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  • Harris Yulin, ‘Scarface,’ ‘Ghostbusters II’ actor, dead at 87

    06/13/2025 5:24:56 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 18 replies
    actionnewsjax.com ^ | June 13, 2025 | Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
    Veteran actor Harris Yulin, who appeared in “Scarface,” “Ghostbusters II” and “Training Day,” died on June 10. He was 87. Yulin stood out as the corrupt Miami detective who tried to extort money from Al Pacino’s Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), and as a manipulative national security adviser in the 1994 film “Clear and Present Danger.” He also played a corrupt police officer named Rosselli in the 2001 film, “Training Day.” Yulin died of cardiac arrest in New York, his manager, Sue Leibman, and his family confirmed in a statement. In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Leibman said...
  • Fraud Eva Longoria Cries About ICE Deportations From What Looks Like Her Mansion In Spain

    06/12/2025 1:15:53 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 23 replies
    OutKick ^ | 6/12/25 | Joel Kinsey
    Those are some incredible crocodile tears from Eva Longoria over the ICE raids. Stop and think about the audacity it takes for this fraud to run from the United States because Donald Trump was elected president only to turn around and want to look like the champion of illegal aliens while holed up in what appears to be her mansion in Spain. Takes big balls, Eva.
  • Kim Kardashian Condemns ICE Raids in Passionate Defense of Immigrants

    06/12/2025 12:28:16 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 67 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 6/11/25 | Marni Rose McFall
    Kim Kardashian, the reality TV star and business mogul, has condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and defended immigrant communities in her hometown of Los Angeles. "There HAS to be a BETTER way," the 44-year-old wrote in a post to her Instagram story. Newsweek has reached out to a representative for Kardashian outside of regular working hours via email for comment.
  • Trump’s Hollywood Ambassador Jon Voight Meets with CA Gov. Gavin Newsom

    06/06/2025 7:29:54 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 6 Jun 2025 | Joel B. Pollak
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) met privately Thursday afternoon with President Donald Trump’s “ambassador” to Hollywood, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, to discuss ideas for saving the film industry. Hollywood has been losing jobs due to high costs, damaging union strikes, artificial intelligence, and the tax incentives offered by competing film locations elsewhere, such as Vancouver, Atlanta, and overseas sites. Newsom is an implacable opponent of President Trump, but evidently is willing to work with him to save one of California’s most important industries — and the source of many of his own political donations. Politico reports: The pair met privately...
  • Celebrating the 95th birthday of a Hollywood icon with a remarkable account.

    06/01/2025 7:25:24 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 37 replies
    This living legend has a life experiences beyond the silver screen .....
  • Cold Comfort: John Wayne in Island in the Sky

    06/01/2025 5:05:18 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 18 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 31 May 2025 | Rick McGinnis
    There are actors and there are movie stars and then there are those rare legends whose image projected on a screen inspires tributes and treatises, polemics and diatribes, encomiums, tracts and paeans. Every movie star who ascends, even briefly, to some rare level of fame becomes the subject of this sort of beetle-browed inquiry by the sorts of writers tasked with finding something in pop culture that explains everything about a moment in social and political time. But there are few celebrities who can support this kind of scrutiny and carry the burden of this much significance for long decades....
  • M*A*S*H legend Loretta Swit dead at 87: Star of who played Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan passes away

    05/30/2025 8:29:24 PM PDT · by Morgana · 30 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | May 30, 2025 | CHRISTINE RENDON
    Legendary M*A*S*H star Loretta Swit has died at the age of 87. Swit was known for playing the iconic character Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan on the hit series. The actress died Friday at her home in New York City, her publicist Harlan Boll confirmed. A police report states that Swit passed of suspected natural causes soon after midnight on Friday, her publicist shared with The Hollywood Reporter. The actress received acclaim for her role on the series, and received two Emmys for her portrayal. In total, she earned 10 Emmy nominations for M*A*S*H and appeared in the majority of...
  • California's High Costs, Low Incentives Are Scaring Away Film & TV Producers, Report Says

    05/29/2025 2:26:33 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 05/29/2025 | Jill Mclaughlin
    Low incentives and complicated state regulations, combined with high housing and business costs, have rendered California unable to keep Hollywood from moving production to other states and countries, according to an entertainment industry report released on May 27 by the Milken Institute, a California-based think tank.Hollywood’s in-state production has dropped in the past two years as other states and international destinations continue to increase industry incentives, according to the report’s authors, Kevin Klowden, executive director for the Milken Institute Finance, and Madeleine Waddoups, a graduate teaching assistant in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California–Los Angeles.The...
  • MIssion Impossible Final Reckoning

    05/24/2025 7:10:40 PM PDT · by Be Careful · 26 replies
    Amazing movie, amazing messaging, amazing representation of our military. Never so proud to see something like this on the big screen........I am trying to figure out a way to track the uptick in sales for St Christopher medals after millions of people see this movie around the world......how many young people will be wearing them, even if they do not understand the significance?......thank you, Tom Cruise, for leading the way for our young people.
  • There’s a Feeling We’re Not in Hollywood Anymore

    05/24/2025 4:08:25 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 41 replies
    NY Times ^ | Apr 2025 | Matt Stevens and Nicole Sperling
    “This is an existential crisis — it’s an extinction event,” said Beau Flynn, a producer of big-budget movies like “San Andreas,” which despite being about an earthquake in California was filmed mostly in Australia. “These are real things. I am not a dramatist, even though I’m in the drama field.” Michael F. Miller Jr., a vice president at the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, who oversees film and television production for the union, said that roughly 18,000 full-time jobs have evaporated in the past three years, primarily in California. “We are allowing California to become to the entertainment industry...
  • Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ armorer released from prison after fatal on-set shooting

