Anthony Breznican
@brezwrites.bsky.social
Freelance reporter covering film, TV, books. Contributor @ Esquire. Co-host of The Kingcast, a Stephen King show. Formerly Vanity Fair, EW, USAToday, AP.
Author of “MCU: Timeline” and the new “Star Wars Icons: Darth Vader.”
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Author of “MCU: Timeline” and the new “Star Wars Icons: Darth Vader.”
🔗 https://linktr.ee/brezwrites
A good week to be thankful for blessings in disguise.
I could not have predicted back then how much happier I would be now.
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I could not have predicted back then how much happier I would be now.
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Vanity Fair heads in new direction after low morale, more layoffs
New VF editor Mark Guiducci sent out a sweeping staff memo announcing a major editorial pivot include nixing verticals like the Hive.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A good week to be thankful for blessings in disguise.
I could not have predicted back then how much happier I would be now.
pagesix.com/2025/08/12/c...
I could not have predicted back then how much happier I would be now.
pagesix.com/2025/08/12/c...
Shawn Levy is a great interview and a good guy. Rebecca Ford is the best too.
This is such a fun read. #StarWars fans, have at it.
This is such a fun read. #StarWars fans, have at it.
Shawn Levy and I realized we've known each other for 15 years. I got to talk to him about STAR WARS and lots of other good stuff: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
On the Set of 'Star Wars: Starfighter,' Shawn Levy’s Inner Child Is “Losing His Mind”
The 'Stranger Things' producer and 'Deadpool & Wolverine' director still can’t quite believe he got tapped to make a new 'Star Wars' movie, starring Ryan Gosling.
www.vanityfair.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Shawn Levy is a great interview and a good guy. Rebecca Ford is the best too.
This is such a fun read. #StarWars fans, have at it.
This is such a fun read. #StarWars fans, have at it.
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love having Eric at MovieWeb, and his look back at the second Ewoks movie is a real fun read
Today is the 40th anniversary of Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, and for @movie-web.bsky.social, I wrote about how wild it is that it opens by unceremoniously killing off of the blatant Luke Skywalker surrogate hero from the first Ewok TV-Movie. #StarWars
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November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
love having Eric at MovieWeb, and his look back at the second Ewoks movie is a real fun read
The writing here is sharp and funny. Josh Rosenberg captured Joe Keery perfectly.
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The writing here is sharp and funny. Josh Rosenberg captured Joe Keery perfectly.
Toxic masculinity is a problem. But we could use more stories of honorable masculinity.
#TrainDreams is a powerful example.🌳
Guys will love it. Women will adore it too. A good watch together.
#TrainDreams is a powerful example.🌳
Guys will love it. Women will adore it too. A good watch together.
Every Man Needs To See 'Train Dreams'
The new Netflix movie, which stars Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, isn't just one of the year's best. It's critical viewing.
www.esquire.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Toxic masculinity is a problem. But we could use more stories of honorable masculinity.
#TrainDreams is a powerful example.🌳
Guys will love it. Women will adore it too. A good watch together.
#TrainDreams is a powerful example.🌳
Guys will love it. Women will adore it too. A good watch together.
This is a wonderful Q&A.
Train Dreams is one of my favorites of the year, and Tomris gets Kerry Condon and Felicity Jones to talk beautifully about its emotional power.
Train Dreams is one of my favorites of the year, and Tomris gets Kerry Condon and Felicity Jones to talk beautifully about its emotional power.
Felicity Jones & Kerry Condon don’t share any scenes in TRAIN DREAMS, one of my absolute favorites this year. But the characters they play jointly represent the film’s soulful themes that I hold close. A joy to interview them, for VOGUE: www.vogue.com/article/feli...
Felicity Jones and Kerry Condon on the Moving Naturalism of ‘Train Dreams’
www.vogue.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is a wonderful Q&A.
Train Dreams is one of my favorites of the year, and Tomris gets Kerry Condon and Felicity Jones to talk beautifully about its emotional power.
