Pierre Omidyar is the 47-year-old Iranian-American billionaire who founded eBay and the embattled news startup First Look Media. In the virtual world of Second Life, however, he’s developed a very different persona: a bald, tribal-tattooed, muscle-shirt-wearing black guy named Kitto Mandala.

Earlier this week, New York magazine’s Andrew Rice reported that journalist Matt Taibbi had left First Look Media, the journalism startup of eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar. Today four of Taibbi’s former colleagues reveal, in a detailed blog post published on First Look’s own site The Intercept, why exactly Taibbi…

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A new, disturbing, and vitally important report from The Intercept has revealed documents proving that more than 40 percent of the U.S.'s Terrorist Screening Database, or 280,000 people, had "no recognized terrorist group affiliation." This is news. The fact that it came from a mysterious "New Snowden" is not. Right?

That mysterious wait is over! At zero dark one last night, Glenn Greenwald's media venture The // Intercept posted the long-promised results of their ongoing investigation into which specific U.S. civilians were targeted by the NSA's most invasive surveillance programs.

It's officially official: Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are back as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne in the Farrelly brothers' Dumb and Dumber To.

Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the cult improv show that stopped producing new episodes nearly a decade ago, is coming back to TV starting this July — and The CW has just released a genital-whetting first look at the (slightly) revamped series.

It'll be another two years or so before the general public will be invited to gaze upon the unparalleled panoramas of New York City from the observation deck at One World Trade Center, but today, a lucky few got to be the first to visit the quarter-mile-high "room with a view" known as One World Observatory.

Oprah Winfrey, who has a small role in Precious director Lee Daniels' upcoming film The Butler, posted this photo of herself hanging out with Alan Rickman and Jane Fonda in costume as Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly comes the first official image from Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln biopic, featuring Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president of the United States.

Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel's Princess Diana biopic is currently filming in Croatia, and today brings us a first look at headliner Naomi Watts in character as the late English rose.

There isn't a whole lot to look at here: A James Franco fanpage managed to get a hold of a teaser image for Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful, featuring Franco in a top hat as Oscar Diggs — AKA the man who would be Wizard.

Production is officially underway on Disney's upcoming live-action retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story, Maleficent.

Man-of-many-hats André Benjamin (stage name: André 3000) is donning a wig this time to portray iconic guitarist Jimi Hendrix in an upcoming biopic penned by Red Tails screenwriter John Ridley.

Entertainment Weekly has unveiled the first promotional stills from Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Western film, Django Unchained. The image above shows the movie's protagonist, Django, played by Jamie Foxx, striding beside Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German bounty hunter who teams up with Django to hunt down…

Ever since we heard MTV was taking our favorite British show of all time and watering it down for America, we've had our reservations. Despite being heckled by their Twitter, we were invited to MTV HQ to screen two episodes.

Check out this behind the scenes look at AMC's new murder mystery show the Killing. Centered around the murder of a young girl, the show tracks the police, the politicians and the family, all of whom have secrets (of course).