Hollywood

Why American films ignore life under Communism.

Every so often someone in Hollywood uses his power to break the movie colony’s rules. Consider this year’s “Total Eclipse.” Odd as it may seem, this is the first serious American film set against the background of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the deal that allied Europe’s two totalitarian powers against the West and helped plunge the world into war. With an ally on the Eastern Front, Hitler sent his Panzers west while Stalin helped himself to the Baltic states and invaded Finland. A film like this could have been as big a didactic dud as the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s 1982 bomb, “Inchon,” with Laurence Olivier as Gen. Douglas MacArthur. But this time the verisimilitude of the script, carried by some outstanding performances, is the source of the film’s dramatic power.

The defense attorney in the rape trial of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein asked California First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom to fake an orgasm in court during her testimony Monday for the prosecution.

Sarah Silverman said she lost a plum movie gig for a single blackface moment completed a decade ago.

Jimmy Fallon performed a “Struggle Session”-style apology for a single blackface sketch from two decades ago.

Jimmy Kimmel, who repeatedly blackened his face on The Man Show during its 1999-2002 run, will host the 2023 Academy Awards telecast.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Saying he wants to clear his name, Alec Baldwin on Friday sued people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that he was using when it fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a 2021 filming accident in New Mexico.

Baldwin filed a cross-complaint in Superior Court in Los Angeles alleging negligence against some of the people sued by a script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell. Among other things, it seeks a share of any damages that Mitchell may win from the people Baldwin names and asks that they pay for any damages assessed against him.

The Santa Fe prosecutor tasked with bringing charges in the fatal on-set shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has received the sheriff’s report and is now preparing to make a decision on who should face prosecution.

Actor Alec Baldwin was holding the gun when it fired towards Hutchins last October 21. He insists he did not pull the trigger.

For a year, police have been investigating the incident at painstaking pace. Now, they have handed over their final report to DA Mary Carmack-Altwies.

Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel mocked Republicans on Tuesday for a conspiracy “theory” about fentanyl being smuggled in children’s Halloween candy — several days after officials at LAX seized 12,000 fentanyl pills that were disguised as popular candy.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A prosecutor at Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial told jurors Tuesday that the accusers who will testify will tell uncannily similar stories of themselves as young aspiring women who were cornered in hotel rooms by a man who at the time was the definition of Hollywood power.

“Each of these women came forward independent of each other, and none of them knew one another,” Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson said during his opening statement at Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial.

The 70-year-old former movie mogul, already serving a 23-year sentence in New York, is charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault in California.

Tim Burton is not interested in working with Disney again because of a bad experience making “Dumbo,” plus some issues with the Marvel multiverse.

The veteran Hollywood director made the statements this weekend at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, France, per Deadline.

Burton discussed the company’s current focus on the Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar franchises which he doesn’t care to work on.

Hollywood celebrity Sarah Silverman has attacked Herschel Walker in a profane tweet over comments Georgia’s Republican senatorial candidate made earlier this year in which he repudiated radical gender ideology.

Amazon’s woke (and boring) reimagining of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Rings universe is bleeding viewers when it should be snowballing.

According to the far-left Hollywood Reporter, “The Rings of Power had 988 million minutes of viewing time in the United States from Sept. 12 to 18, per Nielsen (the show’s fourth episode debuted Sept. 16). That’s a decline of about 18 percent from the previous week’s 1.2 billion minutes.”

The series has no connection to Tolkien’s world. No one asked for a ham-fisted reimagining with Gay elves, Bad MAGA people and identity politics.  No wonder people fall asleep watching, it’s just another boring batch of unpalatable leftist twaddle. A pity too as a great deal of money was invested in this. What a waste.