Train Dreams is one of my favorites of the year, and Tomris gets Kerry Condon and Felicity Jones to talk beautifully about its emotional power.
This just made me stand up and shout.
Mike Hogan was an excellent boss. More of this, please. Good things coming to good people.
Mike Hogan was an excellent boss. More of this, please. Good things coming to good people.
The Gotham’s Filmmaker Magazine to Be Rebooted Under Vanity Fair Veteran Mike Hogan (Exclusive)
The magazine produced by The Gotham Film & Media Institute is seeking a content director and pursuing a live event strategy under Hogan's leadership.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This just made me stand up and shout.
Mike Hogan was an excellent boss. More of this, please. Good things coming to good people.
Mike Hogan was an excellent boss. More of this, please. Good things coming to good people.
Let’s reassess “Deliver Me From Nowhere.” It deserved better.
Scott Cooper’s film is more than the story of an album. It’s about the value of sometimes going it alone.
We don’t talk about that very much.
Scott Cooper’s film is more than the story of an album. It’s about the value of sometimes going it alone.
We don’t talk about that very much.
'Deliver Me From Nowhere' Is Wildly Misunderstood—By Both Critics and Audiences
The Bruce Springsteen biopic was meant to kickstart a long Oscar campaign for Jeremy Allen White. It hasn't, because everyone is missing what actually makes the film about 'Nebraska' great.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Let’s reassess “Deliver Me From Nowhere.” It deserved better.
Scott Cooper’s film is more than the story of an album. It’s about the value of sometimes going it alone.
We don’t talk about that very much.
Scott Cooper’s film is more than the story of an album. It’s about the value of sometimes going it alone.
We don’t talk about that very much.
Three years ago, Chris Hemsworth discovered that he had the genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's disease.
He trusted me @VanityFair to tell that story.
Now today we have the update at Esquire. This is how a father and son are facing the inevitable together.
He trusted me @VanityFair to tell that story.
Now today we have the update at Esquire. This is how a father and son are facing the inevitable together.
Chris Hemsworth Has Feared Alzheimer's. Now His Dad Has It.
In an exclusive conversation, the star opens up about trying to outpace the diagnosis together.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Three years ago, Chris Hemsworth discovered that he had the genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's disease.
He trusted me @VanityFair to tell that story.
Now today we have the update at Esquire. This is how a father and son are facing the inevitable together.
He trusted me @VanityFair to tell that story.
Now today we have the update at Esquire. This is how a father and son are facing the inevitable together.
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65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
Stephen King talked to me about The Running Man, and a gag TV show he included while writing it in the early-‘70s that was called “Swim With Alligators.”🐊
Would something like that air today? It would.
It actually HAS.
But when Joe Rogan did it, the contestants also wore bikinis.👙
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Would something like that air today? It would.
It actually HAS.
But when Joe Rogan did it, the contestants also wore bikinis.👙
More⬇️
All the Weird Things 'The Running Man' Predicted About 2025
Even Stephen King is aghast at what he guessed correctly when he penned the dystopian novel in the early 1970s.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Stephen King talked to me about The Running Man, and a gag TV show he included while writing it in the early-‘70s that was called “Swim With Alligators.”🐊
Would something like that air today? It would.
It actually HAS.
But when Joe Rogan did it, the contestants also wore bikinis.👙
More⬇️
Would something like that air today? It would.
It actually HAS.
But when Joe Rogan did it, the contestants also wore bikinis.👙
More⬇️
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I've liked all of Osgood's movies to varying degrees. KEEPER is the one I really can't stop thinking about. There are some images and ideas in this one that feel like pure deep nightmare language.
A dark trip from Osgood Perkins. KEEPER opens tonight, Thursday November 13th, at the New Bev. Catch it this weekend in 35mm.
