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2025 is shaping up to be an exhilarating year for DC Studios. Although ‘Creature Commandos’ is scheduled for release this December, both Gunn and Safran have emphasized that ‘Superman’ will mark the official beginning of the Dcu.

This new cinematic universe introduces a fresh face for Superman. While many fans were upset by Cavill’s departure from the role of the Man of Steel, the first images of Corenswet’s impressive transformation into a superhero swiftly silenced the naysayers.

In a recent interview on the ‘Manly Things (Sort Of)’ podcast, Corenswet discussed his past roles and shared his experiences with bulking up, particularly for the TV series ‘Hollywood.’

The actor revealed that he had very limited time to bulk up and relied on nutritional missteps to gain size quickly.

I just wanted to be bigger. I think I was about to do Hollywood in 2019, or yeah, right before I left it would have been Hollywood…...

The cast of James Gunn’s “Superman: Legacy” has officially assembled in Atlanta, where the group got together for a table read ahead of production. The writer-director marked the occasion by sharing to his Instagram the first full photo of the “Superman: Legacy” cast together.

“After the table read with the ‘Superman’ cast,” Gunn wrote in the caption. “Eve, Mr. Terrific, Superman/Clark, Otis, Lex, producer Peter Safran, Jimmy, Metamorpho, Lois, Hawkgirl, me, Guy, The Engineer all together for the first time! What a wonderful day.”

David Corenswet, a veteran of Ryan Murphy shows such as “Hollywood,” is playing the eponymous superhero opposite “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. Fans might notice Nicholas Hoult sporting a shaved head in the photo, which is appropriate given he’s taking on the role of Superman’s infamous villain Lex Luthor. Also in the picture are Skyler Gisondo...

The Hollywood Commission, the research and advocacy organization chaired by Anita Hill and founded by board members Kathleen Kennedy and Nina Shaw, launched its second entertainment industry survey on Thursday. The survey is designed to probe and address the culture of abuse and power disparity throughout the film and TV industry.

The survey is now live at hollywoodentertainmentsurvey.org, and the Hollywood Commission encourages all members of the community to participate in its anonymous questionnaire. The commission has also expanded its survey’s demographics and will additionally have a focus on people working in the gaming sector.

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The Hollywood Commission launched in 2017 at the height of the #MeToo movement and released its first industry-wide survey in 2020. It polled 9,650 entertainment workers in Hollywood who, at 65, overwhelmingly felt that even in light of calls for reform,...

Ryan Murphy’s new limited series “Hollywood” is about envisioning a filmic landscape more representative of real people. Murphy and co-screenwriter Ian Brennan envision a world where anyone, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation can thrive in entertainment. Their hope is that, by revising history, it makes the viewer think about how different movies (and our conversations about them) can be.

And, yet, there’s a crucial group whose contributions, either within the late-1940s landscape “Hollywood” is set in or in Murphy’s revisionist fairy tale, aren’t acknowledged: the disabled. People with disabilities are commonly ignored from inclusion talks so, sadly, this isn’t particularly surprising in the grand scheme of things. What is surprising is that Murphy, who has placed disabled actors in prominent roles before, ignores the actual strides disabled actors made by 1947-1948 (the year in which “Hollywood” takes place). And to create a...

Movies have always blended fact with fiction. To watch a Hollywood biopic from the 1940s is to realize you’re getting a real-life figure mixed with a heavy dose of romanticism and erasure. It’s the route taken with Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix limited series “Hollywood,” and as actor Darren Criss says, it’s appropriate. “[Hollywood] is the godfather of revision…we’re literally giving Hollywood the Hollywood treatment.”

To Criss’ point, the Hollywood treatment has always been a double-edged sword, one filled with as many fairy tales and happy endings as there are outright omissions and fabrications. But when it comes to the real-life figures Murphy portrays in the series there’s an interesting dichotomy presented, one that’s at times painfully bittersweet as it is completely invented.

For Michelle Krusiec, who portrays Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong, and Jake Picking, who plays Rock Hudson, it was an opportunity...

To talk about Hollywood’s history is to discuss the erasure of minorities, from people of color and women to those in the Lgbtq community. Actress Hattie McDaniel infamously said “I’d rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid,” and, to add insult to injury, when she won her Academy Award for “Gone With the Wind,” she wasn’t allowed to sit in the front row of the auditorium with her fellow nominees. So to watch Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series “Hollywood” is not just to see a reconfigured world where a studio in the late 1940s would take a risk on an actress of color, but it’s also to fill its frame — both in front of the camera and behind it — with those the time period would have discounted.

