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Hollywood actor and Russian citizenSteven Seagal has launched a sports promotion company in Russia to produce a live fight show. Zhara Fight, with Seagal at the helm as president, will promote live events featuring MMA and other fighters from various countries. The inaugural show is scheduled for May 30 at one of Moscow’s most popular venues, […]

Does ABC’s decision to cancel Roseanne, in the wake of a racist tweet Tuesday morning by executive producer/star Roseanne Barr, also cancel its Emmy prospects? The answer appears to be yes. The Alphabet network is suspending its FYC campaign on behalf of the show, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The first visible evidence of this will come on Sunday, […]

Upfronts season has come and gone, and that means broadcast networks have canceled many a show to make room for their newly-ordered series (Or because their lead star sent out a racially-charged tweet). But not every program that got the ax went out with bad Nielsen numbers. Here’s a look at the highest-rated shows didn’t […]

Zack Snyder said in response to a fan question on the social-media site Vero that his next project will be The Fountainhead, an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel. Rand’s novel — a favorite of Paul Ryan and Donald Trump — is about a young architect who refuses to conform to the old guard architectural Establishment. Snyder […]

Reynolds had a falling out with his father, but his wife, Blake Lively, encouraged him to repair their relationship before he passed away. According to the actor, “She has a gift for foresight.” After their reconciliation, the couple named their first daughter after his father. “It felt right,” Reynolds says. “All family relationships come with some […]

Country Music Hall of Famer Willie Nelson came to Charlotte’s PNC Music Pavilion on Saturday night specifically to headline his Outlaw Music Festival, then left without ever playing or singing a single note — leaving fans confused, angry and disappointed. Live Nation issued a press release after 11 p.m. Saturday night, saying, simply: “Due to […]

There’s a moment I remember vividly from my childhood inner monologue. I was 11 years old, standing in line for the school cafeteria, on the cusp of my elementary school graduation, and suddenly a thought popped into my head. You know fully and entirely who you are, my 11-year-old brain said. You understand the world. […]

Bollywood actress and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Priyanka Chopra called on the international community on Thursday to step up support for Rohingya women and children who fled to Bangladesh from a military crackdown in Myanmar. A military response to insurgent attacks on police posts and an army base in northern Rakhine state last August pushed almost […]

Boba Fett is getting his own Star Wars Anthology film, and Disney and Lucasfilm have tapped Logan director James Mangold to write and direct. A Obi-Wan Kenobi movie is also in development, but you knew that already. More on the Boba Fett movie below. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that James Mangold is writing and directing […]

Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities on Friday following a probe into allegations of sexual misconduct by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and the NYPD, the New York Times and New York Daily News have reported. Benjamin Brafman, an attorney for Weinstein, declined to comment on the repots. The news comes months after an Oct. 5 New York […]

Morgan Freeman has been accused of sexual harassment by eight women in a new exposé published by CNN. The women include production assistants and workers who interacted with Freeman on movie sets and entertainment journalists, including CNN’s own reporter Chloe Melas and a journalist from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. CNN’s report begins with an accusation from a production […]

Following a blistering reaction on social media, Jason Bateman, one of the stars of “Arrested Development,” apologized on Thursday after an interview with The New York Times during which he defended Jeffrey Tambor, a co-star, and his on-set behavior toward another co-star, Jessica Walter. Critics accused Mr. Bateman of excusing Mr. Tambor’s verbal harassment at the expense […]

Moses Farrow, the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, defends his father — and claims his mother was abusive towards him and his siblings, a charge she previously denied — in a detailed new personal essay, titled “A Son Speaks Out,” posted online Wednesday. Moses, who was adopted from South Korea as a toddler by Mia and then […]

Michael Bay, the director of great trash (The Rock, Armageddon) and bad trash (most of the Transformers movies) alike, has always been the kind of filmmaker who shoots his films for the biggest, loudest screens possible. Good or bad or something in-between, his films have been blockbusters in the truest sense of the word – […]

If you’re craving more prestigious prestige television we have three words for you: BBC, Richard, Gere. The actor has been confirmed to play the lead role in BBC Two’s new eight-part drama MotherFatherSon, according to The Hollywood Reporter . It will be the film star’s […] Click here to view original web page at www.vulture.com

Over the weekend, Maggie Gyllenhaal opened up at Vulture Festival about growing tired of her many sex scenes on The Deuce, in which she plays sex worker Candy Merrell. But there’s one sex scene in particular that Gyllenhaal now says she fought to include in the series. In its first season, Candy has sex with […]

Bill Gold, one of Hollywood’s best-known creators of film posters, has died aged 97. The veteran illustrator had a hand in more than 2,000 posters, including those for Casablanca, Dial M for Murder, and Dirty Harry. Mr Gold began work at the film production company Warner Brothers in the 1940s. The endangered art of the […]

Charlize Theron and director Jay Roach are teaming to tell the tale of disgraced Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. The project is being put together by Annapurna, which is already making a Dick Cheney biopic with helmer Adam McKay, and comes armed with a script by Charles Randolph, who won an Oscar for co-writing The Big Short. Annapurna […]

Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to play the villainous Mysterio in Sony Pictures’ sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming. Talks are underway right now for Gyllenhaal to join the long line of Spidey villains. Gyllenhaal is booked to star this fall in The American, the BRON-financed and Cary Fukunaga-directed drama about the life of iconic composer Leonard Bernstein, which Gyllenhaal is starring […]

The return of Arrested Development on Netflix isn’t without a fair share of drama. Not only are members of the cast upset about the recut version of season 4 and payment they may be owed due to its expanded episode count, but there is also the matter of Jeffrey Tambor. The actor is still in the middle of the harassment controversy that led […]