Hollywood went whole-hog for Joe Biden in 2020, with celebrities, entertainment executives, and network news divisions working overtime to stump for the candidate. Now the industry is feeling the consequences of its actions as advertising revenue is cratering across the board as a result of consumer fears tied to Bidenflation and the prospect of a prolonged recession.
While almost every major British TV broadcaster devoted Monday to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, one channel opted for alternative programming by airing the widely reviled “The Emoji Movie,” prompting mockery on social media as well as some glee from non-royalists.
Barack and Michelle Obama are reportedly getting more unconditional love from Hollywood, this time in the form of a Smithsonian Channel documentary about the making of the former first couple’s official White House portrait paintings.
Zoey 101 star Alexa Nikolas says she “didn’t feel safe” while at Nickelodeon and is demanding and apology, as well as changes for today’s kids working at the famed children’s network.
Nearly 600 male Hollywood producers showrunners have signed a letter to executives at Hollywood studios demanding that abortion “safety protocols” be put in place for pregnant employees in pro-life states.
Irreverent cartoon characters Beavis and Butthead hilariously take on white privilege in the new film, ‘Beavis & Butthead Do the Universe.’
Unlike the child-grooming fascists at the Walt Disney Co., Paramount will not be blacklisting content on its streaming service.
Following the removal of Chinese sponsorship from the film, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ producers restored the original Taiwanese and Japanese flag patches to Maverick’s iconic jacket.
Former Ray Donovan showrunner David Hollander has been fired from the upcoming Showtime series, “American Gigolo,” following an investigation by the network and producers Paramount Television Studios into his alleged misconduct.
Top Hollywood studios, from NBCUniversal to ViacomCBS to Disney, will be airing a “Public Service Announcement” (PSA) about transgender children from the far-left activist organization Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
The fallout from Will Smith physically assaulting Chris Rock at the Oscars will impact more than just Smith’s Hollywood career. Corporate partners who have allied themselves with Smith and his charitable foundation now face brand safety concerns over the actor’s newly toxic public image.
Hollywood has put its wishful thinking on full display by casting Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) in a cameo role as the president of Earth in the season four finale of Star Trek: Discovery on Paramount+.
Teen Wolf actress Arden Cho has reportedly declined to return for a movie sequel of the series after she was offered half the salary of her white costars. Meanwhile, the directors are facing backlash.
Paramount announced delays in the release of two of its high anticipated blockbusters, Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7, over worries that fans will once again decide to avoid theaters as coronavirus cases continue to spike around the world.
Hollywood crews are blowing the whistle on the studios, claiming their members are being pushed to their limits to make up for lost time under the pandemic and to satisfy consumers’ bottomless demand for streaming content, according to a new report.
Four new films with major stars from Hugh Jackman to Michael Keaton opened in North American movie theaters this weekend and only the one with animated puppies fared well. But it wasn’t enough to beat out Ryan Reynolds’ action-comedy “Free Guy,” which topped the charts for the second weekend running.
Aug. 5 (UPI) — South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have signed a massive new multi-year deal.
Hollywood is putting more drag in the lives of Americans by re-imagining classic TV shows like The “Brady Bunch” as drag queen comedies.
Voice actress E.G. Daily, who voiced Tommy Pickles in Nickelodeon’s hit cartoon Rugrats, said the series cast always sensed the character Betty DeVille was a lesbian, in wake of the upcoming Paramount+ reboot declaring Deville is openly gay.
The Trump-bashing Tony Awards — which hit a record low in ratings in 2019 — will become the first major awards show to move to streaming after finally setting a date for September 26, after being postponed due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
While many Americans lost jobs and income, were evicted from their homes, shuttered their businesses (many forever), and turned away workers and patrons, a majority of Hollywood’s elite executives and CEOs enjoyed a pay hike during the pandemic.
ViacomCBS is the first major Hollywood studio to speak out against Georgia’s voter integrity law, claiming without citing evidence that the legislation intended to fight voter fraud actually impedes the “equal right to vote.” The media conglomerate, which owns Paramount Pictures and the CBS network, stopped short of endorsing the left’s demands to boycott the state.
Filmmaker Joe Carnahan says streaming new-release movies — an industry adaptation to the coronavirus pandemic — is here to stay, postulating that WarnerMedia “made a lot of money” with its high-profile premiere of Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max.
Feb. 24 (UPI) — Paramount+ announced Wednesday that a new Frasier series would come to the streaming service. Kelsey Grammer is confirmed to return in his trademark role.
As small businesses around California struggle to stay afloat amid the latest round of stay-at-home orders, Hollywood studios are able to keep the cameras rolling thanks to the work of highly paid lobbyists whom the studios reportedly hired to sway state politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
Paramount Network is set to premiere a drama starring Emmy-winning actor Michael Chiklis as a former U.S. Border Patrol officer who turns against American immigration laws to illegally smuggle an endangered young woman across the southern border.
Hollywood’s biggest studios have succeeded in shutting down Openload, a popular pirating site that received more online traffic than Hulu, HBO Go, and NBCNews.com. A second pirating site, Streamango, was also shut down.
The top five movies for the second weekend of August is mostly filled with previous releases, with “Hobbs & Shaw” keeping the top spot over newly released “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”
Two Latino activist groups are planning to protest Paramount Pictures, railing against the mega-media company for failing to hire enough Latinos.
Paramount says it has fired the head of its television division, Amy Powell for making comments that drew complaints from employees.
Paramount has released a trailer for Jay-Z’s upcoming documentary about Trayvon Martin, whose death led to the rise of Black Lives Matter protest across the United States.
After delaying its airing in the aftermath of February’s Florida high school shooting, Paramount Network is permanently scrapping “Heathers.”
Deadline’s Michael Cieply points out that every major film studio is heavily promoting blockbuster film “featuring big guns” — all while Hollywood luminaries like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman are fronting public campaigns against law-abiding gun owners.
Gay advocacy group GLAAD slapped Hollywood with a failing grade on its annual report card for the lack of roles for gays and a dearth of gay storylines in films for 2017.
“I don’t think they completed more than 4 songs. It was the strangest, saddest and worst concert I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to a lot.”
Director Dylan Brown was fired off the movie Amusement Park over a report of “inappropriate and unwanted conduct,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Paramount Pictures is defending its latest release, the Jennifer Lawrence-starring horror pic mother!, after the film underperformed at the box office and earned a rare “F” CinemaScore from moviegoers over the weekend.
Former Paramount Pictures chairman and CEO Brad Grey died Sunday at his California home after a battle with cancer, his family has confirmed. He was 59.
Christian Bale is in discussions to play Dick Cheney in a biopic of the former vice president’s life from writer-director Adam McKay, according to a report.
Al Gore is back again to warn about the dangers of climate change in the first trailer for An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
