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Updated with more signatories: Reaction continues to The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech after his film won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film this month.

Some 1,215 Jewish show business professionals now have signed a letter denouncing the filmmaker’s speech, in which he decried the “dehumanization” of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. See the updated full list below.

“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the letter states (read it in full in full below).

This list includes among its signatories Eli Roth and Amy Sherman-Palladino, Amy Pascal, Debra Messing, Gail Berman, Hawk Koch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gary Barber, Lawrence Bender, Tovah Feldshuh and Rod Lurie.

You can watch Glazer’s speech here,...

Director Ron Howard has hinted that the likes of Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman are under consideration for the lead role in his film adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. The Apollo 13 director, who is heading up the project with producer Brian Frazer and screenplay writer Akiva Goldsman, admits that it will be a difficult task finding the right actor for the role of gunslinger Roland Deschain. "Sure, [Craig and Jackman] are some names, and on The Dark Tower fansites they're all about Viggo [Mortensen]," Howard told the Los Angeles Times, when asked about the actors he (more)...

Dalton Russell was never caught and you know what that means. There must be a sequel to Inside Man. Two years ago Russell told the world: .I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery.. And that he most certainly did. Now it looks as though Universal has finally finished planning and actually set into motion the long talked about sequel to Spike Lee's compelling box office hit, Inside Man. The second one is tentatively being called . surprise, surprise -Inside Man 2. According to the Hr, Spike Lee will be back to direct as will Brian Frazer to produce the film. Still in negations is the potential for Terry George to write the screenplay, replacing Russell Gewirtz who wrote the original. Since I.m a huge fan of Hotel Rwanda, I most certainly would have no problem seeing George get a hold of this project.

It seems that Nip/Tuck has earned quite a following, which happens to include other writers and producers who look up to creator Ryan Murphy for his brilliant ideas. The creator of the dark medical series recently announced that he will be working on another project, which sees him working with Fox’s umbrella company to work on new shows for the Fox and FX networks. Recently, we reported that Murphy is currently working on Glee, an hour-long musical comedy which will air on Fox. Nip/Tuck, on the other hand, was also reported to come to a close in 2011. That’s a good three years to keep the man busy.

However, it doesn’t end there. In fact, Murphy will be working on another show, this time for the NBC network, based on the novel Hyper-chondriac: One Man’s Quest to Hurry Up and Calm Down, a 2007 memoir written by Brian Frazer.