The affluent L.A. neighborhood, where the director and his wife were found dead inside their home, has been the setting of a number of tragedies

Interviews with dozens of actors, producers and camera crews reveal an industry attempting to weigh the lesser of two horrible choices.

After another wild year for the industry, the women making the biggest impact across film and television reveal their predictions for Hollywood 2026, discuss the perks and pains of AI and even pitch their dream storylines for The Studio.

Hollywood is in a brave new world

Generative AI video technology is not yet good enough for anyone to make an entire feature-length movie. But Bekmambetov felt compelled to try. He adapted The Man With a Shattered World, a book about a young soldier who sustains a traumatic brain injury in battle and the efforts to recover his memories.

Several Hollywood unions, including the Writers Guild of America and Teamsters, have expressed serious concerns over a potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery or its assets to Netflix or Paramount.

The future of Hollywood depends in part on a battle between two Davids: Zaslav, who has agreed to sell Warner Bros. and HBO to Netflix; and Ellison, who has opposed the sale and launched a hostile takeover bid.

A multilayered political thriller, a dark-comedy salute to radical resistance, a ping-pong picaresque and a bluesy vampire tale set in Jim Crow Mississippi are among THR film reviewers’ favorites of the year.