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I n the last handful of years, intimacy coordinators have been normalized on Hollywood sets when it comes to actors engaging in nudity and sex scenes. But it wasn’t until SAG-AFTRA negotiated their tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that language around intimacy coordinators was officially recognized in the contract by both the union and the studios, which members of the negotiating committee as well as working intimacy coordinators see as “a big win.” “This is…

Happy Thanksgiving! Hollywood is kicking off the much-awaited holiday season with gusto. Thanksgiving is a special day for Americans to gather with their loved ones and friends to celebrate while offering gratitude for all of life's blessings. Let's take a look at how celebrities are celebrating this day. Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany Mahomes(Instagram) Paris HiltonAmerican model, actress, and businesswoman Paris Whitney Hilton is joyously celebrating the day with her toddler, Phoenix. She expresses…

At this point, it doesn’t matter how Napoleon does. Critics might love it or critics might hate it. It might crater at the box office, or it might single-handedly resuscitate the theatrical viewing experience. It really doesn’t matter a jot. Because what does matter is that Napoleon is a Ridley Scott film, and this means that Ridley Scott has to talk in public again, and this by far the most important thing. Because Ridley Scott talking about anything in public is wonderful.Even better, it seems as though Ridley Scott has…

On Oct. 28, TMZ was first to report Matthew Perry’s drowning death. The media outlet, which over the past two decades has become a byword for hard-edged celebrity coverage, cited law enforcement sources and ran a redacted audio clip it’d obtained of a dispatcher communicating with emergency personnel before running photos of the actor’s stricken parents arriving at his home. The site has been renowned and reviled for such lightning scoops. Its casualties include Todd Fisher, who has uniquely experienced…

Ever since the huge successes of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Uncharted, and The Last Of Us, films and TV shows adapted from video games have been all the rage in Hollywood. But when Neill Blomkamp received a call from Sony asking if he wanted to direct a movie based around its super-serious, hyper-realistic racing game series Gran Turismo, he was initially confused.“I almost wanted to read the screenplay just to understand what they were talking about because it just made no sense to me,” he told AFP. “Obviously, it's…

One of the big yuks about this summer’s Barbenheimer hybrid event was that both Oppenheimer and Barbie were so completely different. One was colourful, the other was monochrome. One was joyous, the other incredibly serious. One had women who actually did stuff in it, the other was Oppenheimer. But with the benefit of hindsight, maybe the films had more in common than we thought. Oppenheimer, after all, was a film about decisions that had horrible consequences; about a huge and impressive feat that plunged the world into a…

Actor Devix Szell was no stranger to film sets when he stepped onto the lot of a major upcoming film in the fall of 2022. As with most large-scale productions, Szell wasn’t too surprised when he was told by production members they wanted to take some scans of him in costume.  However, when he entered the trailer, he recalls being surrounded by dozens upon dozens of cameras, shooting him from every angle and direction. Although Szell says he had been scanned before for another production, this was different.…

In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately a competing project emerged (with a screenplay by Ayn Rand, no less). Yet for over seven decades, only two other major movie dramas about this epochal event emerged from a studio. Now that is changing with Friday’s arrival of Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated “Oppenheimer,” focusing on the famed lead scientist at Los Alamos who is sometimes called “the Father of the Atomic Bomb.” In the same…

In one respect, the actors and writers of Hollywood uniting on the picket lines in a historic, industry-shaking strike is a tale as old as time: one of workers fighting bosses for better pay. Yet the reason this battle is shaping up to be so uniquely intractable and momentous — as you might have gathered from all the headlines about artificial intelligence and streaming economics — is very much of our moment.But it’s not, ultimately, technology that’s at the root of the problem. It’s that the studio executives both new…

More details on striking actors’ demands have emerged.The Screen Actors Guild went on strike over major studios’ refusal to meet their demands for a two percent cut of streaming revenue and a 230 percent increase in foreign streaming residuals, among others, according to Variety.On studios’ use of generative AI and actors’ digital likenesses, Variety writes:The union wants to require that a performer has to consent to any use of their performance to train an AI system. The AMPTP would accept that for AI training used to…