More from Benjamin Svetkey
The Coming AI Apocalypse? Hollywood’s Been There, Done That
From Cylons to Skynet, movies and TV shows have spent decades imagining what would happen if machines decided humans were just too annoying to keep around.
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‘Star Trek’ at 60: ‘Strange New Worlds’ Co-Creator Akiva Goldsman on Why It Keeps Boldly Going
The lifelong Trekkie talks to The Hollywood Reporter about the franchise's six-decade staying power, how its message of "interspecies collaboration" still matters and why he believes the next generation will keep tuning in (even though he can't get his own kids to watch).
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Los Angeles Showed Its True Colors After Sept. 11
In the wake of the attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, Hollywood studios were barricaded, movie releases postponed and patriotic street art unfurled as L.A. stood in solidarity with New York.
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‘Outer Banks’ Star Madelyn Cline Is Entering Uncharted Waters
Netflix has turned plenty of young actors into overnight sensations. Turning them into movie stars has proved trickier. But with a Johnny Depp thriller and a Judd Apatow comedy on deck, this one is heading straight for that perilous crossing.
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How ‘The Shards’ Blew Up at HBO — and Ended Up in Ryan Murphy’s Hands
After it imploded at the WB streamer, author Bret Easton Ellis swore off television. But the provocative, camp-loving uber-producer had other ideas for the book at FX.
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Relax, Hollywood, Nikki Finke Didn’t Write a Memoir
Reports of an unpublished manuscript spread fear and loathing. The truth turns out to be far less terrifying — and, perhaps, far less publishable.
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Helloooo, Emmy: Art Carney’s Enduring ‘Honeymooners’ Triumph
Jackie Gleason may have ruled the Kramden household, but Carney’s turn as Ed Norton earned the sitcom’s only Emmy.
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‘Yellowjackets’ Made Sophie Thatcher a Star. Then Things Got Weird
Since that fateful plane crash on Showtime's hit survival drama, the 25-year-old actress has been making one left turn after another, playing killer fem-bots, getting kidnapped by Hugh Grant, and now starring in an inscrutable Danish sci-fi art film that earned her a 12-minute standing ovation. She must be doing something right.
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The “Plot” Against President Trump?
No, not the one to supposedly steal an election — the one by ABC and NBC to keep his "big news" primetime address off their airwaves
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The One PBS Show That Trump Hasn’t (Yet) Killed
'The Open Mind,' now celebrating its 70th year on the public airwaves, defies all the odds — by keeping its conversation serious, civil and gloriously egg-headed.
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It Was Her First-Ever Audition Tape. She Landed a Lead on ‘The White Lotus’
Marissa Long, a 26-year-old first-time actress from Tulsa, has a major role on HBO's obsessively guarded prestige series. She just can't tell you who she's playing, what happens or if she survives it.
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Kill Him, Recast Him, or Send Him Upstairs? What ‘MobLand’ Should Do With Tom Hardy
With Hardy reportedly out after season two, the Paramount+ show faces an old TV problem: How to keep a series alive after a major actor abruptly exits midstream.
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