Author: Hollyood rep

There’s a very funny scene in Ron Howard’s frothy 1984 interspecies rom-com, Splash, in which Daryl Hannah, playing a mermaid in Manhattan who swaps her tail for legs, skips out to buy suitable land attire. Given that she emerged from the sea naked, she throws together an outfit from the Tom Hanks character’s closet. The “fish out of water” turns up on a Bloomingdale’s womenswear floor in a men’s black suit, white shirt, black leather derbies and what looks like a school tie. The ensemble instantly brings a horrified saleslady scurrying over: “Oh my God, darling, darling, darling! That outfit…

After a quarter century as a working actor, it’s hardly surprising that Bradley Cooper would be drawn for subject matter to the cathartic nature of performing and its effect on relationships. What’s less expected is that all three of his highly accomplished films as director have used that spark in such different ways. A Star Is Born explored the arc of a couple respectively experiencing the glow of the spotlight and the chill as it dims, while Maestro weighed the creative genius of an impassioned artist against the limited oxygen left for a uniquely complex love story. In Cooper’s tenderly…

In the interest of full disclosure, I like my shipboard murder mysteries with an all-star cast and at least a soupçon of camp. That makes it hard to top the high-water mark of the 1978 Death on the Nile, with the delicious feast of Bette Davis and Maggie Smith swapping acid-tongued barbs and Angela Lansbury in full dotty-eccentric glory; or 1973’s The Last of Sheila, written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim, no less, and featuring the incomparable Dyan Cannon as a stand-in for brash ‘70s Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers. By contrast, Netflix’s The Woman in Cabin 10 takes itself…

Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav on Wednesday announced Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy‘s early renewal for a multi-year deal as co-chair & CEOs of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group. Their deal had not been set to expire until next year. He’s got good reason to keep them happy. Only seven months ago, rumors were rampant that the media mogul was considering replacing them after a string of misses (some were left over from the previous regime, but they were still on the hook). Then came the rebound of all rebounds, beginning in April with A Minecraft Movie, which…

It’s hard to imagine that a man who has been described by Esquire as “the first honest-to-God movie star of his generation” and by Vanity Fair as “the biggest male star since Pitt or Clooney,” and who was chosen as People’s Sexiest Man Alive and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world, would feel anything but immense confidence. But Channing Tatum, on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, insists that he felt “imposter syndrome” throughout his career — until, that is, he completed his latest film, Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, which premiered at last month’s Toronto…