WATCH: First Trailer for Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’
The first trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s next film The Hateful Eight debuted online Wednesday.

The first trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s next film The Hateful Eight debuted online Wednesday.

The first trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s next film The Hateful Eight debuted online Wednesday.

Movie buffs, comic book lovers and pop culture aficionados descended on San Diego this weekend for Comic-Con 2015, where the year’s hottest entertainment properties gather faithfully every year to hawk their progress and hopefully dazzle audiences into purchasing some tickets and merchandise.

The Grand Palais theater on the French Riviera was the scene of a brawl Wednesday night as hundreds of eager moviegoers jockeyed to get into the Cannes premiere of Argentine filmmaker Gaspar Noe’s latest project, the 3D arthouse porn film Love.

The actor Robert Downey Jr has called Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy a “syphilitic parasite” and a “bottom-feeding muckraker” days after walking out of an interview with him. His comments came during an interview on the Howard Stern Show on US

China is flexing its censorship muscles anew. The tightly restricted country already has say over not only the number of movies shown in Chinese theaters but the content of the films in question. Now, Chinese broadcasting officials say their gimlet

Quentin Tarantino is threatening to take his encyclopedic knowledge of popular cinema and call it a career, according to Deadline.com. The Pulp Fiction auteur told reporters this week that once he wraps his 10th feature film – he’s currently working

We need a revolution, and we need it immediately. Yes, I am calling for every good citizen to be part of this revolution. Not the kind where blood is shed. No, I am not advocating us taking up arms. What I am calling

On Friday night, Breitbart News was on the scene at the 2014 Golden Trailer Awards, where hundreds of hipsters convened at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills to celebrate exceptional film marketing. Shiny black statues adorned with a gold trailer

A Labour Party activist faces the sack after he accused a Liberal Party councillor of harbouring a gimp, or leather-bound sex slave, in his cellar. West Derby activist Stephen Poulson made local headlines after suggesting that gay councillor Steven Radford

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
