The Hollywood Reporter

The all-new Hollywood Reporter offers unprecedented access to the people, studios, networks and agencies that create the magic in Hollywood. Published weekly, the oversized format includes exceptional photography and rich features.

The Hollywood Reporter

AN HOMAGE TO SIDNEY POITIER, WHO OPENED THE WORLD’S EYES TO OUR HUMANITY

THR Photographers Remember Their Shoots With ‘Cinematic Royalty’

Heat Index

In the Wilderness: Will The CW Be a Streaming Wars Casualty? • If Nexstar seals a deal for a majority stake in the WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS broadcaster, insiders speculate the programming strategy may shift toward politics and reruns

Should Roku Investors Be Worried? • A yearlong stock drop, the loss of its platform chief and fierce competition from Google may have some shareholders uneasy, even if the hardware firm has plenty of room for growth

Late Night Sails On Amid COVID Surge • Live audiences were the first to go, but shows have forged ahead with a mix of in-studio and remote guests in January

This Is Us’ Final Debut

N.Y. Times’ M&A: Lots of Mixed Results • A look at the paper’s deals as it spends big for The Athletic — part of an overall strategy to hit 10M paying subscribers by 2025

Twitter’s New Marketing Pitch to Studios • Disney, Warner Bros. and Sony are trying out promotion of tentpole movies on accounts run and managed by the social media giant — for free, with a catch

TV News’ Hiring Spree Heats Up as Priorities Shift • MSNBC and CNN are enlisting high-profile outsiders to work on both their linear channels and streaming, while Fox News promoted a popular regular

The Playlist • Podcast and audio news worth following

Critics — and the Much-Criticized HFPA — Weigh In • A flurry of awards dropped in the first week of the year, with SAG Award noms coming Jan. 12

WELCOME BACK TO VIRTUAL MARKETS: SUNDANCE AND BERLIN BUYERS SCRAMBLE

Fragile Box Office Sends Sing 2 Home Earlier

Rights Available! • Hot new books with Hollywood appeal

$12.7B • Deal value of Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive’s Jan. 10 acquisition of Words With Friends social gaming giant Zynga.

Mason Gooding • The son of Cuba Gooding Jr. lands his biggest project, the new Scream

What’s New in Telluride, Vail and Breckenridge • Where to eat (think on-slope snow cabanas), stay and even ice-climb with pro athletes in three top Colorado ski resorts this winter

Yes, I Did Say That! • A look at who’s saying what in entertainment

Did I Really Say That?

Rambling Reporter

Red Carpet

Power Dining

Hitched, Hatched, Hired • Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

1956-2022 Bob Saget • George Wallace fondly recalls his fellow comic, who died suddenly Jan. 9 in Orlando, Florida, as someone who ‘found humor in darkness’

Why the Streamers are (Finally) Investing in Africa • The continent is generating a frenzy of localized content as giants like Netflix and Disney+ battle to gain a foothold in a market that has long been ignored: ‘There’s a lot of room for growth’

Omicron Another Bummer for Awards-Season Box Office • Before the pandemic, theatrical distributors of all sizes could count on a huge bump between the Oscar noms and the Academy Awards telecast — but not this year

Compton to Country Clubs, a Visual Journey • Production designers Wynn Thomas and William Arnold conveyed the arc of Venus, Serena and the rest of the Williams family through the evolving look of King Richard

The Rise of Hollywood’s Vinyl District • Located near the Cinerama Dome (due to reopen this year), a mini-neighborhood has welcomed five boutique hotels (three in the past five months) and is drawing...