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Ben Platt is happy to be home. The Los Angeles native kicked off a 10-night residency at Center Theater Group’s Ahmanson Theatre Friday night in front of a sold-out crowd that welcomed him back with a handful of standing ovations. “It’s so nice to be here for many reasons,” the Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning…
For The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie’s sports biopic about legendary MMA fighter Mark Kerr (played by Dwayne Johnson), prosthetic makeup design guru Kazu Hiro (The Darkest Hour, Maestro) was confronted with two choices: craft a close resemblance to Kerr or merely capture his essence. “It’s always tricky when we do [someone’s] likeness because, if I…
Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the father of late Tejano star Selena Quintanilla who served as her manager and steward of her legacy, has died. He was 86. Quintanilla Jr.’s death was announced on Instagram by his son, Abraham “A.B.” Quintanilla III. “It’s with a heavy heart to let you guys know that my Dad passed away…
Five-time Emmy winner The Pitt has earned three Golden Globe nominations and is a frontrunner for January’s Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA, much like its predecessor, ER. The NBC series, in which Noah Wyle also played a doctor, was the first medical drama to win SAG’s outstanding ensemble in a drama series award. No show…
Now that the debt-driven CEO David Zaslav has found his buyer for Warner Bros. in Netflix — and drawn a $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid from Paramount, too — history can judge him. Sure, he may stick around, hosting whoever still might wish to see him at Woodland, the storied Beverly Hills spread he purchased…
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As Netflix and Paramount throw Hadokens at each other in their (Wall) street fight over Warner Bros., we’re sitting here wondering why no one is talking about the video games piece. Sure, Warner Bros. Games, the home to TT Games (the LEGO game makers), Rocksteady Studios (the Batman: Arkham series) and NetherRealm Studios (Mortal Kombat),…
More shenanigans lie ahead for Sarah Trafford and Zoë Boehm: Apple TV has confirmed Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson‘s Down Cemetery Road will return for a second season. On the heels of an explosive first-season finale —which Wilson dissected with The Hollywood Reporter this week, teasing “more juice” to be squeezed from their characters —…
The nominees for the 2026 Costume Designers Guild Awards have been revealed, with costume designer Colleen Atwood landing three nods as Weapons, Sinners, Palm Royale and costume designers Lindsay Pugh and Steven Norman Lee landed two nods each. Weapons is nominated in the contemporary film category alongside Bugonia, F1 The Movie, One Battle After Another…
“We have done something that no one has ever done,” Taylor Swift tells her fellow Eras tour performers in the first seconds of her Disney+ docuseries, The End of an Era. It’s just before the tour’s final show in Vancouver. “We have performed for over 10 million people, in person. That’s not like 10 million…
