Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro decries 'hate' in Hollywood Hall of Fame speech
“Right now, we are in a moment of great fear,” del Toro, 54, said, used "to divide us, to tell us that we're different."
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LOS ANGELES — There will be no host on this year's Primetime Emmy telecast, Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier confirmed on Wednesday morning during the network's portion of the Television Critics Association press tour.
Quentin Tarantino’s much-anticipated movie “Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood” evokes nostalgia for a moment or reality that never happened. But Chilean actress Lorenza Izzo—who plays Leonardo DiCaprio’s bombshell wife on screen—says that this film tells an intimate story about the end of a golden age that can feel emotionally true for fans.
All of Quentin Tarantino's movies are about how much he loves movies — and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is no exception. A mélange of pulp styles, obscure and less obscure references and Hollywood legend, it's a virtuoso effort to write himself into history.
A star-studded Hollywood fundraiser will be held for openly gay 2020 presidential contender Pete Buttigieg on July 25. The event will be co-hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and Sean Hayes, two of the most famous LGBTQ entertainers, with other well-known celebrities slated to attend.
"Boyz n the Hood" director John Singleton will be taken off life support weeks after suffering a stroke, his family said Monday.
"This was an agonizing decision, one that our family made, over a number of days, with the careful counsel of John’s doctors," his family said in a statement.
True crime narratives can be very, very entertaining. But the compulsion to binge watch, listen or read about the lurid details of real-life brutality raises obvious ethical concerns. After all, the victims in these stories were often subjected to unspeakable horrors which their loved ones never imagined might one day be transformed into a pop culture phenomenon. As most true-crime devotees will admit, no small part of the genre’s intrigue boils down to voyeurism — there is something undeniably gripping about exploring the psyches of people driven to do depraved things in suspenseful detail.
But voyeurism alone isn’t enough, which is where two recent examinations of Ted Bundy miss the mark: They cater to voyeurism with no higher purpose. The Netflix docuseries “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and the biopic “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” (staring a studly Zac Efron, no less) each dive head-first into Bundy’s heinous kidnappings and murder of some 30 young women, with little justification for doing so. There is simply no good reason to re-explore the brutality of Bundy — and even less to humanize him.
The Oscar nominations are out for the 91st annual Academy Awards, and the best picture category is full of historic firsts. From “Black Panther” to Lady Gaga being the first person to be nominated for best actress and best original song in the same year for “A Star Is Born,” there’s lots of history to go around.
But perhaps the most interesting story this year is the best picture nod for Netflix’s “Roma.” The subtitled drama dominated the nominations this week with ten, including nods for best picture, best director, best actress, best supporting actress, best foreign language film and best original screenplay.
“Crazy Rich Asians” won a Critics' Choice Award for Best Comedy Sunday in what could be the first step in a successful movie award season.
The award was a win for representation, producer Nina Jacobson, who spoke on behalf of the film, said in her acceptance speech.
The long-running divorce case of one-time Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has hit a new level of drama.
Jolie alleged in a court filing Tuesday that her estranged husband hasn't paid any "meaningful" child support for a year and a half during their ongoing, and at times contentious, divorce — and said she is planning to seek a court order to force his hand.
Jeff Goldblum receives a 🌟 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday.
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is expected to be charged Friday in New York in connection with alleged sexual misconduct, according to a personal familiar with the case.
The source says Weinstein is also expected to surrender to authorities Friday.
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If you're a betting sort, you'd be better off steering clear of a lot of Academy Awards action this weekend. Find another place to wager -- maybe April's NFL draft or the weekend box-office numbers. While some Oscar categories seem like total locks, there's enough last-minute murmuring among film fans that a few shake-ups are almost guaranteed.
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A gold statue is nice, but Hollywood A-listers nominated for Oscars will get a consolation prize even if they don’t win: a $47,802 goodie bag.
That’s about the same as the MSRP for an entry-level Mercedes Benz M class (and it’s within shouting distance of America’s 2011 median household income of $50,054). Still, it’s the least-expensive this gift bag has been in five years; in 2010, Oscar swag topped $90,000.
Source: lifeinc.today.com
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NBC Los Angeles reports: Workers will use about 380 gallons of paint and primer to provide the Hollywood sign with a makeover before the famous landmark's 90th birthday next year.
The iconic sign will be stripped down to sheet metal, primed and given a new coat of white paint. This will be the sign’s most extensive makeover in nearly 35 years.
Source: photoblog.nbcnews.com
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting a divorce after five years of marriage, Cruise's representative has confirmed to TODAY.com.
"Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children," said a statement from Cruise's rep on Friday. "Please allow them their privacy."
Source: MSN