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It's the witching hour here,' says Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski during a late-afternoon Zoom from his home office in Toluca Lake, as the tail of an indeterminate animal whizzes [...]

With COVID-19 cases showing no sign of abating, organizers of Hollywood awards shows and global film festivals are grappling with whether to postpone or scuttle their planned industry events. On [...]

Back in 1993, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein launched management company The Gotham Group out of a guest bedroom in her Hollywood Hills home. With a clientele almost entirely focused on animation, the [...]

In early March, Gillian Flynn was traveling back and forth every other week between an editing suite in Los Angeles and her home in Chicago. As the creator and showrunner [...]

Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin was three weeks into shooting season four of the hit Netflix series in Atlanta when COVID-19 shuttered production in March. For the past five months, [...]

On Aug. 28, Marvel chief creative officer Kevin Feige received an urgent email regarding Chadwick Boseman, with no further information. Unbeknownst to anyone at the studio, the Black Panther star [...]

Back in June--when uncertainty reigned--the Cannes Virtual Film Market offered a reason for optimism, with strong presales for in-development titles hoping to hit theaters in 2021 or 2022. 'Cannes was [...]

On Aug. 13, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer sat at a quiet table at CityWalk Hollywood for a regularly scheduled lunch. In a moment that [...]

With remote work likely continuing for months, many Hollywood players are forsaking the city for other locales: 'I can do what I want to do from anywhere' On July 31, [...]

One way to overcome novel coronavirus production hurdles is to make a movie set during a pandemic: protective gear and lockdown play into the narrative itself. The Michael Bay-produced thriller [...]

Singer-actress Cristin Milioti, who won a Grammy and a Tony nom--for her work on Broadway's Once, hilariously spars with-Andy Samberg in-time-loop comedy Palm Springs: 'Their' chemistry was off the charts' [...]

Since the novel coronavirus lockdown began in mid-March, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group CEO Steve Mosko has kept a daily journal, detailing what's working for his staff of 37, what's not [...]

On Jan. 27, actress Ashley Jackson felt the first symptoms of a nasty bug--fever, clammy skin, fatigue and shortness of breath. Given her current locale--Park City--she chalked it up to [...]

Dana Brunetti remembers exactly what he was thinking the day he sold his four Ferraris and made an offer on a remote 40-acre plot in Northern California's Sierra foothills--and it [...]

Reese Witherspoon has two movies with Oscar buzz this season--the one that pushed her nearly to the breaking point (screenplay by Nick Hornby, THR Power Author No. 19) and the [...]

The story of Alan Turing, a gay British code-breaker who saved 14 million lives during World War II, ended tragically with his chemical castration and suicide. Two out-of-work producers brought [...]

Up next? World domination. Meet the overachievers who made the cut for The Hollywood Reporter's 21st annual definitive list of the industry's top execs, 35 and under AGENTS Rich Cook, [...]

What's it like when Mick makes you his movie's leading man? The legendary rocker-turned-Hollywood producer and Get On Up slat Chadwick Boseman reveal what went on behind the scenes to [...]

Yes, J. Law encouraged her to do Divergent, but that's where commonalities end as Shailene Woodley, 22, emerges as Hollywood's new comer--complete with strong opinions (nudity: yes; Fifty Shades, not [...]

As Jussie Smollett awaits his fate in a Chicago court, accused of staging a fake hate crime in January 2019, his once-promising career also hangs in the balance. The 39-year-old [...]

On Dec. 5, the cast of Netflix's Don't Look Up converged on the stage of Jazz at Lincoln Center for the film's world premiere. With stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence [...]

It wasn't too long ago that power brokers rushed to distance themselves from the country after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Now it's hosting a star-studded fdm festival and backing [...]

As studios debate how to handle COVID-19 vaccine resistance, the Biden administration is moving forward with its own mandates that are pushing Hollywood to toe the line. Though a federal [...]

With Bob Iger's Disney contract expiring Jan. 1, all eyes are on the executive chairman's next move. Among the wide range of possibilities is writing a follow-up to his memoir, [...]

On Sept. 30, Disney and Scarlett Johansson closed the book on their short-lived but nasty legal spat by settling with each other over the actress' claims that the studio breached [...]

Former Trump administration Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is planning a return to media investing, though expect an emphasis more on digital content than the traditional theatrical films he financed before [...]

At 70, the world's biggest rock star has a second act as a serious Hollywood producer, working with Brian Grazer and Martin Scorsese; a James Brown biopic on the way; [...]

He doesn't have Hollywood friends. He hates being recognized. He tried to land the lead role in the indie Mud. Still, Star Trek's conflicted star nonetheless is attempting the (near) [...]

