Mel Gibson unleashed his frustrations with political leaders while standing at a podium in fire-ravaged Altadena on Wednesday. The Oscar-winning multi-hyphenate, who lost his Malibu mansion in the Palisades Fire last month, specifically zeroed in on Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and criticized the way in which they responded to the catastrophe that decimated thousands of …
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Matt Damon was ready to step into the role of Michael Bluth in an Arrested Development movie, per Jason Bateman. The Emmy-winning actor-producer-director made a recent appearance on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, where he revealed that Damon once pitched himself for a cameo in a potential film adaptation of the hit sitcom. “I remember Matt Damon coming up to me …
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Lizzy Caplan is opening up about the scrapped X-Men spinoff Gambit movie. During a recent interview with Business Insider, the Party Down actress, who was in talks to star opposite Channing Tatum, detailed the film’s pre-production before it ultimately got axed. “It was a really cool idea,” Caplan said. “It’s kind of odd that it got scrapped. Those movies don’t seem to …
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Following a blow by Los Angeles’ new district attorney last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom has now planted himself firmly in the good graces of the Menendez brothers, their family and legion of supporters, signaling on Wednesday that he’s potentially leaning toward offering clemency to the incarcerated convicted killers, should all other avenues fail, by calling for the California Parole Board …
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People who go through harrowing experiences of survival should look on the bright side. In the not-too-distant future, a good-looking movie star will likely be playing you on the big screen. That probably wasn’t going through the heads of the three central figures depicted in Last Breath, about the desperate efforts to rescue a deep-sea diver trapped below the water’s …
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A federal judge has rejected Pepperdine University’s bid for a court order to block Netflix from releasing parts of episodes of its upcoming series Running Point that allegedly infringe on its basketball team’s trademarks. With the denial on Wednesday of the temporary restraining order, Netflix will continue with plans to release the sports comedy tomorrow. The legal battle revolves around …
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Paramount is stepping back from some policies aimed at boosting diversity among its ranks amid a larger retreat from DEI initiatives in the private sector driven by the Trump administration. The changes include eliminating staffing goals tied to race, ethnicity, sex and gender, according to an internal memo obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. The company will also stop collecting gender …
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Tom Hardy is on the hunt for a politician’s missing son in the trailer for the Netflix movie Havoc. Writer-director Gareth Evans‘ feature is set to begin streaming on April 25. Forest Whitaker, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Cornwell, Jessie Mei Li and Luis Guzmán round out the cast. Havoc centers on Walker (Hardy), a jaded detective forced to confront his past …
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Fashion brands are proving the 2025 Academy Awards aren’t the only topic of discussion this week. We gathered five style briefs you need to know: Doechii and Naomi Campbell on the Runway for DSquared2’s 30th Anniversary Collection Doechii on the Dsquared2 30th-anniversary runway/ Courtesy of Dsquared2 DSquared2 designers and twin brothers Dean and Dan Caten presented a high-wattage fashion show …
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Amalia Ulman’s Magic Farm will plant roots as the opening night screening of the second edition of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies. Presented by MUBI and Mezzanine, LAFM is set to take place from April 3-6, and it will feature a program of more than 20 feature films, a curated shorts roster, an inaugural animation program and featured artists …
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