Environment
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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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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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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How to Green-ify Awards Season
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). As the 2023 awards season fades into the rearview mirror, it’s time to look past the big winners and red carpet moments to the long-lasting environmental impact of major awards shows, and how it can be improved going forward. […]
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Behind Netflix and GM’s Plan to Give EVs More Screen Time
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). On Super Bowl Sunday, Netflix and GM ran a joint ad, “EVs On Screen,” which featured Will Ferrell driving through a variety of Netflix shows in a variety of General Motors electric vehicles: a Cadillac Lyriq in Bridgerton, a Sierra […]
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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 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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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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Good Energy Expands to Incorporate Sustainability Consulting and Workshops
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). Since Anna Jane Joyner started Good Energy, an open-source playbook for increasing narrative portrayals of climate change in scripts, in April 2022, the project has expanded beyond a document for screenwriters into a broader resource for climate conversations and […]
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Two New Studios Represent the Future of Green Filmmaking
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). Going green in the film industry has gone from a vague ambition to an absolute necessity as the extent of Hollywood’s carbon footprint becomes impossible to ignore and as governments in Europe begin to make sustainability a factor in […]
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Hollywood Flashback: ‘Soylent Green’ Depicted an Overpopulated Planet With a Dark Secret
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). In 1970, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day. One of the more alarming predictions that day was from Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, who foresaw a future in which “population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small […]
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