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With three blond superstars leading the cast, you could be excused for thinking that a movie called Bombshell might mean something other than a fascinating, pertinent, timely and explosive look at the sexual harassment scandal that took down Fox News guru Roger Ailes. The fact is, in this instance, the term “bombshell&#8221…

Roger Ailes' shadow continues to loom large in U.S. politics but the former Fox News boss will also have a presence at the 77th Golden Globe Awards after two separate projects about the controversial newsman scored nominations. Lionsgate feature film Bombshell and Showtime mini-series The Loudest Voice each picked up…

Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, screenwriter Charles Randolph and director Jay Roach filled the stage of the DGA Theater earlier this month during Lionsgate’s session at the ninth Annual Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles event in Hollywood. The occasion, in front of a packed house of…

When Charlize Theron — the driving force as producer and star of Bombshell — sought a director to capture the plight that ambitious women faced in a sexist Fox News culture fostered by creator Roger Ailes, the easy choice would have been a woman. Instead, she chose Jay Roach, helmer of the Austin Powers and Meet the Pa…

Charlize Theron told the audience at a D.C. screening of Bombshell that even though the movie is about the women at Fox News who exposed Roger Ailes’ sexual harassment, there was no way to avoid getting into politics and Donald Trump. Theron portrays Megyn Kelly, who moderated the first Republican presidential debate…

The Costume Designers Guild said Wednesday that Charlize Theron will be honored with the Spotlight Award, Adam McKay the Distinguished Collaborator Award and former owner of Bill Hargate Costumes Mary Ellen Fields the Distinguished Service Award at this year’s Costume Designers Guild Awards. The trio will be feted…

It took two and-a-half hours, every day of Bombshell's shoot, for Charlize Theron to transform into Megyn Kelly; but deciding to take on the role in the first place took much longer. "I loved this script so much, and I didn't want to fuck the movie up," she says. The project came to her Denver and Delilah company for…

Charlize Theron became the 33rd recipient, and 7th woman, and first South African to get the American Cinematheque Award on Friday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Created in 1986 as a sort of antidote to the AFI Life Achievement Award it is meant to honor someone in the middle of their career,  not the end as so…

“You have to adopt the mentality of an Irish street cop,” the new woman at Fox News Channel is told. “The world is a bad place, people are lazy morons, minorities are criminals, sex is sick but interesting. Ask yourself, ‘What would scare my grandmother or piss off my grandfather?’ — and that’s a Fox story.” Here is…

Bombshell lives up to its title, and then some, and the explosive story of the scandal in which a group of women brought down Fox News founder and ruler Roger Ailes entered the Oscar race in a big way Sunday. Stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie, director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph…

If it seems The Addams Family always has been a part of our family, it is because they have for more than 80 years, since Charles Addams introduced the gothicly amusing clan in a series of New Yorker cartoons beginning in 1938. They’ve never gone far from the pop culture, whether as a hit 1960s ABC sitcom, a couple of…

Very quietly this morning, Lionsgate dropped the trailer and revealed the title for their Jay Roach-directed, Charles Randolph scripted movie about the women who take on Fox News Channel boss Roger Ailes: Bombshell. While we don’t get a glance at John Lithgow’s Roger Ailes in the current trailer, we see Margot…