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Someone’s racist past has finally caught up to him. It was reported by the LA Times that the new owners of Hollywood & Highland, DJM and Gaw Capital Partners, are dismantling a pair of white elephants at the center in a move to cleanse itself from the racist legacy of D.W. Griffith. The elephants, which are an homage…

UPDATED with latest: Despite 5 hours of work by firefighters and mental health professionals, a distraught man jumped to his death from a ledge atop the Hollywood & Highland shopping center. A Los Angeles Fire department statement indicated the man “plummeted to his death in an area where LAFD’s rescue air cushion was…

UPDATED with new details: Veteran Los Angeles TV reporter Hal Eisner and his KTTV cameraman Joab Perez operator were among five people injured today when a SUV hit several bystanders on a Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk and crashed into a minimarket storefront. The cause of the roughly 3:15 p.m. crash is under…

UPDATED, 6:35 PM: Crews this afternoon removed the “All Black Lives Matter” mural that was painted on Hollywood Boulevard between Highland and Orange avenues. Los Angeles city officials say they are looking for a permanent location for the mural. PREVIOUSLY, June 14: A solidarity march between the LGBTQ+ and Black…

UPDATE: Firefighters and crisis negotiators have given up trying to lure an individual down from scaffolding in front of the site of the 2020 Academy Awards. A decision was made at 2 AM to make a tactical withdrawal when it was clear the man on the scaffold has no intentions of climbing down. Attempts to bring him to…

Retail and entertainment hub Hollywood & Highland is being sold by its longtime owner, CIM Group, but the company is holding onto the Dolby Theatre. The buyers are DJM, a San Jose-based private equity real estate and development firm and Gaw Capital USA, a Hong Kong and LA-based real estate private equity firm. The…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has set its submission deadlines for the 90th Academy Awards show consideration. Submissions for individual categories and the General Entry/Official Screen Credits (OSC) form are due by 5 p.m. PT on the following dates: Documentary Short Subject – Friday, September…

As if a rainy rush-hour Friday weren’t enough to clog the streets around Hollywood & Highland, Hollywood Boulevard was closed in both directions from Highland to Orange for more than two hours tonight as authorities investigated a suspicious package in the subway below the complex. The LA County Sheriff’s bomb squad…

EXCLUSIVE: Just as Deadline predicted, the Academy Awards are staying put at Hollywood & Highland for the next 20 years in the former Kodak Theatre now named the Dolby Theatre, sources tell me. Kodak filed for bankruptcy in January and was only halfway through a 20-year rights deal when it pulled out just before this…