Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage while hosting the 96th Annual Academy Awards in March 2024. Labor unions, free speech groups and fellow entertainers are rallying around him after ABC suspended his late-night show on Wednesday. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Winter/Getty Images Criticism — and concern about free speech — is pouring in after ABC abruptly suspended Jimmy …
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LOS ANGELES — A Hollywood Hills home where D4vd had been living was searched overnight, law enforcement sources told ABC News on Thursday, as authorities investigate the death of a teenage girl whose body was found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to the 20-year-old singer. A search warrant was executed at the home, which the singer does not …
Read More »Democrats, Hollywood condemn suspension of TV host Jimmy Kimmel over Charlie Kirk comments Reuters ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure The New York Times Jimmy Kimmel suspension: Leading Democrats accuse regulator of ‘bullying’ ABC BBC FCC’s Carr says Jimmy Kimmel appeared to ‘mislead’ public on Charlie Kirk killing CNBC Jimmy Kimmel: Hollywood reacts after show pulled over …
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Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Screen icon Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor, director, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, has died …
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Refresh for updates...Barbra Streisand is paying tribute to her late co-star Robert Redford, writing in part on Instagram, “Every day on the set of The Way We Were was exciting, intense and pure joy,”… Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting— and one of the finest actors ever.as exciting, intense and pure joy.” See Streisand’s full statement below, along with …
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Robert Redford, the actor and director who sailed to Hollywood stardom with turns in classics such as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men” and invigorated American independent cinema as one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival, died Tuesday morning. He was 89. Cindi Berger, his publicist, said he died at his home “in the mountains …
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An anime film slayed its Hollywood competition at the box office this weekend. “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,” already a big hit in Japan, was the highest-grossing movie domestically, beating new films “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” “The Long Walk” and “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.” The film distributed by Sony Pictures and Crunchyroll opened with a …
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Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman’s got a lot to say about the state of the world—and why he thinks Hollywood is at least partially to blame for it. In a new interview with The Guardian, the mind behind 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and this year’s short How to Shoot a Ghost said the film industry has “everything to do with [why] …
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Paramount on Friday sharply denounced a proposed boycott of Israeli film institutions by a group that calls itself Film Workers for Palestine and is supported by dozens of Hollywood luminaries. Earlier this week, the group launched an open letter pledging to withhold support for Israeli film festivals, production companies and other organizations that the group said were involved in “genocide …
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Charlie Kaufman is in a funk. The genius screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York, the devastating Buñuelian comedy of mortality that he also directed, can’t get a movie off the ground. “I’m having great difficulty,” he sighs. “I’m not a person that people want to trust with their money. It’s …
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