Batman & Robin‘s sculptor says he introduced the nipple to the batsuit in Joel Schumacher‘s run of Batman movies but that the director pushed for their exaggeration. In an interview with MEL Magazine, Jose Fernandez spoke about the controversial suit design element that has dominated discourse around the film since its 1997 release, taking credit for initially adding it to Val Kilmer’s suit for Batman Forever. “It wasn’t fetish to me, it was more informed by Roman armor — like Centurions,” he said.

E. Lynn Harris’ Invisible Life trilogy of novels is getting the TV treatment. HBO has put in development a scripted drama series based on the 1990s novels about a young, gay and Black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the then-highly controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS. Harrison David Rivers will pen the script and exec produce. Proteus Spann (Soul Food) and Tracey Edmonds (Soul Food, Games People Play) will exec produce.

Mark Goddard, who played Major Don West, the hot-tempered pilot of the Jupiter 2, on the 1960s CBS adventure series Lost in Space, has died. He was 87.  Goddard died Tuesday in Hingham, Massachusetts, his third wife, Evelyn Pezzulich, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death was of pulmonary fibrosis. Goddard had worked as a regular on the Four Star Television series Johnny Ringo and The Detectives when he was approached by his agent about coming aboard the new Lost in Space, created and produced by Irwin Allen.

Jonathan Oppenheim, the documentary editor behind the seminal ball culture film Paris Is Burning as well as multiple Oscar-nominated titles, has died. He was 67. Oppenheim died after a battle with brain cancer on Thursday, July 16 while in New York City, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Born in 1952 in New York City to Oscar-winning actress Judy Holliday and clarinetist, television producer and academic David Oppenheim, Oppenheim began his working life as a painter before making his editing debut with 1980’s Simon, which starred Alan Arkin.

The casting for season two of HBO’s True Detective just got a bit odd. Singer-actor Rick Springfield has joined the cast of the anthology drama, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The eight-episode sophomore season, now in production in California, centers on three police officers and a career criminal who must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder. Read more ‘True Detective’s’ Nic Pizzolatto on Season 2, ‘Stupid Criticism’ and Rumors of On-Set Drama

There has been some amazing solves over the years on Wheel of Fortune, but both viewers and host Pat Sajak agreed that Wednesday night’s episode featured the most impressive ever.  Emil De Leon, 25, of Daly City, Calif., correctly guessed the 12-letter phrase “New Baby Buggy” with only the letters N and E on the board, resulting in what Sajak called on Twitter “the most amazing solve in my 30+ years on the show.

2016 Emmys host Jimmy Kimmel closed the ceremony with a wink to his longtime pal Howard Stern, whose radio show Kimmel has appeared on many times. “We hit ’em with the Hein,” Kimmel said quickly at the end of the broadcast on ABC, which is a mostly meaningless utterance akin to the “Baba Booey” catchphrase that caught on with Howard Stern fans in the 1990s. Jon Hein is the host of the Howard Stern wrap-up show on the same Sirius Satellite channel as Stern’s show.

Chad felt the shadow of heroism after meeting my mom, Rachel. Both Chad and my father were … I don’t think they would describe themselves as heroes. They’d see themselves as doing their job and doing it the best they can and carrying a weight on their shoulders. There’s so much responsibility when you are a pioneer or when you are playing the role of a pioneer and a hero. It was important to Chad that he get all aspects of this story correct: the strength of my father’s character, how difficult it was to suppress your voice — especially someone who was so outspoken; and that you’re doing it for the larger good; and the anger you feel, and yet you can’t express that anger on the field when you’re being attacked and you have to find ways to release it and still hold up your pride.

A recent interview with Elijah Wood has reignited the conversation on pedophilia in the entertainment business. The Lord of the Rings star later clarified, first to The Hollywood Reporter and then on his personal Twitter account, that his comments about “something major … going on in Hollywood” were based not on his own experiences and observations but rather on news reports and the 2015 documentary film An Open Secret. But another former child actor — Corey Feldman, star of such iconic 1980s movies as The Goonies, Stand by Me and The Lost Boys — was not so lucky.

For anyone putting money into independent film these days, the question is: How do you compete with the Avengers? In a global film landscape dominated by tentpoles, the need for risk takers in the indie space has never been greater. "The risk to us if we miss the mark is higher than ever," says Glen Basner of FilmNation. "So we spend more and more time nurturing, curating and evaluating projects to decide what is a proper theatrical film for the current market.