For actress Laura Harrier, who plays fictional actress Camille Washington in the series,...

The cast of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood will appear tonight on the livestream Stars In The House series, hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley announced today.

The Stars YouTube series, which benefits The Actors Fund, has been featuring cast reunions lately, often pulling together performers from classic TV like Frasier, Desperate Housewives and Sctv. Tonight, the get-together is of a more recent vintage: Hollywood debuted May 1 on Netflix.

Joining Stars In The House tonight will be David Corenswet (who plays Jack Costello), Darren Criss (Raymond Ainsley), Laura Harrier (Camille Washington), Joe Mantello (Dick Samuels), Dylan McDermott (Ernie West), Jeremy Pope (Archie Coleman), Mira Sorvino (Jeanne Crandall), Holland Taylor (Ellen Kincaid) and Samara Weaving (Claire Wood). The cast is expected to share behind-the-scenes stories and answer viewer questions in real time.

Tonight’s Stars In The House begins at 8 p.m. Et on the show’s YouTube channel and on starsinthehouse.

With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.

[Editor’s note: This post contains some spoilers for the Netflix series “Hollywood.”]

At the conclusion of Ryan Murphy’s latest limited series, the fluffy revisionist history “Hollywood,” one of its central stars gets her due, ascending to the highest echelon of movie stardom and getting a permanent title to match: Oscar winner. In reality, actress Anna May Wong never won an Oscar, despite being hailed as Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star and appearing in a variety of productions (from silent films to even television) over the span of her decades-long career.

For viewers interested in the true histories of the Hollywood stars and industry brass portrayed in Murphy’s discomfitting and often immature rose-colored glasses, the reality of Wong and her career is a bitter pill to swallow. At the same time,...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Hollywood,” streaming now on Netflix.

Laura Harrier is taking on the role of a lifetime in Netflix’s limited series “Hollywood.” Though the rising star has already appeared in a superhero movie (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”) and a Spike Lee joint (“BlacKkKlansman”), Harrier never imagined she’d perform in a period drama, let alone one from the mind of Ryan Murphy — simply because she’s a black woman.

In “Hollywood,” which Murphy co-created with Ian Brennan, Harrier plays Camille Washington, a wannabe starlet in 1940s Tinseltown, who is hampered in her career because of the color of her skin — at least at first. But “Hollywood” has a twist — the show’s premise reimagines a more progressive entertainment industry where Camille becomes the breakout star of a major motion picture and the first black woman to do so.

“Given our current climate...

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Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's new Netflix limited series Hollywood reimagines how the entertainment industry may have evolved differently if a woman were in charge and people took bold steps to dismantle the biases against race, gender and sexuality back in the 1940s.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke to members of the star-studded cast, including Patti LuPone, Dylan McDermott, Jim Parsons, Jeremy Pope, Samara Weaving, Laura Harrier and Darren Criss, about what message they feel the series sends to those in power in Hollywood today.

"Women deserve and it's time for their time in the ...

People are stuck at home and the streaming business is booming, but Netflix isn’t front-loading its release schedule in order to seize the moment. If anything, this month’s slate of new titles is actually a bit softer than usual on the film side of things, as a small clutch of original features and licensed modern classics round out a May roster that will be remembered for high-profile new series like “Hollywood” and “The Eddy.”

But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to see here — not when the new additions include Alice Wu’s newly minted Tribeca winner “The Half of It,” a new film by “Black Panther” co-writer Joe Robert Cole, and the American streaming debut of a little movie called “Uncut Gems.”. Throw in a curious David Fincher epic and the quintessential summer blockbuster and there should be more than enough to keep subscribers happy in...

“Hollywood,” which follows in the footsteps of “Love,” “Easy,” and “Special” as the latest Netflix original series with an overly generic title, actually lives up to the dual nature of its un-Google-able name. Both a broadly appealing drama and an inclusive portrait of the movie biz, Ryan Murphy’s ’40s-era limited series follows a group of creative young dreamers who move to La La Land and try to upend the old studio guard running this town. The actors, writers, and directors’ archetypical rags-to-riches stories lay the groundwork for an enlivening crowdpleaser, even as the revisionist spin on Hollywood’s infuriating hesitancy toward inclusivity raises weighty issues of racial discrimination and sexual harassment.

