Video game actors are on strike after performers union SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies couldn’t agree on AI terms.
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SAG-AFTRA has called a strike against the video game companies about a year after performers voted to authorize a walkout.
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‘Friday Night Lights’ creator Jason Katims reflects on the show’s Emmy-winning series finale.
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Character performers at Disneyland Resort have filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, per the Actors’ Equity Assn.
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With his first country-radio hit taking shape, Koe Wetzel talks about revealing a new side of himself on his latest album, ‘9 Lives.’
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The three-day horror fest at the Long Beach Convention Center will feature numerous panels, presentations and performances and a massive vending area with more than 350 exhibitors in Long Beach.
Vince Vaughn now has a majority ownership stake in the Coachella Valley Scorpions, one of 12 teams in the 2-year-old National Pickleball League.
Lady Gaga, she of the song ‘LoveGame,’ reportedly will help kick off the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris with a performance at the opening ceremony.
The first lawsuit arrived Wednesday, three weeks after Paramount board members approved an $8-billion, two-phase deal with tech scion David Ellison and his backers.
Prince Harry explains in the documentary ‘Tabloids on Trial’ that litigation in the U.K. phone-hacking scandal contributed to his rift with the royal family.
Chris Kraus and Catherine Lacey, two writers of two generations, talk mixing genres, daily schedules, and the critics.
An ‘America’s Got Talent’ contestant fails to break one underwear-related world record but leads the audience in setting another. It didn’t help the guy much.
John Schneider and Dee Dee Sorvino are now husband and wife, after they both lost their spouses in recent years. They got married Wednesday in Las Vegas.
‘Bachelor in Paradise’ alums Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon on Monday welcomed their second baby together. We presume Iaconetti cried with joy.
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The first teaser for the Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ showed Timothée Chalamet’s physical transformation into the music icon and offered a sample of his singing voice.
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