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FilmLA, the quasi-public agency that handles film permits in Los Angeles, has reported a weak third quarter for 2024. Production in the Greater Los Angeles area dropped 5 percent to 5,048 shoot days. Scripted television producers logged 758 shoot days last quarter across the economically important TV Drama, TV Comedy and TV Pilot categories.

Ariana Grande led “Saturday Night Live” to its highest ratings since Elon Musk hosted the show on May 8, 2021. Grande’s Oct. 12 episode, with musical guest Stevie Nicks, drew 5.6 million viewers in live+same day viewing on NBC, per Nielsen data. That number does not account for delayed viewing, with that data becoming available […]

Meaghan Oppenheimer is a Hollywood showrunner with a husband, an infant, three stepkids and a dynastic family polo ranch on the outskirts of Tulsa, Okla. Despite these dignified badges of adulthood, she can still tell you the last time she cried at a bar over a boy. “It was here, 10 years ago,” Oppenheimer says, […]

Nothing major has truly changed about the nature of Charli XCX’s live show over the past decade-plus years, only the context. At the heart her performances are raw, unencumbered manifestations of her songs — the zoom of fast cars, the nervous sweat of the party, the assured confidence of controlling the aux — that have recently […]

“Smile 2,” a sequel to Paramount’s creepy psychological thriller, is hoping to put a grin on the faces of despondent movie theater owners. The film is projected to collect $20 million to $25 million from 3,500 North American theaters in its first weekend of release. Those revenues would be on par with the original “Smile,” […]

Samuel L. Jackson is sitting at the edge of a fountain in the center of a beautiful courtyard. A few feet away from us, there’s an ensemble of violinists and guitarists and drummers playing music from all over the world. Jackson is here, he tells me, for asking people, “What’s in your wallet?” But no, […]