Director Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” captures some of the inhumanity associated with slavery back in the 1800s. The institution separated families, tortured workers and committed other unspeakable acts on black Americans simply because of their skin color. The director says
One of Hollywood’s most prominent conservatives is in talks to play a Soviet agent charged with keeping tabs on the man who helped crush the USSR, President Ronald Reagan. Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight is negotiating to play a pivotal role in “Reagan,”
Members of the leftist media have been gleefully distributing the fib that Fox News has banned all talk about gun control from its airwaves in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre. That falsehood is based on an email from
Hollywood isn’t doing all it can to let the public know about global warming er, rather, climate change. So sayeth Al Gore, the prophet of the green movement. Al Gore slipped into town Dec. 6 for a quick chat with
Veteran film producer Gerald Molen wasn’t surprised his documentary hit “2016: Obama’s America” didn’t make the cut for Oscar consideration this year. That doesn’t mean the Oscar-winner isn’t ready to call out his own industry all the same. “The action
(AFP) The prestigious New York Film Critics Circle gave “Zero Dark Thirty,” Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a new shove in the direction of Oscar glory Monday. The director of the Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker”
Aaron Sorkin’s horrendous drama Newsroom on HBO will now be hiring Joel Johnstone to play a Mitt Romney staffer, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sorkin’s Newsroom has already featured news anchor Will McAvoy calling the Tea Party the “American Taliban“:
Sandra Fluke’s 15 minutes of fame aren’t over quite yet. The nation’s foremost expert on free birth control will be part of The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Breakfast to be held Dec. 5. Fluke, who became one of President
The pay channel Starz has its work cut out for it chasing big-name competitors HBO and Showtime. Those channels made themselves indispensable to TV watchers thanks to content like “The Sopranos,” “Weeds” and “Homeland.” So why would Starz cancel the
Robert Redford has a serious case of projection. The actor/activist, best known these days for his work on behalf of the Sundance Film Festival, is blasting those who disagree with him on global warming climate change as being ideological extremists
Hollywood types love to wrinkle their collective brow over the 1940s-era Blacklist. Witness the gaggle of stars (Joan Allen, Michael Douglas, Liam Neeson) who participated in the 2007 documentary “Trumbo,” the tale of gifted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo who got entangled
Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx used to make people laugh for a living, and he says cracking up conservatives is harder than it should be. Today, the “Django Unchained” star is best known as an actor who can also sing and
Judd Apatow, the producer of some of the biggest comedy hits from the last decade, isn’t laughing about “The Innocence of Muslims.” The crude video inflamed Muslims across the Middle East and was temporarily blamed by the Obama administration for
You would think an organization like NBC/Universal, which has a fairly large news organization, would release news when news is available. According to Paul Bond at the Hollywood Reporter, though, 500 layoffs that had been in works for months, were
Conservatism’s best hope for taking back popular culture rests with a man once described as “not Taco Bell material.” Adam Carolla isn’t a Tea Partier, but he’s precisely the kind of voice needed to help the Right stake a claim
In their blatant attempt to pump up President Obama’s crowd sizes, the media has taken to inventing seats at arenas. Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported: With help from pop sensation Katy Perry, President Barack Obama drew 20,000 people Saturday as
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The Hollywood Reporter: President Barack Obama arrived Sunday in Los Angeles and went directly to the Beverly Hills home of DreamWorks Animation Chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, where he joined former President Bill Clinton in a private meeting with 12 deep-pocketed Democratic donors…. The Obama campaign said
ATLANTA, Sept. 30 (UPI) — A fight broke out between rappers Rick Ross and Young Jeezy backstage at the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta, although police said reports of gunshots are untrue. Rapper Funkmaster Flex tweeted about the incident Saturday
A prominent rabbi says media organizations engaged in a “blood libel” by spreading false reports that said a Jew made the Internet film that allegedly outraged Islamic radicals to storm the U.S. Embassy in Egypt and the U.S. consulate in
The Hollywood Reporter: The Innocence of Muslims, a movie that has enraged radical Islamists who have rioted and committed murders in the Middle East this week, was partially shot on a set that Paramount helped to build for its TV show JAG,
Members of the Church of Scientology are feverishly letting Harvey Weinstein’s studio know they strongly object to Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie “The Master,” which loosely is about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. According to The Hollywood Reporter, concerned
The Hollywood Reporter: Another documentary is drawing controversy at the Republican National Convention — the filmmakers of Occupy Unmasked, starring the late Andrew Breitbart, say they’ve received dozens of threats of physical violence in advance of Thursday’s screening of the critical look at
(AP) NEW YORK Universal Pictures is continuing to pursue a sequel to “Snow White and the Huntsman” in the wake of Kristen Stewart’s affair with the film’s director. Universal co-chairman Donna Langley said in a statement Wednesday that the studio is
The Hollywood Reporter: Robert Iger, the CEO of the Walt Disney Co., didn’t take the bait on Tuesday when he was given the opportunity to get politically partisan, though he did make an appeal for a lower corporate tax rate….
Harry Belafonte is better known these days for his progressive believes than his Calypso crooning. But the aging singer’s latest Q&A courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter includes some of his most outrageous claims to date. Would you believe he considers
Apparently they wish they hadn’t done it now, but CNN must have thought it was a hilarious thing to play a song by singer Pink titled Stupid Girl as it introduced a report on Sarah Palin’s support of Chick-Fil-A on
La colère de fans de Madonna à la sortie de l’Olympia Vidéo jeanmarcmorandini sélectionnée dans Replay TV Hollywood Reporter: After performing for only 45 minutes, the pop star incurred the wrath of concertgoers who gathered in front of the Paris
Peter Bogdanovich recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how he believes movies, not the man named James Holmes who pulled the trigger, are behind the Aurora tragedy. It’s too easy to show murders in movies now. There are too many of
The media has been generally reticent to blame pop culture – like violent movies – for the movie theater massacre that killed 12 people on Friday. Reporters would much rather concoct ways to tie the killings to the Tea Party.
(AP) ‘Dark Knight Rises’ reportedly earns $160 millionLOS ANGELES Citing box office insiders, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and other media outlets reported Sunday that the latest Batman sequel earned $160 to $162 million. That amount
HBO’s much maligned new series “The Newsroom” may have received the all-clear for a second season, but it won’t have many of the writers who helped craft the initial 10 episodes. The Hollywood Reporter: According to HBO, the Aaron Sorkin
The Hollywood Reporter: An anti-Obama documentary featuring an interview with the president’s half brother opened in a single theater in Texas over the weekend and, despite alleged complaints from some consumers who were upset with the film’s content, it grossed
NEW YORK, July 9 (UPI) — Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and Martin Short paid tribute to the late writer-director Nora Ephron at a memorial in New York’s Alice Tulley Hall Monday. Ephron died June 26 of complications from
LOS ANGELES, July 6 (UPI) — Five former “Happy Days” stars will get about $65,000 apiece as part of an out-of-court-settlement with CBS and Paramount, The Hollywood Reporter said. Anson Williams, Marion Ross, Don Most, Erin Moran and the late
There is absolutely nothing anti-gay in this: I have given much thought to Richard Stoecker’s letter (“Vote for Mormon against beliefs,” June 15). I am also a Christian and differ with the Mormon religion. But I think any Christian should
The Hollywood Reporter: An anti-gay letter urging Christians to vote for Mitt Romney that was printed today in The Springfield News-Leader has been confirmed by the newspaper as having been penned by Jane Pitt, mother of Brad Pitt. The verification
THR: Some of the president’s most ardent entertainment industry supporters tell THR they are concerned that his increasing reliance on stars and celebrity contests could backfire. Barack Obama’s recent barrage of Hollywood campaign fund-raisers is drawing backlash from an
The hit HBO series “Game of Thrones” features some epic sword battles and gore. And, apparently, the disembodied head of the 43rd President of the United States. (See video below) The web site io9.com reports the first season DVD of
So many celebrities for President Barack Obama to visit … and so little time between now and Election Day. So the Obama campaign wants you to help the Commander-in-Chief decide which lucky star will rub elbows with him, according to
Digital Domain Media Group, creators of a Tupac Shakur hologram that rocked this year’s Coachella festival, said Monday it has raised $10.5 million to help build a roster of virtual stars. In a statement, Digital Domain — listed on the
