Adam Epstein

China’s “most expensive movie ever made” is one of the biggest flops the world has ever seen.

After earning the most Emmy nominations of any network for 17 years in a row, HBO has finally been supplanted by Netflix for the Emmys crown. The streaming service earned a total of 112 nominations this year, narrowly beating HBO’s total of 108.

In the summer, cinemas tend to be full of blockbusters and big franchise sequels. But this year the season has an unlikely star: the life story documentary.

Those few seconds between wakefulness and sleep, when you span the gap between reality and dream—neither fully conscious nor completely alert—are difficult to capture on film. Sharp Objects, the new HBO limited series based on the book of the same name by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, comes pretty close.

LeBron James sent shockwaves through the National Basketball Association July 1 when he revealed he was joining the Los Angeles Lakers. But for those who have closely followed the NBA superstar’s career trajectory, the move to Hollywood seemed inevitable.

Ah, summer. A time for beach trips, barbecues, and Hollywood franchise sequels.

One of the worst words to use in Hollywood is “horror.”

FX’s Cold War spy drama, The Americans—one of the best TV dramas of the decade—is no more. It aired its final episode on May 30. The days and weeks after a show of such high caliber ends are a time for mourning, reflection, and, of course, searching for another show or movie that reminds us of it.

Hollywood, how about we stop with the prequels?

Hereditary, the new horror film from A24 that comes out on Friday (June 8), is being called “the scariest movie in years” by a number of critics and entertainment journalists.

Rich people don’t eat at California Pizza Kitchen. That’s one of the first lessons offered in the new HBO drama Succession, which premiers Sunday night (June 3). A young member of a global media dynasty, fresh off his first mammoth paycheck for a job he didn’t earn, suggests celebrating with a meal at the chain restaurant. As an outsider who hasn’t spent much time around his relatives, this, for him, is fine dining. But his boss, a wealthy executive, quickly shows the young man the error of his ways. “I’ll show you how to be rich,” he says.

On June 4, an auction house in Paris will put a highly coveted item on the block: A nearly complete skeleton of a carnivorous dinosaur, almost 9 meters (30 feet) long, believed to have lived during the late Jurassic era 154 million years ago. The world’s paleontologists would love to get their hands on the skeleton, which they suspect is a member of a previously undiscovered species. Instead, a private buyer is likely to snatch it up.

Less than a week after ABC was forced to cancel Roseanne after its titular star, Roseanne Barr, went on a racist Twitter tirade, the network is reportedly interested in continuing the sitcom without her.

On Friday (June 1), Donald Trump said that denuclearization talks between the US and North Korea are once again back on for June 12. The announcement came after a senior North Korean envoy, Kim Yong-chol, hand-delivered a peculiarly large letter to the White House—which Trump declared in a press conference to be “very nice,” although he later admitted he didn’t read it.

This is what the lead characters on The Americans, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, played by actors Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, actually look like:

This story includes plot details from tonight’s (May 30) series finale of The Americans.

When FX’s Cold War-era spy drama The Americans premiered in January 2013, Donald Trump was still hosting The Celebrity Apprentice. US-Russian relations were tense, but not particularly eventful. Netflix had yet to begin producing original content.

In a surprisingly swift and decisive move, ABC has canceled Roseanne after its star, Roseanne Barr, put out an unambiguously racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a former senior adviser to Barack Obama.

It’s a holiday weekend in both the United States (Memorial Day) and United Kingdom (Spring Bank Holiday) and there’s rain in the forecast for much of the continental US as well as the UK (when isn’t that the case, though?).

What made James Wong Howe one of the greatest Hollywood cinematographers of all time was talent, perseverance, and innovation. But he caught his biggest break by accident.

Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has been accused of harassment or “inappropriate behavior” by eight different women, CNN reported today (May 24).

Idris Elba is bringing hunch back.

A lot of people are hard on Damon Lindelof. But no one is harder on Damon Lindelof than Damon Lindelof.

The first trailer for Warner Bros Pictures’ Mowgli hit the internet yesterday (May 21). Based on the famous Rudyard Kipling story, The Jungle Book, Mowgli mixes real actors with computer-generated animals to tell the fantasy-adventure tale of a boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India.