Laugh Began Comic's Career

At the risk of sounding like Nicole Kidman: We all know the feelings that unite an audience in a movie theater. Yet when I went to see the rereleased “Interstellar,” I was struck by a new feeling. Taking my seat in front of the IMAX screen at the AMC Lincoln Square, I was honestly shocked […]

When my late husband, Stanley Kramer, created his own independent film production company in 1947, his goal was to make some level of difference with his work in Hollywood. The first success of that stated direction was the World War II drama “Home of the Brave” in 1949, adapted from Arthur Laurents’ play about anti-Semitism […]

After two years of massive layoffs and the promise of more consolidation to come in media and entertainment in 2025, the mood is bleak among executives of a certain age. The pink-slip bloodbath has hit hard on Gen X veterans in the middle-management ranks of networks, studios, talent agencies and PR firms.

After several delays down the Sony release calendar, the studio’s Marvel spinoff “Kraven the Hunter” is being met by indifference in its arrival to theaters. The antihero actioner earned a feeble $4.7 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,211 locations. That’s behind the $6 million opening day gross of the studio’s “Madame Web,” which […]

“I’m finding out we’re the same person — long-lost cousins,” Drew Starkey says to Harris Dickinson. Though the two have just met, at 31 and 28, they are indeed in the same unusual position: Both play the love interests of far more seasoned movie stars. Starkey was best known for Netflix’s teen drama “Outer Banks” […]

Described by some as “Euphoria” meets “Succession,” Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s “Industry” stakes out territory that is all its own. Driven by exceptional ensemble performances, Season 3 of the drama set in a London investment bank skewered the global financial system, class and the media, while also tackling racism, misogyny, addiction, sexual assault and […]