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Little Walnut Productions is expanding into narrative features with original movie “Tecie,” a Gen-Z romance set in the Los Angeles animal rights and activism scene. Mark Webber serves as director with a screenplay from Moby, who will also compose an original score. “Moby and Lindsay [Hicks] have built a company on a foundation of principles […]

Earlier this year, Tinashe was driving alone, her laptop open to Photo Booth in the passenger seat, when the idea for her viral single “Nasty” struck. She was playing the beat she’d just confected with producer/songwriter Ricky Reed (Lizzo, Camila Cabello) off her phone, mumbling along to the sparse, hollow instrumental as she recorded herself […]

For the last seven years, Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead have been searching for a project to work on together. At one point, they were certain they had found the perfect match. “We thought we had something, but someone else made it in the meantime,” McGregor says with a laugh.

Members of the Grateful Dead and its currently playing spin-off group, Dead & Company, have taken to social media after the death of basketball legend Bill Walton to share their grief and love for the man who was considered the Dead’s biggest celebrity superfan. Dead & Company, which is in the midst of a residency […]

TV audiences tracked down “Tracker” in a big way this season. The freshman CBS drama, which stars Justin Hartley as a survivalist who helps law enforcement and others solve tough cases, was the 2023-24 TV season’s most-watched entertainment series. According to the Eye network, that’s the first time a first-year TV series was ranked as […]

Vivek Ramaswamy, after dropping out of the Republican presidential primary race, has turned his attention to shaking up struggling media company BuzzFeed — and he’s pushing a right-turn pivot for the company. In a filing last week, Ramaswamy disclosed that he amassed 7.7% of BuzzFeed’s stock. In a letter dated May 27 to BuzzFeed’s board […]