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.

As early as 1948, the Oscars sucked.

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.

“Way before Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, the enigmatic blonde bombshell was famous for being famous, perpetually driving the streets of Hollywood in that pink Corvette. But her true identity has remained secret all these years … until now.”

Hollywood is aggressively adapting material that doesn’t have a narrative or even any characters. But not all intellectual property is created equal.

How young actors are navigating the new world of opportunities on our ever-shrinking screens.

How a dialect coach does her job.

Over the past 15 years, three people have attempted to restore the humor brand to its former glory. What happened instead was direct-to-video movies, lawsuits, crippling debt, and two prison sentences.

The creators of This is Spinal Tap, the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing. Now they are suing for $400 million.

How Netflix and Amazon upended the movie business.

How Carl Foreman, while tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee, turned a throwaway Western into an allegory for the Hollywood blacklist.

The story of 1982’s Making Love.

Two days with a broken-hearted Tom Hiddleston.

Franklin Leonard’s anonymous survey has launched careers, recognized four of the past eight Best Picture winners, and pushed movie studios to think beyond sequels and action flicks.