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Just last week, ByteDance launched its AI video platform, Seedance 2.0, and ever since, AI-generated videos using copyrighted materials have continued to go viral. Studios like Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros. and Netflix are now calling out the Chinese company with cease and desist letters.

Director John Patton Ford's spin on the 1949 British thriller "Kind Hearts and Coronets" doesn't have his star in eight roles, but it does have a spirit of dark fun.

Tom Noonan, the actor best known for playing villain Francis Dolarhyde in 'Manhunter' and the Ripper in 'Last Action Hero,' has died. He was 74.

Novelists Amy Tan ('The Joy Luck Club') and Adam Ross ('Playworld') are among this year's L.A. Times Book Prizes honorees, while finalists include Michael Connelly, Stephen Graham Jones and Molly Jong-Fast.

The "Late Show" host said the CBS claim that a U.S. Senate candidate interview was not banned is "crap."

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

The L.A. Phil's 2026 summer season at the Hollywood Bowl features the four-day Dudamel tribute 'Celebrating Gustavo at the Bowl.'

At Bindery Books, a publishing startup, online influencers work as acquiring editors. The model offers a new path for surviving the social media era.

Tragedy plus time plus comedy equals Rose Byrne: The first-time Oscar nominee has proven herself a master of many tones since her U.S. breakout in 'Damages.'

Visual effects supervisor Charlie Noble explains the painstaking research that helped 'The Lost Bus' capture the fury of California's most destructive wildfire in history.

Tony winner Jefferson Mays stars in a new revival of Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus,' directed by Tony-winner Darko Tresnjak, at Pasadena Playhouse.

Japanese master Takashi Murakami took inspiration from a trip to Monet's Giverny for his L.A. solo show at the Perrotin, which features 24 new paintings that explore the link between Impressionism and the historic Japanese art form ukiyo-e or 'floating world pictures.'

Contenders for this year's costume design Oscar show that period menswear can be as eye-catching as tight corsets and wide skirts.

In a new memoir, the Grammy-winning R&B musician and producer looks back over his trailblazing career.