Former 60 Minutes journalist Michael Bronner is developing a feature film based on the upcoming memoir of Canadian-Egyptian former Al-Jazeera reporter Mohamed Fahmy, who spent more than a year in Egypt’s most notorious prison on allegedly false charges.
Actor Stephen Furst, who is best known for playing the role of Flounder in 1978’s “Animal House,” has accused the Academy of “ageism and sexism” in choosing to “scapegoat” its older white male members “in order to deflect the criticism about the lack of diversity” in this year’s all white acting nominees.
During a recent interview with Variety, Sylvester Stallone revealed he once considered going into politics and said he thinks Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is of a rare breed of people who are “larger than life.”
In evaluating his least favorite films of 2015, Variety film critic Peter Debruge slammed leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest project as “an embarrassment to America.”
While discussing wage inequality for women in Hollywood, actress Sandra Bullock said she’s glad the film industry is being held accountable for its business practices.
In Variety’s new “Power of Women” issue, actress and activist Ashley Judd claims she was sexually harassed by one of Hollywood’s “most famous, admired-slash-rivaled bosses” in the late 1990s.
The actor who plays a character that is generally on the right side of the ruse might have been deceived out of a large sum of money. Two months ago, James Bond actor Daniel Craig gave nearly $50 thousand to a super
NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt downplayed the network’s severed relationship with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Thursday, when announcing Celebrity Apprentice will return, just not for the upcoming season. Speaking at the Television Critics’ Association press tour in Beverly Hills, CA,
Pirated HD-quality pilots for a number of upcoming 2015-16 season TV shows began showing up on torrent sites Monday, in what is being called a coordinated action by Variety.
Jill Soloway, the creator of Amazon’s transgender-themed original drama Transparent, wants to change the way stories are told in TV and film by ridding the industry of its so-called “male privilege.”
During Variety’s fourth annual Purpose: Family and Faith-Based Summit Thursday, family-friendly entertainers gathered to discuss the state of the industry, as well as strategies to make faith-based stories more enticing to mainstream audiences.
Author E.L. James has announced she will be releasing a new novel edition of Fifty Shades of Grey, titled “Grey,” that will be written from character Christian Grey’s point of view.
While doing promotional interviews for her upcoming film Carol, a lesbian love story, Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett revealed to Variety magazine that she has had “many” past relationships with women.
Hollywood trade publication Variety published its guide to “7 Names to Know in Transgender Hollywood” on Wednesday.
Lena Dunham isn’t the only victim of her sexual assault, and yet despite the fact that her unconscionable behavior resulted in an innocent family man being accused of her rape, the “Girls” creator is still being celebrated and honored as
A new study commissioned by both the Sundance Institute and Women in Film found the gender gap between directors to be at its widest in top-grossing films.
More than five months after a group of hackers crippled Sony Pictures Entertainment, information from thousands of leaked documents and emails is still surfacing.
Lena Dunham and Kim Kardashian are among this year’s Inspiration Impact Honorees at Variety’s biannual Power of Women: New York luncheon on April 24. The event recognizes the philanthropic efforts of women in the entertainment industry.
Hollywood executives are opening their checkbooks–and new Super PACs–for Hillary Clinton as she makes a second run at the presidency. Ted Johnson and James Rainey report for Variety that Hollywood is far more unified behind Clinton than they were in 2008, when Barack Obama successfully split the liberal donor base. This time, heavyweights such as Jeffrey Katzenberg are joining Clinton loyalists like Haim Saban to provide the big money to fuel her 2016 campaign.
While awards season often ends with a race to the finish line for film nominees, action star Vin Diesel seems quite confident his upcoming film, Furious 7, will face no competition at the Oscars next February.
Because their “American Sniper” analysis is much more thoughtful than what we saw from Salon’s Andre O’Hehir’s lunacy Wednesday, I want to be clear that I’m no in any way lumping the LA Times’ Steve Zeitchik and Variety’s Scott Foundas
Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson opens a Variety op-ed about “Selma’s” Oscar snub by defaming America: “Are we a racist country? Yes,” Levinson writes. He does throw America a bone by saying we are getting better, yet offers no proof to
Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein penned a column for Variety titled, “Paris Attacks a Fight Between ‘Good Versus Evil.’” In it, Weinstein mentions Charlie Brown, Little Orphan Annie, and Socrates. One word conspicuously absent, though, is “Islam.” You won’t find “Muslim,”
The Interview, made available for streaming online Wednesday, has been labeled “culturally insensitive,” according to a new online survey.
A cinematographer was killed Wednesday while on the set of Jackie Chan’s new film Skiptrace. According to The South China Morning Post, Chan Kwok-hung is believed to have drowned after a boat he was on capsized off Lantau Island, at
After failing at the ratings game on cable, left-wing cable news network MSNBC plans to take its “progressive sensibilities” to a series of some 14 new Internet-based shows on topics ranging from the gay lifestyle, to politics, to journalist navel
France sought to stamp out a new electronic cigarette containing cannabis, launched Tuesday with the claim it provides all of the relaxation but none of the mind-altering effects of marijuana. Health Minister Marisol Touraine said the product would “incite the
After crippling Sony Pictures and side-swiping all of Hollywood with a devastating and criminal hack attack, the hackers have just upped the ante considerably with the threat of 9/11-style terror attacks against any movie theatre that screens the Seth Rogen,
The historical drama Selma premiered in Manhattan Sunday night, where members of the film’s cast and crew posed for pictures donning “I can’t breathe” shirts over their formal clothing. The group then marched to the steps of the New York Public Library,
GamerGate is the biggest internet storm in a decade–a battle that has spawned an unprecedented four-and-a-half million tweets, death threats, a front-page story in the New York Times, a segment on The Colbert Report, cost Gawker Media over a million
The British Foreign Office is paying for 46 North Korean ‘journalists’ to take part in a media skills course. The FO claims that the money is being put to good use by trying to engage with North Korea, but critics
Whenever I find my faith wavering in Nigel Farage and the UKIP project, all I have to do is open my morning newspaper to be reminded why they are both so very necessary. Yesterday’s Telegraph was a case in point
Thursday, CIA Director John Brennan addressed the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA detention and interrogation procedures and set the stage for the decisions made at the time saying. “On the morning of September 11, 2001, when the North Tower
Aviation titan Boeing Co. will lay off 561 employees across its Southern California operation centers by February of next year. According to the Los Angeles Times, 253 people at Boeing’s Long Beach facilities will lose their jobs, while an additional
AUSTIN, Texas — The San Antonio City Council is considering regulations that may force ride-sharing company Uber to cease its operations in the city, according to a letter Uber emailed to the City Council on Sunday. According to a report
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
Sony Pictures is still bleeding confidential data from the sucking server wound inflicted by hackers, leading executives to take some remarkable steps to reassure understandably nervous employees. From the New York Times: As hackers made public more Sony Pictures Entertainment
AUSTIN, Texas — In a press conference at the Capitol Monday, Texas Governor-elect Greg Abbott announced key staff hires and outline his top priorities for the upcoming legislative session. Now that the elections are over, Abbott called this a time
The White House confirms that the much buzzed about Senate Intelligence Committee’s “torture report” will be released tomorrow, and that the Obama administration is preparing for violence around the world in response. Spokesman Josh Earnest explained that although it was
In response to mounting criticism of the controversial cast of Exodus: Gods and Kings, Christian Bale spoke candidly with The Hollywood Reporter. Bale, who is playing the role of Moses, spoke about the film and the critical perception by some
