Delivering a potentially serious blow to one of the fastest growing production hubs in the country, Walt Disney Co. is threatening to no longer film in the state of Georgia if an anti-gay bill is signed into law there.The Free Exercise Protection Act is on the desk of Gov. Nathan Deal, who has...
Batman vs. Superman? The greatest gladiatorial match in the history of the world? There must be some mistake. Aren't these two men friends and colleagues, fellow fighters for truth, justice and the American way? Don't they share a deep and intuitive understanding that, to borrow a line from another...
Geeks, mathematicians, and lovers of all things circular today celebrate Pi Day -- a national holiday that honors π, one of world's most mysterious and awe-inspiring infinite mathematical constants. But who wants to see pictures of math? Take a look at some delicious pies.
Stuft Food Truck took over Glazed Doughnuts shop on Wine Street in Hampton March 10. Both food establishments had specials and there was live music.
Check out our gallery of unusual foods offered at fast food restaurants in the U.S. and around the world.
From the ashes, Bull Island Brewery relocates to Downtown Hampton.
The Mariners' Museum's Battle of Hampton Roads weekend returns Friday through Sunday, commemorating 154 years since the ironclad ships USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (converted from the USS Merrimack) battled it out in Hampton Roads waters during the Civil War.
Margot Robbie is looking for gold in all the wrong places. The bombshell Australian beauty, best known for her work as Naomi in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" has been attached to "I, Tonya," an upcoming biopic about infamous American figure skater Tonya Harding, according to Deadline...
At an October 2014 investor meeting in New York, Warner Bros. Entertainment Chief Executive Kevin Tsujihara laid out a bold plan to release at least 10 superhero films based on characters from its prized DC Comics library. "Clearly, the opportunity is enormous," Tsujihara said at the time. "DC...
Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola will be honored by Turner Classic Movies with a hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre during the TCM Film Festival on April 29. The filmmaker's body of work includes "The Godfather" trilogy, "Apocalypse Now" and "The Conversation." Coppola...
Lionsgate's shares took a tumble after the disappointing opening of its movie "Allegiant" raised concerns about the studio's performance. The stock fell 3% to $21.93 in midday trading Monday on Wall Street. So far this year, the shares have declined about 32%. See more of Entertainment’s top stories...
Like so many people with showbiz hopes, Jessie Nelson worked as a waitress when she first came to Hollywood. At the defunct Roy's Chinese restaurant on Sunset, she would hustle for tips and tick off specials, plotting a film career during breaks.Nelson would eventually graduate to more creative...
“Zootopia” sprinted past “Kung Fu Panda 3” last week to become the top-grossing animated film ever in China as the mainland’s year-to-date box office topped $2 billion. Disney’s tale of a mammalian metropolis earned $59.1 million in the seven days ending Sunday, data from film industry consulting...
In her articles, books and screenplays, Nora Ephron wrote with wit and candor about the most intimate of topics — her divorce, her parents' alcoholism, her small breasts. In "Everything Is Copy," a documentary premiering Monday night on HBO, Ephron's son Jacob Bernstein picks up the mantle of disclosure,...
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen, and welcome to your weekly field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. My colleague Steve Zeitchik and I were just in Austin, Texas, at the energizing and inspiring South by Southwest Film Festival. It was a jam-packed few days with high-profile premieres from films such...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Lionsgate, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.99 Available on VOD Tuesday The Hunger Games: Complete 4 Film Collection Lionsgate, $54.98; Blu-ray, $64.97 It'd be silly to call a movie that made over $600 million a "letdown," but given how big "The Hunger Games" loomed in popular...
UCLA Film & Television Archive's "Out of the Ether: Radio Mysteries and Thrillers on Screen," a retrospective featuring films based on popular radio shows of the '30s and '40s, continues Sunday evening at the Billy Wilder Theater with two low-budget flicks inspired by "Inner Sanctum Mystery." The...
