Wiz Khalifa: Blacc Hollywood review rapping and hip-hop hooks

Wiz Khalifa's modus operandi has always been simple: rap about smoking loads of weed and create earwormy tracks built on repetitive hooks. He perfected the combination on his 2011 hit, Black and Yellow, an ode to his favourite colours and the Pittsburgh Steelers. On Blacc Hollywood, he's at it again. We Dem Boyz was online months ago, and its simple call-and-response chorus and booming kick-drum was enough to start building hype.

Agent gives Hollywood edgy look with 'real' people

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — You couldn't miss Hollywood talent agent Sid Levin's office in the old days: It wasn't much bigger than a closet and it was sometimes filled with burglars, bank robbers and gang members, all trying to break into the movies.

These days you'll find everyone from Gulf War veterans to a 15-time world arm-wrestling champion there, and Levin didn't bring them in for protection. They're looking to be movie stars, too.

Un-American, Some Said. But Not Unworthy.

‘Red Hollywood’ Looks at Work by Blacklisted Filmmakers

“Red Hollywood” may suggest the rivers of blood that flood our screens. But the red in the title of this fascinating essaylike movie refers to the home-front Communists and other American radicals — actual and accused — who once upon a Hollywood time made socially conscious movies that took on the world and its woes. These were true believers, like the fiery Abraham Polonsky who, with films like “Force of Evil” (1948), challenged reigning ideologies and at times cast pitch-black shadows over the scene to make class, race and sexual inequality all part of the big picture.

Fox Taps Studio Head David Madden as Entertainment Chief

Joe Earley has been upped to chief operating officer for Fox Television Group 

Fox Television Group chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden have found their entertainment chief.

Mere weeks into the job, the pair has tapped Fox TV Studios chief David Madden to serve as the president of entertainment for the broadcast network. As part of the shake-up, Joe Earley will segue out of the creative role he had embraced in recent months. Instead, he has been upped to chief operating officer for Fox Television Group, where he'll be focused on such things as strategic initiatives across the company's divisions. Both executives will report to Newman and Walden and will assume their new duties immediately, with Madden's replacement at the cable-minded studio to be named soon.

China's Wanda Group Branches Out Into Entertainment

A Chinese company this week made a play to become what could be likened to The Walt Disney Company of China. Steve Inskeep talks to Clifford Coonan, Asia bureau chief for The Hollywood Reporter.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

The Walt Disney company may have some competition in the world's most populous market. Like many film studios, Disney distributes movies in China. Not only that, the first Disneyland in China is supposed to open next year. There's already one in Hong Kong. But these moves by Disney's global empire are overshadowed by a homegrown entertainment company called the Wanda Group, which plans to build 200 children's theme parks all across China. Clifford Coonan has been closely following the story in the competition for China. He is Asia bureau chief for The Hollywood Reporter. He's in Beijing. Welcome to the program.