National Entertainment

NEW YORK (AP) — With the Hollywood writers strike over , actors will now get a shot at cutting their own deal with studios and streaming services.

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NEW YORK — Eight urgent books about the past have been shortlisted for the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize.

NEW YORK (AP) — Finally recovered from a string of illness, tenor Jonas Kaufmann rose from one of 62 neatly ordered hospital beds at the Park Avenue Armory to perform a collection of Schubert songs in “Doppleganger.

TORONTO — The studio lights are going dark at "ET Canada." Corus Entertainment said Wednesday it is ceasing production on the long-running Canadian arts and entertainment news magazine Oct. 6 after 18 seasons.

NEW YORK (AP) — After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace.

TORONTO — Disney Plus is joining the crackdown on password sharing. The Walt Disney Company started emailing its subscribers this week to signal changes to its streaming platform's user agreement, which include "restrictions on account sharing.

The artificial intelligence in Gareth Edwards’ “ The Creator ,” a visually magnificent if by-the-books epic, is not the AI making headlines at the moment.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Quincy Jones , who once embarked on an international diplomatic tour with jazz great Dizzy Gillespie, will receive the U.S. Department of State's inaugural Peace Through Music Award.

A mysterious woman, down on her luck and working a miserable job at a tinned fish factory, makes contact with the extremely wealthy father she’s never met — and his suspicious heirs — in the French thriller “The Origin of Evil.