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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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The chain's chairman and former CEO Dan Cathy co-owns Trilith Studios, the Atlanta-based backlot that has housed many Marvel productions.
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AI videos have improved at a disturbingly rapid clip, with dedicated social media accounts generating huge audiences.
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Classic films screen at Cinecon, Japanese car enthusiasts head to the Petersen, Fool in Love features big music names at Hollywood Park and more.
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Free comedy night at NeueHouse, Alison Saar at the Getty, Bayou jams in San Juan Capistrano, and more.
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The 91-year-old Laguna Beach tradition is tableau vivant on fire.
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There is no shortage of TV dramas to add to your queue this week, including the second season of Pachinko, plus one of the most admired police dramas from the 90s, which makes its streaming debut. The streaming gods have answered fans' prayers.
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Hungry Ghost Festival in Chinatown, Michael Feinstein conducts California favorites, a Beatles talk, half-off burgers at Barney’s Beanery, and more.
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WME has been among the agencies taking action, working with companies that deploy AI to fight AI fakes.
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From bookstore romances to Spider-Man and beautiful stop-motion animation, there’s something for everyone this weekend.
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All the power lies with the streamers, and yet most are shrinking their series and film commissions.
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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.
