Donald Trump may have lost big league to Barack Obama in inauguration TV ratings, but the viewership-obsessed US president will be interested to know that he’s generating huge TV ratings—just not for himself. Since his inauguration, Trump has been a major boon for late-night comedy.
Hip hop artist and entrepreneur will.i.am has something important to tell you in the trailer for Apple’s upcoming reality TV series, Planet of the Apps: “Developers!” he proclaims. “They’re the rock stars of right now.”
Saturday Night Live hit a six-year ratings high this weekend, and has never felt more politically relevant. Though he claims to hate the show, US president Donald Trump is an avid watcher. Not only does he regularly tweet about it, but he also apparently uses the NBC sketch comedy series as a barometer with which to judge his own appointees.
It’s a tradition in American sports for championship-winning teams to go to the White House for a visit with the US president. But when the Super Bowl 51 champion New England Patriots visit Donald Trump at his new residence, at least six star players won’t be attending.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wears lab coats and bow ties. Others wear long, mauve dresses emblazoned with planets, rocket ships, and light bulbs.
Most get-rich-quick investments are scams, and financing movies is undoubtedly a risky proposition. But here’s an investment tip for cinephiles: In Hollywood, there’s no better scheme to turn a quick and easy profit than making a horror movie.
If you were not one of the 100 million viewers of Super Bowl LI, fear not. We’ve got a roundup of the most important tradition of America’s big game: the film and television trailers that debut during the broadcast.
This is an update to a previously published post.
Wearing a comically long red necktie and some kind of dead rodent on his head, Jon Stewart returned to television last night.
Ellen DeGeneres is a kind-hearted comedian who normally stays out of the political fray. But if you decide, in the immediate aftermath of imposing an immigration ban on seven majority-Muslim nations, to hold a White House screening of her film Finding Dory, then you’ve gone a bridge too far for the widely beloved talk show host.
Those searching for clues about the next Star Wars movie should catch up on their classic cinema.
There’s an unreasonable amount of sexual violence depicted on TV and in film, most of it handled by male writers and directors with all the sensitivity and nuance of a battering ram. Jill Soloway would very much like them to stop.
Universal Pictures has won a bidding war for the rights to Little America, a film produced by Transformers director Michael Bay about a near-future America that is literally owned by China.
If America must always come first, as president Donald Trump repeatedly bellowed in his inaugural address, then the Netherlands would very much like to come second.
Four days ago, the newly inaugurated US president Donald Trump stood at the US Capitol and painted, with many false strokes, a decidedly bleak picture of America. The country he now leads, as he described it, is ridden with crime, drugs, and gangs, languishing in a state of “American carnage.”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 2017 Oscar nominations this morning, and, as expected, La La Land led the field with a record-tying 14 nods.
David Ayer made a bad movie, and he knows it.
This is the title you were looking for. Star Wars: Episode VIII will be called The Last Jedi, Disney’s Lucasfilm announced today.
Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK’s Independence Party who led the charge for Britain to leave the European Union and became a vocal supporter of Donald Trump’s US presidential bid, will join Fox News as a paid contributor.
If you were to drunkenly use Mad Libs to generate a film pitch, you might get something like Colossal:
Donald Trump will be sworn in as the president of the United States tomorrow (Jan. 20).
What do Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari, Dave Chappelle, and Chris Rock have in common, besides being funny and hugely popular American comedians? They all work at Netflix.
Robert De Niro, a vaunted thespian who’s played some of the toughest roles in cinema across his 50-year career, isn’t fazed easily. But in the fraudster Bernie Madoff, De Niro found a man difficult to explain.
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