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A cinematic education in the United States had become a rite of passage for many contemporary Chinese filmmakers, but those days appear to be numbered amid the threats and mixed messages from the Trump administration. Universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, Poland and the Czech Republic are now on their agenda, as well as those both in China and closer to home, including Hong Kong, according to students and academics in China who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter under conditions of anonymity given the sensitivity around the issue at home and in Trump’s increasingly repressive U.S. The bellicose vows out…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Ecommerce entrepreneurship is rarely about getting rich overnight.Many who try this seek solutions to their everyday problems — high cost of living, burnout from their 9-to-5, family needs or simply more independence. With each passing day, ecommerce is becoming more and more the best solution to overcome these challenges.Digging deeper, we conducted an email survey asking Sellvia store owners why they decided to start an online business. What really surprised us was the number of people who decided to participate in our study. Many of these replies were truly heartwarming, touching and…

On May 8, the day before she popped on a Zoom for this conversation, Desi Lydic was wrapping up prep for that evening’s The Daily Show when the 4:30 curse struck again. White smoke was billowing in Vatican City, and now the staff of the Comedy Central institution needed to reshape the first half of the episode around the announcement of an American pope. “We’ll have an entire show written and then some time between 4 and 5 o’clock, something will happen,” says Lydic, who shares the hosting carousel with Ronny Chieng, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta and Jon Stewart. “Then…

Lola, who was just 3 when It’s Complicated premiered, grew up to be very different than her boundary-pushing older sister. Born June 1, 2005, she is a woman of God and a devout Christian. “I can’t explain it other than it literally was supernatural,” the restaurant hostess told People in an interview published Feb. 2025 after getting baptized in the church. “Jesus rescued me and he completely rewired my mind. He became my Savior, but also my best friend.” The teen also shared how religion saved her from the darkness of depression. “I felt so lost and hopeless, and was…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Over the past decade at Improbable and now with Somnia, I have worked on solving some of the hardest problems in the new digital age. We’ve learned a great deal from powering massively multiplayer video games, immersive virtual events and defense simulations so sophisticated they got me sanctioned by Russia…But in the process of building tools for virtual worlds, we discovered something far more foundational: The infrastructure we needed for the metaverse turned out to be exactly what businesses need to operate in the AI era.Like many, we expected that the surge…

Pioneering Hollywood movie marketing strategist Allan Freeman has died. He was 88. Freeman died on June 7 due to unspecified causes, former friend and colleague Martin Lewis, a movie and music marketing strategist who worked as a consultant with Freeman on United Artists projects, told The Hollywood Reporter. Sid Ganis, a former president of Paramount, chairman of Columbia, Lucasfilm exec and president of the Motion Picture Academy, in a statement praised his former colleague and friend. “Allan Freeman was a pioneer. Someone had to invent research for movies and Allan was the one!” Ganis said. Freeman, who worked behind the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For years, leadership development has focused on hard skills like operations, finance and technical know-how. But today, there’s growing recognition that soft skills — especially emotional intelligence (EQ) — are just as vital, if not more so. EQ isn’t just about being “nice” or managing conflict — it’s about cultivating trust, improving communication and building resilient, high-performing teams.In a fast-changing workplace where expectations are rising and retention is a top priority, EQ has become a business imperative.Self-awareness beats spreadsheetsEmotional intelligence starts with self-awareness. Leaders who understand their own emotions are better equipped…

Gideon Glick is an Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino veteran, having worked with them on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, on which he had a recurring role as a peculiar magician. Therefore, he knew what to expect when it came to the rapid-fire, cadenced dialogue that the Palladinos are known for. But their new show, Étoile — set in the world of ballet, spanning across New York and Paris with its dialogue half in French, half in English — brought its own set of challenges to the theater actor, whose Broadway work includes Spring Awakening and To Kill a Mockingbird, which…

Emilia Clarke’s Brain AneurysmEmilia Clarke filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, but in 2019, she published an essay in The New Yorker titled “A Battle for My Life.”Having a bad headache at the gym, “I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill,” the actress wrote. “Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into…

In an age where everything shines, how do you make something truly sparkle? That question was the starting point of a marketing-centric reality TV keynote on Thursday, the final day of Conecta Fiction & Entertainment in Cuenca, Spain. Charlotte Berman, business director at U.K. agency Red Bee Creative, was the speaker who stepped up to discuss the topic, bringing along a surprising bit of real-life experience. After all, she was a contestant on the third season of the U.K. version of the global hit format The Traitors. Showing TV spots from the likes of Love Island in the U.K., Survivor…