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The Pitt Swept the Astra Awards with the Format Streaming Spent a Decade Abandoning

Noah Wyle’s hospital drama walked out of the InterContinental in Los Angeles on Saturday…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 16

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Warner Bros. Has Four Months to Make ‘Barbie 2’ or Lose It

Warner Bros. has spent three years and more than six financial packages failing to…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 15

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Hollywood Got Its $4 Billion Summer and Three Movies Did Forty Percent of It

The domestic summer box office crossed $4 billion for only the second time since…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

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Lucy Davis Almost Skipped the Appointment. Now She Wants You to Book Yours.

Lucy Davis, who played Dawn Tinsley in the British version of The Office, told…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 13

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Nick Reiner’s Indictment Adds Lying in Wait, and Erases the Hearing That Would Have Tested It

A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted Nick Reiner on July 20 in the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

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Cristiano Ronaldo Got Married in Secret, Then Posted Two Hands and Broke the Internet

The most photographed athlete alive got married on Tuesday and nobody got a picture…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

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Mick Jagger Danced to His Own Song at 83 and Ran the Best Album Ad of the Summer

Mick Jagger posted a phone video of himself on Sunday, hands over his head,…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 11

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House of the Dragon Finally Got Good Again, and HBO’s Reward Is Making You Wait Until 2028

The eighth and final episode of House of the Dragon’s third season burned down…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 11

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Lauryn Hill Spent Ten Years Building a Festival, and 35,000 People Showed Up in Milton Keynes

More than 35,000 people filled the National Bowl in Milton Keynes on Friday night…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 10

Spider-Man Posted the Third-Biggest Second Weekend Ever and the Worst Hold on the Chart

Spider-Man: Brand New Day took roughly $145 million in North America over the weekend…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 10

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Ted Lasso Season 4 Is Good Enough to Prove Why Apple Un-Ended It

Ted Lasso came back to Apple TV on August 5 with Jason Sudeikis coaching…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 8

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TikTok’s Software Caught Perez Hilton’s Livestream in Minutes. A Human Left It Up for 15.

TikTok’s automated systems flagged Perez Hilton’s livestream for removal within minutes of it starting…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 7

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Miss North Carolina USA Lost Her Crown After Five Weeks, and the Vetting Failure Is the Real Story

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Chicago Fire Is Losing an Original Cast Member and Its Showrunner in the Same Year

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Gwyneth Paltrow Joined TikTok at 53 and Gave Up 25 Years of Image Control

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Zac Brown Gave 35,000 Fenway Fans a Free Cruise and Nobody Saw It Coming

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Set a $168 Million Opening Day Record and Nobody Agrees on the Weekend

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Diane Farr Is Leaving Los Angeles After 30 Years, and Her Fire Country Job Left First

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Michael B. Jordan’s Thomas Crown Affair Is Amazon’s Real Test, Not Just a Remake

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Ariana Grande’s Hackers Never Broke Into Her Accounts, They Broke Into Everyone Around Her

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PS Plus Is Giving Away Big Walk on Day One, and Sony Has a Very Good Reason

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Tennessee Grandmother Says Her Arrest Was Staged for a Reality TV Show. Her Lawsuit Exposes a System That Treats People Like Content.

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‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 3 Debuts With a Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score and a Show That Finally Knows What It Wants to Be

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The UK Is Getting Powerball: Could Europe Follow?

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Ryan Gosling Is Ghost Rider, David Jonsson Is the New Black Panther, and Marvel Just Won Comic-Con

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Elon Musk Says Grok Will Make a Full AI Odyssey Movie by December, and the Internet Has Thoughts

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Jason Alexander Finally Apologized to Courtney Stodden. She Wants More Than Words

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Comic-Con 2026 Opens Today With Marvel Back in Hall H and Apple Crashing the Party

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Lena Headey Says Hollywood Still Protects ‘Predatory Men,’ and Game of Thrones Fans Proved Her Point

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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Shatters Box Office With $124 Million Opening Weekend