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Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who first identified CTE in a pro football player and is played by Will Smith in the movie "Concussion," is photographed at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica on Dec. 10, 2015.

Doctor behind ‘Concussion’ tackled racism and NFL

June 16, 2018 at 9:02 a.m.

At first glance, Dr. Bennet Omalu seems an unlikely subject for a major studio movie. A Nigerian-born forensic pathologist, Omalu worked for years in quiet obscurity, performing autopsies at the...

Peyton Reed says he’ll show you how Ant-Man is cool

June 15, 2018 at 1:34 p.m.

There are the superheroes everyone knows and loves, the ones kids dress up as for Halloween, the ones whose logos and square-jawed faces are emblazoned on everything from lunchboxes to...

Hollywood (well, much of it) will be out in force at Comic-Con

June 16, 2018 at 5:06 p.m.

For the next four days, geek will be chic — at least in the vicinity of downtown San Diego. Starting Thursday morning, some 130,000 people of all ages — many...

Here’s why you’ll see Tom Brady, LeBron James and Ronda Rousey at the movies

June 15, 2018 at 2:44 p.m.

From Seth MacFarlane's perspective, getting NFL star Tom Brady to do a cameo in "Ted 2" was a no-brainer, the casting equivalent of having a receiver wide open in the...

Fandom awakens at Star Wars Celebration, and Disney knows it

May 12, 2019 at 5:54 a.m.

"Star Wars," the space-opera franchise that revolutionized the movie business and spawned a sprawling multi-billion-dollar multimedia empire, is back with a renewed force. "Star Wars Episode VII," the first new...

Hollywood explores the virtues and evils of social media

December 17, 2018 at 8:41 p.m.

Film festival news conferences are generally friendly affairs, giving a movie's stars and director the chance to take a public victory lap. But when the cast of Jason Reitman's drama...

‘Sin City’: Rodriguez, Miller talk noir yarns, not social commentary

December 17, 2018 at 8:54 p.m.

When director Robert Rodriguez and legendary comic-book author Frank Miller released their movie "Sin City" in 2005, they had few expectations they'd ever make the sequel opening this Friday. In...

Robin Williams for Best Supporting Actor in "Good Will Hunting" and Jack Nickolson for Best Actor in "As Good As It Gets" backstage at the 70th Annual Academy Awards in 1998.

Robin Williams’ friends saw signs he was succumbing to depression

June 24, 2019 at 2:22 p.m.

The end was shockingly sudden: a belt hung on a door; an assistant's distraught call to 911. But the road that led to Robin Williams' apparent suicide at age 63...

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