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A long-awaited showdown will take place this week in a historic Wild West frontier town, with both sides seeking justice for a fatal bullet fired from a six-shooter.

But if Alec Baldwin’s trial for manslaughter sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie, the victims, the stakes and the tragic consequences are all too real.

In October 2021, on the New Mexico set of his low-budget Western “Rust,” a gun pointed by Baldwin discharged a live round, killing the film’s cinematographer and wounding its director....

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting

The right-wing media company that published the purported documentary and book “2000 Mules” announced late last week that it was pulling them from distribution. Salem Media Group also apologized to an Atlanta man for false claims in the film that he’d illegally cast the ballots of others.

It is the latest in a long series of hits to the film’s credibility, though the movie and its makers — Dinesh D’Souza and conservative nonprofit True the Vote — appear to still have a few lives left. ...

It is an offer they still can't refuse: Francis Ford Coppola will lead a parade of veteran American movie titans back to the Cannes Film Festival next week in a likely swansong for the "New Hollywood" generation.

The director of "The Godfather" will be joined by "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and "Taxi Driver" writer Paul Schrader on the French Riviera for the world's most famous film gathering, where all three men enjoyed success in their 1970s heyday.

Half a century later, Coppola and Schrader will compete head-to-head for the festival's coveted Palme d'Or with their new films "Megalopolis" and "Oh Canada", while Lucas receives an honorary award for his blockbuster career....

It’s not just a Barbie world but a Barbie record, now that Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” has overtaken “The Dark Knight” as Warner Bros. highest-grossing domestic film. The news comes just after the pink-as-can-be Margot Robbie vehicle surpassed $537.5 million at the U.S. box office, less than a month after hitting theaters July 21, Variety reports. The Oscar-winning Batman flick, released on the same weekend in July 2008, raked in $536 million in domestic box office receipts. This isn’t the first record “Barbie” has achieved since its highly anticipated release. “Barbie” surpassed 2019′s “Captain M......

CHICAGO — We’re beginning week three of “Oppenheimer” bombarding audiences with writer-director Christopher Nolan’s dramatization of how theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project’s nuclear bomb test at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1945. The planet has white-knuckled it ever since. For Chicago and its environs, the “Oppenheimer” success — already it has outgrossed Nolan’s own “Batman Begins” with a global box office take of more than $400 million — comes with a bewildering and wholly subjective question. Where should you see the thing? Well, I’m going to see it at an I......

We’re all living in a “Barbie” world, according to the latest box office numbers, which show that Greta Gerwig’s big-screen take on the Mattel icon has not just bested summer movie previews but all of this year′s films. Warner Bros. confirmed that the Margot Robbie-led flick — half of the so-called “Barbenheimer” event denoting the simultaneous opening of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” — earned $22.3 million in previews, marking the highest of the year to date, Deadline reports. The third and final installment of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise previously held the title of the year’......