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The Hollywood Reporter
'Creating The Soundtrack For People's Emotional Lives'
Among them, they have 61 Grammys, one Oscar and, now, a foothold in Hollywood, as six hitmakers behind songs in this season’s movies reveal what it took to write them, the feeling of ‘blacking out’ (in a good way), the freedom of not wearing makeup and fears over a post-election ‘Divided States of America’
10+ min |
November 25, 2016
The Hollywood Reporter
Lisa Nishimura
The Netflix exec behind Oscar hopefuls from Ava DuVernay to Werner Herzog talks bringing back Making a Murderer and Chris Rock’s $40M payday.
4 min |
November 25, 2016
The Hollywood Reporter
Can Al Jazeera Survive Rising Mideast Tensions?
Qatar’s $1 billion media giant is in peril as Saudi Arabia leads a blockade against a country Trump called a ‘funder of terrorism’
3 min |
June 14, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Is Netflix Shifting Its Strategy? Wall Street Certainly Hopes Not
‘The rules are different,’ says one analyst of the streamer’s $6 billion-a-year content binge, even as CEO Reed Hastings says he wants to cancel more of its shows
3 min |
June 14, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Sam Taylor - Johnson Is Ready To Throw Shade
One of Hollywood’s most successful female directors, now back with a sexy Netflix series, lets loose on Fifty Shades (‘Every scene was fought over’), surviving cancer (twice), her unconventional marriage and the plight of women filmmakers: It’s ‘ego-denting’
8 min |
June 14, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Songs Of Innocence And Experience
How 5 writers found the music to convey their films’ tragedy, injustice, patriotism and loveA Wonderful Example of ‘What the World Loves About America’
3 min |
Awards Playbook Special 2 - Nov. 2016
The Hollywood Reporter
Hannah Minghella
The TriStar president on Wonder Woman envy, buzzy Baby Driver and the legacy of her director father
6 min |
June 21, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
It's CNN vs. NBC: Who Will Win The Trump Tug-Of-War?
With a post-Ailes Fox News virtually sidelined, ‘lucky bystanders’ Jeff Zucker and Andy Lack are feasting on a breaking-news buffet where even Megyn Kelly makes headlines.
5 min |
June 21, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
ESPN's Heirs Apparent In A ‘New World Order'
A trio of promotions led by Connor Schell could determine the successor to president John Skipper as the ‘worldwide leader’ suits up for an uncertain future.
3 min |
June 21, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Bald? Not Bruce Willis? There's Hope
From robots to Regenix bespoke formulas, amniotic injections and — eww — fetal foreskin, new treatments are helping industry men maintain a full head of hair
6 min |
June 21, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
The Plan To Reboot Paramount
Ten months ago, Jim Gianopulos was forced out as Fox chairman after 16 years. Now, in his first interview after landing atop Viacom’s struggling film arm, he lets loose on starting over, getting fired by the Murdochs, how Trump has changed his job and the strategy he hopes will bring stability (and profits) to a money-losing studio: ‘It’s surprising it got so bumpy here … because all the elements are in place’
10+ min |
June 21, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Which Personality Disorder Do You Have?
Top L.A. shrinks advise on what makes four kinds of high-ranking studio execs tick — plus their secret anxieties.
5 min |
June 21, 2017
the hollywood reporter
hollywood regimen oprah: my 24 hours of sane, healthy living
from sleep to snacking, the best-life guru reveals her routine that begins on an elliptical and ends with ‘volumes and volumes of gratitude journals’.
4 min |
january 20, 2017
the hollywood reporter
it's 2017: get big or go home
that’s the mantra now in hollywood as insiders predict a wave of consolidation that could remake the town, realign power and rock the los angeles and silicon valley players seeking ‘scale’ to compete. says one banker, ‘it’s going to be a rambunctious m&a market’.
6 min |
january 20, 2017
the hollywood reporter
charles d. king
the former agent turned multicultural media exec on how he landed denzel’s fences, the recovery from #oscars so white and dispelling the myth of diversity at the box office.
