All the talk about #OscarsSoWhite won't simply end when Chris Rock hosts the ceremony on Feb. 28. It's clear that drastic changes must be implemented fairly soon in order to avoid a third consecutive…
John Ridley, the creator of ABC's "American Crime," won an Oscar two years ago for "12 Years a Slave." But TV came first for the writer-producer, whose got his start on NBC sitcom "Rhythm & Blues" in…
Patricia Norris, the Oscar-nommed and Emmy-winning production designer and costume designer who helped craft distinctive looks for “12 Years a Slave,” “Scarface” and numerous other films, as well as…
On Feb. 22, two important showbiz phenomena will climax at the Dolby Theatre. One is the Academy Awards. The other is a multimillion-dollar marketing and promo push. These two things occur…
Director Barry Levinson offers his thoughts on what’s behind the growing outcry for more diversity in Hollywood films. Are we a racist country? Yes. But we are getting better. For certain. And while…
The Producers Guild of America has selected Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment to receive its 2015 Visionary Award. Plan B produced “12 Years a Slave,” which won the best picture Oscar this year, along…
The Writers Guild of America West has scheduled a Sept. 19 screening of John Ridley’s Jimi Hendrix biopic “All Is By My Side” — even though Ridley resigned from the WGA during the 2007-08 strike…
Hollywood is not projecting the increasing diversity of the U.S. on the silver screen, according to a USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism study released on Monday. Latinos remain the…
John Ridley, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave,” definitely has “a lot going on” currently — and an announcement Tuesday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour put even more…
Chiwetel Ejiofor has been set to play a convicted British drug trafficker in a movie version of “Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail.” New Regency…
“12 Years a Slave,” “Non-Stop” and “The Grandmaster 3D” lead Bona Film Group’s slate of upcoming films, the Chinese film producer and distributor said Tuesday. The company noted that the release…
