Now we know that Wonder Woman, the biggest movie of the summer, is definitely getting a sequel. But director Patty Jenkins is still not confirmed to return as director.
The Academy has announced that they’ve invited a whopping 774 new members this year, which is a record-breaking number for the institution.
The first Women in Animation World Summit will be held this year in June at the Annecy International Animation Festival.
When actor and writer Zoe Lister-Jones (Breaking Upwards, Life in Pieces) set out to make her charming directorial debut Band Aid, a film in which she stars opposite Adam Pally as a couple who tries to save their marriage by starting a rock band, she assembled a depressingly rare kind of production team: one entirely…
Well shit, what do you know! Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk Of Fame star, vandalized once in October 2016, has been tampered with anew. Somebody must not like him—whoever could that solitary person be?
Japanese actress Sonoya Mizuno is joining Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, and Gemma Chan in the film Crazy Rich Asians, an adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s novel by the same name.
Tim Allen, a rather irrelevant actor, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, where he bemoaned the tribulations suffered by conservatives in Hollywood. “You gotta be real careful around here,” he told Kimmel. “You get beat up if you don’t believe what everybody else believes. This is like ‘30s Germany.”
Hollywood is a land of dress-up and make believe where white people can be anyone they want, including Asian people, but actual people of Asian descent can only play stereotypes of what white people think Asian people are like.
In August of 1935, Jacques Kapralik arrived in America as a Jewish refugee of Hitler’s Germany. Born in Bucharest in 1906, he left behind a successful career as a cartoonist that had already brought him to Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. Two decades later he would tell the Los Angeles Examiner that he “still chuckles when…
This piece was originally published in The Chicago Tribune in the late 1960s and can be found in the collection, Latins Are Still Lousy Lovers. It appears here with permission from the author’s estate.
Awards shows have been extra political this season, for obvious reasons, and it’s enough to turn off certain viewers.
You have read the tropes many times before: a writer/director/producer toiled for days, months, years, to get a film off the ground. It was on The Black List and eventually broke through to capture the attention of a Brad Pitt-esque savior who brought that little-movie-that-could slowly, carefully, eventually, to a…
Some of the biggest movies last year had women in lead roles and somehow they still made money.
Why does this man continue to find work?
In a scene from John M. Stahl’s 1934 film Imitation of Life, a fair-skinned girl named Peola sits in a classroom, listening to her teacher read Little Women. Upon seeing her mother Delilah—a black housekeeper played by actress Louise Beavers—enter the room in search of her, Peola conceals her face with a book. “I’m…
Vanity Fair’s annual “Hollywood” issue dropped Thursday, and features all ladies for the second year in a row! Can I get a “HELL YEAH”?! (HELL YEAH!!!) The cover, usually shot by Annie Leibovitz and usually featuring A-list actors at their most languid and well-dressed, draping themselves on walls, chairs, floors, or…
You know your illegal downloads of Titanic and every episode of Lost are theoretically hurting someone, but many of you content thieves don’t think too deeply about it, do you? Maybe you even cackle maniacally whenever a head of an awards organization preaches about piracy on stage at a show.
Donald Trump is an orange-zested trash collection site known primarily for gilding everything and bullying everyone. There are enough anecdotes attesting to this latter attribute to fill many, many books (and they will), but a sampling might include: making fun of a physically disabled reporter, spreading lies about…
Last week, an artist who calls himself Jesus Hands sat for a brief interview with The Hollywood Reporter and, in the process, claimed responsibility for transforming the iconic Hollywood sign into “Hollyweed” on New Year’s Day. He argued that making this alteration was not an act of vandalism, but one of “love” and…
IMDb is still fighting in court against a new law in California that prevents the site from listing actors’ ages in its database if they request it.
