Variety

Paramount Accuses Netflix of ‘Panic-Level’ ‘Scorched-Earth Campaign’ to ‘Poison’ Regulators Against Warner Bros. Deal

Paramount Skydance’s top lawyer claims Netflix is so worried about the prospect of competing with a merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery that the streaming company is going all-out to try to “poison regulators and other stakeholders” against the pending $111 billion deal. Netflix clinched a deal to buy Warner Bros.’s streaming and studios businesses in late […]

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Variety

Is Bari Weiss Breaking the News? Her Tumultuous ‘60 Minutes’ Overhaul Triggers New Fears at CBS

Scott Pelley’s bombshell interview with The New York Times over the weekend after his firing from “60 Minutes” has drawn even more scrutiny to the management style of Bari Weiss, who in October was installed to oversee CBS News. The former print journalist, who launched the “Free Press” website, had no TV experience when Paramount […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Anthony Guidera, Actor Who Had a Memorable Kiss in ‘Species,’ Dies at 65

A onetime model based in Paris, he also appeared in ‘The Rock,’ ‘Armageddon,’ ‘The Postman’ and ‘The Annihilation of Fish.’

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The Guardian Culture

Cats, flowers and Harry Hill’s car on fire – RA Summer Exhibition review

Royal Academy, LondonBowie karaoke in a cupboard, a gross David Gamble self-portrait and Harriet Porter’s serene silver pot are a welcome distraction from the tidal wave of landscapes and famous artists’ hand-me-downs for saleThis year’s RA Summer Exhibition is less awful than usual. It’s still full of some of the worst art you’ve ever seen – way too many Michael Craig-Martins and Bob and Roberta Smiths – but its awfulness is definitely a bit less awful.This relative less-awfulness is partly tha

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The Guardian Culture

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a flop – but 25 years later, it is an exquisite digital relic

Though it feels as if it has little to do with the games series it is based on, this groundbreaking film endures as a milestone for CGI animation, with a stellar voice castIn 1987, after working on several games that were only moderate successes, Japanese game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi proposed a game that would be his last attempt to make a hit. Aptly titled Final Fantasy, Sakaguchi’s game achieved critical acclaim and commercial success, launching a franchise that has spanned 40 years and 16

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Variety

‘Cocomelon’ Studio Moonbug Aims to Debunk Concerns About ‘Addicting’ Content, Releasing UCLA-Researched Media Guide: ‘We’re Super Diligent Throughout Our Process’ (EXCLUSIVE)

The producers of “Cocomelon” have heard your concerns. But Moonbug, the studio behind the popular preschool series, doesn’t buy into the common critique that its programming is overstimulating or addictive. As such, Moonbug recently announced a partnership with UCLA’s Center for Scholars and Storytellers, a nonprofit research center focused on children’s entertainment. As exclusively reported […]

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Variety

‘Act One’ Director on the Sexy, Scary Teen-Actress Thriller

Hannah, a teen actress, just wants to be great. And she’ll sacrifice everything to get there. In writer-director Sophia Takal’s new film “Act One,” debuting at the Tribeca Festival on June 10, Ella Beatty throws herself into a performance as a would-be star who, snubbed by her school’s drama club, enrolls in an acting class […]

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The Guardian Culture

Kanya King obituary

Co-founder of the Mobo awards, which celebrate music of Black origin, as well as initiatives to encourage and recognise new talentKanya King, who has died aged 57 of colon cancer, was co-founder of the Mobo awards, which were set up in the UK in 1996 to celebrate music of Black origin. As CEO of the Mobo Organisation, which runs the awards and its various offshoots, King became one of the highest profile champions of Black music in the UK, while the awards themselves were credited by many Black

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The Guardian Culture

‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras

What will life be like in 2034? Will kids surf in quarries – or live in the woods since they think Earth is hollow? We meet the film-maker behind Gener8ion, whose dark predictions have a habit of going viralOne of the standout videos of Visions of 2034, a new audio-visual exhibition from film-maker Romain Gavras and musician Benoit Heitz (AKA Surkin), is a blackly comic twist on conspiracy theory culture. In God Hates Space, some young people have defected to the woods somewhere in middle Americ

