LOS ANGELES Last month Jacqueline West garnered a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination for her work on Dune: Part 2 (Warner Bros. Pictures). The recognition underscored that West met the high bar she set with Dune: Part One, for which the five-time Oscar nominee won the Costume Designers Guild Award in 2022. West summed up her philosophical Read More 

LONDON BAFTA has announced the longlists of films and talent that have gone through to Round Two of voting for the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards. Leading the way with 15 mentions is Emilia Pérez followed by Conclave with 14. Ten features will advance in the Best Film Category: Anora, The Apprentice, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Movie ticket sales took a bit of a hit in 2024. The annual domestic box office is expected to end up at around $8.75 billion, down more than 3% from 2023, according to estimates from Comscore. It’s not as dire as it was in the pandemic years, but it’s also not even close to the Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) For David Fincher, seeing “Se7en” in 4K was an experience he can only describe as harrowing. That or a high school reunion. “There are definitely moments that you go, ‘What was I thinking?’ Or ‘Why did I let this person have that hairdo’?” Fincher said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. He’s OK Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Actor Blake Lively sued “It Ends With Us” director Justin Baldoni and several others tied to the romantic drama on Tuesday, alleging harassment and a coordinated campaign to attack her reputation for coming forward about her treatment on the set. The federal lawsuit was filed in New York just hours after Baldoni and many of Read More 

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) The Golden Globes will return Sunday with major star appeal thanks to a slew of big name nominees, including Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Denzel Washington, Ariana Grande and more. Nominations for the 82nd awards ceremony were made last month. The show will be televised by CBS and streamed on Paramount+. Here’s key Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The cheese-loving English inventor Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit have been stars since the beginning. In the 35 years since Nick Park introduced the world to his stop-motion creations and their eccentric, unapologetically British existence, they’ve won Oscars, appeared in commercials, video games, animated series and even the occasional bit of (unofficial) protest art. Read More 

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) As artificial intelligence continues to grow at a rapid pace, more and more businesses are grappling with how to adapt both quickly and responsibly. Dan Priest is the new chief AI officer at PwC, one of the world’s largest consulting firms, where he works with companies across industries as they adopt this burgeoning technology both Read More 

SAO PAULO (AP) Brazilian-made dramas rarely last long in local cinemas. But, nearly two months after its release, “I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, has drawn millions of moviegoers across the South American country. The film’s domestic box office success — with Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Avicii, the groundbreaking Swedish DJ-producer, died six years ago at 28. Two new movies hitting Netflix next week aim to celebrate his life. His death was a tragedy that reverberated around the world — much like his music, which brought unexpected genres and collaborators into his melodic EDM through forward-thinking, chart-topping hits like “Wake Me Read More 

WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue. The request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs to the court, in which the company argued the court should strike down Read More 

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry as a dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters. Trump, in an interview with the New York Post on Saturday, praised the use of visas to bring skilled foreign workers to the U.S. The topic has Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Name a hot topic, and chances are good there’s a new law about it taking effect in 2025 in one state or another. Many of the laws launching in January are a result of legislation passed this year. Others stem from ballot measures approved by voters. Some face legal challenges. On the entertainment and social Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Bill Veloric, told The Associated Press in an email. A success Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Charles Shyer, the Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker known for classic comedies like “Private Benjamin,” “Baby Boom” and “Father of the Bride” that he made alongside Nancy Meyers, has died. He was 83. Shyer died in Los Angeles on Friday, his daughter, filmmaker Hallie Meyers-Shyer told The Associated Press on Sunday. No cause was disclosed. A Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement, ending one of the longest and most contentious divorces in Hollywood history but not every legal issue between the two. Jolie and Pitt signed off on a default declaration filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, saying they have entered into a written agreement Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Two family films dominated the holiday box office this week, with “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” winning the three-day weekend over “Mufasa” by a blue hair. Paramount’s Sonic movie earned $38 million, while “Mufasa” brought in $37.1 million from theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday. On a normal weekend counting Friday, Read More 

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) Xander Schauffele is making his season debut twice in the span of seven days at venues separated by a lot more than some 5,000 miles. One is at The Sentry, the season opener on the PGA Tour that starts Thursday on hilly terrain in Maui with endless views of the Pacific Ocean. Schauffele knows what Read More 

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