Packaging topical commentary within a generic structure often leads to lasting insights. Be it the comic scenario supporting “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” or the cops-and-criminals suspense driving “BlackKklansman,” providing an audience with an accessible...

This Hollywood review contains no spoilers is based on all seven episodes.

There are two ideas that sum up what Hollywood means to Ryan Murphy, both the place and the new television series he named after it. The first is stated with cynicism by Dylan McDermott, who previously starred in Murphy’s American Horror Story: “The movies hawk an image of wholesome American virtue, right? But the folks making those movies [are] rotten to the core.â€. And yet, in the same episode, Darren Criss (who starred in Murphy’s Glee) dreams aloud, “Movies just don’t show us how the world is; they show us how the world can be.â€.

On the surface, these two ideas appear diametrically opposed, but that’s Hollywood. And it probably should’ve been Hollywood too, considering the new Netflix series from Murphy and Ian Brennan happily attempts to recontextualize, and literally revise, the “Golden Age...

Ryan Murphy is bringing Hollywood to Hollywood. Emmy-winning TV producer is giving the residents of the MPTF home a sneak preview of his Netflix limited series Hollywood ahead of its premiere on May 1.

The first three episodes of the series will air on their in-house channel and will include an exclusive Q&a with the cast. In addition, Netflix is donating an additional $100,000 to its industry hardship fund benefitting the MPTF , which Murphy is personally matching. Netflix previously donated $1M to the MPTF as part of its fund to help with hardship in the creative community.

“Making Hollywood as a revisionist fable of our Golden Age showed me what can happen when people band together in the face of adversity,” said Murphy. “I’m honored to be able to provide support during this devastating time for the residents of Mptf, many of whom built this industry and created entertainment that...

What would you do to climb the ladder in Hollywood? Would you help someone out or climb over them? What do the characters do in Ryan Murphy's Hollywood? See for yourself in the first look at the opening credits for the new Netflix limited series. Starring a mix of veteran Murphy-verse players such as The Politician standout David Corenswet, American Crime Story and Glee star Darren Criss, Patti LuPone and American Horror Story's Dylan McDermott, as well as a mix of new players including Samara Weaving, Laura Harrier and Jake Picking, Hollywood is set in the post-World War II world and follows a group of entertainment players trying to make it...

This week, Netflix will premiere a new Ryan Murphy project in which gay characters in the 1940s must keep their sexual orientation a secret for fear of losing their jobs and being rejected by friends and family — but we’re not talking about Murphy’s seven-part miniseries “Hollywood,” which covers some of that territory as it tells a fictional story set against the backdrop of the movie business after World War II.

Murphy’s other Netflix release this week is “A Secret Love,” a documentary directed by Chris Bolan, produced by Murphy and executive produced by Jason Blum, among others. The film, which premieres on Wednesday, deals with a seven-decade relationship between two women who met in 1947 when one of them was playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was later celebrated in “A League of Their Own”.

“A Secret Love” spans more than 70 years in the lives...

Ryan Murphy's latest project is the Netflix limited series Hollywood, and after seeing the first trailer, it's easy to wonder if it's based on a true story. The answer to that question is actually a little bit complicated. We're breaking down what's pure fiction and what's based on reality - or, at the very least, real gossip.

What Is Hollywood on Netflix About?

At first glance, it looks like Hollywood is just your typical showbiz drama, set in the glamorous and dangerous world of post-World War II Hollywood. But there's a twist: it's set in a "what if?" sort of alternate timeline where many of the prejudices of the real world don't exist, exploring instead all the creativity that could have come from the kinds of people that the real Hollywood of the 1940s overlooked.

"With the present so fraught and the future uncertain, we turned to the past for direction,...

Netflix has released the first Hollywood trailer for executive producer Ryan Murphy’s upcoming limited series, and it’s got a little bit of everything—sex, glamor, and of course unbridled ambition. Created by Murphy and Glee co-creator Ian Brennan, the show takes place in the Golden Age of Hollywood and follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers as they try to make their way through old power structures. But instead of simply delving into history, Hollywood looks to change it. The synopsis says the show examines “what the entertainment landscape might look like if decades-old power …...

If the trailer for Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's new Netflix show, Hollywood, tells us anything, it's that we should all get ready for a lot of Patti LuPone and Holland Taylor-inspired memes. Murphy loves nothing like he loves looking into the past -- hello, Feud -- and injecting it with some modern

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In Hollywood, everyone wants to go to Dreamland.

