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
The Hollywood Reporter has a long article about the backlash director Darren Aronofsky has been getting from some Christians in the test audiences for his upcoming “Noah” epic, starring Russell Crowe as the Bible hero. Aronofsky says only ten or
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
Christian activist Joni Eareckson Tada accuses Hollywood of “shunning Christ” after the Academy Award rescinded a Best Original Song Oscar nomination to the independent Christian film Alone Yet Not Alone. Tada – a severely disabled evangelical author, radio host, and public
Even critics who applauded director Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street admitted the film paid little to no attention to those “bitten” by the titular wolf. That prompted an impassioned op-ed by Christina McDowell, a woman whose life was
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (UPI)–NBC has canceled “Sean Saves the World,” a freshman sitcom starring Sean Hayes as the gay single father of a teen daughter, the Hollywood Reporter said. No new episodes are to be taped and it is
A federal grand jury indicted conservative author and commentator Dinesh D’Souza Thursday for allegedly violating U.S. campaign finance law. D’Souza, the author of books like Illiberal Education, What’s So Great About America, and The End of Racism, made the film 2016:
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 (UPI)–Oprah Winfrey is joining the crew of the Martin Luther King Jr. Drama, “Selma,” as a producer, director Ava DuVernay said. Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are already on board as producers as part
Saturday Night Live, the NBC show famous for lampooning conservatives for their narrowmindedness, has addressed its own lack of diversity and hired two black women, LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones, to its writing staff. The Hollywood Reporter said that the two
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 (UPI)–The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is asking studios not to “mislead the public” by saying their films are “winners” of Golden Globe nominations. HFPA President Theo Kingma wrote in a letter dated Monday he had received
Multiple news outlets are reporting that Twitter is preventing users from linking to a site in support of suspended Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. The pro-Robertson website iStandwithPhil.comhas been flagged on Twitter, prohibiting users from posting messages containing links to the
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (UPI)–Katie Couric announced Thursday her syndicated talk show, “Katie,” which tapes in New York, will end in June after two seasons. “We’re very proud of everyone’s contributions to making ‘Katie’ the No. 1 new syndicated talk
Following news of Phil Robertson’s comments about the gay lifestyle in GQ magazine interview and A&E’s subsequent suspension of the star from Duck Dynasty, one thing is for sure–right now, somewhere, Robertson is fishing. And that’s what Duck Dynasty viewers
Most comedians have given President Barack Obama a comedy pass for five-plus years. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele go far beyond that. The stars of the hit Comedy Central show Key & Peele actively defend Obama from criticism, using their
Musician/actor Stevie Van Zandt is best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen and his colorful turn as Silvio in the HBO series The Sopranos. During the 1980s, Van Zandt helped record Sun City, a politically charged anthem against South
Two film projects about the Democrat’s likely 2016 presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, have already been scrapped. A third, a feature film focusing on Clinton’s early years in politics, just got a new life. Lionsgate is in early talks to make Rodham,
Chicago Tribune: The Fast and Furious 7 “won’t be scrapped” following the tragic death of Paul Walker, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sources tell THR that production is “delayed” and that the cast and crew were slated to return to
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 30 (UPI)–Canada’s Barenaked Ladies said they canceled a February concert at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., after a fan petition inspired by the documentary “Blackfish.” Canadian Mike Garrett started the petition to urge the band to call off its
According to an in-depth and potentially game-changing expose’ in The Hollywood Reporter, the credit you see at the end of movies and television shows that reassures with “No Animals Were Harmed,” is nothing close to reliable. Corruption, cover-ups, and outright
The promising HBO drama Luck came to an unceremonious end last year when news that several horses died during the making of the show came to light. A new article in The Hollywood Reporter says similar animal deaths are common
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI)–White House sources told The Hollywood Reporter they are planning to scale back the number of official screenings attended by U.S. President Barack Obama. The commander-in-chief is to serve as host of a screening of “Mandela: Long
New Media has struck again, and just in time for the holiday shopping season. Unless, that is, parents are sick of seeing that talking fox on their computer screens. Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Publishing has bought the rights to release
Since its 1975 debut, Saturday Night Live has had 137 cast members, but of that number, only four have been black women. And with the 2007 departure of the bi-racial Maya Rudolph, that has left SNL with no black female
The family of late singer Marvin Gaye has upped the stakes against Robin Thicke in a new lawsuit against controversial Canadian pop act, alleging that the lewd summer hit Blurred Lines is not the only song Thicke whose beat was borrowed from
Hollywood is starting to embrace faith-based content, witness a wave of new projects aimed at church-going crowds. The risk, of course, is that those projects won’t accurately reflect the source material or, worse, prove downright offensive. So plenty is riding
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13 (UPI)–“Sons of Anarchy” actor Charlie Hunnam has dropped out of the film production of “Fifty Shades of Grey” citing scheduling problems, Universal Pictures said. Hunnam was set to star as Christian in the film, based on the
Katie Couric spit-polished her standing among her media peers when she conducted a condescending chat with then Vice President candidate Sarah Palin in 2008. Today, Couric’s much ballyhooed talk show teeters on the edge of cancellation in large part because she
BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 5 (UPI)–Filmmaker Oliver Stone traveled to Jeju Island in South Korea to protest a planned naval base opponents say is part of a U.S. effort to dominate the region. The U.S. military plans to build a
The leftists in Hollywood, led by DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, have already raised more than $1 million to support Alison Lundergan Grimes as they and their masters in the Obama administration want to oust Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch
The Emmy-winning ABC comedy Modern Family features a gay couple with an adopted child, but the show has refused to directly explore the issue of same sex marriage. That changed Wednesday night during the show’s fifth season premiere. Cam and
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 (UPI)–Martin Scorsese’s eagerly awaited drama “The Wolf of Wall Street” won’t be ready for its scheduled Nov. 15 release, The Hollywood Reporter said Wednesday. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey and Jonah Hill, the film could be
Jon Voight, a rare openly conservative Republican in Hollywood, bluntly called President Barack Obama a socialist when interviewed at the Hollywood Reporter’s Emmy Party last week. Voight told FOX411: I have really big difficulties with what is going on, and
The Hollywood Reporter revealed today that HBO will be making a film about the 9/11 attack in Benghazi based upon the book Under Fire. HBO has a very checkered history when it comes to films that touch on politics which
The Showtime series Homeland deals directly with the threat of terrorism in uncertain times. The show’s production crew was reminded of the latter recently when the Syrian civil war convinced the cable channel to leave Israel to finish shooting the
Zombies and meth are doing wonders for AMC’s bottom line. The cable channel’s The Walking Dead is a ratings powerhouse, and now the final installments of the critically hailed Breaking Bad are drawing a sizable crowd. Breaking Bad, which stars
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 15 (UPI) — FOX Sports 1 issued an apology after it accidentally aired commentator Terry Bradshaw using a curse word during a commercial break. Bradshaw was talking to Jimmie Johnson during a commercial break Friday when he used
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15 (UPI) — Pop star Justin Bieber confused fans by posting a photo to Instagram of himself holding a script for the upcoming “Batman Vs. Superman” film. The photo was posted Friday to Bieber’s Instagram and has
Just a few weeks after a controversial anti-piracy law was enacted in Russia, a survey has found that only 11 percent of Russians are willing to pay for movies downloaded from the Internet. According to The Hollywood Reporter, 36 percent
