James Cameron wanted a vegan set on "Avatar: The Way of Water." Anything less would be hypocritical. The sci-fi epic, which reportedly cost more than $350 million, centers on aliens fending off invading humans who have depleted earth's resources. "We couldn't lecture oil companies and turn around and eat hamburgers," he says.
I am that person you see on the street who constantly has her headphones in. I have a professional excuse: every spring and fall, I'm bingeing as many podcasts as possible to curate a biannual list of the best shows. Typically, I am vigilant about including "hard news" podcasts, political podcasts, and journalistic investigations on the list.
Lena Waithe got emotional when she and Aziz Ansari took the stage to accept their Emmy for writing the "Thanksgiving" episode of "Master of None." The episode, which dealt with Waithe's character Denise coming out to her family, was based on Waithe's own real-life experience.
Heist movies are a summer staple. Time-tested tropes of the genre -- the planning montage, the inevitable need to change plans on the fly, the high-speed getaway -- have thrilled audiences for over half a century.
Mattel releases three new body shapes for the world's best-selling doll. Inside the biggest change in barbie's 57-year history-and what it says about American beauty ideals Part 1 Barbie's dress won't fit. I'm sitting in a bright pink room at Mattel's headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., playing with a Barbie that only 20 people in the world know exists.
If there were ever a true story ripe for big screen treatment, it's that of Hugh Glass, a 19th century trapper who traveled 1,500 miles through the wilderness in pursuit of vengeance against the men who left him for dead after he was mauled by a bear.
More After months of claiming, "Jon Snow is dead," HBO has done something rather clever. They've slapped the face of a very much alive (though bloody) Jon Snow on a poster and teased his comeback in a teaser trailer for Game of Thrones ' upcoming sixth season.
To determine TIME's annual list, we consider accolades across numerous fields, global impact through social media and overall ability to drive news. Here's who made this year's cut (ordered from youngest to oldest).
Though Guillermo del Toro's new ghost film, "Crimson Peak," may be inspired by Gothic Romances like "Jane Eyre" or "Wuthering Heights," don't expect a brooding man to come to the heroine's rescue.
In the new Clint Eastwood-directed film American Sniper, Bradley Cooper plays Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL who was credited with the most confirmed kills (160) in American military history. Kyle went on four tours to Iraq as a Navy SEAL between 2003 and 2009 ,while his wife Taya began to raise their two children at home.
For years, Walter Keane was known as one of the most commercially successful artists of the 1960s. His paintings of waif-thin girls with eyes four times their normal size were dubbed "the most popular art now being produced in the free world" in a 1965 LIFE story.
Though The Imitation Game was largely based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma, much of Alan Turing's life is shrouded in mystery. Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the film, is credited as the father of computer science.