Hollywood star and WWE champion John Cena has apologized to China for correctly calling Taiwan a “country” during the recent press tour for the movie Fast & Furious 9. His groveling mea culpa highlights the degree to which Cena’s career has become intertwined with Communist China — and how his employers at NBCUniversal and the WWE could have lost billions of dollars if they angered Beijing.
Dozens of television productions, from NBC’s freshman Ted Danson-starring sitcom “Mr. Mayor” to 20th Television’s “American Crime Story: Impeachment,” have once again been put on hold as L.A. County health officials urge businesses in the area to shut down as coronavirus cases spike and much of the county locks down.
Actor Faizon Love is suing Universal Studios for cutting him and his fellow black co-star Kali Hawk out of international publicity posters for the 2009 film, “Couples Retreat.”
Kanye West has compared the music industry and the NBA to a “modern day slave ship,” saying that he won’t release any more new music under his current contract. The rapper, billionaire fashion mogul, and presidential candidate also declared himself the “new Moses” and compared himself to inventor Nikola Tesla in a series of tweets.
AMC Theaters and Universal Studios just agreed to shorten the theatrical window from around 90 days to just 17 days. Massive. Massive. Massive.
“No Time to Die,” the latest James Bond movie, has been postponed by seven months as fears over the coronavirus persist, making it the first major Hollywood movie to change its release date since the illness broke out in China and spread around the world.
Universal will employ digital technology to “spellcheck” scripts for onscreen Latinx representation as part of the studio’s ongoing effort to boost “inclusive storytelling for all underrepresented groups.”
The horror movie “The Hunt”, which tells the story of a group of wealthy elites that kidnaps and hunts “normal folk” from middle America for sport, will be released in cinemas in an about-face for Universal, which shelved the movie indefinitely last year following mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.
The top five movies for the second weekend of August is mostly filled with previous releases, with “Hobbs & Shaw” keeping the top spot over newly released “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”
We canceled a whole movie in response to a couple of mass shooters who committed these mass shootings to prove they had the power to shake up the world. How does this not encourage the next shooter?
Actress Cate Blanchett is set to star in a six-party immigration drama Stateless about life for four people in an immigration detention center.
Warner Bros. superhero tentpole Wonder Woman held on to the top spot at the box office while Universal’s Tom Cruise-starring The Mummy reboot failed to unwrap big gains domestically as Hollywood’s bleak summer continued this weekend.
Universal’s decision to move Mummy’s London premiere comes just one day after Warner Bros. announced that the London premiere for Wonder Woman had been called off.
New York (AFP) – Madonna voiced anger Tuesday over news that a Hollywood studio plans an unauthorized biopic of her early years in New York struggling to break into the music business.
The early life and career hurdles of pop superstar Madonna will be the subject of an upcoming biopic currently being developed at Universal, according to a report.
Walt Disney World is planning on giving park-goers free insect repellent as soon as Sunday due to the increased threat the Zika virus poses to Florida. Universal Orlando and SeaWorld are following suit.
The high-octane “Furious 7” peeled out of the gates in its opening weekend, picking up a stunning $143.6 million from 4,004 locations to easily top the domestic box office, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday.
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The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly announced on December 10 that 18 states were awarded a huge prize — Big Ed’s Head Start Jr. — preschool development and expansion grants
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Hong Kong police said Saturday they will clear out the last pro-democracy protest site early next week, days after the main camp was dismantled with over 200 demonstrators arrested. The protest area in the retail hub of Causeway Bay is
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US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell jointly announced on Wednesday, December 10 that 18 states were awarded preschool development and expansion grants totaling more than $226 million under the Preschool Development
In the wake of the unprecedented cyber attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio’s closely guarded secrets have continually found their way into headlines. The latest data leak, released Tuesday, reveals email exchanges between studio co-chair Amy Pascal and
A Bolivian deputy-elect is facing jail time for having publicly refused to shake the hand of leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales. While Norma Piérola claims she did so out of a respect for the Bolivian people, she now faces criminal
Though Angelina Jolie doesn’t identify with any specific religion, the 39-year-old actress reportedly dropped to her knees to “pray for a miracle” on the set of her latest film, Unbroken. The film is about Louis Zamperini, a devout Christian who
Mexican authorities are expecting to either confirm or disprove the findings made by a group of South American forensic specialist who claim to have identified the remains of one of the 43 students from Mexico that were kidnapped and killed
During the December 7 airing of CBS News’ Sunday Morning, Sandy Hook educators laughed at the idea of armed teachers and said a good guy with a gun could not have stopped Adam Lanza. CBS News’ Jane Pauley asked the
Howard Kurtz, Fox News Media Analyst and host of “MediaBuzz,” argued that certain liberal commentators were trying to conflate the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases “in order to push an agenda” despite the fact that the two “are so
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