More from Rebecca Keegan
How Michelle Obama’s ‘Later Daters’ Reinvented a Reality Staple: “We’re Telling Everyone’s Story”
The "funny, racy and edgy" unscripted Netflix dating series from Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions reflects the couple's strategy to make content for broad audiences
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In ‘The Brutalist,’ Size Matters
Brady Corbet and Adrien Brody on the maximalist effort behind their story of a minimalist architect: "To try to make something perfect usually requires pushing people to their very limits."
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Nicole Kidman Exposed
The inexhaustible actress — fronting six major projects this year — opens up about her startlingly hypersexual role in 'Babygirl': "This is a place that I haven’t been."
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Resurrecting ‘Rust’: How Alec Baldwin’s Ill-Fated Flick Got Finished
Three years after the movie was struck by tragedy, its director and new cinematographer explain how they battled through trauma, moral objection and their own mixed emotions to finally complete the indie Western.
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Just One of 2023’s Top Films Portrayed an Abortion
Hollywood's highest-grossing films are virtually silent on abortion and many other reproductive health issues, according to new research: "The film industry has squandered its opportunities," says USC's Stacy L. Smith.
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Can Watching Movies Rewire Your Brain?
Revealing new Stanford research finds that when people lose themselves in a story, they become more empathetic. Here’s how it works.
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At the First Ever San Quentin Film Festival, One Filmmaker Wins a Prize — and Parole
A24's 'Sing Sing' and Netflix's 'Daughters' screened alongside films from incarcerated directors at the event, where the red carpet took place in the courtyard below California's recently closed death row, baloney sandwiches were on the menu, and the audience was uniformed in blue.
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Exec Bringing ‘The Apprentice,’ Jonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ to Screens Decries Hollywood’s “Cowardice”
After releasing movies like 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and 'Spotlight' earlier in his career, Tom Ortenberg has never been afraid of controversy. But with distribution deals for the scathing new Trump film and Majors' return, the Briarcliff founder says he's still feeling "needed" in a risk-averse movie industry.
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Where Is Bob Weinstein? Brother of Harvey Answers the Question With Three New Films
A new Danny Trejo horror movie is the first from the producer's Watch This Entertainment, which he founded in 2019 after The Weinstein Co. filed for bankruptcy.
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Why Bumble — Yes, the Dating App — Is Backing a High-Profile Abortion Film
The popular matchmaking app is financing pre-election screenings of ‘Zurawski v Texas,’ a new documentary co-produced by Hillary Clinton about the fight for abortion access in the Lone Star State.
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The Awards Pundits: Feinberg and Keegan on Telluride’s Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows
THR's executive editor (awards) and senior editor (film) discuss 'Conclave' lead Ralph Fiennes, sales title 'September 5,' Netflix's categories dilemma, the controversial 'The Apprentice' and more.
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Telluride: Hillary Clinton Talks ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-Style Abortion Policy at Doc Premiere
Clinton appeared alongside the 'Zurawski v Texas' filmmakers, the plaintiffs in the landmark Texas abortion case the movie depicts and her daughter, Chelsea, at the first screening of the documentary, which her production company backed.
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