Weinstein, 69, was handed over to authorities for transport to California from New York on Tuesday morning, according to New York state corrections officials. The former studio boss had been incarcerated at a prison near Buffalo, in upstate New York, since being sentenced in March 2020 to 23 years behind …
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In March 2020, the film producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted in New York of rape and sexual assault in a case that sparked the #MeToo movement. Soon after sentencing, the Los Angeles district attorney’s office launched efforts to extradite Weinstein to California to face …
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Riz Ahmed, the first Muslim to be nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards, is spearheading an initiative to increase the visibility of Muslims in film and eradicate toxic stereotypes in Muslim characters. As evidenced by his stellar work in, among others, the films ‘Nightcrawler’ and ‘The Sisters Brothers’, …
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Shock waves were sent through Hollywood this week when the esteemed Golden Globes became the target of a virtue-signaling blitzkrieg and boycott by some of the movie business’ heavy hitters. I am kidding, of course; the Golden Globes are certainly not esteemed and no one is shocked by Hollywood virtue-signaling …
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This article contains spoilers for ‘Godzilla vs Kong’. ‘Godzilla vs Kong’, directed by Adam Wingard, made a big splash at the box office when it premiered internationally last weekend, and has generated a lot of attention in the US as it opened on Wednesday in both theaters and on HBO …
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If one knows the name Stacey Dash, it’s either through memories of hit films like ‘Clueless’ or the almost-always controversial appearances she made on Fox News from 2014 to 2016, during which time the Hollywood starlet revealed herself to be an unapologetic conservative. Dash triggered liberals for criticizing everything from …
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“What has happened is tragic. I am heartbroken for Kobe’s family,” Wood had tweeted last year in the aftermath of the helicopter crash in California which killed Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others. “He was a sports hero. He was also a rapist. And all of these truths …
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The two global gold standards when it comes to open-mindedness and tolerance for diversity of opinion have always been Hollywood and China. Like Sauron and Saruman’s two towers in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Hollywood and China are monuments to artistic freedom and freedom of expression, at least I think …
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The two global gold standards when it comes to open-mindedness and tolerance for diversity of opinion have always been Hollywood and China. Like Sauron and Saruman’s two towers in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Hollywood and China are monuments to artistic freedom and freedom of expression, at least I think …
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The public service announcement, sponsored by Warner Media and the Ad Council, took iconic moments from popular films like ‘The Matrix’, ‘Casablanca’, and ‘Lord of the Rings’ and slapped masks on the characters. Notably, the list included both heroes and villains, including Pennywise the Dancing Clown, a child-murdering monster from …
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