Last year it was strike action in Hollywood, now it’s Canada. The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) has “overwhelmingly” voted in favor of authorizing strike action if there is no resolution to the ongoing talks with the Canadian Media Producers Association. Some 96.5% of voted in favour of a strike…

(Updated with statement from Weinstein spokesperson) New York's highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges, ordering a new trial. However, that doesn’t mean the Pulp Fiction producer will be stepping out of prison any tine soon. In a 4-3…

Imax more than hit its Q1 numbers with $79 million in revenue last quarter (down 9%) and a solid earnings bump thanks in large part to its run with Dune: Part 2, a blockbuster amid a slow quarter for big releases. The box office was offset in part by a dip in new Imax systems sales. The large…

EXCLUSIVE: British actor and screenwriter Jamie Bacon has signed with UK agency United Agents. Going forwards, United literary agent Charles Walker will represent Bacon, who is known for writing and starring 2018 film Into the Mirror and for roles in Netflix series White Lines and Stephen…

Video footage of an accident on the set of the Eddie Murphy film The Pickup was released today by the New York Times. A cellphone video of the April 20 accident shows an SUV and armored truck colliding, then flipping over after veering off road. The New York Times obtained the footage and shared it…

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer remembers Bruce Willis for his kindnesses towards the little guys. In their 1998 hit Armageddon, Bruckheimer noted how Willis acted toward the crew when the cameras weren’t rolling. "Bruce is such a good guy," says Bruckheimer. "He was so generous to the…

It’s been a long time coming. In a new promo for his directorial project IF, John Krasinski and Steve Carell met up for the first time in years. "Reunited and it feeeeels so gooooood!" the Quiet Place filmmaker wrote in a social media post. "[Carell] happens to be a dear friend," Krasinski says…

After finding himself an unwilling major selling point of Rebel Wilson’s memoir Rebel Rising, Sacha Baron Cohen is feeling a bit of vindication tonight. When the UK version of the book is published tomorrow, the chapter about him will be largely redacted, this after Baron Cohen’s attorneys threatened to…

Three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner is boarding New Line's Weapons opposite Josh Brolin. The pic comes from writer-director Zach Cregger. who made the 2022 New Regency horror film Barbarian. Barbarian, released via 20th Century Studios, opened at No. 1 after pulling in a 93% Rotten Tomatoes critics…

Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway) has signed on to star alongside Kelvin Harrison Jr., Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Halle Bailey in Universal’s untitled coming-of-age musical from director Michel Gondry and producer Pharrell Williams. No word yet on the role Henry will be playing. Written by Martin Hynes and…

Ari Emanuel, CEO of TKO Group as well as the soon-to-be-private Endeavor, saw a pay package valued at $64.9 million in 2023 as CE0 of TKO Group, the home of WWE and UFC. TKO is a relatively new company that started trading on the New York Stock Exchange last September. Emanuel’s compensation included…

David Pecker stabbed impatiently at his veal piccata. We'd been having a cordial business lunch, but he was growing frustrated. The publisher of the National Enquirer was pitching an ambitious deal to me involving major money — not a Stormy Daniels sort of…