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Hollywood’s Most Indestructible Superhero
This has been a terrific year for movie theaters. Cinemas are on course for their best financial year since before the coronavirus pandemic, powered by large-scale hits such as The Odyssey and surprise small-budget smashes, particularly Obsession and Backrooms. Fears about the decline of the big-screen experience amid the rise of at-home streaming seem to…
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‘Heartbroken’ military families beg for help over ‘miserable’ new warship revelations
As concerns mounted Friday over poor conditions onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, families of military service members on another Navy ship were pleading for help. A new report from independent journalist Aaron Parnas detailed the troubling conditions and declining morale shared by sailors’ families, including how service members on the USS George H.W. Bush were…
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‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Lost 2 Directors Over JK Rowling’s Anti-Trans Views
Directors Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron have both shared on social media that they declined offers to direct episodes of HBO’s forthcoming “Harry Potter” TV series over author J.K. Rowling‘s well-publicized anti-trans views. Pankiw, whose credits include the Seasons 6 and 7 premieres of “Black Mirror,” shared a screenshot on Instagram of a text exchange…
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Netflix plans to close two gaming studios, including one in Hollywood
Netflix said it is in the process of closing two of its gaming studios, as the division is making another round of organizational changes. The Los Gatos, Calif., streamer said it closed the Hollywood-based gaming studio Night School, the maker of narrative games like “Oxenfree,” on Thursday and has proposed to close Helsinki, Finland-based gaming…
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BBC forcibly turned away trying to serve papers to Ivanka and Kushner: report
The BBC’s legal team got physically blocked by police while trying to hand court papers to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at their own Miami home. The incident, reported by Politico, is part of an escalating fight to force President Trump’s family into his $10 billion defamation suit against the British broadcaster. BBC lawyers want…
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Bill Gates’ Daughter Clearly Has a Traitor Inside Her Startup Who’s Trying to Destroy Her
Last month, Bloomberg revealed that a startup founded by Bill Gates’ 23-year-old daughter, Phoebe Gates, had dabbled in some seriously questionable business practices. According to the reporting, Gates’ online affiliate marketing startup Phia used a shady technique called “cookie stuffing,” to collect commissions from online sales it had nothing to do with — a sneaky…
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Russian drones kill a woman and 9-year-old son at home as Ukrainian civilian casualties surge
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian jet-powered drones struck a home in northern Ukraine on Friday, killing a 29-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son, officials said. The strike came a day after the United Nations said July was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since the weeks following Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago.…
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‘Sick’: Firestorm as ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’ dismisses disgruntled military families
People were outraged on Friday after President Donald Trump downplayed the reportedly poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln, where service members have described a dire situation. Trump was boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland heading to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York when the press corps started asking…
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At D23, Walt Disney Imagineering Signals a New Golden Era
It was hard for even the most jaded Disney Parks skeptic to walk into the Walt Disney Imagineering booth at D23 and not come away impressed. The booth – or pavilion, as it were – modeled after the 1964-65 World’s Fair, where Walt himself debuted such immortal classics as It’s a Small World and the…
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Inside the plan to grow a huge rainforest in the Arizona desert
Talk about a desert oasis. Developers are plotting a nearly 93,000-square-foot indoor rainforest with free-flying birds, sloths, snakes and exotic plants — smack in the middle of Arizona’s scorching Sonoran Desert. Dubbed Paradise Earth, the four-story attraction is planned for 10.5 acres of Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community land near Scottsdale and is being billed by…