With Donald Trump recently sending 300 California National Guard troops to Oregon, Rob Reiner is using his platform to warn that democracy is at risk. The Oscar nominee pleaded that it’s “our job now” as storytellers in Hollywood to call attention to recent attacks on free speech and militarizati…

“Nigel, David and Derek haven’t seen the film,” Rob Reiner said Thursday before unveiling the first trailer for his mockumentary sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues during Collider’s Directors on Director panel at Comic-Con. Spinal Tap II has Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), Michael McKean…

Glenn Padnick, who co-founded Castle Rock Entertainment, served as its TV president and was a key player in bringing its crown-jewel sitcom Seinfeld into existence, has died. He was 77. His reps told Deadline that Padnick died February 27 of complications from Erdheim-Chester disease, a rare…

Ted Olson, the conservative attorney who formed an unexpected alliance with a liberal counterpart to mount a legal challenge to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, has died. He was 84. His law firm Gibson Dunn, where he was a partner, confirmed his death, but did not…

Kamala Harris picked up an endorsement from Taylor Swift mere minutes after tonight's presidential debate with Donald Trump ended, but the “Cruel Summer” megastar wasn't the only big name backing the vice president's performance on Tuesday. For Kerry Washington, Luke Skywalker himself Mark…

UPDATED with more reactions: A lot of Hollywood power players may have be voting for Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to be Kamala Harris’ running mate, but now that Harris has chosen Tim Walz to be her VP, one of the Democrats’ biggest donor bases has a lot of good things to say about the…

Joe Biden announcing today that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race has given Damon Lindelof "genuine excitement for the election." The first significant Hollywood donor to go public with a call for supporters to withhold their cash after Biden's disastrous June 27 debate…

EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged among Hollywood donors as the top successor to head the Democratic ticket as calls for Joe Biden to step aside intensify, with a caveat. "Kamala Harris has put in the work, she's the obvious choice for sure," a longtime contributor to the party…

One of Rob Reiner's greatest filmmaking credits is the classic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. But he became the maker of an actual documentary – not a faux one – with Albert Brooks: Defending My Life. This morning (while working on the sequel to Spinal Tap in New Orleans) he learned he's become an…

Some of the entertainment industry's top filmmakers will go up against each other at the 76th Emmy Awards. Oscar winner Ron Howard's Jim Henson Idea Man earned eight Emmy nominations this morning, more than any other nonfiction contender in the race. The Disney+ film about the Muppets creator…

Robert De Niro ranted. Bette Midler blared about “autocracy.” Lea DeLaria declared war. But Donald Trump, though convicted in New York and shot in Pennsylvania, is still marching toward Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention begins tomorrow. Meanwhile, George Clooney called for a…

Joe Biden is barnstorming Pennsylvania today in an effort to get his reelection campaign back in the saddle, but here in Hollywood, the president just lost another high-profile major donor after his June 27 debate debacle. Little more than a week after hosting a fundraiser for Vice President…