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How Rhode Island's Biggest Movie Showcase Became the "Fyre of Film Festivals"
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Why Hollywood Keeps Quitting on Harry and Meghan
Plus, how an Echo glitch turned Alexa into a “commie operative” and Dimitri, the million-dollar maitre ‘d, rides off into the Sunset (Tower).
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‘Megalopolis’ Finds a Fall Guy for AI Trailer Snafu and Hollywood Cries Foul
Plus, a posthumous tell-all by Robert Blake’s and Heidi Fleiss’ attorney, and Patti Smith’s battle with City Hall (over a garden).
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Can Joaquin Phoenix Be Replaced, or Is Todd Haynes’ Gay Love Story Doomed?
Plus, Frank Zappa’s daughter Moon Unit has a few choice words for dad, and Carol Burnett proves you're never too old to pitch.
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How Rhode Island’s Biggest Movie Showcase Became the “Fyre of Film Festivals”
Was RIIFF “The Fyre Festival of Film Festivals”? Every film festival has an occasional hiccup — remember the infamous screening of Reservoir Dogs at Sundance in 1992 when the lights came up before the movie ended? That said, according to one group of filmmakers, there was something going on at the Rhode Island International Film […]
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Why Hollywood Keeps Quitting on Harry and Meghan
Why Hollywood Keeps Quitting on Harry and Meghan Looks like Harry and Meghan have done it again — they’ve chewed up yet another American adviser. Josh Kettler, the Santa Barbara-based consultant who’d been serving as chief of staff to the Duke and Duchess, reportedly resigned in August — after just three months on the job […]
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‘Megalopolis’ Finds a Fall Guy for AI Trailer Snafu and Hollywood Cries Foul
Megalopolis Finds a Fall Guy for AI Trailer Snafu We’ll find out whether Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a masterpiece or a stinker when it arrives in theaters on Sept. 27, but the behind-the-scenes dramas have already been riveting. The latest twist was the snafu over the sci-fi drama’s trailer, which was pulled by distributor Lionsgate […]
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Can Joaquin Phoenix Be Replaced, or Is Todd Haynes’ Gay Love Story Doomed?
Can Todd Haynes’ Gay Love Story Be Saved? Joaquin Phoenix has pulled this sort of stunt before. In 2019, he tried to back out of The Joker at the last minute. He did it again in 2021, with Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon, and again in 2023, with Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. But in those cases, Phoenix […]
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Why Was Barry Diller’s Memoir Pulled From Amazon?
Where in the World Is Diller’s Memoir? In late July, when Barry Diller’s forthcoming memoir, Who Knew, suddenly disappeared from Amazon — after it had popped up for presales ahead of a planned fall release — it raised all sorts of eyebrows. Had the book’s publisher, Knopf, pulled the project for some reason? Had there […]
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Don’t F*** With Cat Ladies!: How a Pottery-Making Pussycat Won the Box Office
The Surprise Box Office Hit Last Weekend? A Pottery-Making Cat It’s doubtful J.D. Vance bought a ticket, but the ninth annual CatVideoFest sold a record $281,000 worth of tickets during the Aug. 3 weekend, when it opened on 106 screens across the country, with such venues as L.A.’s Vidiots playing to sold-out crowds. “It’s our […]
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‘Simpsons’ Writer Recalls How the Show Predicted Kamala Harris (Among Other Things)
The Simpsons Makes (Up) History. Again Remember that time in 1999 when The Simpsons predicted — as a hilarious joke, mind you — that Donald Trump would be elected president? Turns out that same episode (number 17, season 11, “Bart to the Future”) contains another prophecy that suddenly seems entirely plausible. Not only does it […]
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Swordplay at WME: An Agent’s Assistant Goes to the Olympics
Touché! A WME Assistant Jabs His Way to Paris What’s the difference between a Hollywood agent and an Olympic fencer? The fencer salutes his opponents after stabbing them in the back. Other than that, the skills required — steely nerves, killer instincts, ruthless ambition — are remarkably similar. No one knows that better than Pascual […]
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Is the Venice Film Festival Big Enough for Brad and Angelina? (No.)
How Brad Could Bump Into Angelina in Venice Running into an ex at a party can be awkward. But imagine if the party is the Venice Film Festival and the exes are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. That potentially incendiary meet-cute could well happen, as both are starring in films that seem to be probable […]
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Newsflash! Nicholas Galitzine Is Not a Real Royal
Nicholas Galitzine: The Artist Formerly Known as a Prince? He’s played Cinderella’s Prince opposite Camila Cabello, the Prince of England in Red, White & Royal Blue and next will play He-Man, Prince Adam of Eternia, in Masters of the Universe. But is Hollywood’s latest “It” boy an actual prince? There has been a ton of […]
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Why TCM Fans Are Glitching About David Zaslav
Who’s Behind TCM’s Glitches? Cue David Zaslav’s Evil Laugh In recent weeks, the biggest mystery on TCM has been … what the heck is wrong with TCM? The classic movie channel has lately been plagued with what might generously be called technical difficulties. It started on May 3, when a showing of the 1982 Steve […]
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The Man Who Stole Brad Pitt’s Girlfriend
The Man Who Stole Brad Pitt’s Girlfriend and Other True Tales He’s gone to war with Mike Ovitz, made peace with Steven Seagal, forded rivers in Thailand with Brandon Lee and once swiped Brad Pitt’s fiancée. And now director Dwight Little — the 68-year-old auteur behind such notable 1980s and ’90s movies as Marked for […]
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Ex-Employee Charging Harassment Has Been Picketing the San Vicente Bungalows All Week
Usually, it’s what’s going on inside the San Vicente Bungalows — the deals, the spiels, the meals — that gets Rambling Reporter’s attention. But lately we couldn’t help noticing what’s going on outside the buzzy Hollywood clubhouse: For nearly a week, a lone 26-year-old woman, often dressed in extravagant evening wear, has been picketing the […]
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ScarJo Puts a Muzzle on Open AI’s Latest Bot
Scarlett Johansson Wins the Robot War Against Sam Altman Remember last November when Sam Altman got fired from Open AI — before he was swiftly rehired — after his board of directors determined that the CEO had not been “consistently candid” in his communications? Well, it starting to look like maybe the board had a […]
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Why Hollywood Can’t Finish a Janis Joplin Biopic
Hollywood Tries (Just a Little Bit Harder) But Can’t Make a Janis Joplin Film Jim Morrison got one. Jimi Hendrix, too. And Kurt Cobain. And now, with Back to Black, Amy Winehouse is getting one as well. But there is one member of the so-called 27 Club — artists who share the same tragically young […]
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The O.J. Simpson Movie That Owen Wilson (Among Others) Won’t Be Starring In
A New O.J. Movie Stars the Controversial Charlotte Kirk (But Definitely Not Owen Wilson) Hey, Hollywood, anybody interested in a partially finished film about how O.J. Simpson might have been innocent? One that stars Charlotte Kirk — the English actress best known for her previous role in taking down moguls Kevin Tsujihara and Ron Meyer […]
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