Verne Troyer, best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers franchise of films, has died. The news was announced via the actor’s Facebook page, which had previously reported on a recent hospitalization at the beginning of the month. Troyer, who also had a role in the first Harry Potter film as Griphook the…
Pedro Almodovar, the genius behind Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Bad Education, and Volver, has announced his next project, which sounds like a late-career return to form after 2016's underwhelming Julieta and the critical disaster, I’m So Excited (which I never even saw and sort…
The past year has been cold and full of sorrow, days strung together like popcorn balls on a forgotten garland, each pierced with a needle wielded by an enormous, collicky idiot of a child; same with my heart. What will fill the yawning void where my happy spirit once was? Only one thing: the trailer for Louise…
Amy Poehler will direct, produce, and star in a comedic Netflix feature film about pals who attend a 50th birthday celebration together in Napa Valley, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will be conservatively titled Wine Country.
For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color, domestic workers, and sex workers.
As the stars descend on the red carpet and some even have pointedly delayed conversations with alleged abuser Ryan Seacrest, The Rally Against Rape Culture/#OscarsSoComplicit protest is going down on Hollywood and LaBrea. If we have learned one thing this awards season, it’s that it’s difficult to turn an…
Matt Damon loves an opportunity to save the day. Ever notice? In movies like We Bought a Zoo (he buys a zoo and proceeds to save it) and 2017's Downsizing (in which he miniaturizes himself and saves a Vietnamese refugee), Damon is always helping, healing, and protecting the world from harm on screen, or simply…
For Fifty Shades Freed, the final installment of the Fifty Shades franchise, 11 members of the Jezebel staff ceremoniously filed into a 19th Street theater and girded our loins with stealth. As with the last two films in this series of great sensual weight and heft, each staffer was assigned an aspect to critically…
After hinting, on multiple occasions, toward her own Harvey Weinstein story in the months since allegations against the prolific producer first came to light, Uma Thurman has now come forward with allegations of sexual assault against the former Weinstein Company head. Thurman opened up about her experiences with…
The Post is the story of Katharine Graham, the first-ever woman publisher of a national American newspaper*, whose tenure happened to land during the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971—when journalists were able to expose the lies the US government was feeding the public about the Vietnam War. Further, it’s a…
Former The Help co-stars Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain are teaming up for a new holiday comedy, Variety reports, which will be produced by Chastain’s company Freckle Films.
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Earlier this month, we reported that Harvey Weinstein had apparently hired an army of investigators at some point last year who were specifically tasked with keeping tabs on the women who had accused him of sexual assault and on journalists who were investigating their claims. They also reportedly posed as fake…
Women in the entertainment industry have been coming forward—on a practically daily basis—ever since the Harvey Weinstein allegations broke, talking about their experiences of the sexual harassment, abuse, and assault they’ve been subjected to over the years by their male employers and co-workers, as punishment for…
Variety is reporting that yet another Hollywood studio is distancing itself from comedian Louis CK today, with news coming that Universal Pictures and Illumination have fired him from the upcoming animated sequel The Secret Life Of Pets 2. The decision comes on the same day that CK admitted that allegations of sexual…
The organization Women in Film is launching a hotline to help women and men in Hollywood report sexual harassment.
Harry Dreyfuss—an actor and writer, and the son of Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss—has added his name to the ever-growing list of young men accusing Kevin Spacey of groping or sexually assaulting them in their youths. Dreyfuss wrote about the incident, which took place when he was 18 and visiting his father while he…
On Tuesday, supermodel and cookie entrepreneur with an alliterative name, Karlie Kloss, announced that her next venture will be to star in a six-part TV series called Movie Night with Karlie Kloss.
Part of the gut-churning strangeness surrounding Hollywood’s ongoing Harvey Weinstein scandal is how quickly it’s become clear that Weinstein’s alleged abuses really were an “open” secret; it’s now apparent that a lot of people knew what “Harvey” was like around women, and almost none of them said anything (outside of…
