Cranked Up Films has shared a poster and trailer for Movie Theater Massacre, the slasher horror-comedy from writer-director Ian Courtney which centres of the employees of a movie theater facing….
A movie theater chain allowed its customers to bring whatever they wanted to use as popcorn buckets, but they may not have expected wheelbarrows and coolers to come rolling through….
Claire van Kampen, a theater director, composer and wife of actor Mark Rylance, died Saturday morning. She was 71. Van Kampen died in Kassel, Germany, “surrounded by her family” following….
The American Life has produced an astounding 800+ episodes, and many consider 2002’s “Act V” one of their best (it’s my all-time favorite). “Act V” is one of those episodes….
Robert Laemmle, 89, President of Laemmle Theatres, whose family is a Hollywood dynasty (his father Max was a cousin of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Pictures), died January 9 in….
Michael Sheen is self-financing a new national theater in his native Wales. The Good Omens, Twilight and Staged star will launch a theater company to fill the gap left by….
Amid the devastation of downtown Pacific Palisades caused by this week’s firestorm, the Bay Theater has emerged relatively unscathed. While nearby buildings were reduced to ash, developer Rick Caruso, who….
There’s a lot that David FIncher’s thirty-year-old film can teach us about what movies, as a medium, have lost. This week, David Fincher’s classic Se7en has been given a limited….
Happy New Year, Essential Arts readers! 2025 is already shaping up to be a feast of a year in terms of arts and culture in Southern California, and we here….
For the Hollywood-centric, the holiday-of-your-choice festivities and the countdown to the New Year mean a different set of seasonal rituals: the accountants tally up the box office returns and the….
