The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)

Heavy Is the Crown

At the height of his reign, renowned author George R.R. Martin gets candid about his anticipated Game of Thrones prequel, the jousting over his expanding empire and his never-ending struggle to finally finish his long-dormant saga.

Afterburn

A year after the devastating L.A. wildfires, entire neighborhoods remain cloaked in rubble, but the city has mostly moved on. By Matthew Specktor PLUS Costume designer Colleen Atwood on her melted Oscars. And why the blazes haven’t made it to the...

Roy Lee, Hollywood’s $9 Billion Man

The low-key hitmaker behind A Minecraft Movie, Weapons and The Long Walk has spent 25 years making upward of 100 films, all while avoiding the trappings of a Hollywood power player. We hear from THR’s Producer of the Year in a rare interview.

“I love to write by myself. I love to be in my bed. That’s where I think I write the best.”

Hayley Williams, who teamed with David Byrne on the song “Open the Door”

Glam Slam! The Top 25 Beauty Moments in 2025

THR’s portfolio of the queens (and kings — looking at you, Jacob Elordi) who reigned on the red carpet, and the hair and makeup maestros who crowned them.

The Next Gen Class of 2025

THR’s annual list of rising stars has always celebrated Hollywood’s best and brightest. Even at a time when the industry is not at its best or brightest, these 35 executive talents and eight actors are filling movie theaters and stocking streamers —...

“I just kept saying, ‘Trust me, Adam knows how to stare dopily at someone and so do I, and that’s kind of all you need.’ ”

Kristen Bell, on trying to convince producers that Adam Brody would be her perfect co-star in Nobody Wants This

The Age of Influence

No longer able to beat the creator class, Hollywood is pivoting to work with (and for) the digital A-list — even as AI uncertainty looms for both.

State of the Grammy Race

With fewer megastars dominating the charts, the industry confronts a crossroads: less spectacle, more substance and maybe — just maybe — a little more soul.

Quentin Tarantino (center) with Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of their 2019 film. “What Quentin did was so spectacular. … No CGI — every fucking storefront was transformed. It was like I was a kid again.”

Rick, how are you doing with getting Hollywood Boulevard for me?” Quentin asked his location manager, Rick Schuler. “I’m doing well,” Schuler replied. Quentin looked at his first assistant director, Bill Clark, and looked at Schuler. “Doing well” was...

Yes, Chase Infiniti Is Her Real Name

The actress, who plays Leonardo DiCaprio’s butt-kicking kid in Paul Thomas Anderson’s action epic One Battle After Another, swaps combat boots for Fall 2025’s boldest designer looks — and revisits some of the San Fernando Valley locations immortalized...

“You put a bunch of crabs in a pot, no water, but the heat is on. Who’s going to win the fight to the top?”

Anonymous production assistant, on the increasingly competitive landscape

STILL STANDING

Amanda Knox and Monica Lewinsky on surviving scandal (and making a show about it)

Everybody Likes Ike

Whether he’s playing Elon Musk or an exec on The Studio, Ike Barinholtz — former Improv actor, current Netflix sitcom creator, THR’s Comedy Player of the Year — has the town simultaneously cringing and rolling in the aisles.

Show Your Work

As celebrities proudly flaunt their facelifts and boob jobs, THR explores the bold new frontiers of cosmetic enhancement — from robots to salmon sperm. PLUS The Doctor Is In: The top 40 aesthetic doctors in New York and Los Angeles.

STEVE BANNON’S MYSTERIOUS EPSTEIN TAPES

Who really owns those missing 15 hours?

Grand Old Party

Before he became editor of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter was seen in Hollywood as a suspicious outsider, barred from Swifty Lazar’s famous Oscar night ball. An excerpt from a new book on the history of Condé Nast reveals how Carter seduced the town, took...

Jonathan Bailey Blows Up

In a Hollywood struggling to mint new movie stars, the fast-rising actor has been anointed by the people who matter — the rabid fans who have fallen for him in Bridgerton, Wicked and even Richard II. Will he bring them to Jurassic World Rebirth and...

WHAT’S SO FUNNY?

But somehow Adam Brody, Ted Danson, John Mulaney, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and Julio Torres keep us laughing anyway

Michelle Williams

It’s great when nobody gives a shit about what you’re doing.”

‘An Expensive Inside Joke’: How The Studio Won Over Hollywood

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on cold-calling A-listers for their Apple TV+ showbiz comedy, their wish for Ted Sarandos to get a guest actor Emmy nomination and the one surprising stipulation of filming in Las Vegas.

London Calling!

As L.A. soundstages sit empty, fat tax incentives and Trumpian turmoil are turning Britain’s capital into the new Hollywood — a mecca for streamers, studios and stars.

VOLATILITY BITES

Why Hollywood is terrified of tariffs

Joe ‘Tactical’ Rests His Case

With the brawling courtroom style showcased in his winning defense of A$AP Rocky, Joe Tacopina has become one of the world’s most sought-after trial attorneys (just ask his client Donald Trump). “He may be the best cross-examiner I’ve ever seen.”

