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LOS ANGELES, June 20 (UPI) — Former Congressman Ron Paul is set to make his acting debut in Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt? The film is the final installment in the John Aglialoro-produced trilogy based on Ayn Rand’s 1957

Deirdre Gurney wanted to say something, anything in defense of Phil Robertson after the Duck Dynasty star got suspended for comments he made about homosexuality in GQ Magazine late last year. Gurney is an executive producer on Robertson’s hit show,

Judicial Watch says it will sue the federal government if it doesn’t hand over communications relating to the arrest of 2016: Obama’s America star Dinesh D’Souza. For now, Judicial Watch has filed a FOIA request to gain the information, but

What do you know? The Cannes Film Festival that yearly transforms that quiet French Riviera town into a colliding cacophony of celebrity and cinema, is once again pinpointing with amazing precision the most artistically pre-eminent and therefore most commercially viable

A group of Hollywood environmentalists are defending their intentions to create an anti-fracking film funded by oil interests in the Middle East after unwittingly participating in a James O’Keefe’s latest sting. In the video, O’Keefe’s undercover journalist plays a character

If agents from ICM Partners want to stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel or the Hotel Bel-Air, they better be prepared with their personal credit cards. The boycott against the Sultan of Brunei for adopting Sharia Law continues to grow

The iconic Beverly Hills Hotel has been the location for a lavish A-list Night Before Oscar party since 2003. Those days are over now that Hollywood has taken a rare and righteous stand against the horrors of Sharia Law. The

A-list celebrities are tired of crazed Washington, D.C. denizens treating them like animals at a petting zoo or acting like star-struck children at the Kids’ Choice Awards at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, which is known as “Nerd Prom.”

Billy Joel celebrated his 65th birthday this week with a Q & A session moderated by radio host Howard Stern and sidekick Robin Quivers. The event, which comes a week before Joel’s actual birthday, included a few guests (about 100)

The Hollywood Reporter writes that due to “Mr. Peadbody & Sherman” flopping, DreamWorks Animation took a $57 million “impairment charge” on the film and lost a total of $42.9 million in the first fiscal quarter. The animated children’s film cost

LOS ANGELES, April 27 (UPI)–Steven Spielberg is the latest director to take on the beloved works of British author Roald Dahl, after Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The Lincoln director will direct

The attorney representing V. Stiviano, Donald Sterling’s girlfriend, said the audio in question in which the Clippers owners tells her not to bring black people to his games is “legitimate” and that Stiviano did not release the recording to TMZ. 

Yasiel Puig’s harrowing journey from Cuba to the United States and eventually to Chavez Ravine will be turned into a blockbuster movie.  According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter, Brett Ratner acquired the rights to Jesse Katz’ Los Angeles

Yasiel Puig’s harrowing journey from Cuba to the United States and eventually to Chavez Ravine will be turned into a blockbuster movie.  According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter, Brett Ratner acquired the rights to Jesse Katz’ Los Angeles

Embroiled Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber has been released after being held and questioned for close to four hours by authorities at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol area Thursday on his way back from Asia, according to the Hollywood Reporter. 

A federal judge dismissed director Quentin Tarantino’s lawsuit against Gawker.com for linking to a leaked screenplay he wrote. The legal battle may not be over, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The California judge which granted Gawker’s motion to dismiss the

Far-left filmmaker Michael Moore stuffs his documentaries with experts who think more or less like him. The folks behind America, the follow-up to the smash 2012 hit 2016: Obama’s America, say they want a more open film dialogue. Toward that

Sharon Waxman is no stranger to Hollywood. The award-winning journalist who founded TheWrap.com in 2009 has covered the entertainment industry for years, including a stint at The Washington Post. She also authored Rebels on the Backlot, a book focusing on

The Daily Mail reports that 31-year-old Michael Egan, the man accusing “X-Men” director Bryan Singer of drugging and raping him some 15 years ago, is working with documentary filmmaker Amy Berg on a “bombshell exposé of Hollywood’s sordid underbelly.” Berg

The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond reports that during a ceremony at the legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Oscar-winner Charlton Heston became only the 18th person honored in the U.S. Postal Service’s “Legends of Hollywood” series. The first class stamp is

Harvey Weinstein, who never misses a chance to genuflect at the altar of President Barack Obama, is releasing a film Friday centering on waterboarding to remind Americans just how inhumane the Bush Administration was. The Railway Man, based on the

Yancey Strickler, CEO of the fundraising site Kickstarter, sent a tweet to Breitbart News Thursday claiming that a story published that same day about his fundraising company Kickstarter is incorrect. Strickler claims he did not reject a project submitted by

Judging by the quotes in the Hollywood Reporter article, no one involved in the first “Inconvenient Truth” film intends to do anything except tell another bunch of lies. [Producer Lawrence] Bender believes that during the ensuing years, the fossil-fuel industry

God’s Not Dead didn’t have a massive marketing budget, a liberal A-list star above the title or even the same number of screens most mainstream movies receive. The film is still on pace to snare the fourth spot in the

Hollywood continues to plead with state officials to broaden California’s existing tax incentives. This week, a new, favorable talking point for the industry fell in its lap. The Hollywood Reporter says the state’s current tax breaks added about $4.3 billion

Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. flashed her middle finger–to offend or signify her one U.S. hit, she has never explained–during the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. The NFL has been quietly pursuing restitution ever since. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the

One thought amused me while watching the otherwise appalling A Good Old Fashioned Orgy–man, Jason Sudeikis has a real Chevy Chase vibe going for him. Today, we learned that vibe helped him land the role of ace reporter I.M. Fletcher

The upcoming Biblical blockbuster Noah has divided the faith community before its March 28 release date. Several Middle Eastern countries didn’t wait that long before casting judgment on director Darren Aronofsky’s film. Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates will

NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (UPI)–The National Enquirer admits it published an erroneous story about Philip Seymour Hoffman and is now funding an annual scholarship in the late actor’s name. The announcement came after Hoffman’s longtime friend, New York playwright David

Director Darren Aronofsky initially described his vision for Noah, the big-budget interpretation of the Biblical story, as a look at the world’s first environmentalist. A person who caught an early test screening of the film says Aronofsky’s template is still

Famed film director Woody Allen struck back at renewed accusations that he is a child molester by claiming that ex-wife Mia Farrow implanted false memories in their children, but Dylan Farrow, one of those children, has again attacked Allen’s denials.

Woody Allen may have issued a statement Tuesday declaring he is innocent of charges he once sexually molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, but the Annie Hall director doesn’t appear concerned the accusation will hurt his career. Allen made his