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'This is a true story.' So begins 'Baby Reindeer,' and those five words, which appear on a title card, have ignited a firestorm of controversy. Now, Netflix's runaway hit about [...]

If producers found themselves in a brave new world in 2020 thanks to the impact of the pandemic, 2021 only accelerated that evolution. Of the six films featured on this [...]

Back in the mid-'70s, a teenage Barbara Broccoli was working her first job in the entertainment industry as an intern for The Hollywood Reporter. At the time, things were looking [...]

DAKOTA JOHNSON WALKS INTO the Tower Bar in West Hollywood, a location she picked and one that offers a juxtaposition of old Hollywood provenance (it was once Bugsy Siegel's apartment) [...]

The first time this THR reporter met Cary Fukunaga was on Feb. 26,2020, at London's Goldcrest postproduction facilities. The director was standing in front of a wall filled with 100-plus [...]

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 [...]

BACK IN MAY 2018, DAMON Lindelof was watching an episode of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale with his wife when his antenna went up and he felt 'that intangible thing.' He [...]

Shawn Levy is sipping iced coffee with a hint of milk on a scorching hot summer day in Boston. The industrious director-producer is in town with Ryan Reynolds to host [...]

HOW THE SUPER-PRODUCER RELIED ON INTIMIDATION, NDAS AND INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIPS TO AVOID ANSWERING FOR DECADES OF ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR: 'I FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE THAT PEOPLE WHO WORKED WITH HIM [...]

Five years after an unprecedented era of frenzied East-West dealmaking, cash flow has stopped, Donald Trump's trade war lingers, censorship is on the rise, and human rights abuses in the [...]

In September 2012, Kevin Spacey injured his hand while holding a burning flag during a promotional shoot for the first season of Netflix's House of Cards. A 20-something production assistant [...]

Even as other Hollywood bullies have been shamed or sidelined, the uber-producer behind The Social Network and Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird has been given a pass, and even lauded, [...]

Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick are locked in a battle of wills during a music session with a group of editors in early February. The directors are wrestling over a [...]

When Rebecca Hall was seeking financing for her directorial debut, potential producers worried that she wasn't the right person to adapt the '20s-era novel about a Black woman who 'passes' [...]

Back in summer 2018, Riz Ahmed was preparing A for a classroom scene for his latest film, Sound of Metal, and his American Sign Language coach, Jeremy Lee Stone, was [...]

Shepherding a film from a nebulous idea to a locked print is fraught with interruptions and surprises. As such, no profession in Hollywood requires greater dexterity than that of a [...]

ON A BRIGHT SEPTEMBER DAY, Jeff Robinov is sitting in his Santa Monica kitchen, the remnants of a hectic morning barely visible. His 11-year-old daughter, Devan, drifts into the Zoom-call [...]

In the face of mounting bad publicity, Johnny Depp could still count on one friendly industry group--a Polish film festival. On Nov. 21, the embattled star was poised to receive [...]

Jimmy Iovine says the joyful South Korean titan always was ahead of her time.' After Parasite, her CJ Entertainment continues to dominate in K-pop, with new projects auteur-driven and reality-based, [...]

Over the course of an improbable four-decade career, the writer behind the upcoming Bill & Ted Face the Music (and its predecessors) has scripted megahits like Charlie's Angels and Men [...]

The perennial contender on the pleasures of a quarantined awards season, the pride that came from choreographing her own sex scenes in the buzzy lesbian drama Ammonite and why an [...]

In the spring of 1999, Bryan Singer and a group of X-Men producers and crew were working out of the old Fox offices near Olympic and Bundy when Michael Jackson [...]

From billion-dollar franchises like Law & Order and Die Hard to officers providing security for sets and stars, the entertainment industry has always had deep bonds with the police. But [...]

Who you gonna call in a global crisis? For the top 100 entertainment attorneys in America, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the stakes in an industry facing canceled productions, force majeures [...]

The article from Variety recounts the story of Pras Michel, founder of the Fugees, who found himself embroiled in a multibillion-dollar financial fraud case related to the 1MDB scandal. Michel, convicted on multiple counts, faces 22 years in prison for his involvement in illegal activities, including violating campaign finance laws and lobbying the Trump administration. The narrative delves into Michel's connections with financier Jho Low, his interactions with high-profile individuals, and the legal challenges he now confronts. Despite the complexities of the case, Michel remains steadfast in his belief in his innocence and continues to fight for exoneration. [Extracted from the article]

Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig have been a couple for eight years. They're now in contention for the same Oscars. How the guy who made Marriage Story and the director [...]

