How to Become a Celebrity in 2024

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( stardom [How to Become a Celebrity in 2024]( After a dry period, a new crop of A-listers is rising in Hollywood — and doing it differently this time. Illustration: Pedro Nekoi For a while, it was conventional wisdom: Hollywood had lost the ability to make new movie stars. The cultural machinery that once turned actors into icons was broken and seemingly unfixable. Studios had given up on the medium-budget character-driven films that produced the A-listers of previous generations. Instead, they bet the farm on sequels, superheroes, and other franchise IP, which were easier to market but stifling to the humans wearing the unitards. Marvel movies grossed billions at the box office but couldn’t make audiences care about Chris Hemsworth or Tom Holland when they weren’t playing Avengers. Performers like Saoirse Ronan and Lucas Hedges impressed in smaller films but kept the public at arm’s length. Meanwhile, the entire concept of stardom was being cheapened by nobodies from TikTok and reality TV. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • Abbott Elementary: [School’s Out]( • Top Chef: Wisconsin: [Family-Reunion Time]( • Survivor: [We Who Are About to Rock]( • Hacks: [Do You Believe in Christmas Miracles?]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [The Best Movie at Cannes This Year Is an Oddball Canadian Comedy Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.]( [Abbott Elementary Crossed the Will-They-or-Won’t-They Threshold The latest step in Janine and Gregory’s romantic journey begins the same way as their sitcom predecessors’: with a closed door reopening.]( By Roxana Hadadi [A Night at Cannes With the Strippers of Sean Baker’s Anora The breakout stars on making it in Hollywood “not in spite of being a sex worker but because of it.”]( By Rachel Handler [Fire Jeff Probst It’s time for Survivor’s stalwart host to hang up his buff for good.]( By Brian Moylan [Jerry Saltz’s Favorite Bad Television Shows The ones he secretly loves and records and watches five or six episodes in a row of, alone.]( By Jerry Saltz [Nothing Can Keep Megan Thee Stallion Down Her Hot Girl Summer Tour is a joyful counter to the detractors who’ve claimed she’s “not an arena artist.”]( By Shamira Ibrahim [Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau, the Babes Babes, on Motherhood and Poop “There is so little art out there that uses what is uniquely a woman’s experience as hard comedy.”]( By Matthew Jacobs [Live Nation ‘Is Breaking the Law,’ DOJ Says in Antitrust Lawsuit In response, the company said the suit “will lose in court.”]( By Justin Curto [A Spoofy Podcast Builds Upon Its Poopy First Season “We might go back to fecal matter every other season.”]( By Nicholas Quah [Céline Dion Is Documenting Her Journey With Stiff-Person Syndrome “I’m working hard every day, but I have to admit it’s a struggle,” she says in the trailer for I Am: Celine Dion.]( By Jennifer Zhan [Cassie Asks Everyone to ‘Believe Victims the First Time’ “Domestic Violence is THE issue,” she said in new statement following release of the graphic 2016 footage.]( By Zoe Guy [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Games [Today’s Crossword]( 11-Across, 5 Letters: Sporty or Baby Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images [Today’s Cinematrix]( Can you name an Oscar-nominated Nicolas Cage movie? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Steve Granitz/WireImage, Karwai Tang/WireImage, Dave J Hogan/Getty Images A newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race, for subscribers only. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved