Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said that the entire BBC scheduling team should be fired because of their hypocrisy over the ‘N word’ after numerous incidents in recent weeks. David Lowe, from BBC Radio Devon lost his job after
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
NEW YORK (AP) — In the past year, Netflix, with its online, all-at-once D.C. thriller “House of Cards,” has jolted the medium we used to know as “television.” Now TV could be rocked by another game changer. Say hello to
In response to Imagine If The GOP Did Something That Creepy: It’s all part of “otherization,” or what I once imagined as the “Shroud of Contempt.” The goal is to strip the target of their very humanity. Sarah Palin remains
Quentin Tarantino is fighting mad about the leak of his new western script Hateful Eight, going so far as to sue Gawker.com for allegedly helping to spread the script around the globe. Gawker Media, the company behind the news site,
Oscar-winner Quentin Tarantino has dropped plans to make the Western “The Hateful Eight” his next film after the script leaked online. The director says he trusted only six people with a copy of the script, actors he considered casting and
Deadline.com is reporting that Quentin Tarantino’s next movie, a Western with the tentative title The Hateful Eight, is being shown to Christoph Walz, the dual Oscar-winning actor of Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, and 77-year-old Bruce Dern, whose name is
I hate movie trailers, because whenever I judge a movie based on one, I’m always wrong. The trailer for Greenberg was atrocious – and it was the best movie from 2010. The same thing happens again, with “The Act of
By KELVIN K. CHANAssociated PressHONG KONGRun Run Shaw built a Hong Kong movie and TV empire that nurtured rising talents like actor Chow Yun-fat and director John Woo, inspired Hollywood filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and produced the 1982 sci-fi
I didn’t catch either of them in theaters, but last summer brought two conceptually similar apocalyptic comedies, “This is the End” and “The World’s End.” The former is a nihilistic raunch-fest from the Judd Apatow crew whose highlights are the
Director Spike Lee’s off-screen behavior has finally caught up to his on-screen achievements in the minds of movie goers. Consider his personal resume: He tweeted out the address of a home he thought belonged to George Zimmerman, a stunt that
This weekend, riddled with sickness, I caught up on the latest series — available on Netflix — written and directed by Ricky Gervais. It’s called Derek, and it’s about a “simple-minded” guy named Derek who works at a retirement home.
By ANDREW DALTONAssociated PressLOS ANGELESRichard Sarafian, an influential film director whose 1971 countercultural car-chase thriller “Vanishing Point” brought him a decades-long cult following, has died in Southern California, his son said Saturday night. Richard Sarafian died at a Santa Monica
You thought Jaws was a film about man facing his darkest fears, about nature’s power over us and the long arc of tragic destiny…well no. Clearly you weren’t paying attention. Let the Onion explain. This is reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino’s
Here’s one way to understand the Syrian Rebels: think of them as the gangsters in Quentin Tarantino’s film Reservoir Dogs. Secretary of State John Kerry famously called the Free Syria Army “moderate” in Senate testimony about Syrian rebels last week.
Tom Hanks has increasingly strayed from his apolitical public persona, but it hasn’t hurt his appeal with the movie going public. Yet. Hanks came in first place as the country’s “best-liked movie star” according to a new poll by Public
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDERAssociated PressDETROITElmore Leonard, the beloved crime novelist whose acclaimed best-sellers and the movies made from them chronicled the violent deaths of many a thug and conman, has died. He was 87. Leonard, winner of an honorary National Book
The recent war of words between George Clooney and hedge fund kingpin Daniel Loeb was quite significant. What appears to just beanother investor tired of Hollywood political flops, in reality, is apublic face on a very private fight. One raging
In response to Slouching Towards Idiocracy: The heck of it is, there are still lines to be transgressed, and taboos that must not be violated. But all the old ones that made sense – the standards that nourished a healthy
Jamie Foxx isn’t Hollywood’s most outspoken actor. The White House Down star would have to open up in a big way to leap over Sean Penn for that honor. Lately, Foxx has been letting his shirts do the talking for
I might have to make “What the Hell…?” a regular feature here at the Conversation, especially if Joe Biden pipes up again. Our second installment finds celeb chef Paula Deen facing a million-dollar lawsuit from one of her former employees.
