It was another recovery year for Hollywood following the dual strikes that affected the film pipeline just a few years after the COVID pandemic hit. The global box office dropped 10 percent to $30.5 billion last year but it wasn’t bad news for everyone. In a mixed year for the industry, the film divisions of some legacy entertainment conglomerates actually …
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Tom Cruise is expressing his gratitude after it was unveiled on Thursday that he’ll be awarded the British Film Institute’s (BFI) highest accolade, the BFI Fellowship. The Fellowship recognizes Cruise’s achievements across a decades-spanning career, as well as his contribution to the U.K. film industry as a producer who has shot numerous projects in Britain. This includes his Mission: Impossible …
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Mere days after she wrapped Dying for Sex, Jenny Slate chopped off all her hair. She’d had basically the same style all her adult life, but through the process of filming the FX cancer comedy, her locks began to take on new meaning. “I felt that my long hair held the sadness, and I just needed to reboot my physicality,” …
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Hugh Jackman, Rachel Brosnahan and Liza Koshy are among the notable names set to join Global Citizen NOW, a one-day summit designed to drive action to help end extreme poverty. Set to take place at New York’s Spring Studios on April 30, the program promises announcements on policy initiatives, intimate conversations, impact awards and other schedule highlights. The event is …
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Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary One to One: John & Yoko will get its Asia premiere as the closing film for the second edition of the Red Lorry Film Festival in India. The country’s international cinema showcase is organized by BookMyShow. This year’s second edition of the festival features a lineup of more than …
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European television giant RTL Group is closing in on profitability in its streaming division, with subscriber figures and online revenues surging last year and start-up costs falling. In its year-end results, published Thursday, RTL said subscribers to its streaming services RTL+ in Germany and Hungary and the new M6+ platform in France jumped 21 percent to more than 6.8 million. …
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When Jennifer Euston was casting Orange Is the New Black, it stands to reason that she was selecting interesting performers first and, given the show’s evocative opening credits, interesting faces second. But somewhere on the opening page of criteria, there must have been a listing that read: “Must also be capable of fronting a Columbo-esque mystery procedural.” In the case …
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The Big Bang Theory co-creator Chuck Lorre is opening up about why it “took a while to figure out” Kaley Cuoco‘s character Penny on the hit sitcom. Lorre, alongside Warner Bros. Television Group chairman and CEO Peter Roth, appeared on the first episode of The Official Big Bang Theory Podcast, where they looked back at the beginning of the Emmy-winning series, …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone are set to take over the desert when Coachella returns to Indio next month. Taking place from April 11-13 and 18-20, the music festival features a lineup of over 150 …
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Cate Blanchett would prefer awards shows not to be aired on television. The two-time Oscar-winning actress made a recent appearance on the Las Culturistas With Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang podcast, where she suggested that the Oscars should “go back to the day when it wasn’t televised.” The conversation started when Blanchett noted that there are “so few spaces that you …
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