Ben Foster has found Sydney Sweeney to be "incredibly impressive".

The 28-year-old actress plays a former real-life boxer in Christy, the new sports drama movie, and Ben has heaped praise on his co-star, revealing that Sydney worked tirelessly during the shoot.

Ben told The Independent: "Sydney is her own force.

"She came in extremely ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Vans Warped Tour will expand beyond the U.S. in 2026, marking its first stops in Montreal, Quebec and Mexico City as part of a five-city run across three countries. The tour will return to Long Beach on July 25–26, taking over the Downtown Shoreline Waterfront for its two-day event.

The 2026 schedule opens in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As media executives wrestle with the use of artificial intelligence, radio giant iHeartMedia wants to stand out.

"We don't use AI-generated personalities. We don't play AI music that features synthetic vocalists pretending to be human," Tom Poleman, the company's programming chief, wrote in an email to employees.

"The podcasts ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After recently announcing major cuts to its youth orchestra, the L.A. Phil has secured additional donor funding to ensure the East L.A. branch of the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) program will continue at full capacity until the end of the school year.

In an email to the students’ parents last week, the nonprofit ...Read more

Have you met the Beatles? The odds are you have, whether you grew up with them, sought them out, or were never formally introduced. You may know the name, at least, even without having heard the numbers, as one knows Shakespeare's without having read or seen a play, or even knowing he wrote them.

The Fab Four — phenomenal in their time, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Warner Music Group on Tuesday announced a partnership with AI business Suno that will compensate music artists and songwriters, ending a legal battle between the two companies.

Suno allows users to write text prompts to create songs. Last year, music companies including WMG sued Suno, accusing it of using copyrighted songs to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is seeing a steady decline in the number of scripted projects filmed in the area, as U.K.-based shoots increase, according to a new report.

Last year, 157 scripted projects were filmed in L.A., down 14.2% compared with 2023, according to an analysis by FilmLA, a nonprofit that tracks production in the greater Los ...Read more

Sir Rod Stewart makes his own honey.

The Maggie May singer and his wife Penny Lancaster get the sweet liquid from 320,000 bees living in the garden of his mansion in Hertfordshire.

Penny revealed that she and Rod, 80, used to keep the honey for themselves but their bees now make so much that they give some away to family and friends.

The 54-...Read more

Richard O'Brien is not a fan of the Spice Girls - despite having appeared in their movie.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show musical creator played a photographer in the 1997 film Spice World, even though he believed the 1990s girl band - formed of Melanie C, 51, Mel B, 50, Victoria Beckham, 51, Geri Halliwell-Horner, 53, and 49 year old Emma Bunton...Read more

Lea Michele still suffers from stage fright.

The Glee star began her career as a child actress on Broadway but admits that experience has done nothing to ease her nerves before a performance.

Lea told People: "Oh, I still deal with stage fright all the time. It is something I've battled my entire life, no matter what project."

The 39-year-old...Read more

Good news for the holiday season: Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back, with both hair and accent appropriately shaggy. Rian Johnson’s Southern-flavored detective, who solved wickedly clever crimes previously in “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion,” returns for “Wake Up Dead Man,” a thoughtful if slightly overlong take on a classic Agatha...Read more

High-end Lutris Monte-Carlo Cordless Lamp: True to its name, the Monte-Carlo lamp was designed in the Principality of Monaco and is an extremely high-quality furnishing, the kind of luxury product you associate with manufacturers like Herman Miller. The beautiful styling bridges art deco and mid-century modern design and the lamp casts a soft, ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — In the ’70s, hip-hop was budding at block and house parties in the Bronx, where DJs spinning turntables moved crowds like puppet masters. Until the late ’70s, most of those DJs were men; that is, until the ascension of Lawanda McFadden, aka Wanda Dee.

Dee became the first woman DJ to lead the hip-hop genre, and during a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's documentary about Sean Combs finally has a release date.

Netflix announced Tuesday that it would release "Sean Combs: The Reckoning," a four-part docuseries about the disgraced mogul directed by Alexandria Stapleton, on Dec. 2. Jackson, who serves as an executive producer, first revealed he was working...Read more

Enveloped in soft green, the forest holds Agnes (Jessie Buckley) with the comfort and safety of a womb. Curled up in a centuries-old tree root, she is cradled by the lineage of her mother and the mothers before her, who walked out of the forest knowing of plants and dirt and animals. When she strides out of the woods in her red dress, a powerful...Read more

'ZOOTOPIA 2'

Rated PG for action/violence and rude humor.

What it’s about: Unlikely buddy cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde tackle another case of corruption in Zootopia, where all animals live together in somewhat harmony.

The kid attractor factor: The original is a beloved, Oscar-winning animated film. Kids will be drawn to the style, humor ...Read more

In 2024, Benedict Cumberbatch starred in “Eric,” a middling limited series from Netflix in which he portrayed a puppeteer who began having a running dialogue with an imaginary puppet dreamed up by his child.

Now, the highly regarded British actor is front and center in “The Thing with Feathers,” a middling drama in which he plays an ...Read more

Sir David Beckham has a "softer" parenting style than his own dad.

The 50-year-old retired footballer - who has sons Brooklyn, 26, Romeo, 23, Cruz, 20 and 14-year-old daughter Harper with his wife Lady Victoria - has opened up about his approach to fatherhood, and how he learned from his own parents Ted and Sandra.

He told James Corden's This ...Read more

Maya Hawke believes Stranger Things is "extremely rare" because it is both popular and "morally good".

The 27-year-old actress - who joined the Netflix drama as Robin Buckley in season two - described the show as a "rainbow project" because it is so unlike many other programmes and she believes it has become the streaming service's third most ...Read more