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Like many of us, Danny Strong watched a concert version of the musical Chess, and wasn’t entirely sure what was happening. But rather than giving up on the complicated plot and letting the rock score by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA wash over him, Strong was compelled to do something about it. “All…
The question that Murdaugh: Death in the Family, the latest true crime miniseries from Hulu, aims to answer is not who was behind the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. It knows you probably know, and while it flirts with misdirection, it does not stray far from the facts as previously reported. Nor is it…
Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan are more similar than you think. And though joining forces for a novel may seem like a unique choice, the pair’s paths have crossed before. “Long time ago, when we had the original script of The Notebook that was written by Jan Sardi, the studio and I decided, ‘Hey,…
“My world is coming and they are going destroy yours,” warns a glowing red-pinstriped Jared Leto in Tron: Ares, where a digital realm run by an evil AI threatens to seize control of our real world. One would think this concept would benefit from opening a few short months after several AI thought leaders published…
Instagram is taking a cue from the Motion Picture Association. The Meta-owned social platform said Tuesday that moving forward its teen accounts “will be guided” by the MPA’s PG-13 rating, which limits language, drug use, violence, nudity and other mature themes. The rationale for using the familiar rating is to help parents and kids understand…
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) on Tuesday unveiled the lineups for its international competition and Envision sections. It also completed its IDFA DocLab program and unveiled the final Luminous and Frontlight programs, while also announcing the nominations for all cross-section awards for its 38th edition. With that, the IDFA 2025 official selection is…
The following is excerpted fromTHE BIGGER PICTURE by Jon Landau (Hyperion Avenue, out Nov. 4). As anyone who has seen Titanic knows, one of the stars of the movie is the ship. And, like with casting our leads, we had to get it right. We had historical images to go by, along with Jim [Cameron]’s…
Andrew Garfield and Sesame Workshop, Katie Couric and the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, the Clinton Global Initiative, Google, Headspace, IFC, MTV Entertainment Studios, Paramount Pictures, Spotify and The Daily Show are among the finalists for the 2025 Anthem Awards, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal exclusively. The Webby Awards-presented social impact trophies, now in their fifth year,…
Ever since the media mogul John Malone helped persuade David Zaslav to leave NBC and become the CEO of Discovery Communications, the executive has defined his leadership by dealmaking. He acquired Scripps Networks to try and build a reality-driven entertainment giant, and forged the deal for WarnerMedia over golf emojis with AT&T CEO John Stankey….
Marc Maron ended his podcast Monday after 16 years with special guest Barack Obama. This was the second appearance of the former president on WTF With Marc Maron, following his visit to Maron’s Los Angeles garage studio about 10 tens ago while he was still in office. For Monday’s interview, Maron traveled to Washington D.C….
