
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.

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

Reshoots are not always a bad sign. Here is how pick-ups, reshoots, and additional photography actually work after a film wraps.

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

A season through April, weekday post times at 12:15 p.m. and some new Sundays: what a first-time visitor actually needs to know.

The artifact gets its name from a porch screen, and it shows up wherever pixels get stretched large and viewed up close.

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.

A look-alike, or double, is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance. Some look-alikes have been notable individuals in their own right, such as the actresses Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressley.