Poking fun at air travel is ubiquitous: It’s a staple of stand-up, and an airplane episode is practically a sitcom convention. “LA to Vegas” takes that well-known territory and makes it the entire comedy — like “Wings,” except we’re always on the plane, not always in...
2017 saw some cable shows soar to new ratings heights, while others experienced hard falls from lofty perches. “Game of Thrones” (HBO) put up record numbers in its seventh season as the epic fantasy series begins to draw to a close; several other of the cabler’s...
Ian McKellen has dropped a strong hint that he would like to reprise his role as Gandalf in Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” series, stepping back into the shoes of the wizard he immortalized in the film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic. The star was asked...
A month after Sony’s “All the Money in the World” was supposed to premiere at the AFI Fest, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted the event on a chilly Monday night. The premiere was dominated by warm praise for the efforts of director Ridley Scott,...
The Force dominated at the box office as Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi opened with a stellar $220 million weekend at 4,232 North American sites — the second-highest opening weekend of all time. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” trails only the $248 million...
Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television are set to release six new original series in 2018, the companies announced Tuesday. The first series to be released will be “Trolls: The Beat Goes On,” which will pick up after the events of the “Trolls” film. It will...
