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I want my wings: The Last Tycoons
Andrew O’Hagan reviews “West of Eden: An American Place” by Jean Stein.
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This Lawyer Is Hollywood’s Complete Divorce Solution
No one separates the rich and famous better than Laura Wasser. By Claire Suddath.
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The Secret Money Behind ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
Despite the star power of Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese, the 2013 hit movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” took more than six years to get made because studios weren’t willing to invest in a risky R-rated project. Help arrived from a virtually unknown production company called Red Granite Pictures. Though it had made just one movie, Red Granite came up with the more than $100 million needed to film the...
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The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever
Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much s**t for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.
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Corey Feldman on Elijah Wood Hollywood Pedophilia Controversy: "I Would Love to Name Names"
In an in-depth interview with THR, the 'Goonies' and 'Lost Boys' star opens up about his late best friend Corey Haim's rape by a producer at age 11, the pre-teen parties where predators stalked and groomed their marks and the "dark side" of his close pal Michael Jackson: "The man is gone. Let him rest in peace." A recent interview with Elijah Wood has reignited the conversation on pedophilia in the entertainment business. The Lord of the Rings star later clarified first to The Hollywood Reporter and then on his personal Twitter account that his comments about "something major...
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Hollywood Has a Big Millennial Problem
Sequels have been the lifeblood of the movie business for more than a decade. In 2011, the seven top films were all sequels, including Fast 5 and the final Harry Potter installment. Last year, the eight biggest opening weekends were all sequels, including Furious 7 and the latest Star Wars installment. But in the last six months, the sequel strategy seems to be deflating. Several follow-ups—including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows...
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True Fakes on Location
Consider how showbiz creates—or else, more tantalizingly, predicts—its own authenticity. By Tom Carson.
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Feds want 'Wolf of Wall Street' profits as part of $3.5 billion fraud allegations
In a massive lawsuit that reads like an international thriller, the U.S. government claims that well-connected fraudsters stole $3.5 billion from the Malaysian people and used it to buy New York condos, hotels, yachts and a jet. Some of that money was used to produce the Hollywood film "The Wolf of Wall Street," according to federal investigators. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday attempting to seize $1 billion of those assets -- the amount that went through American banks.
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The 2016 summer movie season was a bust because Hollywood’s go-to formulas stopped working
The summer 2016 movie season was a disappointment by almost any measure. As is now required for the hottest months, Hollywood treated audiences to yet another plodding procession of sequels and remakes, franchise starters and extenders, reboots and reimaginings, too few of which provided even the most basic cinematic pleasures: romance, excitement, escapism, comedy, spectacles worth projecting on a 50-foot screen. Most summer movie seasons are built on formulaic productions, but this one felt worse somehow — as if the old formulas suddenly no longer worked.
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The Netflix Backlash: Why Hollywood Fears a Content Monopoly
The streaming service is spending $6 billion a year on content, choking basic cable and brusquely rattling the relationship business of the town as fears of a Google- or Apple-sized dominance send a chill down the entertainment industry's spine.
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Will HBO’s Westworld Be Worth $100 Million?
The Hollywood Reporter turned out with an article expressing that they’ve heard the financial plan for the whole first period of HBO’s Westworld, 10 scenes, was $100 million. The pilot alone $25 million itself. That is a considerable measure of cash, particularly for TV so it’s protected to say that there is a great deal riding on this arrangement.
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How A Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood By Storm
The story behind the strange way Katharine Hepburn (and others) spoke. By Dan Nosowitz.
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America has never had so much TV, and even Hollywood is overwhelmed
Rich “RJ” Rappaport barely remembers the days when he wasn’t busy renting out truckloads of sham guns and fake cocaine. His vast prop warehouse on the outskirts of Atlanta used to see a trickle of local filmmakers, maybe a dozen a month. Now, he sees more than that every day, many of them rushing to equip the massively complicated, big-budget shoots of television’s new golden age.
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‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’ Renewed For Season 2 At BBC America
Ahead of the Season 1 finale on December 10, BBC America has ordered a 10-episode second season of original scripted series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency for premiere in 2017. The order is up from the eight-episode first season. Based on the cult Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency novels by Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams, the serialized comedic thriller follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett) and his reluctant assistant Todd (Elijah Wood).
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“BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack
You walk into a local multiplex a few minutes after the lights have dimmed. You find your seat to the first trailer, some confection involving superheroes or zombies. As the light flickers over you, strings churn from the speakers, interrupted at certain intervals by a massive blast of indistinguishable brass, like an alphorn next to an amplifier.
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Hollywood icon Zsa Zsa Gabor Dead at 99
Zsa Zsa Gabor, the iconic Hungarian-American actress and socialite, has died of a heart attack, her publicist has confirmed. She was 99 years old.
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John Wick: Chapter 2 Official Trailer #2 (2017) Keanu Reeves Action Movie HD
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Hollywood sign altered to 'Hollyweed' in apparent NYE prank
Hollywood residents awoke Sunday morning to find the iconic Hollywood sign had been altered to read "Hollyweed" in an apparent New Year's Day prank.
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Horror films deserve Oscar nominations too
Another year, another list of Oscar nominations. And yet again, as with most years in the history of the Academy Awards, not a single horror movie has been nominated. Sure, the dearth of award-winning horror flicks is nothing new, but as the genre continues to turn out excellent art, it's becoming harder and harder to justify the lack of awards recognition. Before diving into the numbers, here are some of the best horror flicks of 2016 that didn't receive any recognition from the Academy and should have.
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Why The Silence of the Lambs is a feminist fable
The film won the best picture Oscar 25 years ago – and looks ahead of its time with its depiction of Clarice Starling, writes Nicholas Barber.
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