How a journeyman actor became a star.

What’s actually happening at the box office.

“Three giant telecoms are gonna make and own all the content, and they’re not gonna want anyone else to make it.”

On a century of Muslim misrepresentation in Hollywood.

On growing up in Hollywood, the cost of beating Oprah at the Oscars, and why Jack Nicholson doesn’t act anymore.

The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.

A profile of Elaine May, one the most important figures in American pop cultural history—and one of the most hidden.

A profile of reality-TV star Jax Taylor.

As early as 1948, the Oscars sucked.

The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.

When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood’s most powerful institution.

Ezra Miller is the gender-bending, goat delivering Hollywood star of the future.

After two decades spent making movies, including last year’s record-
breaking Girls Trip, Malcolm D. Lee wishes he could stop paying his dues.

A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.

She calls claiming to be Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, or some other powerful woman in entertainment. She knows personal details about her mark as well as the woman she is impersonating.

She offers work, then sends them—photographers, make-up artists, soldiers—around the world to bilk them out of modest amounts of cash.

How a Hollywood icon found himself at a dead end.

How the rapper smuggled his radical anticapitalism into his new film Sorry to Bother You.

Studios want to hire kids with genuine depth, but the system in place to protect child actors isn’t equipped if their lives go perilously downhill.

A profile of Spears at her nadir.

On the star who is re-writing the rules for the next generation.

How Hollywood peddles propaganda.

A star explodes.

A visit to the set of Lost Highway, minus an actual interview with the director.

Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.

Charles D. King tries to change the entertainment landscape.