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The Guardian Culture

Danish String Quartet review – captivating performance from a world-class group

Wigmore Hall, LondonThe quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody played as a distant memory by the first violin, which reached slowly upwards to a final crystalline harmonic. Pizzicato, diminuendo, silence. In this captivating performance by the Danish String Quartet, stillness settled over the closing portion of Shostakovich’s String Quartet N

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Variety

With ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg Aims to Prove He’s Still the King of the Summer Box Office

Steven Spielberg helped create the summer blockbuster with “Jaws,” a smash hit that opened in June 1975 and showed Hollywood how much money could be made when school’s out. It’s been more than 50 years since “Jaws” made audiences scared to go in the water, and Spielberg, who was 28 when the film premiered, is […]

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Variety

Don’t Forget About Maggie Q

Maggie Q doesn’t know what it looks like to play it safe. The Hawaiian-born actress’s route to the big and small screens began in Hong Kong under the tutelage of Jackie Chan, who took Q under his wing and threw her into stunt work. She was always meant to be an action star. Q got […]

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The Guardian Culture

Win a Tate membership, Tracey Emin merch and more

Enter our competition to snag lunch for two, an arty blanket or a year of free Tate entry as part of our partnership with Tate for Emin’s A Second Life exhibitionThis summer, as part of our partnership with Tate for their Tracey Emin: A Second Life exhibition, we have an amazing prize up for grabs.A Second Life is the largest ever exhibition of Emin’s work, and features career-defining sensations alongside works never before exhibited.A special-edition one-year Tate Membership for you and a frie

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Hollywood Reporter

Jay-Z Announces Concerts in Los Angeles and Paris

The hip-hop icon will play in Paris on Sept. 10 and SoFi Stadium on Oct. 23.

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Variety

Helena Zengel on Meeting the Woman She Plays in Drugs Trade Thriller Series ‘Westend Girl’: ‘When She First Saw a Few Clips, She Cried’ (EXCLUSIVE)

The sun sets over the bay of Cassis, a charming seaside resort near Marseille, as a young woman gazes toward the horizon. It’s the concluding episode of thriller “Westend Girl,” a German series starring Helena Zengel, a rising international star. The show, which is being distributed worldwide by Beta Film, premieres today at Seriencamp, a […]

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Variety

‘Girl Meets World’ Producer Says Sabrina Carpenter and Rowan Blanchard Cried at Table Read When Creator Was ‘Horrible’ to Them

The cast of “Boy Meets World” is getting honest about their experiences growing up on the set, and what happened when they moved on to the spinoff, “Girl Meets World” years later. In “Doc Meets World,” Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle and Rider Strong’s new documentary that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday, the […]

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Variety

‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ Renewed for Third and Final Season at Netflix

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” is officially getting a third season of Netflix, which will also be its last. Starring Emma Myers as amateur sleuth Pip, the three-season arc completes the adaptation of Holly Jackson’s bestselling trilogy and will “bring Pip’s ultimate investigation to its gripping conclusion,” according to a press release. The four-episode […]

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Variety

How ‘The Simpsons’ Made It Into ‘Fantasy Capitalism’ World of ‘Monopoly Go’ Without Butt Cracks and Beer

Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie entered the world of “Monopoly GO!” last week with the launch of the hit Scopely mobile game’s “The Simpsons” integration. The in-game event marks the biggest collaboration for “Monopoly Go!” so far — following tie-ins with Marvel, Star Wars and Harry Potter — and the most grownup. “There’s some […]

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Hollywood Reporter

“I Loved ‘SNL,’ But It Wasn’t Mine”: Why Rosebud Baker Left the Show After Having a Baby (Exclusive Excerpt)

In a chapter from her new memoir 'Fully Baked,' the comedian writes about the indirect pressure to return after maternity leave, pursuing her standup career, and getting a co-op board recommendation letter from Lorne Michaels.

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Variety

Conan O’Brien Partners With AI Cybersecurity Firm for 15-Part Training Series

If you’re going to train people on how to recognize AI-generated deepfakes, who better to recruit than the deepfake pioneer himself, Conan O’Brien? That’s what the cybersecurity AI firm Adaptive Security did, enlisting the Emmy-winning comedian to star in a 15-part training series for its customers exploring the various cyber threats emerging in the AI […]

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