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BookTok sensation Alex Aster stepped away from the worlds of her bestselling “Lightlark” and “Starside” novels this week to celebrate the debut of her new book, which is based on IP that predates her works by more than six decades: Barbie. Author Aster, who has now released 10 titles over the past six years, was […]
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The Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants have faced several controversies in recent years, and here’s the latest: Just a week before the events were scheduled to air on The CW, they’ve suddenly been pulled from the network. The CW and Miss USA aren’t elaborating on the real reasons why, but in a statement, […]
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Two days’ notice is all director Margaret Brown had to figure out how to give her true-crime docuseries “The Yogurt Shop Murders” an ending. The original four-part series, chronicling the brutal 1991 murders of four young women in Austin, Texas, denied audiences what the victims’ families had similarly been robbed of for 35 years: closure. […]
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Awards season loves a fresh face, but this one also loves a weathered one. When the Television Academy announced its nominations in July, the story wasn’t about the ingenues. It was about the lifers, the character actors, the movie stars and the beloved figures we lost along the way. Voters have handed us a September […]
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is finally setting sail for home theaters. The blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s epic poem will be available to rent and purchase on digital beginning Nov. 17, following its theatrical debut on July 17. The film is also slated to arrive on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray the same day. The digital release […]
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TikTok, the company behind the popular short-form video app, has agreed to pay $400 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit alleging that a predecessor app violated the country’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The Justice Department announced the settlement with TikTok and China-based ByteDance on Friday. Under the terms of the agreement, TikTok […]
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On today’s episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast, Matt Sandler and Angie More of Amazon explain how the digital behemoth is diving in to the creator economy to build business and bring scale in ad buying to big brands. Sandler, who is Amazon’s general manager of creator services, and More, head of creator ad partnerships, […]
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Shaquille O’Neal will not be appearing in December’s “Avengers: Doomsday,” or any other “Avengers” film, for that matter. In an interview with Variety about his “Dunkman” league, the first professional dunking league where contestants from around the world compete for a grand prize of $500,000 — whose finals is airing the night of Aug. 25 […]
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Mark Ruffalo is not staying quiet. The Oscar-nominated actor and activist, who’s currently starring in the box-office smash “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” sounded off on his Instagram Story Friday about Paramount Skydance’s pending $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The merger, which is currently being challenged by a dozen state attorney generals, including in […]
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Novak Djokovic is, by the numbers, one of the best tennis players in the modern era. He has spent the most weeks — 428 — ranked as the world’s No. 1 player. He holds a record 24 Grand Slam singles titles, and he also has an Olympic gold medal. Djokovic emerged onto the tennis scene […]
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Alexander Ullom is dog-tired. The reason why the 28-year-old filmmaker looks “like a fuckin’ mess,” as he puts it, is because he wrapped principal photography on his sophomore movie, “4 x 4: The Event” — which he describes as “balls-to-the-wall gore and violence” — two days ago, jetted to Los Angeles and was parachuted into […]
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Quality Control co-founder Pierre “P” Thomas is currently in the hospital receiving medical care after suffering a heart attack. A rep for Thomas confirmed to Variety that the hip-hop mogul is recovering from the medical incident. “We want to clarify that Pierre ‘P’ Thomas is alive and currently hospitalized receiving medical care,” the rep shared […]
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