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How Donald Trump Will War With Hollywood While Swiping All Its Tricks
No president has ever relied as much on the operating principles of the entertainment business. And none has ever had such a fraught relationship with it.
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Whatever Its Fate, TikTok Transformed Hollywood Forever
There's no putting the genie back in the bottle no matter how Donald Trump's executive order plays out.
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The Long, Emotional Road To Rebuilding Mental Health After The Fires
Getting Altadena and the Palisades functioning again is hard. Reconstructing shattered selves is Herculean.
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How the 2025 Oscars Could Save Los Angeles (and Themselves)
Awards shows are in a frenzy trying to figure out how to meet this fast-changing fires moment. Here's one way.
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Meet Hollywood’s Biggest Animation Advocates. (They’re Not Who You Think They Are)
From Dan Fogelman to Sian Heder, top personalities in Hollywood argue that movies like 'Inside Out 2' and 'The Wild Robot' are positively changing the culture.
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How the L.A. Wildfires Are Becoming a Conspiracy-Theorists’ Haven — and a Political Weapon
The fires are causing massive physical devastation. The social media response to them could be destroying democracy.
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Maren Morris Says the Country Music Business Was Diminishing Her Voice
The "Kiss The Sky" singer gets candid as she moves to new altitudes.
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No Man Born After 1990 Has Won an Acting Oscar. Could This Be the Year That Changes?
A generational battle looms at the Academy Awards, with millennials like Timothée Chalamet and Ariana Grande facing off against Gen X geezers. But this time the kids have the edge.
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Filmmaker Who Produced Ron Howard’s ‘Rebuilding Paradise’ Says Her House and Work All Burned Down in the Palisades Fire
Tracy Droz Tragos is now tragically living what she once documented.
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James Mangold in, Coralie Fargeat and Denis Villeneuve Out as 2025 DGA Awards Nominations Are Revealed
The 'Complete Unknown' director sees his Oscar odds increase
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Hollywood Has Long Been Interested in the Other — But It’s Especially Preoccupied This Year
How ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Wicked’ and other contenders channel film history.
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The Salvation for an Overlooked Oscar Category? ‘The New Yorker’
How the revered magazine is redeeming documentary shorts.
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