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Hollywood Crime Story: The Mob Takes Over the Movies looks back at how criminals insinuated themselves in the film business

Actor Han So-hee in a scene from “The Intern” / Courtesy of Warner Bros. Korea

Christopher Nolan’s epic will be released on Friday across most of the country’s 800 Imax screens, at a time when western films have been struggling

The Spider-Man phenomenon has reached a new high in India. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has officially become the highest-grossing Hollywood film in the country, surpassing the lifetime haul of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water and giving Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios a new benchmark for imported releases.

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As the film industry expands in New Jersey, including a proposed Lionsgate studio in Newark slated to open next year, the metro region is building a reputation as “Hollywood East.’’

Gavin Newsom is clearly auditioning for a bigger stage. But if the California governor is really going to run for president, he’d better hope voters don’t see his blooper reel. There are many bad policy takes, but one of the worst is Newsom’s expansion of Hollywood subsidies. The whole episode is guaranteed to fall flat…

The flight of film and television production out of the United States is usually framed in terms of jobs and dollars. And no wonder: entire careers are evaporating at a nauseating rate, with US film and television production down 40 percent in 2024 from its 2022 peak. What gets less attention is a quieter loss:…

For some celebrities, fame and fortune weren’t enough to keep them in Hollywood forever. These former stars stepped away from the spotlight to pursue unexpected careers, from business ventures to ordinary nine-to-five jobs. Here are 13 celebrities who traded red carpets for surprising new paths.

For a while, mainstream cinema was seen to be shunning sex and sexuality. But a wave of films, from I Want Your Sex to The Invite, are now exploring it in bold and provocative ways.