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News kept on churning this week — from Sunday morning until end of Friday — on the Warner Bros. Discovery front. Headlines included big changes at TCM; The Flash‘s disappointing box office; discussions with Netflix for potential HBO streaming license deals; more chatter around the fate of CNN; renewed talk of a music publishing sale;
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After helming The Tragedy of Macbeth for Apple TV+, seminal filmmaker Ethan Coen has gone in a quite different tonal direction with Drive-Away Dolls, a comedy caper starring Margaret Qualley (Sanctuary) and Geraldine Viswanathan (Cat Person) that today gets its first trailer. RELATED: ‘The Beanie Bubble’ Trailer Sees Zach Galifianakis & Elizabeth Banks War For Control
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Creative Artists Agency on Wednesday announced the elevation of five to agent, along with the promotion of another to an executive role. Yasi Agahnia has been promoted to agent in the Music Touring area’s private events division, with Logan Binstock now to serve as a talent agent, and Abe Coelho working as an agent in
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Tenoch Huerta has announced that he is exiting the Netflix film Fiesta en la Madriguera following the allegations of sexual assault. “Given the impact of the recent false statements by María Elena Ríos and the damage they have caused, I have no choice but to withdraw from participating in the film Fiesta en la Madriguera,”
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Sheffield DocFest is on the rebound. The 30th edition of the prestigious all-documentary film festival in the North of England just wrapped, witnessing a 17 percent increase in attendance by international and U.K. delegates over last year (2,550 delegates vs. 2,188 in 2022). DocFest is under new leadership, with Annabel Grundy appointed managing director in November
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After a long wait, the time has finally come for Ethan Hunt to get back to saving the world. In Rome on Monday evening, Tom Cruise has hit the red carpet with cast members and director/co-writer/producer Christopher McQuarrie for the world premiere of Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Paramount is hosting a
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Jameela Jamil is weighing in on award shows having gender-neutral categories and proposes people who identify as non-binary get their own category to not “completely shut out women.” “Would it not be better to give non-binary people their own category rather than open the door for Hollywood to completely shut out women given the known
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It was a busy day on the L.A.-area WGA picket lines, with a visit from some Abbott Elementary folks, support from unionized teachers and nurses, and dancers getting their hula on for Pacific Islander Day. The day began with striking writers and their supporters having a nosh of breakfast burritos and coffee as picketers marched
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David Fincher said he’s not one to go back and re-watch his films. “I don’t. I’m not brave,” he said at the Tribeca Festival. “I’m fundamentally like, look, no, I can’t. It’s like looking at middle school pictures. I don’t want to even acknowledge that.” “But I do find myself having to adjust, you know,”
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The Flash hasn’t even opened to $100 million this weekend — and may potentially not — but Warner Bros is already popping champagne with the pic’s filmmaker Andy Muschietti and producer-sister Barbara Muschietti. Two early evening whopper pieces of news: DC co-bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran have set Andy Muschietti to direct their Batman
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UTA, which last year acquired UK agency Curtis Brown, is opening a new office in London as it eyes further international growth. The 28,000-square-foot space, across two floors at 1 Newman Street, is situated between Fitzrovia and Soho. Designed by architectural firms Gensler and Modus Workspace, the office will largely be populated by UTA’s music
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