6 min |
november 18, 2016
the hollywood reporter
jason ropell
amazon’s global film chief on his sundance buying plans, manchester’s success, rival netflix and apple’s possible foray into movies: ‘sure, come on in, the water’s fine’.
6 min |
january 27, 2017
the hollywood reporter
marti noxon will tell you about her vagina
… and that’s not all, as the first-time film director, at the fest with a semiautobiographical story about anorexia, spins her chronic tmi — about everything from her divorce to horchata, her sober-buddy unicorn — into a treasure of tv gold by lacey rose
8 min |
january 27, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Pitch
Fox’s drama about a female pitcher who makes it to Major League Baseball toys with our emotions, but star Kylie Bunbury makes it hard to resist — for now.
3 min |
September 30, 2016
The Hollywood Reporter
Roger Ailes' Funeral: An Act Of Defiance
Friends and family of Fox News’ controversial founder take aim at the media (and the Murdochs) as the once-dominant network falls to third place and Sean Hannity says, ‘It’s really over, isn’t it?’
5 min |
May 24, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
How Do You Fix A Broken (Radio) Heart?
With listeners shifting to podcasts and music streaming services, radio giants like iHeartRadio are scrambling to adapt to digital and convert Wall Street skeptics.
3 min |
May 24, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Love And Basketball On Bachelorette
After writing a critique for THR of ABC’s romance reality franchise, the NBA legend appears on the May 29 episode to judge the suitors by their (on court) game.
3 min |
May 24, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
John Landgraf: What's After ‘Peak TV'
‘Where are YouTube and Apple going to go?’ asks THR’s TV Executive of the Year as the FX CEO takes aim at Netflix (‘shoveling money’) and rejects the ‘heat-seeking missile’ strategy that ‘leaves shows as an afterthought’
10+ min |
May 24, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Making Of Patriots Day
Three years after the Boston Marathon bombing, Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg reveal how they returned — very sensitively — to the scene of the horrific crime.
6 min |
December 23, 2016 - January 06, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Can This YouTube Star Turn 243M Views Into TV Success?
Cameron Dallas and Netflix team up for its first celebrity docuseries.
1 min |
January 13, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter
Don Handfield And Jeremy Renner
The actors-turned-producers of The Founder (who met at Gold’s Gym) on more Avengers and Bourne and why they partnered with Harvey Weinstein when making a movie about McDonald’s
5 min |
December 16, 2016
The Hollywood Reporter
The More Intimate You Make It, The More Universal It Becomes
Seven creators reveal what inspired everything from the stagestruck critters in Sing to the search for happiness in Trolls and the existential dread of the R-rated outlier Sausage Party.
10+ min |
Awards Playbook Dec. 2016
The Hollywood Reporter
Eye Candy: The Secret Recipes
The VFX teams on these 20 films created monsters, giants and aliens — and gave filmgoers several white-knuckle moments in 2016
7 min |
Awards Playbook Dec. 2016
The Hollywood Reporter
Why Actors Score Big By Keeping It ‘Real'
Truth-based performances — thanks to their perceived difficulty and (with luck) the campaign support of the figures they portray — confer an advantage to stars that doesn’t always extend to the films they inhabit.
8 min |
Essential Awards Playbook, Dec. 2016
The Hollywood Reporter
The Woody Allen Interview (Which He Won't Read)
With his 12th film at the festival, Cafe Society, set to open Cannes, the director reflects on his unreflective stance on aging (‘If you focus on mortality, the house always wins’), his movies (‘I would erase all but a few’), his personal life and his willful avoidance of his own press: ‘I scrupulously have avoided any self-preoccupation’
10+ min |
May 13, 2016
The Hollywood Reporter
A-Listers on Nudity, Network Fights and the 'Diva' Label
Seven of TV’s top drama actresses pull back the curtain — along with the punches — on Hollywood’s narrow parameters, nudity ‘reparations’ and ‘how much more well-behaved we have to be than men’
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