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After a competitive bidding process, indie studio A24 has acquired the U.S. rights to Olivia Wilde’s comedy “The Invite” in a major deal out of the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which stars Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, was purchased for around $10 million, according to a person familiar with the deal…

Ray J says his days are numbered — and the number he’s citing is 2027. “Just almost died!! I’m alive because of your prayers and support!!” the singer wrote in an Instagram caption posted Sunday. “I wanna thank everyone for praying for me. I was in the hospital,” he said in the accompanying video. “My…

Last year, Spotify paid out more than $11 billion to the music industry, bringing the company’s total payouts since launch to nearly $70 billion. The milestone year reflected the “largest annual payment to music from any retailer in history,” the company announced on Wednesday in a post. In 2025, Spotify’s payout amount grew by over…

Melissa Gilbert has returned to social media to some extent amid an “extraordinarily difficult time” stemming from the child sex abuse case involving her husband Timothy Busfield. The “Little House on the Prairie” alumna, 61, spoke out on Monday, issuing a statement of gratitude and reflection to the Instagram page of her lifestyle brand, Modern…

Hey, Greenland — feeling a little low after President Trump’s ongoing attempts to buy or otherwise acquire the land under your feet? Neil Young can fix that framework! Just keep “Rockin’ in the Free World.” For free. Forever. The 80-year-old “hippie at heart” on Tuesday granted “our friends in Greenland” a year of free access…

On the Shelf The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions from a Reality TV Villain By Spencer Pratt Gallery Books: 304 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Spencer Pratt is accustomed to being labeled a villain, but a…

Well, they do say any attention is good attention. Actor Sydney Sweeney was in the spotlight Monday after being captured on video recently scaling the H of the Hollywood sign under the cloak of darkness — to hang up some bras. TMZ reported on the footage, which was part of a promotion for Sweeney’s upcoming…

Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before, since I’m admittedly something of a broken record on the subject, but I very much prefer Marvel’s television series, which tend to be fleet, original and unpredictable, to its movies, which tend not to be. “Loki,” “Ms. Marvel,” “Moon Knight,” “Echo,” “WandaVision” and its spinoff “Agatha…

This story contains spoilers for “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Episode 2, “Hard Salt Beef.” Could things be looking up for Ser Duncan the Tall? The second episode of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “Tales of Dunk and Egg” series of novellas, saw the hopeful hedge knight…

PARK CITY, Utah — Sundance is where I get lost. My first trip to Park City I didn’t know anything or anyone, and scored a bunk bed in a room of four women by cold-emailing an acquaintance of an acquaintance and blurting, “I don’t really mind who I sleep next to as long as they don’t mind…