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The royal couple’s Archewell organization has signed a multiyear agreement with the company, with the first series coming next year.
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The L.A. Times newsroom’s leadership transition has accelerated with the departure of Pearlstine, who served as executive editor for 2? years.
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2020 decimated our cultural and entertainment institutions. Artists have readjusted their ways of working. Many wonder if they can continue their craft even after the pandemic. Yet we’ve also seen resilience and creativity.
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If video games truly want the cultural resonance of film and television, then game studios need to start acting like they’re making art.
Warner Bros. is making its entire 2021 slate of movies available for streaming on HBO Max as soon as they hit theaters. Critics say the studio is being “dismantled.”
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Walt Disney Co. updated shareholders on its plans to take over the streaming content universe.
AT&T on Wednesday said it will sell anime streamer Crunchyroll to Sony’s Funimation Global Group for $1.175 billion.
COVID-19 has had a severe impact on everything from theaters and production to agencies and cable news. Some parts of the business may never be the same.
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Business is brisk for the archival company as movies, TV and recording industries dig deeper into their past.
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A Los Angeles court said Viacom was entitled to an injunction against Netflix’s attempts to pursue the New York-based media giant’s contracted employees.
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AT&T’s John Stankey defends WarnerMedia decision to put Warner Bros.’ entire 2021 film slate on HBO Max, saying the company had to do something bold.
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Jones will become the first Black woman to run a major TV news operation.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic has shrunk crew sizes and banned crowd scenes, Hollywood’s new safety rules mean longer jobs for some background actors.
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Activision Blizzard sued Netflix for poaching its CFO Spencer Neumann in 2018, two years before his fixed contract was scheduled to end. The move follows other lawsuits against Netflix related to executive poaching.
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Warner Bros. has decided its 2021 movies will come out concurrently in U.S. theaters and on HBO Max. Here’s what’s due on the small screen for subscribers.
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Walt Disney Co. is closing its children’s radio programming station and laying off staff amid a broader restructuring of its operations.
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Warner Bros. says the plan is a response to the pandemic that has upended the traditional film distribution business.
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After talks with entertainment industry unions, producers of commercials once exempt from conducting COVID-19 tests will now test their cast and crew.
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With ‘Rival Peak,’ Facebook is launching a television experiment that’s betting on video games as appointment viewing with Tamagotchi-style loyalty.
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The home of cable networks HGTV, Animal Planet and ID is launching a direct-to-consumer service starting at $4.99 a month.
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Sony releases PlayStation 5, its next-gen game console, next week. I’ve spent a week playing games on the PS5. Here’s what I learned.
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Whether Trump or Biden wins, difficult repair works lies ahead after election 2020. Can we bridge our cultural divide?
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If the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech was good enough to get a nod from the FDA, the vaccine from Moderna and the NIH almost certainly is as well.
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‘Our reality is frightening,’ says the county’s top health official as COVID-19 patients swamp Southern California hospitals.
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A South Korean study raises concerns that six feet of social distance may not be far enough to keep people safe from the coronavirus.
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California has so far hired only one in 10 temporary medical professionals needed to help with surging caseloads during the pandemic.
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Some hotels and rental hosts may still be taking bookings that California has banned. Enforcement is a question.
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A vaccine’s arrival offers hope, but it doesn’t change the fact that California is now facing the pandemic’s worst wave yet.
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The CONCACAF Champions League resumes play this week after a long break brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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On Monday afternoon, five healthcare workers at an East Hollywood hospital became some of the first Californians to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
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