
Celebrity Birthdays: How Fan Culture Turned Simple Dates Into Full Events
A birthday hashtag is now a campaign, a charity drive, and a business line — and the machinery behind it explains a lot about modern fame.

A birthday hashtag is now a campaign, a charity drive, and a business line — and the machinery behind it explains a lot about modern fame.

One network feed from late October holds a promotion, an obituary, a Broadway warm-up and a documentary pitch — the whole genre in miniature.

The festival's breakout-actor list spans three Oscar categories this year — a sign the honor is broadening, or blurring.

A rumor does not become a story by accident. It moves through a pipeline with checkpoints, and knowing the pipeline tells you what to trust.

The Best International Feature Film Oscar is credited to a country, not a person. The rules behind the one-film-per-country system explain why.

Kelsey Gray Sherman's appointment marks a shift from licensing deals to full-time talent relationships inside a toy company.

The formats behind movie-commentary channels, and the signals that separate criticism from hype.

Film composers work from a temp track to a spotting session to a short writing window and a final recording. Here is how a movie score gets made, step by step.

Before any campaign or ballot, a film has to clear a checklist of eligibility rules — and each one has quietly reshaped the race.

The contract-star era ended decades ago, but its business logic runs today's slate meetings.