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Mission: Impossible fans, have no fear: the long-running action franchise will be back for a sixth installment.

Actor Emile Hirsch was sentenced Monday to 15 days in jail for assaulting a female Paramount executive during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in January.

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

The historical drama Selma premiered in Manhattan Sunday night, where members of the film’s cast and crew posed for pictures donning “I can’t breathe” shirts over their formal clothing. The group then marched to the steps of the New York Public Library,

Mark Wahlberg, who recently filed a request with the Massachusetts Parole Board to have a 1988 felony assault conviction expunged from his record, is under fire from Asian activist group 18 Million Rising, who have launched a petition to attempt

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, former CIA Deputy Director Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service, slammed the release of the Senate CIA torture report Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the current chairwoman

Mark Wahlberg wants a 1988 felony assault conviction expunged from his record so that he can become a reserve officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. As Breitbart’s Kelli Serio reported last week, Wahlberg recently filed legal documents with the

Dr. Joanna Rose, who was conceived via anonymous donor-sperm in the UK, has criticized the surrogacy process, saying that it ignores the rights of children. In a radio interview Wednesday, Rose said that there has been a concerted effort to

Politics can be dirty, but also funny. For example, see some guerrilla political street art in California. Poster art making fun of Governor Jerry Brown appeared in Los Angeles on utility boxes and cables near Paramount Studios, the Hollywood Bowl,

Authorities who carried out their first full day of investigation into a Virgin spacecraft crash that killed one pilot and seriously injured another said probing the incident could take a year. At a news conference late Saturday, National Transportation Safety

Michael Bay has his sights set on directing Paramount Pictures’ 13 Hours, which is based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s book Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi. The book recounts the tragedies on Sept. 11, 2012, in which Islamic militants

DALLAS, Texas — On the heels of the latest teacher-student sex scandal and as part of October’s Safe Schools Week, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner of Education Michael Williams addressed the importance that everyone plays in identifying and reporting

An attempt to take an Ebola-ridden nonagenarian in Sierra Leone resulted in a riot after her son, described as a “famous gangster” in local media, and friend, blockaded the ambulance, insisting she was not sick. Adamu Eze, son of Aminata

Adult asylum seekers who lie about their age are being placed in British schools alongside children as young as 11, teachers have warned. School heads revealed that they discovered cases of men in their 20s being sent to school with

On Monday, the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) sent a letter to the Westin Bonaventure hotel in Downtown Los Angeles calling upon it to “ban unlawful discrimination” on its property. The letter warns that hosting the annual meeting

North Korea’s state media said on Saturday high-level talks with the South were now all but scrapped due to the launch of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets from the South a day earlier. The two Koreas traded heavy machine-gun fire across their

BAGHDAD (AP) — To get a home or an office built in the central Iraqi province of Salahuddin, contractors have usually had to pay hefty bribes to corrupt officials in Baghdad to clear away the red tape. It was just

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It took a murderous Idris Elba and a pair of dolphin buddies to defeat “Guardians of the Galaxy” at movie theaters. The Sony thriller “No Good Deed,” which stars Elba as an escaped convict and Taraji

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Guardians of the Galaxy” continues to rule the box office universe. The cosmic Marvel adventure arrived in first place at the box office for a fourth weekend with $10.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The

The new budget for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) includes funds for a special team of cleaners that will help ensure the Bay Area’s heavily trafficked train stations smell urine and feces-free. Power washing the feces on a BART

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released the zip codes associated with the Obama administration’s release of 169 immigrants convicted of “homicide-related” offenses who were awaiting deportation proceedings.  ICE released the new information about the 169 immigrant convicts to Iowa Republican

From Gaza, Hamas has fired more than 3000 rockets directly aimed at Israeli civilians. The terrorist group has also used humanitarian aid meant for Palestinian civilians to build terror tunnels into Israel. The tunnels are designed to allow Hamas terrorists

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has once again triggered a series of events leading to the deaths of children and innocent civilians – this time, an attack on an area including a UN school that has left 15 people dead.

MCALLEN, Texas–Witness testimony in a drug trafficking trial in South Texas gave a unique insight into how narco smugglers try to fool law enforcement in order to move drugs into metropolitan areas. Later this week jurors will have to deliberate

Some social media users said something stronger than “cowabunga” after they saw a new poster for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. An Australian poster for the film, opening next month in the U.S., features the four heroes bounding off

Even as a proposed truce fails, and Israel’s military is set to “intensify” retaliation against the barrage of Hamas rockets, the admonitions have started. The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed “serious doubt” that Israel’s military strikes comply with

Ireland’s government recently took steps toward becoming the first EU country to require plain packaging for tobacco products, and the UK would like to follow its lead. In light of recent reports coming out of Australia, the only country to enact

Thursday at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, TX, President Barack Obama mocked Republicans for “using taxpayer dollars” and “suing me for dong my job” then laughed off former Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) recent call for his impeachment.  The president leaned

THR reports that for more than five years a group of investors have kept the plates spinning of a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures that alleges the studio bilked them out of $40 million. The investors gave Paramount $40 million for

The BBC is one of the worst companies in Britain for hiding behind commercial confidentiality rules to hush-up embarrassing information. The head of the National Audit Office (NAO) told MPs that the BBCs unwillingness to be open about its activities

Box Office: Under-Performing ‘Transformers 4’ Should be Freaking Hollywood Out My reviews of the dreadful “Tammy,” the pro-Catholic “Deliver Us From Evil,” and a much better than expected “Transformers: Age of Extinction” just posted.  I’m late with “Transformers” due to

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are clashing over whether to loosen the bloc’s rules overseeing national budgets and limiting how much debt governments may take on. Italy, Belgium and others are arguing more flexibility is needed to foster growth

On July 6, 2007, when I was interviewing A.C. Lyles, a.k.a. “Mr. Paramount,” he suggested I write about someone, who was never a star, but had an enormous impact on the life of one of Hollywood’s greatest. He was referring

Thirty-five years ago today, John “Duke” Wayne, made famous by playing the rugged hero in westerns directed by John Ford and Howard Hawks, went to his reward. In May 2012, I interviewed writer-producer A.J. Fenady (1), known for The Rebel, Branded, Hondo

50 Cent Throws Like a Girl… Or Why Boys Need Fathers Dang. — — My old high school classmate (Go Lasers!) Jay Weber, who is now a conservative talk radio host at WISN in Milwaukee, probably hit the nail on