I was not a fan of the original “Roseanne” and had no intention of watching its return, especially after I couldn’t make it through the first 10 minutes of the rebooted “Will and Grace,” but […]
NEW YORK — Spotify said on Friday it uncovered two million users of its free service who had blocked advertising without paying, highlighting a potential revenue risk for the soon-to-be public company. In an amended […]
LOS ANGELES — An audacious conceit in search of a bolder movie, “Dear Dictator” has 85-year-old Michael Caine as a Latin island tyrant whose overthrow improbably lands him in the garage of a suburban American […]
LOS ANGELES — Even if it hadn’t earned him dual Oscars, it’s easy to imagine why “The Shape of Water” struck Guillermo del Toro as a more enticing project than a sequel to “Pacific Rim.” […]
LOS ANGELES — When it was announced that the Swedish actress Alicia Vikander would star in a reboot of “Tomb Raider,” playing the bungee-plunging, chasm-leaping adventurer Lara Croft in a movie that told the story […]
NEW YORK — Amazon’s top television shows drew more than 5 million people worldwide to its Prime shopping club by early 2017, according to company documents, revealing for the first time how the retailer’s bet […]
RALEIGH — Season 14 of The Voice, the popular reality singing competition on NBC, kicked off this month, and an 18-year-old from Sanford made the cut. Britton Buchanan won over judges Adam Levine, Alicia Keys, […]
LOS ANGELES — In “Ready Player One,” Steven Spielberg’s dizzyingly propulsive virtual-reality fanboy geek-out, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a teenager living in a dystopian trailer park in the year 2045, spends most of his time […]
LOS ANGELES — Frances McDormand left the Oscar stage after winning the best actress prize on Sunday with a call for an “inclusion rider” — an obscure method to increase film production diversity that she […]
LOS ANGELES — Romantic fantasy “The Shape of Water” won best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, the film industry’s most prestigious honor, on a night where themes of female empowerment and activism almost overshadowed […]
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