    05/24/2025 1:05:59 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 23 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 24, 2025 | Stephanie Giang-Paunon
    Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer convicted in the tragic on-set shooting death of a cinematographer during the filming of Alec Baldwin’s film "Rust," has been released from a New Mexico prison. Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March 2024 for her role in the incident, where a live round discharged from a prop gun that Baldwin was handling in 2021. The shooting also injured director Joel Souza. The "Rust" armorer has an appeal of the conviction pending in a higher court. Jurors acquitted her of allegations she tampered with evidence in the "Rust" investigation. She was released from the...
  • Lights out at airport where doomed jet was supposed to land before crash that killed famous drummer, music agent

    05/23/2025 5:59:52 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 32 replies
    NY Post ^ | May 23, 2025
    The runway lights were out, a weather alert system wasn’t working and there was heavy fog at a San Diego airport when a pilot who had flown across the country made the decision to proceed with landing but came up short and crashed into a neighborhood, killing all six aboard the aircraft, investigators said Friday. Investigator Dan Baker of the National Transportation Safety Board said officials will work over the next year to determine what caused the Cessna 550 Citation to crash just before 4 a.m. local time Thursday. The jet was carrying a music executive and five others. No...
  • This Actor Won’t Give Up Daily Prayer Time: ‘Most Important Thing’

    05/19/2025 9:43:56 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 23 replies
    MovieGuide ^ | Feb 2025
    Mark Wahlberg might take a day off from the gym, but he never lets a day go by without praying. “That’s the most important thing,” the actor said in an interview. “I take a day off, I take two days a week off from the gym now. I don’t take a day off from getting on my hands and knees and reading my prayer book and my daily devotionals.” “Everything derives from my prayer life and my pursuit of my faith and a relationship with God, of course, trying to live a purpose-filled life,” he told The Christian Post, adding...
  • More Hollywood stars join protest letter over Gaza 'genocide'

    05/16/2025 4:19:03 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 43 replies
    France24 ^ | May 16, 2025
    Cannes (France) (AFP) – Hollywood heavyweights Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Riz Ahmed and Guillermo del Toro have added their names to a letter condemning the film industry's silence on what it called "genocide" in Gaza, the organisers confirmed Friday. The petition, signed by more than 370 actors and filmmakers, also denounced Israel's killing of Fatima Hassouna, the young Gaza photojournalist featured in the documentary "Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk", which premiered at the Cannes film festival Thursday. The organisers of the letter said the French actor Juliette Binoche, who is chairing the jury at Cannes, also added...
  • 'Walking Tall' actor Joe Don Baker dies

    05/15/2025 10:27:02 AM PDT · by fidelis · 32 replies
    12 News Arizona ^ | May 15, 2025 | Chris McCrory
    WASHINGTON — Actor Joe Don Baker, who starred as the rugged Sheriff Buford Pusser in the box office hit "Walking Tall," has died at the age of 89, his family announced. In an obituary posted online, Baker's family remembered him as "a beacon of kindness and generosity." "Throughout his life, Joe Don touched many lives with his warmth and compassion, leaving an indelible mark on everyone fortunate enough to know him," the obituary reads. Baker first became a well-known public figure in 1972, when he starred in Sam Peckinpah's "Junior Bonner," followed by a role the next year as a...
  • Robert De Niro Slams Trump In Cannes Honorary Palme d’Or Speech: “We Are Fighting Like Hell For The Democracy We Once Took For Granted”

    05/15/2025 7:25:33 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 77 replies
    Deadline ^ | 05 13 2025 | Melanie Goodfellow, Nancy Tartaglione
    SNIP “In my country, we are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted. That affects all of us here because the arts are democratic. Art is inclusive, it brings people together. Art embraces diversity and that’s why art is a threat, that’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists,” he said. “America’s philistine president has had himself appointed head of one of our premier cultural institutions,” he continued. “He has cut funding and support to the arts, humanities and education. And now he has announced a 100% tariff on films produced outside of the...
  • Newsom Panics over Trump Hollywood Tariff; Asks for Tax Credits Instead

    05/06/2025 5:59:13 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/06/2025 | Joel B. Pollak
    California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) reacted Monday evening to President Donald Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on movies made outside the U.S. by asking for a $7.5 billion tax credit for the industry instead. Trump made the tariff proposal Sunday as a way of shifting Hollywood production back to the U.S., after decades in which the industry sought to cut costs by filming in Canada or even as far away as South Africa. The president’s proposal drew applause from unions that represent “below the line” workers in the film industry, such as the Teamsters, which praised the president for taking American...
  • Trump announces 100% tariff for movies produced outside US: ‘National Security threat’

    05/05/2025 4:56:51 AM PDT · by thegagline · 60 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 05/05/2025 | Reuters
    President Donald Trump announced on Sunday a 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the United States, saying the US movie industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers. “This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Trump said he was authorizing the relevant US government agencies such as the Department of Commerce to immediately begin the process of imposing a 100% tariff on...
  • Trump Says He's Instituting a "100% Tariff" on Films Produced Outside of the U.S. Because the "Movie Industry in America Is Dying"

    05/05/2025 4:42:21 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    Hollywood Reporter via MSN ^ | 05/04/25 | Kimberly Nordyke and Aaron Couch
    In a move that could shake up the entertainment industry, President Trump says he’s directed his administration to put a “100% tariff” on any movies coming into the U.S. that were not produced in this country. He posted on his Truth Social platform on Sunday that he’s authorized the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to institute the tariff. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within...
  • Trump To Issue Tariffs On Movies Produced Overseas

    05/04/2025 7:33:44 PM PDT · by mbrfl · 63 replies
    Truth Social ^ | May 4, 2025 | Donald J. Trump
    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into...