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Cinemark Cuts Losses to $6 Million Thanks to Disney Hits and Fewer Box Office Slumps
Off of a $1.77 billion domestic box office total, Cinemark saw its quarterly revenue grow to $643 million The theater chain suffered a far worse net loss of $38.9 million in Q1 of 2025, when the March box office crashed to a 30-year-low While Cinemark was not able to stay out of the red during…
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Our flight felt like a first date. Would it continue after we landed at LAX?
When I was 30 years old, my agent told me I needed to go to Los Angeles to get some “West Coast credits.” I didn’t want to go because it meant I’d lose my precious rent-controlled apartment on Central Park West as well as the supportive New York theater community I’d worked so hard to…
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Epstein bombshell leads expert to wonder if death was hoax: ‘Was this all a ruse?’
A CNN legal analyst said a purported suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein raises serious new questions — even about whether or not he’s still alive. The New York Times reported that another inmate at the Manhattan detention center where Epstein was held on sex trafficking charges claimed he found a suicide note — which…
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Double killer’s new wife screams ‘I love you!’ as he’s executed while professing his innocence
The new wife of a double murderer screamed “I love you” and flailed against the window as her husband was executed in front of her in Texas. British law graduate Tiana Krasniqi had married death row inmate James Broadnax just weeks before he died by lethal injection Thursday for killing two men in a 2008…
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Behind the Trump administration’s detentions of L.A. Iranians
Sarina Hosseiny said she had never heard of Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian general assassinated by the U.S. in 2020. That is, not until this year, when threatening comments cropped up on social media claiming that she and her mother were relatives of Soleimani and were terrorists who should be deported. The 25-year-old, who studies fashion…
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Meryl Streep reveals she ‘had a beef’ with ‘Death Becomes Her’ co-star Goldie Hawn
Beef on set! Meryl Streep revealed she “had a beef” with her “Death Becomes Her” co-star Goldie Hawn while filming the movie. Speaking to Vanity Fairon Thursday, the actress looked back at some of her most iconic roles — including the 1992 film — before recalling her on-set issue with Hawn. “Goldie, she was always…
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Coded messages, ‘red boxing’ and other allegations in California’s testy race for governor
Intriguing updates emerged on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra’s campaign website on Tuesday. Highlighted in bright red text, and boxed by a red outline, was a game plan for attacking one of Becerra’s top rivals in the California governor’s race, billionaire hedge fund founder turned environmental activist Tom Steyer. But was that message meant for…
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So, About That AI Bubble
Six months ago, the AI sector was looking pretty bubbly. Companies were plowing hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it borrowed, into building new data centers, but had no clear path to profitability. Experts and journalists, myself included, were comparing the AI build-out to the railroad bubble of the 1800s and the dot-com bubble…
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For the first time, California growers have to say how much groundwater they’re taking
For the first time, growers in one of California’s most acutely water-stressed areas have to reveal how much groundwater they are pumping. For generations, they’ve been free to take water from wells on their own land without reporting to it the state. The State Water Resources Control Board ordered landowners in parts of the San…
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Supreme Court’s right-wing gambit backfires as way to ‘neutralize GOP power grab’ flagged
The conservative-controlled Supreme Court issued a controversial ruling Wednesday that critics warn may “demolish” restrictions around racially discriminatory voting policies — but one voting rights expert believes the court’s decision may very well end up helping Democrats at the ballot box. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana state lawmakers would have…