Bethy Squires
Bethy Squires is a news reporter and senior writer covering entertainment for Vulture, New York Magazine’s culture vertical. She combines newsroom reporting with a background as a researcher and comedy writer, bringing a sharp, humorous angle to coverage of film, television, and pop culture. Her work extends across Vulture’s movies, theater, and blog coverage, connecting industry news, celebrity careers, and fandom moments in direct, concise stories.
Celebrity careers, franchises, and nostalgia
Squires frequently uses individual stars and franchise decisions as a way into broader entertainment trends.
In a piece titled “It’s Your Fault Sandra Bullock Doesn’t Make Rom-coms Anymore,” she looks at a major actor’s retreat from romantic comedies and ties it back to how the genre and audience expectations have shifted. In “Is Practical Magic 2 Cursed?” she returns to a cult favorite to examine the realities and anxieties around legacy sequels and nostalgic properties. Her article on George Lucas’s move into voice work, “George Lucas Says Bello to a Career in Voice Acting,” treats a familiar name as a case study in how creators reframe their careers within contemporary media.
Across these stories she frames celebrity choices and franchise developments as evidence of deeper changes in the business of entertainment and the emotional pull of nostalgia.
Streaming, industry news, and media flashpoints
On Vulture’s blog, Squires turns quick industry updates into clear, contextualized news posts. “Apple TV Finally Releasing The Savant in 2027” tracks a long-anticipated project through the streaming pipeline, focusing on timing, platform strategy, and the slow rollout of prestige and genre titles. A post on “Trump Bans CNN, MS Now, Politico From the White House” covers a political decision with direct consequences for major media outlets, treating it as a media-access story with ramifications for coverage and press freedom. Her work in these pieces sits at the intersection of politics, media, and entertainment, acknowledging how governmental decisions shape the environment in which culture is produced and reported. The mix of streaming release news and media flashpoints shows she is comfortable moving between industry logistics and high-profile clashes that affect the press corps and entertainment coverage.
Queer culture, Pride, and representation
Squires covers LGBTQ issues through the lens of celebrity participation and cultural pressure. In “Celebrities Support a Pride Month Under Attack,” she documents how public figures respond when Pride becomes a contested space, focusing on the actions and statements that signal solidarity or retreat. The piece positions Pride not just as a celebration but as a moment where cultural and political tensions are visible, using celebrity behavior as a measure of shifting support.
This thread aligns with her broader entertainment beat: representation, visibility, and the risks of engagement are treated as part of the story of modern fame and culture, rather than as separate political coverage.
Guides, fandom, and event coverage
Squires also writes service-oriented guides aimed at major fandom events and release cycles. “So You Want to See All the Trailers From SDCC 2026?” organizes San Diego Comic-Con previews into a single, accessible roundup, giving readers a way to navigate a crowded slate of genre and franchise announcements. The format shows her focus on practical value - cataloguing trailers and pointing directly to what is new or noteworthy - while still operating firmly inside the entertainment beat.
Paired with her coverage of sequels, remakes, and streaming projects, this kind of guide underscores how she tracks the lifecycle of franchises from convention floor to release calendar.
Research and comedy across outlets
Beyond Vulture, Squires maintains an active portfolio as a writer and researcher in entertainment and culture.
Her bylines span outlets including CNN, Curbed, Vice, and The Outline, extending her commentary and reporting beyond New York Magazine’s verticals. Professional bios cite past credits on projects such as Drunk History, Adam Ruins Everything, Throwing Shade, The History of Swear Words, The Story of Late Night, and The Take, reflecting deep engagement with comedy, media history, and cultural explanation. This combination of research-heavy work and comedic storytelling feeds directly into the voice of her reporting: Vulture pieces blend fact-driven explanation with wit, treating entertainment stories as opportunities to clarify how culture works as much as to recap news.
Taken together, Squires’s body of work positions her as an entertainment reporter who moves easily between celebrity career analysis, franchise and streaming news, queer cultural coverage, and fandom guides. Her coverage is distinguished by a comedic, plainly written style that still foregrounds reporting and context, informed by substantial experience as a researcher and writer across television and digital outlets.
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Adam Blevins
Adam Blevins tracks how major entertainment projects perform, stall, and evolve across theaters and streaming platforms. He is a senior author at Collider covering film, television, superhero and science-fiction franchises, and gaming-related screen projects. His core beat is box office results, streaming performance, release windows, budgets, production changes, cancellations, sequels, and franchise durability. He has written exclusives involving Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Earlier, he wrote gaming features at Screen Rant and became a senior editor at Agents of Fandom, where he interviewed talent connected to Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He also visited the set of The Chosen. His reporting is high-volume, direct, and data-driven, using metrics, release details, interviews, and production context to explain commercial prospects and fan interest.
Adele Ankers-Range
Adele Ankers-Range is a senior writer at MovieWeb who tracks streaming thrillers, book-to-screen adaptations, and industry announcements through the fan conversations around them. Writing professionally since 2015, she has also contributed to IGN, Sideshow Collectibles, Screen Rant, and other genre-focused brands. Her beat covers new and upcoming film and television titles, especially thrillers, high-concept genre releases, literary franchises, and projects moving from development to release. She reports on teaser reveals, casting, release dates, CinemaCon announcements, platform strategy, and early critical response. Her coverage often uses reception metrics such as Rotten Tomatoes scores to show how a release is landing. She returns to adaptations as they develop, following announcements, talent attachments, marketing, and final release details. Her work is fast, news-driven, concise, and attentive to fan theories, speculation, and the reasons a project matters.
Adrianna Freedman
Adrianna Freedman turns fan-driven TV and streaming moments into fast, service-focused entertainment stories for Good Housekeeping. She covers network dramas, procedurals, Hallmark titles, streaming releases and book-to-screen projects, including renewals, premiere dates, cast news, release timing, platforms and pricing. Her work centers on how developments affect committed viewers. She also reports on daytime hosts and celebrities, covering health updates, family milestones, career changes, social posts and fan response without gossip or speculation. Freedman conducts interviews and writes features on subjects such as personal books, career milestones and awards. She has written for or across Hearst titles including ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health and Town & Country, as well as Prevention and Oprah Daily. Her coverage of television, movies, music and celebrity pop culture uses clear language, concise explainers and direct, headline-driven angles.