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Every journalist who covered Hollywood in the Golden Era that stretched roughly from Risky Business (1983) through Top Gun: Maverick (now) has had a Tom Cruise moment. I had mine in 2002. My father had just died. It was a rough death, not quick, and as I was driving back for the last time from attending him in…

UPDATED with video. Brie Larson, fresh off her star turn in Captain Marvel, said her decision to direct the feature film Unicorn Store on Netflix was rooted in a desire to use the industry capital conferred by her Oscar win and rising fortunes as an actor. “We have to break these boundaries,” she said during an…

The 17th Tribeca Film Festival has revealed two of its Audience Awards, tapping the Shawn Snyder-written and directed To Dust for its Narrative award, and the Dyana Winkler/Tina Brown directed United Skates for the Documentary award. Each award carries a cash prize of $10,000 Throughout the festival, which started on…

EXCLUSIVE: We’re getting an exclusive first look at United Skates, a documentary produced and directed by first-time feature filmmakers Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown, ahead of its world premiere at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. United Skates centers on the battle in a racially charged environment to save…

Actress, writer and director Asia Argento said the months since she stepped forward to detail sexual abuse and harassment by Harvey Weinstein have been a time of redemption and relief but also painful disappointment. Detailing her experience to New Yorker contributor Ronan Farrow, who moderated the panel “#MeToo…

Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories has optioned Tina Brown's upcoming book, The Vanity Fair Diaries, for development as a limited series. The book, to be published next month by Holt, follows the British editor’s rise and eight-year reign at the helm of Vanity Fair in the 1980s, when she arrived from London scarcely…

Bravo Media has turned the page on All That Glitters, the story of the rivalrous relationship between New York magazine editors Anna Wintour and Tina Brown that was planned as its first scripted event series. The project from Universal Cable Productions and exec producers Gale Anne Hurd and Judith Verno had been…

EXCLUSIVE: Journalist Tina Brown has never had trouble attracting A-listers to her projects, whether for cover stories in Vanity Fair and Newsweek magazines, top journalists to the publications she has edited or, more recently, women at the forefront of global issuers affecting them for her annual confabs. The Women…

Deposed Sony Pictures Entertaiment co-chairman Amy Pascal yesterday put no sugar-coating on her fate in the wake of the Sony hack scandal. "All the women here are doing incredible things in this world. All I did was get fired," she told her interlocutor Tina Brown, who knows plenty herself about being hired, fired and…

Looks like founding editor Tina Brown‘s time at the Barry Diller-owned The Daily Beast is finished. Diller's IAC will not be renewing the former New Yorker and Vanity Fair editor's contract in January, say news reports today. A separation settlement is still being negotiated. Brown is starting a new company called…

UPDATE 9:25 AM: He’s out at the Daily Beast but CNN has decided not to cut Howard Kurtz loose for his sloppy reporting about NBA player Jason Collins’ coming out. “There has been no status change with Howard Kurtz, he remains the host of Reliable Sources.  He will address this issue on the program this weekend,” a CNN…

Tina Brown, who edits Newsweek and The Daily Beast, announced this morning that the nearly 80-year-old weekly newsmagazine will go all-digital. The December 31 edition will be the last one in print. Its online successor, to be called Newsweek Global, will offer a single, subscription-based international edition…