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The Disneyland Resort's new "World of Color" show begins with some regal nostalgia. Standing before a lagoon in Disney California Adventure, we hear the voice of Walt Disney, and see a host …
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 17, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered…
"Sirens," which premiered Thursday on Netflix, is an odd sort of a series, an interesting mix of hifalutin ideas, family drama and what might be called dark farce. Set over Labor Day weekend…
LOS ANGELES " Breea Milburn has been a Stitch fan since the beginning. As a child, she got hooked after seeing the mischievous blue alien crash the fourth wall and disrupt scenes from classi…
LOS ANGELES " On a spring afternoon in 2005, the members of OK Go dressed up in tacky suits, gathered in front of a video camera and awkwardly danced their way into history. The band's DIY s…
ATLANTA " "Shark Tank" seems like the quintessential American show: It celebrates plucky entrepreneurs trying to get money from already successful business people. There are spirited pitches…
LAS VEGAS " Familiarity with the Strip is not a prerequisite for performers at the upcoming American Music Awards. But for a few superstars on the bill, it helps. Gwen Stefani and Blake Shel…
The summer movie season has arrived, with Tom Cruise racing across virtually every multiplex screen in the country in what may or may not be the final "Mission: Impossible" movie. And there'…
Being the Weeknd ain't all it's cracked up to be. That's the big takeaway from "Hurry Up Tomorrow," the Toronto pop superstar's convoluted new psychological thriller, a self-indulgent look a…
NEW YORK " The TV industry and buyers of commercial time were able to breathe a little easier going to their annual week of presentations known as the upfronts. Not long before the curtain w…
Benito Skinner, whose history is largely in bite-sized internet comedy, has broken out into old-school media, creating a standard-issue, eight-episode sitcom, "Overcompensating," which premi…
As the box office improves, will a steep discount on tickets bring more people to the multiplex this summer? That's what AMC Theatres is betting. The Leawood, Kan.-based chain said this week…
Jamie Lee Curtis didn't expect to be at the forefront of the artificial intelligence debate in Hollywood. But she didn't have a choice. The Oscar-winning actor recently called out Meta Chief…
SAN DIEGO " Elton John did not perform "Swing For The Fences," a standout number from his new album with Brandi Carlile, during his fog-shrouded Friday night Curebound Concert For Cures at P…
It's been a chaotic week in Hollywood. Less than a week ago, President Trump called for 100% tariffs on movies made outside the U.S., a move meant to bring productions home that most people …
LOS ANGELES " Liev Schreiber has plenty of pride for his daughter Kai, who he said came out as transgender with a simple request. "The most profound moment was her asking us to change her pr…
We keep hearing that we're in a male-loneliness epidemic. The agonizing and hilarious "Friendship" makes it feel like the Black Death. Written and directed by debuting filmmaker Andrew DeYou…
FORT WORTH, Texas " "Yellowstone" star Luke Grimes is returning as Kayce Dutton in a new television show. CBS announced this week that Grimes will star in "Y: Marshals" (working title), a "Y…
As ready-made horror titles go, "Clown in a Cornfield" says a lot with a little. There are of course no good places to run into a clown, but a cornfield would be high on the list of undesira…
LOS ANGELES " Her hair is red, voluminous and wild. She walks with a swagger. Her voice is raspy, and not in a sexy kind of Lauren Bacall way, but more like Peter Falk. Long before finding h…
MIAMI " It's time to haul those pastels out of storage. "Miami Vice" is making a comeback. Again. A big-screen project is in the works more than three decades after the iconic TV show went o…
Is there anything as dependable as the slasher movie formula? It waxes, wanes and winks its way through cultural cycles, but it is enduring; malleable yet sturdy, high or lowbrow (usually lo…
Take note: if you have any anxiety about flying, James Madigan's "Fight or Flight" will not be for you. But if a cheap and cheerful one-setting action thriller a la "Bullet Train" featuring …
Things have been good for Josh Hartnett these past few years. The Y2K era teen star has established a fun new groove for himself, working in genre pictures like this week's bonkers actioner …
Minnesotans will get the first chance to see how fast-rising pop star Benson Boone cuts it as an arena headliner. Fresh off his debut performance on "SNL" this past weekend, the "Beautiful T…