Now we know why Hollywood is doing all it can to appeal to Chinese movie goers. Buzzfeed reports that China is expected to become the world’s number one box office market by 2020. We’re already seeing signs that Hollywood is taking
Last year Mel Gibson made headlines for the direct-to-VOD Get the Gringo, a fun picture about an American surviving inside a ruthless Mexican prison. Netflix’s upcoming Arrested Development season and House of Cards prove that such strategies can and will
Director Quentin Tarantino pours his heart into every drop of fake blood splattered across his movies. He’s unapologetic about the violence in his film canon, refusing to admit it might play any sort of role in real-world violence. Yet when
BEIJING, April 10 (UPI)–Sony Pictures says some of the gore in Quentin Tarantino’s blood-soaked, 19th century epic “Django Unchained” is to be toned down for its release in China. Zhang Miao, a spokesman for the film’s distributor, told China’s Southern
HAMBURG, Germany, March 26 (UPI)–Detractors of the film “Schutzengel” have thrown paint on the Hamburg, Germany, home of the film’s star, Til Schweiger, police said. The Local.de said the car of Schweiger’s girlfriend also was set on fire and destroyed,
Disney’s “Oz the Great and Powerful,” which was filmed in California and Michigan, had an estimated budget of $200 million, $39.7 million of which was subsidized by the state’s taxpayers in the form of Michigan film credits. The movie was filmed
The American Family Association successfully petitioned Sears and JCPenney to pull their advertising from Saturday Night Live after the show mocked Jesus in a sketch called DJesus Uncrossed. The comedy show’s Feb. 16 episode spoofed the Quentin Tarantino film Django
A new report by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) says Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning film, Django Unchained, has applied for an estimated $8.4 million in tax credits, pending audit and review by the state of Louisiana. News of the taxpayer-funded subsidies comes
There are few sure things in life. The sun will rise tomorrow, Katherine Heigl will make another terrible romantic comedy and Daniel Day-Lewis will win his third best actor Oscar tomorrow are the closest things we have. If the latter
NBC. Saturday Night Live aired a parody movie trailer depicting a Quentin Tarantino-style Jesus called, “Djesus Uncrossed.”
Hollywood insider Kevin Frazier talks with the Tom Joyner morning Show about Quentin Tarantino inappropriately using the N-word during a press conference after at the Golden Globe Awards.
(AP) ‘Argo,’ ‘Les Miserables’ win best-pic GlobesBy DAVID GERMAINAP Movie WriterBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. “Argo” is in big with the Golden Globes, but not so much with the Academy Awards. “Lincoln” is sitting pretty with the Oscars but was mostly left
On one side you have pushy journalist, England’s “Channel 4 Evening News” host, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, desperate to make a political headline. On the other you have an Academy Award-winning director obviously tired of seeing his latest film used as a
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 11 (UPI) — “Argo” was named Best Picture and its star-director Ben Affleck crowned Best Director at the Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif. The Broadcast Film Critics Association handed out its prizes at
Sadly, Sensei’s call streak ended last week at 14 weeks. A nice runover the holidays. This time around, we have soldiers, gangsters andeven some comedic ghosts? Sensei’s weekend predictions and revenue results go as follows: 1. “Zero Dark Thirty” ($25 million) -Film
(AP) List of 85th annual Academy Award nominationsBy The Associated PressComplete list of 85th Annual Academy Award nominations announced Thursday: 1. Best Picture: “Amour,” “Argo,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Miserables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings
(AP) Action figures for ‘Django Unchained’ draw protestBy The Associated PressSlavery-era action figures tied to Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” are raising questions about whether they’re appropriate. A line of figures of the movie’s main characters are on sale online, manufactured
(AP) Spielberg earns 11th Directors Guild nominationBy DAVID GERMAINAP Movie WriterLOS ANGELESSteven Spielberg has extended his domination at the Directors Guild of America Awards, earning a nomination Tuesday for his Civil War epic “Lincoln” to pad the record he already
Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” is not only a great film but the greatest display of liberalism in movie theaters this past year. To those whose blood is boiling or eyes are rolling, I don’t use that word to refer to
