More from Tatiana Siegel
This Year, Hollywood’s China Relationship Finally Unraveled
In 2014, when Warner Bros. drafted LeBron James to star in its Space Jam sequel, the film was tailored to appeal above all else to the mighty Chinese market. After all, James was a huge commodity in the basketball-obsessed country, where his signature Nike sneakers are made. Along the way, the future Hall of Famer […]
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“We Are Not Meant to Be Isolated”: Denis Villeneuve, Mahershala Ali, Rebecca Hall and the THR Producer Roundtable
If producers found themselves in a brave new world in 2020 thanks to the impact of the pandemic, 2021 only accelerated that evolution. Of the six films featured on this year’s THR Producer Roundtable, three are being released via streamers (Rebecca Hall’s Passing and Tanya Seghatchian’s The Power of the Dog on Netflix and Mahershala […]
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Lena Dunham, Kanye West, Princess Diana Movies on Tap for Sundance
The show will go on. For the first time in two years, the indie movie community will make the trek to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival. And this year’s lineup, while scaled back in scope, is certain to attract plenty of buzz with a film from director Lena Dunham to a pair of […]
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Amid Legal Jeopardy, Jussie Smollett Is Shopping New Projects
As Jussie Smollett awaits his fate in a Chicago court, accused of staging a fake hate crime in January 2019, his once-promising career also hangs in the balance. The 39-year-old actor’s prospects have drastically diminished since his story about being attacked by two men who used racial and homophobic slurs began to unravel. UTA distanced […]
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Sundance and Berlin Festivals Resist Altering Plans Amid Omicron Fears
On Dec. 5, the cast of Netflix’s Don’t Look Up converged on the stage of Jazz at Lincoln Center for the film’s glitzy world premiere. With stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep looking on, director Adam McKay recalled the night of March 11, 2020, when everything changed. “We were in Boston [in preproduction], and I’ll […]
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Why ‘Bond’ Mogul Barbara Broccoli Has Earned a License to Chill
Back in the mid-’70s, a teenage Barbara Broccoli was working her first job in the entertainment industry as an intern for The Hollywood Reporter. At the time, things were looking dismal for women in the industry, even though on-the-rise executive Sherry Lansing was forging her path. THR was being run by another trailblazer, publisher Tichi […]
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John McAfee Film in the Works From ‘Plot Against the President’ Director (Exclusive)
Amanda Milius’ AMDC Films has acquired film and TV rights to Mark Eglinton’s upcoming book No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes. AMDC Films is developing a feature narrative film as well as a companion documentary based on the book, which features hours of taped interviews with the late anti-virus software pioneer whose death in June […]
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Hollywood Warms to Saudi Arabia’s Money Again
In April 2018, Hollywood power players gave the royal treatment to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, jockeying for a chance to tap into the country’s $500 billion Public Investment Fund and expanding market share. But in the wake of the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi six months later — a crime […]
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Why Streamers Are Stalling on Sharing Data
Back in 2019, WarnerMedia struck a deal for its soon-to-launch streaming platform HBO Max that secured exclusive domestic streaming rights to The Big Bang Theory for five years. The pact, which sources pegged in the billions, also included an extension of an existing syndication deal with TBS in which the comedy will continue airing on […]
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Hollywood Studio Projects Get Stricter About COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
As studios debate how to handle COVID-19 vaccine resistance, the Biden administration is moving forward with its own mandates that are pushing Hollywood to toe the line. Though a federal court recently halted vaccine and testing requirements for private businesses with 100 or more employees pending review, the White House said Nov. 8 that the […]
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Eight Deaths at Travis Scott Astroworld Concert Include 14-Year-Old, Official Calls for Independent Investigation
A crowd at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston unexpectedly began pushing toward the stage, causing panic and chaos, and leaving eight people dead, including a 14-year-old, authorities said. “There are a lot of unanswered questions,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said Saturday, the day after the tragedy that also left dozens injured. “Over the next […]
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Bob Iger Quietly Working on New Book (Exclusive)
With Bob Iger’s Disney contract expiring Jan. 1, all eyes are on the executive chairman’s next move. Among the wide range of possibilities is writing a follow-up to his memoir, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Iger has […]
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