Netflix released the trailer for Ryan Murphy's debut series for the streamer, and the first look at the Murphy and Ian Brennan-created limited drama brings viewers back to an alternate 1940s Hollywood and right to the Golden Tip Gasoline station, where Ernie (Dylan McDermott) runs a unique operation with a group of Tinseltown dreamers.

"You get in the car with them. Have a drink, maybe. Sometimes...sometimes you have to service," Ernie explains to aspiring actor Jack (David Corenswet) of the sex-for-hire protocol when a customer gives them the "Dreamland"...

Ryan Murphy will continue to take over TV and streaming services next month when Hollywood, his latest star-studded Netflix series, arrives on Friday, May 1. Hollywood is a seven-episode series which follows aspiring actors and filmmakers in a post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it, no

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Netflix released a new batch of first look photos for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming limited series “Hollywood” on Thursday, featuring series stars Darren Criss, David Corenswet, Jeremy Pope and more.

The period drama, set to debut on May 1, follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. According to Netflix, “Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day. Provocative and incisive, ‘Hollywood’ exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled.”

In a statement accompanying the image, executive producer Janet Mock explained that the show looks to the past in an attempt to clarify the current moment.

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Most of us are rocking hoodies and sweatpants right now, so it’s nice that Netflix is giving us a dose of old-fashioned Hollywood glamour.

Ryan Murphy’s new limited series Hollywood, set during Tinseltown’s Golden Age, debuts Friday, May 1, and the streamer is giving us a sneak peek at all the vintage drama (and fashions) with a slew of first-look photos. The seven-episode series “follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost,” per the official description. “Each character offers a unique...

Netflix has released a first look at Ryan Murphy's debut series for the streamer, Hollywood — a show he has called a "love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown." The "aspirational tale of what ifs" will be a needed one when it arrives May 1, coming amid a fragile time for present-day Hollywood during the coronavirus pandemic.

"With the present so fraught and the future uncertain, we turned to the past for direction, uncovering buried history to spin an aspirational tale of what ifs," executive producer, writer and director Janet Mock said ...

For below-the-line workers, it had been a time of intense production and booming work until just a few days ago. The industry had an unprecedented amount of projects on the books, and freelance workers had perhaps relaxed a little, knowing there was work available, with back-to-back jobs booked in. Until all of it was taken away, essentially overnight. Addressing the Covid-19 shutdowns with the costume design community, we found stories of disappointment, worry, and confusion, but also a sense of resilience, determination and hope.

A designer who recently wrapped Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood, Sarah Evelyn was hard at work before the production shutdowns hit. “When you’re a costume designer, you’re used to spending a lot of time away from home—and all of a sudden, I’m going from being on a job to homeschooling kids,” the costume designer says. “It’s a major adjustment, on every single level.

Spoiler alert for a few plot lines and scenes from the first two episodes of “Hollywood.”

Netflix hosted a sneak peek of Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood,” a seven-episode series for Netflix, on Sunday night at the San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood.

Without giving away too many spoilers, the show takes place in post-wwii Hollywood. David Corenswet stars as Jack, an aspiring actor who becomes a call boy in a prostitution ring run by a slimy gas station owner (Dylan McDermott).

“I would say that it is almost a revisionist history of Hollywood,” Laura Harrier, who plays a Dorothy Dandridge-like character dating an aspiring director (Darren Criss), told Variety. “I love to think about what the world could have looked like had we been able to have representation of women, of people of color, of people of the Lgbtq community at the beginning of Hollywood. How would movies and TV look different?...

“Hollywood” is officially Ryan Murphy’s second original series to debut on Netflix, launching May 1, the streamer announced Thursday.

The seven-episode limited series “Hollywood” follows Murphy’s first Netflix project, the comedic “The Politician,” which streamed its first season in September 2019. “The Politician” came about under Murphy’s deal with 20th Century Fox Television, though, while “Hollywood” marks the first original series under the prolific producer’s overall deal with Netflix.

Co-created by Murphy and Ian Brennan, “Hollywood” follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in the titular town, post-World War II, as they try to make it at any cost. When Murphy first announced the project a year ago, he called it “a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown.”

In the show, each character is written to offer a glimpse behind the gilded curtain of that time period, shining a light on unfair systems and biases across race,...

Netflix is going Hollywood in the spring. The streamer has set a May 1 launch date for its limited series from Ryan Murphy that follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. Check out the new key art below.

