Issa Rae Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

EXCLUSIVE: Former Made Up Stories and Netflix executive Allie Goss has been appointed President of Brillstein Creative Partners, the production arm of Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Goss, who started late last year and oversees the existing team, succeeds Amy Powell who left in October to join Amazon as Head of Entertainment, Culture & Social.

HBO’s Emmy Award-winning comedy Insecure, starring series’ co-creator Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji, will begin airing two back-to-back episodes on Tuesday night on OWN. It premieres on Tuesday, February 7 at 9:00 p.m. ET/ PT with the show’s pilot episode titled “Insecure As F**k.”

Barbie is known for her impeccable sense of style — and the first trailer footage for Margot Robbie’s Barbie movie already proves that tenfold.

Another week, another episode of the Scene 2 See podcast. I am your host Valerie Complex associate editor and film writer at Deadline Hollywood. On today’s episode is comedian Lil Rel Howery. 

Reality shows under the Max Originals banner continue to slim down as Sweet Life: Los Angeles has been canceled at HBO Max after two seasons. The Issa Rae-produced series will not be moving forward with a third season, Deadline has confirmed.

An upcoming episode of NCIS: Hawai’i will pay tribute to Yakira Chambers, story editor for the CBS drama who died suddenly last week at the age of 42.

A match made in Hollywood. Keke Palmer has kept her romance with boyfriend Darius Jackson relatively private, but their relationship started at a party filled with famous figures.

EXCLUSIVE: Ezra Emanuel has been promoted to Production Executive at Miramax. Emanuel previously served as Bill Blocks executive assitant, serving as the day-to-day point man. In his new role he will be reporting to head of production Andrew Golov and Miriam Brin, SVP of Production, helping to source both TV/Film projects for Miramax and assisting all projects to their completion and sale.

Three-time Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig has opened up about the combination of excitement and terror she felt in taking on Warner Bros’ upcoming feature Barbie as co-writer and director.

Ready, set, glam! Hollywood’s favorite It Girls dazzled Us with eye-catching makeup moments in 2022.

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Cory Jones (Boomerang, Insecure) has signed with APA for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: Deniese Davis and her Reform Media Group banner have entered into a development deal with Tyler Perry Studios. The pact covers TV, unscripted, and first-look feature film projects with the aim of bringing more diverse storytelling across both television and film. In addition to the deal announcement, Reform also announced Monday that it has hired Melora Rivera as a producer.

EXCLUSIVE: Raj Raghavan is on board at ColorCreative Management as Head of Talent, Partner and Manager.

Daniel Kaluuya has gone from one Marvel world in Wakanda to another in Sony’s Spider-Verse.The “Nope” star will join Sony Pictures’ animation film, sequel to the 2018 “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” as the voice of Hobart “Hobie” Brown, a.k.a. Spider-Punk.The second film will follow Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), who has taken on the mantle of Brooklyn’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, as he reunites with Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) to navigate the complicated web of the multiverse in the shadow of a new villain and team of Spider-People.Justin K.

Nope‘s Daniel Kaluuya is the newest addition to the voice cast of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Sony’s follow-up to its experimental hit Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which grossed over $384M worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2019.

like Beyoncé. The “Break My Soul” singer attended the “Harlem Nights”-themed 5th Annual at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica on Sunday, October 23, wearing a fitted black Gucci gown with white sequins across the bust and two strategically placed silver stars. Bey, who was an honorary chair for the event, paired the gown with ruffled pink satin opera gloves, black cat eye sunglasses, and silver statement earrings. She carried a black cylinder bag and wore her hair side-parted in loose, soft curls synonymous with Old Hollywood.

new docuseries featuring Tracee Ellis Ross, Oprah Winfrey, Issa Rae, Chlöe Bailey and more familiar faces will soon grace our screens. From OWN and Onyx Collective,  premieres on both Hulu and OWN on Saturday, October 22.

