Playhouse Hollywood Owner Alleges Racism & It’s Predominantly African-American Crowd Is The Reason The Club Has To Shut Its Doors: “No Good For The City Of Hollywood”

Thandie Newton opened up about "casual" and blatant racism she has experienced in entertainment as well as her candid thoughts on multiple projects including Crash and Charlie's Angelsin a new interview.

Travis Scott is going back to work.

Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?” Depp and The Sun have hired some of Britain’s highest-profile lawyers, and pre-trial hearings have already exposed radically differing accounts of Heard and Depp's tempestuous marriage. The Sun’s lawyers tried to have the suit thrown out on the grounds that Depp failed to disclose text messages he exchanged with an assistant showing that he tried to buy “MDMA and other narcotics” while he was in Australia with Heard in 2015.

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, you could argue that no individual in Hollywood has been affected as much as Tom Hanks. Not only did he and his wife, Rita Wilson, both test positive for the virus, the results forced the halting of his highly-anticipated new Elvis film.

A Congressional candidate is going viral and being widely mocked for an outlandish conspiracy theory.

David Robb Labor EditorJust when you thought that guidelines for the film and TV industry’s safe return to work were in place and ready to implement, Cathy Repola, executive director of the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, says that those protocols “are still in the works.” In a video message to her members today, she said: “We are still in discussions with the AMPTP and with IATSE and the above-the-line guilds to try to put together standardized protocols that will apply across the board.” Those

The U.S. government has purchased millions of dollars in corporate bonds issued by entertainment giants like Fox Corp., Comcast, AT&T and others as part of a debt liquidity program spurred on by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

David Robb Labor EditorSpeaking out and standing up to racism was the theme of a recent SAG-AFTRA panel on “Race & Storytelling.” Moderator Jason George recalled a paint-down incident while filming the 2002 movie The Climb, in which he portrayed a mountain climber on a rescue mission.“I walked into the trailer and saw there a Caucasian man, wearing my wardrobe, my costume, and they were putting makeup on him to darken his skin so that he could be my stunt double,” he said.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticOn the heels of last week’s rebroadcast of John Ridley’s powerful 2017 documentary , Let It Fall,  about the 1992 race riots in Los Angeles, ABC is again reaching into its vaults from 2017 for a re-broadcast tonight of the two hour special that aired on January 11th of that year called Taking  The Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America. a network special commemorating the opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of

I May Destroy You‘s Michaela Coel, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Colin Firth are among more than 3,500 professionals in film and TV who have signed an open letter demanding an end to systemic racism in the industry.The new letter (via Deadline), which is adapted from one published in Hollywood last week by the Black Film Collective, calls for the industry’s “active engagement to tackle structural and systemic racism in our industry, in the UK and around the world”.It comes in the wake of Black Lives

Jake Kanter International TV EditorMore than 3,500 film and TV professionals, including top British actors and creatives, have signed an open letter to the UK screen industry demanding an end to “systemic racism.”The missive was adapted from a “powerful and eloquent” letter published in Hollywood last week and its signatories include Michaela Coel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Firth, Jane Featherstone and David Yates.You can read the full letter below, but at its core are four demands:Other notable

It has been a year since Kabir Singh released. The Bollywood movie, which is an official remake of Telugu movie Arjun Reddy, stars and Kiara Advani in the lead.

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Tuesday. She also shared her experiences on America's Got Talent, and claimed the subsequent investigation conducted by NBC was not impartial (NBC denies this)."The Amy Cooper/Central Park situation happened on the same day as George Floyd lost his life, and you realize how far anti-Blackness and the weaponization of whiteness—how far it can go," she said, as the Los Angeles Times reports.

(CNN)Gabrielle Union helped kick off some conversations about race in Hollywood and now she's got even more to say.The actress appeared this week on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" and talked about what's currently happening with race relations in the United States, as well as the investigation that followed her exit from NBC's "America's Got Talent." "Silly me, I thought 'independent' was like independent," said Union, who said she has participated in the investigation.

Gabrielle Union wants to see more proactive efforts from Hollywood bosses to combat racism in the entertainment industry.Following her departure from America’s Got Talent after just one season at the end of 2019, the actress maintained her departure came as a result of complaints she made about the “toxic” working environment behind the scenes, referencing harassment, inappropriate behavior, and misogynistic conduct.During an appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, the star opened up on

Lonnie Chavis sounds wise beyond his years in an essay about what it means to be a “12-year-old Black boy” in America. This is because the This Is Us star, who plays the younger version of Randall Pearson on the ABC drama, has been subject to fear that no child should ever face. From encounters with cops to experiences in Hollywood, Lonnie shared his stories in a moving essay published by People on June 17 amid the Black Lives Matter movement.

Mamma Mia! director Ol Parker is teaming with Concordia Studio — the recently launched outfit from Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King — to adapt and direct the book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together, by author Jon Mooallem. Concordia acquired the rights to develop and produce the feature film adaptation of the book that dramatizes the impact of a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska on March 27, 1964.

Bill Murray’s son has been slapped with charges of disorderly conduct and assault and battery on a police officer following his arrest at a Black Lives Matter protest.