UPDATE 3:23 PM: If Roman Polanski and his legal representatives thought the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences was going to hand back his membership quickly after he took the Oscar organization to court today, they were incorrect.

“The procedures taken to expel Mr. Polanski were fair and reasonable,” an Acade…

The voices on the phone were more like whispers. It was as if no one could give full voice to the dreaded news. "I'm locking the doors and pulling down the blinds," said one caller, a top film director. "It's like a doomsday scenario."

Fifty years ago, Hollywood was frozen by news of the Charles Manson murders, a dark…

Witold Sobocinski, a Polish cinematographer who worked with countrymen including Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi and also was a celebrated jazz musician and a teacher at Lodz Film School, has died. He was 89. Lodz announced the news but did not give details.

Sobocinski was one of the first graduates…

Continuing to reverberate: the stunning take-down of director James Gunn by conservative journalists who bared years-old disgusting tweets that got Gunn ostracized from Disney’s Marvel Comics Universe. His banishment from returning for a third Guardians of the Galaxy film prompted this response from Dave Bautista, the…

Saturday May 18. The 1968 Cannes Film Festival was about to enter its second week when a press conference was called for 10AM in the Jean Cocteau Theater at the old Palais Croisette. Just a few yards down the road, a budding starlet was preparing to hold court on the beach, imagining she would make headlines with her…

Less than a week after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences publicly kicked out Bill Cosby and  Roman Polanski from its membership, the Oscar winning director says he'll take the group to court unless he's reinstated or gets to defend himself.

“I am writing this letter to you to avoid unnecessary litigation,…

Inevitably, Hollywood's Great Awakening caught up with Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski on Tuesday night, as the governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to expel the two in keeping with the group's new ethical conduct rules. Cosby, just convicted on sexual assault charges, may have been the…

He remains a fugitive from American justice over the rape of a minor in the 1970s, but Roman Polanski intends to battle being kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, claims the Oscar winner's attorney – and he'll use the organization's own Standards of Conduct to do so. The movie academy however…

The issue of crime and punishment shouldn't be too toxic for rational discussion, but I find this is becoming the case. And this is wrong, because decision time is looming – albeit a decision no one is eager to make.

Over the course of the past year the careers of many prominent figures have collapsed amidst the newly…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said today that its board of governors has voted to expel Bill Cosby and director Roman Polanski from its membership.

The vote came during a meeting Tuesday night and was “in accordance with the organization’s Standards of Conduct,” the Academy said in announcing the news…

Director Quentin Tarantino has apologized to Samantha Geimer, the woman who at age 13 was drugged and raped by Roman Polanski, for comments Tarantino made in 2003 during an appearance on Howard Stern’s radio show.

Describing his remarks as “cavalier,” Tarantino now says he was playing “devil’s advocate” in claiming tha…

(UPDATED WITH L.A. D.A.DOCUMENTATION, JAN. 9 AM)  Roman Polanski will not be hauled back into U.S. court over a 1975 case in which a then-10-year-old accused him of sexual assault, a law enforcement source tells Deadline. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office opted not to bring charges because the statute of…