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Liam Neeson’s thriller “Honest Thief” stole the top spot at the box office in yet another quiet weekend of moviegoing.

Actress and comedian Margaret Cho is back on screen with her new movie “Faith Based,” a satire about the Christian film industry. The comedian joins LX News to talk about the movie, the importance of independent film and why you should vote in November.

Fans will have to wait longer… much longer… to see Robert Pattison don his cowl. The caped crusader became the latest COVID-19 victim after it was announced Tuesday the highly anticipated reboot “The Batman” was being pushed to 2022.

Luis Miranda, the father of “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel, and filmmaker John James joined LX News to discuss their new HBO documentary “Siempre, Luis,” which tells Miranda’s life story of moving to the mainland U.S. from Puerto Rico and dedicating his life to helping Latino communities.

Connecticut father Dan Presser and his four-year-old daughter Madison are recreating famous movie scenes from iconic films such as “The Wizard of Oz” and “Titanic” to raise money for Feeding America.

Emmy-winning actress Laverne Cox pulled back the curtain on “Bad Hair” on Hulu, her new horror-comedy about a haunted hair weave, which she says recounts the horror of white supremacy and false beauty standards for Black women.

Hollywood’s unions announced Monday that they have reached an agreement on pandemic protocols with major studios that will allow the broad resumption of production of films and television after six months of stagnant sets and widespread unemployment.

“Teen Wolf” actress Holland Roden stars in a new horror movie, “Follow Me,” that was inspired by the real-life dangers of massive social media fame. Roden, meanwhile, is teaching her own followers about the joys of van life.

About three quarters of the country’s movie theaters are open, but Americans are not going back in significant numbers in the COVID-era, even with new films coming into the marketplace weekly.

Date night at the movies is woven into the very fabric of Americana. It’s a tradition that dates back to … well, the advent of movie theaters. But like many traditions in 2020, the movie-going experience came to a grinding halt as theaters across the country shuttered because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Janelle Monae says she “felt so much rage and anger” when she stepped onto a former slave plantation for the first time to film the psychological thriller “Antebellum.”

British actress Diana Rigg, who became a 1960s style icon as secret agent Emma Peel in TV series “The Avengers,” has died

In a litmus test for American moviegoing in the pandemic, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” brought in an estimated $20.2 million through the holiday weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters.

With U.S. movie theaters closed for months, the film industry was forced to pivot during the pandemic. LX’s Ngozi Ekeledo talked to film critic Alison Willmore about the future of big blockbusters, streaming wars and VOD releases post COVID-19.

When Newark, N.J.-based filmmaker Ayana Stafford-Morris decided to start a pop-up drive-in movie theater, she realized that only a tiny number of the movies available for drive-in venues featured Black directors or casts. So she decided to change that.

Actor Jun Yu, who appears as the character Cricket in the live-action version of “Mulan,” joined LX News to talk about his “life-changing” experience filming Disney’s remake of the iconic film.

Actor Philip Winchester stopped by LX News to talk about his latest action thriller “Rogue,” which stars Megan Fox as a ruthless mercenary who leads a team of soldiers to help rescue hostages in remote Africa.

The first wave of big new movies released since the beginning of the pandemic, including Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending thriller “Tenet” and the long-delayed “X-Men” spinoff “The New Mutants,” arrived in theaters over the weekend, testing the waters of a radically different theatrical landscape.

The film “Breaking Fast” explores an LGBTQ relationship with a Muslim character as the protagonist and is receiving much acclaim. We had a chance to chat with starring actors Haaz Sleiman and Michael Cassidy, who pull back curtain on the award-winning movie.

Dayo Okeniyi plays the historical character Shields Green in “Emperor,” which he described as a “fairy tale retelling” of the pre-Civil War slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry. Okeniyi joined LX News to talk about why the movie is more relevant today than he ever expected.