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The Harvard Lampoon Takes on Hollywood (with The Hollywood Reporter as an Accomplice)
Targets and their corresponding features include: NOLAN: So, This Guy's Clearly Lying, Right? Christopher Nolan Claims to Live With No Phone, Computer, Email, Plumbing, Heat, Water or Food CHALAMET: 'I guess the question for me is...what's behind…
As Hollywood courts influencers, movie critics are getting squeezed out
Modern-day movie publicity has changed significantly over the last several years. The standard routes of press interviews on shows like “Access Hollywood” and “Entertainment Tonight” are still around, but they're far…
Forget Hollywood. AI could trigger a new Renaissance in cinema
Hollywood has spent the best part of a century convincing us that bigger means better. Bigger budgets, bigger stars, bigger franchises, bigger explosions, bigger data and bigger opening weekends. Artificial intelligence might be about to blow that…
Sam Altman Gets Hollywood's Mark Zuckerberg treatment
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse,” Andrew Garfield, the actor playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, says in…
Your Favorite Hollywood Hotspot? Guess Who Owns It.
What do Annabel's, Sexy Fish, Delilah and the Bird Streets Club have in common — besides serving as Leonardo DiCaprio's natural habitat? They're all now controlled by investment interests tied to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu…
A Hollywood Creators Group Is Trying to Assess What AI Is Doing to the Industry (Exclusive)
Are story editors in Hollywood especially prone to AI disruption? What about concept illustrators? Sound mixers? Those are some of the questions tackled in an evolving public project that will be launched Wednesday by the Creators Coalition on AI.
Hollywood CEOs Are Spending Millions On Bodyguards As Threats Soar
At 3:45 a.m. on April 10, a man approached the fence outside of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home and threw an incendiary device over it. The homemade Molotov cocktail bounced off the house, and no one was hurt, but Altman, one of the highest-profile…
Michael Rapaport tells Craig Carton that his support for Israel has cost him work in Hollywood
In case you thought 'cancel culture' was a thing of the past, there's one position that can immediately lead to immense blowback and financial harm in the modern world: supporting Israel. The entertainment industry, filled with those on the extreme…
Hollywood Puts Four Tech Moguls on Trial in October Movie Pileup
Hollywood's obsession with Silicon Valley is about to reach a fever pitch with four major films set to take on controversial tech moguls. What's more: All the movies have key dates in October, resulting in a rather extraordinary thematic pileup as…
I'm an Award-Winning Hollywood Writer and Producer, But My Fun Side Hustle Can Pay Better - Up to $15,000 a Month
Yuhas' pet-sitting business grew quickly thanks to word-of-mouth endorsements. She began hiring people she trusted to help her expand The Funny Sitter. Now, she averages $5,000 a month, with a significant spike during the holiday season.
Hollywood legend dies after brief illness as 'devastated' tributes flood in
Jeff Lowell died aged 52 after a brief illness Jeff Lowell, the Hollywood screenwriter behind endless comedy hits, has died at the age of 52. According to Deadline, the film and TV legend died in Virginia on August 24, following a brief illness. He…
Liv Morgan Joins the Cast of Another Hollywood Film
Liv Morgan's foray into Hollywood is taking another step. The reigning Women's World Champion took a brief hiatus from the company in May 2025 to travel overseas for her role in Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, which is scheduled to premiere this coming…
Gal Gadot Says She's 'Trying to Navigate' AI and Hollywood 'The Best Way I Can': EXCLUSIVE
As conversation around artificial intelligence use in Hollywood continues to evolve, some celebrities have weighed in. Now, Gal Gadot is throwing her hat in the ring. The actor, who stopped by Studio 1A Sept. 9 to discuss her new film “The…
All Hell Broke Loose' - Malibu Sinkhole Threatens to Swallow Hollywood Star Nicolas Cage's House
A large sinkhole has opened up in the Californian city of Malibu, and is threatening to swallow up the home of Hollywood star Nicolas Cage. The driveway at the front of the property, which reportedly belongs to the National Treasure, Con Air, and…
Hollywood star Michael Shannon becomes R.E.M.'s frontman for one night in Edinburgh
If it's Tuesday it must be Edinburgh and the two of them, plus band, are in the Liquid Rooms for a run-through of R.E.M.'s fourth album Life's Rich Pageant, 40 years old in 2026, and a carousel swirl around other deep cuts from the band's back…
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