Rob Paine, supervising producer of the Academy Awards, remembers an urgent message — one that no one ever imagined they’d hear — coming over his headset: “It’s wrong! It’s wrong!” Derek McLane, the Oscar telecast’s production designer, was seated in the audience at the Dolby Theatre and recalls...

Sleek sculptural objects with misty, mercurial surfaces and at least partial inspiration from aerospace technology have not lost their appeal in more than half a century. In Los Angeles, first there was Craig Kauffman, then Helen Pashgian and now Gisela Colon. For her second solo exhibition at...

Weinstein Co., the New York studio co-founded by Harvey Weinstein, will file for bankruptcy protection after last-ditch talks to sell its assets to an investor group collapsed, the company’s board of directors said Sunday night. “While we recognize that this is an extremely unfortunate outcome...

The blockbuster success of Marvel’s “Black Panther” figures to up the already in-demand status of director Ryan Coogler and his stars, many of whom continue their roles in “Avengers: Infinity War,” in theaters May 4. Here, we take a look at some of their upcoming projects: Coogler, whose trajectory..

Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang. Annihilation Natalie Portman plays a biologist who joins an all-female expedition into the heart of an environmental disaster zone in this eerily beautiful and hypnotically unsettling mind-bender from "Ex Machina" writer-director....