When soccer player Robbie Rogers was with the LA Galaxy, he lived just a couple of blocks away from the rundown Holloway Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. “I walked by it all the time,” Rogers tells me. “I kind of noticed it,
In January, programmers at the Tribeca Film Festival called director Penny Lane to check on the status of her latest project “Mrs. America,” which follows married contestants chasing the tiara in the pageant that is far less known than the iconic Miss America. The documentarian
Disney Branded Television has pulled back the curtain on a robust new lineup of animated content for Disney+, Disney Jr. and Disney Channel ahead of its showcase at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. From greenlighting new series like “Sam Witch” to revealing first looks
Disney Branded Television has officially acquired “Miraculous Stellar Force,” marking a major expansion of the globally popular “Miraculous” franchise. Announced just ahead of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the new series is scheduled to premiere in 2027 on Disney Channel and Disney+. “Miraculous Stellar
Comedian Wanda Sykes has a rallying cry for the entertainment industry and beyond: “Protect our trans brothers and sisters… that’s our next movement.” Sykes, who was honored with the Career Achievement Award Tuesday at the Critics Choice Association’s 2nd Annual Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema &
Danny Duran, a respected entertainment publicist for more than 25 years who founded boutique agency ddPR, died Wednesday after an eight-month battle with cancer. He was 58. Duran started his career at Walt Disney Studios and then joined Sandra Bullock’s production company, Fortis Films. Under
Sam Nivola and Cooper Koch both played brothers in complicated fraternal relationships this past year. Nivola, as Lochlan Ratliff on “The White Lotus,” yearned to impress elder sibling Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), but ended up in an intoxicated tryst with him. Koch, as Erik Menendez on
There’s an ’80s nostalgia that hangs over Miley Cyrus’s entire visual album for “Something Beautiful,” a 55-minute mashup of music videos that features windblown hair, showgirl dancing and slinky designer clothing (most of which were literal archives from the ’80s). But Cyrus says that she