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Last week, I had another very occasional lunch with a friend who was a power in indie film when that meant something. We worked through the usual stuff—aches and pains, dead colleagues, favorite restaurants closed. Then came that increasingly difficult movie question: "Seen anything you liked?" The…

In a nine-minute video posted to social media, Ice Cube has responded to Katt Williams' viral Club Shay Shay YouTube show interview, in which he attacked Kevin Hart, Cedric the Entertainer, and discussed a potential bathroom rape scene in the Ice Cube film, Friday After Next, among other topics. Hart…

Less than a year after signing a reported $85 million deal spread over five years to join ESPN, host Pat McAfee is not happy with at least one network executive., McAfee accused ESPN executive Norby Williamson by name in a Friday segment. Speaking to his cohost, A.J. Hawk, saying he was part of a…

You’ve heard of personal trainers. But how about a very personal trainer who disses your work while you’re exercising with her? Christopher Nolan knows about the latter. While accepting the award for Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle on Wednesday night, Nolan related one…

If Hollywood truly suffers from a leadership malaise, as some charge, would the return of Monroe Stahr resuscitate the system? Filmmakers respect his judgment, stars his panache and investors his discipline, so Stahr's return may ignite a new Irving Thalberg-like era. Whoops — he's not…

Editor’s note: Underplayed in the media intrigue over the prospect of Warner Bros swallowing Shari Redstone's empire that includes Paramount and CBS is the gloomy reality that another storied Hollywood studio could go the way of Fox. That went from a vibrant, multi-faceted creative content-generating…

As my colleague Anthony D'Alessandro has noted, the domestic movie box office, starved of product by overlapping strikes, will likely be trimmed by a billion dollars in 2024. So here's question worth pondering: Would the film industry be healthier if most of that pruning occurred at the very…

Daniel Waters, the screenwriter behind 1992's Batman Returns, said the proposed “Catwoman” spinoff from that film had two very different takes. Waters spoke during a December 22 Los Angeles screening of Batman Returns at the Egyptian Theater. Director Tim Burton wanted “Catwoman” to be an…

Ken Fritz, was a personal manager of Tom and Dick Smothers for the better part of 60 years. In 1964 and recently out of college, Fritz started out as a sort of advance man for their tours before becoming their full-time road manager. Later, he co-managed them with Ken Kragen and eventually assumed solo man…

Gary Oldman isn’t a big fan of his portrayal of magician Sirius Black in the Harry Potter franchise. Speaking to Josh Horowitz on the latest edition of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Oldman claims his work in the role was meh in the three films he did in the series. Oldman debuted as Sirius…

Arnold Schwarzenegger has dropped a few anecdotes from his long career as an action movie star in his new book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life. The stories won’t prompt anyone to run out for acting lessons. Among them: the time he bit a dead vulture. The incident happened during his Conan the B…

Ricky Gervais has a message for those who don’t get his humor. The comedian has finally addressed a petition that was launched to remove a controversial joke from his upcoming Netflix comedy special, Armageddon, airing on Christmas Day. The joke being objected to stems from Gervais allegedly being…