The Hollywood Reporter

The all-new Hollywood Reporter offers unprecedented access to the people, studios, networks and agencies that create the magic in Hollywood. Published weekly, the oversized format includes exceptional photography and rich features.

The Murdochs’ Reluctant MAGA Year Ahead • As Fox News mogul Rupert appears resigned to amplifying the Republican ex-president, his eldest son, Lachlan, who holds the keys to the media kingdom, is being courted by Trump

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Endeavor’s Publicly Traded Era Ari’s Highs and Lows

Bob Iger Emerges From Disney Fight Bruised But Not Broken • In fending off Nelson Peltz (and Ike Perlmutter) during a $40 million proxy battle, the CEO gets to keep his board seats and leeway to take part in succession planning — again

Peltz Loses Twice — And Wins Too • Disney share price

Coppola’s Epic Gamble May Be a Losing Bet • After an early screening for potential distributors, the director’s self-funded epic Megalopolis is deemed too ‘experimental’ and ‘not good’ enough for the $100 million marketing spend he envisions

Rights Available! • A hot new book with Hollywood appeal

‘Are They Really Letting Me Do This?’ • Against odds, 36-year-old Hoa Xuande won the lead in HBO’s Vietnam War-era series The Sympathizer after a sweeping search: ‘This was going to work or not based on this piece of casting’

Yes, I Did Say That! • A look at who’s saying what in entertainment

Power Dining

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Hitched, Hatched, Hired • Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

Top Stylists Take a Bow • THR and Instagram feted image makers and their stars at Sunset Tower

Conan O’Brien Wants to Go There • With a new travel series, a thriving podcast operation and the uncertainty of empty-nester status on deck, late night’s retired oddball is letting his curiosity take him to new places — geographically and contemplatively

Can Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Overcome Country’s Fences? • It’s made history on country charts, but the resistance is real, though covers and collaborators may take the artist over the top in this first-out-of-the-gate analysis of her Grammy chances

Morgan Stewart McGraw’s Rise From E! Host to Style Sensation • The onetime Rich Kids of Beverly Hills star and Daily Pop on-air talent — who influences fashion sales via her 1 million Instagram followers — just launched her own line, Renggli, which is selling out. Not that she’s surprised: ‘Bitch, this is good!’

Her Three Favorite Splurges for Spring

Sip Into Something Comfortable • The new wave of ‘cult’ California wines trades in hedonistic excess for nuanced restraint. We asked some of the world’s top sommeliers to share their favorites

Prefer Hedonistic Excess? How’s a $100,000 ‘Blending Experience’?

THE HIGH HIGHS AND LOW LOWS OF ALAN RITCHSON • Reacher shot him into Hollywood’s top tier, but behind that success was a harrowing struggle with bipolar disorder, sexual assault and a suicide attempt that he survived with a mix of faith, love and brute force

The RENEGADE RECLAIMING AMY WINEHOUSE • After the singer’s tragic death at 27, the media focused on who was to blame. Back to Black, a new biopic from 50 Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson — who has faced her own pain and tabloid scrutiny — wrests Winehouse’s story from victimhood and reasserts the independence she revealed in her music

THE ICONIC LACONIC ED RUSCHA TAKES L.A. • THE ELUSIVE KING OF APHORISTIC COOL GETS THE STAR TREATMENT AT LACMA WITH HIS FIRST MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE IN MORE THAN 20 YEARS

The Sympathizer • Robert Downey Jr. both dazzles and distracts in HBO’s alternately brilliant and frustrating adaptation of the novel about a conflicted Vietnamese double agent

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