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 Issue Date: 10/22/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
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Tessa Thompson Finds Her Own “Hedda” In Director Nia DaCosta’s Take On Ibsen Heroine
In Nia DaCosta’s “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson’s titular socialite sows chaos. She manipulates. She cuts people to the bone with a quip. She pours more drinks. Hedda Gabler, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s 1890 play, has long been one of theater’s most tragic figures, a woman hemmed in by societal convention and her own dread of
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Mary Bronstein Delves Into A Mother’s Existential Crisis In “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Sometimes the best films are the ones that are most difficult to describe, the ones that can’t be boiled down to a pithy tagline or plot summary. This is almost certainly the case with “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” one of most audacious films of the year, in which Rose Byrne plays a
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POV: Why California’s New Tax Incentives Shouldn’t Stop At Hollywood
For decades, Los Angeles was the undisputed capital of global production. Films, television, and commercials were born here. Not just in our studios, but in our streets, neighborhoods, and communities. Then, almost overnight, the ground shifted. As other states and countries rolled out aggressive tax incentives, production began to drift away. Georgia, New Mexico, Vancouver,
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Following Major Success–and Some Criticism–Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” Evolves In Season 2
When the first season of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” premiered last year, the series exploded in popularity in ways its creator and stars could never have imagined. It spent six weeks on Netflix’s Global English Top 10 TV List and was viewed 57 million times in three months, according to the streaming service. “I think
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M. Night Shyamalan Teams With Nicholas Sparks On A Novel and Upcoming Film
Even M. Night Shyamalan — known for making darker movies like “The Sixth Sense” and “Signs” — goes looking for the light sometimes. “I just finished three really dark movies, ‘Old,’ ‘Knock at the Cabin’ and ‘Trap,’ which are really edgy movies where the characters are super, super dark and complicated, and I wanted to
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Director Julian Pugsley Joins Good Times For U.S. Commercial Representation
Good Times has signed director Julian Pugsley for U.S. commercial representation. Pugsley is a comedy craftsman with dramatic flair, engineering slightly off-kilter worlds that are both silly and stylish. Pugsley is an agency creative turned filmmaker. His expansive commercial portfolio includes campaigns for Amazon, Mercedes, Doritos, Miller, and K-Mart. Many agencies, including BBH, BBDO, DDB,
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Netflix blames tax dispute in Brazil for rare quarterly earnings letdown
Netflix missed the earnings target set by stock market analysts during the video streamer’s latest quarter, a letdown that the company blamed on a tax dispute in Brazil. The results announced Tuesday broke Netflix’s six-quarter streak of posting a profit that eclipsed analysts’ projections. The Los Gatos, California-headquartered company cited an unexpected $619 million expense
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Andrew De Zen joins Rogue’s directorial roster for U.K. representation
Director Andrew De Zen has joined the roster at Rogue Films for representation in the U.K. spanning commercials and branded content. De Zen’s work is highly emotional, connected to both his visceral way of thinking and personal experiences of reality. With editorially driven stories, strong POVs, and a hint of finding poetry in the everyday,
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OpenAI launches Atlas browser to compete with Google Chrome
OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, on Tuesday, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. Making its popular AI chatbot a gateway to online searches could allow OpenAI, the world’s most valuable startup, to pull in more internet traffic and
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Auction house to sell Gene Hackman’s Golden Globes, watch and paintings he collected and created
An auction house plans to sell off a variety of actor Gene Hackman’s possessions in November, including Golden Globe statues, a wristwatch and paintings he collected and created himself. Hackman died at age 95 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after transitioning from an Oscar-winning career in film to a life in retirement
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