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Everyone's sick of stories that never end
Some Gen X/Millennial cultural pathology stems from two qualities of the stories we were told in childhood, at the peak of the television era, all those cartoons. First, the creative folks hired to...
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Carrie Fisher gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame on Star Wars Day
Star Wars star Carrie Fisher is getting a Hollywood Walk of Fame star posthumously on May 4th, aka Star Wars Day. The late great actress who famously played Princess Leia will join her co-stars Mark...
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Explaining the Hollywood writers' strike
Confused about the ins and out of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike in Hollywood? So was I. Dan Casey of Nerdist News clears up all the important info about the writers' demands, how long the...
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Take a look at this insanely huge menu from the Warner Brothers Studio Cafe...
Step back into the golden age of Hollywood, where the Warner Bros. Studio Cafe played host to the movie industry's luminaries in 1941. This wasn't just a cafe; it was a scene, where the air was ripe...
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Writers are out for the summer, and the strike is hitting home
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is striking for better pay, more participation, and to stave off the threat of AI for at least another three years. Their opponents, the AMPTP representing the...
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The funniest movie you've never seen
Dynasty Typewriter and Hollywood Entertainment hosted a sold-out screening of The Wrong Guy last Friday, and added new fans to the film's heartbreakingly short list of admirers. There are movies that...
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Watch Warner Bros' CEO graduation speech get interrupted with boos and chants...
Last week, I reported on my disdain and disappointment that several Warner Brothers film executives had been tapped to give commencement speeches at universities with significant film/TV industry...
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Drew Carey, lunchtime hero for striking writers
The year was 2007. Drew Carey had a successful, widely-beloved sitcom and his writers went on strike, seeking better wages and residuals on this new platform called "internet." In a show of solidarity...
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Striking writers workshop a pro-corporate counterprotest, just to see what it...
It is well-known that the WGA is out on strike against the AMPTP in pursuit of a fair contract. The guild has been vocal and demonstrative in getting their position to the press. But now it seems the...
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Striking writers hold rally and dance party in downtown Los Angeles
In a show of solidarity with other unions, the Writers Guild held a rally across from the Crypto.com Arena featuring speakers from the WGA, SEIU, SAG-AFTRA, and Teamsters unions, followed by a march...
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Director's Guild of America signs a deal to avert a strike
The Director's Guild of America has concluded negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the trade association of the TV and film industry, and arrived at a mutually...
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Writer's Guild hands out leaflets outside Apple store
As Apple hosted its Worldwide Developers Conference, members of the Writer's Guild of America gave out leaflets to shoppers outside Apple store at LA's premier outdoor mall, The Grove. The literature...
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Striking writers joined by other unions for rally at the La Brea Tar Pits
Members of the Writers Guild of America West gathered at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles and marched the 1.3 miles to a planned rally at the La Brea Tar pits. Speakers included Adam Conover, who made...
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Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star festooned with a toilet and replica boxes...
Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is now festooned with a toilet, a bathtub, plenty of boxes of "classified materials," and crime scene tape. Steve Silberman tweeted the image, with...
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GQ magazine publishes, then removes profile of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO...
David Zaslav, boss of Warner Bros. Discovery, set out to remake the media empire he controls. He flooded Discovery Channel with cheap reality TV. He installed Chris Licht at CNN to turn it into a more...
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Original 'Wilhelm Scream' found in discarded tapes
The Wilhelm Scream, a classic sound effect, has been in hundreds of movies, from Raiders of the Lost Ark to Star Wars to Toy Story. It's a sort of audio signature, a hidden gem in plain hearing, that...
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Rainn Wilson says he was "mostly unhappy" playing Dwight on The Office
Rainn Wilson was a gust on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast during which he surprised everyone by admitting that he was "mostly unhappy" playing Dwight on The Office. Yes, it became a hit show but...
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Hollywood will let striking writers "lose houses"
The negotiating body representing Hollywood studios and streamers against striking writers let slip their strategy. They will refuse talks until October in the hopes that it will force writers back to...
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Watch Harrison Ford's stunt double set himself on fire in protest (video)
Mike Massa—stunt coordinator and Harrison Ford's stunt double in the new Indiana Jones flick—set himself on fire to show support for the SAG-AFTRA strike. Watch below. "We are tired of being burned by...
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How the Hollywood actors' strike is hitting animal actors
The Washington Post has a delightfully adorable piece about the way that the Hollywood actors' strike is impacting animal actors. While non-human creatures aren't technically eligible for union...
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Special effects workers vote to unionize over Marvel Cinematic Universe...
Over the last two years, there has been a lot of murmuring about the mounting frustrations of the visual effects designers behind all of the glorious (and not-so-glorious) sequences in the Marvel...
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Kevin Sorbo claims being a Christian stifles his career, despite Tom Hanks...
Poor Kevin Sorbo. The beloved superstar, who won the hearts of theater-goers with his exemplary acting in movies such as "Poolboy," "Never Cry Werewolf," and "Bernie the Dolphin 2," says he can't get...
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Rotten Tomatoes scores are rigged, according to report
Movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, owned by Fandango and Warner Bros., has always raised conflict-of-interest questions. A new report in New York Magazine paints an even uglier picture, exposing...
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Kutcher faces new PR nightmare after disturbing comment about underage Hilary...
This weekend, "Dude, Where's My Car?" actor Ashton Kutcher, 45, along with his wife Mila Kunis, posted an unusual non-apology for writing letters of support for fellow actor Danny Masterson, pleading...
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2001: A Space Odyssey spacesuit up for auction
image: Heritage Auctions When you're offworld seeking out extraterrestrial monoliths, you could do worse than be seen in this handsome ensemble originally worn by Dr. Bill Michaels (played by Sean...
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Drew Carey, hero of the WGA writers strike, continues to be awesome
Way back in May, at the start of the writers strike, comedian and host Drew Carey offered free meals at the Bob's Big Boy in Burbank, California, or Swingers Diner in Hollywood, for the duration of the...
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How a New York artist gave birth to James Bond's 007 logo
The 1960s and '70s birthed some of the most memorable movies in cinema history, and while they were the products of different studios and visionary filmmaking minds, many had one person in common – a...
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Here are the ten worst movies of all time, according to Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes compiled a list of the "100 Worst Movies of All Time." Now, before you start complaining that your favorite flop didn't make the cut, note that all the films were required to have...
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Pauly Shore is Richard Simmons
Pauly Shore will play fitness legend Richard Simmons for a new biopic in development at Warner Bros. "We all need this biopic now more than ever. Simmons represented mental health, getting people in...
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Breakdown of the budget of M. Night Shyamalan's $71m movie The Village
The Village was a great idea and a movie that doesn't quite live up to its promise. It obviously would have been a bad one, though, without M. Night Shyamalan's unsettling gifts and its outstanding...
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