Universal's total, Oct. 4 -- In the studio system's zero-sum tournament for theatrical dominance, the first to reach $5 billion in a single year earns something more durable than a record: a proof of ... Read More
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26 -- Eight years ago, David Ayer delivered his director's cut of Suicide Squad to Warner Bros. and watched the studio replace it with a version so thoroughly reedited that he has p... Read More
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 -- A federal judge presiding over Hollywood's most consequential business deal in decades made clear on Thursday that the entertainment industry's ambitions would not outpace her... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- The record had already been set. The biggest first week an album had ever produced, by the label's account. The streaming counters had peaked, the presales confirmed, the Billbo... Read More
Thomas, Sept. 25 -- He was the boy who walked away from all of it at sixteen: the fan mail, the magazine covers, the studio calls. On the morning of September 22, Jonathan Taylor Thomas was booked at ... Read More
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- Susan Sarandon has been making the argument for years. On Thursday, the argument came with plastic zip-ties and an NYPD processing tent two blocks from the United Nations buildin... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The Instagram story was four words and two emojis: "23 weeks. Absolutely insane." Ella Langley posted it Tuesday morning before most of Nashville was checking its phone, attachi... Read More
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- Don Draper once left his daughter's birthday party to pick up the cake and came home after dark with a dog instead. It was the third episode of Mad Men, and the show spent seven ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The phone calls went out to thousands of ticket-holders Monday morning. Lionel Richie, 77, would not be taking the stage in San Francisco this Friday. Or Chicago the following T... Read More
NEW YORK, Sept. 23 -- There is a particular symmetry in where Billy Bush has ended up. The man NBC ejected in the fall of 2016, swiftly and with little ceremony, in a move the network would later fram... Read More