LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - The number of straight from the headlines projects seems to be increasing by the day, and Patricia Heaton is the latest to get in on the act.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Wadleigh never played a note and is not a household name, but he may be the person most responsible for securing Woodstock's place in history as the epitome of Sixties counterculture.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Quentin Tarantino responded to criticisms of the "arrogant" portrayal of Bruce Lee in his latest film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," claiming that it isn't so inaccurate after all.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Universal Pictures on Saturday canceled the release of "The Hunt," a satirical thriller about a group of Americans who are captured to be hunted and killed for sport, following apparent criticism by President Donald Trump and a recent series of mass shootings.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Joe Watts, the stuntman who was injured on the set of "Fast & Furious 9," has been moved out of intensive care.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Danny Trejo, known for his tough-guy roles in such films as 'Machete,' helped rescue a young boy who was trapped in a car that overturned in a Los Angeles traffic collision on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Netflix has won the battle for an overall deal with "Game of Thrones" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the streaming platform confirmed to Variety. This follows a three-way bidding war that had recently narrowed from the six major studios to Netflix, Amazon and Disney.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - When two movie studios launch projects built on a suspiciously similar concept -- it could be asteroid-hitting-the-earth thrillers or animated bug comedies, biopics about Truman Capote writing "In Cold Blood" or reboots of classic old monster franchises -- it's sometimes a coincidence and sometimes a case of flat-out imitation (which is the nice word for it).

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's film regulator on Wednesday said it was blocking the mainland movie industry from participating in Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards without a giving a reason, in the latest sign of rising tensions between Beijing and the self-ruled island.