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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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A new report shows 2023 was far from Hollywood’s ‘Year of the Woman’: Despite Barbie and The Little Mermaid, the report shows fewer women dominated last year's top 100 movies than the year before.
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An Elliott Smith tribute show, suspense writers on tricks of the trade, Clue opens at the Ahmanson and more.
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Moctesuma Esparza, the director and producer, Emmy-award winner and community activist known is launching a new movie theater tailored for the Latino community called Milagro Cinema.
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It's the eighth Olympics for Brad Jay.
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The repatriation of cultural artifacts comes amid growing calls for museums to return items sought by descendants.
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Why critics are loving these two Spanish-language series, plus other shows they recommend checking out this week.
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Last week’s $1 trillion selloff of AI stocks has many questioning whether the promises of the technology will actually come to bear.
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From horror to romance to gross-out stunts, there’s something for everyone playing this weekend.
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In an excerpt from the forthcoming edition, Ken Basin covers what has happened to the business in the last six years.
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His new superhero tentpole had a dynamite opening weekend and is on track to blow past the $1 billion mark.
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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.
