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It’s quite possible Seoyang Jang manifested her role in Beef season two. The British-Korean actress recalls scrolling through Instagram in the weeks before she got the audition for season two of the award-winning Netflix series, when she came upon a clip from the show’s first season. “I remember thinking to myself, this is the kind…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. As someone who hadn’t been to Coachella since 2014, this year’s festival felt deeply familiar in many ways, and entirely unrecognizable in others. While 2014, of course, had its fair share of…
At the 2014 Oscars, best supporting actor nominee Bradley Cooper took a selfie with host Ellen DeGeneres and a bunch of A-listers, among them Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Lupita Nyong’o and Jennifer Lawrence. DeGeneres’ Twitter account posted it immediately afterward, and it became the most retweeted post in the platform’s history…
The entertainment industry understands better than anyone that a brand is only as good as the experience it delivers. We spend billions ensuring that every frame, every note, every performance, matches the promise we make in the marketing. And yet when it comes to the one street on earth that carries that industry’s name, Hollywood…
The organized crime task force in the Law & Order universe has worked its last case. NBCUniversal has canceled Law & Order: Organized Crime after five seasons. The series, in which Christopher Meloni reprised his SVU character, Elliot Stabler, in a different branch of the NYPD, ran for four seasons on NBC before becoming a…
Universal Pictures is capitalizing on the heat from Sydney Sweeney and the success of The Housemaid by stepping on the gas on its own Sweeney thriller, The Caretaker. Indie horror darling David Bruckner has been tapped to direct the feature project that adapts the upcoming book by Marcus Kliewer and that was initially set up…
After nearly three decades, Netflix founder Reed Hastings is stepping down from the board of directors at the streaming giant. The exec will focus on his philanthropic efforts and won’t stand for reelection at the Netflix annual meeting in June, the company said on Thursday. While it marks the formal end of an era, Hastings…
Who needs Warner Bros.? Netflix reported better-than-anticipated first quarter (2026) revenue thanks to surprisingly strong member growth, particularly in Japan, where the World Baseball Classic was a massive hit. Better ad sales and higher subscription prices also kicked in. We did not get an updated subscriber total on Thursday. What we did get was a…
Reese Witherspoon, Oscar winning actress, producer and renowned book-lover, sat down with her book club yesterday and learned a surprising fact about their exposure to artificial intelligence. “I said to the 10 of them, ‘How many of you guys use AI?’ And only three of them used AI. And then I said, ‘How many of…
Roundabout Theatre company is bringing a revival of Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid to Broadway next season, in addition to a revival of the musical The Full Monty and a new play by Dominique Morriseau. In the fall, the nonprofit theatre company will stage The Imaginary Invalid, a 17th-century comedy about hypochondria, reimagined by the actor…
