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The inaugural World Culture Film Festival in Los Angeles has found itself impacted by a dangerous storm half a world away. Typhoon Gaemi, with top winds speeds equaling a category 3 hurricane, lashed the Philippines and Taiwan before blowing into China Thursday night. It caused widespread travel…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

EXCLUSIVE: Celine Dion looks set to perform at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday, in a joint appearance with Lady Gaga. But that's not the only big news to report about the French-Canadian chanteuse. I Am: Celine Dion, the film that chronicles the singer’s extraordinary…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is out with the nominations for its 45th News & Documentary Emmy Awards, which will be handed out in the fall. See the full list below. The 65 categories cover programming content that premiered during calendar 2023. The winners will pick up…

On the baseball diamond, Pete Rose did everything head on – barreling into infielders to break up a double play, diving headfirst on steals, famously flattening catcher Ray Fosse to score the winning run in the 1970 All-Star Game. He played straight up, hard-nosed baseball. No guile. In other…

To summit Mount Everest requires incredible tenacity, fitness and a willingness to negotiate the risk of death. For Lhakpa Sherpa, who has climbed the world's tallest peak more than any other woman, it has required even more: overcoming poverty, defying her family and Nepali culture that did not…

EXCLUSIVE: Sir David Attenborough, fresh from his latest Emmy nomination, is partnering with National Geographic for the first time on a documentary that will explore the health of the world oceans. NatGeo announced today it has given the green light to David Attenborough: Ocean (working title), a…

Ron Howard's Jim Henson Idea Man led all comers in the documentary categories as the nominations for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced, racking up eight altogether, three more than the next most-nominated doc. Among its nominations are Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special…

The creators of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV say they're open to making a follow up to the series, which scored two Emmy Nominations today, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The five-part Investigation Discovery series documented alleged abuse suffered by stars of…

One of Rob Reiner's greatest filmmaking credits is the classic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. But he became the maker of an actual documentary – not a faux one – with Albert Brooks: Defending My Life. This morning (while working on the sequel to Spinal Tap in New Orleans) he learned he's become an Emmy…

Some of the entertainment industry's top filmmakers will go up against each other at the 76th Emmy Awards. Oscar winner Ron Howard's Jim Henson Idea Man earned eight Emmy nominations this morning, more than any other nonfiction contender in the race. The Disney+ film about the Muppets creator is…

More than 10,000 satellites are currently spinning around the globe – and there would be even more had a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket not failed in its upper stage last week, preventing the proper deployment of a batch of Starlink satellites. That anomalous incident notwithstanding, the number of…