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The Dish owner swung to a profit of $8.46 billion in the recent quarter due mainly to a big, non-cash gain.
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Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe intricate concerto was paired with the world premiere of Dani Howard’s likable Concerto for Brass and a lush Scriabin symphony, all admirably led by Paavo JärviLondon will be seeing a lot more of Paavo Järvi when the Estonian conductor takes the reins at the London Philharmonic in 2028. Here, on the podium with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he proved a model of calm, control and clarity as well as the most sensitive of accompanists, shepherding a breathtaking account o
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Pleasingly potboilerish tale of a woman trying to make sense of a traumatic fall that left her comatose slightly loses track of its toxic mind gamesIt is fair to say that spending your time doodling ouroboroses and picking open your surgical scar probably indicates you are not in a fantastic frame of mind. These are coping mechanisms for Mia (Simone Ashley) after she wakes up, at the start of this capable psychological thriller, from a coma resulting from falling several storeys of an airport bu
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London ColiseumA quartet of conjurors, calling themselves the Horsemen, perform fine feats of escapology and mentalism that are undermined by smoke, lasers and pomposityIs there an opposite of close-up magic? If there is, it would look a bit like the magic in Now You See Me, which must be visible (and audible) from space. This new spectacle, heading later this year to its spiritual home of Las Vegas, spins off from the movie franchise of the same name and features a quartet of conjurors (identif
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The Oscar-winning filmmaker's substantive sit-down with Chinese podcaster Zhong Shu wasn't the usual surface-level press tour interview.
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Also premiering at the Bosnian film festival is Paweł Pawlikowski's 'Fatherland' and Annemarie Jacir's 'Palestine 36.'
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Recently-appointed CBS News correspondent Trevor Phillips has given a typically forthright assessment of his new boss, Bari Weiss. “Bari and her team have a huge tanker of a network news organisation to turn around, and they are assembling a little team on the bridge,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “The great thing about her is […]
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Yûki Igarashi’s adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s influential manga is a conservative (if impressively animated) reimagining that dulls the source material’s pioneering elementsFirst-time director Yûki Igarashi should hit the jackpot here: the first big-screen adaptation for decades of Princess Knight, a seminal postwar manga series from Astro Boy genius Osamu Tezuka. But this very loose reworking is an anticlimax: conservative in solely concentrating on the girlishly feminine side of its protagonist
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In a career spanning six decades, photographer Gered Mankowitz has nurtured trusting relationships with many of the twentieth century’s defining artists. As he celebrates his 80th birthday, Mankowitz opens up about the stories behind iconic images of Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Annie Lennox and others that have have become indelible parts of pop culture history. These images are taken from Gered Mankowitz: Photographs, out now via ACC Art Books; much of Greg’s work is also displayed at Iconic Imag
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“Peaky Blinders” may have given closely clipped back and sides haircuts a new lease of life, but it’s now helped a region of the U.K. land official backing as a center for high-end productions. The British Film Commission has announced that the West Midlands, home to the city of Birmingham and where “Peaky Blinders” is […]
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The London production of “Sunday in the Park With George” is set to go ahead as planned despite Ariana Grande exiting the show. The Stephen Sondheim revival, which also stars Grande’s “Wicked” co-star Jonathan Bailey, was scheduled to premiere at London’s Barbican next summer with producers set to launch ticket sales after Grande completed the […]
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Chilean directors Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, collaborators of Ari Aster, say their third feature, debuting in the main competition at Locarno, is their "way of reimagining the history of fantasy cinema."
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Shareholders of Indian media giant Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. approved a promoter group fund infusion worth INR3143.5 crore ($330 million) and a new employee stock option plan at an extraordinary general meeting, a day before India’s securities regulator barred the company and two of its top executives from the market. The Mumbai-headquartered media and technology […]
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The latest in our ongoing series of writers picking their most beloved comfort films is a tribute to David Lynch’s gentlest movieWhat was your gateway into the Lynchian empire? Maybe it was the elliptical horror of Mulholland Drive, with its labyrinth of dream and deceit. Perhaps it was the small-town banality of Twin Peaks or Blue Velvet, the gee-whiz vernacular and cherry-pie dispositions hiding a malice so pure behind those white picket fences. Or was it Wild at Heart, that nightmarish road m
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Action Man — the iconic British action figure that first launched in 1966 — is getting the movie treatment. Variety has confirmed that an Action Man film is being developed by U.K. powerhouse studio Working Title alongside Hasbro, who own the licence and whose own G.I. Joe toyline the original Action Man was based on. The script […]
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"His talent, charisma, and boldness serve as an inspiration to many future generations," said the director of the Sarajevo Film Festival, Jovan Marjanović, about the U.S. actor.
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Woody Harrelson will be awarded the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to the film industry and an exceptional acting career,” the festival said Monday. The news follows announcements over the weekend that the festival would close with a newly restored version of Bosnian director […]
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Online multiplayer changed the trajectory of games, but the cost of keeping servers running means every virtual world is doomed to die – sooner or laterNevan Hagarty had an idea. If he and other Halo 3 players stayed online the night of 13 January 2022, they could delay the impending server shutdown. Players knew this was coming: it had happened to Halo 2 when its Xbox Live servers were turned off in 2010, and a group managed to stay logged into the multiplayer servers for weeks.And so, players
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London’s 90s art scene forms the backdrop to this tale of a complex relationship between two artists whose identities become entangled in their creative collaborationFor all the wrong reasons, Damien Hirst’s Shark (The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living) has a claim to being the most prescient British artwork of the last half-century: a grim parable of neoliberalism. In 1991, it was still possible to mistake the predatory violence of that system for a kind of animal vi
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Vladlena Sandu’s extraordinary portrait of an upbringing during the 1990s Chechen wars blends surreal tableaux with flights of imagination to lament a collective loss of innocenceBorn in Feodosia, a Ukrainian city on the Crimean coast, Vladlena Sandu moved to her mother’s home town of Grozny in Chechnya when she was only six. Blue skies and cerulean waters dominated her childhood, but as the Chechen–Russian conflicts erupted into full-blown wars during the 1990s, she experienced terror, bloodshe