FRIDAY AFTERNOON: This weekend belongs to Sony, at least the top two spots do with Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s fourth frame of $35M at 4,006 sites and Blumhouse/Atomic Monster/Stage 6’s Insidious: Out of the Further opening to $23M at 3,303 theaters.
The Department of Justice has secured a $400M settlement in its Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) case against TikTok.
The Stuart Price rework of the summer's biggest club hit — unveiled at WorldPride Amsterdam — hands Madonna a fifth U. K. dance chart-topper in 15 weeks.
Zach Hickerson tells TMZ he and Brian Hickerson performed CPR on the actor after finding her unconscious in a Greenville, South Carolina, Airbnb.
A group of Hollywood filmmakers, executives and actors has spent the last three years secretly meeting with Silicon Valley executives to try to address a simmering issue in the industry: how to define where AI is useful in the context of a human-controlled creative process.
Tarik Skubal makes his fourth start with the Dodgers on Saturday afternoon at Dodger Stadium. The left-hander has a 3. 18 ERA with 19 strikeouts and six walks in his three starts as a Dodger, covering 17 innings.