Arts & Entertainment Former Pixar Screenwriter Says 'The Holdovers' Was Plagiarized From Something He Wrote The Oscar-winning film 'The Holdovers,' which stars Paul Giamatti and is set at a New England boarding school in the 1970s, is brazenly similar to a screenplay that a former Pixar writer penned and shopped around Hollywood in recent years, that writer says.
Arts & Entertainment SF Movie Theater Owners Fear Writers' and Actors' Strikes Could Wreck the Rest of Their 2023 Movie theater operators are projecting a debilitating post-Barbenheimer hangover, as the twin strikes by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA threaten to erase upcoming blockbusters and Oscar-season prestige films from the 2023 film release calendar.
SF News East Bay Dummy Stolen By Apparent 'Mannequin' Fan A window display display was swiped from a Pleasanton clothing store in a bizarre robbery in which the thief left behind $200 and a note signed with the name of a character from
SF News The Mom And Pop Company Behind The Netflix Leak Reveal How They Got Hacked And Blackmailed It's safe to say that last Christmas was completely ruined for Rick and Jill Larson of Larson Studios, a small, family-run, Hollywood-based audio post-production business for big-name television shows. In an exclusive obtained
SF News Johnny Depp Will Play Tech Weirdo John McAfee In A Movie Former teen heart-throb and accused domestic abuser Johnny Depp is set to star in King of the Jungle, an upcoming film about tech entrepreneur turned cocaine/maybe other things addict turned international fugitive
Arts & Entertainment Batkid NOT Snubbed By 'Spider-Man' Star At The Oscars [Updated] Update: According to Andrew Garfield, the Oscars are to blame for crushing the hopes of Batkid. "The reps say Garfield DID contribute to the presentation script, but he had nothing to do with
Arts & Entertainment Larry Ellison's Daughter Once Again Made Some Good Movies This Year It's awards season again, so it's time to check back and see what Larry Ellison's kids have been up to with their millions down in Hollywood. The Oracle founder has two progeny who
Arts & Entertainment Book About Famed Mob Hitman Killed In S.F. To Become Film Joseph “the Animal” Barboza, the first mafioso to turn government witness and testify against other mobsters, was a brutal and widely feared hitman in the Boston mob of the 1950s and 60s, and
Arts & Entertainment 'People Despised Faye': Tales From The Set Of <em>Mommie Dearest</em> One thing we'll never tire of are real-life tales of working with Faye Dunaway. The most recent tidbit comes to us from Rutanya Ald, the actress who played Carol Ann in Mommie Dearest.
SF News Sean Penn Reacts To The Death Of Hugo Chavez Two-time Academy Award winner and Tosca savior Sean Penn mourned the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with great sadness. The actor had been a longtime supporter of Chavez after the two met
Arts & Entertainment Who Should Play A 'Not Crazy' John McAfee In The Movie Adaptation? Software mogul and self-diagnosed not-insane person John McAfee is about to see his life flash before him on the silver screen. Or at least the part that begins with him living in Belize
Arts & Entertainment FYI, Larry Ellison's Daughter Put Up $45 Million for 'Zero Dark Thirty' So, Megan Ellison, daughter of Oracle billionaire Larry, is now a respected Hollywood producer. With millions of her dad's money to play with each year, she was the major funding source behind The
SF News Netflix Says FU To Pay Cable, Strikes Exclusive Licensing Deal With Disney Netflix has just struck a major deal in a coup that's sending shockwaves through the pay-cable establishment. Under a new multiyear agreement, Netflix will have the exclusive right to stream Disney movies starting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 7 Favorite Food Lines In Movie History What with Nora Ephron's untimely passing, one of her most noted films' famous quotes, the one that follows Meg Ryan's (very) fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally, has been played on
SF News Bay Area Singing Twins Die Within Hours Of One Another The Miller Twins, two performing young girls who grew up in the Bay Area performing on local TV show The Hoffman Hayride and others, just died in their home in South Lake Tahoe
Arts & Entertainment Oscars This Sunday! Our Picks For The Best Places To Watch In SF It's that time of year again where stylists dress actors to within an inch of their true personalities for the red carpet and product endorsement deals. That is to say, it's Academy Awards
Arts & Entertainment Oscar Nominees Are In: Hugo Leads With 11, Melissa McCarthy Scores 1 We're into the final stretch of award show season, folks. The nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards (now hosted again by your grandmother's favorite, Billy Crystal, not Eddie Murphy) are out! If you've
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Golden Globes At Balboa Theater This Sunday Our inbox is simply littered—littered!—with invitations to openings and galas and VIP-ness and other very important things happening this Sunday. Events where media types, like your SFist editor, enjoy getting tipsy
SF News Schwarzenegger Cinematic Comeback to Be Filmed in New Mexico Disgraced former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans on making a return to the big screen. Sure to be as successful as Norma Desmond's Salome, his latest effort, titled, Last Stand, will be shot
SF News Paul Thomas Anderson, James Franco Shooting Movies In Bay Area This Summer A few notables will shoot movies in the Bay Area this summer. Valley kid Paul Thomas Anderson will start filming The Master in Vallejo mostly, with some shooting at sea. Anderson's latest flick
SF News Jude Law Spotted at Sports Club L.A.; Also, His Character in <em>Contagion</em> Is a Blogger Over the twitwires we spotted this mention of Jude Law this a.m., from a patron of the Sports Club L.A. at the Four Seasons: "Ran into Jude Law at the club
SF News Oscar Nominations Spew Forth Well, both Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey were snubbed for their work in Black Swan, and Christopher Nolan was nixed from the Best Director category for Inception at this morning's Academy Award nominations
Arts & Entertainment Be an Extra in a Movie Starring Jude Law! (and Matt Damon.) Hollywood is coming to town again, with director Steven Soderbergh descending next month to shoot Contagion, an action-thriller starring Jude Law(!) involving disease and the CDC that's being shot in San Francisco. It
SF News Former SFSU Student Wins Second Most Important Acting Award Former San Francisco State University student Annette Bening won last night's Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for The Kids Are Alright, where she plays a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Beth Behrs, a Direct-to-DVD <em>American Pie</em> Sequel Actress from Marin by Amy Crocker How does a girl from Marin County end up with a role in American Pie? According to Beth Behrs, with lots of luck. A graduate of the UCLA School of