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I've liked all of Osgood's movies to varying degrees. KEEPER is the one I really can't stop thinking about. There are some images and ideas in this one that feel like pure deep nightmare language.
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i like Osgood Perkins' movies more than most, and the same is true of Keeper, which hinges on an incredible performance from Tatiana Maslany:
Tatiana Maslany Brings the House Down in 'Keeper'
The director of 'Longlegs' and 'The Monkey' is back with another horror movie you'll either love or hate.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
i like Osgood Perkins' movies more than most, and the same is true of Keeper, which hinges on an incredible performance from Tatiana Maslany:
Chris Chalk is extraordinary on #IT Welcome to Derry.🎈
We talk about all the revelations of Dick Hallorann, whom Stephen King himself brought over from The Shining to Derry.
An Esquire Q&A:
We talk about all the revelations of Dick Hallorann, whom Stephen King himself brought over from The Shining to Derry.
An Esquire Q&A:
An Icon from ‘The Shining’ Returns in ‘It: Welcome to Derry.’ What Are His Secrets?
Chris Chalk knows you’ll see some Scatman Crothers in his turn as Dick Hallorann—but there are also traces of Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
www.esquire.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Chris Chalk is extraordinary on #IT Welcome to Derry.🎈
We talk about all the revelations of Dick Hallorann, whom Stephen King himself brought over from The Shining to Derry.
An Esquire Q&A:
We talk about all the revelations of Dick Hallorann, whom Stephen King himself brought over from The Shining to Derry.
An Esquire Q&A:
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Guess who has a story in the new issue of Weird Tales Magazine? That’s right! Me, and a whole lot of other terrific authors! Snag a copy at weirdtales.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Guess who has a story in the new issue of Weird Tales Magazine? That’s right! Me, and a whole lot of other terrific authors! Snag a copy at weirdtales.com
Katherine Stoeffel did a good job with this interview. Curious, sincere and insightful. Sweeney is guarded, but I got the sense that she answered honestly.
That’s what reporters do. They ask.
They help people—both audience, and subject—see where the other is coming from.
That’s what reporters do. They ask.
They help people—both audience, and subject—see where the other is coming from.
In an exclusive interview with GQ, Sydney Sweeney goes on the record about her jeans ad, and what it was like to land, unexpectedly, at the center of a strange national political discourse www.gq.com/story/sydney...
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Katherine Stoeffel did a good job with this interview. Curious, sincere and insightful. Sweeney is guarded, but I got the sense that she answered honestly.
That’s what reporters do. They ask.
They help people—both audience, and subject—see where the other is coming from.
That’s what reporters do. They ask.
They help people—both audience, and subject—see where the other is coming from.
#Frankenstein
A tragedy about fathers and children. And much more.
@realgdt.bsky.social built a cathedral here.
A tragedy about fathers and children. And much more.
@realgdt.bsky.social built a cathedral here.
Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' Will Be Considered a Classic For Lifetimes to Come
See it on the big screen. See it with your kid. See it right now. Just see it!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
#Frankenstein
A tragedy about fathers and children. And much more.
@realgdt.bsky.social built a cathedral here.
A tragedy about fathers and children. And much more.
@realgdt.bsky.social built a cathedral here.
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It’s the pod we were born to record! Mallory Rubin and I break down tv and film’s top musical moments of the century so far.
WE CRIED.
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WE CRIED.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zPt...
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It’s the pod we were born to record! Mallory Rubin and I break down tv and film’s top musical moments of the century so far.
WE CRIED.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zPt...
WE CRIED.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zPt...
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I’m so psyched for this! Right now I’m frantically trying to finish up a few new additions—and there’s also one proposed feature to this release that means so much to me I actually can’t allow myself to think about it until it’s done—but in the meantime, getcher preordering fingers a-whirling!
Cover reveal time! I KNOW A PLACE: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours is a new collection by @natcassidy.bsky.social featuring over a dozen stories, novelettes, and a novella!
