Hollywood Studio Projects Get Stricter About COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
As studios debate how to handle COVID-19 vaccine resistance, the Biden administration is moving forward with its own mandates that are pushing Hollywood to toe the line. Though a federal court recently...
View ArticleWhy Streamers Are Stalling on Sharing Data
Back in 2019, WarnerMedia struck a deal for its soon-to-launch streaming platform HBO Max that secured exclusive domestic streaming rights to The Big Bang Theory for five years. The pact, which sources...
View ArticleHollywood Warms to Saudi Arabia’s Money Again
In April 2018, Hollywood power players gave the royal treatment to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, jockeying for a chance to tap into the country’s $500 billion Public Investment Fund...
View ArticleJohn McAfee Film in the Works From ‘Plot Against the President’ Director...
Amanda Milius’ AMDC Films has acquired film and TV rights to Mark Eglinton’s upcoming book No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes. AMDC Films is developing a feature narrative film as well as a companion...
View ArticleWhy ‘Bond’ Mogul Barbara Broccoli Has Earned a License to Chill
Back in the mid-’70s, a teenage Barbara Broccoli was working her first job in the entertainment industry as an intern for The Hollywood Reporter. At the time, things were looking dismal for women in...
View ArticleSundance and Berlin Festivals Resist Altering Plans Amid Omicron Fears
On Dec. 5, the cast of Netflix’s Don’t Look Up converged on the stage of Jazz at Lincoln Center for the film’s glitzy world premiere. With stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep...
View ArticleAmid Legal Jeopardy, Jussie Smollett Is Shopping New Projects
As Jussie Smollett awaits his fate in a Chicago court, accused of staging a fake hate crime in January 2019, his once-promising career also hangs in the balance. The 39-year-old actor’s prospects have...
View ArticleLena Dunham, Kanye West, Princess Diana Movies on Tap for Sundance
The show will go on. For the first time in two years, the indie movie community will make the trek to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival. And this year’s lineup, while scaled back in scope, is...
View Article“We Are Not Meant to Be Isolated”: Denis Villeneuve, Mahershala Ali, Rebecca...
If producers found themselves in a brave new world in 2020 thanks to the impact of the pandemic, 2021 only accelerated that evolution. Of the six films featured on this year’s THR Producer Roundtable,...
View ArticleThis Year, Hollywood’s China Relationship Finally Unraveled
In 2014, when Warner Bros. drafted LeBron James to star in its Space Jam sequel, the film was tailored to appeal above all else to the mighty Chinese market. After all, James was a huge commodity in...
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