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In a scene early in the movie Poor Things, Emma Stone gleefully flings some kippers across a dining table at Ramy Youssef's face. It's a weird and important moment, one [...]

In a puzzling year defined by the strikes, talent was muzzled and titles were scrapped. THR talks with stars and creators with projects caught in the crossfire--including Seth Rogen, Devery [...]

Greta Gerwig, Bradley Cooper, Ava DuVernay, Michael Mann, Todd Haynes and Blitz Bazawule talk war stories with studios, lucky charms, bad ideas and who actually yells 'Action!' on their sets. [...]

Martin Scorsese had already been working on Killers of the Flower Moon for a few years when he had a startling revelation. He and screenwriter Eric Roth were adapting David [...]

HOLLYWOOD'S 'SUMMER OF STRIKES' MAY BE ABOUT TO WRAP, BUT DON'T POP THE CHAMPAGNE JUST YET. THE PROBLEMS THAT PUSHED US TO THE DRINK HAVEN'T GONE AWAY. (MANY ARE GETTING [...]

Famously private and coming off a year of tragedy, Priscilla Presley has put her biopic Priscilla --premiering at the Venice Film Festival--in the hands of Sofia Coppola, a director with [...]

It is the best of times and the worst of times for podcasting. In 2023, the industry put the brakes on a period of lavish spending and nine-digit megadeals and--much [...]

San Quentin's Forward This Productions, the first film and TV production job training program inside an American prison, offers a cadre of incarcerated auteurs an outlet for expression and a [...]

One windy night in March 2022, in the desert outside Belen, New Mexico, Cillian Murphy was waiting to climb a 100-foot steel tower, a copy of the one that held [...]

For today's young viewers, it's Saturday morning all day, every day. As kid-targeted content--and the platforms offering them--proliferate, the 75 top creators and executives below have figured out how to [...]

TAIKA WAITITI AND STERLIN HARJO have a routine they've done at parties that kills. They perfected it at Sundance in the early 2000s, in a condo dance-off with two Navajo [...]

In a scene late in Natalie Portman's new movie, May December, she's talking with the faintest lisp, somehow playing a moment as both fragile and predatory. Portman's performance in the [...]

It's been 25 years since Ben Affleck became the youngest person to win the Oscar for best original screenplay at age 25 for Good Will Hunting, which he wrote with [...]

On Dec. 19, Evgeniya Chernyshova was driving to pick out a Christmas tree near her home in Los Angeles when she received a message that she had been waiting for, [...]

With three movies, including the sports comedy 80 for Brady and the dramedy Moving On, debuting in her 85th year, Jane Fonda remains an notched force in American culture. So [...]

A few years ago at a book club meeting, a friend took Sarah Polley aside in the kitchen. 'She told me, 'I found this book, and you have to make [...]

There's plenty of fighting in The Woman King, a big-budget historical epic about the female warriors of West Africa's Dahomey kingdom, but the battle to get it made was no [...]

In March 2020, in the early days of the COVID19 pandemic, Steven Spielberg was watching his 103-year-old father, Arnold, deteriorate. After growing distant when the filmmaker, now 75, was in [...]

A few years ago, after James Cameron finished the first Avatar film, his kids called a family meeting to deliver some notes on his parenting. Some of the kids, who [...]

The shot that nearly broke them, the pointlessness of auditions, the gift of final cut--the directors of some of this year's most powerful movies got together and got real about [...]

From how they've dealt with hearing no to how they've learned to say it themselves, the actresses who delivered some of this year's most memorable performances are sharing their strategies [...]

>A few years ago at a book club meeting, a friend took Sarah Polley aside in the kitchen. 'She told me, 'I found this book, and you have to make [...]

As a young Weinstein Co. exec, Lauren O'Connor alerted her colleagues to her boss' toxic behavior. NDA'd into silence, crippled by legal fees and therapy bills, she watched powerlessly as [...]

A few years ago, after James Cameron finished the first Avatar film, his kids called a family meeting to deliver some notes on his parenting. Some of the kids, who [...]

In March 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven Spielberg was watching his 103-yearold father, Arnold, deteriorate. After growing distant when the filmmaker, now 75, was in [...]

Lupita Nyong'o learned lots of valuable lessons as an acting student at the Yale School of Drama--on Shakespeare, accents, the Alexander technique--but there was one crucial omission from the curriculum. [...]