The cover was designed by @alandistro.bsky.social
I KNOW A PLACE is out everywhere on May 5, 2026!
The cover was designed by @alandistro.bsky.social
I KNOW A PLACE is out everywhere on May 5, 2026!
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I’m so psyched for this! Right now I’m frantically trying to finish up a few new additions—and there’s also one proposed feature to this release that means so much to me I actually can’t allow myself to think about it until it’s done—but in the meantime, getcher preordering fingers a-whirling!
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TIME to fall back and set yo clocks back one hour tonite,!!
a man wearing a green hat and a red hat is making a face
Alt: Flavor flav throws on some sunglasses
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November 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
TIME to fall back and set yo clocks back one hour tonite,!!
Love that this show’s dark heart continues to beat.
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Still absolutely floored by the genius writing and pacing of Mike Flanagan’s FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, half prestige drama and half Poe-flavored horror show. It’s seriously so good and so underrated, go watch it!!
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Love that this show’s dark heart continues to beat.
💀 🖤
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Happy Halloween from beyond a galaxy far, far away! I hope everyone has a frighteningly fun day. Eat some candy, watch some spooky movies, and read some scary Star Wars stories. Enjoy…and beware!
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Happy Halloween from beyond a galaxy far, far away! I hope everyone has a frighteningly fun day. Eat some candy, watch some spooky movies, and read some scary Star Wars stories. Enjoy…and beware!
This is wonderful, spooky fare for Oct. 31.
I had forgotten about what amounts to "choose-your-own-adventure" endings.
Great recap by @brianjayjones.com 🎃
I had forgotten about what amounts to "choose-your-own-adventure" endings.
Great recap by @brianjayjones.com 🎃
Halloween means it's time to revisit one of the first Great American Horror Stories, Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," a story so familiar to us that most can summarize the story even if they've never read it.
Or can they?
There's more to it than you might remember. Take a look:
Or can they?
There's more to it than you might remember. Take a look:
The Real “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
As I discussed here yesterday, Washington Irving’s tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is one of those true rarities in American literature — a tale nearly all of us can summ…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is wonderful, spooky fare for Oct. 31.
I had forgotten about what amounts to "choose-your-own-adventure" endings.
Great recap by @brianjayjones.com 🎃
I had forgotten about what amounts to "choose-your-own-adventure" endings.
Great recap by @brianjayjones.com 🎃
Happy Halloween! 🎃
"I Was a Suburban Zombie!" 🧟♂️
A few years ago, when we were still new to town, my wife told me: "You've got to meet Diane's husband Allan. He's the first zombie in history to say, 'Braaaiiiiinnns....!'"
This is his story. And the story of Tarman.
@allantrautman.bsky.social
"I Was a Suburban Zombie!" 🧟♂️
A few years ago, when we were still new to town, my wife told me: "You've got to meet Diane's husband Allan. He's the first zombie in history to say, 'Braaaiiiiinnns....!'"
This is his story. And the story of Tarman.
@allantrautman.bsky.social
Inside the Strange True Story of the Tarman in 'Return of the Living Dead'
Allan Trautman played the decomposing monster in the 1985 cult classic. Forty years later, the mild-mannered dad remains forever stuck with his icky creation.
www.esquire.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃
"I Was a Suburban Zombie!" 🧟♂️
A few years ago, when we were still new to town, my wife told me: "You've got to meet Diane's husband Allan. He's the first zombie in history to say, 'Braaaiiiiinnns....!'"
This is his story. And the story of Tarman.
@allantrautman.bsky.social
"I Was a Suburban Zombie!" 🧟♂️
A few years ago, when we were still new to town, my wife told me: "You've got to meet Diane's husband Allan. He's the first zombie in history to say, 'Braaaiiiiinnns....!'"
This is his story. And the story of Tarman.
@allantrautman.bsky.social
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Probably one of the coolest Steelbook cases I've ever seen.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Probably one of the coolest Steelbook cases I've ever seen.
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