Editor’s Note: In what could be one of the most consequential elections in Los Angeles’ history, the race this year for mayor sees two former allies in an increasingly sharp bid to take over City Hall. With many issues in the contest between incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman im…

Not long ago, Steven Soderbergh was presented with a singular opportunity: exclusive access to the final interview with John Lennon, recorded mere hours before his death, as the foundation for a documentary. Never before released in full, the interview finds Lennon sitting down at home with wife…

Jeff Blackburn had a prolific 24-year run at Amazon, helping create and build Prime Video, Amazon Studios, Amazon Music and leading the company’s push into advertising. Prior to the “everything store,” though, he was a former high school tennis standout who came to recognize that a passion for the…

Antoine Fuqua notched the best opening of his career at the box office this weekend as his Michael Jackson biopic Michael, from Lionsgate and Universal, debuted to $97 million in the U.S. and $217.4M worldwide. The sweat truly paid off for the director, who cut his teeth doing music videos for Toni…

EXCLUSIVE: “As governor, I will do whatever it takes to preserve and advance California's leadership as the artistic and creative powerhouse of the world," Tom Seyer said Friday during a Burbank roundtable with labor leaders and industry advocates. In one of the most fractured gubernatorial…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details from Wednesday night’s two-part finale of Abbott Elementary Season 5. Abbott Elementary closed its fifth season Wednesday night with a two-part episode that finally got to the bottom of Janine and Gregory’s breakup and hinted a major milestone is on the…

EXCLUSIVE: The problem with animation is that it just takes so long. So long, in fact, that Liberty Films issued a wrap announcement on their new film in December 2023, and, when this interview took place earlier this month, were still tinkering with it, adding a few very last-minute bells and…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the entire third season of Netflix's ‘XO, Kitty.‘ Katherine "Kitty" Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) and her KISS classmates are growing up. Season 3 of Netflix's XO, Kitty which spins off of the To All The Boys I've Loved Before trilogy, brings…

"There are a lot of reasons for people not to leave their homes and go to the theater," Will Packer, the veteran producer behind an extensive collection of beloved crossover hits like Think Like a Man, Ride Along, Girls Trip, and Night School, explains from his home office in Atlanta.  "Gas…

HBO’s The Comeback is taking the concept of long gaps between seasons to a new level, with its third season premiering Sunday, 11 1/2 years after Season 2, which, in turn, was released more than nine years after the first season. Tackling topics like AI replacing TV writers and the 2023 WGA strik…

EXCLUSIVE: Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk are still riding on a high after announcing on Sunday that there’s a Firefly animated series in advanced development. And with the explosion of stories and fan support that has emerged, likes and shares of their viral social campaign, could it possibly and…

It was a big night for original movies; Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler's Sinners duked it out across the 98th Oscars. It was, as described by Rob Mills, EVP Unscripted & Alternative Entertainment at Walt Disney Television and the man in charge of the telecast…