Hollywood is covered here as an industry remaking itself in real time. The stories trace two pressures at once: technology, as A24's Google AI partnership exposes the taste-versus-tech dilemma and the OpenAI drama Artificial becomes awards material at Neon; and format, as microdramas and vertical video turn phone-first storytelling into a mainstream talent pipeline. Franchise culture gets equal scrutiny, from Vin Diesel turning Fast Forever's patience into the main story to Jesse Eisenberg's Social Reckoning refusal, Madonna's collapsed biopic, and the analysis of why sanitised biopics have become the safest event-cinema bet.
Vin Diesel's set message confirms the final Fast and Furious film is grinding towards 2028 — and shows how legacy franchises now manage fan trust.
Searches for Sylvester Stallone surged in the UK on Friday as the 80-year-old’s account of the years before Rocky landed in bookshops. Here is what the book actually says.
A New York judge sentenced the former Miramax head over a first-degree criminal sexual act against former production assistant Miriam Haley.
The Prince and Princess of Wales joined Tom Cruise and the Digger cast at the Royal Film Performance world premiere in London.
Luca Guadagnino's film about the 2023 OpenAI crisis, dropped by Amazon MGM, has been acquired by Neon with a release and awards push planned this year.
Eisenberg says he no longer wants to be associated with Mark Zuckerberg, leaving Jeremy Strong to redefine the role in Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning.
Major studios, streamers and creator-led companies are moving into short vertical dramas, a format once treated as a social-video sideshow but now drawing serious investment.
Phone-native creators are being watched more closely by agents, studios and producers as vertical storytelling starts to influence mainstream development.
The singer says the Universal-backed project, once set to star Julia Garner under her own direction, fell apart over money and creative authorship, with even a cost-cutting shoot in Serbia failing to save it.
A reported research partnership between A24 and Google DeepMind has stirred fan backlash and sharpened questions about how prestige studios should handle AI tools.
The former England captain was honoured in Los Angeles by wife Victoria Beckham and longtime friend Tom Cruise, as the city geared up for the World Cup.
Music and celebrity biopics may frustrate critics, but estate-approved versions of famous lives are proving increasingly useful to studios hunting reliable box office.