Nicolas Cage is unrecognizable as the title character in the horror movie Longlegs. Key special effects makeup artist Felix Fox, key makeup artist Madelaine Hermans and key hairstylist Kristin Chaar worked 2 hours every day to transform Cage into the satanic serial killer. “There was about four designs, Fox said. What they settled on after […]

At the core of DreamWorks The Wild Robot is the heartfelt concept of creating your own found family. The sci-fi animated adventure film — written and directed by Chris Sanders based on the 2016 Peter Brown bestseller — follows Rozzum, a robot that gets shipwrecked during a typhoon on an island populated with animals but […]

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) Syracuse picked off a pair of Fernando Mendoza passes and completely stifled Californias offense while mounting a surprising ground attack to lift the Orange to a decisive 33-25 win. Kyle McCord, who leads the nation in completions, was 29 for 46 for 323 yards. LeQuint Allen ran for 109 yards and two touchdowns while Jackson Kennedy converted all four attempted fiel...

Reuniting with filmmaker Mike Leigh for Hard Truths three decades after her breakthrough in their collaboration Secrets and Lies, Marianne Jean-Baptiste embarked on an unconventional route with the director to create not just her character, but the films story and fully-formed world. The initial conversation is usually Should we work together again? I dont know what it&#...

A California man who expressed allegiance to a neo-Nazi group and espoused anti-gay rhetoric was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after a jury found him guilty of brutally killing a former high school classmate who was gay in a hate-motivated murder, the Orange County District Attorneys office said. The man, Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 26, of Newport Beach, Calif., had reconnected w...

Like its title promises, Day of the Fight climaxes in a boxing match. Star Michael C. Pitt revealed that it was his idea to have a real fight during the production. Writer-director Jack Huston, making his directorial debut, heartily agreed. I had said to Jack, Put the fight at the end of the movie. They […]

Saturday Night director Jason Reitman and music composer Jon Batiste said at Deadline Contenders Film: Los Angeles that music is the “villain” of the Columbia Pictures film. Batiste said during Saturday’s panel that after several conversations with Reitman, “it became very clear” that Saturday Night’s music “was not going to be a traditional score [...

California confirmed the first case of clade I mpox on Saturday.

Thelma filmmaker Josh Margolin pointed the films 95-year-old leading lady June Squibb to the same source of inspiration that sparked the movie itself: his grandmother, who shares the name of the title character. Josh gave me some little films that he’d made, like of Thelma going to the store or Thelma celebrating her birthday, just […]

Voters blocked Prop. 33, which would have let local governments expand rent control, and approved Prop. 34, which will curb one of Prop. 33's key sponsors.

More than 30 geographic formations and locales in California no longer will include the word "squaw" due to its offensive nature.

The word "squaw" was declared derogatory by the Department of Interior in 2021. Since then, hundreds of geographic features have been renamed with input from local tribes and Indigenous communities.

Health officials in California confirmed Saturday they have identified the first known case of a more severe form of mpox known as clade I in the United States but said the risk to the public remains low.

BERKELEY, Calif. >> Berkeley, California, long associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, has a reputation for erring on the side of compassion when it comes to the enforcement of drug use and homelessness. The city is such a liberal outlier that Vice President Kamala Harris downplayed her origins there as she tried to appeal to moderate American voters this year.

Kate Linthicum a collaborator for the Los Angeles Times, describes how Car bombs; Shootings, Massacres: Beheadings: The slaying of a Roman Catholic priest; and a Turf War in Sinaloa, are just some of the situations that Claudia Sheinbaum inherited from her political mentor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. A cartel war that has engulfed a major […]The post

U.S. health officials confirmed on Saturday the first case of a more severe strain of mpox that infected an individual who recently traveled to Africa. California health authorities identified the first known case of clade I mpox in the U.S. through laboratory testing. The person was treated in San Mateo County, according to the California...