Entertainment

Buying up dusty franchises can pay off. And there may still be Star Wars-like gems languishing out there. Good content is hard to find. Look at Microsoft Corp. It's paying $69 billion to...

Expect more deals like Sony’s acquisition of Bungie, as tech and entertainment companies eye metaverse projects. A feeding frenzy for video game makers is now fully under way. The obvious question is,...

Denigrating portrayals of women are common in popular titles, but a hit Sony game offers a glimmer of hope. The video-game business has a long and troubled history of sexism and gender...

‘Sinister 2’ (Oct. 15)The original “Sinister” was one of the best horror films of the 2010s, a brutally efficient and inspired hybrid of “Blair Witch”-style found footage and “Poltergeist”-inspired suburban dread. Its...

Activision Blizzard Inc. is under siege. The largest U.S.-based video-game publisher is facing multiple regulatory probes over its workplace culture, but it could soon have another serious problem: its games. Back in...

In August 2019, Tedeschi Trucks Band performed “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” — the 1970 double album by Eric Clapton’s group Derek and the Dominos — in its entirety at the...

For Welser-Möst, who occupied Mahler’s post of general music director at the Vienna State Opera from 2010 to 2014, examining the pristinely preserved manuscript — unaltered, unbound and marked in blue crayon...

Chickie Donohue, 81, has been telling saloon stories since his teens, but there’s one he no longer has to tell.It is about his preposterously unlikely trip to Vietnam in 1967 to bring...

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies...

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Sept. 26-Oct. 2. Details and...