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“This is the night! We did it!” people said to each other as they arrived at the Oscars last night. There are two sides of the red carpet: The one everyone sees at home with megawatt stars, and the one behind them where other ticket holders walk up a massive …

The night of the Oppenheimer world premiere last summer, composer Ludwig Göransson was in his home country of Sweden with his wife Serena and some friends. They wanted to check out the film at a local movie theater in the small village where they were staying, but it was packed …

As in Star Wars, Dune has an interplanetary emperor, and as with most similarities between the two universes, it’s probably not a coincidence, given the all-too-obvious influence of Frank Herbert’s novels on George Lucas. But in Denis Vileneuve’s Dune 2, instead of Ian McDiarmid’s lightning-tossing, “unlimited power”-bellowing Palpatine, we get …

To viewers of MTV’s The Challenge, it shouldn’t have been a big surprise that Chris “CT” Tamburello won the second season of the U.S. incarnation of Traitors alongside his longtime Challenge co-competitor Trishelle Cannatella. He’s appeared on 19 seasons of The Challenge and won $1,365,000 — more than any other …

Last summer, as unionized writers and actors were on strike for a combined six months against Hollywood studios, crew members marched and chanted by their side. On Sunday, the chants continued, as thousands of crew workers gathered for a Los Angeles rally ahead of Monday’s bargaining talks with Hollywood studios …

When Tilda Swinton first got the script for Problemista, she wasn’t sure what to make of the character Elizabeth, who the film’s writer-director-star Julio Torres was hoping she would play. Set in New York City, Problemista tells the story of Alejandro, a Salvadorian immigrant who is desperately navigating the brutal …

I n early January, the hosts of Netflix’s feel-good series Queer Eye reunited for what might be the last time at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Through tears and smiles, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan Van Ness proudly raised their long-awaited golden statues. After six …

When production designers Shona Heath and James Price were tasked with designing the dark comedy Poor Things,Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Oscar-nominated movie about a woman whose resurrected with her infant’s brain, they had several key decisions to make. For starters, how would they represent the London mansion, which included the laboratory of …

A lot has changed in Hollywood since Annette Bening was nominated for her first Academy Award, for The Grifters in 1990. “I went to the Academy Awards with [actor] Ed Begley in his electric car. At the time, no one knew what an electric car was, basically. Ed was so …

Developments around the 2005 disappearance of high school teen Natalee Holloway, which led to a media frenzy captivating families across the globe, remained stagnant for more than a decade. Despite the family officially declaring the Alabama teen dead in 2012, her disappearance fueled the cultural canon with true-crime TV programming, …