Kesha has launched Smash, a new community platform where creators connect, collaborate and hire each other and retain rights to whatever they create. “My goal is to shift the power structure of the music making business in favor of the creators,” said Kesha. “I signed
Julia Max’s feature debut “The Surrender” goes to some surreal and troubling places. But the core of the film begins with something both horrible and commonplace that often isn’t portrayed on the big screen: Caretaking for a dying relative. “The Surrender,” now streaming on Shudder,
Headlining Tuesday night at the Belasco in downtown Los Angeles, Allison Russell acknowledged that she was coming into town late, really late, fulfilling a gig that was originally scheduled there for last fall. But she had one of the better tardy notes on record. “The
The expansion of the California film and TV tax credit, which industry stakeholders argue is key to protecting jobs in the state, hit a snag on Friday, as lawmakers deleted references in bill language to raising the program cap to $750 million. Gov. Gavin Newsom
Eight people who found guilty of crimes including robbery in an organized gang, kidnapping, acquisition and possession of weapons, aggravated theft, complicity in preparation of a criminal act, sequestration and assisting an armed gang on Friday in Paris, concluding a high-profile trial recounting the armed
Long before Alfred Hitchcock became a household name associated with classics like “Psycho” and “Dial M for Murder,” he began his filmmaking career in the U.K. But even before releasing 1930s British films like “The 39 Steps” that many people associate him with, he was
Jeff Margolis, a TV producer and director who specialized in live events from the Oscars to the Emmys and SAG Awards, died Friday in Nashville, Tenn. He was 78. Over four decades, Margolis directed some of TV’s biggest events, including presidential galas and specials for
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the ending of “Friendship,” out now in theaters. You’ll be forgiven for assuming that A24’s “Friendship” is one long “I Think You Should Leave” sketch. After all, Tim Robinson’s lines like “There’s a new Marvel out that’s supposed