Ross Crystal

Jennifer Lopez is looking for another block to take her exotic dancer film “The Hustlers at Scores,” after Annapurna Pictures dropped out as producer and distributor, according to person with knowledge of the situation. STX Entertainment is in advanced talks to pick up the film, an insider said. STX is currently handling JLo’s rom-com “Second […]

Two weeks before production is set to begin, Annapurna Pictures is unloading the untitled Fox News movie centered on the late Roger Ailes, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Bron Studios, the Canada-based company behind Fences and The Birth of a Nation, has come on to co-finance production, sources say, while Focus Features, Amblin and Participant Media are in the mix […]

Gabrielle Union, Breaking In and Being Mary Jane star and producer, has just acquired the film rights to the YA novel “500 Words or Less” alongside Rebel Maverick and Amyale, according to Deadline. Union will produce the project under her I’ll Have Another Productions banner, with Holly Shakoor Fleischer overseeing development on behalf of the company. Manaal Khan and Matt Nicholas will […]

Anita Hill, chair of The Hollywood Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality, is calling on industry leaders to step up their efforts in the face of government “indifference” to sexual harassment. “We must demonstrate that even when the government shows indifference to bias and inequality, we in our industry promise accountability,” Hill wrote in […]

Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director who served during the chaotic first year of the Trump administration, has been named head of corporate communications for New Fox, the company to emerge after 21st Century Fox completes the sale of assets to Disney early next year. Hicks has been named exec VP and chief […]

Doug Liman is an independent filmmaker who gets away with murder in Hollywood because he boasts a string of major hits, from “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “The Bourne Identity” to “Edge of Tomorrow.” He often throws sets into chaos in order to achieve unexpected results. “My films have been successful and therefore the process has […]

The unlikely dynamic duo of “Venom” and “A Star Is Born” have livened up the fall moviegoing season with the best October weekend of all time in North America. Tom Hardy’s superhero tale “Venom” grabbed $80 million at 4,250 sites for Sony and Marvel while the Lady Gaga-starring remake of “A Star Is Born” earned […]

Attorneys for Bill Cosby his convictions on three counts of aggravated indecent assault overturned and his three- to 10-year prison sentence voided, citing what they say are errors made in the case. In a document filed Friday, Cosby’s defense team argues that Judge Steven O’Neill was wrong to declare that the actor fit the description […]

Actress Tatum O’Neal revealed that she is a survivor of multiple sexual assaults in an impassioned social media post condemning Donald Trump’s treatment of Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford. The star, known for being the youngest actress to win an Oscar for her role in “Paper Moon” at age 10, took to Instagram to […]

The moment the Doctor realizes that she is now a “she” goes by in the blink of an eye. Having fallen clear out of the sky and through the roof of a train under alien attack — and losing her trusty TARDIS in the process, no less — the Doctor has more important things to […]

Celebrities took to Twitter with reactions to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation Saturday. Kavanaugh’s future has hung in the balance for weeks due to hours of hearings, FBI investigations and sexual assault allegations, which he has denied. The confirmation of Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice cements conservative control of the nation’s highest court potentially for decades […]