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Hackers claim to hold Disney’s latest ‘Pirates’ sequel hostage, demand ransom

August 21, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

Hackers have once again struck at Hollywood, this time claiming one of the summer's biggest blockbuster releases — Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales," the fifth...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

In liberal Hollywood, a conservative minority faces backlash in the age of Trump

August 21, 2019 at 10:32 p.m.

As an Academy Award-winning producer and a political conservative, Gerald Molen has worked in the entertainment business long enough to remember when being openly Republican in Hollywood was no big...

Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak, left, and Chief Executive Larry Solov confer with colleagues at the Breitbart offices in Los Angeles.

Breitbart News calls Kellogg ‘un-American’ after cereal maker pulls ads

June 8, 2018 at 8:01 p.m.

The Breitbart News Network is seeing some of its advertisers head for the exit doors and is responding in typical Breitbart fashion: by going on the counteroffensive, labeling one of...

Breitbart News staff members congregate in the conference room of the company's L.A. office.

Breitbart News, fiery conservative outlet buoyed by Trump victory, aims to go global

August 21, 2019 at 9:01 p.m.

It all began a little more than 10 years ago in a basement in Westwood: a small army of young employees in T-shirts and shorts huddled over their laptops, determined...

Netflix reports financial results Monday, Oct. 17, 2016.

Netflix shares surge on strong third-quarter earnings and subscriber growth

June 9, 2018 at 9:37 a.m.

Shares of Netflix Inc. soared in after-hours trading Monday as the video streaming service reported stronger-than-expected earnings and subscriber growth for the third quarter. The stock was up $19.75, or...

‘Sully’ maintains box office altitude, fends off ‘Blair Witch’, ‘Bridget Jones’

June 12, 2018 at 7:04 a.m.

"Sully" maintained its altitude at the top of the domestic box office, outperforming three newcomers, including "Blair Witch" and the latest "Bridget Jones" sequel, to bring in an estimated $22...

Why the Oscars keep disqualifying Alejandro Iñárritu’s movies from its original score competition

June 11, 2018 at 2:39 a.m.

The urgent request arrived in May at a difficult personal time for composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Could he fly to Los Angeles — tomorrow, if possible — to meet with Alejandro...

Ellie Goulding arrives at the 58th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, in Los Angeles.

‘Hamilton’ wins musicals award; Stephen Paulus and Boston Symphony honored in classical category

June 9, 2018 at 2:08 a.m.

"Hamilton" fever took hold at the Grammy Awards on Monday when cast members of the hip-hop Broadway phenomenon performed live on the CBS broadcast and took home the award for...

Disney announces timeline for ‘Frozen’ musical

May 12, 2019 at 7:36 a.m.

Fans of "Frozen" will have to wait two more years before the highly anticipated musical stage adaptation opens on Broadway. Disney announced Tuesday that the new version of the hit...

Tortoises in controversial iPad exhibition are relocated

May 9, 2019 at 7:04 p.m.

Three tortoises that were part of a controversial exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado have been relocated to a conservation facility, a museum spokeswoman announced. She said the...

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