While most Americans were working and looking forward to hot dogs and fireworks on the Fourth of July some Hollywood celebs, media types and political operatives — including some in President Donald Trump’s inner circle — were partying at the tony Southhampton home of Washington Post owner/editor Lally Graham Weymouth this weekend.
Actor-director Elizabeth Banks “called out” legendary director Steven Spielberg in a speech at the Women in Film awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Wednesday, accusing Spielberg of never having cast a woman as a lead in a film in his decades-long career.
Actor Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg sat in on a staff meeting at the offices of the Washington Post on Thursday to prepare for an upcoming film about the newspaper’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Harvey Weinstein says he’s putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to fighting President Donald Trump’s political agenda.
Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams are teaming up to turn a real-life Syrian refugee story into a feature film.
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep are set to team up on an upcoming drama about the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers, according to a report.
Author and prolific Tweeter Joyce Carol Oates openly pondered the state of Christianity in America in a post to her Twitter account Thursday afternoon — and believes Christianity is now indistinguishable from white nationalism in many parts of America.
What was supposed to be a holiday weekend box office battle between two big-budget tentpoles quickly flamed out as two big studio films flopped, a micro-budget horror movie did better than expected and Finding Dory looked for its third straight win over the sluggish July 4 frame.
Acclaimed director-producer Steven Spielberg delivered a jocular commencement speech to Harvard University’s Class of 2016 Thursday and lobbed a thinly veiled attack at presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.
California’s 33rd Congressional District is one of the most reliably true-blue liberal districts in the entire country — and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) might just win it.
Hollywood’s biggest Democrat power players overwhelmingly back Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race and have been writing the checks to prove it.
A long list of Hollywood types has issued a threatening letter through the Human Rights Campaign pledging not to do business in Georgia if the governor fails to veto a bill that would allow ministers and others to opt out of homosexual
San Francisco Democrats will have to reach deeper into their pockets than ever before if they want to sit with George Clooney and Hillary Clinton at the presidential candidate’s Bay Area fundraiser dinner next month. Two seats at the head table with the guests of honor are going for a whopping $350,000.
Hollywood titan Steven Spielberg became the latest industry figure to weigh in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy on Thursday, saying in an interview that he does not believe there is “inherent or dormant racism” in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and that he is “not 100 percent” supportive of the Academy’s dramatic rule changes to increase diversity within the organization.
Over 5 seasons and 52 episodes (now available on Bluray), TNT’s “Falling Skies” is a modern-day retelling of the American Revolution but with aliens as our oppressors as opposed to the British. It’s a nifty concept, well-executed by creator Robert
Billionaire entertainment mogul Haim Saban wants Hollywood to know exactly how much he has donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign because he hopes the eye-popping figure inspires other deep-pocketed donors to open their wallets for the Democratic presidential candidate.
President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Washington on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in which pledged to do “everything we can” to fight antisemitism.
TEL AVIV – To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust, Steven Spielberg teamed up with the Hollywood Reporter to honor 11 of Hollywood’s remaining Holocaust survivors in a groundbreaking testimonial.
The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s latest, an adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl novel “The BFG,” was released online last week.
Singer Barbra Streisand and director Steven Spielberg were among the 17 people awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday.
Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates came under intense fire from social media users on Sunday after tweeting that she has only heard “puritanical & punitive” things about the Islamic State and wonders whether there is anything “celebratory & joyous” about the terrorist group.
President Barack Obama announced 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Monday. The list includes several prominent Hollywood leftists–including Steven Spielberg, who gave Obama an award last year.
Steven Spielberg, James Taylor, and Barbra Streisand are among the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, according to the White House.
A number of events and tourist attractions, some with ties to Hollywood, have been closed and canceled in Paris in wake of the city-wide terror attacks that struck the French capital on Friday, leaving at least 120 dead and hundreds more injured.
Steven Spielberg directed Tom Hanks in a critically acclaimed film that grossed only $15.3 million its opening weekend. Think about that. How is that even possible? We’re not in the middle of June, the fanboy summer season. This is October,
For the last couple of years, and for no particular reason, I have been studying the former Soviet Union: the Bolshevik Revolution, the Stalin era, the Gulags and Terror Campaigns. This has resulted in a growing frustration over Hollywood’s refusal
Steven Spielberg’s highly-anticipated Cold War espionage thriller Bridge of Spies hits theaters this Friday, October 16.
In a movie-world before superheroes and comic books and franchises and universes, Concept was King, and in 1990 author Michael Crichton came up with a doozy. Imagine, Crichton fantasized, that a mosquito drew blood from a dinosaur and then got
Author Joyce Carol Oates is upset by a picture she saw on Twitter of a man posing before a large, downed animal. She sent the following tweet out to her 122,000 followers Tuesday morning.
Joyce Carol Oates, the 77 year-old author, professor, and Twitter-genius, condemned Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg Tuesday for hunting down and killing a dinosaur. “So barbaric that this should still be allowed,” the feminist wrote. “No conservation laws in effect wherever
It has been roughly one year since celebrities like Elton John, Jay Leno, and Ellen DeGeneres initiated a boycott against the posh Beverly Hills Hotel, once a popular hotspot in the bustling, star-filled heart of Hollywood.
Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential aspirant Hillary Rodham Clinton lined up multiple fundraisers for May 7 in Los Angeles.
Social messaging service Snapchat premiered a new short-form Web series on Saturday featuring the daughters of Hollywood titans Steven Spielberg and John Goldwyn. Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn will write and star in Literally Can’t Even, a series about the
Shoah Foundation founder and Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg joined Holocaust survivors and dozens of world leaders at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Krakow Tuesday for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp where over one million Jews lost their lives in World War II.