IT'S BEEN FIVE YEARS SINCE A MASSIVE CYBERATTACK CRIPPLED A STUDIO, EMBARRASSED EXECUTIVES AND RESHAPED HOLLYWOOD. THE FBI BLAMED THE BREACH ON A NORTH KOREAN SCHEME TO SABOTAGE SETH ROGEN'S [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio has become a Hollywood unicorn, able to gross hundreds of millions without wearing a cape, wielding a light-saber or having an agent. Will Tarantino's Once Upon a Time [...]

Haim Saban approaches a large oak table in a boardroom of his Saban Family Foundation, trailed by staffers and a security guard. Wearing a black Lacoste polo shirt and black [...]

So said Elton John while watching Rocket man star TARON EGERTON, who shaved half his head, painted a gap in his teeth and made out with Richard Madden ('No less [...]

THR's ninth annual list adds dozens of new stars, reporters, editors--and even a mogul or two--who keep racking up the scoops as ratings soar and platforms boom amid the provocateur-president's [...]

As company investigators dig into the Warner Bros. CEO's relationship with an actress he promoted, they must reconcile two previous probes that cleared him of wrongdoing. Will new text-message evidence [...]

As rumors circulate that the Oscar-winning studio run by the Oracle heiress is broke and dying, insiders paint a very different picture, blaming a former big-spending lieutenant plus straight-up misogyny [...]

Eight are first-time nominees (and Roma's YALITZA APARICIO earned her nom for her first movie role ever). Some are seasoned thespians who find themselves back in the awards game after [...]

When Oprah Winfrey abruptly dropped out of a documentary she was executive producing about Russell Simmons rape accusers Jan. 10, women's groups found themselves torn between two potent forces: entertainment's [...]

On March 12, Broadway shut down, leaving thousands of performers and stagehands out of work. In the aftermath, Madam Secretary actor Erich Bergen called Rosie O'Donnell with a plan to [...]

The word 'alleged' has been replaced by 'convicted' when it comes to Harvey Weinstein and his decades-long reign as a Hollywood rapist. After testimony from actress Annabella Sciorra, former production [...]

By Lacy Rose They've survived mega-mergers, negotiated historic deals, stepped up creation to meet a seemingly insatiable global appetite for content and seized on the catalyzing disruption of #MeToo to [...]

When Alli Shearmur, the superproducer behind The Hunger Games and Rogue One, succumbed to cancer this year, colleagues were stunned. Like many women in Holly wood battling disease, she hid [...]

The actress is a sharp, well-read activist, but there's no question she's still most known for her stunning exterior (or that tumultuous marriage to Johnny Depp. Or dating Elon Musk). [...]

Director Adam McKay enlists Christian Bale, Amy Adams and a whole lot of makeup for Vice, his incendiary satire of one of the most secretive and cunning figures in American [...]

The Favourite blows up convention (and the Oscar race) with a devious all-female love triangle as Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman preside over the season's most outrageous spectacle [...]

Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger remains the most powerful person in entertainment, only adding to his empire with $71 billion of 21st Century Fox assets. But his dominance is [...]

Even in the #MeToo era, the pressures of shooting in the buff have been slow to change, so lawyers are demanding more specific, ironclad protections in 'nudity riders' for actors, [...]

Over the past couple of years, film schools have been gearing up, building VR labs and greenscreen studios and stocking up on 3D stereoscopic cameras. All that technology, though, only [...]

Armed with broad appeal ('I don't do politic'), the NBA great is stepping up his showbiz game appropriately big way, including four upcoming TV projects and a major role in [...]

Why is the former Baywatch star hanging with Julian Assange, speaking at Putin's Kremlin and chatting up Sheldon Adelson? At home in the South of France as the 'mascot of [...]

Nearly 30 years ago, the fiery filmmaker was 'robbed' of the Palme d'Or for Do the Right Thing (and, no, He hasn't forgiven). Now he's back with BlacKkKlansma, another button-pushing [...]

The article discusses the changing landscape of media influence, highlighting the rise of non-traditional figures like Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, and Tucker Carlson in shaping public opinion. It explores how these personalities, along with influencers like Adin Ross and the Nelk Boys, played a role in Donald Trump's electoral success over Kamala Harris. The text also delves into the gender dynamics and political strategies that influenced the 2024 election, emphasizing the impact of figures like Elon Musk and Dana White in supporting Trump's campaign. [Extracted from the article]

Back when Sam Mendes was a boy in the U.K., he would sometimes visit his grandfather at his home in Trinidad. Sitting on a porch with some of his cousins, [...]