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After a week of fevered speculation, pop star Selena Gomez has revealed herself as the mystery artist featured on Blackpink's forthcoming single, arriving Aug. 28. Last week, the K-pop girl group unveiled the cover art for the track and hinted at a new collaboration -- sending prescient fans of Gomez ...Read more

President Trump is coming to Netflix. Sort of.

Sarah Cooper, who has become one of the hottest comedians in the country thanks to her social media posts lip-syncing to Trump's head-scratching public statements, is getting her own Netflix comedy special.

"Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine" is being billed by the streaming platform as a "variety ...Read more

The decisions by the Big Ten and Pac-12 college athletic conferences to postpone their football season endanger a huge chunk of sales for media companies such as Walt Disney Co. and Fox Corp.

College football alone generated almost $1.2 billion in ad revenue for U.S. television networks last year. Its collapse could also hasten the loss of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Sumner Redstone, the pugnacious Hollywood titan who controlled media giants Viacom and CBS Corp., died Tuesday after a lengthy illness, according to National Amusements, the Redstone family's private holding company that controls what is now ViacomCBS. He was 97.

Redstone coined the phrase "content is king," and he firmly ...Read more

In the midst of his battle against President Trump, Neil Young has decided to take on a couple of other sizable entities -- Facebook and Google.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who lived in the Bay Area for decades before departing for Southern California a few years back, has announced he'll be spending thousands of dollars to disconnect his ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of Aug. 3:

1. Scoob! -- Warner

2. You Should Have Left -- Universal

3. Deep Blue Sea 3 -- Warner

4. Survive the Night -- Lionsgate

5. Money Plane -- Quiver

6. Trolls World Tour -- Universal

7. Coma (2020) -- MPI

8. The Invisible Man -- Universal

9. Grand Isle -- Screen Media

10. Bad ...Read more

It started with a tweet from Dr. Jill Biden, wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

"Hey (Douglas Emhoff). Are you ready?" she asked.

This wasn't a random question: Emhoff is the husband of presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.

"Ready to work! Let's go (Dr. Jill Biden)!" he wrote...Read more

"Community" was the TV show that made Gillian Jacobs famous and a number of projects followed, including the Netflix series "Love." Next she stars in the forthcoming adaptation of R.L. Stine's "Fear Street" book series. But first, you can see her in the indie comedy "I Used to Go Here" (rentable via streaming) from Chicago writer-director Kris ...Read more

It's one of the greatest jazz documentaries ever made and perhaps the most sumptuously ever filmed.

For Bert Stern and Aram Avakian's "Jazz on a Summer's Day" does more than chronicle highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Unlike uncounted jazz films, it ignores the usual jazz cliches, refusing to portray its cast of musicians as victims...Read more

I remembered the music immediately; it's been floating in my head for 20 years. At the center of Wong Kar-wai's hypnotically beautiful film "In the Mood for Love" is an unforgettable waltz. Its tempo is slow, as if dripping with dark syrup; its melody, played by solo violin, is all plangent longing and eloquent wandering -- it wraps itself ...Read more

CHICAGO -- You can't miss Illinois native Coree Woltering -- or his Speedos -- on "World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji."

"The Speedo became a thing back in (2016) when I was in Florida for a 50-kilometer race, and I forgot my racing shorts, but I had Speedos with me," Woltering told the Tribune by phone. "I ended up winning that race, and...Read more

From the makers of the hit TV series "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" comes ... a whole slate of new podcasts.

Untangle your ear buds and flash back to your morning commute, because Shondaland Audio and iHeartMedia are teaming up for three new original podcasts this month, with more to come in the months ahead.

In October, TV producer titan ...Read more

Actor LaKeith Stanfield has released a statement reassuring the public that he is OK after a series of Instagram videos caused many to worry about his well-being.

On Monday night, the "Get Out" and "Sorry to Bother You" star posted multiple alarming clips and captions suggesting possible self-harm. After several people expressed concern on ...Read more

A family tries to use words to fill a void in their lives in the top new DVD releases for the week of Aug. 18.

"Sometimes Always Never": Emotionally distant but idiosyncratic Alan (Bill Nighy) embarks on an awkward long car ride with his son Peter (Sam Riley). It's clear Peter's dreading the trip, as Alan taps away on a game on his phone. When ...Read more

An unaired episode of ABC's "black-ish" featuring a reference to President Trump as America's "shady king," NFL players kneeling in protest during the national anthem and numerous other hot-button political issues, which was pulled by the network in 2018, is now streaming on Hulu, series creator Kenya Barris announced on Twitter on Monday.

The ...Read more