See you in 2025? Strikes could cost Hollywood $2 billion in box office revenue next year
Chapter partner? Box office receipts are expected to hit Hollywood’s post-pandemic efforts in 2024, bringing in just $7.5 billion to $8 billion, compared to $8.8 billion to…
Instead of wigs and makeup: Hollywood reveals the secret of eternal youth with the help of “de-aging” technology
One of the most significant changes we’re seeing in Hollywood today is the increasing use of digital rejuvenation technology, which allows actors to play their characters at…
Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, review: trashy true crime that glamourises the idiots who got caught
Have you ever wanted to carry out a burglary in an exclusive suburb of Los Angeles County? Channel 4 can help!“You wanna break into a celebrity home?…
How Nicolas Cage became the internet’s ‘one true god’
Clementine is such a fan of the actor Nicolas Cage that on her online dating profile, she uses him as the benchmark to which potential suitors need…
Ten Percent, review: the British Call My Agent has star power – but where’s the bite?
Call My Agent is the French drama it became cool to namedrop during lockdown. It is a smart comedy-drama based in the offices of a Parisian talent…
‘It’s possible she was assassinated’: Joyce Carol Oates on Marilyn Monroe
When Monroe appeared to sing “Happy Birthday, Mr President” to JFK in 1962, his brother-in-law Peter Lawford announced her as “the late Marilyn Monroe”. Three weeks later,…
Read an exclusive new Marilyn Monroe short story by Joyce Carol Oates
I was the very first Playboy centerfold—in December 1953. Hugh Hefner had seen pictures of me, he had to have me as his first centerfold—guaranteeing success for…
Nicolas Cage’s Face/Off freak-out: how a deranged action film sent him over the edge
A piece of serendipity eventually came in 1995, when Werb and Colleary watched John Woo’s 1989 classic Hong Kong action thriller The Killer. Its themes of duality,…
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is an unbearable waste of Nicolas Cage
But the fun and games themselves… sheesh. The mere fact that Actual Nicolas Cage shows up in this scenario blows the minds of the two CIA agents…
The Secrets of Dumbledore’s box office hasn’t killed Fantastic Beasts – yet
The global outlook The dip in box office across the franchise is mirrored in North America, where The Secrets of Dumbledore opened at the weekend with $42.2m…
Why The Vikings drove Kirk Douglas berserk
A day before the 1958 premiere of The Vikings, Kirk Douglas steered the longship of good publicity. He was hoisted almost 100ft above Times Square in a…
Does Paul Verhoeven’s controversial ‘nunsploitation’ film betray the real Benedetta?
Even when he departs from her account of Benedetta Carlini, whose story she unearthed by accident in the late 1970s in Florence’s Medici archives as an aspiring…
What happened to Johnny Depp?
“The op-ed’s clear implication that Mr Depp is a domestic abuser is categorically and demonstrably false,” his lawyers wrote in the legal complaint. “Her allegations […] are…
‘Why is a children’s film so keen on smut?’ The sad saga of Sir Billi, Sean Connery’s final film
Sir Billi, he said, was “woefully anaemic”. He hated its “convoluted series of silly set-pieces”, its “simplistic story and non-sequitur style”. He went on: “Sir Billi lacks…
Cinema Paradiso, the Maestro and me: who was the ‘real’ Ennio Morricone?
Even if you don’t know Ennio Morricone’s name, you’ll know his music, which has scored nearly 500 films. From the heavenly choral uplift of Roland Joffé’s The…
We all owe Bruce Willis an apology
Over the past few years, the Golden Raspberry Awards – or the Razzies – have gone from being a good-natured event that poked fun at the pompous…
The cult of Jared Leto, Hollywood’s oddest, most irritating star
The cult-like component of 30 Seconds To Mars fandom has actually been acknowledged by the group. Since 2015, Leto has staged 30 Seconds To Mars “Summer Camps”…
Banned from the Academy: what happened to the first actor to suffer Will Smith’s possible fate?
Unfortunately for Caridi, his tendency for screener-sharing resulted in him crossing paths with a piracy legend. For at least three years in the early Noughties, Caridi gave…
The cult of Jared Leto: is he Hollywood’s oddest, most irritating star?
The cult-like component of 30 Seconds To Mars fandom has actually been acknowledged by the group. Since 2015, Leto has staged 30 Seconds To Mars “Summer Camps”…
Bridgerton star Polly Walker interview: ‘There was no sisterhood in Hollywood’
She notes that in “those more treacherous times” she received no support from older actresses. “There was no sisterhood when I was starting out.” In fact, Walker…
Even in retirement, Bruce Willis will always be Hollywood’s rueful action antihero
In the nick of time, Quentin Tarantino saw a chance to rescue Willis from these doldrums, and presented the whole middle story of Pulp Fiction (1994) to…
Even in retirement, Bruce Willis will always be Hollywood’s rueful anti-action hero
In the nick of time, Quentin Tarantino saw a chance to rescue Willis from these doldrums, and presented the whole middle story of Pulp Fiction (1994) to…
The Will Smith slap conspiracy theories are here – and they’re insane
“[It’s a] distraction… something big is about to drop,” argued one Telegram user in a popular QAnon channel. Another wrote that it was “staged… to boost ratings…
The Will Smith debacle proves Hollywood has forgotten how to take a joke
Two years later, he was asked to host the Oscars, and brought the same no-holds-barred sensibility to that gig. He used his pre-show interviews to skewer the…
Did this moment save the Oscars? All people want is Hollywood behaving badly
Back in the day, behind the closed doors of Oscars parties I attended, I witnessed Hollywood behaving badly first-hand. I saw top actresses who had sub-careers as…