It's been six weeks since Lupita Nyong'o won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 12 Years a Slave. But given how quickly things happen today, her triumph might as well have happened years ago. The People want a new Lupita role, damn it!
Last night was the Divergent Berlin premiere and our favorite celebrity wood sprite, Shailene Woodley, was on her best behavior. Beautiful, expensive-looking Zuhair Murad gown. Check? The lipstick that she usually forgoes on the red carpet? Also check. After the premiere, though? All bets are off.
Tess Paras is an Asian-American actress who is tired of being cast as a white lady's nerdy or sexy sidekick. She also happens to have a little bit of musical talent kicking around. And, you know, since Royals is such a fun song to parody on account of the fact that it's got all kinds of lyrics, she and two of her…
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Have you given up on your dreams of writing the great American screenplay because the chances of being discovered by Hollywood are about as likely as finding Jimmy Hoffa working at your local Starbucks? Well, maybe you should dust off that typewriter (HA!) and give that story about a plucky young cop with a heart of…
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I love True Detective. I love the eerie, deserted bayou setting, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey playing against type as well as playing off each other, and the themes of existential horror as personified by that hulking figure in the tighty whities and the gas mask.
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Some awards ceremony is going on in Los Angeles right now, with a bunch of people all dressed up fancy, handing each other shiny little gold men and thanking long lists of people you've never heard of ever. But I'm not sure why anyone is even bothering with all that, since the most important film awards have already…
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Get excited if you love spies, because Melissa McCarthy's next role will be "unlikely spy" Susan Cooper, in a riff on James Bond by Bridesmaids' Paul Feig. Her just-signed costar? Terrifyingly stone-faced action star Jason Statham.
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It would be nice if the entertainment business made an effort to represent abortion in a realistic, rational matter. Unfortunately, new research shows movies and television dramatically overestimate the dangers of the procedure. Pop culture spreading misinformation about reproductive health? Imagine!
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Olivia Wilde is sharply aware of her place in Hollywood, and recently had some great things to say about women expanding their roles in Tinsel Town.
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You may have noticed: Lupita Nyong'o is having quite a moment.
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Director Bryan Singer wants you to know that it isn't his fault that Superman Returns flopped. Rather, it's kind of sort of the fault of the women for whom he made this movie, but who didn't flock to the theaters to see his badly reviewed, boringly cast version of the franchise.
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We may never know the real story about what went down between Vanity Fair and Gwyneth Paltrow, but in his editor's letter for the March issue of the magazine, editor-in-chief Graydon Carter addresses the kerfuffle, offering up his side of the story. It is… odd.
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Can we get all the-times-they-are-a-changin' for a minute? Vanity Fair's 20th annual Hollywood Issue has a three-panel gatefold cover, as usual, but this year, there are actual black people on the first third, i.e. the part you see on the newsstand. Progress!
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Fast Company has a profile on Allison Jones, the woman behind the idiosyncratic casting behind all of those Michael Shur shows and Judd Apatow movies. If you haven't heard of her before, she's the one responsible for finding McLovin' for Superbad, and more recently getting Timothy Simons a regular role on Veep as…
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Hollywood dreams do come true! For hyper-competent billionaires, anyway. Deadline reports that Sony Pictures has purchased the film rights to Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's manifesto.
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As a journalist for for Entertainment Weekly, Benjamin Svetkey routinely met stars like Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry and Julia Roberts for dinner as a journalist for Entertainment Weekly. And he claims the experience practically destroyed him. For example: during one of these non-romantic meetings over food, Angelina…
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The Contilia Retirement Group in Essen, Germany created a calendar, using their residents as models striking poses as some of Hollywood's most iconic movie characters.
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Cate Blanchett won a SAG award last night (hooray!) for her performance as Blanche DuBois in Woody Allen Movie No. 463. She was understandably thrilled about winning, but not so thrilled about getting the hurry-it-along music after 29 seconds, especially since America's stoned older cousin who made us all watch A…
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - JANUARY 18: Actors Jared Leto (L) and Sofia Vergara attend the Weinstein Company and Netflix's 2014 SAG after party in partnership with Laura Mercier at Sunset Tower on January 18, 2014 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company)
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This morning she's certainly being showered with congratulations, but back in 2000, Amy Adams was the star of the straight-to video flick Cruel Intentions 2. Click here for more "embarrassing" early roles of Oscar nominees. Work is work, right?
