Richard Perry, a prominent record producer who helped craft dozens of hits with a polished pop sound throughout the 1970s and ’80s, such as Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 82. His friend Daphna Kastner Keitel told the New York Times he died of cardiac arrest. Perry started out […]

Netflix’s rookie start as an NFL media partner — so far — hasn’t drawn any flags. The streamer’s first Christmas Day game, Kansas City Chiefs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, commenced at 1 p.m. ET, following two hours of pregame coverage. Next up is Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans (starting at 4:30 p.m. ET), with superstar Beyoncé taking the […]

There’s officially a new companion in the Whoniverse. The first teaser for the second season of Disney+ and the BBC’s “Doctor Who” introduces Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra, who assertively tells Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor: “You need to get me home!” The clip seems to tease an apocalyptic invasion of some sort, with spaceships and robots […]

Johnny Reardon, star of Hallmark holiday movies like this year’s “Believe in Christmas,” revealed in a Christmas Eve Instagram post that he has been recovering from tonsil cancer. The Canadian actor, who stars in the canine-themed detective TV series “Hudson & Rex,” wrote “Last night was my first night out after my recovery from tonsil […]

A film about a fantasist fish isn’t the most obvious subject for Christmas Day – except when it’s based on a children’s story by prolific British author Julia Donaldson and her longtime illustrator Axel Scheffler. “Tiddler” is the twelfth of Donaldson and Scheffler’s collaborations to be adapted by U.K. production company Magic Light Pictures and, […]

“Sonic the Hedgehog 3” outpaced the box office competition on Christmas Eve. The film unwrapped $7.5 million on Tuesday from 3,700 North American theaters. “Sonic 3” is projected to bring in $50 million between Wednesday and Sunday. So far, the animated threequel about a blue anthropomorphic speed demon has collected $60 million domestically. It opens […]

Adam Sandler is back on the golf course in the first teaser for Netflix’s “Happy Gilmore 2,” nearly 29 years after the original movie became one of his most beloved roles. Netflix and Adam Sandler posted the first teaser for “Happy Gilmore 2” early on Christmas, as the streamer broadcast two NFL games live on […]

Peter Sutherland is back, and he’s searching for a mole in the CIA who plans to blow up Manhattan. Netflix debuted the Season 2 trailer of “The Night Agent” on Christmas morning, ahead of the streamer’s first-ever NFL games being livestreamed on the platform. Gabriel Basso is back as FBI agent Peter Sutherland in Season […]

Christmas means friends and family, gifts and NBA basketball. This season, Christmas features NBA superstars, including Victor Wembanyama, Jalen Brunson, Anthony Edwards, Luka Dončić, Paul George, Jayson Tatum, LeBron James, Steph Curry, Nikola Jokić and Kevin Durant. For the NBA on Christmas Day, there are five games scheduled with 10 NBA powerhouse teams. The day […]

Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” roared to the top of the U.K.-Ireland box office in its debut weekend with £4.4 million ($5.5 million), according to numbers from Comscore through Dec. 23. As the holiday season reaches its peak, Universal’s “Wicked” continues to enchant in its fifth frame, conjuring £2.5 million for a robust £48.2 million […]

Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Chan set yet another benchmark in the annals of holiday music by issuing her 14th straight annual Christmas release, “Shatterproof,” this month. No one is likely to come close to shattering that record for the highest number of consecutive seasonal albums or EPs, but Chan — who is known for having a claim […]

The actor Joy Woods never thought much about “Gypsy” — at least not until she was cast in the show opposite Audra McDonald in one of the buzziest Broadway revivals of the season. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “You see all the iterations of the show and you don’t see anybody that looks like you, […]

It’s rare for the NFL to schedule regular-season games for a Saturday, but when it happens, it’s a big deal! For Week 17, there’s an NFL triple-header on Saturday, Dec. 28 with all three games broadcasting on the NFL Network. If you want to catch all of the hard-hitting action, the best way to watch […]

Want to learn a new language for your next big trip or just to improve your skillset? You’re in luck. One of the best online language sites is Rosetta Stone, and right now, the site is offering a limited-time deal that gets you unlimited access to Rosetta Stone’s language-learning program for 50% off. While a […]

Just in time for Hannukah, Jewish American rapper Your Old Droog has released “Suspects,” the first single from his next album after 2024’s “Movie.” Produced by Edan, the song skillfully merges Droog’s skill as a storyteller with a sample from the rapper, producer and DJ’s bottomless library of 1960s and ‘70s pop obscurities. Though the […]

SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses minor plot details for “Mufasa: The Lion King,” now in theaters. Lin-Manuel Miranda and composer Dave Metzger both knew the mighty musical legacy they had to uphold when writing the music for Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King.” The “Lion King” prequel tells the story of young Mufasa, voiced by Aaron Pierre, […]

Justin Baldoni’s former publicist sued him, his company and his current publicity team on Tuesday, amid a spiraling scandal over an alleged smear campaign against Baldoni’s “It Ends With Us” co-star Blake Lively. Steph Jones, who owns Jonesworks, accused Baldoni of breaching their contract, which required him to pay her $25,000 per month. Baldoni dropped […]

“Wicked” was briefly pulled from theaters in Kuwait, allegedly due to its LGBTQ cast, but could the blockbuster musical ever be fully banned in the United States? Filmmaker Adam McKay “wouldn’t be surprised” if the film was pulled in the next few years because of where America is headed politically. The “Don’t Look Up” director […]

SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from “The Last Thanksgiving,” the second season finale of “Shrinking,” now streaming on AppleTV+. The sophomore season of AppleTV+ comedy “Shrinking” wrapped on Christmas Eve appropriately enough with a holiday episode (Thanksgiving), where this group of funny, complicated therapists and their loved ones shared what they are thankful for […]