a religious freedom bill that passed the state Legislature last week.

“Steve Jobs” didn’t just bomb this weekend, it BOMBED. Although director Danny Boyle’s biopic sits in nearly 2500 theaters and was predicted to clear around $12 million, according to Deadline, by Monday the $30 million film (closer to $60 million with distribution costs) will bottom out at $7 million.

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has lashed out at Apple CEO Tim Cook for his recent claims about “opportunistic” filmmakers behind a pair of new Steve Jobs films.

If it weren’t for the excessive spending of late ’90s Silicon Valley startups, one of TV’s most iconic shows would likely have been axed by network executives. “Silicon Valley put the West Wing on television,” the show’s creator, Aaron Sorkin, tells The Ferenstein Wire.

Aaron Sorkin is apologizing for The Newsroom. No, the liberal screenwriter isn’t making amends for unfairly mocking the right via the HBO drama. Instead, he’s trying to mend fences with the same media scribes he captures–for better and worse–on the

CNN host Piers Morgan decided he wanted his show to focus more on “news”–and devote his program to advancing an anti-gun agenda–after watching the first episode of The Newsroom, the fictional Aaron Sorkin drama on HBO that has been resoundingly criticized

Sunday night’s Emmy Awards contained a few major shockers. But none was bigger than Jeff Daniels winning Best Actor for his performance in Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom over Kevin Spacey in House of Cards (Netflix), Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad (AMC),

Writers are taught to avoid cliches in their art, but Oscar-nominated scribe Aaron Sorkin simply can’t help himself. Sorkin’s HBO drama The Newsroom packs plenty of overt, and obvious, anti-conservative cliches in an average episode. Sunday’s season finale stuffed as

Actress Kristen Chenowith was the original Glinda in the Broadway smash hit “Wicked” by Stephen Schwartz. She appeared on The Tonight Show to perform a parody of the song “Popular” with new lyrics aimed directly at New York mayoral candidate

Liberal screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has another project to spread his ideological views to the masses. The Newsroom creator’s Chicago 7 project is finally a go with Paul Greengrass in final negotiations to direct. The modestly budgeted $20M-$30M film will start

HBO viewers weren’t exactly salivating over the prospect of a second season of The Newsroom. Aaron Sorkin’s liberal showcase returned Sunday night, and the ratings were only slightly better than the show’s 2012 debut. It still could only hold roughly

We’re learning more about Aaron Sorkin’s creative process than most of us needed to know. Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Social Network and The West Wing, is putting the finishing touches on season two of his HBO progressive drama