Latest in California wildfires

EXCLUSIVE: It was touch and go for a while as the Woolsey Fire bore down on the Motion Picture & Television Fund's Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, home to nearly 200 entertainment industry retirees. The campus was spared, but on the afternoon of November 9, with the blaze only five miles away and barreling towards…

As the fire-relief effort continues in California, Harrison Ford has reached out to SAG-AFTRA members affected by the wildfires to let them know that help is available. "If you need help, ask. If you can help, give," he said in a pre-Thanksgiving public service announcement for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation (watch it…

Stephen Colbert kicked off the feast-centric holiday week by giving thanks for his bread and butter: President Donald Trump. OK, no big news there, but his Late Show monologue on CBS tonight had an entire MAGA-fied weekend to dissect, meaning the writers probably had to cut at least a few minutes’ worth of jokes. The…

Hollywood has a new hero – legendary stuntman Jack Gill, who stood on his roof with a fire hose, surrounded by flames, battling to save his home in Agoura Hills, just across the road from the Paramount Ranch, where its famed Western Town film set burned to the ground in the deadly California wildfires inferno. And…

Donald Trump paid a visit to the Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park in Paradise, Calif. with Gov. Jerry Brown, Governor-elect Gavin Newsom and Paradise mayor Jody Jones. Upon evaluation of the devastation, Trump said: "I don't think we'll have this again to this extent.” He added, “Hopefully this is going to be the…

President Donald Trump says he’s going to visit Northern California on Saturday “Just to see the firefighters.” “Nobody's ever seen what's going on over there, and now they're saying it could be as many as 600, this just came out before we met, could be as many as 600 people killed – up by 400,” Trump told Fox News’s C…

One week after he began spewing wildfire criticism at California, President Donald Trump is going to parachute in to visit victims of fire-ravaged areas. The White House said Thursday it is arranging for Trump to travel to California to visit people impacted by the fires, saying details still were being worked…

UPDATED with more Malibu evacuations lifted, 11:50 AM: The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is lifting the fire-evacuation order for more Malibu residents this afternoon, Pepperdine University and some surrounding areas remain closed. Starting at 2 p.m., residents will be aqllowed to return to the following…

The Malibu Film Society may be down, but it’s not out. Not surprisingly, tonight's screening of Beautiful Boy and Wednesday’s Widows screening have been postponed because of the wildfires that ravaged the coastal colony. But executive director Scott Tallal said the Malibu Film Society soon will be back in the business…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features is following other studios such as Netflix, Annapurna and 20th Century Fox this week and canceling the red carpet for their AFI Fest premiere Mary Queen of Scots which is the event’s closing night title tomorrow night. This is out of respect to those impacted and fighting the wildfires here…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced today that they are calling off their Golden Globe Ambassador Party amid the wildfires in Los Angeles and Venture Counties, Deadline has confirmed. Organizers canceled the party that announces the Golden Globe Ambassador for the annual awards ceremony. “Due to the…

UPDATED with AFM relief fund: SAG-AFTRA, the WGA and the American Federation of Musicians have joined IATSE in offering financial relief to its members affected by the California wildfires. The actor and writer unions are directing its members to contact welfare funds established for emergencies like the ones facing…