Katey Rich

4 days ago | theankler.com | Sean McNulty |Katey Rich |Christopher Rosen

Sean McNulty, Katey Rich and Ankler deputy editor Christopher Rosen are shaking their heads over the weekend’s biggest box-office story: Elio’s struggle. The Pixar animated movie opened with just $21 million in North America, the lowest debut total ever for a Pixar release.

6 days ago | theankler.com | Katey Rich

Brian Tyree Henrywasn’t ready for another TV show, and he really wasn’t ready for another TV show in which he had to hold a gun or deal with grief. Henry, who was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., and attended the Yale School of Drama after graduating from Morehouse College in 2004, broke out in 2016 on Atlanta in an Emmy-nominated role, earned an Oscar nomination for the Jennifer Lawrence drama Causeway and starred on the action-heavy series Class of ’09.

1 week ago | theankler.com | Katey Rich

Today’s the end of my 5-part series about the major trends dominating Emmy season — I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have! ICYMI, I talked about billionaires puppeteering the president, shows putting L.A. in the spotlight, ambitious cinematography that got everyone talking and the on-and-offscreen pairings that made TV feel like one big reunion.

1 week ago | theankler.com | Katey Rich

This week, with Emmy voting fully underway, I’m bringing you a five-part series about the overarching trends I’ve noticed among a lot of this year’s best television shows. TV is a deliberately broad, something-for-everyone medium. Still, there are undeniable connections that emerge each year, revealing what’s on the mind of Hollywood and what it believes the audience might be thinking, too.

1 week ago | theankler.com | Katey Rich

Today marks the midway point of my five-part series on Emmy trends (read the earlier parts here and here), and in case yesterday’s excellent news about honorary Oscars has you distracted, a reminder: It’s still Emmy voting time! If you’ve got a ballot in your inbox, it is your duty to catch up on the shows worthy of consideration — and you could do a whole lot worse than starting with the ones I’m featuring today.