In the 2012 movie Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick performs a song using a single plastic cup as a percussion instrument. The song, like the film, became an instant hit, landing at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and cementing the film’s status as a cult favorite.
Russell Crowe dispensed some advice to his fellow thespians in this month’s issue of Australia’s Women’s Weekly, telling the magazine there are plenty of film roles for older actresses – if only they would accept them.
Empire Robotics’ Versaball robot has been hailed for its ability to grip a multitude of objects in a unique way: by using a giant inflatable sand-filled ball attached to a robot arm. The applications are practically limitless…which is why Empire Robotics has programmed the robot to be a beer pong phenom.
President Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia visited Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder at his house in Kailua on the last day of the first family’s two-week Hawaii vacation.
In response to new sanctions placed on North Korea by the United States Friday over its alleged involvement in a cyberattack against Sony Pictures, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement hailing the Obama administration for its action but questioning the effectiveness of the new sanctions.
CBS Sports radio host Jim Rome drew the ire of music enthusiasts and decent people everywhere when he called the members of college marching bands “dorks” on Twitter during the Rose Bowl game between Oregon and Florida State University on Thursday.
A man was arrested on suspicion of DUI Thursday night after stealing a nine-passenger electric golf cart from the Rose Bowl and taking the vehicle onto the 210 freeway in Pasadena.
High housing costs across the Golden State are causing hundreds of thousands of low and middle-income workers to pack up and leave for other states.
The United States placed new sanctions on North Korea Friday in retaliation for what it claims is the country’s involvement in the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro on Thursday urged New Yorkers and others across the nation to donate to a New York Daily News fund for the families of the two slain NYPD officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
Digital music downloads plummeted in 2014, while streaming services like Spotify continued their steady growth, reports Financial Times.
Disney Channel star Selena Gomez provoked outrage with some recent pictures she took on her visit to Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.
A widely-viewed online video in which a homeless man takes $100 he’d been gifted and proceeds to feed other homeless people in the area is fake, the homeless man’s brother told CBS2 News.
An icy cold and strong winds hit much of Southern California Tuesday night into Wednesday, downing trees all over the state and stranding about 180 cars on the highways northeast of Los Angeles. The storm is also responsible for at least five deaths across California, reports Fox News.
It looks like the Force is still strong with the Star Wars franchise; J.J. Abrams’ forthcoming installment, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, topped the upcoming Avengers sequel to be crowned Fandango’s most anticipated film of 2015.
Jeff and Stacy Staab, owners of Arlington, Vermont-based Cremation Solutions, offer a product for storing the remains of loved ones unlike anything you’ve ever seen: fully customizable, 3D-printed, life-sized head urns that look exactly like the recently deceased.
Two male adult film actors tested positive for HIV this week, with officials speculating that one actor infected the other with the virus while having unprotected sex on a film shoot in Nevada. The incident marks the first time since 2004 that adult film performers contracted the virus on a film set.
In a wide-ranging interview with Harper’s Bazaar U.K., Gwyneth Paltrow told the magazine that her parents, Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner, instilled a strong work ethic in her and that she has “earned everything” she currently has.
Minaj told Rolling Stone she thought she “was going to die” when she found out she was pregnant while attending a prestigious performing arts school.
Southern California-based SpaceX will attempt to go where no man has gone before; but it’s not where you would think.
Beginning January 1, California’s gasoline producers will be subject to new regulations under the state’s cap-and-trade system. As a result, gas prices for the state’s motorists will likely increase due to what opponents of the regulations are calling a “hidden gas tax,” although the ultimate amount of the increase is still anyone’s guess.
Grammy-winning rapper Macklemore spoke at length about race in America and white privilege in a wide-ranging interview on the Hot 97 radio station Monday morning.
Toy manufacturer Hasbro is under fire for it latest holiday season offering: a Play-Doh cake decorator that looks suspiciously like a penis.
FBI agents were briefed Monday by one of the world’s leading cyber intelligence firms, who claim that the evidence being gathered in connection with the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment points to a former employee of the studio, rather than North Korea, as the perpetrator of the hack.
A cold air storm is projected to hit much of California over New Year’s Day, bringing rain, snow, and a possible frost to large portions of the Golden State.
Farmers in California are worried that President Obama’s recent executive action on immigration will exacerbate a labor shortage problem in the Golden State’s agriculture industry.
The Sony Pictures comedy The Interview took in $15 million from Video on Demand online streaming through Saturday, making the film the studio’s most profitable online release ever.
A Los Angeles woman is turning to a crowdfunding campaign to fund her dream of opening up the city’s first “dog cafe.”
In a legal victory for hundreds of thousands of unlicensed immigrant drivers in Los Angeles, a state court ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department’s “Special Order 7” policy, which prevents law enforcement from impounding the vehicles of unlicensed drivers for 30 days, is legal and can be implemented.
North Korea lashed out at the United States on Saturday, blaming the American government for widespread Internet outages reported in the country and hurling a racial slur at President Obama.
Justin Bieber got quite the Christmas present this year: his very own private jet.
A new investigative audit of state government in California details several incidents of embezzlement, false statements, and mismanagement among several of the state’s government agencies.
Now that The Interview has finally been released, the nation’s top film critics are weighing in with their thoughts on the controversial film.
DVD copies of the 2004 film Team America: World Police are currently sold out at at least three major retail outlets in the wake of the Christmas Day online release of the Sony Pictures comedy The Interview.
A new video from Youtuber JoshPalerLin is taking the Internet by storm.
Lin’s YouTube channel, which currently has over 700,000 subscribers, usually features pranks and other outlandish activities. For his latest video, Lin decided he would give a homeless man $100 and then follow him to see what he did with the money.
The Interview is a hit with pirates. The now-infamous Sony Pictures comedy has already been illegally downloaded over 200,000 times in its first 10 hours of release, file-sharing news website TorrentFreak told Breitbart News Thursday morning.
With Sony’s decision to allow independent theater owners to screen The Interview, Variety reports that over 300 theaters have already signed up to show the film.
As previously reported, Minecraft creator and newly-minted billionaire Markus Persson just outbid Jay-Z and Beyoncé to score a $70 million mega-mansion in Beverly Hills, complete with 16-car garage, candy room, and $5,600 toilets.
The medical marijuana and alcohol delivery app Nestdrop can no longer make deliveries of marijuana in the city of Los Angeles, an L.A. County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday.
It’s been a rough year for the Hollywood film industry, even before Sony Pictures’ decision to pull The Interview from its scheduled December 25 release date in the wake of a massive cyberattack.
