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Taylor Sheridan, Paramount and NBC Universal are all being sued by a writer who says Sheridan stole her idea for a TV show and used it to create Yellowstone. In the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Friday, TV writer and entertainment journalist Lauren J. Salkin claims she submitted a pilot script, show bible and pitch deck for a show called Sovereign Nation to Sheridan’s reps at his management company, Elevate Entertainment, which is also named as a defendant in the suit, in late 2016 and early 2017. Sovereign Nation, which Salkin…
Get ready for another treasure hunt: A third National Treasure movie is happening, according to director Jon Turteltaub. Speaking at a live taping of the National Treasure Hunt podcast Friday night in Philadelphia, Turteltaub said, “It’s happening. You’re the first people I’ve said this out loud to. I have not said anything before this, but you deserve to have the scoop. It’s finally real. Now, it’s ‘Hollywood real,’ meaning things could happen. Nic [Cage] gets hit by a bus, there’s no National Treasure 3. If I get hit by a bus, there’s probably a National Treasure 3. Welcome to Hollywood.”…
Mark Ruffalo is rejecting Paramount‘s claim that his recent comments highlighting the role Larry Ellison’s Oracle played in the Israel-Gaza war were “antisemitic.” “The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest,” Ruffalo wrote on X Saturday morning. “Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel.To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom…
Bunny Levine, an actress who appeared in Gilmore Girls, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, Thelma and numerous other TV shows and films, has died. She was 97. Levine died peacefully in her sleep, her manager confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter, with NBC Los Angeles reporting that she died Thursday at her home in Tarzana, California. Born on Dec. 22,1928, in East Orange, New Jersey, Levine developed an interest in acting at a young age. But after graduating from high school, she put those dreams on hold for 25 years while working as a school librarian and raising her three…
Meghan Markle has been dropped from consideration to join Guy Ritchie‘s The Gentlemen, according to Tina Brown, who reported that the decision came after intense backlash in the U.K. In a column published Saturday on Substack, Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, wrote, “I learned this morning that the casting of Meghan Markle in season 3 of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen has been withdrawn. The backlash in the UK was so intense, it became untenable to go forward. This does not bode well for Meghan’s acting comeback in the UK.” The Hollywood Reporter…
Janie Bradford, the onetime receptionist for Berry Gordy who co-wrote the R&B classic “Money (That’s What I Want),” the first big hit for the founder of Motown Records, has died. She was 87. Bradford died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after an extended illness, her family announced. Bradford also co-wrote “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby,” which Marvin Gaye took to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969, and songs for other artists including Mary Wells, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, the Four Tops and Martha & the Vandellas. She later served as head of writer…
Michael Wright, who starred as the lead vocalist Eddie King Jr. in Robert Townsend’s The Five Heartbeats and as Wesley Snipes’ brother in Sugar Hill, has died. He was 70. Wright died Wednesday in Los Angeles of heart failure and complications from Marchiafava-Bignami disease, a rare degenerative neurological disorder, TMZ reported. “Our family is grieving an enormous and deeply personal loss,” his wife, Susan, wrote on Instagram. “Michael, your work will live forever, but your love will live even longer in the hearts of those who knew you best. Rest peacefully, my love. You will be missed beyond words.” The…
Reading Time: 3 minutes This week, we heard the shocking news that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the UK. Immediately, people speculated that King Charles’ ailing health could be the reason. However, those familiar with the ins and outs of British tax law for the wealthy have a new theory. Was this whole excursion to the US a well-timed exploitation of a tax loophole? The calendar backs that up. Prince Harry attends the TIME100 Sports Gala on July 16, 2026. (Photo Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME) The five-year rule According to The Royalist Substack, Harry…
Sandra Wollner’s Everytime has been awarded the Honorary Heart for best narrative feature film at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival. As this year’s edition drew to a close on Friday night, filmmakers gathered at the city’s National Theatre where the jury members — including Igor Bezinović, Sara Klimoska, Matthijs Wouter Knol and Athina Rachel Tsangari, led by Emily Watson —unveiled their top picks. A final Honorary Heart of Sarajevo was awarded to Emir Hadžihafizbegović, one of the most prominent actors in Bosnian-Herzegovinian and regional cinema, in recognition of his contribution to film. He joined Watson, Diego Luna, Woody Harrelson and…
In a new court filing, the former child actress Raquel Lee alleges she was repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted by a Disney worker during production of The Poof Point, a 2001 Disney Channel original movie. The suit, which doesn’t name the perpetrator, accuses the studio of negligence. Lee, who was 14 years old at the time, claims that a “middle-aged, male employee who was involved in the filming of the movie” groomed and then assaulted her, first on multiple occasions in his room at a hotel where the cast and crew were staying during production in Salt Lake City and…