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‘Last of Us’ Ratings Grow

'The Last of Us' Season 2 premiere hits 5.3 million viewers, up 13% from the series launch.

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Johnny Depp Returns to Hollywood as ‘Day Drinker’ Starts Filming

Lionsgate drops a first look at the thriller co-starring Penelope Cruz and Madelyn Cline.

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‘The Voice’ Adds Sheryl Crow and LeAnn Rimes as Season 27 ‘Mega Mentors’

Sheryl Crow and LeAnn Rimes will join “The Voice” as “mega mentors,” helping prepare the remaining Season 27 contestants for the playoffs, which begin April…

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L.A. Location Shoots Dropped by 22% in Q1 2025 Amid Fires, but ‘Impact on Local Filming Levels Appears to Have Been Temporary’

After a promising end to 2024 where production had increased by 6.2%, on-production shoot days in the Greater Los Angeles area declined by 22.4% from January through…

By Jazz Tangcay

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Sundance Festival Favorite Doc ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Lands at Apple TV+

Apple TV+ has taken global rights to “Come See Me in the Good Light,” the documentary that won Sundance’s 2025 Festival Favorite award. The doc will premiere on Apple…

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Welcome to Hogwarts

HBO's 'Harry Potter' series has officially cast Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, Hagrid and more Hogwarts staffers.

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An Iraq War film that purports to show us what war is really like. It's made with disquieting skill yet stripped of drama and 'shaped' cinematic excitement, so you may feel both involved and detached.
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Childish Gambino's latest is a masterpiece, and a kaleidoscopic showcase for his seemingly endless talents.
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Vince Staples searches for light on his new album, his most vulnerable project to date.
‘Radical Optimism’

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Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!