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A high-ranking Hollywood talent agent for stars including Justin Timberlake and Matthew McConaughey reportedly texted “Screw the left kill all” in reaction to the recent murder of six Israeli hostages by the Hamas terrorist organization. Brandt Joel, a top agent at WME, sent and then deleted the text to a WhatsApp group that contains other WME employees but isn’t officially affiliated with the company, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. The WhatsApp group appeared to be for expressing pro-Israel sentiments.

Hollywood Democrat megadonor Ari Emanuel vented anger at the Biden Campaign and their media cohorts for not telling the truth about Joe Biden‘s mental condition. Emanuel, who didn’t hold back, noted that despite the Democrats‘ chances to remove Joe Biden from the ticket, serious legal issues are involved.

Hollywood is planning to bring movies centring on the story of data-snooping whistleblower Edward Snowden and the equally controversial US drones programme to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Few details are available about either project, but the drones movie appears to be further along the road to a potential release. Production company Lakeshore Entertainment has picked up an untitled screenplay for an "action thriller with military elements" from writer Spenser Cohen, a recent University of Southern California graduate who last year sold a screenplay for upcoming true-life Somali pirate drama High Target Value. Hollywood agency WME is...

Netflix isn't alone: Agencies and others are balancing demands for money against the fears of stolen data ending up online. Phones are the lifeblood of a talent agency like UTA, but on April 11, its IT department discovered an intruder lurking in the voicemail system and computer network and quickly decided to shut them down, sending agents to conduct business on their iPads. Soon thereafter a demand from a hacker arrived: Pay a ransom or watch the agency's most confidential data get posted online. It turns out UTA was lucky — an outside cybersecurity firm was brought in and, after...

Homeland Security: An assistant port director says "weapons of mass effect" have been found on American soil, possibly smuggled in across our porous border. The drug war in Mexico may be the least of our worries. Doing the job the so-called mainstream American media won't do, Britain's Daily Telegraph recently reported that, according to WikiLeaks documents, a gift that seems to keep on giving, U.S. officials were warned years ago that al-Qaida could build a dirty bomb capable of doing great damage to an American city. Now another British paper, the Daily Mail, reports on a televised interview by San...