Editors’ Note: This interview is the first in a series commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop on August 11 “I mean, there were people who used to look at us at that time and say, ‘Where is the band?’” recalls LL Cool J of hip-hop’s early years and the reaction …

UPDATED, 1:27 PM: Donald Trump on Thursday pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election, with the next court hearing in the case set for August 28. The ex-POTUS and leading candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination uttered the words personally and with the …

“Some kids have more baggage than others,” Teenie (Tamara Podemski) tells her niece Elora Postoak (Devery Jacobs) on the road home to Oklahoma from California in the opener of the third and final season of Reservation Dogs. Once again tossing expectations aside and centering in on the personal to find …

The studios are putting on a united front when it comes to the striking scribes and actors, but Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global dust-up over who really has the streaming rights to Eric Cartman and the South Park gang shows no signs of settling down. In the match of …

EXCLUSIVE: Regardless of whether SAG-AFTRA goes on strike this week, the studios have no intention of sitting down with the Writers Guild for several more months. “I think we’re in for a long strike, and they’re going to let it bleed out,” said one industry veteran intimate with the POV …

EXCLUSIVE: The computers are taking over. As talks between the actors union and the studios come to down to the final days before the extension of SAG-AFTRA’s current contract expires, artificial intelligence has become a significant obstacle to any deal.   “There seems to be no real negotiations here,” a …

“I don’t know why I was fired, I really don’t,” declared Tucker Carlson today on his sudden departure from the airwaves of Fox News on April 24. “I’m not angry about it,” the former primetime host told pal Russell Brand. “I honestly don’t know.” “I was surprised,” Carlson said at …

Editor’s note: This interview was done outside of the FYC event as there was no cast or creatives panel as a part of the event. “I think there’s a certain pace a noir allows, which at times can be an indulgent luxury,” says Perry Mason‘s Matthew Rhys of the 1930s-set …

If you figured the war between Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis was going to take a breather for the weekend, think again. A day after the Bob Iger-run Mouse House gave the aspiring White House candidate a pro-business black eye and pulled the plug on long-time plans to move 2,000 …

EXCLUSIVE: “We told them, and we told them for six weeks of negotiations, what they needed to address to meet writers demands, and have a real negotiation,” exclaims WGA Chief Negotiator Ellen Stutzman from the picket line today on the now-shuttered talks with the studios. “They refused the whole time.” …

EXCLUSIVE: While the Writers Guild of America will continue to negotiate with the studios right up to the expiration of their current contact on May 1, strike preparations are underway — but Hollywood might not see picket lines as quickly as you think. In fact, the WGA will likely not …

“I believe in the First Amendment, and not just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it,” joked President Joe Biden on Saturday at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. “I had a lot of Ron DeSantis jokes ready, but Mickey Mouse beat the Hell out of me and got …