JONATHAN MAJORS’ MOMENT of TRUTH

Speaking for the first time since his domestic violence sentencing, the embattled Magazine Dreams actor opens up about his childhood abuse, Marvel firing and struggle for Hollywood redemption

THR’s 2025 Power Stylists: 7 Covers

Cynthia Erivo and stylist Jason Bolden Photographed Feb. 23 in Los Angeles. On Erivo: Archival Givenchy Couture by Alexander McQueen gown. On Bolden: Saint Laurent suit; his own T-shirt, jewelry.

A Party That Was Stranger Than Fiction

It was the wildest Oscar bash ever. Courtney Love tried to bludgeon someone with Quentin Tarantino’s statuette, a mugger crashed the premises to hide from police — and that wasn’t even as crazy as it would eventually get for its host, Harvey Weinstein,...

Ariana Ascends

Despite a little detour as one of the biggest pop icons on the planet, the Wicked star says she’s only now realizing her deepest ambition — unapologetic theater nerd: “People are seeing me — like, actually

Ben Stiller Takes Control

Though he’s finally fulfilling his longtime auteurist ambitions with Severance, the Apple TV+ series about characters who surgically separate their work selves and home selves, for the obsessively perfectionist actor and director, those two worlds...

Harris Is Burning

Thanks to his smoldering seduction of Nicole Kidman in Babygirl and potential career-making role as John Lennon in Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles series, Harris Dickinson is Hollywood’s new “It” boy. Is he ready for all the love?

What We Lost

A church that helped save hundreds of souls from addiction, the Wizard of Oz piano, a favorite local restaurant and a Black neighborhood steeped in lore: The cultural and community losses from the Palisades and Eaton fires are incalculable.

Karla Sofía Gascón

“The brighter the light is, the darker the shadows are. And I am public enemy number one right now in the world for many people.”

2024 BOX OFFICE REPORT CARD

It could have been worse!

Ryan Reynolds Multitasks Like a Mofo

Whether punching up lines in Deadpool & Wolverine or conceiving an ad with Travis Kelce, the star, marketer and THR Producer of the Year made the antihero threequel the most successful R-rated film in history: “I work best when it goes beyond working...

Notes on Camp

Want to win an Oscar? Then you should get to know Colleen Camp. The impeccably connected, impossibly energetic 71-year-old actress who portrayed Miss May in Apocalypse Now has become the town’s awards-season secret weapon: “She has this cosmic swirl.”

THE NEXT GEN

The rising stars, ascendant execs and viral influencers leading Hollywood through transformative times

THR Titan: Jon M. Chu

The director of Wicked reveals his secret sauce: being a super fan (he’s seen the show 12 times) and an obsession with the craft ever since his bar mitzvah moviemaking days. He also talks about the Crazy Rich Asians sequel, why In the Heights didn’t...

Stuck.

The 25 Best Places to Work in Entertainment (Yes, They Still Exist) Salary Breakdown! Who Makes How Much (And How to Make More)

We’ve Always Lived in Fear

McCarthy-era paranoia. Post-9/11 trauma. The AIDS epidemic. Horror movies have relentlessly reflected our collective fears … and spun them into box office gold. PLUS The 50th anniversary of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, top horror directors reveal their...

‘When the Trad Wife Life Didn’t Work Out’

TikTok’s tradwives paint a rosy picture of their roles as traditional homemakers in service to their husbands. Other content creators — self-proclaimed former tradwives and stayat-home moms who reject the label — tell a vastly different story.

The Queens Gambit

Robert De Niro, developer Adam Gordon and superstar Danish architect Bjarke Ingels raised a billion dollars to build a massive vertical studio in Astoria, across the river from Manhattan. THR gets the first tour.

Kathy Griffin Is Ready for Her Comeback. Are You?

Seven years after that photo and a dump truck’s worth of drama later, the celebrity-skewering D-List comic is on the road again, unafraid of assassination jokes and seemingly back in Hollywood’s good graces … now, if she could only sell her damn comedy...

ALL EYES ON Angelina

The elusive actress reemerges with an impassioned and personal performance as opera diva Maria Callas and a new film she directed about life after trauma: ‘When I feel something deeply, I jump’

Will Italy’s Right Wing Take Revenge on the Festival?

Two years into her reign as Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni’s far-right administration has targeted cultural institutions to “liberate” them from the left. Insiders worry that the world’s oldest film festival may be next. PLUS Why Jon Watts...

Demi Goes There

Never one to shy away from sharing her personal demons, Demi Lovato now steps behind the camera for Hulu documentary Child Star — asking subjects from Drew Barrymore and Christina Ricci to Kenan Thompson and JoJo Siwa to get intimate about their own...

SELLING CELEBRITY The industry ’ s biggest brand builders

Many Men Come for Hollywood. 50 Cent Conquered It

Against all odds, the rapper has launched an empire that includes a dozen shows, his own studio, even a Netflix doc on nemesis Sean Combs — without softening his edge or hustle.

Living La Vida López

Eugenio López left Mexico City 30 years ago to sell guava juice for his dad. Today the flamboyant beverage billionaire is the most influential patron of L.A.’s art scene — and host of the most star-studded bacchanals on both sides of the border.