Kara Young is not feeling scared, exactly — in fact, she doesn’t know the words for this moment at all. “I have all the feelings, but I don’t know how to even describe them,” she says, mere hours out from going back on stage for a performance of her current Broadway play, Proof. “This is…
Tim Simons, who graduated from the University of Maine in 2001, is living a dream that first took root in Orono through college theater. That spark has led to an impressive and growing resume as a working actor in both film and television. Notable credits include playing Jonah, an obnoxious White House liaison, in the…
Advanced Real Estate has acquired a two-property luxury multifamily portfolio in the heart of Hollywood from Kilroy Realty Corporation for an undisclosed price. The Irvine-based company bought the 200-unit Sky Hollywood at 550 N. El Centro Ave., just a block from Larchmont and Paramount Pictures, and the 193-unit Jardine Hollywood towers at 6390 De Longpre…
Iranian American actor Anthony Azizi says the continuing Middle East conflict has sparked rising persecution of Iran’s Baha’i minority, including its members being jailed and tortured under the threat of execution. “This a war on human rights and humanity and people who have no rights,” Azizi, a veteran series regular on U.S. dramas like CSI,…
As the 2026 box office finishes its spring run with “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” on top and a controversial Michael Jackson film nabbing a record opening for a biopics, no one can argue that transmedia isn’t a key strategy for Hollywood. Nic Hill, co-founder and chief innovation officer at creative agency Sawhorse Productions, knows…
Activists, filmmakers and actors It began with a dire warning — and a call to arms. In a 2025 panel discussion, Daniel Kwan, one half of the directorial tandem behind Everything Everywhere All at Once, set the existential stakes. “We have to understand that AI is fundamentally incompatible with our institutions,” said Kwan, who called on studios,…
“Chief AI officer” isn’t a classic Hollywood power title like “head of business development” or “social-media crisis manager for when a celeb loses their mind.” But get ready for that to change as more studios and agencies realize they need executives devoted to overseeing AI efforts. Among the first to the campfire is Kathleen Grace….
Back in February, Hollywood received a message from the future: “I hate to say it, but it’s likely over for us.” This came from Wolverine & Deadpool screenwriter Rhett Reese in response to a clip posted on Twitter by the Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson. The AI-generated video, as you’ve almost certainly seen, depicted a fight between Brad Pitt…
For anyone with even the slightest interest in Hollywood, it is not entirely surprising that Anne Hathaway recently appeared on Popcast, the New York Times critics’ podcast that has become a premier destination for music promotion. After all, the actor – whose last appearance in a musical bagged her an Academy Award – is a…
Two weeks before its season two finale, The Pitt hit a milestone: It was No. 1 overall in Nielsen’s streaming rankings. The HBO Max drama was the only streaming show or movie to record more than a billion minutes of viewing for the week of March 30-April 5, coming in at 1.16 billion (down a…