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According to the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood donors have given $5.5 million to candidates on both sides of the 2016 presidential race. Of those donations, 90 percent have gone to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

In May, the California State Assembly unanimously passed AB 1839, a bill that expanded California’s existing film and TV tax credit and incentive program. According to a new report, the move is working, as Hollywood has seen a resurgence in the number of TV programs being filmed in the state.

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has begun an official investigation into the lack of women behind the cameras on Hollywood movie sets.

It is one of the principles upon which Breitbart News was founded: Culture is upstream from politics. But what does that really mean?

As Breitbart Texas recently reported, Enrique Serrano Escobar, the mayor of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (just south of El Paso, Texas) stated he aims to sue the makers of the fiction film “Sicario” in a U.S. court for “moral damages” to the city. Escobar said the movie depicts violent incidents that don’t currently reflect the city, telling Mexico’s El Norte newspaper, “It hurts the image of Juarenses.” However, Escobar seems to have forgotten that Cuidad Juárez is still host to two major drug cartels and over 400 street gangs.

This is the second part of a two-part interview. Part one is here. DID CENSORSHIP IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF MOVIES? BNN: Another theory of mine —  although I’m opposed to censorship, is that the dreaded Production Code made the Golden

Contrary to what it might look like, the great passion of my life is neither politics nor the media. My abiding love affair, one that began almost forty years ago and burns just as bright today, is with the movies.

On Saturday, roughly 100 LAPD officers joined other citizens to march through Hollywood in a show of support for the LAPD and its members. The rally was organized by the Los Angeles Police Protective League; participants wore T-shirts emblazoned, “Blue Lives Matter” and carried signs reading “Police Lives Matter”, and “They bleed blue.”

“Imagine for 15 years, you go to work, and everything that comes out of your mouth is something someone wrote for you to say,” actress Rose McGowan said in regards to her recent “awakening” as an artist. McGowan has released

Emmy-award winning producer Andre Bauth, who was accused earlier this month of stabbing his tenant after he allegedly mocked him for saying he would win five Academy Awards, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, the

I recently started a podcast called Political Punks. The idea was born from this column I wrote for Breitbart.com several months ago.

Long-time Clinton chum Casey Wasserman, a Hollywood sports agent, suggested Sunday that a run by Vice President Joe Biden for president in 2016 would serve to strengthen Hillary’s run for the Democratic Party nomination and the Oval Office.

Devo singer Jerry Casale has come forward to claim his 9/11-themed wedding reception was all a “set up.” Casale sparked public outrage Monday after TMZ released photos of his Friday, Sept. 11 wedding nuptials in Santa Monica, California, which showed

Hollywood actor George Clooney described GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as “idiotic” and “intolerant” during an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend.

Emmy-award winning producer Andre Bauth is accused of stabbing his tenant, actor Clayton Haymes, after the man and a group of his friends mocked the producer for saying he would win five Academy Awards.

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.

Chris Queen’s new book Football, Faith, & Flannery O’Connor: A Love Letter to the South is just what the title promises, a breezy, fast-moving brochure for a somewhat loosely-defined slice of America. One of the most quintessentially Southern things about the South is that it’s not easy to say exactly where it begins and ends.

Hollywood airheads have got to stop making “important” movies.

President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett returned to Hollywood to promote the White House’s anti-rape campaign “It’s On Us.”

The video for Miley Cyrus’s latest single “Dooo It” dropped this week, and to say she really “does it,” would be an understatement.

In a GQ article back in 2011, Billy Ray Cyrus lamented over his daughter Miley’s rebellious turn for the worse. At the time, Billy refused to attend his daughter’s 18th birthday because it was in a “bar.” Like any father would be, he was greatly disturbed by her lewd pole dancing and public drug use.

Hollywood can be a tough, judgmental place, just ask former child actress Lisa Jakub, who left the industry altogether.

On July 20, the Obama Administration restored diplomatic relations with communist Cuba, officially ending a Cold War era stalemate that the United States arguably gained very little from ending. But, as Americans begin to travel to the island nation, Hollywood is already cultivating roots.

Let’s raise a glass to the “feminist” role models who got the happy endings their fellow sisters didn’t want them to have.

Amid questions about Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s authenticity and electability, some major Hollywood donors are ready to put their money and support behind Vice President Joe Biden, and have scheduled a fundraiser for the 72-year-old Wednesday in West Hollywood.

Two-time Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman says Hollywood movies just aren’t what they used to be.

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner says women who are both funny and beautiful are almost nonexistent in Hollywood.

It is common for Hollywood celebrities and other stars to invest time in charitable causes. But once the cameras are off, the unsung heroes of international famine and despair quickly find out who really cares, and who forgot to leave their ego on the private jet.

The same day that California Governor Jerry Brown signed childhood vaccine bill SB 277 into law, two-time Golden Globe Award winning comedic actor Jim Carrey took to Twitter blasting the governor for not killing the bill that makes California among three states with the strictest vaccine laws in the country.

Sunday night featured the annual Tony Awards, celebrating the supposed best of Broadway. Experts predicted awful ratings; the ratings for the Tony Awards have dropped steadily over time, with only 7 million people watching last year. Last night, few were going to tune in, given that no blockbuster musical like The Producers or The Book of Mormon had a shot at the top award, and no major hosts outside Broadway took the stage (the hosts were Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming).

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein reportedly told the cast and crew of Finding Neverland in April the Broadway show’s failure to garner a single Tony Award nomination was personal. Sunday, Seinfeld creator Larry David joked it was because he is Jewish.

After his latest film project failed to meet its fundraising goals on Kickstarter, outspoken German director Uwe Boll posted a series of videos online Sunday to go after crowd funding and to stick it to both Hollywood and fans who buy into the culture.

Chinese filmmakers have signed Bruce Willis to a major role in a new World War II epic titled The Bombing, which is now in production, Variety reports.

The premiere of “Entourage” on HBO in the summer of 2004 arrived just a few months after my own arrival in Hollywood. My goals were much less ambitious than Vinnie and the gang, and I wouldn’t even achieve those, but

In February I wrote about political punks – who actually have cultural credibility. They appreciate mainstream culture for the power of the parable in furthering a message of liberty.

A complaint filed in California federal court Tuesday alleges major Hollywood film and TV studios have been recycling music for new projects in direct violation of a 2010 labor agreement.