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Author Christian Toto has thrown down the gauntlet to Hollywood, challenging the industry to “wake up” to woke ideology’s destructive grip on entertainment.

Hollywood producer Ryan Kavanaugh is fleeing Los Angeles, California, amid rising crime, homelessness, and higher taxes. Flight from the Democrat-run city is trending as “a growing chorus of Hollywood executives are talking about leaving the city,” one entertainment industry insider told The Wrap.

U.S. actor and director John Malkovich was turned away from a top Venice hotel over a lapsed coronavirus vaccine passport last week, Italian media reported Wednesday.

NEW YORK — After a month at no. 1, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has finally been overtaken at the box office. Paramount Pictures’ “Scream” reboot debuted with $30.6 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The rapid decline of Hollywood’s share of the Chinese film market – the largest in the world as of 2020, when the Chinese coronavirus pandemic shut American cinemas and productions down – has created a small but growing market of

In a sign of mounting animosity between China and Hollywood, a Chinese state-run newspaper blamed the U.S. entertainment industry’s “distorted values” on Thursday, and its failure to grasp Chinese culture, for China’s decision to block the release of more Hollywood movies.

A gunman opened fire on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame Sunday night as a group of Vicente Fernandez fans who gathered to mourn his death.

China’s Global Times, a state-controlled publication, asserted this week that Hollywood will destroy itself as it continues to embrace “political correctness” with an increasingly lunatic fervor.

Author Alice Sebold’s movie project about her 1981 rape is imploding after a producer’s personal investigation of the incident led to exoneration for the man who was convicted for it.

Fans have raised millions to fund a third season of the Christian TV series “The Chosen” plus a Christmas special feature film.

British actor Eddie Redmayne says he regrets playing a transgender character in the 2015 film, The Danish Girl, calling his decision to accept the movie role a “mistake.” Redmayne, however, is set to star in the London revival of the 1972 musical Cabaret as a character typically played by “queer” actors.

Saturday Night Live (SNL)’s Michael Che attacked Kyle Rittenhouse during the latest Weekend Update segment, stating, “hopefully he got all of that shooting out of his system before he becomes a cop.”

Actress Rachel Zegler, the star of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming remake of West Side Story, says the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial “is the epitome of white privilege” and an indictment of the United States as a whole.

Actress Eliza Dushku told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that she faced sexual harassment on the set of CBS’s Bull and was fired from the show and forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement after calling it out.

Actor George Clooney says that “stupid mistakes” led to Alec Baldwin fatally shooting 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.

Film industry crew members have narrowly voted to approve a pair of contracts with Hollywood producers after a standoff that came within days of a strike that would have frozen productions across the U.S., union leaders said Monday.

Hollywood keeps striking out at the Chinese box office, with Disney’s Jungle Cruise becoming the latest blockbuster to bomb with Chinese audiences.

Actress Busy Philipps bizarrely attacked actor Chris Pratt over an Instagram post in which he praised his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, suggesting that the actor was using language that objectifies his wife.

Netflix is axing a Latina housekeeper character from its upcoming comedy series Uncoupled after actress Ada Maris, who is of Mexican descent, became outraged by her lines.

Television host and actor Terrence Jenkins — better known as Terrence J — narrowly escaped an armed follow-home robbery attempt in which a gunman shot at him.

The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry said his satirical website enjoys some “secret fans” among “A-list Hollywood stars.”

The merchandising company Phenomenal, founded by Meena Harris — the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris — is now expanding into an entertainment company, according to a report by the Hollywood Reporter.

Amanda Milius said the “Russia hoax” was “the blueprint for how they lie to us” and turn America in “the opposite direction of reality.”

Matthew Hutchins — the husband of the late “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died late last month after being fatally shot by actor Alec Baldwin on the film set — has reportedly hired a Los Angeles law firm that specializes in wrongful death lawsuits.

Actor Alec Baldwin told reporters Saturday he is “extremely interested” in limiting the use of firearms on film sets. 

“Rust” head armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed broke her silence in a statement issued by her attorneys on Friday, in which she blamed producers, adding that she has “no idea” where the live rounds of ammunition came from, and that people have “slandered” her to the media.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said, “American corporations should start getting an ethical backbone when it comes to their dealings with China.” Because “too many U.S. industries have been bending over backwards to try

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old armorer for the Alec Baldwin film Rust, was the subject of numerous complaints while handling weapons on another film set just two months earlier, infuriating star Nicolas Cage, according to a crew member who spoke with TheWrap.

SANTA FE, N.M. — Investigators plan to discuss their initial findings Wednesday in the fatal movie-set shooting in which Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun, killing a cinematographer and wounding the director.

California state Sen. Dave Cortese (D) is introducing legislation to ban live guns and ammunition on movie sets in the wake of actor Alec Baldwin’s fatal discharge of a prop gun Thursday.

NEW YORK — With computer-generated imagery, it seems the sky’s the limit in the magic Hollywood can produce: elaborate dystopian universes. Trips to outer space, for those neither astronauts nor billionaires. Immersive journeys to the future, or back to bygone eras.

Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell suggested the TV adaptation of her book was “not very feminist,” because it sent a viewers a message they should find their own Mr. Big.

Actress Jessica Chastain said she demanded the writer-director of HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage shoot nude scenes of her co-star Oscar Isaac that showed the equivalent body parts she had to bare for her own performance, according to a recent interview.

“James Bond is a simp” in No Time to Die, the latest film in the spy franchise, film director Amanda Milius said.

The Daily Beast spoke to 20 anonymous The Wrap workers, current and former, about CEO Sharon Waxman — many of whom feared professional and legal retaliation if their names were to be published.

Actress Sarah Silverman slammed Hollywood over what she called its “f**ked up” tendency to cast non-Jewish actors to play Jewish characters, referring to this type of casting as “Jewface.”