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Inside Paramount Skydance’s NYC Upfront: Pluto Refresh, Ellison Promises to ‘Better Serve the Creative Community’ and More
On Tuesday night, the Paramount Skydance leadership team delivered their upfront pitch to a group of advertisers from Omnicom at Storied in New York City. The small, intimate gathering of around 100 people, which notably steers clear of the traditional upfronts week held in May, is designed to deliver an experience that is tailored to
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‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ director finally addresses why Adrian Grenier was cut from sequel
Adrian Grenier could have made a cameo in “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” but there simply “wasn’t time” to make it happen. David Frankel, who directed the original 2006 film and returned 20 years later for the highly anticipated sequel, told Entertainment Weekly his idea to briefly feature the “Entourage” actor fell apart as the
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Eight Biographies That Really Bring Their Subjects to Life
Literary biography is a cruel genre. The authors of these books—by which I mean not just biographies about literary figures but also those that aspire to writerly excellence—have been described by the writer Janet Malcolm as “professional burglars.” After rifling through a person’s affairs, they must conjure inside their pages a living, breathing human being—and
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U.K. passes bill that will eventually ban cigarette purchases
LONDON — Opponents of smoking got a breath of fresh air as Parliament passed a bill that will put cigarettes out of reach for future generations. “The end of smoking, and the devastating harm it causes, is no longer uncertain — it’s inevitable,” Hazel Cheeseman, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health, said after a decades-long
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Pam Bondi’s old ally just accidentally admitted MAGA lawyers ‘too dumb’ to succeed: writer
With the Justice Department in a period of flux and uncertainty following the unceremonious dismissal of Attorney General Pam Bondi, one of her associates has made a brutal admission to the press about the floundering mission to use the full weight of the DOJ to go after President Donald Trump’s political opponents. The revelation was
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Australian surfer miraculously survives attack from ‘world’s most venomous animal’
An Australian surfer is lucky to be alive after being stung by the “world’s most venomous animal” while on holiday in Fiji. Sydneysider Guy Rowles was on the very first day of his surf trip with his dad when he jumped into the water at Cloudbreak, a popular spot in Tavarua, known for having some
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A New Front in an Old Gerrymandering War
When President Trump last summer implored Republicans to launch a nationwide gerrymandering blitz to pad their narrow House majority, the fight he started did not seem fair. GOP lawmakers had both the will and the power to draw their party new seats, while Democrats were hamstrung by limits of their own making. The question was
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Hundreds of detained immigrants launch hunger strike at Michigan ICE facility
At the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, the biggest in the Midwest with 1,800 beds, several hundred detained immigrants started a hunger strike on Monday, refusing to eat or work, according to immigrant rights advocates and relatives of the detainees in Michigan. In a press release shared by the activist group No Detention
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Hegseth to the Troops: We Are Bringing Back the Flu!
WARFIGHTERS! As a step to making sure we are ready for warfare at all times, we have decided to ELIMINATE THE MANDATORY FLU SHOT! Nothing says “we are ready for war” like “we all have the flu.” Get your hot-water bottles! Get your ibuprofen! Not Tylenol, though! It knows what it did. Because we are
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Getting lost in the art is the best part of LACMA’s new revisionist fever dream of a museum
It’s not only easy to get lost in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries, it’s inevitable, intentional — and one of the best things about the place. The museum has deconstructed the traditional, boxy narrative of art history and rendered the story itself a matter of curves and continuities. Art