Anthony Breznican is a film journalist and is currently the Senior Hollywood Correspondent for
Vanity Fair. Previously, he spent eight years as a senior staff writer for
Entertainment Weekly, six years at
USA Today and seven years at the
Associated Press. He specializes in covering tentpole franchises such as
Star Wars,
Marvel, and
DC. Breznican also had his own
SiriusXM show for six years, "Behind the Scenes with Anthony Breznican," Sirius XM 105, EW Radio, every Wednesday at 6 p.m. Eastern. His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, CNN, Essence Magazine, Playboy Magazine, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and more. Breznican had the Vanity Fair June 2022 cover story,
Star Wars: The Rebellion Will Be Televised, shot by famed photographer,
Annie Liebovitz. He has written notably about personal remembrances of
Philip Seymour Hoffman and
Fred Rogers of ''
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', following the deaths of Hoffman and Rogers. In June 2014 he published a novel,
Brutal Youth, with the
Thomas Dunne imprint of
St. Martin's Press. Author
Stephen King offered a quote for the book's cover saying, "If you thought high school was hell, has Anthony Breznican got a story for you..." Set in a small mill town in
Pennsylvania,
Brutal Youth tells the story of three freshman students at St. Mike's Catholic School - Peter Davidek, Noah Stein, and Lorelai Paskal. The trio are trying to survive their first year at the school, which is known for its extreme
hazing and
bullying from the upperclassmen.
Brutal Youth, inspired by events from Breznican's own childhood, was praised by Kevin Nance in
USA Today as being timely "in this era of heightened consciousness about bullying and its occasionally horrific consequences on high school and college campuses." Nance called it a "bluntly effective
debut novel" and "crackling good entertainment." Reviewing the novel for
Library Journal, Jan Blodgett said "Breznican captures a perfect balance of horror, heartbreak, and resilience" in his depiction of a
Catholic high school fraught with
hazing. == Personal life ==