Movie lovers, you will have one more venue at which to feast your eyes on favorite flicks this summer thanks to the impending debut of a new open-air theatre in Hollywood run by the folks who bring us the Oscars. more ›

"The Avengers" movie made Hollywood history raking in a record-breaking $207.4 million at the box office during its opening weekend. more ›

Sunday afternoon marked the celebration of literary journal "Black Clock 15"—a robust, full-color issue devoted to all things cinema. The brainchild of novelist Steve Erickson, Black Clock is self-ascribed as “singular, idiosyncratic, and a little mysterious”—a mantra that precisely mirrors the tone of Sunday’s reading. more ›

Feeling nostalgic for an era gone by in Hollywood? Thanks to the popularity of the Oscar-winning sensation "The Artist," folks might be looking back at the silver screen's golden age a bit more closely, and this film is all about what the movie biz was all about in Los Angeles in 1927. And, yep, it's silent. more ›

Movie lovers can celebrate the legacy of the silver screen and honor the 85th anniversary of the city's iconic Grauman's Chinese Theatre with a special screening series of films. The best part: You can get your ticket for the throwback 1927 price of 25 cents. more ›

The late Dino De Laurentiis' legacy as producer extraordinaire spans decades, continents and genres. This weekend, USC's Visions and Voices Initiative offers a fittingly epic tribute. Friday kicks off the festivities with a classic Italian cheese and beefcake buffet, when Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy (1968) is paired with the original Conan the Barbarian (1982). more ›

The historic Carthay Circle Theatre, once a crowning spire on the landscape of the Mid-Wilshire area, will rise again, but in an entirely different locale. Disney California Adventure Park will be home to a version of the iconic old-school movie palace, where Disney's 1937 animated classic "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" had its premiere once upon a time. more ›

Robert B. Sherman, who along with his brother wrote songs for films long considered classics, has died. He was 86. more ›

One way to keep cool from the impending spring and summer heat is to duck inside a movie theatre and take in a show. Thanks to the L.A. Conservancy's popular "Last Remaining Seats" film series, you can slip into the dark and go back in time by checking out classic films in historic Los Angeles movie palaces. more ›

Inspired by the popularity of the Academy Award-nominated film "The Artist," the Associated Press takes a look at the remnants of the Silent Screen Era in Los Angeles. more ›

Angeleno cinephiles, and people who want to go out and have fun Monday nights, there's a new event starting this month that should tickle your fancy. Unique LA is launching a Monthly Monday Movie Night at the Echoplex, and all the flicks shown take place in Los Angeles. more ›

We're counting down the days until the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announces the final list of Oscar nominees. Whether or not you work in show business, you've seen "For Your Consideration" banners plaster web pages, publications & even buses. But these are for feature films & performers. What about the shorts? more ›

Nominees for the Writers Guild Awards were announced today by the Writers Guild of America (WGA), honoring the men and women who pen the stories, characters and reports the world later becomes smitten by on the silver screen, television sets and via the radio waves. more ›

You may still be compiling your list of the best in film and television of this year, but the American Film Institute has just released their selection of what they're hailing as the 10 best movies and television programs of 2011. more ›

"This is Hollywood: A place, an industry, a state of mind," begins the narration from this 1946 short film promoting visiting sunny Southern California's movie making and outdoorsy paradise. more ›

YouTube user hatinhand watched (or at least scanned) all the domestic releases that came out this year from The Adjustment Bureau to Zookeeper and edited clips from each in a 7-minute supercut. more ›

Failed negotiations for the lease for the AMC Avco Center 4 in Westwood mean the movie theatre is going to shut down on Sunday. AMC was unable to come to agreeable lease renewal terms with the landlord, Avco Corp., reports the LA Times' Company Town blog. more ›

In the city built in part by the film biz, it's surprising we don't have a definitive film museum. Now, the pairing of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) means we are on the way to getting a movie museum. more ›

South Pasadena High School student Miranda Gontz put together this great short documentary on the Rialto Theatre, which finally closed its doors to the public in early 2010. As shared today by South Pasadena Patch, the video tells the story of the once-grand movie house through use of interviews, historic images, period footage, and artifacts. more ›

Paramount Studios, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue since 1926, is prepping one helluva production: A $700 million property upgrade that will happen over 25 years. The historic studios have called this the "Hollywood Project," according to the Hollywood Reporter. more ›

Sometimes scrubbed from view entirely, Dan Meth has created a montage of the Twin Towers' 40-year run on the big screen. more ›

The eighth annual Artivist Film Festival, produced by the nonprofit Artivist Collective, Inc., premieres this Thursday, August 18, at The Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Dedicated to raising awareness for international human rights, children's advocacy, environmental preservation and the human treatment of animals, the festival screens films that expose such topics, drawing crowds of environmentalists, philanthropists, humanitarians and artists. more ›

After die-hard fans in Southern California camped out for days, the final "Harry Potter" movie did not disappoint studio executives, reports Forbes. Grossing $43.5 million, the film became the highest-earning midnight debut ever. Wizards beat vampires in the epic showdown, with "Harry Potter" out-grossing "Twilight"'s midnight debut by over $13 million. more ›

Your days of enjoying a combo plan of getting a disc or two via those red envelopes in the mail and streaming content from California-based Netflix are numbered, kids. Starting September 1, the popular site is implementing separate plans for streaming and physical disc borrowing. more ›

Paramount partnered with Twitter to offer not-so-secret screenings of "Super 8" in over 300 theaters nationwide this Thursday -- one day before its official release. Fueled by the promoted trend #Super8Movie (i.e. ad) on Twitter, anyone who wishes to see the J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg flick on Thursday can purchase advance tickets now. The movie officially opens nationwide Friday. more ›

On this day in 1933 the first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, NJ. For your video lunch consumption is piece about Culver City's legendary Studio Drive In. John Travolta also explored the experience of the automovie in a musical number featuring drive-in dust, rejection, dancing wieners and abandonment. Guess even that big, bright screen has a dark side. more ›

The general pitch at Google I/O 2011 was this: Use Google's web-based tools and applications, combine with seemingly infinite storage space in the cloud, and bulky hard drives and desktop PC's will become remnants of our technological evolution. A Google account combined with a device running Android or Chrome OS will be all you need to do [almost] anything. more ›

Barre's newest resident, Jackie Tohn's, "There's a Big Show in Here" is more animated than a Saturday morning cartoon, funnier than a barrel of funny things and is clinically proven to stop your spring doldrums in a single bound. A musical story of guts and glory, the voice that launched a thousand, "Wow I wish I could sing like thats" is all yours, for a limited time. more ›

The FBI have conducted a raid on the Los Angeles apartment of an actor they believe uploaded theatrical releases like "The King's Speech," "127 Hours, " "The Fighter, " and "Black Swan," to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, according to Wired. Wes DeSoto, a member of the Screen Actor's Guild, was allegedly the first person to upload those titles to the site in January. more ›