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Author and Trump hater Stephen King is feeling the heat from fellow liberals following his tweets about the Academy Award nominations, in which he said that quality is more important than diversity when it comes to creating works of art.

NEW YORK (AP) — Some Golden Globe nominations seemed like locks: Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Hanks, Adam Driver and Eddie Murphy. But others were happy shocks, like Awkwafina nabbing a best actress nomination for musical or comedy.

Hollywood director Ava DuVernay took offense to a parody video posted by TV host Jimmy Kimmel, which compared and contrasted President Trump’s announcement of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death to President Obama’s announcement of the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

An upcoming HBO Max series from Ava DuVernay will depict the United States in the grips of a second American Civil War, with the federal government battling secessionist forces called the Free State armies.

Hollywood Director Ava DuVernay is set to host a “National Day of Racial Healing” to address efforts to end “discrimination and injustice.”

The state of Illinois recently celebrated its very first Barack Obama Day holiday, and as the day wound down, a list of Hollywood notables jumped to Twitter to celebrate with the Land of Lincoln.

A Wrinkle in Time director Ava DuVernay ripped President Donald Trump in a Wednesday tweet in response to the president’s taunting of Democrat firebrand Maxine Waters.

With a production and advertising budget that reports peg at somewhere between $150 million and $250 million, that means the ‘Wrinkle In Time’ red ink landed somewhere between $86 million and $186 million, according to Yahoo News.  

As she accepted an “Excellence in Media” award last weekend, Hollywood Director Ava DuVernay exclaimed that we have a “leaderless country” when it comes to LGBTQ issues.

Proving once again that there is plenty of room at the multiplex to appeal to Americans of all stripes, both a gay romantic comedy and a Christian film are earning big time at the box office, while A Wrinkle in Time, which had its Christian themes removed by Disney (of all places), completed its box office collapse. In its third weekend, Red Sparrow is already doornail dead.

CBS has tapped actor Noah Wyle to star in the pilot for ‘Red Line,’ the network’s racially charged hourlong drama.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, and producer Dan Lin launched the Evolve Entertainment Fund on Monday, a private-public partnership to boost diversity within the entertainment industry.

Hollywood stars are storming social media and urging their fans to turn out and vote for Democrat Doug Jones on Tuesday. Politically-engaged celebrities, many of them using the hashtag #RightSideOfHistory, launched a last minute campaign to stop Judge Roy Moore’s bid for the U.S. Senate.

Actor John Boyega decried what he called a lack of people of color in some of Hollywood’s major film and television franchises in an interview released this week.

Director Ava DuVernay showed off the trailer for her latest film, an adaption of the classic novel A Wrinkle in Time, at Disney’s D23 Expo in Anaheim on Saturday.

Some of Hollywood’s most powerful producers and executives opened up about how President Donald Trump’s early tenure has affected their work and their mental health.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger teamed up at a CAA Foundation event this week to praise California’s Climate Change taxes that the public hates.

Celebrities took to their favorite social media platforms Monday and skewered United Airlines after a viral video posted online showed Chicago law enforcement officers forcibly removing a man from an overbooked flight.

Director Ava DuVernay celebrated her decision to wear a gown to the 2017 Oscars by a designer from Lebanon, which she proudly described as predominantly Muslim country. Lebanon was founded as a Christian “sanctuary” state in the Middle East, and its religious makeup is so controversial the nation has not held a census since 1932.

British actress Helen Mirren made her U.S. presidential preference clear while accepting honors at this year’s Variety Power of Women event in Hollywood on Friday, telling attendees that the country will see a “real-life example” of workplace gender equality in November when voters head to the polls to elect Hillary Clinton president.

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey and movie director Ava DuVernay shared their thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, telling the outlet that the movement is more than a “slogan and the hashtag and the protest” and that “inclusion” is a better barometer for racial progress in the entertainment industry than the often-used term “diversity.”

Now that Oscar season is over, major Hollywood studios are getting behind a concerted, industry-wide effort to increase the diversity of talent both in front of and behind the camera.

Hollywood A-list directors Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler and other black entertainers like singer Janelle Monae and comedian Hannibal Burress, among others, will host a #JUSTICEFORFLINT event during the broadcast of the 88th Academy Awards.

New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis has coined the name of a new test that might measure the quality of diversity in a film — the DuVernay Test, a kind-of race-based variant of the Bechdel Test, which measures gender equality in film.

Selma Director Ava DuVernay, who was mostly snubbed from last year’s Academy Awards, said during an event for the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday that she hates the word “diversity.”

After the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced a series of new measures to increase diversity Friday, including the purging of old members, Rev. Al Sharpton and Selma director were among those weighing in on Twitter.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) could see a resurgence of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy it endured last year if the organization does not nominate any people of color for acting honors at this year’s Academy Awards, a possibility seen as increasingly likely by many Hollywood awards insiders.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens director-producer J.J. Abrams said that he could see Ava DuVernay in the director’s chair on a future installment of the franchise.

Toymaker Mattel has created a Barbie doll in the likeness of “Selma” director Ava DuVernay as part of their “Sheroes” line of Barbies that honor “female heroes who inspire girls.”

Avengers star Anthony Mackie does not believe that Marvel’s upcoming Black Panther film – the first in the cinematic superhero universe to feature an African-American lead – needs an African-American director behind the camera.

Quentin Tarantino doesn’t care if people don’t enjoy his films.

Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow is taking flak for comments he made over the weekend suggesting female directors are “not interested” in helming big-budget blockbuster films.

Selma director Ava DuVernay offered some guidance for those trying to break into the Hollywood entertainment industry while speaking in New York this week: “Follow the white guys. Truly. They’ve got this thing wired.”

Selma director Ava DuVernay was rumored to be taking on Marvel’s upcoming Black Panther film, but she said Friday that she passed on the opportunity to become the first black woman to direct a superhero movie.

Marvel wants Selma director Ava DuVernay to take the reins on one of its upcoming diverse superhero movies, which will include either Black Panther or Captain Marvel, insiders with knowledge of the studio’s plans told TheWrap.

It’s been almost ten years since Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf coast of the United States and to commemorate the event, Selma director Ava DuVernay and actor David Oyelowo are reportedly teaming up to dramatize the historic storm. DuVernay, who