ABOUT
Variety.com deputy editor Anne Thompson writes a weekly Variety film column as well as this daily blog.
From January 2005 through February, 2007, she was deputy film editor of
The Hollywood Reporter, where she wrote the weekly column "Risky Business," which was globally syndicated by Reuters. She has contributed to
Premiere,
Wired,
Filmmaker,
New York Magazine,
The New York Times,
The Washington Post, and
The London Observer. From 1996 to 2002, she headed
Premiere's Los Angeles bureau as West Coast Editor. Before joining
Premiere, she tracked behind-the-scenes Hollywood as a senior writer at
Entertainment Weekly and as West Coast Editor at
Film Comment Magazine. From 1985 to 1993, she wrote the first iteration of "Risky Business" for
L.A. Weekly and
The Los Angeles Times Syndicate. A graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, Thompson teaches Sneak Previews at UCLA Extension.
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anne.thompson@variety.com)