Sony Takes 80 Percent Stake in Peanuts, Securing Future of Charlie Brown and Snoopy
Sony has acquired an 80 percent ownership stake in Peanuts, the beloved comic strip and media franchise created by Charles M. Schulz, marking one of…
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Netflix’s Bid for Warner Bros. Sparks Industry Shock—and a Possible Federal Block
Netflix’s attempt to acquire Warner Bros. has sent a jolt through Hollywood and the global streaming world, instantly raising the question of whether any one…
In front of or behind the Camera, Emma Thompson Delivers
Emma Thompson has always carried a rare quality on screen: a luminous intelligence that never dims, even when the characters she embodies are bruised, brittle,…
CLAIRE DANES: THE QUIET INTENSITY OF A LIFETIME ON SCREEN
Claire Danes has spent nearly three decades proving that some actors don’t perform emotion so much as inhabit it. From the moment she arrived in…
THE BEAST IN ME: CLAIRE DANES AND MATTHEW RHYS TURN A WRITER’S BLOCK INTO A SLOW-BURN MYSTERY
The Beast in Me opens with a woman who can no longer do the one thing the world believes she was born to do. Claire Danes…
Screen Actors Guild Awards Rebranded as ‘The Actor Awards’ Starting in 2026
The annual awards ceremony long known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards will take on a new identity beginning in 2026. SAG-AFTRA announced that the…
Musician & Friend: Cleto Escobedo III, Bandleader for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and Lifelong Companion to Jimmy Kimmel, Passes at 59
Cleto Escobedo III, the saxophonist-bandleader whose presence anchored the house band of Jimmy Kimmel Live! for more than two decades, died on November 11, 2025,…
When Suburbia Explodes: Down Cemetery Road Unravels a Quiet Town’s Deadly Secrets
The new eight-episode thriller series Down Cemetery Road, streaming on Apple TV+, opens with what appears at first as a banal suburban incident—a dinner gone…
Kim Kardashian’s Vanity Courtroom Vogue Doesn’t Make for Good Drama in All’s Fair
If you were hoping for a sharp, incisive legal thriller, settle in—but you’ll do better finding water-board confidence workshops than compelling storytelling in All’s Fair….
Jimmy Kimmel Opens Food Bank to Aid SNAP Recipients as Benefits Hang in the Balance
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is turning talk into action by launching a food distribution initiative at his show’s Hollywood back-lot to help Americans who rely…