Jonah Hill To Play Legendary Hollywood Fixer Sidney Korshak in New Limited Series

Artists, Writers and Artisans (AWA), the creator-owned graphic fiction publisher, has launched AWA Studios and named Zach Studin as president, starting a new chapter for the group in Hollywood.

After already landing a buzzworthy breakout with “The Flight Attendant,” HBO Max has done it again with the critically acclaimed dramedy “Hacks.” Created and produced by Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, and Jen Statsky, the series focuses on a legendary Las Vegas comedienne, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), who finds herself dealing with a “canceled” television writer, Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), who wants nothing more to return to her life in Hollywood.

Sharon Stone shared some passionate words while speaking at The AIDS Monument groundbreaking in West Hollywood on June 5. 

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorImproving the level of diversity and inclusion in Hollywood is a worthy goal that makes business sense an in increasingly multicultural world.

As filming in Hollywood has resumed and is in full swing, the paparazzi recently spotted Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto shooting for their upcoming series in New York. The actors were snapped walking the streets in the Astoria area of Queens, New York, according to Just Jared.

The idea of how long it should take for someone who is the subject of misconduct accusations to come back to their career in Hollywood is a touchy subject. Some of the people that have been accused of sexual misconduct (but haven’t been put on trial) have been content with just fading into the background and not trying to revive their careers.

EXCLUSIVE: Jonah Hill and William Monahan are teaming on a limited series that will tell the complicated story of Hollywood fixer Sidney Korshak and Lew Wasserman, the MCA chairman who was the most powerful man in Hollywood. Hill will play Korshak and Monahan will create the series. The package will be shopped shortly. The aim is for it to have the epic sweep of Scorsese films like The Irishman and The Departed, the latter of which won Monahan the Academy Award.

Bullying in Hollywood “is an industrywide problem,” said Anita Hill, chair of the Hollywood Commission, during a panel discussion Thursday titled “Bullying and Toxic Workplaces in Hollywood.”

Even with the most recent watershed moments of Minari, Sound of Metal and Crazy Rich Asians, finding a place in Hollywood remains a challenge for Asian American and Pacific Islander creatives and talent.

Kumail Nanjiani is the discovery who more or less discovered himself by discovering that the story of his life could be made into a great film called ‘The Big Sick’. He had been through the tale personally, he wrote with his wife Emily Gordon and became a force to reckon with in Hollywood.

Emma Stone has been one of the biggest stars in Hollywood for more than a decade, but even she admits that she gets star-struck! During a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, the Cruella actress, 32, opened up about what it was like to meet her childhood crush, Leonardo DiCaprio, while accepting her Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for La La Land at the 2017 Academy Awards. “Leonardo DiCaprio.