Entertainment

A Chinese animated film made for roughly the price of a used laptop has just rewritten the rules of box-office math. Niu Lai, which translates to “The Cow Is Coming,” opened in China on Aug. 5 with almost no promotion, no trailer and a production budget that reports place somewhere between under $200 and a few thousand dollars. In its first 10 days the 86-minute...

Stephen Pamaran, the 33-year-old Massachusetts creator better known as Steve Ronin, walked into Kenner Police headquarters on August 13 and turned himself in. Authorities had been looking for him over a video that showed him inside the long-shuttered Esplanade Mall.Local sources such as NOLA.com, WDSU, and FOX8, using information provided by the Kenner Police, give a brief summary of this story. Pamaran is charged...