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"Some things aren’t meant to be fixed,” the transgender model and activist says in the "Born to Disobey" campaign from the Spanish label that critiques artificial intelligence.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Spanish Grammy winner Rosalía is in early talks to join Alma Har’el’s buzzy family-drama Wet, we can reveal.
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Band also releases short film with the songs "We Are Torn Wide Open" and "Mirror Deep" featuring Blackfeet Nation members…
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The agreement is the first season-long TV deal for the women's hockey league.
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WorldPingBeehiiv, the creator platform that has gained traction through associations with independent journalists such as Oliver Darcy and Joanna Stern, unveiled an expansion of its Media Collective, a roster of journalists who have turned to the company to h…
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WorldPingIt’s just a couple of days before Jeff Goldblum is getting ready to head to London to host the Season 2 premiere of “SNL U.K.” on Sept. 12. “I’m a big Anglophile,” he tells me on a Zoom from Italy, where he and his wife Emilie are enjoying a summer vacation.
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The Swiftiephylus species are found in Australia — but that shouldn’t stop them from getting global fans, just like their namesake…
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WorldPingA researcher at Anthropic who trained new AI models has resigned his position, issuing a dire warning that has gone viral.
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WorldPingHulu has set a fall premiere date for the remaining six episodes of Season 2 of Rivals, starring David Tennant, Alex Hassell and Aidan Turner. Part 2 of Jilly Cooper’s adaptation from her Rutshire Chronicles, will premiere with three episodes on Nov.
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The son of Tim Herlihy follows the son of Steve Higgins out the Studio 8H door after five seasons.
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WorldPingRome-based sales company True Colours has boarded Italian director Ginevra Elkann’s new feature “The Roses of Marrakesh” (“Le Rose di Marrakech”) starring Fanny Aradant as an aged matron named Madame Isabelle who lives in a luxurious estate in the Pa…
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WorldPingMartin Herlihy is departing NBC’s Saturday Night Live after a five-season stint as a writer and performer. Herlihy joined SNL in 2021 as part of the Please Don’t Destroy comedy troupe alongside fellow members Ben Marshall and John Higgins.
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WorldPingMS Now’s new streaming platform, MS Now Membership, has set a slate of five original series toplined by Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell, Ali Velshi, Claire McCaskill and Andrew Weissmann. The service launches today.
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Football superfans from Alice Cooper and Melissa Etheridge to Breland and Bret Michaels predict how their favorite teams will fare…
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WorldPingRipcord, a new independent film platform that aims to directly connect genre filmmakers with fans, has announced a spooky new film festival.
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The searing drama, premiering next month on Starz, was made entirely with British money — and Cumming says it couldn't have gone any other way: "I doubt anything like this will be made in America for some time, sadly."…
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Silicon Valley founders and CEOs are the next wave of big screen villains in buzzy projects tackling Zuckerberg, Musk, Holmes and Altman.
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WorldPingAmazon Prime Video series Maxton Hall is the first programming on the streaming platform to feature new AI technology synchronizing actors’ lip movements with human-dubbed audio.
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WorldPingSteven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi adventure, “Disclosure Day,” will stream on Peacock starting Oct. 9 Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor star as a meteorologist and whistleblower who discover an unexpected connection with alien life.
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WorldPingThe 2026 Venice Film Festival got underway on Wednesday, September 2, with Oscar-winning English director Danny Boyle’s Ink — starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy — kicking off an 83rd edition that includes films starring the likes of R…
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Production is underway in Mississippi on psychological thriller Ping, starring Obsession actress Megan Lawless.
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WorldPingC-SPAN will provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 2026 Republican Convention starting on Wednesday in Dallas, while Fox News and NewsNation are planning special programming.
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WorldPingAfter a summer for the record books, movie theater operators are hoping to keep the vibes high with some midnight margaritas.
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A chat with Peter Levin, founder of venture firm Griffin Gaming Partners, on Hollywood's forays into the trading card business and how he curates his own 500,000-plus card collection.
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Forget decorations and costumes: People are lining up to shop Halloween countdown calendars from retailers like Williams Sonoma, Etsy, and more…
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WorldPingPeriod instruments are miles away from retro affectation, and as two Proms this week will show, can actually bring historical music up to the moment Nostalgia. What a kick. And what a commercial boon for the music industry.
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WorldPingWelcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives, talent and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace.
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WorldPingMartin Herlihy is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after five seasons, a source confirms to Variety. The comedian served on the writing staff for Season 51 after spending four seasons on screen as a member of the sketch trio Please Don’t Destroy.
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WorldPingSony Pictures Entertainment’s chairman- CEO Ravi Ahuja said the company’s restoration of the historic Cinerama Dome and reopening of the adjacent 14-screen former ArcLight Hollywood complex is a great way to expand the company’s brand without “mega M&A.
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WorldPingSydney Sweeney stripped down for a steamy new ad for Novig, the latest sports betting app and prediction marketing for fans of football, baseball, soccer, tennis and more.
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WorldPingThe stunning box-office success of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” stems from the movie’s emotional impact — which is unlike other recent superhero movies, according to Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Ravi Ahuja.
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WorldPingOnce hailed as the future, even the likes of Google, Sony and Microsoft have struggled to make streaming games fun, fast or affordable • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox?
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WorldPingLove is a burning thing, a Man in Black once said, and its flame burns bright in “Bleeding Hearts,” an achingly intimate new documentary that captures a country music couple falling for one another as their band embarks on its first cross-country tour.
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With a new album out as This Is Lorelei, he’s making sense of his newfound position as someone who gets covered by MJ Lenderman and Cameron Winter…
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The singer-songwriter talks about her breakout year, new music, and working with Sleeping With Sirens’ Kellin Quinn on “Lamb”…
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In a new interview with Rolling Stone , Springsteen breaks down the movie version of his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour and reveals he has two albums of fresh material in the works…
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The 'Law & Order: SVU' star, Knicks superfan and, soon, Emmy host dishes about the speeches, the jokes and the prep for TV’s biggest night.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights and Voltage Pictures has picked up international rights to the Aaron Eckhart action thriller Butcher’s War.
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Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's biopic of Russian physicist Lev Lendau has been 20 years in the making, with over a dozen related features and other projects created in what’s been dubbed the 'Stalinist Truman Show.'…
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Suno’s advanced new music-generating models were trained on Warner Music Group’s songs.WMG isn’t revealing the size of the catalog it turned over or whether artists had the ability to opt out…
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WorldPing‘The black cloud emerged from a grate in the street. I guess something underground was on fire.
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The company says the U.S. government requested more information about the deal Tuesday.
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Forget brand deals. Coco Gauff joins LeBron James, Tom Brady and a generation of athletes building production companies and media empires. But in today’s Hollywood, star power only gets you so far.
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The band’s first new song since 2022 is a sweeping epic that’s oh so very them…
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WorldPingClarke has been charged with offences including sexual assault. BBC News has asked him for a comment.
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WorldPingIt comes after the network conducted a review amid a "rapidly changing media landscape".
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WorldPingSoho theatre, London A dance teacher for toddlers dreams of bigger things in Julia Grogan’s frantic one-woman show The mind of a performer, hungry for her big break, is cracked open in Julia Grogan’s one-woman follow-up to her drama Playfight.
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WorldPingThe former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader overcomes criticism of stunt casting for her Chicago debut.
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