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The New York Times is now in exclusive talks to acquire for Letterboxd for around $330M.
(Source: nytimes.com/2026/11/05/busin…)
not sure why you’re all acting so shocked and surprised by this 🌚
Georgia-gov elect @KeishaBottoms (D) announces filmmaker Tyler Perry is a part of her transition team
time to catch up some of the stuff I missed.
New releases on digital VOD:
Resident Evil
Primetime
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Sense and Sensibility
The History of Concrete
Beware Boiúna
Charlie Harper
The Shadow’s Edge
Without Blood
Bad Apples
Rolling Loud: The Movie
April X
#movie hd 4k
You can find more info about the films via this Letterboxd list that has all the most recent digital VOD releases:
letterboxd.com/filmfestival/…
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Not only did Disney pay $0 in federal income taxes last year due to Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” it got a $1.4 billion tax refund after making $12.4 billion in profits.
“Corporation will create jobs if they get tax breaks” is a Big Lie. It never trickles down. Ever.
Disney is moving toward thousands of job cuts with the entertainment giant asking some managers to target 20% in annual cost savings, according to people familiar with the matter. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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A Black child was murdered in the Bronx the same day an owl’s nest was destroyed. Nothing captures the tale of two cities quite like white politicians rallying to defend an owl’s nest while remaining silent about the murder of a Black child.
this regurgitated response to ppl questioning Zendaya’s choices in roles is disingenuous bc y’all act like 1) she’s the 1st biracial actress to ever navigate a Hollywood career and 2) she’s some altruistic ally making sure not to “take roles from Black women”..
not sure why people are upset, she’s right. it’s a safety and liability issue, period.
Jessica Lange says FX was "too f*cking cheap" to pay for cars home from the "American Horror Story" set, so the cast had to drive themselves and it's “still a bone of contention."
“We had to drive ourselves. We would drive ourselves home at like 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning, park on some street in the French Quarter, and find our way home," Lange said at PaleyFest alongside Sarah Paulson, who laughed in approval.
variety.com/2026/tv/news/jes…
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Even the screenings of films that flop at the box office look like this in NYC, in case anyone is wondering why some films are released earlier here. These are just two of the dozens of screens that show them.
'The Social Reckoning' Flops With $5.5 Million Debut, 'Other Mommy' Tops Box Office With $27.5 Million variety.com/2026/film/box-of…
and it’s well documented that he heavily abused all three of his Black wives. a lot of y’all have an unhealthy preoccupation with representation, but at what cost..
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste DESERVED a Best Actress nomination for this and I will never forgive anyone who didn't vote for her that year
used generative AI to animate archival footage….
Ava DuVernay explains why AI was used in new documentary '14th:' "People should see this" trib.al/1ybSWqF
he spent his 4-year tenure as CEO single handedly ruining a century old movie studio and the network that originated the prestige television model, and has been rewarded nearly a billion in total comp as a result.
imagine finding out you lost your job in a press release..
Warner Bros. chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy learned their jobs were ending from an online report before Skydance CEO David Ellison called to confirm it in what is described as a "tense" exchange.
They will leave when the merger closes Tuesday, with Abdy telling Ellison, “Good luck to you. I left you 39 movies.”
Read more in @sharonwaxman's exclusive on TheWrap: mrf.lu/2rZ7F
in a movie landscape full of reboots and big budget IP, these were two of the few studio heads still taking a chance on original screenplays like Sinners, OBAA, Weapons etc…
Warner Bros. studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are reportedly out ahead of the studio’s merger with Paramount.
Paramount co-chair Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg are expected to oversee both studios after the deal closes.
(thewrap.com/industry-news/bu…)
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It's abundantly clear many of you are more conservative and traditional than you realize. And I'm speaking primarily to millennials. Lots of you are repeating the same rhetoric you complained about from your oppressive parents, aunties, uncles, church leaders, elders, etc.
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This is the first debt-market development I’d call genuinely alarming rather than merely expensive.
Until now, the story was essentially: Paramount is borrowing an enormous amount, at ugly yields, but investors are willing to fund it.
This Bloomberg article says something more
Paramount’s $41 billion of dollar bonds to finance its takeover of Warner Bros. sold off to start their first full day of trading. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I’ve seen 3 separate clips from this podcast episode, and I really want the “Lanterns” writers’ room to stop talking..
