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TV tonight: Philomena Cunk is back - and taking on Hollywood
Diane Morgan's stealthy ascent to national treasure status has been supercharged by her brilliant comedy Ann Droid. And now she returns to the faux-bewildered world of Philomena Cunk. “For centuries, eyes were useless,” Cunk states.
Hollywood's Next Big Deal: Will Netflix Make an M&A Play for NBCU?
David Ellison has knocked out Warner Bros. Discovery, merging it with Paramount into the new Skydance Corp. Now the chatter around town is about the industry's next megamerger. In the current landscape, only one media company of considerable size…
'I trusted a lot of people, and the wrong people, and I shouldn't have': Charlotte Kirk on navigating Hollywood
After a recent run as an assassin, a serial killer and a gangster, Charlotte Kirk was looking for something a little lighter, and surely nothing can be more jolly, more wholesome than a Christmas romcom. In Christmas & Chaos, Kirk plays Sadie, a…
West Hollywood's Troubadour nightclub honored by The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Troubadour in West Hollywood was honored as a landmark in music history by The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Wednesday, in recognition of decades of legendary performances at the Southern California venue. A bronze plaque will be affixed to the…
An Open Letter from an African Girl to the Tokenism Coordinator in Hollywood
Dear Tokenism Coordinator — Please call me Makanda, a name our shaman who practices geographically misplaced magic gave me, for it sounds just like Wakanda. You know we indigenous folks love linguistically simplistic names that are easy on…
The Hottest New Tables in Hollywood During AFM
9850 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills At the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, chef Edo Baldi gives the steakhouse an Italian accent, cooking beef and wagyu over an olive wood-fired grill. Don't let the steaks distract from sweet corn tortellini with…
Danielle Fishel's 'Boy Meets World' Paycheck Exposed an Uncomfortable Hollywood Reality
Danielle Fishel learned a tough Hollywood lesson early in her career on Boy Meets World ; being a leading lady didn't mean she would be paid like one. That is what Fishel reveals in a new book, Book Meets World: The Definitive Inside Story of the…
The Hotel Lobbies Where Hollywood Takes Meetings During AFM
A few very special hotel lobbies around town can truly claim they are Hollywood's unofficial offices, either by history or design, with better seating, better lighting and a professional to make the drinks. In these liminal spaces, an intro becomes…
Filmmaker Junayed Alavi's journey from Bengal's Rampurhat to Hollywood
The first camera filmmaker Junayed Alavi remembers carrying was his father's Nikon Coolpix. He was 13, in ninth grade, growing up in Rampurhat, West Bengal. He used to take it to school and film his surroundings, drawn to the possibilities of the…
Democrats Won. When Do Hollywood Crews Get Back to Work?
Tom Curley is happy about the election results. Whether they'll help him get back to work is another matter. The production sound mixer, who won an Oscar for “Whiplash,” told IndieWire he has struggled to find consistent employment…
Watch Out Hollywood: Creators and Sports Are Eating More of the Content Budgets
Where the entertainment business spends its content budget is shifting, with sports and independent creators reaping the rewards. The consultancy KPMG released its annual media content spend analysis on Thursday, calculating the totals and…
Streaming giant planning to scoop up massive Hollywood studio lot at a deep discount
Netflix is expected to make a bid for a historic Los Angeles studio lot where shows like “Seinfeld” were filmed. The streaming giant is looking to buy the iconic 55-acre Radford Studio Center in Studio City for $400 million when it…
Today I learned the world's first mass-produced drone was built by a Hollywood actor
The first military drone built in serious numbers didn't come from a defense contractor or tech giant - but from Reginald Denny, a British-born silent film actor who sold model aircraft on Hollywood Boulevard. His Radioplane OQ-2 was the first…
12 Hollywood stars with siblings who look like movie actors
Some have followed their famous relatives into acting, while others have built careers away from the cameras. Join HELLO! as we meet 12 stars whose siblings have leading-role looks of their own. © Variety via Getty Images Zac isn't the only…
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