climate change
‘Twisters’ Team on Incorporating Accurate Science and Climate Change Into Updated Film: “If We Didn’t Get It Right This Time, It Would Be a Big Deal”
At the Hollywood Climate Summit on Wednesday, Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung, executive producer Ashley Jay Sandberg and actor Brandon Perea were joined by some real-life tornado experts to discuss how science and climate change were woven into the upcoming film. The new movie serves as an update to the 1996 project of the same […]
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Critic’s Notebook: A New Wave of Films Experiments With How We See Climate Change
From Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Evil Does Not Exist' to Ramata-Toulaye Sy's 'Banel & Adama,' indie films are representing climate change as an ongoing negotiation between humans and the environment instead of a single catastrophic event.
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Activists Arrested After Spray-Painting Private Jets at U.K. Airfield Where Taylor Swift’s Plane Landed
Two environmental activists have been arrested after they broke into a private airfield outside of London, where Taylor Swift’s plane landed hours earlier, and spray-painted multiple private jets orange, in a call to end the use of fossil fuels by the end of the decade. Just Stop Oil members Jennifer Kowalski, 28, and Cole Macdonald, […]
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Climate Version of Bechdel Test Released and Applied to This Year’s Oscars Nominees, with ‘Barbie’ and ‘Nyad’ Among Passing Films
Good Energy, a story consultancy that aims to simplify climate representation on screen, has teamed up with Colby College’s Buck Lab for Climate and Environment to release the Climate Reality Check — a tool to measure the representation of climate change on screen. It is inspired by the popular Bechdel-Wallace Test, which measures the representation […]
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Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson Support Oceana Amid Summer of Climate Disasters: “We Do What We Do Because Things Are Going to Be Getting Worse and Worse”
Oceana celebrated its fifth annual Rock Under the Stars event Saturday night, highlighting ocean conservation with support from Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Mary Steenburgen, Sam Waterston and headlining performer Gladys Knight. The event, held at the Los Angeles home of Oceana board president Keith Addis and wife Keri Selig, had a particularly urgent message when tied with […]
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How Studios Are Making Sustainability the Default
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). HBO Green HBO Green’s overall aim is to lower the carbon footprint and implement sustainable practices across all production. But specific to HBO and HBO Max, all of the company’s scripted fiction shows where they are the lead producer […]
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10 Eerie Documentaries About the Wonders of Planet Earth
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). We’re currently living in a golden age of panic-inducing eco-documentaries gushing facts and statistics at us about how humans are killing the planet. These didactic films are vital for grounding us in the sobering truths of climate change and […]
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The Environmental Cost of Red Carpet Fashion
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). Luxury brands often detail the effort required to create a red carpet outfit. Take Zendaya’s strapless rose Valentino confection, orchestrated by now-retired stylist Law Roach, for the SAG Awards last month. As Valentino designer Pierpaolo Piccioli noted in a […]
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Eli Roth Wants to Make His Shark Slaughter Doc ‘Fin’ a “Totally Obsolete Movie”
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). Director Eli Roth entered the documentary feature world in 2021 when he helmed and starred in Fin, an advocacy title about the forces driving the global trade in shark fins and other products derived from the increasingly threatened animals. […]
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Sustainability Issue: The Time Is Now
The sustainability movement has made strides in Hollywood, amid warnings about our climate future that have grown more urgent by the day — the most recent coming Monday from U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which warned that there’s a “rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.” In […]
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“Connected to the Land”: Inside Wendie Malick’s Remote, Sustainable Lifestyle
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). Throughout a career spanning more than 30 years, actress Wendie Malick has lived tucked away on a hillside in Topanga Canyon for more than two of those decades, happily enjoying a life beyond the buzzy lights of Hollywood. Close […]
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The Caribbean’s Newest, Super-Sustainable, Off-the-Grid Resort
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). In hospitality and beyond, greenwashing is so rampant it’s hard to discern whether a purportedly eco-friendly hotel is actually making a difference or simply claiming undue credit for eliminating plastic drinking straws. Fortunately, meaningful sustainability measures are starting to […]
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