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The temperature was unusually high in the Saban Theatre Saturday night, and the jokes were sizzling too. On center stage was  Comedy Central's latest roast-ee, Alec Baldwin, for tonight's taping of the Roast of Alec Baldwin. Since all of the evening's roasters were also fair game for hard-jabbing punch lines, a round…

The summer break hasn’t done anything to freshen Alec Baldwin’s attitude on playing Donald Trump for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He still hates it. Reiterating his loathing for the role that he expressed in June, Baldwin tells former SNL regular Kevin Nealon on the latter’s new YouTube series Hiking with Kevin (watch…

Julie Huntsinger, who is co-director of the Telluride Film Festival , opened Friday night’s World Premiere screening of Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn by saying that she and her co-director Tom Luddy thought it was like something they hadn’t seen in a long while and labeled it flatly a “masterpiece”. That’s a lot…

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One, Thoroughbreds), Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody, X-Men: Apocalypse), and Daryl McCormack (A Very English Scandal, Vikings) will star in Pixie, a comedic thriller directed by Oscar nominee Barnaby Thompson and written by Preston Thompson. Rounding out the cast are Colm Meaney (Lay…

“First do no harm.” Jamie Dornan, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater are set to star in Dr. Death, a limited drama series from UCP based on the Wondery podcast about a sinister doctor who treats his Hippocratic Oath about the same way he treats his patients. With the high-caliber talent on board, UCP is shopping the…

The Edward Norton-directed Motherless Brooklyn has been chosen by Film at Lincoln Center to be the closing-night film of the 57th New York Film Festival. The drama makes its New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 11, before Warner Bros releases it later this year. Norton adapted the Jonathan Lethem…

Sean Hayes will serve as Roast Master of Comedy Central’s previously announced roast of Alec Baldwin in September, the network announced today. “It’s always been my dream to roast a Hollywood legend,” Hayes said, “so when they asked me to roast Alec Baldwin I said ‘close enough’.” The Baldwin roast is set to tape on…

So maybe Alec Baldwin isn’t slamming the fake Oval Office door entirely on his Donald Trump impression on Saturday Night Live. After telling USA Today last week that he was “so done” playing the president in SNL‘s cold opens, the actor now is tweeting, “Who knows what the future holds?” And that Sarah Huckabee Sanders…

Alec Baldwin says he likely won’t be playing Donald Trump on NBC’s Saturday Night Live anymore. “I’m so done with that,” the actor told USA Today yesterday. In an interview to promote the hybrid feature-documentary Framing John DeLorean, in which he plays the notorious car designer (opening in New York and on-demand…

Alec Baldwin will prove yet again he can take a punch, this time around at least the verbal kind, when he sits for a Comedy Central roast this summer. The Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin will be taped in New York; the taping date and airdate will be announced later. Watch a brief promo below. "Getting roasted…

In an effervescent and expansive conversation with Alec Baldwin on Thursday at the Tribeca Film Festival, Guillermo Del Toro shared a Criterion Collection’s worth of filmmaking wisdom and appreciation. The director's debut appearance at Tribeca, according to festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal’s brief onstage…

Alec Baldwin plays Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live but, on Monday, took to Trump’s favorite platform, Twitter to ask fans if they would vote for him should he actually run to replace Trump in the starring POTUS role. Unlike the flock of Democrats who already have thrown their hats in the ring, boasting of the…