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Pharrell Williams Gives Advice About the Pitfalls of the Music Industry at His Adidas Film Premiere: “It’s Crazy”
At a post-screening Q&A in Atlanta attended by Morehouse and Spelman students, Williams laid down lessons about being a new artist: “The first 10 years is just you getting run over, over and over again, and thinking there aren’t good people in the world.”
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Why ‘Will Trent’ Is Still Going Strong in Season 3
The ABC procedural, adapted from Karin Slaughter's Atlanta-set detective novels, follows Ramón Rodriguez in the titular role, someone who "has had a really rough shake [yet] he’s going to do whatever it takes to get up every morning. I think people like that," says co-creator Daniel Thomsen.
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‘Matlock’ Boss Hints at What’s Ahead: More Secrets and a “Ticking Time Bomb”
After becoming a hit in the fall, the Kathy Bates-starring legal drama from creator Jennie Snyder Urman returned Jan. 30 with a focus on women in the workplace and mom guilt.
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‘Get Millie Black’ Creator on What Mattered Most and If He Wants to Do Another Season
Marlon James says the finale of the HBO crime drama starring Tamara Lawrance ends with "a lot of unfinished stories."
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Jamie Foxx Reveals “Mystery Illness” in Netflix Special
"I don't remember 20 days," says Foxx in 'Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...', where he details the health scare that kept him out of the spotlight.
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John Legend on Bringing ‘Rhythm + Flow’ to Netflix and the Controversy Over This Season’s Winner
Legend and producing partner Mike Jackson speak to The Hollywood Reporter about their hip-hop reality competition series: "I could see this being in so many different countries, different languages."
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‘Get Millie Black’ Is Not Your Typical Detective Show
Star Tamara Lawrance and Award-winning author Marlon James explain how HBO's five-episode miniseries set in Jamaica is much more than what it appears.
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‘The Madness’ Star Colman Domingo Talks Triggering Parallels and Why He Wants a Season 2
In his first series leading role, Domingo plays a fugitive framed for murder who makes what the actor describes as a "breakthrough" decision in the season finale.
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‘The Madness’ Bosses on Colman Domingo Thriller Hitting Home in Trump 2.0 Era — and That Ending
"If it's done dramatically and if it's done entertainingly, I don't think it's a taboo subject to talk about what screws us up as a country and what makes us great," says creator Stephen Belber of the Netflix series.
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‘Matlock’ Director on How Kathy Bates and Their CBS Hit Are Subverting the Age Trope
Executive producer Kat Coiro talks to The Hollywood Reporter about finding both depth and lightness in the law procedural with a twist that turns "the perception of older women on its head."
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‘American Sports Story’ Boss on How He Made His Aaron Hernandez Series Watchable
"Why would someone with all that success do something like this?" That is the question showrunner Stu Zicherman and team set out to tackle with the 10-episode FX limited series, which concluded Tuesday night.
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‘American Sports Story’ Star Jaylen Barron on Why Shayanna Jenkins Stands by Aaron Hernandez When He’s Tried for Murder
"I don't think there was a right choice that she could make," Barron, who portrays the fiancée of the late Hernandez in the FX limited series, tells The Hollywood Reporter about the penultimate episode.
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