"WTF Is That on Your Shoulder?" sadly did not pass muster with the copy desk as a hed on this late-summer brite www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...

Voight's been making the rounds of Hollywood and showed up at Mar-a-Lago with two one-page docs drafted by the MPA and endorsed by a bunch of guilds outlining the industry's needs. No tariffs were mentioned in either. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/m...

The British family that has steered the James Bond franchise for more than 60 years, zealously protecting the superspy from the indignities of Hollywood strip mining, has agreed to relinquish control to Amazon. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

Marvel’s New ‘Captain America’ Is No. 1, Despite a Backlash and Poor Reviews www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/b...

I telephoned Paddington to talk me off the ledge www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/m...

Alex Gibney sold his doc film company to Wendy Schmidt -- Google money -- and will expand into more progressive-issue topics. She told me she made an offer to buy Participant but Jeff Skoll decided he'd rather shut it down 👀 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/b...

Bob Iger: "Can we help in setting up temporary schools? Can our Imagineers help design new town centers? Rebuilding is not just about money. It’s about ingenuity and determination.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Hollywood finds itself in a surreal spot: reeling from personal loss with much of the business untouched At Disney alone, 64 employees lost their homes. But there was almost no moviemaking in LA to disrupt -- all shooting elsewhere www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/b...

After two days closed for the fires, Universal Studios Hollywood was back in the business of manufactured reality on Friday. A quick dispatch: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Hollywood hoisted a white flag in the culture war on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/b...

Golden Globe voters did little to clear up a blurry awards picture in Hollywood on Sunday, giving little-seen films like “The Brutalist” and “Emilia Pérez” roughly equal treatment and snubbing some perceived Oscar front-runners, including "Anora." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/a...

Why is Ariana Grande a supporting nominee at the Globes when her role is a lead? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/m...

The $1 million Golden Globe gift bags have no shame. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

The HFPA is gone. But is scandals will live on. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Item: The Globes, long an ungodly mess, have seemingly pulled themselves together. Icky contretemps continue behind the scenes, however. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

I was asked to answer this (perennial) reader question: What Do Movie Producers Do, Anyway? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/m...

A lot of filmmakers took interesting risks this year 👏 But the box office, for the most part, swung squarely back to the same-old, same-old 👎 This is why studios take fewer and fewer chances on original movies: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...

‘Wicked’ Jump-Starts the Box Office, but at a Cost Movies, especially ones like “Wicked,” a mega-spectacle with mega-reviews based on a mega-musical, used to be able to commandeer the culture by themselves. Now it takes 10 months of marketing pleading. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...