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UPDATE, Jan. 12: Beyoncé has pledged $2.5 million through her BeyGOOD nonprofit to support families who have lost their homes in the towns of Altadena and Pasadena, which have both been damaged by the Eaton Fire. The BeyGOOD LA Fire Relief Fund will also go to churches and community centers to…

UPDATED with latest: Certain evacuation zones have been reduced or lifted completely as progress is made on the dual Palisades and Eaton blazes. However, authorities have confirmed that the death toll, previously at 16, has risen to 24. Six people have lost their lives to the Palisades blaze, while…

Indonesian cinema admissions increased by 10% to reach 126.22 million in 2024, according to figures from Bicara Box Office, with local films pulling in 80.21 million admissions for a 65% market share.  Last year, Indonesia's local movies sailed past the all-time annual admissions record in just nine…

The renowned Getty Center and Getty Villa remain “safe and stable,” according to Katherine E. Fleming, president and chief executive officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust, as the surrounding evacuation orders related to the Palisades Fire have been downgraded to warnings. “The evacuation level at the…

Two people have been arrested for flying unauthorized drones in the areas affected by the Eaton Fire, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Captain Jabari Williams said, per CNS. The news comes after an air tanker was grounded Thursday following a collision with a civilian drone. The Los Angeles…

Matthew Rankin's second feature is something of an anomaly on this year's Oscar shortlist for International Feature Film. For one thing, it takes place in a world that doesn't actually exist, positing a surreal fusion of east and west that transplants the earnest rustic dramas of the Middle East to the…

In the way that Lumon Industries is disconnected to its workers on Apple TV+’s Severance, so too is Hollywood perhaps disoriented about its creatives, Ben Stiller posits. Previewing the highly anticipated and delayed second season of the mystery-box thriller to the New York Times in a recent…

Ruslan, an 8-year-old boy living in a war-scarred village in Ukraine, drops a line into a pool of water and waits patiently for a bite. His fishing hole is manmade. "A missile landed here and made a pit," he mentions calmly in the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Once Upon a Time in Ukraine. "And then…

Kim Kardashian is calling attention to the many incarcerated firefighters who are battling the flames that have overtaken Los Angeles, praising those on the front lines and urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to increase their wages. Over the weekend, as the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire have burned a…

Despite previous threats to quit, Bill Maher plans to stick by his HBO talk show until the bitter end. The Real Time host addressed speculation that he’s stepping away from the show that launched in 2003 after he previously claimed in jest that he “may quit” following Donald Trump‘s election for a…

Palisades Charter High School, which boasts a lineup of A-List alumni and has been the locale of several TV and film projects, has been significantly damaged by the Palisades Fire that sprung up Jan. 7 and has ballooned to over 23,000 acres since. In a statement posted by the school to Facebook…

Days after she was seen volunteering and meeting with victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, Southern California-born Meghan Markle has requested the delay of her forthcoming Netflix series With Love, Meghan to continue her focus on relief efforts. In a statement released today, the streamer said the…