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Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic expression in the 1960s with films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend” and became a guiding light to fellow filmmakers throughout his more than six-decade career, has died. He was 91.

Horror writer Peter Straub, who cemented his place in the genre with works including “Ghost Story,” “The Talisman” and “A Dark Matter,” has died. He was 79. Straub’s son, Benjamin, told the Los Angeles Times he died “surrounded by love ones” in Manhattan on Sunday from complications due to a…

LOS ANGELES — The woman who recently sued Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears for alleged child sexual abuse submitted a letter Monday to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office calling for the comedians' immediate arrest and prosecution.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — The Telluride Film Festival has long cherished its image as an oasis for movie lovers, tucked away in a remote Colorado box canyon, free from the cares of the world.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Everything about Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's new film is on a big scale. The themes and ideas — involving identity, Mexican history, race, success, family and mortality — are big. The level of cinematic ambition is big. Even the complete title — "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful…

LOS ANGELES — Weeks after sex crimes detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department began investigating Armie Hammer, a pair of filmmakers pitched a three-part documentary about the actor to a major streaming service.

LOS ANGELES — Just two months before California would face its most severe heat wave of the year, Marta Segura was named Los Angeles’ inaugural chief heat officer and given the monumental task of improving the city’s preparation and response to the growing threat of extreme temperatures.

Gandalf would say a wizard arrives precisely when he means to but the same can't be said for Episode 1 of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power."

A student who was “bullied, tormented and verbally assaulted” at school for almost a year was also the subject of a petition calling for her death

The Baltimore Police Department has walked back its initial report of a violent threat on the set of the AppleTV+ series "Lady in the Lake" and arrested a street vendor at the center of its ongoing investigation.

LOS ANGELES — A week after PacifiCorp was sued by Northern California residents who lost homes and property in the McKinney fire, the utility company faces another lawsuit on behalf of dozens of people, including the sister of a longtime Siskiyou County fire lookout killed in the blaze, alleging wrongful…