The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) celebrates the 80th anniversary of its founding and its 60th edition this year. In addition to Hollywood celebrities, it has long celebrated and honored big Czech stars. This year, KVIFF will bestow its President’s Award on a famous Slovak actress who became an ambassador and respected voice in political life. […]
In the weeks leading up to New York State’s primaries, Zohran Mamdani took an unusual gamble. The mayor of the country’s largest city didn’t bow to New York’s various establishments and the custom of letting incumbents be incumbents; instead, he went full Ryland Grace to try to steer the world in the direction he wanted […]
The traditional fireworks are just not big enough for the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) this year! The Czech fest will kick off its 60th edition in its 80th year on Friday, July 3 with what organizers call the largest drone show ever to be staged in the Czech Republic or Slovakia. Replacing the fireworks with […]
An adorable little Japanese boy plays with his parents at the playground, plants a tree in their front yard and snuggles in bed reading The Little Prince. All appears sweet and natural until bedtime, when instead of slipping beneath the covers, he takes a seat on his charging station and powers down, a small button […]
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, knows well the complaints from some (including this presidential administration) that his museums focus too much on what is painful or ugly about the country’s history at the expense of what might be hopeful or uplifting about it. But as he sees it, the two […]
The $29 million estate of Liam Payne, the late One Direction singer who died after falling from a balcony at a Buenos Aires hotel in 2024, will go entirely to his son, according to court documents made public this week. Payne, who made millions at a young age while performing with the wildly successful boy […]
EXCLUSIVE: Taiwan’s PTS Taigi TV station has started production on Gunshot, an eight-part police drama produced with S11 Partners and Third Culture Content. The Taiwanese-language series stars Kent Tsai (The Teenage Psychic), Chan Tzu-Hsuan, Cheng Chih-Wei, Golden Horse Award-winning actor Lu Hsiao-Fen and Singaporean Golden Horse winner Mark Lee. Set against the intersection of policing, […]
Off Campus star Stephen Kalyn is starring in a new Verizon ad. The brand released a one minute spot “Simplicity is Sexy” Tuesday morning, marking Kalyn’s first major brand deal since the release of the popular college-set romance series. “It was a little nerve-wracking at first but once I get onto the groove of things, […]
[This story contains spoilers for Obsession.] In 2018, two aspiring actors named Cooper Tomlinson and Curry Barker met while in line during their first day at Los Angeles’ New York Film Academy. The pair quickly struck up a friendship over The Walking Dead and Weezer, likely debating the eternal question about whether the latter’s Blue […]
RuPaul‘s Drag Race icon and RuPaul’s very own makeup artist Raven is returning to compete in the franchise’s new spinoff Drag Race Down Under vs The World. Raven was announced as part of the spinoff series’ cast on Tuesday, marking her long-awaited return to the Drag Race universe, in front of the camera, that is. […]
Where can Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI movie Artificial go now? That’s the question that has been whirling around Hollywood since the news broke that Amazon MGM Studios was dropping the feature just months after Amazon entered into a $50 billion investment with Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The choice was particularly interesting to Hollywood rank-and-file, which, in the […]
UFC fighter Josh Hokit says he didn’t intend his “Michelle Obama is a man” comment to be an insult. In fact, he claims, it was meant to be a “compliment.” “I thought I was giving her a compliment,” he said in an appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show. When Helwani expressed skepticism, and began saying […]
“It’s not like anything else on television,” Ponies co-creator/executive producer David Iserson said about the 1970s espionage comedy-drama starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, which has been canceled by Peacock after one season. In a heartfelt note to fans on Instagram, Iserson, who co-created Ponies with Susanna Fogel, recalled the show’s seven-year journey to […]
Kenneth Falcon (pictured above, left) wants all 4,000 of his tradespeople out of a job by 2028. It’s cool: as Netflix‘s director of enterprise operation, that’s kind of his job. Plus, they’ll all move on to the next gig — construction is not so dissimilar from film and TV production. In December 2022, Netflix purchased […]
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Amazon Prime Day, running from June 23 through 26, certainly has no shortage of discounts, but the e-tailer always has sales — so what’s actually worth snagging during the four-day shopping holiday? […]
Bob Iger, who stepped down from his second stint as Disney CEO in March, gave an exit interview to Financial Times in which he revealed that he tried to acquire the James Bond franchise for Disney amid a spending spree that included the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel and “Star Wars.” Pixar was priority number one […]
Former Fox News host and MAGA-sphere podcaster Tucker Carlson’s disillusionment with Donald Trump appears to have expanded into a broader frustration with Republicans, and he now says he no longer supports the party. Carlson is now a titan of the podcasting world. Still, for years, his primetime Fox News opinion show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, was […]
A musical adaptation of Warriors is coming to Broadway this spring. The musical, which is co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, marks Miranda’s first stage show since Hamilton, which opened on Broadway in 2015 and continues to be one of the highest box office performers. Warriors is based on the 1979 Paramount film, which […]
Broadway ticket sales held steady last week as the newish season eases into the post-Tony summer weeks, with Chess posting strong figures during its final week and Celebrity Autobiography doing the opposite during its last bow. Chess, starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher had previously announced its early close (coinciding with Michele’s planned […]
In its final week on Broadway, Chess jumped up over $426,000 to hit $1.8 million. The musical, which opened in October and stars Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, played to 99.5 percent capacity at the Imperial Theatre and the average ticket price jumped up to $155. Death of a Salesman continues building on […]
Peacock is no longer riding with Ponies. The NBCUniversal streamer has canceled its espionage drama Ponies after a single season. The news comes about five months after the series premiered as a binge release on Jan. 15. Set in Moscow in 1977, the series stars Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson as Bea and Twila, […]