A number of entertainment companies, including Pixar, Amazon Prime Video, Universal Music Group and Twitch, are facing layoffs in the new year.
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The move was repeatedly delayed by winds, but crews eventually raised the massive tank. However, gusts postponed the final installation, which should resume tonight.
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Isabela Merced has been cast to play Dina in HBO’s “The Last of Us.” She will join Kaitlyn Dever, who will portray Abby, and Young Mazino, playing Jesse, in the second season of the post-apocalyptic drama.
‘The Last of Us’ has found its Jesse. Young Mazino has been cast to play the young community leader and Ellie’s friend in HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama series.
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Cue Ariana DeBose! Angela Bassett had a big night at the Governors Awards Tuesday, picking up her first Oscar and thanking presenter Regina King with a kiss.
Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani, the co-founders of Hillman Grad, on why studios should place their bets on smaller-budget films from new filmmakers.
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How wealthy Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris joined forces with Hunter Biden to help the president’s son face his legal and personal problems.
Outfest, which hosted one of the industry’s most prominent LGBTQ+ film festivals, faced a financial crisis after a series of clashes between board members and the group’s former executive director.
Critics
Not even strong performances by Reneé Rapp and Auli’i Cravalho can breathe sufficient life into this fan-servicing farrago.
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Kristin Jeannette-Meyers, known for her coverage of O.J. Simpson and other cases, was found dead in Larchmont Village last summer.
George Carlin’s daughter has criticized the AI-generated comedy special “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” which features the re-created voice of her father.
‘Scream’ star Melissa Barrera will star in a new bloody vampire thriller after her firing from the hit movie franchise over statements in support of Palestine.
Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya steps behind the camera to co-direct a downbeat vision of working-class London riven by crime and occasionally graced by hope.
Maybe you’ve seen Jason Statham’s taciturn man of violence in dozens of other movies, but the pleasures here are doubly so for being intensely familiar.
Screenwriter Norma Barzman, one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s blacklist, dies at 103. She said being female stymied her career more than being labeled a Communist.
Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho is calling for a new investigation into the death of ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun Kyun, whose death was ruled a suicide.
When ‘GMA’ anchor Michael Strahan learned his daughter Isabella was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, he had ‘to figure out how to get to L.A., ASAP.’
Jonathan Glazer, the filmmaker behind ‘Sexy Beast,’ ‘Birth’ and ‘Under the Skin,’ goes deep into the research, filming and editing of his Holocaust masterpiece.
‘It all started with a simple dream,’ Ronstadt wrote in an Instagram story on Wednesday confirming the news.
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