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After 15 years starring in CBS sitcoms like Mike & Molly, Billy Gardell is back doing what he’s always done best: stand-up comedy.
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Reitman is hoping to keep the spirit of originality and showmanship alive.
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After taking a buyout from a major company, an L.A.-born producer is struggling to make ends meet.
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The question is no longer whether it will be used in Hollywood, but how widespread it will become.
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'Little Shop of Horrors' bop shoo bops in Orange County, a Big Star celebration jams at Lodge Room, Solange Knowles curates a night at the L.A. Phil and more.
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Like the writers and actors strikes of last year and the ongoing video game performer walkout, animation workers say this negotiation is critical to the fate of their industry.
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The now year-round development cycle makes showrunners “as interchangeable as lightbulbs.”
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LUMINEX 3.0 lights up downtown, an audio experience on the L.A. River, more Halloween haunts open, and Friday is National Taco Day!
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He'll also have to mind Sony's core TV business as the television landscape continues to undergo large-scale change.
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New laws and deals have made how to handle AI an urgent dilemma for Hollywood’s dealmakers.
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'Bat Boy: The Musical' opens in Santa Monica, Nights of Jack returns, Hispanic Heritage Month continues with an art show in Santa Ana, and try (gasp!) not driving to celebrate SoCal Transit Week.
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Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Claudia Puig and Peter Rainer review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.
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Earlier mergers, like Disney's 2019 acquisition of Fox, cut the number of films studios released theatrically — a troubling trend for theater owners already coping with consolidation and streaming.
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The Village Directors Circle, which bought the nearly century-old movie palace in February, will partner with American Cinematheque to operate and program the Village Theater.
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President Donald Trump continues to rage over late night comedians who make fun of him. This weekend he posted on social media that Seth Meyers has "no talent" and called for NBC to fire him.
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Nth Power jam at the Mint, the lights at Manhattan Beach Pier, Miranda July moderates a timely film screening at the LGBT Center and more of the best things to do this week.
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Rom-coms, heist flicks, a sports/horror mashup, a pair of Broadway musicals, a biopic of The Boss, festival award winners and lots of showbiz sagas — here's what NPR critics are watching this fall.
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The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
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The first three paintings sold for a record-shattering $662,000. Bonhams says the works attracted hundreds of registrations, more than twice the usual number for that type of sale.
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On FilmWeek, Larry speaks with author Samuel Garza Bernstein about his new biography Cesar Romero: The Joker is Wild.
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Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Tim Cogshell and Beandrea July review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.
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Bob Iger said his company is talking with AI companies about allowing subscribers to create their own short-form videos on Disney+.
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Emmy-nominated host and writer Baratunde Thurston explores what it means to be human in the age of AI in his upcoming show in Long Beach.
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Kim Kardashian and Naomi Watts play divorce lawyers at an all-female L.A. firm in All's Fair. The show has gotten bad reviews, but actual L.A. divorce attorneys had more generous assessments.
