Blake Lively had taken what must be unprecedented action against her recent co-star, Justin Baldoni. Following months of speculation regarding a feud between the actor and the actress — who played the lead roles this year in the film It Ends With Us — Lively filed a lawsuit this week against Baldoni for sexual harassment. … Read more
Meghan Markle’s longtime biographer, Omid Scobie, has made a permanent move to Los Angeles in search of the “Hollywood dream,” according to a report. Scobie’s latest business venture — a book and TV project titled “Royal Spin” — has been sold to Universal TV for a series development, the Daily Mail reports. As a result, … Read more
The Stiff Peaks writing studio, designed by Chris Skeens and Ben Warwas, features a hidden rooftop deck that offers views of downtown Los Angeles. (Taiyo Watanabe) When filmmaker and poet Jane Stephens Rosenthal purchased her 1905 Craftsman-inspired house in Elysian Heights in 2013, she was particularly charmed by the backyard’s idiosyncratic hand-built structures. The previous … Read more
I landed in Los Angeles with my 10- and 12-year-old daughters in December 2013. After a couple of very hard years in my hometown of Rio de Janeiro, I decided to take them to California during their summer break from school. I wanted to show them the L.A. enchantment that I remembered from my 20s … Read more
Hollywood loves directors who start small and go big. After Christopher Nolan made his first American film, “Memento,” for $9 million, he popularized the now-familiar path from art house to studio lot by helming the $2.5-billion-grossing “Dark Knight” trilogy, followed by last year’s big-budget best picture winner, “Oppenheimer.” Three years ago, Chloé Zhao won an … Read more
‘The Brutalist’ producers are betting on a 3.5-hour independent Adrien Brody film About halfway through the 3½-hour drama “The Brutalist,” the narrative stops for a 15-minute intermission, complete with a countdown clock. It’s reminiscent of the sweeping Hollywood films of the past. “Gone With the Wind,” “The Ten Commandments” and “Lawrence of Arabia” all had … Read more
Entertainment pictures of the year For the past 12 months our photographers have roamed hotel rooms, celebrity homes and even hideaways of the Hollywood Bowl in search of transcendent shots of Hollywood and arts figures in their element. The selections that follow represent just a smattering of their diverse offerings in 2024 — and in … Read more
No two filmmakers travel the same path to their chosen profession. RaMell Ross has traveled one unlike that of almost anyone else to direct his lauded feature debut, “Nickel Boys.” Before adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was a documentarian, and before that a photographer. His initial desire to pick up a camera was, … Read more
How Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson got under each other’s skin for ‘A Different Man’ When Adam Pearson was young, he rubbed elbows with celebrities. “I was at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, one of the best pediatric institutes in the world,” he recalls of the London facility, “and they often had famous people come … Read more
The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Joy (Nicola Couglan) in “Doctor Who Christmas Special: Joy to the World,” premiering Christmas Day on Disney+. (Disney+) On Christmas Day in Great Britain, after the presents have been unwrapped, the crackers cracked and the figgy pudding done away with, the people have traditionally turned to television, where major series … Read more
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