Welcome to the Oscar club, casting directors.
The film academy announced last week that casting directors, the people responsible for selecting the right actor for a role,…
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Photos: Enter the exclusive lunch of the 2024 Oscar nominees
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It was a decade ago when California became the first state in the country to ban single-use plastic bags, ushering…
The Oscars add a new casting category for 2026
There will soon be one more category to fill out on your Oscar ballots. On Thursday, the film academy's board…
Warner Music Group to lay off 600 employees, CEO announces
Warner Music Group will part ways with about 10% of its workforce as part of the company's latest efforts to…
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You may not know Fatima Robinson by name, but you certainly know her moves. The veteran dancer and choreographer, recently…
How Godzilla Gets Even Scarier With Cheap VFX
Takashi Yamazaki of “Godzilla: Minus One” is the first feature-length director to be nominated for an Academy Award for visual…
Administrative inflation forces universities to depend on lower-paid professors
February 5, 2024 3 a.m. Pacific Time To the editor: Your otherwise excellent editorial on the plight of contingent faculty…
Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and the alchemy of 'Barbie'
How can you make a story about a ubiquitous plastic doll worth telling? What if I suffered an existential crisis?…
'Tótem' is intimate but director Lila Avilés is great
Built from intuitive hunches (she calls them “hunches”), Mexican writer and director Lila Avilés’ work acts as an invitation to…