Murphy, Ian Brennan and Janet Mock wrote the project, in which each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day. The seven-episode series exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled.

David Corenswet, Darren Criss, Jeremy Pope, Samara Weaving, Laura Harrier, Jim Parsons, Dylan McDermott, Holland Taylor, Patti LuPone, Jake Picking, Joe Mantello star in Hollywood, whose guest cast includes Maude Apatow,...

Ryan Murphy and Netflix have announced the release date for “Hollywood,” the creator’s next big project under the streaming giant. A May 1 release will introduce “Hollywood” right in time for Emmy season, and Murphy is clearly hoping to keep it fresh on the mind of voters. The post-wwii-set limited series follows a fictional group of aspiring actors and producers as they navigate the murky waters of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Official synopsis below.

A new limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, ‘Hollywood’ follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day. Provocative and incisive, ‘Hollywood’ exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics,...

Jim Parsons, Dylan McDermott, Samara Weaving, Maude Apatow, Joe Mantello, Laura Harrier and Jake Picking have been added to the cast of Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood,” an upcoming limited series at Netflix, a spokesperson for the streaming service told TheWrap.

They join previously announced cast members Jeremy Pope, Darren Criss, David Corenswet, Patti LuPone and Holland Taylor.

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Streaming service confirms Instagram post.

Ryan Murphy has revealed that the first series to go into production under his high-profile deal with Netflix will be “a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown” titled simply Hollywood.

In an Instagram post confirmed by a Netflix tweet, Murphy said he will co-create the show with Ian Brennan, the writer who created Glee and Scream Queens with Murphy and Brad Falchuk.

The project has been given a straight-to-series order by Netflix and will start shooting this summer, though no details of genre or plot were given by either the streamer or Murphy.

Ryan Murphy said today he has received a straight-to-series order from Netflix for Hollywood, which he co-created with frequent collaborator Ian Brennan and calls “a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown.”

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“Hollywood” — my new Netflix show co-created with Ian Brennan — begins principal photography this summer. A love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown, this straight-to-series production will be my third show for Netflix and I couldn’t be more excited or proud about the work we are doing together. More to come…

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Murphy offered no other details about the project, which might have been inspired by the awards and viewership love for his 2017 FX limited series Feud: Bette and Joan. That show’s episode revolving around the 1963 Academy Awards earned Emmy nominations for Murphy’s writing and directing, and...

Ryan Murphy says he’s creating “a love letter to Tinseltown” with "Hollywood," his newest project to garner a green light at Netflix.

The production, which got a straight-to-series commitment at the streaming video service, comes from Murphy and Ian Brennan, with whom he collaborated on Glee and Scream Queens. The pair also work together on the upcoming Ben Platt-led comedy The Politician, also for Netflix.

Netflix and Murphy jointly announced the series order Friday via social media.

Ryan Murphy is bringing “Hollywood” to Netflix. Co-created with Ian Brennan, Murphy describes the new series as "a love letter to...

Ryan Murphy has announced that his third Netflix series will be titled “Hollywood.”

Murphy described the show as “A love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown” in a post on Instagram. The project has received a straight-to-series order at the streamer. Murphy co-created the series with Ian Brennan. The exact nature of the plot is being kept under wraps.

Murphy previously set up the shows “Ratched” starring Sarah Paulson and “The Politician” starring Ben Platt at Netflix, though those two shows came about under Murphy’s deal at 20th Century Fox Television. “Hollywood” marks his first original series under his overall deal at Netflix.

He also previously co-created the FX anthology series “Feud,” the first season of which focused on the relationship between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on the classic Hollywood film “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”

Brennan has frequently collaborated with Murphy in the past, including on “Glee” and “Scream Queens,...

Ryan Murphy has set “Hollywood,” which he describes as “a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown,” as his next Netflix series — and the first original to be ordered since the prolific producer signed his reported $300 million deal with the streamer last February.

“‘Hollywood’ — my new Netflix show co-created with Ian Brennan — begins principal photography this summer,” Murphy captioned an Instagram post of the Hollywood sign Friday. “A love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown, this straight-to-series production will be my third show for Netflix and I couldn’t be more excited or proud about the work we are doing together. More to come…”

Netflix did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for further details on the series, however their official See What’s Next Twitter account tweeted this, not long after Murphy’s Instagram post went up:

Ryan Murphy is bringing “Hollywood” to Netflix. Co-created with Ian Brennan,...