Critic’s Notebook: A Flat Nate Bargatze and a Lame Time-Saving Gag Upstage Worthy Winners at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards

Critic’s Notebook: A Flat Nate Bargatze and a Lame Time-Saving Gag Upstage Worthy Winners at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards

Given that I live in Los Angeles and work for an entertainment industry trade publication, I’m not supposed to admit this, but much of the country — not “most” but probably more than “some” — has a particular perception about Hollywood. Writers and directors and producers and movie stars, you sometimes hear, live in a…

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Watch The Hollywood Reporter’s Full, Uncensored Comedy Actor Roundtable

Watch The Hollywood Reporter’s Full, Uncensored Comedy Actor Roundtable

Stick the stars of six top comedies around a table for an hour, and it becomes increasingly impossible to keep composure. At least, that was the case for The Hollywood Reporter’s latest Comedy Actor Emmy roundtable, featuring Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This), Ted Danson (A Man on the Inside), John Mulaney (Everybody’s Live), Seth Rogen (The Studio), Jason Segel (Shrinking) and Julio Torres (Fantasmas). The rollicking conversation…

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Seth Rogen Spills on Real-Life Inspirations Behind ‘The Studio’: “I’ve Been Yelled at Three Times in the Last Week”

Seth Rogen Spills on Real-Life Inspirations Behind ‘The Studio’: “I’ve Been Yelled at Three Times in the Last Week”

Seth Rogen is dishing on some of the real-life inspirations behind The Studio, including Steve Asbell and a Golden Globes moment. During a recent appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the star, co-creator and director of Apple TV+’s new Hollywood satire opened up about the show and his character Matt Remick. “In the…

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#‘Dumb Money’ Review: Paul Dano and Pete Davidson in Craig Gillespie’s Entertaining GameStop Stock Comedy

#‘Dumb Money’ Review: Paul Dano and Pete Davidson in Craig Gillespie’s Entertaining GameStop Stock Comedy

Movies about the financial markets inevitably have the same problem. It simply isn’t that visually compelling watching people stare at their computers or phones and muttering expletives. Adam McKay’s The Big Short managed to avoid the pitfall thanks to its truly memorable characters and such stylistic flourishes as having Margot Robbie explain complicated financial concepts…

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#Box Office: ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead (Again), ‘Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Capsizes With .5M

#Box Office: ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead (Again), ‘Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Capsizes With $6.5M

Barbie continues to bedazzle everything in its path. The Warner Bros. blockbuster grossed an estimated $33.7 million at the Aug. 11-13 box office in North America, the ninth-biggest fourth weekend of all time, ahead of Spider-Man: No Way Home ($32.6 million) and not far behind The Avengers ($36.7 million), not adjusted for inflation. Barbie easily…

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