Josh Rottenberg covers the film business for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked as a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, and his work has also appeared in the New York Times, Fast Company and other publications. A graduate of Harvard University, he has played laser tag with Gary Coleman, taken a road trip in a snow storm with Will Ferrell, smoked a peace pipe with Lisa Bonet, and conducted a career-spanning interview with Kermit the Frog.
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Adam Mason, director of several low-budget horror movies, teamed with Michael Bay to make “Songbird,” in which the world faces a mutated coronavirus.
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Amid mystery about next year’s Oscars, the academy announced Tuesday that the show will be produced by Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins.
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With his documentary “76 Days,” Hao Wu offers a deeply personal look at what happened in Wuhan hospitals at the height of China’s COVID-19 crisis. He explains how he made the movie.
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Vince Vaughn’s return to R-rated comedy is also a rare venture into horror. The gender-swapping role scared him, which is why he did it.
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Christopher Nolan and Tom Shone discuss “The Nolan Variations,” Shone’s new book on the famously elusive “Tenet” director’s influences.
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Longtime publicist and advertising executive Maurice Segal, who worked on such films as “Some Like it Hot” and “The Misfits,” has died.
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Across social media Saturday, Daniel Craig and others reacted to news of the death of Scottish actor Sean Connery, best known for playing Agent 007.
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The story behind Rudy Giuliani’s cringe-inducing scene in the “Borat” sequel, which he calls “a hit job.” The film starts streaming on Amazon this week.
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Good news for Disney+ subscribers but more bad news for theater owners: The Pixar film “Soul” is heading for a streaming release on Dec. 25.
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With this weekend’s limited release of “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Netflix is making its first robust return to theaters since the pandemic struck. What’s at stake for the streamer and the industry as a whole.