In his first comments addressing the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s protest and threatened defamation lawsuit, the scribe behind Clint Eastwood’s thriller accuses Kevin Riley of using the disputed scene to cloak the paper’s role in ruining the Olympic Park bombing hero’s life.
The International Feature Film Oscar shortlist is due out on Monday, with an expanded 10 titles up from the traditional nine. Preliminary voting closed in the category on Wednesday with the first seven films determined (although still held under wraps) and the Executive Committee will meet Monday morning to decide on…
EXCLUSIVE:Martin Scorsese’s epic 3 1/2-hour-plus The Irishman has been at the forefront of the Oscar conversation since its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in September. It was borne from the 145-page shooting script from Steve Zaillian, the four-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter who won the Academy…
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly says in an Instagram post that her 6-year-old son was “confused” by the movie poster for Bombshell — he apparently mistook Charlize Theron’s look-alike makeover for the real thing — and says she only saw the “loosely based” film “once it was past the point of any possible edits.”
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The editorial staff of NBC News Digital has voted 90-40 to join the NewsGuild of New York. The new bargaining unit includes reporters, video journalists, editors, social media strategists, designers and editorial staff from nbcnews.com, today.com, StayTuned, msnbc.com, and NBC News Now.
"We are proud to officially…
Found footage movies are of the horror genre, but filmmaker Jack Henry Robbins is changing all that with his forthcoming comedy VHYES. Oscilloscope Laboratories released the first trailer for the film and as you can see, it takes found footage to a whole new — and kind of bizarre — level.
As seen in the trailer, the…
All seven Democratic presidential candidates who qualified for next week’s debate in Los Angeles say that they will not cross picket lines of a service workers’ union seeking a new contract with a food services provider.
The dispute between UNITE HERE Local 11 and Sodexo threatens to throw off plans for the Dec. 19…
EXCLUSIVE:Fox has put in development People Person, a single-camera comedy from Mad Love and Alex, Inc. creator Matt Tarses, Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment, and Wendi Trilling’s TrillTV. Sony Pictures TV, where Tarses has been under a deal for a long time, is co-producing with Fox Entertainment.
Written by…
2nd Update, Friday Midday: Jumanji: The Next Levelper industry estimates is on its way to $17.5M-$18M for a 3-day of $46M-$50M, well ahead of the previous installment’s 3-day of $36.1M which was actually a 6-day opener through the then Christmas holiday of $71.9M. Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle was boosted by early…
ABC has given a script commitment with penalty to Bridges, a multi-camera Latina family comedy, from writer Aaron Serna(Mr. Iglesias), Jaime Davila’s Campanario Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV.
Written by Serna, Bridges is a multi-generational, multi-cultural family comedy about family, identity, and…
As tributes come rolling in for Danny Aiello, the Oscar-nominated Do the Right Thing actor who died Thursday at 86, take a look back at his long career in film and TV. Click on the pic of his signature role of pizzeria owner Sal Frangione above to launch the photo gallery.
The New York native got his start with a…
"My family needs to know if my Daddy is alive or not," insists Michael Rainey Jr's Tariq to a grimy NYPD interrogation room of the fate of James St. Patrick, in the new trailer for the final episodes of Power.
Set to debut on January 5, the last five episodes of the Courtney Kemp created Starz drama are all about…
South Park and the NBA may have gotten there first – figuratively if not literally – but Samantha Bee is heading to China. And she has some questions.
In a special episode of TBS’ Full Frontal With Samantha Bee taped earlier this month and set to air next Wednesday, Bee travels to Hong Kong to ask, as TBS says, “What…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
