Trump inauguration draws 24.6 million viewers, a steep drop from 2021 and 2017
The TV viewership for President Trump’s historic second inauguration fell far short of the audience for his first ceremony in 2017 and former President Biden’s…
How Shakespeare can help us fathom the unimaginable L.A. fires
The sprawling geography of Los Angeles is hard to envision for those who live outside the region. Friends and family members in New York, gripped…
Box office was down in 2024. Why Hollywood still sounds relieved
It wasn’t good, but it could’ve been a lot worse. Given the lingering effects of last year’s Hollywood labor strikes, the relative lack of big…
Latinx Files: 4 media trends that stood out to me in 2024
It’s the waning days of December, which means it’s time to look back at the year that was. For this week’s newsletter, here are four…
RaMell Ross took a radical approach to get inside ‘Nickel Boys’
Cinema’s most transcendent promise is that it can put us in another person’s shoes. But what if a film could take that further and allow…
‘Community’s’ Yvette Nicole Brown, actor Anthony Davis marry
Yvette Nicole Brown is a married woman after tying the knot with actor Anthony Davis. The “Community” alumna and “JD’s Place” actor Davis said their…
Royal Variety Performance's Stephen Mulhern yells 'stop this' as he escorts audience member out
On Sunday night, ITV fans were treated to a star-studded show with the likes of Elton John, James Bay and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, taking to the…
Fox News is ratings leader in 2024, but challenges remain for cable news
When a sports team loses, its fans don’t hang around for the postgame show.The same goes for the tribal habits of cable news audiences.Viewers have…
The casual moviegoer is a thing of the past. That’s a problem for Hollywood
It was on a spontaneous trip to the movie theater that James Young took a chance on “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the…
‘Wicked’ box office: Hollywood needs family-friendly films
Everyone is wondering if “Glicked,” the potentially record-breaking, industry-lifting pre-Thanksgiving combination of “Wicked” and “Gladiator II,” will be this year’s “Barbenheimer,” the record-breaking, industry-lifting summertime…
‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ jolt the box office with a combined $170 million
Universal Pictures’ “Wicked” needed no lessons in how to be popular at the domestic box office this weekend, opening at No. 1 to the tune…
Carrie Underwood, Cody Johnson sing surprise CMA Awards duet
Country superstar Carrie Underwood, who was not nominated for any Country Music Assn. Awards this year, still made a surprise appearance at the Nashville ceremony…
Doechii, Vince Staples, Tyler, the Creator and more light up Day 1 of Camp Flog Gnaw at Dodger Stadium
Thousands of Tyler, the Creator fans gathered Saturday night at Dodger Stadium to mark 10 years of the rapper’s taste-making festival, Camp Flog Gnaw. The…
Sting on his new trio, Billy Joel and why he’ll never wear spandex
Sting sits in a trailer at September’s Ohana Festival in Dana Point with two important questions before him: which songs to perform during that night’s…
3 wins for L.A. Opera, Pacific Opera Project, Independent Opera
If Los Angeles has a reputation for opera, it is as an outlier, a city freed from encrusted tradition and eager to invent. Long Beach…
How do you make a play about Joan Rivers without Joan Rivers?
“Can we talk?” Joan Rivers’ stand-up tagline had a way of turning audiences into confidants.Rivers may be remembered for her relentless jokes about Elizabeth Taylor’s…
David Gilmour on politics, Pink Floyd and ‘Luck and Strange’
It’s dusk inside an empty Hollywood Bowl as David Gilmour peers out from the stage and delivers his song “Dark and Velvet Nights” to no…
Mitzi Gaynor dead: ‘South Pacific,’ ‘Anything Goes’ star was 93
Mitzi Gaynor, the midcentury Hollywood star who appeared in the movie musicals “South Pacific,” “Les Girls” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” died Thursday.…
Strictly Come Dancing fans say 'not a drill' as they spot famous face in audience
Strictly Come Dancing viewers were left saying it's 'not a drill' as they spotted more famous faces in the audience during Saturday night's live show…
Getty’s PST Art fireworks: Cai Guo-Qiang explains what went wrong
It wasn’t the experience many people had expected. The daytime fireworks show kicking off the Getty’s PST Art festival seemed to have suffered an explosive…