One of the inspiring joys of attending a film festival like South by Southwest is to encounter new talent in the process of first discovering and expressing their artistic voices. “Jean of the Joneses,” the feature debut for both writer-director Stella Meghie and star Taylour Paige, is exactly...
When Ben Affleck signed on to play Batman in Zack Snyder's superhero mash-up "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," it didn't take long for speculation to start swirling that he was interested in more than just putting on the Dark Knight's cape and cowl. Having established himself as a successful...
It should have been fun — sitting in the Splash Zone at SeaWorld's Shamu stadium with her two sons, watching killer whales perform impressive tricks. Instead, Gabriela Cowperthwaite felt a pit in her stomach. Seeing whales up-close in captivity made her uneasy. So she began looking into the theme...
Paul Reubens still isn't sure why it took so long. For years, the actor had hoped to bring his much-loved creation — the giggly, bow tie-wearing human cartoon known as Pee-wee Herman — back to the screen. With Hollywood dipping into the well of '80s nostalgia to bring back such properties as "The...
Most directors build their genre movie by coming up with a story, or at least a concept. But when the Americana-flavored auteur Jeff Nichols first came up the idea for his new film "Midnight Special," he paid protocol no mind. The movie is a sci-fi government chase piece; it evokes the pop entertainments...
Early in David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall's documentary "Thank You for Playing," indie video game developer Ryan Green describes a stain on his ceiling that he refuses to clean, because it reminds him of his son Joel's feeding tube. His wife, Amy, laughs, saying that he's using sentimentality...
That the neo-noirish mystery "Too Late" was shot on 35mm film and is showing only in that once-ubiquitous format makes it something of a cinematic event in these hyper-digital times. But its unique technical and structural aspects — it unfolds in a series of five 20-minute uncut takes — prove only...
The title and those lively Bill Plympton animations may suggest otherwise, but "The Brainwashing of My Dad" has something more serious on its mind. Witnessing her aging Caucasian father turn from Kennedy Democrat into an "enraged and unreachable" Fox News fanatic, documentary filmmaker Jen Senko...
Actor Ken Howard, who starred in the 1970s series "The White Shadow" and served as president of SAG-AFTRA, has died at age 71. The union announced Howard's death Wednesday. No cause of death was given. Howard's career spanned four decades in TV, theater and film. In the CBS series "The White Shadow,"...
Brace yourself for some serious '90s nostalgia: Hanson's catchy tune "MMMBop" turns 20 on April 15 and the band dropped a major truth bomb about the song -- people have been singing it wrong this whole time. Two decades after recording the original self-released demo and six studio albums later,...
Grammy-winning country singer Chris Stapleton, Kelsea Ballerini and country band Old Dominion have picked up their first awards from the Academy of Country Music. Stapleton won new male artist of the year, Ballerini won new female artist of the year and Old Dominion won new duo/group of the year...
"Clarissa Explains it All," the successful Nickelodeon sitcom that gained a cult following in the years after its original run, turns 25 on March 23. The comedy starred Melissa Joan Hart as the titular character, an outspoken young teenager who dealt with everyday teen situations in a fun, quirky...
Our favorite wanton sex goddess is back ... and pregnant in the first trailer for "Bridget Jones's Baby." Renee Zellweger stopped by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Wednesday to debut the trailer for the third installment of the "Bridget Jones" franchise. Zellweger's iconic character Jones is now...
Phife Dawg, a founding member of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, died on Tuesday. He was 45. According to Rolling Stone, the rapper -- born Malik Isaac Taylor -- had been struggling with Type 1 diabetes for several years. He famously called himself "the Funky Diabetic" and shared his struggle...
Binge-viewing is fast becoming the new national pastime: 70% of U.S. consumers now binge-watch TV shows, with Americans gulping down an average of five episodes per marathon session, according to a study by consulting firm Deloitte. The study, conducted last fall, also found that 61% of streaming...
A Gloria Gaynor disco anthem, George Carlin's seven dirty words routine and coverage of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game are among 25 sound recordings that have been selected for preservation at the Library of Congress. The recordings reaching back to 1911 are being added Wednesday to the library's...