LOS ANGELES -- The Criterion Collection's treasure trove of classic movies will have its own streaming home after the closure of FilmStruck, WarnerMedia said Friday.

New York-based Criterion Collection, which distributes classic movies such as Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" and Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows," will launch a free-standing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey has stepped down, becoming the second high-profile network executive to leave as Walt Disney Co. prepares to bring in new management from Fox.

Longtime programmer Karey Burke, who has been developing original programs for Walt Disney Co.'s Freeform channel, on Friday was named as Dungey...Read more

Ben Stiller, director and star of "Zoolander," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "Tropic Thunder," has turned to directing series television with a smart, watchable, elegantly made fact-based drama, "Escape at Dannemora," beginning Sunday on Showtime. In eight hours it recreates the 2015 incident in which two convicts broke out of an upstate...Read more

Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman, who penned the scripts for the seminal Robert Redford films "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men," as well as the beloved comedy "The Princess Bride," has died. He was 87.

Goldman died in New York on Friday due to complications from colon cancer and pneumonia, his daughter...Read more

When it comes to Beatles nostalgia, the band's self-titled 1968 "White Album" has a king-size reputation -- the biggest album (30 songs!) by the biggest band in the world at the time. But, to paraphrase a Beatles song, it was all too much, and its producer, George Martin, and at least a couple of its participants, George Harrison and John Lennon...Read more

Consider this a warning. You may be tempted to push back against "Green Book," may be itching to proclaim it too pat, too obvious, too much of a setup job, but resistance, as they say, is futile. It's deeply embedded in this film's DNA to make us feel good, and, really, what could be wrong with that?

Co-written and directed by Peter Farrelly, ...Read more

Kim Porter, the actress-model who was Diddy's partner off and on for 13 years and mother to three of his children, has died at age 47, The Times confirmed Thursday.

"Sadly, I can confirm the passing of Kim Porter," a rep for Diddy said in a statement. "I ask that you give the families privacy at this time."

There has been no further reaction ...Read more

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. is contributing to relief efforts following last week's Thousand Oaks shooting and while the deadly wildfires scorching swaths of California still burn.

The HFPA, which hosts the annual Golden Globe Awards, will donate $300,000 to organizations helping those affected by the tragedies, organizers announced ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Lady Gaga decided to carry the pizzas herself as she made her way around Los Angeles-area wildfire evacuation centers earlier this week, delivering food, coffee and compassion to those displaced from their homes.

The show of support Tuesday came the same day the pop star and actress celebrated World Kindness Day, her favorite day...Read more

Isan Elba, daughter of actor Idris Elba and makeup artist and businesswoman Kim Elba, has been named the Golden Globe ambassador heading into the awards ceremony's 76th year.

Elba is just the second ambassador in the organization's history, after the role once known as Miss Golden Globe was updated and rechristened last year.

"Last year, the ...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers, including about searching for old TV shows.

Q: Why has "The Good Wife" never been shown in reruns? Is there any hope of it showing up on one of the other channels?

A: As television shows and movies have spread across ever more broadcast, cable, digital and streaming services, it has become ever more ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- "Escape at Dannemora," a seven-part drama based on a true story that's scheduled to air on Showtime, features Benicio del Toro as swaggering career criminal Richard Matt, who is serving time in a New York prison. Matt, along with young grifter David Sweat (Paul Dano), escape in a story that seems too strange to be based in fact.

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