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Some celebrities receive icon status following their tragic, premature deaths.  Late stars such as Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean still draw fascination even decades on from their early departure from this mortal coil. There’s one screen siren who hasn’t escaped this enduring obsession for close to a century …

When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in 2021, many Academy members and cultural critics were shocked and outraged to discover that one of the few marginalized groups whose contributions to Hollywood were not highlighted within its walls was the Jewish community, especially because most of the founders of …

“I despise auditions,” Marlon Brando barked as he launched into the audition for his role in The Godfather. It was his idea, I reminded him, so he himself had caused his actors angst, not the studio. (It was, of course, a great audition.) Actors’ angst was much in evidence yet …

From the first moments of A.V. Rockwell’s debut feature, A Thousand and One, the audience is in the company of Teyana Taylor’s vivid portrayal of Inez, a woman in 1994 Harlem. She’s just out of Rikers and on a mission to rescue her son, Terry, out of the foster care …

My acting professor told us not to expect to get anywhere in showbiz until we’d given it 10 years. He was right. It was right at that 10 year mark (when I was 32) that I was able to say goodbye to my day jobs as a makeup counter girl …

We all know and love Margot Robbie, Australia’s own superstar, but we don’t know much about her husband of eight years, Tom Ackerley.  Ackerley is no stranger to the hustle, working his way up in Hollywood from a floor runner, fetching coffee for celebs, to being an executive producer on …

While screenwriters are busy back at work, film and TV actors remain on picket lines, with the longest strike in their history set to hit 100 days on Saturday after talks broke off with studios. Here’s a look at where things stand, how their stretched-out standoff compares to past strikes, …

Despite the current AI Hollywood writers are not completely out of their fight with the use of AI. Some experts have shared some areas of concern. The Writers Guild of America recently signed a labor deal with Hollywood Studios, in what seems to be a victory for the Guild. The …

Celebrity divorces are rarely amicable .But one Hollywood power couple bucked tradition in the early ’00s with their enviably diplomatic split. Demi Moore and Bruce Willis tied the knot in 1987 just a few months after first meeting and welcomed three children during their 13-year marriage.  By all accounts, their …

“How did I become Tom Joad? I used to write for a living.” Tom Joad was the hapless farmer in The Grapes of Wrath who fled the Dust Bowl to find a better life in California. The man who cited him this week is a successful screenwriter who’s been walking …

Taika Waititi Criticizes Hollywood’s Approach to Diversity Last Thursday, Taika Waititi addressed Hollywood’s misconception of diversity and how the industry should actually be going about diversification in a humorously disarming, 13-minute speech at a luncheon hosted by The Hollywood Reporter. Beginning his speech with an acknowledgment of the WGA’s writers …

Industry-wide collaboration is key to a successful rollout of high dynamic range imagery on all types of cinema display technologies, asserted Universal’s vp of creative technologies Annie Chang during a Future of Cinema Summit, held Saturday during the opening day of the 100th NAB Show in Las Vegas. Presented by …