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The greatest Hollywood power couples of all time-ranked
Few Hollywood couples have enjoyed a moment quite like the one Tom Holland and Zendaya are having right now. The pair appeared together in two of 2026's biggest movies: Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Brand New Day…
Is Hollywood back?
The movies are suddenly thriving. The latest Spider-Man flick is setting records, and Christopher Nolan's “The Odyssey” has dominated discourse for weeks. Americans were slow to return to cinemas after the pandemic sent them to…
American witchhunt: how the McCarthy blacklist annihilated the Hollywood left
In September 2025, Disney and ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel and his late-night talkshow would be taken off the air indefinitely, after a conservative backlash against the host's comments about the murder of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Just Joined a Long-Standing Hollywood Tradition
When one blockbuster film beats another blockbuster film for some major box office record, the directors of those films tend to acknowledge it with fun art. In 1977, when Star Wars beat Jaws at the all-time box office, Steven Spielberg…
Can Brandon Sanderson Help Apple Break Hollywood's Fantasy Spell?
Recently, fantasy author Brandon Sanderson announced that he had finished penning the first draft of his Mistborn screenplay. This was big news among his devoted following, because it's the first on-screen adaptation of his stellar seven-novel…
Variety's Power of Young Hollywood 2026 Event Brought Gen Z Fashion to the Red Carpet
Some of the most famous members of Gen Z brought their designer fashion best to Variety's Power of Young Hollywood 2026 held at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Tate McRae and Olandria led the…
Hollywood Is Losing Not Just Jobs but Entire Lineages
The flight of film and television production out of the United States is usually framed in terms of jobs and dollars. And no wonder: entire careers are evaporating at a nauseating rate, with US film and television production down 40 percent in 2024…
Meghan Markle bombshell as Hollywood legend exposes 'Palace conversations'
Meghan spoke about her family's recent UK trip at a dinner party in California Meghan Markle has been exposed by a TV legend for boasting about her trip to the UK and reunion with King Charles at a California dinner party. Martha Stewart, known for…
Hollywood is cranking out billion-dollar movies again. Spider-Man just joined the ranks
The theatrical industry welcomed its fourth billion-dollar film of 2026 this week as Sony and Marvel's 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' surpassed the coveted benchmark. Already part of the 2026 class is Universal's 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,'…
Free the Thigh! Every Man in Hollywood Is Embracing Skimpy Shorts This Summer
Christopher Peterson/Shutterstock; SONIC / BACKGRID Someone give these men a thigh -five! I know, I know. Everything in fashion is supposed to be baggy and oversized right now. But it seems the A-list boys of Hollywood either didn't get the memo…
Meghan Markle mocked after brutal birthday snub from Hollywood 'BFF'
Meghan Markle was snubbed by some of her Hollywood BFFs online Meghan Markle celebrated her birthday on August 4; but only a select few of her friends marked the special day online. The Duchess of Sussex turned 45 on Tuesday and posted a series of…
He Quit Hollywood to Make Coffee Tables: 'I Don't Know if I Made the Best or Worst Decision'
About 25 minutes into our conversation, Aser Santos Jr. casually mentions that as he was transitioning away from camera operating, he sold his Steadicam to DaBaby. DaBaby, the Billboard-charting “ROCKSTAR” and “BOP”…
The Power Broker Behind 'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'Parasite' Wants to Build a Hollywood Studio for Asian Stories
Having a conversation with Gold House founder Bing Chen isn't terribly dissimilar from taking an amphetamine. In what feels like a single breath, he'll jump from the early machinations behind the creator economy to the exemplary world-building of…
As Hollywood Frantically Searches for Next 'Obsession,' 'Backrooms,' TIFF's Midnight Madness Curator Has Vital Clues
After Kane Parsons' Backrooms and Curry Barker's Obsession made box office history, Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky has his own collection of Gen Z-fluent horror filmmakers competing to become Hollywood's next horror film sensations for…
Hollywood actor's chilling five words before his horror death in an avalanche
He made a name for himself across a number of major TV projects and films in Hollywood before he faced a tragic ending nobody could have predicted. The actor was set to star as a recurring character in the renowned series Mad Men but died suddenly…
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