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Comedian Dave Chappelle used a tour stop in North Carolina on Wednesday to claim reports on what he allegedly said about the Israel-Hamas conflict last weekend in Boston were all “hearsay.” “Right now, I'm in trouble because the Jewish community is upset,” Chappelle said at his North Carolina show…

CAA is dealing with the fallout of the Maha Dakhil situation. Aaron Sorkin has left the agency and returned to WME on Tuesday following the controversial social media post about Israel by CAA’s co-head of motion pictures Dakhil. "Maha isn't an antisemite, she's just wrong. She's a great agent…

James Wan has been trying to bring Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom back to calmer waters. Wan has already addressed rumors Amber Heard’s role superhero flick was reduced, and has now responded to further noise around the production. The director told Empire that reports over reshoots didn’t capture the…

Maha Dakhil, who was Co-Head of Motion Pictures at CAA, has temporarily stepped away from day to day leadership and resigned from the agency's internal board after her controversial comments on Israel's response to the Hamas terror attacks. Dakhil represents stars including Tom Cruise and Natalie…

Paddy Cosgrave, the CEO and cofounder of annual tech conference Web Summit, has resigned after his comments on the Israel-Hamas war led Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to cancel their participation. "Unfortunately, my personal comments have become a distraction from the event, and our team, our sponsors…

EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild of America's silence on the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel looks to be the only statement they'll be making, at least according to West Coast president Meredith Stiehm. "In the past week, some members have requested that the Guild take a public stand on events in…

Bill Maher was angry that certain messages get attention and certain others do not on his Friday Real Time show on HBO. He led off with a prime example of that in an interview with Alexandra Pelosi (daughter of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi), the director and producer of the HBO Original…

Christopher Nolan is a huge fan of theatrical releases and Taylor Swift’s business model for her film, The Eras Tour. Nolan engaged in a discussion with fellow filmmaker Emma Thomas and Pulitzer Prize–winning American Prometheus author Kai Bird about Oppenheimer at the CUNY Graduate Center. In the…

Director Matthew Vaughn would love the chance to shake things up in two film franchises that fans hold sacred. Speaking on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, Vaughn said he and comic book writer Mark Millar had the big concept of "a three-picture trilogy" on Superman for Warner Bros…

One of CAA's top agents has landed in hot water after a social media post calling Israel's response to the Hamas terror attacks "genocide". Maha Dakhil, who represents stars including Tom Cruise, Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Reese Witherspoon, Olivia Wilde and directors such as Steve McQueen…

Scientology says that Leah Remini's harassment suit against her former Church and its leader David Miscavige should be DOA thanks to the First Amendment. "Defendants determined that the vast majority of the allegations in the 68-page, 310 paragraph long FAC implicate Defendants' constitutionally…

Never split your tens is a bedrock rule of blackjack. For filmmakers, the rule may be never split your source material. In a People interview, The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence rued that the final films of the series based on the Suzanne Collins books were split into two movies. “I…