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Major League Baseball’s new season —and its new media deal — got off to a solid start, with opening games on Netflix and NBC turning in multi-year highs for the first week of the season. Netflix’s telecast of the season-opening game between the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants drew 2.97 million U.S. viewers,…
[This story contains major spoilers from the finale of Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.] You might think that Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is a takedown of romance. It’s not. “I think it’s a hopeful story,” creator Haley Z. Boston tells The Hollywood Reporter. “From an emotional standpoint, the show is…
Tubi is betting that viewers are feeling nostalgic for old-school episodes of Sesame Street. The free, Fox-owned streamer is bringing select episodes of seasons one through 38 of the iconic children’s series to its platform starting Wednesday, April 1, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Two hundred fifty old-school Sesame Street episodes, aired between 1969 and…
Here is something Andrew McCarthy did not do before he agreed to star in Pretty in Pink: read the script. “I needed a job and I needed the $50,000 they were going to pay me,” the actor, 63, tells host Seth Abramovitch on this week’s episode of It Happened in Hollywood. “So I read the…
On Feb. 28, 1986, Paramount unveiled John Hughes’ high school feature Pretty in Pink in theaters, where it would go on to gross $40 million in its run and become a breakout for Breakfast Club star Molly Ringwald. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below: What do you say about a girl whose date reneges…
Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, Timothée Chalamet and The Hollywood Reporter are among the nominees for the 30th annual Webby Awards. Other nominees this year include Jason and Travis Kelce, Kylie Kelce, Heated Rivalry, OpenAI, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Sinners, Waymo, Patreon, Amy Poehler, Netflix, PBS, MrBeast, Google Gemini, KATSEYE, Steven Bartlett, Justin Bieber,…
In a professionally lighted brick-walled space in Venice, not different from many other professionally lighted brick-walled spaces all over Los Angeles, actors routinely come in to have their photos and video taken. The process is quick and unremarkable to anyone familiar with the studio-shoot culture of the city, where the backdrops change but the conventions…
John Legend is now being managed by Roc Nation, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, as the singer parts ways with longtime manager Ty Stiklorius and her firm Friends at Work. It’s unclear when the switch took place. Legend was listed on Friends at Work’s roster as recently as last month, as reflected in the Internet…
[This story contains spoilers for Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice.] On paper, a buddy action-comedy called Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a tough sell. Throw in dashes of gangster, romcom, tragicomedy and sci-fi sub-genres, specifically time travel, and it becomes a near-impossible sell. But writer-director BenDavid Grabinski managed to defy…
[Some spoilers follow for the current seasons ofThe ComebackandParadise] The new season ofThe Comeback, in addition to heralding the return of one of the great annoying-watchable characters in premium cable television, also introduces an element we’ve yet to see dramatized in comedies: AI as plot device. Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish returns after many years away to…
