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Chris Lee

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Senior Reporter for @Vulture-@NYmag covering Hollywood. "Very fire"

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Heading into Oscars Sunday the pro-Israel "covert action group" the Brigade declared war on Artists4Ceasefire for hitting up A-list celebs to wear its lapel pins urging Israeli-Hamas armistice on the red carpet. I examine the showdown dividing Hollywood tinyurl.com/5dmzd3m5

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Neon spent $18 million to pull off its big Oscar night with #Anora, a fraction of what other rivals shelled out. Its Oscar campaign playbook involved everything from screenings for sex workers to branded thongs. And it worked. My story w/ Tatiana Siegel variety.com/2025/film/news…

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What is the rest of Hollywood saying about Disney’s ‘Snow White’ dilemma? ‘It’s almost like they’re running away from the movie,’ says an executive at a rival studio. vulture.com/article/what-h…

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With #MinecraftMovie chicken-jockeying its way to more than double pre-release tracking estimates, there's a kind of changing of the guard in Hollywood. “Video-game movies are overtaking superhero movies as the genre of choice." My report: tinyurl.com/4jwp473u

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John Wick director Chad Stahelski talked to me about the action choreography/stunt community's reaction to the new Stunt Design Oscar: "Don’t underestimate this — the Academy came to us. I think the Academy was going, 'Hey, this could be good marketing'" tinyurl.com/z4u72r4f

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Michael Wolff's use of commas is really unparalleled. So capricious. He's like the Miles Davis of commas tinyurl.com/5ubrm8jj

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Ryan Coogler’s Warner Bros deal to gain ownership of Sinners 25 years after release has Hollywood ultra freaked out. “It could be the end of the studio system” an exec at another studio tells me. My dive into this “dangerous deal”: tinyurl.com/mu7b8z45

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#Sinners landed a No. 1 opening $8 million higher than tracking. But thanks to its $90M budget, big question is: will the movie make or lose money for Warners? An insider tells me break-even is $170M. But the bigger win is Coogler as a "Nolan replacement" tinyurl.com/5n749em3

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Trump’s plan to impose a 100 percent tariff on movies produced abroad is raising questions — and panic — in Hollywood. But how would it even work? vulture.com/article/how-wo…

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Hollywood is on track for a summer of boffo box office! I chatted with Scott Mendelson, Paul Dergarabedian and Shawn Robbins about the high likelihood its "cume" tops $4 billion in a return to the kind of moviegoing not popular since the 20-teens tinyurl.com/2vzmrn5j

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Harvey Weinstein wanted $5 million for the rights to ‘Dogma,’ Kevin Smith’s fantasy-comedy starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. He kept it out of theaters and off streaming for years, until a surprise figure outmaneuvered him. vulture.com/article/how-ke…

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Apple spent nearly a quarter of a billion dollars on ‘F1,’ a literal star vehicle for Brad Pitt. Making its money back at the box office, insiders say, is beside the point. vulture.com/article/no-one…

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In an era of snarky superhero-dom, where Deadpool can kill, maim and then crack jokes; #SupermanMovie's hyper-earnestness and extreme sincerity may have cut through the cultural clutter to become its superpower at the box office tinyurl.com/56rdjys3