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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Filmmaker Ava DuVernay remembered working as a publicist years ago, struggling to draw major traffic to star-studded events for the African American Film Critics Association .

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes long films , by movie standards, but short ones by Russian literature standards. There may be no filmmaker more consciously working in a novelistic tradition.

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide.

For a few years, the Oscars looked to be hanging on by a thread. Viewership was plummeting . The pandemic didn't help.

TORONTO — Despite an unseasonably warm winter, there's a chill across the Canadian retail landscape.

JAMNAGAR, India (AP) — It might be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen.

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane arrived on Friday in Malaysia's northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is in hospital and being treated for an infection.

WINNIPEG — Ruby Chopstix's rise to Winnipeg stardom literally started from the bottom. Deep in the bowels of a local theatre basement, Chopstix made her debut as a drag queen in front of a small crowd who had gathered to watch a local talent show.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A private airplane carrying singer Karol G made an emergency landing at a Los Angeles airport Thursday evening, a news report said. The aircraft carrying the Grammy winner and others landed at Van Nuys Airport around 9 p.m.