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It’s hot in California. Numerous cities in the Golden State tied or broke heat records this week — not just for the date, but for their entire recorded histories. Idyllwild hit 104 degrees today. That ties the town’s all time hottest temperature. Palmdale tied its record high for July 4 at…

Officials are still assessing damage in the resort city of Palm Springs, one of the hardest-hit areas that is still reeling from the power of Tropical Storm Hilary. Residents there, along with the rest of Southern California, are battling flooded roads, mudslides and downed trees. Mayor Grace…

The 2023 Coachella Music and Arts Festival lineup was revealed today and organizers made a smart move by booking Bad Bunny, the ultra-hot reggaeton superstar who had the highest-grossing tour of 2022, both in North America and internationally. Bad Bunny will play Friday April 14 & 21. Those dates…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer and director Max Barbakow has signed with Range Media Partners. Barbakow's feature directing debut, Palm Springs,  premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival selling for the highest recorded price in Festival history, reportedly north of 17.5 million dollars and 69 cents. The film, which premiered…

UPDATED: In addition to headliners Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Swedish House Mafia, who were revealed this afternoon, organizers of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival announced the entire 2022 lineup via Twitter this evening. Among the approximately 200 acts revealed this evening are…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed writer and director Max Barbakow. Barbakow most recently directed Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, which broke the record for the largest sale in Sundance history when it was acquired by NEON and Hulu at the 2020 film festival. Upon its release on Hulu, PALM SPRINGS…

UPDATED with full list of winners: Netflix’s Aaron Sorkin drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 won the marquee Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) honor Saturday to cap the American Cinema Editors’ 71st annual ACE Eddie Awards. Alan Baumgarten, ACE, edited the pic, about the unrest around the 1968 Democratic National…

Palm Springs, the comedy written by Andy Siara, directed by AFI grad Max Barbakow in his feature debut and starring a cast including Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, made history a year ago when it broke all sales records at the Sundance Film Festival. It was picked up instantly in a bidding war won by Neon and Hulu…

EXCLUSIVE: Palm Springs arrived with a bang at January’s Sundance Film Festival, when the romantic comedy with an existential twist (and turns) was acquired for a fest-record $17.5 million. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti star in the pic, which Max Barbakow directed from a screenplay by Andy Siara. Barbakow and Siera…

With the world coming to a total standstill in the pandemic, Andy Samberg's quirky time-loop rom-com genre mashup Palm Springs became a representation of everyone's emotional isolation, and a blueprint for us to find our redemptive souls in the process. "All of a sudden, it morphed from this movie that blended genres…

For editor Matt Friedman, Palm Springs was undeniable from the get-go. Stemming from a script by Andy Siara that was "so tight, so smart, and so clever," the genre-bending comedy allowed him to work with metaphysics, along with pitch-perfect performances from stellar actors. Starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti…

After creating the Critics Choice Awards for both movies and television achievements, plus spinoff shows for the best in documentaries and reality TV, the Critics Choice Association on Thursday announced nominees for its latest awards-show venture, the Critics Choice Super Awards. Designed to honor popular forms of…