Mike Hodges, the British director of “Get Carter,” “Flash Gordon” and “Croupier,” died Saturday in Dorset, England. He was 90. Mike Kaplan — Hodges’ longtime friend and producer of “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” — announced the news Tuesday, Variety reported. A cause of death was not revealed. Hodges had a long career making British … Read more
Quentin Tarantino doesn’t care if you hate his movies. The Oscar winner, 59, recently appeared on HBO Max’s “Who’s Talking With Chris Wallace” where he discussed the criticism against him for the violence and racist language in his films. Wallace, 75, asked the director: “So when people say, ‘Well there’s too much violence in his … Read more
Golden Globe winner Quentin Tarantino has declared “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” as his best movie to date. During a recent appearance on “The Howard Stern Show,” the legendary director was put on the spot and asked to name his top project. “For years people used to ask me stuff like that,” the 59-year-old said, according … Read more
Stage, TV and film writer-director Douglas McGrath, who earned a Tony nomination for “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” and an Oscar nod for the “Bullets Over Broadway” screenplay he co-wrote with Woody Allen, died Thursday. He was 64. The death was announced by the producers of McGrath’s solo off-Broadway show, “Everything’s Fine,” which opened last … Read more
Dr. Jackson Avery is temporarily back in the office. Jesse Williams will reprise his role as the hunky doctor — as well as direct — the fifth episode in the upcoming 19th season of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Titled “When I Get to the Border,” this will be the fourth “Grey’s” episode that the 41-year-old Broadway star … Read more
Warner Bros. Discovery has backed off of a plan to shutter workshops for ascendant writers and directors after industry backlash. The company said in a statement Wednesday that it was transferring the Directors’ Workshop and Writers’ Workshop programs from its previous home at Warner Bros. Television to the corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion division after … Read more
Warner Bros. Discovery will be shutting down its long-running writers’ and directors’ television workshops at the end of the current 2022-23 season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. While they were not specifically diversity programs exclusively for participants from historically excluded backgrounds, the Warner Bros. Television Workshop was regarded as an important pipeline of opportunity for … Read more