Lorne Michaels, the creative mind behind Saturday Night Live, said that the long-running variety show never reached out to Rosie O’Donnell to take on the role of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon because she would have approached the role “from hate” rather than from comedy.
In a column for the Hollywood Reporter, Senior Editor Eriq Gardner notes that Hollywood’s major film industry players — who have often been the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies — could actually be among the greatest beneficiaries of the president’s proposed tax cuts.
Jeff Kwatinetz, founder of the Hollywood management company The Firm, has told the Hollywood Reporter that Stephen K Bannon — his former partner, the former Breitbart executive chairman, and now White House senior adviser — is “not a racist or anti-Semitic.”
The Hollywood Reporter has just published its “35 Most Powerful People in New York Media” list and this year’s roundup includes some of entertainment’s most anti-Donald Trump television personalities.
The stars and producers of ABC’s political drama Scandal are celebrating the show’s centenary episode and sharing their thoughts about how Donald Trump’s election caused anxiety both on and off the screen.
Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” the Hollywood Reporter’s Michael Wolff defended a recent Newsweek column of his in which he took aim at the media for it’s aggressive coverage of President Donald Trump, including a specific criticism aimed at show
Disney CEO Bob Iger, one of the few entertainment industry executives asked to attend President Donald Trump’s policy forum at the White House this week, has refused the invitation.
In a guest column at the Hollywood Reporter, social critic Camille Paglia pins down why so many women in Hollywood are apparently finding it difficult to accept their age with grace.
In another feature story timed to the release of her first book, this time with the Hollywood Reporter, Fox News star anchor Megyn Kelly dishes on her scuffles with now-President-elect Donald Trump, her reported $20 million contract offer from Fox, why she does not identify as a feminist and how her alleged mistreatment at the hands of former network chief Roger Ailes caused her to feel a “sense of loss.”
In a feature for the Hollywood Reporter, Wang Jianlin says he hopes to acquire one of the six major Hollywood studios. But for now, the man known in Hollywood simply as “The Chairman” is content to invest heavily in feature production slates at all six of those studios.
On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival in France, journalist and former television personality Ronan Farrow penned a blistering critique of his father, Woody Allen, in which he compares the behavior of the filmmaker to another alleged serial sexual abuser, comedian Bill Cosby.
A shocking new report from the Hollywood Reporter on Friday reveals that the site of the Cannes Film Festival in France sits just 600 meters from a mosque linked to Islamic jihadi terrorism.
Now that Oscar season is over, major Hollywood studios are getting behind a concerted, industry-wide effort to increase the diversity of talent both in front of and behind the camera.
Real Time host Bill Maher took his fellow liberals to task in a wide-ranging essay in The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, questioning how any well-intentioned progressive could protest apartheid in South Africa while ignoring the roughly 40 countries around the world who have implemented Sharia law.
While Hillary Clinton has made a half-dozen successful fundraising trips to California, the Democrat presidential frontrunner has so far failed to earn the support of a key fundraising bloc in the state: Hollywood’s most powerful female executives.
Oscar-winning actor and musician Jared Leto has filed a lawsuit in California federal court against TMZ for publishing an alleged “stolen” video in which he insults pop singer Taylor Swift.
The Hollywood Reporter issued a pre-emptive “mea culpa” for the fact that all of the actresses on their annual roundtable discussion with female awards contenders happened to be white.
Much like the film business, music is dominated by men, according to multi-platinum recording artist Jewel, who says she never took the easy way out to find success.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has landed his first magazine cover of this election cycle.
Amnesty International is set to review an internal policy document regarding the group’s stance on sex work at a meeting in Ireland next month, and a slew of Hollywood celebrities are banding together to stand against decriminalizing the sex trade.
In a partnership with STX Entertainment, The Jim Henson Company is currently developing an adult-themed black comedy puppet film, of which the plot will center on a bizarre murder mystery.
Renowned TV producer Mark Burnett is looking to launch a reality series following the lives of global leaders, and has his sites set on Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Corey Lewandowski, senior political adviser at The Trump Organization, spoke to Breitbart News Wednesday about the allegations made by The Hollywood Reporter that Trump supporters were paid to attend his presidential announcement.
As one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood history, Marlon Brando died in 2004 at the age of 80, but not before leaving behind a legacy that we now know included more than cinematic masterpieces.
For the June 19 issue of the Hollywood Reporter magazine, the trade publication sat down with six renowned female Emmy contenders for a discussion about life, family, career challenges, and their often sexually charged TV characters.
In what is now being referred to as “flatgate,” the Cannes Film Festival has come under fire for allegedly shunning women, even the elderly or those with medical conditions, from red carpet screenings because they opted to wear flat shoes over high heels.
The Fifty Shades of Grey franchise is becoming a family affair.
TLC will become the latest network to jump into the transgender programming market this summer, with the debut of All That Jazz, a reality show about 14-year-old transgender activist and You Tube star Jazz Jennings.
The second annual Hollywood Diversity Report, commissioned by UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, has been released and reveals that diversity in the entertainment industry is well behind the demographics, according to its author.
In an extensive interview with the Hollywood Reporter Magazine, actress Julianne Moore discussed her stance on a variety of issues, stating that she does not believe in God and finds it “shocking” that people are against “gun safety.”
An anonymous story, penned by a self-described character actor residing in Tinseltown, is published in the Hollywood Reporter’s Jan. 23 issue. It reveals how one HIV positive actor was able to have a child, born free of the virus, through a process called “sperm washing.”
Although big names like Judd Apatow, Rob Lowe and Aaron Sorkin loudly and publicly backed Sony Pictures and “The Interview” against the North Korean cyber-terrorists trying to tear the studio into pieces, George Clooney still puffed himself up as Hollywood’s
Lee Daniels has seen the light, and he curses the U.S. for keeping him in the dark so long. Daniels, the director of Precious and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, spent the past week as jury head of the Dubai International
The Interview might be headed to North Korea, despite the country’s strict ban on outside entertainment and their official condemnation of the film, which depicts two reporters attempting to assassinate leader Kim Jong-un. Human rights activists reportedly plan to airlift
The fallout from the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment over its upcoming film The Interview continues to grow. According to TheWrap, both Carmike Cinemas and ArcLight Cinemas have decided to pull the film from their theaters in the
In an appearance on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Tuesday, Kim Masters, editor at large for The Hollywood Report, laid out some of the details behind the Sony hacking scandal, which may involve North Korea. “Sony has to take the
Another woman has come forward to accuse comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault, claiming the event took place as recently as 2008, which is within the California statute of limitations. The latest accuser claims that while at a party at
Sony Pictures is still bleeding confidential data from the sucking server wound inflicted by hackers, leading executives to take some remarkable steps to reassure understandably nervous employees. From the New York Times: As hackers made public more Sony Pictures Entertainment
The Sundance Film Festival announced its 2015 out-of-competition premieres and documentary premieres sections Monday in Utah. The film premiers will tackle a few subjects that are sure to spark some controversy. This year’s lineup features titles including James Franco’s I
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond, Aaron Minc, attorney for the man Breitbart News calls “Barry One,” says that his client is “looking for something from Miss Dunham,” which almost certainly means a statement or apology of
