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The Deuce: The Complete First Season (HBO Home Entertainment, rated TV-MA, 500 minutes, 1.78:1 aspect ratio, $59.99) Creators David Simon and George Pelecanos (both from “The Wire” and ...

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Franco scrubbed from Vanity Fair cover

The cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue features a cavalcade of high-wattage stars — Nicole Kidman, Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks — but one star ...

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“The Shape of Water” is shaping up as the film to beat at this year’s Academy Awards.

Tuesday, it received 13 nominations, including nods for Best Picture, Actress (Sally Hawkins), Supporting Actor (Richard Jenkins), Supporting Actress (Octavia Spencer) and Director (Guillermo del Toro). ...

Alison Brie has spoken out to defend her brother-in-law James Franco and the way he has conducted himself after being accused of sexual misconduct.

Jack White releases new single

Jack White released a new single Wednesday from his upcoming album “Boarding House Reach.” “Connected by Love” is the single, with the B-side track “Respect Commander.” The video for “Connected” was posted to YouTube, and it features people who appear to be ...

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“The Disaster Artist”: James Franco is getting some of the best reviews of his career for this comedy biopic in which he plays indie filmmaker Tommy Wiseau, ...

James Franco directs and stars in one of the year’s best films – about one of the worst movies ever made

Made by a famously flighty director-star and taking its inspiration from one of the worst movies of all-time, “The Disaster Artist” could have been a disaster itself.

It is ...

Alison Brie saw her brother-in-law James Franco naked on her first day on set on ‘The Disaster Artist’.

The 34-year-old actress stars in the new the dramatization of the making of Tommy Wiseau’s ‘The Room’ alongside her husband Dave Franco, 32, and his older brother James - who directed ...

The drama has been named the year’s best film; other winners include ‘Three Billboards’ and ‘Get Out’

Detroit has a lot of love for Florida.

“The Florida Project” was chosen as the year’s best movie by the Detroit Film Critics Society, which announced its picks for its end of 2017 ...

‘The Disaster Artist’ writers discuss making a movie about a movie they’ve never seen

CLEVELAND, Ohio – It might surprise you to learn that screenwriters Michael Weber and Scott Neustadter, who wrote the screenplay to James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist,” never saw the movie that inspired ...

LOS ANGELES -- Sometime in 2003, a billboard sprang up over Highland Avenue advertising a new movie called “The Room,” adorned with a screening RSVP hotline and the strange, looming mug of its writer, director, producer and star, Tommy Wiseau.

Unlike some of my more adventurous colleagues, ...

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‘Water,’ ‘Billboards’ top DFCS leaderboard

The monster movie romance “The Shape of Water” and the small town powder keg “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” are among the most recognized films from the Detroit Film Critics ...

James Franco “only” worked for two weeks this year.

The 39-year-old actor has over 50 acting credits to his name, has directed productions, written screenplays, published a book of short stories, and worked as a lecturer teaching film making, among other numerous projects, but despite his ...

To be a cultural phenomenon, you have to form an active and engaged fan base and have a strong duration in your appeal. Above all, you need the bandwagon effect, making people like your creation largely because others do.

In movie terms, this means either making a movie very good or ...

James Franco’s ‘The Disaster Artist’ succeeds as a movie-about-a-movie

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Movies about movies are nothing new, as Hollywood seems to revel in examining the filmmaking process and give itself props for how creative and important it is. But few films offer a truly reflective ...

James Franco is in talks to join Fox’s ‘X-Men’ universe.

The 39-year-old actor is in negotiations to play Multiple Man in a new standalone movie being developed by producer Simon Kinberg - who is currently working on ‘X-Men: The Dark Phoenix’, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The film ...

Tulsa’s Allan Heinberg, who scripted the summer’s biggest hit in “Wonder Woman,” will now take on a character in the “X-Men” world as a film project in which James Franco will star.

According to a story on Deadline Hollywood’s website, Heinberg has been selected to write a script for ...

50. “Trapped in Paradise”

Smart Rating: 42.36Release year: 1994Genre: Holiday, ComedyLocal hospitality foils a bank heist by three bumbling brothers (Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey) in Paradise, Pennsylvania, on Christmas Eve.

49. “The Trust”

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James Franco is in the midst of a “midlife crisis”.

The Oscar-nominated actor will turn 40 in April next year and as his landmark birthday appears on the horizon, the self-confessed “workaholic” has admitted to reconsidering his life priorities over the last 12 months.

James ...

James Franco is “addicted” to his work.

The ‘Spring Breakers’ star - who had previously admitted to dabbling in drugs and alcohol in the past - has confessed he is a complete workaholic.

He said: “The thing about work addiction is our culture supports it. We reward hard work and ...

James Franco says jealousy got him into acting.

The ‘Spring Breakers’ star decided to join his high school’s drama department when the girl he was dating was asked to act alongside another student who had crafted and was starring in a romantic one-act.

He said: “I started acting my ...

T he sixth film in the 20th Century Fox “Alien” franchise that began in 1979 and the second prequel, Ridley Scott’s “Alien: Covenant” is a movie that has run out of ideas.

David, Michael Fassbender’s evil and prissy android from the 2012 “Prometheus,” is back in opening scenes preceding ...

BERLIN — Real women have been good for Nicole Kidman.

This year she received her fourth Oscar nomination, this time for her portrayal of Sue Brierley, the adoptive Australian mother in “Lion.”

Kidman won her Best Actress Oscar as remarkable English writer Virginia Woolf and now ...

CONGRATS: Forget those “save the date” cards — “The Little Hours” co-stars Dave Franco and Alison Brie have already tied the knot.

Their reps confirmed the I-dos to People. In January, brother James Franco said the ceremony would happen “early this year,” to which 31-year-old Dave replied ...