‘The Interview Controversy’: Sony Hack Rumored To Be Hoax For Publicity
The Interview has garnered lots of attention over the past couple weeks and the highly anticipated film hasn’t even been released yet. For those who missed it, the hacktivist group “Guardians of Peace”...
View ArticleEgypt bans ‘inaccurate’ Exodus film
Egypt has banned a Hollywood film based on the Biblical book of Exodus because of what censors described as “historical inaccuracies”. The head of the censorship board said these included the film’s...
View ArticleBilly Crystal: ‘Stop shoving gay sex scenes in my face’
Billy Crystal, who played one of the first openly gay characters on TV in the Seventies, told the Television Critics Association that gay scenes aren’t “to his taste”. Speaking during a panel interview...
View ArticleHow Rome became a hive of cinematic activity after government’s generous tax...
Fifty years after it earned the sobriquet “Hollywood on the Tiber”, Rome is once again a hive of cinematic activity. The renaissance is thanks to generous tax breaks introduced by the government of...
View ArticleScientology Takes Aim at ‘Going Clear’ Documentary
When an acclaimed director’s new documentary about Scientology made its premiere at the exclusive Sundance Film Festival this winter, the church was watching closely, according to one of the producers....
View ArticlePfizer to pay £50m after deaths of Nigerian children in drug trial...
A divorce case was all that passed for excitement at Richard P Altschuler’s “kinda small” lawyer’s office in West Haven, Connecticut, when the phone rang nine years ago. On the other end of the line, a...
View ArticleTwo more women accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault
Two more women came forward on Friday to accuse the veteran comedian Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them decades ago, when they were in their teens. Sunni Welles and Margie Shapiro...
View ArticleJurassic Park in real life: The race to modify the DNA of endangered animals...
Jurassic Park has a lot to answer for. It made the idea seem so simple. Take the DNA from a microscopic drop of dinosaur blood, preserved for 65 million years in the gut of a mosquito trapped in...
View ArticleTV Land Pulls ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Episodes Amid Confederate Flag Uproar
The show has faced criticism in the wake of the June 17 shooting in Charleston, S.C. The Duke boys are being put on the bench. TV Land has pulled reruns of Dukes of Hazzard in light of the recent...
View ArticleItalians outraged over extravagant send-off for alleged crime don
It was an extravagant send-off worthy of a Hollywood gangster film – an elaborate black and gold carriage pulled by six black horses wearing plumes, a low-flying helicopter dropping rose petals from...
View ArticleTerminal for the stars planned at LA airport
An exclusive terminal for the stars is set to end the time-honoured sight of harassed-looking Hollywood celebrities fleeing Paparazzi and autograph-hunters though the busy halls of Los Angeles...
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Here’s what the academy may do about the #OscarsSoWhite boycott
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will weigh new rules intended to encourage more diversity among its membership and its nominations, The Times has learned. The academy’s 51-member Board...
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Michael Moore’s ‘Where to Invade Next’ Marks Career Low
The documentary’s opening per-theater average comes in behind any of Moore’s previous films. Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next wasn’t greeted by a victory march at the box office, where its...
View ArticleElijah Wood: ‘Hollywood in the grip of child abuse scandal similar to Jimmy...
Hollywood is in the grip of a child sexual abuse scandal similar to that of Jimmy Savile in Britain, Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood has claimed. The 35-year-old former child actor said paedophiles...
View ArticleGrand opening! Inside Tom Cruise’s new $50 million ‘Scientology CNN’ TV and...
Hollywood may never be the same again now that the Church of Scientology has opened its new movie studios, which they claim has bigger and better facilities than Paramount. Leader David Miscavige...
View ArticleA Senate committee wants to crack down on spy agencies’ cozy relationship...
The Intelligence Community is going to have to justify its relationship with Hollywood. Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate...
View ArticleHow one man took on Wall Street and won
As David and Goliath stories go, Brad Katsuyama’s is a pretty good one. The 38-year-old has taken on billions of dollars of vested interest on Wall Street, and won for the little guy. His successes...
View ArticleElijah wood & corey feldman speak out again about hollywood pedophilia
As we’ve come to discover time and time again, many secrets hide behind Hollywood’s glamorous doors. Actor Elijah Wood’s recent remarks on Monday about the realities of child star sexual abuse in the...
View ArticleSusan Sarandon Blasts ‘Disgusting’ DNC Plot to Undermine Bernie
Hollywood celeb and Bernie Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon is calling out the Democratic National Committee for the “disgusting” behavior revealed in DNC staff emails published by WikiLeaks over the...
View ArticleSeth Rogen’s Animated Food Movie ‘Sausage Party’ Crashed by SJWs, Accused of...
Sausage Party has opened to huge box office this weekend, proving that SJWs (social justice warriors) possess negligible commercial clout. The film is expected to gross over $34 million this weekend,...
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