By Kristopher Tapley | Variety Nearly a decade ago, the controversial best-picture snub of superhero hit “The Dark Knight” sparked the motion picture Academy to action. In an attempt to stoke the Oscar odds for populist cinema and to be more inclusive, the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfT3Hc0Nibg Laura Dern and Angela Bassett discuss how the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement has changed Hollywood for Variety's Actors on Actors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgseWz45zGo Colin Jost and Michael Che give each other a lie detector test for Vanity Fair. Is Colin funny because deep down he's miserable? Does Colin think he's better than Michael cause he went to Harvard? Does Michael think he knows...
...Women and Minorities Aren’t Getting Better Movie Roles (Study) By Brent Lang | Variety Time’s Up and #MeToo is dominating the talk in Hollywood, and not an awards show nor a red carpet interview seems to take place these days without filmmakers and actors being...
By Daniel Holloway | Variety Netflix will not be streaming a controversial documentary about Louis Farrakhan. A company spokesperson on Tuesday said that reports that the streaming service would add the documentary “My Life’s Journey Through Music” next month were the...
Venezia 75 Competition An international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature-length films, presented as world premieres. (There are 21 this year) The Mountain, dir: Rick Alverson Doubles Vies, dir: Olivier Assayas The Sisters Brothers, dir: Jacques Audiard...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M37FhweQ4g8 Issa Rae from HBO's 'Insecure' and Michael B. Jordan from 'Fahrenheit 451' talk 'Black Panther,' finding new audiences and holding back from social media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53nsgJIGDBY Wiz Khalifa takes a lie detector test for Vanity Fair. Does he really spend $10K a month on weed? Who smokes more, Wiz Khalifa or Snoop Dogg? Does he like Biggie more than Tupac? Does he believe in free will? Rolling Papers...
By Maane Khatchatourian | Variety The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited a record number of new members, extending invites to 928 people. The Academy topped last year’s record of 774 new members. It invited 683 members in 2016 and 322 in 2015,...
by David Robb | Deadline Hollywood Saying that discrimination is “still rampant” in the film industry, the DGA today released its second report on Feature Film Diversity, which found that only 9.7% of live-action American films with box office takes of at least...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anZNbiKSKKs John Legend knew Tiffany Haddish was destined for stardom the minute he saw her act at a comedy club. “I told [my wife] Chrissy [Teigen], ‘I feel like she’s gonna be famous,'” Legend said. Legend and Haddish were among the...
ESPN News Services Jack Johnson, the first black man to become world heavyweight champion, was posthumously pardoned Thursday by President Donald Trump for a 1913 conviction for violating the Mann Act. Trump had said in April that he was considering the pardon after...