There's plenty of fighting in The Woman King, a big-budget historical epic about the female warriors of West Africa's Dahomey kingdom, but the battle to get it made was no [...]

Sure, they may have eaten a person back in the day. But there are some things the grown women of Yellowjackets just wouldn't do. On this, the actresses who play [...]

No one could tell a story like JOHN LASSETER--until he resigned as Disney Animation/Pixar's chief creative officer in the wake of #MeToo complaints. Having landed at SKYDANCEs new animation division, [...]

COLIN KAEPERNICK. CHER. George Clooney. Charlize Theron. Sherry Lansing. Dwyane Wade. Barbara Broccoli. Jennifer Hudson. This may seem like a disparate group of powerful people in the fields of entertainment [...]

In 2018, the Tesuque Pueblo, a small Native American tribe based outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, was trying to decide what to do with their old casino. The tribe had [...]

Despite millions of copies sold, Tony Hillerman's book series about Navajo police detectives was largely dismissed by Hollywood--until now. This is how Native American creators and cast--including star Zahn McClarnon--paired [...]

For the star and creator of HBO's Barry, playing an assassin who is really good at a job that makes him miserable is surprisingly close to home (not the murdering [...]

NOW THAT AMPAS HAS SURPASSED ITS GOAL OF DOUBLING ITS WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF COLOR, THE GROUP KEEPS PUSHING. THR DUG INTO THE DATA TO SEE WHICH BRANCHES HAVE ACHIEVED [...]

How does one work with the biggest names in Hollywood and maintain enough obscurity that fans frequently mispronounce your name? Just ask Paul Dano, whose role as the villain in [...]

The SAG-AFTRA president held out for the pot, which will redistribute some of the money actors earn on streaming. Studio sources call it 'socialist' and some guild members worry it [...]

TV's favorite nanny has morphed into an improbable Norma Rae, hailed by SAG-AFTRA's rank and file even as she's dismissed as a plushie-toting neophyte by some studio brass. Will she [...]

Directing movies has always been a high-wire act, and it has only gotten harder in this unpredictable era of the pandemic. In mid-November, six filmmakers behind some of the year's [...]

Jennifer Lee's first film, Frozen, proved she had the golden touch. Now that she's taken the helm of Walt Disney Animation, she's under pressure to keep the hits coming on [...]

Ridley Scott keeps sliding his thumb over a prominent rump on the palm of his left hand. It's the hand Scott uses to draw the storyboards for his films in [...]

They shared their fears about showing vulnerability, their sense of responsibility when wielding guns on sets and an improbable connection over a moody horse named Rain Man. In December, Nicolas [...]

A month before they were scheduled to start shooting Being the Ricardos, a movie about the talent-packed, turbulent marriage of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem [...]

In the middle of an extraordinary year--2020--they were at work on films that charted other resonant histories. In Becoming Cousteau, Liz Garbus, 51, chronicles an emerging environmentalist; in Summer of [...]

It was a spring day in Rome when Lady Gaga's sense of reality started to slip. For nine months while preparing for and shooting House of Gucci, Gaga stayed in [...]

Originally targeted for a 2017 opening, AMPAS' $484 million Renzo Piano-designed paean to all things cinema finally is ready for its close-up, opening Sept. 30 with a retooled, more inclusive [...]

P., a 32-year-old Guatemalan immigrant living in Texas, was cleaning equipment and packing tomatoes and cucumbers at a vegetable processing plant during the night shift in 2018 when her boss [...]

Early in 2020, in rugged countryside in New Zealand's Otago region, Benedict Cumberbatch was immersed in a test of masculinity. For his role as a 1925 Montana rancher with a [...]

A pair of fishing waders are hanging on the deck and some cowboy boots are lined up neatly in the mudroom, but today Michael Keaton is wearing his flip-flops and [...]

In 2017, like a lot of Louis C.K. fans, filmmaker Caroline Suh wasn't sure what to make of the allegations of sexual misconduct against the comedian that were detailed in [...]

In 2019, filmmakers Clarence 'Coodie' Simmons and Chike Ozah, better known as Coodie and Chike, walked into the midtown Manhattan offices of Time Studios and dumped two duffel bags and [...]