Новости за 24.12.2016

So much for there being a lot of space in the galaxy.

“Rogue One"” quashed most movie rebellions Friday, while Universal was whistling a happy tune with “Sing,” as the two films are dominating all wide releases this holiday weekend.

In its second weekend of release, “Rogue One” took in about $20...

Live coverage: Rams vs. 49ers Dec. 24, 2016, 11:49 a.m. The Los Angeles Rams (4-10) will play host to the San Francisco 49ers (1-13) in the second-to-last game of the regular season on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff is at 1:25 p.m. PST. Join Lindsey Thiry for live updates throughout the afternoon....

Live coverage: Rams vs. 49ers Dec. 24, 2016, 11:49 a.m. The Los Angeles Rams (4-10) will play host to the San Francisco 49ers (1-13) in the second-to-last game of the regular season on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff is at 1:25 p.m. PST. Join Lindsey Thiry for live updates throughout the afternoon....

Live coverage: Rams vs. 49ers Dec. 24, 2016, 11:49 a.m. The Los Angeles Rams (4-10) will play host to the San Francisco 49ers (1-13) in the second-to-last game of the regular season on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff is at 1:25 p.m. PST. Join Lindsey Thiry for live updates throughout the afternoon....

Live coverage: Rams vs. 49ers Dec. 24, 2016, 11:49 a.m. The Los Angeles Rams (4-10) will play host to the San Francisco 49ers (1-13) in the second-to-last game of the regular season on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff is at 1:25 p.m. PST. Join Lindsey Thiry for live updates throughout the afternoon....

Live coverage: Rams vs. 49ers Dec. 24, 2016, 11:49 a.m. The Los Angeles Rams (4-10) will play host to the San Francisco 49ers (1-13) in the second-to-last game of the regular season on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff is at 1:25 p.m. PST. Join Lindsey Thiry for live updates throughout the afternoon....

In this season of peace, the country seems divided against itself as seldom before in living memory. The Presidential campaign just ended turned on a demagogic stoking of fear of immigrants and refugees of rare ferocity.

Director Guillermo del Toro certainly knows his monsters. He’s choreographed battles between kaijus and giant robots; guided the heavy fist of Hellboy; filmed vampires, ghosts, even mythical fauns. But the creator’s next monstrous muse is something a little more common, the troll. 

As a girl in the mid-1950s, Amy Roberts would catch a ride each morning with her neighbors the Johnsons, the couple who ran the one-room schoolhouse where black children were taught on St. Simons Island. 

The Clippers could not finish off the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night, falling 90-88 at Staples Center.

December has been exceedingly unkind for the Lakers. They have won only once, never played fully healthy and when their offense took a hit, their problems on defense became that much more glaring. 

Are the new uniforms for flight attendants and other crew members at American Airlines safe to wear?

The Boko Haram extremist group has finally been crushed — driven from its last forest enclave with fighters on the run and no place to hide, Nigeria's president declared Saturday.

CROATIA AND SLOVENIA

We first met Marko Vlahov in the Zagreb Airport where he was waiting for us when we disembarked our flight from Los Angeles. He escorted us to his Mercedes SUV and we were off for our tour of Lake Bled, Slovenia and Croatia. From his first smile to the last minute we spent...

The holidays may bring a year-end lull to certain business sectors, but the high-end market for real estate in L.A. has shown no signs of slowing down. Here’s a look at the high-water deals that closed between Nov. 27 and Dec. 10.

It’s the holidays! A good time for a bit of Shakespeare, some “Amelie” and John Adams’ “El Niño.” I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s most intriguing (and furriest) cultural stories:

Air travel in the future should be a lot more comfortable for passengers despite economy airline seats that are getting more cramped.

Don’t call it a rerun. Celebrated television producer Norman Lear and his wife, Lyn, have relisted their estate in Brentwood for $39.95 million, or about $15 million less than the original listing.

My family moved to California from the Philippines in 1977 and made Los Angeles our home. I was 19. I studied nursing, met my husband and had two children. Then, after 22 years of marriage, the problems we had could no longer be ignored. We divorced.

A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Saturday morning three miles from Santa Barbara, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:15 a.m. at a depth of 6.2 miles.

For Forest Whitaker, a film or television role should be accompanied by some kind of lesson. The 55-year-old actor, born in Texas, is interested in gaining new experiences and insights with each project – regardless of whether that project is well received or not.

From Deadpool to OJ: Made in America, Hamilton to Sturgill Simpson, 2016 was a year of some pretty rich and unexpected pop-culture. But there’s one element many of the phenomena had in common: they all combined realms that had rarely lived together before. History met hip-hop, a TV series about...

Put on some glitter and grab your party hats. New Year's Eve is about to rock Las Vegas. Some over-the-top celebrations begin at 2 a.m. Dec. 31 - when 2017 begins on the island nation of Tonga (more on that later) - and continue into New Year's Day. If you come, expect to be joined by 330,000 fellow...

New on Blu-ray

“American Honey” (Lionsgate DVD, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.99; also available on VOD)

There are two movies happening at once in writer-director Andrea Arnold’s sprawling road picture “American Honey.” One is a half-hearted exposé of “magazine crews,” those pods of underclass youngsters...

A dead man floats in a pool.

What happened?

“Before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion, before those Hollywood columnists get their hands on it,” says the narrator, “maybe you’d like to hear the facts, the whole truth.”

The eerie and elegant opening to Billy Wilder’s “Sunset...