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HOLLYWOOD, California—A planned protest over the lack of diversity in the film industry by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) has been canceled. The group will instead seek direct dialogue with Hollywood’s central authority, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Over the last few months Breitbart News has analyzed the performance of director Ana DuVernay’s “Selma,” both at the box office and in the Awards Derby, through the lens of an America completely exhausted by nearly three years of unrelenting,

David Oyelowo, the actor who portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the historical film “Selma,” blasted the Motion Picture Academy Sunday for awarding black actors with Oscars “more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or

It’s been almost ten years since Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf coast of the United States and to commemorate the event, Selma director Ava DuVernay and actor David Oyelowo are reportedly teaming up to dramatize the historic storm. DuVernay, who

Man alive, if you thought the Left was bitterly angry last week over the success of a film that portrays the War On Terror as a righteous cause, wait until they get a load of this weekend’s box office. “American

New York Times Maureen Dowd  columnist made a big mistake last week: she reported the truth about the Left’s latest sacred cow, producer Oprah Winfrey’s box office disappointment “Selma.” The film falsely and needlessly defames President Lyndon Johnson as a

The Daily Beast interviewed an unidentified female Oscar voter who hated Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” and believes producer Oprah Winfrey’s dishonest Civil Rights drama “Selma” was robbed It was nominated for only Best Song and Picture). This anonymous voter is

TMZ caught up with “Selma’ actor Tim Roth as he was going to the White House for a screening of the film and asked about the controversy surrounding some of the black actors not getting Academy Award nominations. Roth said he

Ahead of the Martin Luther King holiday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) compared the fight for amnesty for illegal immigrants to the march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama during a New Jersey stop on his nationwide executive amnesty tour. Gutierrez

In the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, the moment when the momentum shifted decisively against Hillary Clinton was when the New York Senator embroiled herself in a controversy over whether President Lyndon Baines Johnson or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deserved

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs responded Friday to the controversy surrounding the Oscars’ failure to nominate any minorities in all four of its acting categories.

Despite an also-ran Best Picture Oscar nomination and a ton of publicity surrounding all the anti-science crybabying over “Selma’s” overall  Oscar snub, the dishonest Civil Rights drama stood alone in its box office free fall. Every other film nominated for

The cast and crew of Selma will march with local residents in Alabama on Sunday at an event commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

NBC’s Al Sharpton, President Obama’s go-to man on race and the ring-leader behind the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown race hoaxes, is furious over the Oscar nominations and has called for an emergency meeting in Hollywood to extort money address

Although Ava Duvernay’s civil rights era drama Selma garnered only two Oscar nominations Thursday, President Obama has deemed the film worthy of showing, and will screen it Friday night at the White House for a special event.

Oprah Winfrey’s “Selma” took a pretty harsh beating Thursday morning as nominations were announced for the 87th annual Oscar nominations. The civil rights drama was blanked in every major category, including Best Actor, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, and Score. (Full list

Oprah Winfrey’s controversial civil rights drama “Selma” and the now-discredited Lena Dunham were the big losers at last night’s Golden Globe awards. Despite the fact both earned more than one nomination in big categories, except for “Selma’s” Best Original Song

Director Ava DuVarney’s third feature film is impressive on many levels. Yet, given its potent subject matter, other than a few scenes, “Selma” is emotionally flat and uninspiring. This is especially surprising in the wake of the George Zimmerman and

Selma director Ava DuVernay was speaking at a luncheon in New York on Tuesday when she was told her audience, “I’m not gonna argue history” in response to a question about her film’s version of events regarding former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s role in the civil rights movement.

Hip hop artist Common spoke to the Huffington Post Monday about his role in the film Selma, saying that Americans have made little progress in regards to race relations since the days of slavery and segregation.

Drudge picked up on the fascinating fact that this is the second year in a row the prestigious Producers Guild Awards snubbed producer Oprah Winfrey and her product: a historical-based race drama. Last year, it was the historically-inaccurate “The Butler.”

Angelina Jolie’s World War II drama “Unbroken” delivered big for Universal Pictures on Christmas Day, becoming the third highest-earning Christmas Day release ever.

With Sony’s decision to allow independent theater owners to screen The Interview, Variety reports that over 300 theaters have already signed up to show the film.