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Hollywood And Global Collaboration: What It Means For PR Leaders
As founder of Only 1 Media PR, Becca Brazil is passionate about helping people, brands & businesses be elevated and seen through media. Hollywood has long been seen as the center of the entertainment industry. But from what I've experienced…
Backrooms: Kane Parsons' YouTube liminal space enters Hollywood
A movie poster showing a sheet of mono-yellow coloured wallpaper might typically wash over your head. Not this one. It's instantly recognisable to millions - and inspires dread. This is Hollywood's latest horror film - Backrooms - and it knows its…
Backrooms' and 'Obsession' are made by YouTube directors. They're crushing the Hollywood competition.
Now it's trying a new strategy: hiring YouTubers. The early results look promising. This weekend, 'Backrooms,' a moody horror movie based on an internet meme, looks like it could bring in astonishing $60 million at the box office — which…
19 Celebrities Revealed Why They Changed Their Names For Hollywood
Vera is actually Mindy Kaling's real first name. Her full name is Vera Mindy Chokalingam, she told NPR. She shortened her name when she was coming up as a comedian because emcees would have trouble pronouncing it and crack jokes about it. 'It's a…
The New Hollywood Doesn't Wait for Permission
For a long time, success in entertainment followed a very specific formula. You waited to be chosen. Chosen by a studio, a label, a network or someone who already had access to the audience you were trying to reach. Breaking into the industry often…
We quit our jobs to sell jacket potatoes, now we sell to Hollywood stars
EVERYONE told the SpudBros they were completely mad. Two lads from Preston walking away from steady jobs to build a global empire selling jacket potatoes sounded less like a business plan and more like the setup to a bad joke. Your info will be…
11 Times Celebrities Killed Other Celebs, Because Hollywood History Is Legitimately Wild
Warning: includes mentions of murder and suicide. RAMSAY DE GIVE / POOL/AFP via Getty Images On the day of the shooting, the production team was preparing to film a scene where Baldwin's character would point a gun at the camera. To demonstrate…
Hollywood Can't Agree on What Counts as a Hit Anymore
I love that classic old Looney Tunes bit where Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck argue back and forth about whether it's rabbit-hunting season or duck-hunting season. Their mutual goal is to avoid the wrath of Elmer Fudd 's shotgun. Any argument can and…
Lizzo Goes Full Blond at the 'Scary Movie' Young Hollywood Celebration
Lizzo embraced her inner blond at the “Scary Movie” Young Hollywood event in Los Angeles on Thursday night, debuting freshly bleached hair to match her set of barely-there brows. The 38-year-old rapper styled long, loose waves with a…
See pictures of Ian Schrager's new PUBLIC West Hollywood hotel
News Forget a rooftop bar. The new PUBLIC hotel boasts a whole rooftop PARK. Ian Schrager's signature brand of impossibly chic hospitality is finally returning to Los Angeles with sprawling new hotel PUBLIC West Hollywood, which looks less like a…
Hollywood studios and actors' union find common ground on AI
SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland attributed the mostly drama-free agreements in this round of negotiations to a new mindset, 'because the studios and streamers came to the table with a different perspective.' With 160,000 members…
Hollywood's AI Aversion Could Have Consequences for the Next Generation
While artificial intelligence remains a dirty word in Hollywood and cause for broader consternation over job losses in the U.S., studios and artists in other countries are more readily embracing the technology. It's a dynamic that could have…
Will Hollywood Vote for Spencer Pratt? | Exclusive Poll
Spencer Pratt, the reality star and self-proclaimed “Guy You Loved to Hate,” may slam into political reality in his bid to court Hollywood's vote to be the next Los Angeles mayor. A poll conducted this week of TheWrap's LA-based…
'Backrooms,' 'Obsession,' and Why Two Gen Z Horror Directors Are Taking Over Hollywood
On this week's episode of 'Screen Talk,' we wrap up the Cannes Film Festival and dive into the horror phenomena scaring up big box office. “The Mandalorian” and who ? Looking beyond the numbers — because, yes, the new…
Hannah Rose May Tackles Hollywood Horror Moviemaking With New Comic 'Fatal Fest' (Exclusive)
When she was growing up in her native Ireland, Hannah Rose May was told that in order to make it as an actress, she had to move to Hollywood. So May did just that, packing up her bags and moving to Los Angeles in the late 2010s. But as any person…
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