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Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination! And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 28, 2024 - 5 comments

Roll out the red carpet and welcome your 96th annual Academy Awards thread (with returning host Jimmy Kimmel). The nominees - the betting odds - the late-breaking plagiarism scandal - how to watch
posted by Rhaomi on Mar 10, 2024 - 142 comments

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations. [more inside]
posted by kittensofthenight on Jan 18, 2024 - 1 comment

On the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie ''family'' led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above Los Angeles, a young ex-communicated seminarian arrives with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift - ''the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies'' - tattooed on his head. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero on Nov 28, 2023 - 4 comments

[TRAILER] Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), pampered action superstar, sets out for Southeast Asia to take part in the biggest, most-expensive war movie produced, but soon after filming begins, he and his co-stars, Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), comic Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) and the rest of the crew, must become real soldiers when fighting breaks out in that part of the jungle. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 12, 2022 - 19 comments

Thanks to an answer from Wobbuffet 2 years ago I was finally able to track down a digital copy of this book I vaguely remembered from the late 1980s, and just read it. It is wild and hilarious, an over-the-top satire of Hollywood, full of in-jokes and raunch and gore and drugs. Lots of fun!
posted by chavenet on Dec 3, 2022 - 2 comments

2005, from the back jacket: In this unusually personal book from the star of many beloved and classic film comedies-- from The Producers to Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles to Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory-- Gene Wilder writes about a side of his life the public hasn't seen on the screen. [more inside]
posted by winesong on Oct 6, 2022 - 1 comment

IMDB won't automatically pull up Ryan Murphy's Hollywood on the add a show request page.
posted by BuddhaInABucket on May 5, 2020 - 2 comments

An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jul 16, 2018 - 2 comments

A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jul 11, 2018 - 24 comments

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Mar 4, 2018 - 9 comments

Sandwich Biscuits, Fortune Cookies and a Biscuit Board Game!
posted by GuyZero on Sep 5, 2017 - 20 comments

An acclaimed writer (Greg Kinnear), his ex-wife (Jennifer Connelly), and their teenage children (Lily Collins and Nat Wolff) come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year. (Trailer)
posted by filthy light thief on Jul 3, 2016 - 3 comments

This week.... Donald Trump wins the South Carolina Republican Primary despite a feud with the Pope, and Jeb Bush finishes fourth. Republicans dig in on not confirming whatever replacement Supreme Court Justice Obama nominates. The "Judicial Crisis Network" makes an ad saying Republican senators should not confirm made mostly of smiling faces bought from stock footage sites. Last Week Tonight provides a stock footage rebuttal. How is This Still a Thing: Hollywood whitewashing. This week's main story: breast implants abortion (16m), and the stealth efforts of the right to outlaw it de facto by making it impossible in some states to operate an abortion clinic through the imposition of ridiculously onerous rules. The show finishes up with footage of a bucket of baby slothes -- and one in person, in the studio. Metafilter thread. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Feb 24, 2016 - 8 comments

An ambitious but troubled movie director tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 13, 2016 - 15 comments

A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 4, 2016 - 54 comments

A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 3, 2016 - 23 comments

A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be. [more inside]
posted by Sheydem-tants on Jan 5, 2016 - 8 comments

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. The screenwriter's ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence and madness. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Aug 18, 2015 - 57 comments

This season, You Must Remember This will explore the murders committed in the summer of 1969 by followers of Charles Manson. Today, we'll talk about what was going on in the show business capital that made Manson seem like a relatively normal guy.
posted by Tevin on May 26, 2015 - 6 comments

Walt Disney changed Hollywood and brought millions of children and adults boundless joy. And yet, Disney's legacy is marred by the common perception that he was also a racist, misogynist and anti-semite.
posted by Tevin on Mar 31, 2015 - 3 comments

A Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
posted by ellieBOA on Mar 15, 2015 - 9 comments

This week on Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR Monkey See's Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, Glen Weldon and Bob Mondello discuss Disney's film adaptation of the Broadway musical Into The Woods. Then they'll discuss movie franchises--why do some take off while others never fail to leave the ground? All that, plus What's Making Us Happy.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Jan 14, 2015 - 5 comments

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 6, 2014 - 11 comments

Jessica travels to Hollywood when she learns that producer Jerry Lydecker is making substantial changes to the film version of her book. Jessica isn't the only one who is upset with Lydecker, the hard-nosed businessman who has a knack for alienating everyone around him. Who doesn't want that guy dead? Was there a conspiracy around the murder, or something else?
posted by filthy light thief on Aug 26, 2014 - 7 comments