Amazon places bid on TikTok as deadline looms

Amazon reportedly has made a bid to buy TikTok, the popular video app that is in danger of being banned in the U.S. if it can’t reach a deal that would separate it from its Chinese owner.. Under a U.S. law signed by then-President Joe Biden last year, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is required to … Read more

‘The Bondsman’ star Kevin Bacon on the role he has no interest in resurrecting

AUSTIN, Texas — Kevin Bacon and Erik Oleson, star and showrunner of Prime Video’s demonic-bounty-hunter series “The Bondsman,” stopped by the L.A. Times studio at the 2025 SXSW Film and TV Festival on Friday to answer our Very Important Questions. From the NFL’s most devilish franchise to who he sold his soul to in order to … Read more