Lego Hires Its First Celebrity Talent Chief: What the Role Says About How Stars Now Sell Brands
Kelsey Gray Sherman's appointment marks a shift from licensing deals to full-time talent relationships inside a toy company.
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Movie Reshoots — Why Movies Get Reshot: How Reshoots and Additional Photography Actually Work
Reshoots are not always a bad sign. Here is how pick-ups, reshoots, and additional photography actually work after a film wraps.
Screencrush — Best Screen Crush Channels: How Film Commentary on YouTube Actually Builds Trust
The formats behind movie-commentary channels, and the signals that separate criticism from hype.
Screen Door Effect Explained: Why Projectors and VR Headsets Show a Faint Grid
The artifact gets its name from a porch screen, and it shows up wherever pixels get stretched large and viewed up close.
Horse Racing Is Back at Hollywood Gaming: How to Plan a Race Day in the Mahoning Valley
A season through April, weekday post times at 12:15 p.m. and some new Sundays: what a first-time visitor actually needs to know.
Hollywood Filming Locations: Hollywood's Iconic Filming Locations You Can Actually Visit
The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. Built in 1893, the five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork.
Inside the Hollywood Bowl: Insider Tips for First-Timers
The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre and public park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. It was named one of the ten best live music venues in the United States by Rolling Stone magazine in 2018 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
Hollywood Walk of Fame: How Stars Get Their Star
A Walk of Fame star takes a nomination, a selection committee, city sign-off, and a large fee. Here is how stars get their star on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Before the Book, the Band: Victoria Unikel’s Two Decades of Dark Music
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Reshoots are not always a bad sign. Here is how pick-ups, reshoots, and additional photography actually work after a film wraps.
Film Score Process: How Film Composers Score a Movie, From Temp Track to Final Mix
Film composers work from a temp track to a spotting session to a short writing window and a final recording. Here is how a movie score gets made, step by step.
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OLEKSANDR GORBATYI: THE NEXT ACT - 20 YEARS OF CREATIVITY AND EXPERIENCE
Published on his birthday, this cover story finds Oleksandr Gorbatyi at an interesting point in his life: more than two decades into a creative career, established enough to know what experience is worth - and curious enough not to let it define what comes next.
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Lego Hires Its First Celebrity Talent Chief: What the Role Says About How Stars Now Sell Brands
Kelsey Gray Sherman's appointment marks a shift from licensing deals to full-time talent relationships inside a toy company.
Before the Book, the Band: Victoria Unikel’s Two Decades of Dark Music
Long before the horror universe and the 140 mastheads, there was a goth-rock record called Exorcist.
Celebrity Look Alike — Celebrity Lookalikes: Why We Love Faces That Resemble Stars
A look-alike, or double, is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance. Some look-alikes have been notable individuals in their own right, such as the actresses Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressley.
How a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Is Chosen: The $275 Application and the $85,000 Fee
Six fixed categories, a June committee vote, a city sign-off and two fees: the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce's own rules for how names reach the sidewalk, with the Class of 2027 as the working example.
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Screencrush — Best Screen Crush Channels: How Film Commentary on YouTube Actually Builds Trust
The formats behind movie-commentary channels, and the signals that separate criticism from hype.
Screen Door Effect Explained: Why Projectors and VR Headsets Show a Faint Grid
The artifact gets its name from a porch screen, and it shows up wherever pixels get stretched large and viewed up close.
Awards
Sound Editing Oscar: How the Oscar Sound Editing and Sound Mixing Branches Split One Craft Into Two Races
The Oscars once honored sound in two races: one for building the sounds, one for balancing them. Here is the difference between the two crafts.
London Film Festival Explained: How to Read Awards Season's Starter Gun
The October stop in London has become the international launch point of the Oscar race. Here is what actually happens there, and how to follow it.
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Movie Reshoots — Why Movies Get Reshot: How Reshoots and Additional Photography Actually Work
Reshoots are not always a bad sign. Here is how pick-ups, reshoots, and additional photography actually work after a film wraps.
Film Score Process: How Film Composers Score a Movie, From Temp Track to Final Mix
Film composers work from a temp track to a spotting session to a short writing window and a final recording. Here is how a movie score gets made, step by step.