Dope Thief showrunner Peter Craig has quietly been one of Hollywood’s go-to writers for crime drama the last 15 years. In 2010, Craig transitioned from a crime novelist to an in-demand screenwriter thanks to his co-writing credit on Ben Affleck’s crime thriller The Town. Craig then showed his versatility by adapting Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay into The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – …
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A Los Angeles jury has found that Disney didn’t steal the idea for Moana from an animator’s story about the adventures of a young surfer in Hawaii. After deliberating for just over two hours, the jury on Monday sided with a Disney unit that it didn’t infringe on Buck Woodall’s copyright to “Bucky and the Surfer Boy” because none of …
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K-pop star Felix made his return to the runway during Paris Fashion Week show. The 24-year-old Australian-born rapper, a member of the chart topping boy group Stray Kids, walked in the Louis Vuitton womenswear Fall Winter 2025-2026 Paris Fashion Week show. He previously made his debut in the luxury fashion house’s womenswear Fall Winter 2024-2025 show. Felix, debuting a return …
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Stanley R. Jaffe, the producer and studio executive who won an Oscar in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer and shepherded other acclaimed films like Fatal Attraction, Goodbye, Columbus and The Bad News Bears, died Monday. He was 84. Jaffe died peacefully at his home in Rancho Mirage, his daughter Betsy Jaffe announced. A son of Leo Jaffe, an executive who spent more than a half-century at …
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In 2021, the musician H.E.R. won the Academy Award for best original song for the track “Fight for You” from Judas and the Black Messiah that took inspiration from the soul and protest songs of the ’60s and ’70s. Holding the gold statue, she said in her acceptance speech, “All those days of listening to Sly & the Family Stone …
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In Christopher Landon’s Drop, a widowed mother bravely returns to the dating scene only to find herself caught in an awful game of cat and mouse. Following in the footsteps of films like Phone Booth, Red Eye and, more recently, Carry-On, this Blumhouse production, which premiered at SXSW before its theatrical release in April, balances its pulpy narrative with an …
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Millie Bobby Brown is going on the defense when it comes to the backlash she’s received for her changing accent. While on the Smartless podcast, the Stranger Things star discussed the criticism she’s received for alternating between a British and American accent. “That was such a huge thing for a minute,” she said. “I actually call it the ‘accent-gate’ because it’s …
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Katie Aselton‘s fourth film as director is begging for a spoiler. That would explain a lot but also give away too much. Luckily, the big reveal comes 20 minutes into this sensitively played yet too-obvious drama about a couple who go to the desert to regroup and look ahead to an altered future. Aselton plays Erin, whose mood at first …
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The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has pulled its support for resentencing Lyle and Erik Menendez. After his predecessor opened the door to making the brothers, who are serving life sentences, eligible for parole, Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman reversed the office’s position and said they still pose an “unreasonable risk of danger to the community” because they have …
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Rising filmmaker and sketch comedian Curry Barker has signed with UTA. Barker is known for his viral horror movie Milk & Serial, a found footage project made for $800 that amassed 1.6 million views on YouTube and landed him meetings with practically every horror house and producer in town. He is in post-production on his next feature, Obsession, a horror …
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