Arts & Entertainment

What’s playing? From ‘To Live and Die in L.A.’ to ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox,’ here’s our weekend movie picks around LA

From bookstore romances to Spider-Man and beautiful stop-motion animation, there’s something for everyone this weekend.

Three movie posters, one featuring an anime warrior and giant wolf, one featuring two people in business clothes, and one featuring a shadowy figure in front of a sunset with a briefcase.

Proliferation of AI deep fakes has Hollywood agents engaged in whack-a-mole

WME has been among the agencies taking action, working with companies that deploy AI to fight AI fakes.

In a crowd, a older white man with a beard hold a black and yellow signs that says "NO A.I." as others demonstrate on a sidewalk.

Hollywood's elite earners grow concerned for next generation as financial woes continue

All the power lies with the streamers, and yet most are shrinking their series and film commissions.

Best things to do this weekend in Los Angeles and Southern California: August 23 - 25

Hungry Ghost Festival in Chinatown, Michael Feinstein conducts California favorites, a Beatles talk, half-off burgers at Barney’s Beanery, and more.

Two girls standing on a cornhole board holding up seltzers.

Sports, legacy media deals disrupted by last-minute curveballs

Venu, co-owned by three studios, had plans to make it easier for sports fans to avoid linear TV, but those have now been made more difficult.

Art show explores sci-fi, the occult and queer history in mid-20th century LA

Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation runs Aug. 22 - Nov. 23 at USC’s Fisher Museum of Art

A woman with short red hair and long fingernails stairs directly into the camera.

Best things to do this week in Los Angeles and Southern California: August 19 - 22

Hello Kitty night at Dodger Stadium, Mike Birbiglia at the Largo, a new show at Gabba Gallery, Eagle Rock Brewery Battle of the Bands, and more.

Dodger player Yoshinobu Yamamoto takes a photo with Hello Kitty also dressed like a dodger.

Meet the songwriter who leaked her own album with stickers across LA

Maude Latour introduces herself to Los Angeles with her debut album, "Sugar Water."

A person with blond, medium-length hair and a white tank top with the number '94' looks up at the camera from the side of a freeway

There are 2 new TV shows with primates at the center. Which one are critics going bananas for?

One of the creators of Tiger King is back with another examination of human-wildlife relationships in HBO's Chimp Crazy. Plus, we look at Bad Monkey starring Vince Vaughn, the new season of Emily in Paris and more.

A woman in a pink shirt and voluminous blonde wavy hair stairs at a chimpanzee through a clear dividing wall.

How Sony, Lionsgate became Hollywood's 'arms dealers'

Sony and Lionsgate’s strategy of sticking with traditional film and TV studios, as they were before the streaming boom, has largely served them well.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling dance on a hilltop with a scenic view of Los Angeles in the background in the film "La La Land."

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