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As a young producer, Brian Grazer never stopped selling a mermaid movie, no matter how many times he was told no. In the end, it was his 1984 hit “Splash” that launched his career. He wondered whether he should make 2002’s “8 Mile” with Eminem. A dinner conversation with Tom Hanks gave Glazer the confidence to pursue the Oscar-winning film. The Imagine Entertainment chief shared stories from his early career and thoughts on the future of film and television in a wide-ranging conversation hosted by the Paley Center for Media on February 19 in Beverly Hills as part of the…

Tim McGraw reflects on the most “controversial” songs of his career. In a recent interview on “The Tim Ferriss Show,” the 58-year-old country singer talked about which songs he had to struggle with to get on the album and why it was such a big risk. “I put ‘Indian Outlaw’ on my first album because no one liked it,” he says, when asked for an example of a song, explaining that he thought it was “Lightning in a Bottle.” “The label didn’t like it.[Producer]James Stroud didn’t like it. Byron[Gallimore, his longtime producer and collaborator]liked it, but I couldn’t convince James…

2 minute readrundownOn Friday, February 20th, Olivia Rodrigo celebrated her 23rd birthday in Los Angeles. She was photographed heading to the venue in the perfect pink princess look, wearing a begonia pink Burberry Fitzrovia short trench over a Blumarine strappy white dress made of lace material with detailed pink and silver embroidery.On her feet, she wore pink Jude Haze peep-toe sandals. Rodrigo also carried a vintage silver Chanel Sequin CC Small Double Flap handbag covered in silver and pink sequins. On top of her long hair, she wore a glittering tiara with heart-shaped loops and silver and pink stones. In…

Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy remains a picture-perfect blonde who has it all, lost in time. The Calvin Klein publicist is the epitome of late-’90s downtown New York cool, along with former “Sexiest Man Alive” John F. Kennedy Jr. It’s easy to romanticize this couple, who met a tragic end in 1999 when John lost control of his small plane, as Hulu’s new series Love Story does. Friends who knew Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. say their relationship was not as romantic as it seemed. Getty Images But friends who knew the couple cautioned that their relationship was not always…

KPop Demon Hunters won 10 times at the 53rd Annie Awards, taking home trophies such as Best Picture, Best Character Animation, Best Director, and Best Production Design. The award, considered the animation world’s highest honor, was presented Saturday at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. Hugo Bienvenu’s “Arco” won the independent feature award, while Adult Swim’s “Common Side Effects” and Netflix’s “Love, Death + Robots” led the TV category with four and three wins respectively. “Common Side Effects” won the titles of Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Mature Television/Media, and Best Director, while “Love, Death and Robots” won Best…

“One Battle After Another” led the American Set Decorators Association award winners. Set decorator (Anthony Carlino SDSA) and production design by Florencia Martin, who produced the film, won Best Contemporary Feature Film Decoration/Design, and Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Picture. Other winners include the “Frankenstein” team (Shane Viau SDSA for stage decoration and Tamara Deverell for production design), who won the Best International Organization Award for Decoration/Design for a Fantasy or Science Fiction Movie, and the “Hamnet” team for Best Decoration/Design for a Historical Drama Movie. (Set decoration by Alice Felton SDSA, production design by Fiona Crombie). The award for…

A24 and Lionsgate brought newcomers to the Friday box office with “How to Make a Kill” and “I Can Only Imagine 2,” respectively. However, it was not able to take away the first place. From last week’s champion “Wuthering Heights.” How to Make a Killing debuted at number four on its opening day, grossing $1.6 million from 1,625 theaters in North America. Rivals are hoping the comedy-thriller will gross $3.2 million by Sunday. “How to Make a Killing,” directed by “Emily the Criminal” director John Patton Ford, depicts Beckett Redfellow, played by Glen Powell. Beckett Redfellow is an avenger who…

Willie Colon, the Grammy-nominated architect of urban salsa music and social activist, died Saturday. He was 75 years old. During his decades-long career, the trombonist, composer, arranger, and singer produced more than 40 albums that sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists including Fania All Stars, David Byrne, and Celia Cruz. Willie Colon, the Grammy-nominated architect of urban salsa music and social activist, died Saturday. He was 75 years old. Getty Images His famous collaboration with Rubén Blades, Siembra, became one of the best-selling salsa albums of all time, and the…

“I’m in the pocket. I’m restless and I’m hungry, and I am in the pocket, man.” Timothée Chalamet is outlining his career philosophy at an almost feverish pace before an audience at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication. The UT students have a lot of questions for him, and they’ll get their chance to ask them at this taping of a first-of-its-kind town hall event produced by Variety and CNN, which puts Chalamet in conversation with Matthew McConaughey, a UT alum and professor. The talk, which airs at 7 p.m. on Feb. 21 on CNN and…

In the end, political cinema won out. At the closing ceremony of a Berlin Film Festival blighted by controversy and discourse over the political responsibilities or otherwise of art, German-Turkish filmmaker İlker Çatak lifted the Golden Bear for his bold, statement-making film “Yellow Letters,” a portrait of a married playwright and actress in contemporary Turkey who find themselves targeted by the state for their particular brand of protest theater. It’s a stirring film with a compelling formal twist: Though it’s set entirely in Turkey, it was shot entirely — and without disguise — in Çatak’s home country of Germany, with…