Angelique Jackson Though “Don’t Worry Darling” director and star Olivia Wilde may have been “gobsmacked” to be honored as one of Elle’s Women in Hollywood on Monday night, she used the opportunity to speak candidly about her experiences as headline fodder during the film’s press tour and to urge women to “keep fighting through the hellfire” of the patriarchy in the entertainment business and beyond. Before the crowd of about 200 guests seated for the open-air dinner held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Wilde began her biting, yet lighthearted speech with a joke about finding out there were seven other honorees — Ariana DeBose, Anne Hathaway, Issa Rae, Sydney Sweeney, Sigourney Weaver and Michelle Yeoh — also being recognized. Wilde went on to say she’d “learned so much” from them all, describing them as an “extraordinary list of women who have not only inspired me forever, but who have forged the very shape of this industry through their hard work, bold choices and resilience.”

There were so many celebs in attendance at the Elle Women in Hollywood event!

Issa Rae got a special treat at Usher’s show.

Issa Rae lived out every Usher fan's fantasy over the weekend. The  creator and star attended the singer's residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas on Saturday, where she was asked to join him onstage. When the 37-year-old made her way up the steps, Usher proceeded to give her a one-on-one performance of «Superstar» from his 2004 album, that had Rae's fellow concertgoers screaming in their seats. In a clip of the sweet moment shared on Usher's Instagram page, he holds hands with Rae as he croons the song, gazing directly into Rae's eyes.«Issa Rae in the building!!  All Love,» the 44-year-old captioned the post on his page.Rae also shared the video on the Instagram page of her production company, Hoorae, calling the clip a «Timeline cleanse ✨»A post shared by HOORAE, An Issa Rae Company (@hooraemedia)Rae isn't the only one getting treated to a special moment at Usher's show — last month Taraji P.

"Insecure" star Issa Rae is criticizing Hollywood for defending Ezra Miller after their "atrocious" behavior.  "I’m gonna be real, the stuff that’s happening with Ezra Miller is, to me, a microcosm of Hollywood," Rae said, according to Elle Magazine. "There’s this person who’s a repeat offender, who’s been behaving atrociously, and as opposed to shutting them down and shutting the production down, there’s an effort to save the movie and them." The actress’ comments come on the heels of Miller’s series of arrests and abuse allegations over the past year.  The "Rap Sh!t" creator continued to speak out about the #MeToo movement and how Hollywood treats women.  "Insecure" star Issa Rae is criticizing Hollywood for defending Ezra Miller after their "atrocious" behavior.

Keke Palmer rocks a triple denim look for the launch of her new television network during a celebration in Los Angeles on Thursday night (October 13).

Issa Rae is calling out the people in Hollywood who have been making an effort to save Ezra Miller‘s career amid all of the controversy surrounding the actor.

told Elle.“I’m gonna be real, the stuff that’s happening with Ezra Miller is, to me, a microcosm of Hollywood. There’s this person who’s a repeat offender, who’s been behaving atrociously, and as opposed to shutting them down and shutting the production down, there’s an effort to save the movie and them,” she added.“That is a clear example of the lengths that Hollywood will go to to save itself and to protect offenders,” Rae continued.

Issa Rae’s career is soaring, but even so she’s less optimistic about support for women in Hollywood now than she was in the immediate wake of #MeToo.

Issa Rae has always been very candid about her views on Hollywood's machinations, and in a new interview with , the self-proclaimed «media mogul» got very frank about why she believes the entertainment industry is «regressing.»When asked what she feels has changed about Hollywood in a post-#MeToo era, the series creator answered that it was «sadly, not much.»«There are just too many enablers for there to be real change,» the  creator and alum adds, stating that real change will only come when people are actually «held accountable» with «legitimate consequences.» Rae, who once called the music business «probably the worst industry I’ve ever come across,» went on to declare that Hollywood rarely doles out suitable consequences for its offenders because «money will always reign supreme.»«That’s something that, even by working in this industry, we’re enabling. So it’s hard,» she tells the outlet. «What I have realized is that I can control my own environment and who I work with.