"The Greatest Showman" songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are back in the race one year after winning an Oscar for "La La Land."

Veteran actress Heather Graham's directorial debut "Half Magic" almost didn't happen. About a year ago the film, originally imagined in New York, was forced to shut down suddenly after financing fell through. "We had already cast the movie, we had hired the crew," Graham recalled. "It was..

Van Morrison is not a big believer in the lure of scarcity. On Monday night the veteran singer and songwriter from Northern Ireland played the first of two concerts at the Wiltern Theatre — his second engagement in Los Angeles in less than a year following a three-night stand last March at downtown..

Paula Vogel's "Indecent" and Matthew Bourne's "Cinderella" have been added to the Center Theatre Group's 2018-19 season at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Former Obama administration official Maria Contreras-Sweet’s surprise bid to buy Weinstein Co. came with a basic promise: remake the tarnished studio as a female-friendly workplace and fairly compensate women who’d accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse. But those hopes were quashed Sunday night...

Comcast Corp. has launched a $31-billion bid to acquire European pay-TV provider Sky in an aggressive move to wrest the service away from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox — and the Walt Disney Co. Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, is largely based in the U.S., but it wants to expand its internatio..

As Marvel’s “Black Panther” continues to break box office records worldwide in its first two weeks of release, the first superhero blockbuster with a majority black cast has been hailed as a major step forward for diversity and inclusion in Hollywood. Others might call that merely a good start. ...

A mere two months in, and it’s already been a career-boosting, history-making year for cinematographer Rachel Morrison. In January, she became the first woman ever nominated for a cinematography Oscar for her work on Dee Rees’ 1940s-set period drama, “Mudbound.” In February, her ability to bring....