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Now that movies premiering on demand can qualify for the Academy Awards, Nathan Lane hopes Pete Davidson will win one.

Gobi, the stray dog who captured hearts when she adopted her human Dion Leonard during a 155-mile race across China’s Gobi desert, will be featured in books and a movie depicting how the two met and bonded.

Technology isn’t just for humans anymore. It’s also for their furry friends....
In Silicon Valley and beyond, a growing number of startups are selling devices to keep pets safe, healthy, entertained and connected when their owners are away. “Pet tech” entrepreneurs and investors see a big opportunity as pet ownership grows and owners show a willingness to spend serious money on...

Take a look back at the night ‘Parasite’ had at the 2020 Academy Awards.

Apple is honoring Robin Williams on its web page. Williams died Monday at his home in Tiburon, California, at the age of 63 after battling severe depression.

Holly Hunter will star opposite Ted Danson in an upcoming NBC comedy set in the world of local politics. The network said Wednesday that Hunter will play a liberal Los Angeles city councilwoman in the series from writer-producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.

Oscar-winning actress and comedian Mo’Nique sued Netflix on Thursday, accusing the streaming giant of racial and gender discrimination by trying to drastically underpay her for a stand-up special after offering other stars tens of millions of dollars. The suit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court accuses Netflix of giving a “biased, discriminatory” offer to Mo’Nique for a one-hour comedy...

Annette Bening will receive AARP the Magazine’s lifetime achievement honor at the Movies for Grownups Awards next year.

Actress and activist Jane Fonda spent a night in a local jail after her fourth arrest in as many weeks while participating in a climate change demonstration on Capitol Hill. The 81-year-old Oscar winner was among more than 40 people arrested Friday while sitting in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building. A spokesman for Fire Drill Fridays, Ira...

Jane Fonda was arrested for the second time this month on Friday.  Fonda was trying to bring attention to the “Green New Deal” and raise awareness about climate change.

The Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya is in the California Studio to talk being an ambassador for the American Cancer Society and taking his love of tequila to a new level with Casa México Tequila. As seen on California Live on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019.

Robert Forster, the handsome and omnipresent character actor who got a career resurgence and Oscar nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry in “Jackie Brown,” died Friday. He was 78. Publicist Kathie Berlin said Forster died of brain cancer following a brief illness. He was at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by family, including his four children and partner Denise Grayson.

Oscar-nominated actor Edward Norton, who is also the United Nations ambassador for biodiversity, is supporting the release of a new film called Anthropocene in Los Angeles on Friday night.

Sam Smith has declared the pronouns of “they/them” on social media after coming out as non-binary in what the pop star called a “lifetime of being at war with my gender.” The English “Too Good at Goodbyes” singer was met with thousands of mostly supportive comments, along with some detractors questioned the need to change pronouns, an increasingly common practice...

It took Eddie Murphy more than a decade to get a movie made about Rudy Ray Moore. Judging by the response to the film at the Toronto International Film Festival, the wait was worth it. “Dolemite Is My Name” drew some of the best reviews of Murphy’s career, following the film’s premiere over the weekend in Toronto.

Even the G.O.A.T. can get played. And that’s exactly what Antonio Brown did to Jerry Rice.

Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey will join the University of Texas as a professor who this fall will teach in the university’s Department of Radio-Television-Film. McConaughey has been a visiting instructor at the flagship campus in Austin since 2015 and the university said in a statement Wednesday that the appointment recognizes his “outstanding work as a teacher and mentor.”

Peter Fonda, the two-time Oscar nominee, brother of Jane Fonda and son of Hollywood legend Henry Fonda has died, family said Friday.

Few performances are as daunting as the one-person play. That’s why Jake Gyllenhaal had to find a way to conquer that fear when he took on the role of Abe in the second half of “Sea Wall/A Life.”

Universal Pictures has canceled the planned September release of its controversial social satire “The Hunt,” in the wake of recent mass shootings and amid criticism from President Donald Trump. The move came several days after the studio suspended the ad campaign for the film, a gory, R-rated thriller that tells a tale of liberal “elites” hunting people in red states...