Simon Pegg calls Hollywood’s ‘Godzilla’ films “cultural appropriation”

Did you know that Matt Bomer‘s husband Simon Halls has been instrumental in helping other celebs come out to the public?

Kevin Costner has disputed the idea that his son is a ‘nepo baby’ despite casting him in his latest project.The Waterworld actor stars in and directs Western epic film series Horizon: An American Saga, with its first part set to release on June 28.Speaking on the Today Show earlier this week, Costner opened up about his son’s involvement in the project, and how he’s aware of how it might look. “I have not shoved my children into the business,” he said.“I realize there’s so many young actors out there that would just kill to be in this movie.

Donald Sutherland, who died Thursday at age 88, included one of the most controversial sex sequences in Hollywood history. The nookie was so realistically shot, many audience members at the time believed it was genuine. Some still do.“We did a good job, it’s very real,” cinematographer Anthony B.

EXCLUSIVE: Members of the Hollywood guilds are throwing their weight behind IATSE and the Basic Crafts as the below-the-line unions continue to chip away at new three-year deals with the studios.

It’s not so easy having movie-star good looks.

Matthew McConaughey is looking back at his two-year break from Hollywood.

Imax and Wanda Film, China‘s largest exhibitor, have announced a big expansion of their longtime strategic partnership there spanning technology and content.

Annecy Animation Festival, the most important eight days of the year for the global animation industry, wraps up tonight, so we’re looking back at 10 themes that dominated the dialogue around this year’s event. In interviews held before this year’s festival, several representatives from Hollywood studios, speaking on background, told us that Annecy has now replaced Comic-Con as their most important promotional event of the year for animation.

This four-part, so-far-untitled documentary series about the rise and rise of Hollywood’s least likely marquee-name director starts out with a tribute from Christopher Walken that will be very hard for the next three instalments to match. In that inimitable… sta-cc-a-to… WAY… of his, the Sleepy Hollow star recalls his former dance teacher saying to him: “Chris, show me something I never saw before. And that’s what Tim does. Every time.”

Jamie Lang The seventh edition of Animation is Film (AIF), a Los Angeles-based sister event to France’s prestigious Annecy Animation Festival, will run October 18-20 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in Hollywood this fall. Launched in 2017, “The Festival embraces the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form on par with live action and is a vocal advocate for filmmakers who push the boundaries of their work to the fullest range of expression that the medium is capable of,” reads the AIF mission statement.

EXCLUSIVE: The Little, Brown imprint Voracious has set a fall 2025 publication date for two books exploring the creative genius of Quentin Tarantino in the making of Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood, and Inglourious Basterds.

Tributes have been paid to the Indian media baron Ramoji Rao, who has died at the age of 87.

EXCLUSIVE: There She Goes, a feature film loosely based on Rachael Leigh Cook’s real-life experiences as a ‘90s, has found the rest of its cast.

With legacy sequels being all the rage in Hollywood, it’s within reason to imagine that perhaps a world exists where George Miller asks Mel Gibson to return for a new ‘Mad Max’ film in the future. If “Ghostbusters” can do it, so can ‘Mad Max.’ Well, there’s one problem, though–George Miller hasn’t thought about what an elderly Max would be like.

Elijah Wood has turned into one of the more interesting figures in Hollywood. He produces a bunch of interesting films, and the one’s he chooses to star in are largely unique and stylish.

Paper Flowers,” based on the story of 22-year-old Shalin Shah, whose battle with cancer garnered viral attention in 2015. The film will premiere June 20 at the Dances With Films Festival at the TLC Chinese Theater in Hollywood with two additional screenings taking place on June 26 at the London Indian Film Festival and the Birmingham Indian Film Festival.

Johnny Depp will be playing Satan in his next film, director Terry Gilliam has confirmed.Speaking to French publication Premiere, Gilliam – who has in the past directed films such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – spoke about his next him, The Carnival at the End of Days.Per Gilliam’s detailing of the upcoming film, it has been revealed that Depp will portray Satan, while Jeff Bridges plays God. Adam Driver and Jason Momoa have also been cast in the film, though details surrounding their roles are currently unknown.Gilliam explained to Premiere that The Carnival at the End of Days will be a “comedy where God decides to destroy Humanity.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events It’s two weeks after Elizabeth Debicki attended the Met Gala. She’s now in Los Angeles for Emmy campaigning for her work as Princess Diana on “The Crown.” I meet her Netflix’s FYC pop-up in Hollywood for quick chat before she takes part in a panel discussion with “The Crown” creator Peter Morgan. We grab a couple of seats in the “Ripley” room.

No one really expected this year’s Cannes Film Festival to replicate the stellar showing of last year at the Oscars where three official selections – Killers Of The Flower Moon, Anatomy Of A Fall, and The Zone Of Interest – took an unprecedented three of the ten slots for Best Picture and a total of 20 nominations and 3 wins between them. How many times can the French catch lightning in a bottle like that achievement? Who thought 2019 could be equaled or topped when Parasite became the first Palme d’Or winner to also take the Best Picture Oscar since Marty did it in 1955, and where Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (also an official selection that year) went on to ten nominations and two Oscar wins?

In accepting the Palme d’Or today for his latest movie Anora, Sean Baker gave a shoutout for the survival of cinema.