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I t’s not hard to find James Gunn’s office on the Warner Bros. lot. A huge, glowing Superman “S” symbol beckons from an entrance wall, visible through a glass door from yards away. Gunn, 58, is in his third year as co-CEO of the company’s newly created DC Studios, sharing …

Once you’ve entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s pretty tough to dip back out into the world of a struggling actor. But that’s exactly what Chris Evans is doing in Materialists. The new romantic dramedy from writer-director Celine Song — the follow-up to her soulful 2023 debut Past Lives, which …

As the title of his new memoir — Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success — suggests, Jeff Hiller, 49, did not take the express bus to stardom. Best known as Joel, best friend to Bridget Everett’s Sam on the Peabody Award-winning HBO series Somebody Somewhere, …

E va Victor is carrying a ludicrously capacious bag. When I can’t help but reference the now memed-to-death Succession bit, Victor juts out their jaw and says, in a pitch-perfect Tom Wambsgans impression, “Shiv.” I’m relieved, if not surprised, that Victor got the reference. The actor-writer-director, who is 31 and …

The prevailing initial state of the two actors tasked with portraying Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus in Alex Ross Perry’s multifaceted, genre-warped film Pavements was, reasonably, confusion. Pavements — which releases in theaters across North America June 6 — is nominally, and for the most part, a documentary. It follows Pavement …

F orty-one years ago, Ralph Macchio landed the role of a bullied high school student who learns karate from his apartment building’s handyman in The Karate Kid. Few people involved with the movie thought they were creating a mega-blockbuster, but it wound up grossing an astounding $130.8 million on a …

For legendary director and outspoken Democratic donor Rob Reiner, choosing sides between Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump in their current war of words didn’t require much deliberation.“Bruce Springsteen is a hundred percent right,” he says, in an interview for an upcoming print issue of Rolling Stone. “I mean, you have …

Three weeks ago, I received an email from Amy Gravitt, the head of comedy at HBO. She was wondering if I wanted to sit down and talk with her and Nathan Fielder about the new season of The Rehearsal. This was something I very much did not want to do. …

The Better Sister tells two stories about two different sets of siblings, one fictional, one real. Officially, the Prime Video series (premiering May 29) is an adaptation of the 2019 novel by Alafair Burke, about a pair of estranged siblings,played by Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks, reuniting when one’s husband …

I n his twenties, the comedian, director, and actor Mike Birbiglia learned to play the guitar because of its theatrical simplicity. “I always admired people who could walk into a bar and just… that’s the show,” he tells me. He liked the idea of not having to tech beforehand. No …