THE MAKEUP MAESTRO Rick Baker Watching old Frankenstein movies transformed Baker from a normal teen into an obsessive who made monster-mask molds in his mom's oven. He so startlingly turned [...]

What's the new fear in town? That terror--from AHS: Coven on TV to bloody cheap films--is changing the game, while bringing in big business and delivering plenty of shock and [...]

You're fired! What's behind the movie business' biggest executive upheaval in years as THR's studio-by-studio breakdown reveals surprising new details and the politics of the shakeups. HOLLYWOOD STUDIO EXECUTIVES AREN'T [...]

YASIEL PUIG Right fielder, Los Angeles Dodgers Yasiel Puig defines the word 'phenom.' The enthusiastic rookie, who defected from Cuba with his mom in 2012 on his second attempt, has [...]

FROM CAMERON DIAZ TO SANDRA BULLOCK, THE A-LIST OF ACTRESSES IS AGING ALONG WITH THE MOVIEGOER THEIR CLOUT (AND SALARIES SKYROCKET, AND HOLLYWOOD TO GROOM ANOTHER GENERATION AMID FRANCHISE IS [...]

BEHIND NEARLY EVERY DUSTUP, bust-up, big deal and boldface name in Hollywood are the 100 behind-the-scenes players on the following pages. Although diverse in their legal practices +(Disney corporate lawyer [...]

WHEN A PASSED-OVER SITCOM PITCH becomes a billion-dollar asset (Modern Family), when a guy morphs from web upstart to Comedy Central stalwart (Daniel Tosh), when buzzy awards-show hosts generate double-digit [...]

After more than a decade of rumblings that Britney Spears was unhappy with her long-standing conservatorship, on June 23 she told a Los Angeles judge she wants the 'abusive' arrangement [...]

In early June, UTA began shopping a red-hot documentary project based on Chris Fenton's 2020 book Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American [...]

Though its fate sparked a major legal battle between Woody Allen and Amazon, A Rainy Day in New York has found a home ... on Amazon. The film starring Timothee [...]

In July 2014, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz signed an open letter accusing Israel of 'genocide' against the Palestinians during the Gaza War. Days later, the married A-listers walked back [...]

On the same January day that Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick locked the final episode of HBO's recent docuseries Allen v. Farrow, a key witness surfaced. Since 2018, lead investigative [...]

While the reason cited for her abrupt firing was her unauthorized role as an executive producer on the Oscarnominated film "Argentina, 1985", insiders say Disney was incensed that quality control on its Marvel productions was plummeting, particularly on the ever-expanding TV front. This past September, a group of Marvel creatives, including studio chief Kevin Feige, assembled in Palm Springs for the studio's annual retreat. "Kevin Feige is the Babe Ruth of movie executives, and Marvel has the most profitable track record in movie history. Marvel films are known for coming down to the wire, given Feige's ability "to foam the runway and land a plane that way", says one executive familiar with how the company operates. [Extracted from the article]

LIFE DOESN'T ALWAYS GO according to plan' is the tagline that The Weinstein Co. is using to market its new, offbeat romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook. But it could just [...]

WHEN THR CONTACTED JAMES PATTERSON ABOUT BEING on its inaugural list of the 25 most powerful authors in Hollywood, he scoffed. 'Power list? More like powerless list.' But while the [...]

JOE WRIGHT NEVER UTTERED the words, 'Get me a rewrite.' But two months before Anna Karenina's September 2011 production start, the director experienced an epiphany that required a wholesale overhaul [...]

MIDDAY ON SATURDAY, AUG. 18, the top-grossing theater in the U.S. for The Expendables 2--a who's who of 1980s action stars now in their 60s, led by 66-year-old Sylvester Stallone--was [...]

Given the volatile nature of the indie film business, financiers typically need a day job to buffer against lean times. One way to offset the lows is having a stronghold [...]

In October 2017, Julia Louis-Dreyfus strode into the Luxe Hotel on Sunset Boulevard for a morning meeting with fellow comedic A-lister Will Ferrell. Somehow, the two had never collaborated. In [...]

After removing her name from the Sundance documentary On the Record, Oprah Winfrey appears to be straddling #MeToo fault lines. On the one hand, the 65-year-old media mogul has said [...]

Will Sundance 2020, which starts Jan. 23, offer a repeat of last year's explosive market when a record four films sold for more than $13 million apiece, totaling $56 million? [...]

On March 1, veteran producer Michael De Luca will take the reins of MGM's motion picture group as the studio attempts to define its future at a time when mid-budget [...]