LOS ANGELES -- Sony's "Jumanji: The Next Level" unseated Disney's "Frozen 2" from its three-week perch at the top of the box office, and exceeded expectations opening with $60.1 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.

The result marks an auspicious start for the movie, whose predecessor, "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,"...Read more

If Anna Karina had done nothing more than dance on-screen, she would be one of the lasting treasures of the cinema.

Her most famous dance remains as fresh and vivid now as it was 55 years ago. Midway through "Band of Outsiders" (1964), Jean-Luc Godard's exquisite, movie-mad dream of a youthful crime caper, Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey ...Read more

Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of "Who's Getting Arrested with Jane Fonda?"

Sally Field is the latest in Fonda's revolving door of guest stars to be taken away in zip ties as part of the "Grace and Frankie" actress' Fire Drill Fridays climate change protests. A lively crowd in Washington, D.C., cheered and applauded Field, who raised...Read more

CHICAGO -- Katie Kadan almost didn't audition for "The Voice." The Chicago singer said a representative for the NBC network show reached out to her via Instagram to try out for Season 17, but Kadan wasn't initially interested.

"My first response was, 'No, thank you.' Competition is not my thing," Kadan, 38, told the Tribune by phone. Then the ...Read more

"Danny, you look younger every day!" Danny DeVito shouted -- not at himself but at Danny Glover, who was busy posing for a photo shoot to promote their new film "Jumanji: The Next Level."

DeVito had already taken his solo shots, so he set to amusing himself by backseat directing Glover's session from across the room. "Don't do that, Dan," he ...Read more

Rapper 50 Cent targeted Oprah Winfrey in an Instagram post, accusing the beloved TV host and super-producer of singling out black men, such as Michael Jackson and Russell Simmons, in her #MeToo activism.

On Thursday night, the "Candy Shop" hit-maker shared an old photo of Winfrey and disgraced music mogul Simmons smiling together, paired with a...Read more

Danny Aiello, the veteran character actor known for his Oscar-nominated supporting turn in "Do the Right Thing," died Thursday night in New Jersey. He was 86.

Aiello died after a brief illness, his publicist, Tracey Miller of Tracey Miller & Associates, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times Friday.

"It is with profound sorrow to report that Danny...Read more

It seems unlikely that Billy Ray wrote and Clint Eastwood directed "Richard Jewell" in order to test the state of sexism in post-#MeToo Hollywood. But that's exactly what their film did. And lo and behold, it seems that things are not as bad as they once were.

Oh, in the actual film they are very bad. In the actual film, sexism is alive and ...Read more

NBCUniversal Chief Executive Steve Burke is planning to step down next year, accelerating an internal race to succeed him, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment.

Burke, 61, has managed NBCUniversal since Philadelphia cable giant Comcast Corp. purchased it in January 2011, shaping the once-tattered ...Read more

HBO's "Watchmen" is among the best-reviewed series of the year, scoring 85 (out of 100) on the review-aggregation site Metacritic and appearing on more than 40 critics' top 10 lists to date. Not among them are Times TV critics Lorraine Ali and Robert Lloyd, who've been left unmoved by creator Damon Lindelof's spin on Alan Moore's beloved graphic...Read more

No one stays married for 41 years unless they really mean it, especially in Hollywood.

Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft really meant it. And 14 years after her death, Brooks still means it.

Concerned that younger generations might not be familiar with the depth of his wife's talent, he recently curated "The Anne Bancroft Collection," a Blu-ray ...Read more

"Survivor" has officially removed contestant Dan Spilo from the show, four weeks after airing a controversial episode in which multiple women reported that he touched them inappropriately.

Spilo, a Hollywood talent manager, is the first "Survivor" castaway to ever be ejected from the game for problematic behavior. Longtime host and executive ...Read more

Richard Jewell, the Atlanta security guard who saved countless lives by finding an incendiary device on the grounds of the 1996 Olympic Games, had the misfortune of not fitting the script. He wasn't a handsome, well-spoken hero, but a very regular guy; a heavyset loner with a gentle, quiet nature and a passion -- some might say obsession -- for ...Read more

I have been writing under the umbrella of "Indie Focus" for The Times for more than 10 years now and throughout that time, the definition of what it means to be an independent filmmaker has remained elusive and pliable.

Yes, there is the strict definition of where a movie gets its financing, but as there are pictures financed independently and ...Read more

"Bombshell" is exploding at just the right moment. A ferociously entertaining dramatization of how an unlikely group of women exposed and deposed media titan Roger Ailes, it is as harrowing as it is triumphant in its depiction of the way it all came to pass.

This is not the first drama about workplace sexual harassment (don't miss 2018's superb...Read more