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The union representing workers employed by the Writers Guild of America has reached an agreement on its first contract, ending a strike that lasted nearly three months. The pending contract includes seniority and layoff protections, higher wages and outlines provisions for progressive discipline and a stepped grievance process, the Writers Guild Staff Union said in…
An Amazon MGM Studios executive allegedly solicited kickbacks from an aspiring vendor in exchange for post-production contract awards on shows, according to a recently filed lawsuit. Joe Eckardt, owner and president of Hollywood-based postproduction services firm Unbreakable Post, alleged that the studioβs head of postproduction, Frank Salinas, told him during a business lunch in 2023…
Walt Disney Co.βs ABC is forcefully resisting Federal Communications Commission efforts to soften the networkβs programming, accusing the federal agency of an overreach that violates 1st Amendment freedoms. Last week, the FCC took the unusual step of calling in the licenses of eight Disney-owned television stations for early review. The move β widely interpreted as…
L.A. Metroβs three new D line extension stations feature nine public artworks Art deco motifs, fossils and massive drawings of hands are among the installations that will greet riders passing through the three new stations on L.A. Metroβs D Line extension. The underground subway stations, which connect downtown Los Angeles to Beverly Hills, are home…
βYellowstoneβ and βThe New Worldβ actor Qβorianka Kilcher has taken legal action against filmmaker James Cameron, Disney and others she says used her likeness in the wildly lucrative βAvatarβ film franchise without her knowledge. Kilcher, 36, filed her complaint Tuesday in California Central District Court and is suing on numerous counts including misappropriation of likeness,…
Josefina LΓ³pez wrote βReal Women Have Curves,β based on her experiences as an undocumented Mexican immigrant working in a Boyle Heights garment factory, nearly 40 years ago. Since then, LΓ³pezβs script has yielded a play, a feature film starring America Ferrera and, most recently, a Broadway musical. The latter, which opened at the James Earl…
The internetβs most controversial looksmaxxer is in hot water again. Clavicular, born Braden Eric Peters, has been charged in Floridaβs Miami-Dade County in connection with a video that circulated on social media showing an alligator, which appeared to be dead already, being shot repeatedly in the Everglades. Two others are also facing charges in connection…
On one of her previous visits to Los Angeles, Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel found herself having a smoke on Hollywood Boulevard. There, while she stepped over the famous concrete-embedded stars, an unhoused man struck up a conversation with her. βHe kept explaining to me that he was poorly dressed because he was currently living on…
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, May 10, 2026, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
Whitney Leavitt is leaving βThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.β The reality star announced the news during her final performance of βChicagoβ on Sunday. Leavitt has played tap-dancing murderess Roxie Hart in the Broadway revival since February. TMZ published a video of the moment, in which a Broadway castmate shows Leavitt a newspaper mid-scene. Leavitt,…