"Before He Turned on Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin Made Hollywood-Style Propaganda Films to Sell His War” (8/23/23)

The former chief of the multi-tentacled Wagner group, who is believed to have died in a plane crash, didn’t just send his army of mercenaries to the Ukrainian front lines. He was also at the vanguard of Putin’s effort to counter Western cultural dominance, and using movies to do it.

"Tragedy in an Animation Utopia: Horror, Heartbreak and Mystery After an Arson Massacre” (12/20/19)

Kyoto Animation was a beloved cornerstone of Japan’s booming $2 billion anime industry when a deranged arsonist attempted to burn it all down, resulting in the country's worst act of mass murder since World War II. In his first in-depth interview since the tragic July attack, the company's founder opens up about his shock, despair and resilience.

"The Politics of ‘Roma’: A Journey Through Mexico City’s Turbulent Past and America’s Divided Present” (1/16/19)

While Alfonso Cuaron's Roma centers mainly on the life and experiences of his childhood nanny, the director explains how the political forces and fissures of the time (and now) shape his ideology and his film.

"Two Dead on a Tom Cruise Movie Shoot: A Plane Crash in Colombia, Lawsuits and a Survivor Speaks Out” (7/20/17)

Was a tragedy during the production of Cruise's 'American Made' preventable? Conflicting accounts and a pilot in a "death pool" raise questions about safety and the filmmakers' role in it all: "Hollywood cut corners."

"A Decomposing Body, 10 Duped Girlfriends and the Saga of the ‘Alien’ Con Man in Hollywood’s Backyard” (7/14/17)

Jeffrey Lash was a spy, a post-9/11 covert operative who seduced women in L.A.'s tony Pacific Palisades with tales of, yes, supernatural powers. But when police found him dead in his car with a $5 million gun stash near the homes of showbiz elite, a stranger-than-fiction tale emerged of abuse, lies, a mystery illness and a grifter with "more charisma than 10 Trumps."

"The Heroin-Addict Actress, The Interventionist and a Grieving Mother’s Court Fight: “She Didn’t Want to Die'" (12/8/16)

Eight months after Warren Boyd took on aspiring actress Amy Breliant, the young woman was dead. Now Boyd and Carrie Fisher face a civil lawsuit.

"Accusations of Fraud, Nonexistent Companies, and Shadowy Chinese Billionaires: The Very Strange Saga of Digital Domain'” (7/27/16)

Digital Domain’s MOVA technology has won awards and been featured in blockbusters like 'Deadpool' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' but a rash of recent lawsuits reveal new details of potentially fraudulent business dealings in China and the Virgin Islands that ultimately could derail multiple big-budget Hollywood films.

"The Strange Saga of the Drug-Smuggling Ring That Gave Rise to ‘Orange Is the New Black'” (7/5/16)

Twenty years before Piper Kerman went to prison and a cultural phenomenon was born, a crew of young Americans worked as mules, transporting premium-grade heroin around the world for a Nigerian drug lord. This is the story behind the story of the hit Netflix drama.

"Oscar to Suicide in One Year: Tracing the 'Searching for Sugar Man' Director's Tragic Final Days” (6/11/14)

After the death of Malik Bendjelloul, who threw himself in front of a subway train, a THR writer heads to Sweden to talk to his friends, who reveal the perfectionist's quirks -- from eating the same breakfast for six months to walking one lap around his apartment before and after work -- and open up about his fear, doubt and their own surprise: "He was the least likely to take his life."

"A ‘Survivor’ Producer, a Dead Wife, Four Years in a Mexican Prison: New Evidence Amid a Nightmare” (12/11/14)

There were obvious reasons to point fingers at Bruce Beresford-Redman after the body of his spouse, Monica, was found naked and beaten in a sewer drain at a Cancun resort in 2010. But now, in an interview from a squalid lockup with his verdict looming, the father of two insists he is innocent. The troubling fact? He just might be

"My Father’s Era of Spying Was a Much Simpler - and Safer - One” (11/18/12)

An account of my father’s era as a CIA spy, and how it contrasts to today.

"Is the Economic Crisis Making Europeans Fat?" (11/17/12)

The economic crisis is changing the way Europeans eat.

"Can Europe's Shrinking Military Back up its Commitment to Syria?" (11/16/12)

Europe is promising a lot to Syria. Can it make good on its promises?

"Bittersweet Chocolate News in Europe” (11/15/12)

Europe is awash in chocolate news, some good, some bad

“Britain’s Dilemma: To Extradite or Not to Extradite” (11/14/12)

Britain is confused about its own extradition policies.

“The Real Epidemic of Violence is Ordinary, Every Day, and Global” (7/21/12)

After the Aurora shootings, the epidemic of daily violence remains an overlooked global problem.

"The not so funny Fiasco of the London Games, so far” (7/20/12)

A look at the snafus in the runup to the XXX London Olympiad.

"The Unsinkable Nazi Past", (7/19/12)

On the 70th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv deporatations, Europe copes with its Nazi past.

"Europe: Unstable at the Center, Worse at the Edges” (7/18/12)

While its economic core melts, Europe’s undemocratic fringes are also a cause for concern.

"Lax Controls at Banks or Systematic Rot?” (7/17/12)

The scandal over HSBC is spreading, prompting Senate hearings and raising questions about larger corruption in the financial markets.