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The left-wing PEN America has repeatedly attacked President Donald Trump as a menace to free speech. Now the elite cultural organization finds itself in the awkward position of agreeing with the Trump administration on the issue of Hollywood’s cozy relationship with China’s Communist regime, which is suppressing the freedom of expression around the world.

British actor David Harewood, star of Homeland and Supergirl, claimed the British film industry doesn’t support black actors, which is why he had to move to the United States, contradicting a study which has found the British media vastly over-represents ethnic minorities.

Actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are celebrating officially becoming Greek citizens, according to the prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who posted a photo of him and his wife alongside the two Hollywood stars.

The Black Theatre Coalition is pushing Hollywood to hire more black talent as part of an effort to “eradicate racial inequities in employment in the American theater.”

During an interview with Fox News released on Tuesday, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) stated that Congress should hear from the CEOs of Apple and the NBA and Hollywood executives about how China uses its economic might “to coerce American citizens

Attorney General Bill Barr gave Hollywood studios and celebrities a verbal lashing during a speech Thursday in which he outlined the threat that China’s growing sphere of influence poses to democracy and freedom.

“Anyone who dares to speak up is cancelled, their livelihood and dreams stripped from them by a baying mob,” he added, just before he was fired by his biggest client, Panera Bread, and forced to grovel an apology.

According to the Woke Taliban at the far-left Time Magazine, there are “approved” superheroes and “unapproved” superheroes — and the “unapproved” have got to go.

Mission Impossible star Simon Pegg called for more diversity in Hollywood while lashing out at people who have criticised radical leftism in the Black Lives Matter movement, saying they should “shut the f**k up”.

Here — keep a sick bag handy — are some celebrities putting their special actor voices on to tell us how ashamed they are of being white…

In both cases, the programmes were only recently created, being first broadcast between 17 and 10 years ago. 

A bizarre op-ed at the Washington Post on Thursday commanded Hollywood to cease making movies and television shows about the police, because such entertainment is somehow empowering cops like the one accused of killing George Floyd and preventing Americans from understanding just how awful the police really are.

Disney is one of the corporations and major Hollywood studios giving full-throated support to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. But the company has time and again been impotent on human rights, silent when it was time to confront the Communist government of China.

British-Nigerian actor and star of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, John Boyega, joined Black Lives Matter activists in London to protest against the death of George Floyd in the United States.

Two hours after President Donald Trump addressed the ongoing national riots on Monday evening, looting resumed in Hollywood.

Georgia is moving faster than California in its effort to re-start Hollywood production, with Gov. Brian Kemp (R) issuing COVID-19 guidelines on Friday to help ensure that cast and crew members remain safe when they eventually return to work.

Sen. Ted Cruz is laying out a zero-tolerance policy for Hollywood studios that willingly censor their movies to please Chinese Communist officials, proposing new legislation that will block all federal assistance to the studios behind those film productions.

In a troubling sign for the exhibition industry, a new survey has found that the majority of consumers now prefer to watch new movies at home as fears about the Chinese coronavirus continue to outweigh the urge to go out.

Hollywood depends on a steady flow of new content to keep people at home and glued to their screens. But the Chinese coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the once-reliable pipeline, jeopardizing the supply of new shows that streamers and broadcasters depend on to keep consumers hooked.

Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former head of Walt Disney Studios and founder of mobile-only entertainment app Quibi, has blamed the Chinese virus pandemic for the app’s failed launch. The company raised $1.8 billion from Hollywood and Chinese investors, but its downloads languish far below the top 100 free iPhone apps.

Veteran Hollywood star Jon Voight this week shared a message of “hope,” praising “true patriot” President Trump for taking on evil and guiding the United States “and his people on a path to greatness.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused Hollywood of being “complicit in China’s censorship and propaganda in the name of bigger profits.” He has legislation that would prevent the Pentagon from working with film studios working to accommodate the censorious demands of the Chinese state.

From the elite heights of the Hollywood Hills, the Hollywood elite look down on the hoi polloi and see only the worst of humanity … and time and again they’re proven wrong, and the coronavirus pandemic has proven this to be especially true. 

Trump-bashing Hollywood figures, from film stars to studio executives, have been conspicuously silent when it comes to China as evidence mounts that Chinese dictators sought to hide the true gravity of the coronavirus outbreak and silence doctors who tried to speak out.

LOS ANGELES — Leonardo DiCaprio will help launch America’s Food Fund, which has already raised $12 million to help communities impacted by the coronavirus.

Actor Mark Blum, who played Madonna’s love interest in the hit 1985 movie Desperately Seeking Susan, has died of complications of coronavirus in New York, according to reports. He was 69.

Actor Jack Black has decided to stop eating red meat in order to “limit catastrophic climate change,” making an “EcoResolution” that he will switch to veggie burgers.

Filmmaker David Fincher created his own social network this week by conducting a surprise masterclass for 450 quarantined film students attending the National Film and Television School in Great Britain.

Hollywood celebrities clearly haven’t gotten the memo that their coronavirus-themed social media videos are falling flat with the public. Despite widespread derision, the stars keep pumping out stay-at-home dispatches that, in some cases, reveal a startling disconnection from reality.

Actress Fran Drescher endorsed a call for a general labor strike in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, declaring that “Capitalism has become another word for Ruling Class Elite!”

Actor Jeremy Renner is reportedly seeking a reduction in his child support payments, saying that the global coronavirus pandemic has reduced his income as Hollywood shuts down production on numerous movie projects.

As celebrities around the world flock to social media to remind us how much they care about the coronavirus pandemic, one star sees right through the Hollywood narcissism and blatant self promotion.

Celebrities continued to document their time in isolation by recording themselves performing music, reciting literature, and even chatting with former First Lady Michelle Obama. Just like regular people.

Hollywood celebrities really are just like us — they’re stuck at home and glued to social media as they hunker down in quarantine.

Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams has asked celebrity influencers like Kylie Jenner and NBA star Kevin Durant to tell their millions of young followers to heed the federal government’s coronavirus warnings by practicing social distancing and staying at home as much as possible.

NEW YORK — Faced with a lengthy shutdown due the coronavirus pandemic, movie theaters are requesting relief from the U.S. government.