‘Movie Stars Have Become an Endangered Species’ Writing for Variety, Peter Bart declares the movie star an endangered species about 10 years after the rest of us figured that out: Summer blockbusters make studios happy, but they make stars nervous. That’s
On Sunday, the Democratic-dominated state legislature in California approved the new fiscal year’s $108 billion general fund spending plan. State bill SB852 passed 55-24 in the Assembly and 25-11 in the Senate, largely along party lines. The legislature met on
Deadline reports that less than 10 months after President Obama appointed her to the Board of Trustees for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shonda Rhimes will return the favor in July with $32,4000 a ticket fundraiser at Rhimes’
California lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown have reached agreement on funneling 25% of tax revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade program into constructing the controversial high speed rail project, often referred to as the bullet train. According to the Sacramento Bee,
Marine Sgt. Colin Archipley’s unit suffered heavy casualties in the savage house-to-house fighting against insurgents holed up in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004. Nearly a decade later, he watched in frustration from his organic farm north of San
The World Cup opener between Brazil and Croatia set TV ratings records in the United States, with a 3.2 overnight rating on ESPN and another 5.1 million viewers on Univision, the spanish-language station. According to Deadline, the game drew a
Nikki Finke, founder of Deadline Hollywood (who was later booted from her own site), is back at a new address, NikkiFinke.com, after what she describes as “7 soul-crushing months” of sitting out her non-compete agreement with Deadline. “I’m old. I’m
The California State Controller has announced that sales, income and corporate tax revenue came in $530.4 million, 7.8%, below budget for the month of May. That substantial budget miss comes less than two weeks after the California Bureau of State Audits
The Sacramento Bee has tried to paint California Governor Jerry Brown as the fiscally prudent partner in his squabble with his cohorts in the state legislature over the state’s budget. The reality is that Brown’s budget calls for the state
During a panel at the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), there was a major development that could forever shape the future of the movie-going audience. NATO head John Fithian has announced a new initiative guaranteed to ensure that no
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is reassembling key members of the diplomatic team that held secret negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, leading to a breakthrough agreement, and sending them to Geneva for direct talks with representatives from Tehran
Women ruled the box office this weekend, a rarity during the summer months when action-driven tentpoles aimed at young men are what the season is supposed to be about. Coming in first is what will forever be known as Fox
This week, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti challenged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to a bet. Depending on which of the mayors’ teams wins the Stanley Cup Final, the Mayor rooting for the losing team will be forced
Wednesday on the Senate floor, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave specific details with a threat President Barack Obama will use executive action to change U.S. immigration law. Schumer signaled the August recess as a deadline implies the president might make
Thousands of parents, teachers, and concerned citizens are urging Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) to sign a Common Core repeal bill that was overwhelmingly approved by the state legislature. Fallin has until Saturday, June 7 to decide whether to sign
What might sound like Death Porn to you and I, smells like profits to Hollywood. A new reality show will follow the selection, training, and eventual one-way, 300 million-mile trip to Mars for those “lucky” 705 chosen to colonize the
With the Thursday and Friday numbers in, Deadline predicts Angelina Jolie’s fractured fairytale “Maleficent” will land somewhere between $63 million and $70 million by Monday morning. An A from CinemaScore means terrific word of mouth, so it is hard to
Fox News Channel has scheduled an extensive interview with former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the June 10th release of her book Hard Choices. According to an announcement by the cable news network picked up by
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A convoy of chemical weapons inspectors came under attack Tuesday while traveling to the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack in Syria, but all staff members were safe, the international watchdog agency said. The Organization
Deadline reports that the very well-reviewed (including by me) “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is on track to haul in somewhere around $97 million by Sunday, which would make Bryan Singer’s return to the franchise the biggest three-day opener of
