National Entertainment

TORONTO — Canada’s competition commissioner is doubling down on its claim that the country’s largest movie theatre chain is using “deceptive marketing practices” to sell tickets.

LONDON (AP) — It was no coincidence that three of Kevin Spacey 's four accusers described similar crotch-grabbing incidents, a prosecutor said Wednesday in her closing argument at his sexual assault trial.

NEW YORK (AP) — Greta Van Fleet's new album lists 10 tracks but it's really 9 1/2. Halfway through, there's a song fragment that runs barely past a minute. It's like a nugget of distilled Greta Van Fleet.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic and full of suspense.

TORONTO — Canadian director Atom Egoyan will premiere his opera-inspired feature “Seven Veils” at the Toronto International Film Festival. The drama reunites the Toronto filmmaker with U.S.

TORONTO — The high visibility of sister strikes in screenland could lend a further boost to a labour movement that observers say was already on the rise.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Most of the Atlantic City casino workers who clean hotel rooms, serve drinks and tidy up public areas are women. For the first time in 107 years, the union that represents them is now being led by a woman.

For someone who’s 11.5 inches tall and weighs under 8 ounces, poor Barbie’s had to carry an awfully heavy load over the years on that slender, plastic back of hers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis also has a busy career as a children's author . Her next work, “Just One More Sleep,” is set to come out in January.

ROME (AP) — Prosecutors in Turin have reportedly opened an investigation after the lead singer of British band Placebo insulted Premier Giorgia Meloni during a July 11 concert, calling her a fascist and racist.