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Comic-Con canceled over coronavirus, plans 2021 return

LOS ANGELES – This year’s San Diego Comic-Con has been canceled because of coronavirus-related restrictions around large gatherings. Organizers say they are planning for the festival to retu...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for ‘Jackie Brown,’ dies at 78

LOS ANGELES – Robert Forster, the handsome and omnipresent character actor who got a career resurgence and Oscar nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry in “Jackie Brown,” died Frida...

DATE: Oct 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Everyone talking about ‘Joker’

LOS ANGELES – There may be no such thing as bad publicity, but the spotlight on “Joker” is testing the limits of that old cliché. The origin story about the classic Batman villain...

DATE: Oct 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

For Timothée Chalamet, becoming ‘The King’ was terrifying

VENICE, Italy – Timothée Chalamet is already one of the most acclaimed young actors working today, but he says that the prospect playing young Henry V in “The King” was terrifying. ...

DATE: Sep 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘It: Chapter Two’ cast talks intense shoot

SAN DIEGO – “It: Chapter Two” is not taking it easy on the grown losers’ club if the new trailer is any indication, and the shoot itself doesn’t sound much calmer than battling a demonic clo...

DATE: Jul 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The Rise of Skywalker’ is title for next ‘Star Wars’ film

“No one is ever really gone,” says the voice of Luke Skywalker in the first teaser trailer for “Star Wars: Episode IX,” which audiences finally learned will be called “Star Wars: The Rise of...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Andre Previn, Oscar-winning composer, has died at 89

Andre Previn, the pianist, composer and conductor whose broad reach took in the worlds of Hollywood, jazz and classical music, always rejecting suggestions that his bop ’n’ blues moonlightin...

DATE: Feb 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Sundance adds documentary about Michael Jackson accusers

LOS ANGELES – Sundance said Wednesday that a documentary about two boys who accused Michael Jackson of sexual abuse will premiere at its film festival later this month, while the Jackson est...

DATE: Jan 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

A revamped Oscars

LOS ANGELES – The Oscars are adding a new category to honor popular films and promising a brisk 3-hour ceremony and a much earlier air date in 2020. John Bailey, the newly re-elec...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Call Me By Your Name’ leads Indie Spirit Award nominations

LOS ANGELES – The romantic coming-of-age film “Call Me By Your Name” has a leading six Film Independent Spirit Award nominations, followed by Jordan Peele’s satirical horror “Get Out” and th...

DATE: Nov 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Disney Animation, Pixar chief John Lasseter taking leave

LOS ANGELES – Just days before Pixar’s “Coco” is set to hit theaters, Pixar co-founder and Walt Disney Animation chief John Lasseter announced he is taking a six-month leave of absence citin...

DATE: Nov 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hundreds in Hollywood march against sexual harassment

LOS ANGELES – Armed with signs, catchy phrases and a motivation to take #MeToo beyond the internet and into real life, a few hundred women, men and children gathered Sunday among the sex sho...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World