During an earnings call on Monday, the head of Paramount stated they aim to maintain their current level of film production, making their goal of releasing 15 movies this year – the same number as Warner Bros. – realistic.
Since 2020, the singer-songwriter has released several popular songs after signing with Street Mob Records, the independent label created by Fuerza Regida’s Jesús “JOP” Ortiz Paz. One of his biggest hits, “Que Onda,” featuring Chino Pacas and Fuerza Regida, is a catchy song about a wild encounter. It helped launch his career, reaching No. 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after its release in August 2023.
Lawyers for Blake Lively and Wayfarer Studios announced Monday that both sides have settled their legal dispute, bringing an end to a case that has been closely watched for over a year.
The iconic singer shared a health update with her fans in a video posted on Monday. After sparking concern late last year, she explained she’s been getting treatment and is happy to report she’s responding well to medication and improving daily. She described this as ‘good news’.
Cameron Diaz, 53, and her husband, Benji Madden, 47, have welcomed their third child, a baby boy! Madden, who enjoys collecting trading cards and is a fan of the anime series “One Piece,” announced the news in a creative way. He shared a custom-made trading card featuring their son’s name and a pirate ship, designed in the style of the popular manga and anime series created by Eiichiro Oda.
In a recent interview with his friend and fellow musician Stewart Copeland, Clarke revealed he’s been planning a jazz festival since 2023. While working as an artist at BroadStage, he decided Santa Monica would be the perfect location, and the festival will debut in 2026. Copeland will join Clarke on stage at Tongva Park on Saturday.
Skip Bayless will appear with Stephen A. Smith on Friday’s episode of their sports debate show. The network is calling it a special, one-time reunion, as the two haven’t co-hosted the program together in almost a decade.
It was late at night, and an eleven-year-old boy in Britain couldn’t sleep. He found a thin book on his mother’s shelf – a book she’d secretly taken from the school where she worked.
When Molina examined the collection, he discovered it had belonged to Julia Juarez, a member of the Rhythm-Aires – a group of teenage Chicanas from Azusa who were known for hosting parties in the early 1950s. He found a hand-drawn Rhythm-Aires logo on one record sleeve, along with a list of friends’ nicknames referencing their hometowns, like “Kenny De Ontario” and “Victor De Pomona.” Oscar Garza, a journalism professor at USC and a long-time record collector, calls these markings “Chicano hieroglyphics,” explaining they show the friends who shared the memories connected to each song or album. Molina viewed the records and their handwritten notes as a glimpse into the everyday lives of Mexican American youth – “stories from the bottom up,” as he puts it. This collection directly inspired his new book, “The Dreamy Side: Rhythm & Blues and Chicano Culture in 1950s Los Angeles.”
As a lifelong movie fan, I’ve always found the origins of Lord of the Flies fascinating. The book, published in ’54, definitely feels shadowed by the Cold War – there are little hints, like a mention of an atom bomb and the term ‘the Reds’, and even a quick flash of an old-fashioned animated atom in the opening credits of the recent series. The story kicks off with a group of British schoolboys, aged between six and twelve, being flown somewhere – it’s never really explained where! – when their plane crashes on a deserted island. And get this – the airline is called Corinthian Air, which feels like a deliberate detail, doesn’t it?