SAN DIEGO — The future of San Diego’s Grammy Award-nominated Christian metalcore band As I Lay Dying is shrouded in mystery following the abrupt departures in two weeks of four of the five-man group’s members. Its tour manager has also quit.

The band’s sole remaining member is lead vocalist Tim Lambesis, who was released from prison in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jerry Seinfeld is slamming his kids’ former private school in the Bronx for allowing “emotionally distressed” students to skip school when Election Day results are announced.

Psychologists will also be available during Election Week to high schoolers at the pricy Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale, according to an ...Read more

ATLANTA — Thursday marked a crucial moment in Atlanta’s hip-hop history when rapper Young Thug was released from jail after pleading guilty in the YSL case.

The artist took a nonnegotiated guilty plea deal, which resulted in Judge Paige Whitaker sentencing him to 40 years: five years in custody commuted to time served, 15 years probation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures Television, producer of the long-running “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!” TV programs, is suing CBS, the game shows’ distributor, for breach of contract.

Sony claims that CBS entered into unauthorized licensing deals for the shows — two of the most popular and profitable TV programs — and then paid ...Read more

NEW YORK — Late night will come to daytime when Jimmy Fallon and the Roots take the stage at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

They’ll appearing alongside a motley mix of music stars, giant balloons, floats and marching bands on Thursday, Nov. 28.

The Emmy- and Grammy-winning “Tonight Show” host released his new album, �...Read more

NEW YORK — Rapper Ye’s troubling past six years will be explored in a bizarre new documentary about the controversial rapper formerly known as Kanye West, hitting theaters next year.

Directed by Nico Ballesteros, “In Whose Name?” was reportedly made with an iPhone, “a billion-dollar budget and a commitment to truth,” according to ...Read more

In its defiantly plainspoken way, director Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” is full of surprises, and even the ones heavy with contrivance and coincidence-based plotting settle into the overall and rather sneaky effectiveness of the movie. It’s one of his good ones. Small, modest, a little stodgy. But good, and even a little brave in its ...Read more

Sometimes, you’re watching a movie and you realize with a start that you really haven’t seen anything like this in a long time. Such is the case with Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2,” an old-school courtroom drama that features no sudden twists or flashy action shots, but has at its center a quiet examination of conscience. Justin (Nicholas...Read more

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry reportedly have their eye on returning to Europe — at least for some of the time.

The Sussexes have shelled out millions on a beachfront summer home at Portugal’s Costa Terra Golf & Ocean Club, Us Weekly reports.

The 40-year-old royal and former “Suits” star, 43, would live in one of 300 homes on the ...Read more

ATLANTA — Potential good news for the Georgia TV and film business: Marvel is reportedly planning to spend seven months next year shooting Don Cheadle’s “Armor Wars.”

Productionlist.com has “Armor Wars” now listed as an active project with scheduled production dates between Jan. 6 and Aug. 4, 2025.

It didn’t cite a location, but ...Read more

NEW YORK — Martha Stewart may have been all smiles at last week’s New York premiere of her Netflix documentary, but she says the second half of the film left a bad taste in her mouth.

The diva of domesticity — who participated in the production — gave a scathing review of the doc in a New York Times interview published on Wednesday, the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — “Hey man, are you good?”

AJ McLean had reason to be concerned about Liam Payne. Since production wrapped on the new Netflix music competition series where they’d met earlier this year, the Backstreet Boys veteran and One Direction star had talked almost every day on WhatsApp — at least until Payne’s sudden two-week ...Read more

Stevie Nicks was on the edge of 71 when she cast her first ballot.

Waiting that long, the Fleetwood Mac alum said Wednesday on MSNBC, is one of her only regrets in life. It's also one she's spoken openly about at her solo concerts over the last two years, she said.

This election cycle, Nicks said, she hopes her fans don't make the same mistake...Read more

In its defiantly plainspoken way, director Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” is full of surprises, and even the ones heavy with contrivance and coincidence-based plotting settle into the overall and rather sneaky effectiveness of the movie. It’s one of his good ones. Small, modest, a little stodgy. But good, and even a little brave in its ...Read more

[This article contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of "The Diplomat" on Netflix.]

In "The Diplomat," Keri Russell plays a career diplomat covertly being primed to assume the role of vice president — without having to win over an electorate. In real life, one week before Election Day, Russell has just returned to her home in Brooklyn ...Read more

Opening with a quotation from Henry David Thoreau's 1863 essay "Life Without Principle" including the lines "Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives/ This world is a place of business/ What an infinite bustle," the film "La Cocina" sets out to fully examine those concepts, and how work can take over one's life and sweep away all too ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has laid off 16 staff members from its archive and library as part of a broader restructuring that will bring all of the organization's collecting, restoration and preservation efforts together under a newly formed Academy Collection and Preservation Department.

In an internal ...Read more

It’s not unheard of in Hollywood for the offspring of celebrities to shed their famous parents’ last names, so Malia Obama isn’t breaking any new ground by wanting to be known as “Malia Ann,” as she pursues her career as a filmmaker.

In recent years, the daughters of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise have dropped the movie stars’ surnames, ...Read more

Maybe this is how the rumors started about Hugh Jackman and his Broadway co-star, Sutton Foster, engaging in a secret, backstage romance while both were married to other people.

Foster herself admitted in a 2022 interview that she and Jackman, 56, developed a very close bond while starring together in a Broadway revival of “The Music Man,” ...Read more