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Bill Pullman Reveals He Almost Passed on ‘Murdaugh Murders’
You can’t blame Bill Pullman for feeling hesitant about taking on the lead role in Lifetime’s two-part limited series Murdaugh Murders: The Movie. It’s not that the SAG-nominated actor was worried about going dark — he’d done so not long ago, and brilliantly, in USA’s The Sinner — he simply just wasn’t aware of the […]
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‘Hacks’ Star Jean Smart on Getting ‘Watchmen’ Role After Sigourney Weaver Turned It Down
On May 18, five-time Emmy winner Jean Smart added another accolade to her résumé: hometown hero. The star of Max’s Emmy-winning comedy Hacks returned to her Washington roots at a special career-retrospective event and award presentation hosted by the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which marked 50 years this spring. Held inside the famed SIFF Downtown […]
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Geena Davis Is an “Incorruptible Optimist” About Representation in Hollywood
Twenty years after launching her Institute on Gender in Media — which created a blueprint for gathering data about inclusion and diversity on- and offscreen — Geena Davis is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Arkansas’ Bentonville Film Festival, which she runs alongside fest director Wendy Guerrero. Here, the Oscar-winning actor shares her proudest moments from […]
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Jean Smart to Receive The Hollywood Reporter’s Trailblazer Award at the Seattle International Film Festival
Seattle native Jean Smart will return to her hometown to receive The Hollywood Reporter’s Trailblazer Award at the 50th installment of the Seattle International Film Festival next month. The Hacks star will also chat onstage with THR contributing editor Stacey Wilson Hunt about her career and share with the audience an unaired episode of the […]
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Matt Bomer Talks Impact of Ryan Murphy, Bradley Cooper on His Career as He Receives THR’s Trailblazer Award at SCAD TVfest
In front of a very enthusiastic audience of more than 600 fans, students and SAG-AFTRA members, actor Matt Bomer shared an unvarnished take on the heartache, hurdles and proudest moments he’s experienced in his 20-year film and television career. Bomer appeared at the annual TV festival in Atlanta to accept The Hollywood Reporter’s Trailblazer Award […]
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Matt Bomer to Receive The Hollywood Reporter’s Trailblazer Award at SCAD TVfest
Matt Bomer is set to receive The Hollywood Reporter’s Trailblazer Award at SCAD TVfest next month in Atlanta. The star and producer of Showtime’s Fellow Travelers will be honored on Feb. 7 for his contributions to storytelling in both television and film, namely in helping to boost visibility for LGBTQ+ stories and characters. As part of the […]
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David Oyelowo Receives THR’s Trailblazer Award at NATPE Global in Miami, Talks Joys and Challenges of Telling Inclusive Stories
A decade after his breakthrough role as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s Selma, David Oyelowo says he is heartened by the long-overdue shift toward a more culturally diverse marketplace for onscreen storytelling. As part of NATPE 2024’s official programming, Oyelowo appeared onstage in front of a lively crowd of 150 guests at […]
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‘To Kill a Tiger’ Depicts an Indian Father as a Model for Male Allyship
In her documentary To Kill a Tiger, which won the prize for best Canadian film at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, filmmaker Nisha Pahuja tackles the most harrowing subject of her career: the fight of an Indian farmer to demand justice for his 13-year-old daughter, Kiran, after she was gang-raped by three men in […]
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Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ Led a Banner Year for Female Writers and Directors
It’s hard to fathom, but there’s at least one more layer of meaningfulness to Barbie’s success worth noting as 2023 draws to a close. While it cemented the global economic influence of female consumers, Greta Gerwig’s juggernaut fantasy-adventure-satire (co-written with her real-life partner, Noah Baumbach) also served as a fever-pitch moment for female auteurship. What’s even […]
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From ‘Only Murders in the Building’ to ‘Ted Lasso,’ Emmy Voters Love Their Chosen Families
To understand just how long the TV Academy has struggled to define “comedy series,” look no further than the first decade or so of the category’s life: Between 1952, when Red Skelton’s titular variety show claimed Emmy’s first-ever comedy prize, and 1964, when The Dick Van Dyke Show scored its second win, the category had […]
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“Can I Invite You to Think Differently About Me?” A Candid Convo Between THR Trailblazers Eva Longoria and Niecy Nash-Betts
Roughly 20 years after breaking out on Comedy Central’s Reno 911! and ABC’s soapy drama Desperate Housewives, respectively, Niecy Nash-Betts and Eva Longoria are deep into second acts that, for them, were inevitable. For Nash-Betts, it’s been a slow burn to be seen as a dramatic actor because, as she says of her God-given talent, […]
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“It Was the Highest Testing Movie We’ve Ever Had”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With ‘Thirteen Lives’ Filmmakers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer
In an industry where enduring creative collaborations are often as fragile as the movie business itself, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer now occupy a singular place in the annals of Hollywood history. For 35 years, the Oscar-winning director-producer team (A Beautiful Mind) have been telling epic stories under the banner of their company Imagine Entertainment […]
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