The classic baseball-and-so-much-more movie that Kevin Costner calls “probably our generation’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life'” returns to theaters for a special Father’s Day weekend engagement. Here’s the backstory from its Oscar-winning screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson.
For Simon Kinberg, the buck stops here when it comes to the failure of Dark Phoenix to live up to the commercial and critical success of previous films in the X-men franchise.
"I'm here and I'm saying when a movie doesn't work, put it on me," Kinberg said on the KCRW podcast The Business. "I'm the writer/director of…
Two days after the 25th anniversary of the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, O.J. Simpson has joined Twitter, saying he wants to share his thoughts.
“Hey Twitter world, this is yours truly. Coming soon to Twitter, you’ll get to read all my thoughts and opinions on just about…
The summertime effect is kicking in to the Friday ratings game, and the slowdown is reflected in the lack of huge audience numbers being generated. No one show dominated the competition this week.
At ABC, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. weighed in with an 0.4/3 and 2.22 million, with the two-hour 20/20 performing…
Netflix’s first Arabic original series is causing an upset among some Jordanians, with a prosecutor asking the country’s cybercrimes unit to investigate it and take action.
The show, Jinn, is a young adult supernatural drama about magical genies in the ancient city of Petra. They must try and stop Jinn from…
President Donald Trump is gearing up for a big announcement of his 2020 election campaign on Tuesday in Florida. But he’s warming up in the bullpen via Twitter to fire up his base in advance of the official announcement.
As news reports circulate that the President is honing in on potential Democratic challenger…
Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director whose visionary interpretation of Romeo and Juliet was nominated for an Academy Award, has died. He was 96 and passed at his residence in Rome.
Zeffirelli was prolific in film, theater and opera over his long career, and was known for his epic scale in his productions. He staged…
3rd Update Saturday AM writethru, after Friday midday update If you’re a rival major studio in the Disney-Fox era and you want to continue to play around with franchises, you have to make a movie that’s so outstanding, there’s no question in any person’s mind that they should go to the cinema. The challenged sequels…
Daddy issues were front and center on tonight’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher as HBO’s Friday night franchise celebrated Father’s Day weekend by mocking the nation’s presidential papa as the antithesis of patriarchal integrity and parental responsibility. “Republicans really see Trump as a father figure,” Maher…
Last Friday, members of the negotiating committees of the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agents met for the first time since talks between the two sides had broken off on April 12. After the ATA presented its new franchise agreement proposals, WGA West Executive Director David Young told the…
Ah, the dangers of pre-taping topical television. Stephen Colbert experienced that tonight, as his obviously pre-recorded monologue focused on Kellyanne Conway and her alleged violations of the Hatch Act was a beat behind the actual news.
Colbert started off strong. When he said Conway’s name, resounding boos filled…
Linda Giannecchini, who worked for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for five decades, died at home on June 11th in San Francisco, CA of natural causes. She was 70 years old.
Giannecchini held nearly every elective office in NATAS, serving as a chapter president, governor, vice chair and secretary of…
Employees at KCRW, the public radio station in Santa Monica, have voted to recognize SAG-AFTRA as their union. The new bargaining unit will cover more than 90 public media professionals, including DJs, hosts, producers, reporters, production engineers, board operators and others who create content for all areas of…