LOS ANGELES, May 19 (UPI)–A Godzilla sequel is reportedly in the works at Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. The remake stomped into theaters over the weekend to a $93 million domestic opening and $103 million overseas. Deadline reports a sequel
The World Cup kicks off in Brazil on June 12 and the government hoped the world’s most popular tournament would propel Natal, a city on the Atlantic coast, to become a tourist destination. The government promised $1.3 billion in new
As late as Thursday the box office prognosticators were estimating “Godzilla” would land somewhere around $65 for this, it’s debut weekend. Normally I stay away from the business of guesswork, especially as it pertains to what a fickle public will
Many Hollywood forces want California to boost the number of tax incentives given to filmmakers to keep projects from fleeing the state. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti is one of the biggest proponents of the potential increase. Gov. Jerry Brown, however,
Nearly a year ago, the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent the IRS a Freedom of Information Act request for any and all documents and records related to correspondence from January 1, 2009 and May 21, 2013 between thirteen different Democrat members of
When it came to selling Obamacare, President Obama frequently made the claim that if people liked their doctor, they could keep their doctor. However, the incentives built into Obamacare mean that is not true for a lot of people, even those
Don’t bother telling Mark Ciardi the odds. The former University of Maryland standout made the big leagues before injuries derailed his pitching dreams. He then steered his ambitions toward another industry almost impossible to crack–Hollywood. In a few years Ciardi
The vice president of the National Basketball Players Association told interviewer Jim Rome that the NBA’s marquee player will sit if the NBA’s pariah owner doesn’t quit. “I was just in the locker room three or four days ago,” Derrick
Spike Lee correctly identified a major weapon used against conservatives today by the left, but he did so through a self-interested lens. The famed director recently had a chummy Q&A with Deadline.com, and the subject of Lee’s image as an
Never mind the study showing that these special and very expensive tax carve-outs for Hollywood have done absolutely nothing to save jobs or stop productions from running away to other states, Los Angeles Mayor Gil Garcetti and nine other California
Is Greg Gutfeld wearing a Jimmy Fallon mask these days? Once more, the new Tonight Show host took ObamaCare to task during his monologue Monday, and darned if Fallon didn’t summon the spirit of the Fox News mainstay with a
‘Colbert Report’: Leftist Comic to Replace Leftist Comic Leaving to Replace Leftist Comic The cultural and political conformity at Comedy Central and CBS lives on now that the rotation is complete. Left-wing Stephen Colbert is leaving Comedy Central to replace
Looking at the box office top ten this weekend, you might get the sense Hollywood doesn’t hate Christians. Well, we all know they do. Still, though, there are two openly Christian films marketed as such commanding top spots at this
In the real world, where decency and accountability mean something, you will find yourself fired for a lot less than physically assaulting a co-worker. In the dual-Bizarro world of Hollywood and unions, no one is fired over a rash of
Part of President Barack Obama’s current LA fundraising tour found him accepting an award Wednesday from a Holocaust organization founded by Steven Spielberg. The event stuck plenty of appropriately somber notes, but the gala kicked off with a jokes a-plenty
It came as no surprise that conservative and libertarian lawyers sharply criticized the president in Washington Wednesday at the Federalist Society‘s annual Executive Branch Review Conference. Yet even liberal constitutional lawyers were split over President Barack Obama, and would-be defenders offered
President Barack Obama is back in California to snarl traffic and collect even more Hollywood money. The president will kick off a series of Golden State fundraisers tonight, the 14th such trip since he took office in 2009, according to
Deadline reports that HGTV has pulled a home-flipping reality series after receiving pressure from the leftist Right Wing Watch. The Benham brothers were set to star in “Flip It Forward” until Right Wing Watch reported Tuesday that the Christian brothers
Democrat, American Independent, Green, Peace & Freedom – all of these political parties list endorsements in California’s Primary Election Sample Ballot. Missing? Endorsements from the California Republican Party (CRP). But what effect could this have on primary election results? The Sacramento
Election officials began sending about 1.4 million snail mail ballots to California’s registered voters on Monday, as the state gears up for its June 3 primary. The by-mail voting will kick off statewide races for almost every conceivable California office,
