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New 'Hollywood dose' pill: A-listers hooked on 'youth elixir
Hollywood has always been quick to jump on the latest beauty fix, but the new craze sweeping Tinseltown is a far cry from invasive cosmetic procedures like injectables or pricey facelifts. Instead, insiders reveal that a growing number of A-listers…
Ron Frierson Named President and CEO of Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has installed new leadership with veteran business and policy executive Ron Frierson signing on as president and CEO. The chamber has also tapped Dan Halden to serve as chief operating officer and legislative…
Hollywood Film and TV Production in Canada Rebounds
U.S. film and TV production in Canada rebounded in 2025 as the local industry finally put the devastating impact of Hollywood's year of strikes in 2023 in the rearview mirror. The latest annual economic report from the Canadian Media Producers…
The World According to Hollywood in 1927
The Golden Age of Hollywood came about when synchronized dialogue came to theaters and there were five big studios cranking out fantasies for the masses. One of the benefits of the industry being centered in southern California was the access to…
Casting Microdramas: It's Gone Hollywood
Just a few years ago, landing a role in a microdrama could be as simple as submitting a self-tape on Actor's Access or even getting discovered on Instagram. Now as the business's domestic reach has exploded, apps like ReelShort, GoodShort and…
How Sixteen Candles' Jami Gertz Became the Richest Woman in Hollywood
Watch: The Richest Celebrity Billionaire of 2026 May Surprise You Few can hold a candle to Jami Gertz 's evolution. 'I get it,' the Sixteen Candles alum told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. 'It's not your everyday Hollywood actress tale.' It's a…
Hollywood Jobs Crisis Becomes Focus of Governor's Race as Candidates Offer Incentive Hike
The collapse of film and TV production over the last three years has cost California some 51,000 jobs — mostly in Los Angeles — roughly equivalent to the decline in L.A.'s aerospace workforce in the early 1990s. The candidates for…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says AI in Hollywood Will Get People to 'Care More About Human Creators, Not Less'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes AI is a good thing for Hollywood and will not hurt the industry as much as critics of the technology may be worried about. “I think people really care about other people,” Altman told me at the…
64 Hollywood Couples Who Make Big Age Gaps Look Easy
When you picture your perfect partner, you might imagine someone who is roughly as old as you are—or, at least in the same generation. But love doesn't always work that way, and these celebrity couples prove it despite an age difference of…
Sam Altman Returns to the Spotlight as Hollywood and Tech Collide at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony
Madonna Joins Sabrina Carpenter at Coachella For “Full Circle Moment” The Queen of Pop returned to the desert in the same jacket and corset she performed in 20 years ago. What the Fashion at Coachella Says About the State of the…
Can an AI Performance Win an Oscar? Val Kilmer's Digital Resurrection Is Forcing Hollywood to Create New Awards Rules
It's still an open question whether an AI performer can actually “act,” but awards bodies will soon have to confront whether such a performance could ever be eligible for a major award. It seems like a storyline plucked out of some…
8 Unfilmable Books & Why Hollywood Can't Figure Them Out
Each of these books is considered to be practically unfilmable, but why? Let's look at the histories of novels like Slaughterhouse-Five author Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan, No Country for Old Men writer Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, and more…
I Used to Be a Hollywood Writer. Now I'm Lugging Lumber From Home Depot. It's an Upgrade.
It's 5:45 a.m. on a Tuesday, and the Home Depot on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is already bustling. I am standing in Aisle 18 — deep in the lumber section of the cavernous space — evaluating formulations of plaster compound. I've…
Doug Liman's AI Film Hit a Nerve in Hollywood. Does It Deserve the Hate? | Analysis
When we published our exclusive look from the set of Doug Liman's fully-generated, studio-quality AI film called “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” last week, the reaction was what you'd expect: a heady mix of outrage, fear and skepticism.
A two-word request on set led Jodie Foster to rethink everything about Hollywood. The request was for a cappuccino.
Jodie Foster has won two Oscars, been famous since she was 12, and has been working in the industry since she was barely 3. By her own account, all of that success had started to do something to her she didn't like. She described the moment of…
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