On the night of the Academy Awards, as the year’s best picture is revealed, attendees inside the Dolby Theatre sit through the thank-you speech, tears and applause. And every year, even as guests shuffle out of the venue, one of the art deco columns that they pass will already be adorned with a plaque noting that year’s winner. Displaying every …
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Joan Allen, Lizzy Caplan, Matthew Modine Explain Choices
[This story contains major spoilers from the Zero Day finale.] Zero Day ended with a shock when Robert De Niro‘s politician did the right thing. As a former U.S. president pulled back into politics to investigate the perpetrators of a deadly cyberattack, De Niro’s George Mullen put aside pressure from both the show’s current president (played by Angela Bassett) and …
Read More »The Hollywood Reporter Sets Oscars 2025 Preshow
The Hollywood Reporter is counting down to the 2025 Oscars with a streaming preshow on Sunday that will deliver expert analysis, insider predictions and behind-the-scenes coverage ahead of Hollywood’s biggest night. Straight from the iconic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, right across the street from the home of the Academy Awards, the Dolby Theatre, THR’s film and awards experts will …
Read More »New York Dolls, Buster Poindexter Vocalist Was 75
David Johansen, the gravelly-voiced showman who helped ignite the punk rock movement as the vocalist of the New York Dolls before he recorded “Hot Hot Hot” as the lounge lizard Buster Poindexter and acted in Scrooged, has died. He was 75. Johansen died Friday at his home in Staten Island, his stepdaughter, Leah Hennessey, told The New York Times. Hennessy …
Read More »Bernhard Wenger Film, Social Media Metaphor, Subtle Humor
Austrian writer-director Bernhard Wenger‘s feature directing debut Peacock dissects the themes of identity and self-presentation in the age of social media but it doesn’t hit you over the head with a hammer. Actually, it doesn’t even mention social media much at all. Peacock, an Austrian-German co-production that world premiered at the Venice Critics’ Week last year and gets its U.K. …
Read More »WME’s Comedy Agents Get Required Reading: Lorne Michaels Book
Call it WME‘s comedy book club. During the mega talent agency’s weekly Comedy Department meeting on Feb. 26, co-chief and senior partner Mike Berkowitz told agents that they’d be getting a new mandatory reading assignment, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. After saying he read Susan Morrison’s 656-page tome Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live in one sitting, Berkowitz …
Read More »Get the First Look at ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’ Interactive Toys
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Get ready for more Gabby Cats and sprinkle parties! Before Gabby’s Dollhouse debuts on the big screen this fall, the hit DreamWorks kids series is revealing new toys inspired by its creative host (played by Laila Lockhart …
Read More »Wicked, Agatha All Along Win Top Prizes at 2025 ICG Publicists Awards
Oscar winner Kathy Bates, who is experiencing a late career resurgence thanks to a critically acclaimed turn on the CBS network drama Matlock, took the spin in the spotlight inside a Beverly Wilshire ballroom on Friday afternoon to accept yet another award in her storied career. This one is called Showperson of the Year and it was placed in her …
Read More »Bill Maher Reacts to Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Blowup
Bill Maher has an idea for a new show: “The Real Housewives of the White House.” The Real Time host opened the latest episode of the HBO show by sharing his reaction to the “shouting match” that took place earlier Friday between President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “What else is going on? Not much. …
Read More »Mattel Debuts Limited-Edition Disney Snow White Collector Dolls
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Disney’s live-action Snow White is already coming to life before it lands in theaters. On March 1, Mattel will debut limited-edition dolls inspired by the forthcoming film’s courageous heroine, Snow White, played by Rachel Zegler, and the …
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