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AP laments: “Hopes had long been pinned on Spielberg, with his song-and-dance spectacular, to bring back some of the movies’ mojo.”

West Side Story is supposed to be about overcoming our racial grievances and finding common ground through our shared humanity. Spielberg is deliberately defiling that, not for artistic reasons, but for political reasons.

Director Steven Spielberg said he refused to use subtitles for the Spanish-speaking scenes in his epic “West Side Story” remake for the purposes of “inclusivity” and to “respect the language” and to not give “English the power over the Spanish.”

Several countries in the Middle East will not show Disney’s and Steven Spielberg’s remake of “West Side Story” reportedly because of the inclusion of actor Iris Menas, who claims to be “nonbinary,” playing a queer character. 

Paramount announced delays in the release of two of its high anticipated blockbusters, Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7, over worries that fans will once again decide to avoid theaters as coronavirus cases continue to spike around the world.

Hollywood elites including Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Rob Reiner, and Barbra Streisand are pouring money into California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) effort to beat the state’s recall election. The race is shaping up to be a nail-biter that could see voters removing the incumbent governor — who is beloved among showbiz leftists — and replacing him with a Republican.

Former President Barack Obama and his celebrity pals are not letting panic from U.S. health officials over the delta variant of the Chinese coronavirus ruin his 60th birthday bash. Despite the Biden White House entertaining the idea of mandates and lockdowns once more, Obama will reportedly celebrate his 60th with Stephen Spielberg among the guests attending in his honor, Axios reported.

Hollywood celebrities and executives, including pop star Sia, director Steven Spielberg, and filmmakers J.J. Abrams have opened their wallets to donate to California governor Gavin Newsom (D) ahead of the recall election that will determine whether or not the embattled pro-lockdown leader stays in office.

Rachel Zegler, star of Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” has been cast as Snow White in Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the classic fairytale, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Spielberg, a filmmaker synonymous with big-screen enchantment, has set a new deal with Netflix in which his production company, Amblin Partners, will make multiple feature films per year for the streaming giant.

NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Spielberg said Thursday that he will donate his $1 million Genesis Prize to 10 nonprofits that are working for racial and economic justice. The film director and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, will match those donations with $1 million of their own.

Hollywood’s love affair with Hillary Clinton continues to burn strongly nearly four years after her 2016 loss to President Donald Trump.

Hollywood executives added diesel fuel to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign during the second quarter, with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman, Steven Spielberg and Bob Iger each donating six-figure sums in the hopes of propelling the 77-year-old former vice president into the White House.

Mikaela Spielberg, the daughter of legendary film director Steven Spielberg, was arrested and charged with domestic violence on Saturday, in an incident her partner reportedly described as merely a “misunderstanding.”

Mikaela Spielberg, the 23-year-old daughter of famed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, announced on Wednesday according to reports that she is now starring in porn videos.

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, have given more than $3.5 million to Democrats since December, with some of the biggest sums going to the organization behind the malfunctioning mobile app that crashed during last week’s Iowa caucuses.

ZAGREB, Croatia — Branko Lustig, an Oscar-winning Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor, died Thursday. He was 87.

While Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s primary focus is comedy, he “has quietly become one of the largest political donors of his generation in Hollywood,” according to the Los Angeles Times. What began as a $2,500 check to the Congressional

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1964, Stanley Kubrick, on the recommendation of the science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, bought a telescope.

Veteran actress Helen Mirren unloaded on the streaming giant Netflix at the CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas, arguing that its in-house movies cannot compare to the real cinema experience.

Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg doesn’t believe Netflix movies should qualify for the Academy Awards, and he’s right.

Director Steven Spielberg is facing a backlash from fellow Hollywood filmmakers after suggesting that the Oscars should no longer allow Netflix-produced films into consideration for its top awards.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steven Spielberg, Lady Gaga, Spike Lee and Glenn Close have a message for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Get well soon.

Veteran Hollywood director Steven Spielberg believes that “collective hate” is a far graver issue today than when his Holocaust film ‘Schindler’s List’ was released 25-years-old. 

Actress, Girls creator, and feminist activist Lena Dunham has been tapped to adapt a feature film about a refugee survival story co-produced by Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams.

Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg are joining forces to bring Elaine Weiss’ The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote to television.

Better than its immediate predecessor, even at 128 minutes, Fallen Kingdom is never dull. But it is also never deep, or smart, or anything other than empty amusement park ride filled with moral illiteracy.

Celebrities who double as gun control proponents were largely silent following the shooting at YouTube’s San Bruno, California, headquarters. Their silence was likely the result of the fact that they could not parlay the shooting into something supportive of more firearm restrictions.

Veteran Hollywood film director Steven Spielberg says the next star of one of his most iconic characters, Indiana Jones, should be played by a woman.

Spielberg’s only achievement is making a sci-fi movie dumber than Elysium, but that Matt Damon dud at least offered some real stakes and decent world building. Ready Player One is a morally bankrupt pile of CGI.

At the premiere of his new film Ready Player One, Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg took some time to gush over the anti-gun students who spoke at Saturday’s poorly-attended March for Our Lives.  He singled out Parkland student Emma Gonzalez and her moment of silence as “profound.”

While students and activists geared up to march in Washington, D.C., and across the country in support of new restrictions on the Second Amendment, rapper Killer Mike warned that gun control is way the progressive left can return black Americans to slavery.

Several celebrities took to social media and hit the streets to join the student activists and others who marched in Washington, DC, and in other cities across the country in support of gun control.

Pop megastar Taylor Swift, in a rare political statement, came out in strong support on Friday for the Parkland student-led campaign for gun control in a lengthy social media post. 

Late-night host Jimmy Fallon opened his show on Tuesday urging viewers to ‘demand change on the issue of gun control’ by attending Saturday’s March for Our Lives, backed by a bevy of celebrity cash and fronted by student survivors of last month’s deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Singer Lin-Manuel Miranda and actor Ben Platt have teamed on a new song with a portion of the proceeds from the mashup going toward the student march for gun control scheduled for March 24.