New Podcast ‘I Am Kobe’ Features Never-Before-Heard Tapes

Jamie Lang Los Angeles-based Outsider Pictures has picked up North American rights to the award-winning Brazilian stop-motion feature “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People,” this year’s Best Film winner from Annecy’s Contrechamp section for innovative and outside-the-box toon features and the Best Animated Feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.Outsider is currently planning an Academy qualifying run for the film.São Paulo-based Coala Filmes impressed early on with their claymation

UPDATE: The first case of the omicron variant has arrived in Los Angeles, according to the County Department of Public Health. Its announcement follows an earlier one on a case in New York City.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorA new documentary will tell the story about the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles.APLA Health announced on Wednesday, World AIDS Day, that production has begun on “Commitment to Life,” a feature-length doc about how AIDS activists, doctors, celebrities and studio executives changed the course of the epidemic.

Clayton Davis No more pencils, no more books… it’s time for the critics’ awards’ dirty looks.The first of the two most vital precursors of the awards season will be handed out – National Board of Review on Thursday followed by New York Film Critics on Friday.After a pandemic year that brought unclear frontrunners and differing eligibility calendars, the two groups, in addition to Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which will announce on Dec.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterLongtime Warner Bros. Pictures PR executive Stephanie Phillips is headed to Focus Features.Phillips has been named executive vice president of publicity at the Universal-owned speciality label.

The 2022 edition of the prestigious Pirelli calendar is here.

here.With the film’s limited release opening Friday and wide release just around the corner, you may be wondering how to watch “Licorice Pizza.” Here’s everything you need to know.“Licorice Pizza” opens in select cities (New York and Los Angeles) on Nov. 26.

NHC, the supergroup featuring Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Jane’s Addiction’s guitarist Dave Navarro and bassist Chris Chaney, played their first full gig in Los Angeles this week (November 23) – watch them cover David Bowie below.The supergroup had made their live debut in September with a set at the Ohana Festival in California, but made their full bow with a show at The Troubadour in LA on Tuesday.For the finale of the show, the band – who played with Foo Fighters and Nirvana

Kobe Bryant's daughters are playing where their dad used to work! Vanessa Bryant took to Instagram on Sunday to share pics of her and Kobe's youngest daughters playing basketball at the Los Angeles Lakers' facility.The court is one that Kobe knew well as he played for the team from 1996 to 2016.

American Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night, and stole the show in the process. The powerhouse performances, which were dubbed “The Battle of Boston,” saw the two Massachusetts-based boy bands go back and forth, belting out their most iconic tracks as a star-studded audience watched on.

It’s a battle of the boy bands from Boston at the 2021 American Music Awards!

2021 American Music Awards on Sunday. The boy band and R&B group may have been in their heyday in the '80s and '90s, but they still rocked the stage at this year's show. While the majority of the show took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, the groups teamed up for a performance in Boston, Massachusetts, the hometown for both of them.

Friday night stayed mostly quiet in Los Angeles, but street protests erupted into violence in several cities across the US, most prominently in New York, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

Samantha Boscarino (Good Luck Charlie), Griffin Johnson (Ridiculousness), David Koechner (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) and Rizwan Manji (Schitt’s Creek) have signed on to star in Diamond in the Rough, the second feature financed and produced by Creator+, which will enter production in Los Angeles this week.

Pedro Feliciano was a pitcher for the New York Mets in the 2000s and 2010s.A native of Puerto Rico, Feliciano was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1995 draft, though he only played for their minor league team. His first season in the major leagues was 2002, when he was traded to the Mets.