LOS ANGELES — Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy will step down this week, marking a major — though expected — changing of the guard at the Walt Disney Co.-owned “Star Wars” studio.

In her place, current Lucasfilm Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni has been named president and will retain his creative title and Lucasfilm Business ...Read more

Macaulay Culkin will only do another movie with his brother Kieran Culkin if it is "just right" for them both.

The duo last appeared on the big screen together in 1992's Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and they have since gone on to act in projects independently, but Macaulay, 45, would not be "allergic" to film reunion with 43 year old Kieran....Read more

Robert Pattinson has a secret role in Marty Supreme.

The 39-year-old actor lent his voice as the announcer during the British Open semifinals near the start of the ping pong drama, in which aspiring table tennis star Marty Mauser (Timothee Chalamet) battles it out against Hungarian champion Bela Kletzki (Geza Rohrig).

During a conversation at ...Read more

Timothee Chalamet got a stern warning from a background actor on Marty Supreme.

The 30-year-old actor tried to frustrate the unnamed extra for a shock incident scene, in which Timothee's character, Marty Mauser, plunged through the floor of his motel room while taking a bath and landed on a gangster's arm and his dog.

And after some takes, the...Read more

A$AP Rocky's mom wanted him to be with Rihanna.

Renee Black encouraged the 37-year-old rapper to split with a girlfriend so that he could strike up a romance with the Diamonds hitmaker - whom Rocky met during rehearsals for a performance at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, but did not start dating her until 2020.

In a teaser for the new ...Read more

Nikki Glaser got "paid well" to babysit Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann's children.

The 41-year-old actress was given "$35, $40 an hour" by the couple to look after their daughters, Euphoria star Maude Apatow and Sausage Party cast member Iris Apatow, in 2007, when Judd and Leslie were working on their comedy-drama film, Funny People - which came ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Emmy-nominated comedian Joel Kim Booster is "just really happy" nowadays. Why? He's a married man.

Kim Booster, the star, screenwriter and executive producer of gay rom-com "Fire Island," has married video game producer Michael Sudsina in a December wedding that he said made for "the best day of my life, no contest." The 37-year...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dave Grohl had a solution in mind for anyone who didn't know the words to the song he and the other Foo Fighters were about to play Wednesday night at Inglewood's Kia Forum.

"Look at the old guy next to you and just f—ing sing that," he told the crowd, stringy black hair matted to his sweaty, reddened forehead. "Odds are he's ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Deadheads from around the Bay Area — and, in all likelihood, well beyond — will gather this weekend in honor of the life and music of Bobby Weir in San Francisco.

The free public memorial for the Grateful Dead co-founder — “whose music, spirit and humanity shaped generations,” according to a post about the event ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson are once again hitting the road together.

The two shock rock legends have announced a co-headlining tour across North America in 2026. It kicks off Aug. 20 in West Palm Beach, Florida and concludes with a big Bay Area date.

Zombie and Manson perform Sept. 20 at Toyota Pavilion at Concord.

The...Read more

Harry Styles has officially confirmed his long-awaited fourth album, which will drop just shy of four years after his last.

The three-time Grammy winner, 31, on Thursday shared the art for “Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.”

The cover of the 12-track album, debuting March 6, shows the One Direction alum sporting jeans and a fitted ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Streaming services have been getting more expensive, and Spotify is next in line.

Starting in February, the price of ad-free individual plans will rise by $1 to $12.99 per month, the company said on Thursday. The last time the price was raised was in June 2024, when premium plans were bumped from $10.99 to $11.99.

"Occasional ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — For north Minneapolis singer/songwriter Geoffrey Lamar Wilson, it started even before the public knew anything about Renee Good.

“I came home and started writing this song before learning her name,” said Wilson, better known by the stage moniker Laamar.

By the time he and the rest of the world learned the identity of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Actor Todd Bridges and Bettijo B. Hirschi are headed separate ways after three years of marriage.

“After much prayer and reflection, my spouse and I have made the difficult decision to separate,” Bridges told The Times in a statement Thursday. “This was not an easy choice, and it comes with a heavy heart, but also with ...Read more

NEW YORK — After 16 years on the “Today” show, Jenna Bush Hager is dipping her toe into scripted TV.

On the Wednesday episode of the morning show, the “Today With Jenna & Sheinelle” co-host revealed that she’ll serve as a producer on the upcoming NBC series “Protection,” announcing that the network has officially ordered a pilot...Read more

Hockey player Jesse Kortuem has come out as gay, crediting HBO Max’s hit show “Heated Rivalry” — about the love story between a pair of rival hockey stars who remain in the closet — for giving him the courage to do so.

The self-described “private person” shared in social media posts Wednesday that while he long felt he “had to ...Read more

Tiffany Haddish felt like an "Egyptian goddess" on The Masked Singer.

The Girls Trip actress - who was unmasked as Le Who Who on Wednesday's (14.01.26) episode of the celebrity singing competition - admitted she felt "special" on the set of the reality show because she had so many people to assist her when she was in costume.

She told ...Read more

The director of the Stranger Things documentary doesn't believe the Duffer Brothers wrote the final episode using AI.

Matt and Ross Duffer documented the making of the show's final season in One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 in which they revealed they started shooting the feature-length last episode before they'd written the ...Read more

The visceral, often stomach-churningly violent "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" is about the search for hope, humanity and a few good Duran Duran songs after the landscape has been ravaged by a zombie apocalypse.

Director Nia DaCosta (2021's "Candyman," last year's "Hedda") picks up right where Danny Boyle's frantic "28 Years Later" left off ...Read more