Hollywood Commission Launches Second Entertainment Survey To Identify Progress & Adds Focus On Employees Working In Game Sector

Disney+ confirmed its cast for the upcoming new Lucasfilm Star Wars series, The Acolyte. The Hate U Give actress Amandla Stenberg was already announced for the show, and Deadline told you first about Squid Game Emmy Award-winner Lee Jung-jae, Manny Jacinto and Queen & Slim‘s Jodie Turner-Smith.

American Cinema Editors has announced it will honor The Woman King director Gina Prince-Bythewood with its ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 73rd annual ACE Eddie Awards, taking place within UCLA’s Royce Hall on March 5, 2023.

Paul Feig, director of such mega-hits as Bridesmaids, Spy, The Heat, Ghostbusters and A Simple Favor, has branched out into the fairytale genre with The School for Good and Evil, which hit Netflix this week.

Haley Lu Richardson knows a thing or two about horrible bosses—and working with them helped shift her perspective and re-define her future in a big way. Anyone who’s lived a little knows that no matter what course your life is on, everything can change in an instant.

We have confirmed and tracking service NRG is eyeing a $175M start for Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. That will make it the second best opening of 2022 after Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness which debuted to $187.4M. Last year’s Marvel sequel, Spider-Man: No Way Home, owns the biggest domestic opening of the pandemic at $260M, and second best ever in the history of box office.

Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx has paid tribute to his sister on the second anniversary of her death. The Oscar-winning star, 54, announced in October 2020 that DeOndra Dixon had died aged 36. He marked the anniversary by sharing a series of photos of them together on Instagram.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Opening statements began on Wednesday in a civil trial against Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, who has been accused of raping a publicist nearly a decade ago.  Haleigh Breest, who filed a lawsuit against Haggis in 2017, alleges that the screenwriter and director forced her to perform oral sex and then raped her after she reluctantly agreed to have a drink at his Soho apartment following a movie premiere. Her attorneys asserted to jurors that the director used his fame and position in Hollywood to pressure Breest, who was 26 at the time. “The defendant, Paul Haggis, is a famous movie director and screenwriter. He’s won two Oscars. He’s talented. He’s powerful. He’s also manipulative,” the plaintiff’s lawyer Zoe Salzman told the jurors in a Lower Manhattan courtroom. “The evidence in this case will show Mr. Haggis used his storytelling skills and fame to prey on, manipulate and attack vulnerable young women in the film industry.”

The second day of testimony in the Los Angeles rape trial of Danny Masterson heard evidence of an alleged second sexual assault on a fellow member of his Scientology social circle by the ex-That ’70s Show star .  

Olivia Wilde opened up about how she keeps going through the "burning hellfire of misogyny" in the entertainment industry during an event Monday. The "Don't Worry Darling" actress delivered her speech at the Elle's Women in Hollywood event just hours after Wilde and ex Jason Sudeikis issued a statement denying a former nanny's allegations about their relationship.  "Let’s face it, it’s not always easy to keep going," Wilde said, according to Page Six.  "In fact, sometimes it’s tempting to excuse ourselves from the burning hellfire of the misogyny that defines this business and say, ‘Good night, good luck, I’d rather eat glass for a living.'" Olivia Wilde gave a speech hours after the nanny of the actress's kids with Jason Sudeikis made public claims about the former couple's relationship.

Christopher Landon, the director of the horror movie Freaky, is slamming Hollywood studios for “day-and-date” releases amid the disappointing box office performance of Halloween Ends.

Issa Rae’s career is soaring, but even so she’s less optimistic about support for women in Hollywood now than she was in the immediate wake of #MeToo.

Mark Wahlberg has left Hollywood behind and moved out of the state to put his family first. Wahlberg, 51, revealed on Tuesday’s "The Talk" that he and his wife moved their four children to Nevada to give them a "better life." During the episode, Wahlberg discussed how he balances his career while also being a present father and husband.

Issa Rae has always been very candid about her views on Hollywood's machinations, and in a new interview with , the self-proclaimed «media mogul» got very frank about why she believes the entertainment industry is «regressing.»When asked what she feels has changed about Hollywood in a post-#MeToo era, the series creator answered that it was «sadly, not much.»«There are just too many enablers for there to be real change,» the  creator and alum adds, stating that real change will only come when people are actually «held accountable» with «legitimate consequences.» Rae, who once called the music business «probably the worst industry I’ve ever come across,» went on to declare that Hollywood rarely doles out suitable consequences for its offenders because «money will always reign supreme.»«That’s something that, even by working in this industry, we’re enabling. So it’s hard,» she tells the outlet. «What I have realized is that I can control my own environment and who I work with.

Ten Five Hospitality gave one of Hollywood’s most historic neighborhoods a makeover and now the Vinyl District has become one of the most popular hotspots in the City of Angels.