Pakistani PM Distances Self from Bounty on Head of Anti-Islam Filmmaker
AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images(ISLAMABAD) — Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Sunday distanced his administration from one government official offering to pay $100,000 out of his own pocket to kill the person responsible for an anti-Islam…
TV Host Who Aired Scenes from Anti-Islam Film ‘Shocked’ by Violent Reaction
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — As the militant group Hezbollah led protests in Beirut Monday against the U.S. and a controversial anti-Islam movie, Egyptian cleric and talk show host Khaled Abdallah, one of the first to broadcast scenes from …
TV Host Who Aired Scenes from Anti-Islam Film ‘Shocked’ by Violent Reaction
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — As the militant group Hezbollah led protests in Beirut Monday against the U.S. and a controversial anti-Islam movie, Egyptian cleric and talk show host Khaled Abdallah, one of the first to broadcast scenes from …
Nakoula May Have Violated Probation by Making Movie
JACK GUEZ/AFP/GettyImages(NEW YORK) — Federal probation officers interviewed Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a California filmmaker responsible for creating an anti-Islam film that sparked protests in more than 30 countries, late Friday night. The man, who…
Nakoula May Have Violated Probation by Making Movie
JACK GUEZ/AFP/GettyImages(NEW YORK) — Federal probation officers interviewed Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a California filmmaker responsible for creating an anti-Islam film that sparked protests in more than 30 countries, late Friday night. The man, who…
Anti-US Protests Spread to More Than a Dozen Countries
Jordan Pix/ Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A wave of anti-American protests broke out in more than a dozen countries Friday with some of the worst violence occurring in Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan.Three people were killed — two in Tunisia and one in Egypt -…
US Braces for Further Protests in Cairo over Anti-Muslim Film
Ed Giles/Getty Images(CAIRO) — The U.S. government is bracing itself for the fourth straight day of protests in Cairo and other parts of the Middle East as anger over a U.S.-produced film mocking the Prophet Mohammed continues to grow.Many protesters …
Anti-Islam Film Producer Wrote Script in Prison: Authorities
JACK GUEZ/AFP/GettyImages(NEW YORK) — The controversial Innocence of Muslims was written, produced and directed by a convicted drug manufacturer and scam artist, who has told authorities he actually wrote the script in federal prison and began product…
Police Sent to California Home of "Innocence of Muslims" Producer
Thinkstock/Getty Images(CERRITOS, Calif.) — As outrage over the anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims spreads across the Middle East, police were sent to the California home of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the film’s producer, who according to authoritie…
Who Is Sam Bacile? Anti-Islam Filmmaker’s Bio Doesn’t Add Up
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The filmmaker who produced an incendiary, anti-Muslim movie that stirred extremists on Tuesday to storm the U.S. embassy in Egypt — and may be linked to the fatal attack on the U.S. ambassador in Libya — may have g…
Egyptians Flood US Embassy to Protest Film
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images(CAIRO) — Hundreds of protesters marched on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo Tuesday.Some climbed the walls into the courtyard and brought down the U.S. flag. They were enraged over an apparently U.S.-produced anti-Islamic vide…
Kodak Goes Bankrupt and Sells Film Divisions
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News(LOS ANGELES) — Eastman Kodak is bankrupt, and the company is selling their film divisions, the Los Angeles Times reports.The Rochester, N.Y.-based company wants to unload their personalized imaging and document imaging busi…
Philly Teen Killed at Site of Colin Farrell Film Shoot
Joseph Devenney/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) — A Philadelphia teenager was shot dead steps away from where scenes of Dead Man Down, a mob thriller starring Colin Farrell, was to be filmed Tuesday morning.Philadelphia police say 18-year-old Robert Sneed …
"The Avengers" and the Power of the Throwback
Marvel.com(LOS ANGELES) — Hollywood’s new box-office king, The Avengers, demonstrated the power of the throwback film ahead of several other films that will provide a blast from the past this summer. The Avengers not only shattered the previous openin…
Team Obama Releases New Campaign Film
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — The new Obama campaign film “The Road We’ve Traveled” offers a view of the president’s first term that’s at once sweeping and cursory, and entirely favorable.And to the team of Demo…
Jennifer Aniston Requested Topless Scene Be Removed from New Film
Eric Charbonneau/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — You won’t see Jennifer Aniston’s breasts in her new film, Wanderlust. She went topless for a scene in the comedy, opening Friday, but a source tells TheWrap.com that Aniston demanded that it be pulled from the…
Movie Review: ‘Safe House’
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — There’s this incredible moment in Safe House when…THE CAMERA STOPS @#$%& SHAKING! It is simply incredible how a perfectly good, gratuitously violent, well-acted action flick can be ruined by the decisi…