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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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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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WorldPingAt the end of 2021, the British girl group Little Mix announced an indefinite hiatus that would begin the following summer once they wrapped their “Confetti” tour.
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WorldPingErin Moriarty, the “48 Hours” correspondent, will take fans of the true-crime documentary series into new territory next week. Moriarty will lead “The Woman in the Woods,” a six-part “48 Hours” podcast that mixes audio and video elements in the storytelling.
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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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WorldPingMultiple current and former Anthropic employees warned — and admitted — on Tuesday that the researchers building new AI models believe the technology could lead to humanity’s destruction by the end of the decade, reflecting the industry’s frenzy over…
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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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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Here’s the trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Netflix miniseries My Sad Dead. Based on stories by acclaimed Argentine author Mariana Enriquez, the psychological horror will play in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival later this month.
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WorldPingABC News is adding a few new faces to its weekend morning mix.
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WorldPingABC News has named Rachel Scott and Rhiannon Ally as permanent co-anchors on Good Morning America Weekend. Scott will join Whit Johnson on Saturdays, and Ally will co-anchor alongside Gio Benitez on Sundays. They will start in their roles this weekend.
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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 heavy hitters behind this past year’s most impactful series — Katie Dippold, Rachel Sennott, Jacob Tierney, Vince Gilligan and many, many more — go deep on the trends they hate, the shows they love and the execs they actually admire.
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WorldPingOscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn addressed shifting attitudes to older woman in Hollywood ahead of the world premiere of Kornel Mundruzcó’s Place To Be, in which she co-stars opposite Taika Waititi, at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday.
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“We’re talking about an industry that was led by perhaps one of the biggest predators to walk the planet, Harvey Weinstein,” says the former NBC correspondent as he blasts A24’s fictionalized take on his controversial career.
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The Toronto-based feature debutant discusses inspirations from the legendary Robbie Müller and 'The Wrestler' for Wayne Wapeemukwa's Locarno-premiering film and the creative use of infrared light.
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WorldPingAmazon’s Prime Video is promising to make English-language dubs look more natural by using AI to sync up the way the actors’ mouths move on screen.
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WorldPingAmong medieval hand-held farming tools, the sickle is your best bet for reaping.
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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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WorldPingJohn Oliver is back to help out Comic Relief Live. The Last Week Tonight star will host this year’s event, which takes place at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Monday, October 19.
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WorldPingOn the heels of this summer’s darker, more dour and reflective, deliberately meditative, if bloody new take on the Robin Hood legend, The Death Of Robin Hood with Hugh Jackman portraying the famous icon’s last days, comes another film set in the same…
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WorldPingThe full trailer for Prime Video’s Carrie is here. From showrunner Mike Flanagan, all eight episodes of the TV show adaptation will arrive Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026 on Prime Video.
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In THR‘s new series, the Oscar winner and NBA All Star also get deep on faith, frustrations and fearlessness: “When you played, you wasn't trying to be cool, make friends, none of that. You was like, 'I'ma put my shoulder through somebody‘s chest if I got to.
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The violent historical drama about the 14th-century Peasants' Revolt also features Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Katherine Waterston, Cosmo Jarvis and Thomasin McKenzie.
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The digital content creator and former Capitol Records A&R exec now finds himself at the intersection of popular culture, music and fashion.
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WorldPingGordon Bay Cottage is officially taking reservations. Airbnb is opening up the historic Muskoka property featured as the exterior of Gordon’s lakeside home in “Sterling Point” for three limited stays this October. Beginning Sept. 15 at 9 a.m.
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WorldPingA “Naruto” panel featuring Japanese voice cast members and a Studio Pierrot producer will take place at New York Comic Con this year, with Viz Media promising new franchise announcements and first-look footage. The panel will run Oct. 10 inside the Jacob K.
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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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WorldPingNoel Clarke, the British actor who starred in Doctor Who and Kidulthood, has been charged with a series of sexual offenses by UK police.
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WorldPingOstensibly a tribute to the late Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018), the one-time giant of Italian cinema whose star has waned somewhat in recent years, Luca Guadagnino’s 426-minute docu-essay — nearly twice as long as Alex Gibney’s Musk — is the endura…
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Isabelle Huppert looks quite the gangster in a behind-the-scenes image of her in Yann Demange’s crime family thriller Lineage, which was unveiled today by The Veterans as it gears up for a sales push at TIFF.
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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.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by The Guardian
WorldPingThe former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader overcomes criticism of stunt casting for her Chicago debut.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: A series of live-to-film concerts of Wicked and Wicked: For Good, with film screenings accompanied by a live symphony orchestra, will officially premiere at Radio City Music Hall on January 23, 2027, with a special preview set for January…
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WorldPingJosh Baker is the journalist behind the BBC’s smash hit I’m Not a Monster.
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WorldPingDespite the city’s backdrop of deprivation and racism, vibrant nightclubs and daring artists thrived – but after No 1 success for the Real Thing, why was the scene ignored?
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WorldPingFormerly based above a Notting Hill pub, the theatre earned a reputation for radical plays with new talent yet had a 100% loss of Arts Council England funding in 2022 The Gate theatre in London, which has punched above its weight ever since it was fo…
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WorldPingChannel 4 has announced the deepest round of layoffs in its 43-year history.
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WorldPingThe 62-year-old actor was arrested by police at a petrol station forecourt in July 2026…
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WorldPingA 30ft crater opened up outside the actor's home in Malibu after heavy rain in Southern California.
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WorldPingHistorically a new Grand Theft Auto game inspired controversy around violence – but this time people are getting exercised about its romance There was never any doubt that Grand Theft Auto VI’s extended look would elicit a viral reaction from the internet.
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