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• $7 Million Deal Is Reached for Upper West Side Movie Theater

  09-11-2024 02:42 via nytimes.com
  
  A nonprofit group has reached an agreement to buy the shuttered Metro Theater from its owners, but the deal is contingent on raising the money by the end of the year.
  
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• Lena Dunham to write Sam Bankman-Fried movie for Apple

  12-11-2024 20:51
  
  The Girls creator is set to adapt Michael Lewis’s bestselling 2023 book on the controversial FTX founder Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Review: Darren Criss and Helen J Shen Are Robots in Love

  12-11-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A supersmart musical about making a connection arrives on Broadway in a joyful, heartbreaking, cutting-edge production.
  
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• After Lineker: who could be the next Match of the Day host?

  12-11-2024 19:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Mark Chapman is the bookies’ favourite but Gabby Logan, Alex Scott or Gary Neville may step into Lineker’s bootsOn Tuesday the BBC confirmed Gary Lineker is to step down as the presenter of Match of the Day at the end of the season, sparking speculation about who is likely to step into his sizeable boots.The top job at the BBC’s flagship football programme has not been available since Lineker took over from Des Lynam in 1999, when the show was the definitive word on football on
  
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• After Lineker: the runners and riders to take over on Match of the Day

  12-11-2024 19:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Mark Chapman is the bookies’ favourite but Gabby Logan, Alex Scott or Gary Neville may step into Lineker’s bootsOn Tuesday the BBC confirmed that Gary Lineker is to step down as the presenter of Match of the Day at the end of the season, sparking speculation about who is likely to step into his sizeable boots.The top job at the BBC’s flagship football programme has not been available since Lineker took over from Des Lynam in 1999, when the show was the definite word in football
  
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• ‘The Vegetarian’ Review: Putting a Nobel Prize Winner’s Work Onstage

  12-11-2024 18:42 via nytimes.com
  
  After Han Kang won the Prize in Literature last month, a stage version of her novel “The Vegetarian” sold out its run at a struggling Paris theater.
  
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• Trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy released

  12-11-2024 18:00
  
  Footage from the forthcoming comedy shows Renée Zellweger in her signature role for the fourth time Continue reading...
  
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• Fortress seizes control of art house cinema chain Curzon

  12-11-2024 17:14
  Private equity group scooped up chain for $5mn following dispute with US real estate billionaire Charles Cohen
  
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• Curzon Cinemas has been sold for a ‘bargain’ £3.9m – is this good news for UK filmgoers? | Peter Bradshaw

  12-11-2024 17:05
  
  The British arthouse cinema chain has changed hands. Its new American owners would be wise to ignore industry gloom and invest in discerning movie audiences Continue reading...
  
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• Trump bump 2.0 may not pack the same punch for media stocks

  12-11-2024 12:33
  
  The prospect of defensive sector consolidation is a better reason to buy into media stocks
  
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• Curzon cinema chain acquired by Poundstretcher owner Fortress

  12-11-2024 12:03
  
  US private equity group buys company’s 16 UK cinemas, distribution arm and online streaming service Continue reading...
  
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• ‘No Americans putting on bad Belfast accents!’ How Disney drama Say Nothing brings the Troubles to life

  12-11-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  A new series is stepping into the fraught territory of Northern Ireland in the 70s by telling the real-life story of a woman abducted by the IRA. Its creators talk about truth, reconciliation and trying to depict both sides of the conflict“To be honest, I’d always thought of the Troubles as a male story,” says the US author and journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, when asked what first attracted him to the events covered in his 2018 bestselling nonfiction book Say Nothing. “S
  
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• ‘Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands’ Review: The Wrong Stuff

  12-11-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The boy band stories in Tamra Davis’s documentary rarely intersect in a way that builds a meaningful or compelling perspective.
  
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• TV tonight: the powerful story of a defiant Russian artist

  12-11-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Storyville profiles Gena Marvin, who is challenging anti-gay and pro-war sentiment. Plus: Bake Off goes 1970s. Here’s what to watch this evening10pm, BBC Four Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A Wonderful World’ Review: Blowing Louis Armstrong’s Horn Isn’t Enough

  12-11-2024 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart.
  
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• Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson admits to peeing in water bottles on set: ‘Yeah, that happens’

  12-11-2024 01:29
  
  The actor and producer has responded to a viral news story from April – but denied being eight hours’ late to filming Continue reading...
  
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• Her Majesty the Queen: Behind Closed Doors review – an unroyally frank look at the horrors of domestic violence

  11-11-2024 23:20 via theguardian.com
  This chilling documentary follows Queen Camilla as she raises awareness of shocking cases of violence against women“Everyone loved Jo. Except her husband.” He bludgeoned her to death in 2010. “With a claw hammer,” Joanna Simpson’s mother, Diana Parkes, explains. “Fourteen times he hit her.”Her Majesty the Queen: Behind Closed Doors is full of such moments of breathtaking pain and cruelty, as it gives an account of Queen Camilla’s involvement with r
  
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• Immigration: How British Politics Failed review – every one of these politicians is unbearable

  11-11-2024 23:00 via theguardian.com
  From Nigel Farage to Suella Braverman and Tony Blair, the bloviating talking heads in this documentary give a good sense of how immigration policy became polluted by racismWho’s up for an in-depth look at the last 20 years of UK immigration policy? Come on, it’ll be fun!I’m joking, of course. It’s no fun at all! It’s full of politicians, for a start, and they’re talking. It’s fascinating how unbearable almost every single one is, no matter where you sit
  
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• IAC explores Angi spin-off as Barry Diller media group slims down

  11-11-2024 22:05
  
  Home services marketplace launched in the dotcom era has seen plumbers and roofers cut ad spending
  
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• Paddington in Peru records biggest opening weekend in UK for British film since No Time to Die

  11-11-2024 18:39
  
  The lovable bear’s latest adventure, which stars Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas, alongside the regular cast scored highly at the box office despite tepid reviews Continue reading...
  
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• Paul Mescal Rides ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ to Brooklyn

  11-11-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The award-winning production will begin performances in February as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s next season.
  
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• ‘Absolutely spectacular’: why Chris McCausland will win Strictly – and save the show

  11-11-2024 17:15 via theguardian.com
  The show’s first blind contestant continues to bowl us over with his sharp wit and spine-tingling moves. We’re calling it – he’s a dead cert for the glitterballFor 10 interminable seconds on Saturday night TV, the lights went out. Thankfully, it was deliberate. The Couple’s Choice routine performed on Strictly Come Dancing by blind comedian Chris McCausland included a “blackout moment”, where he danced in the dark to immerse viewers in his sightless worl
  
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• ‘Almost like imprisonment’: the shocking truth about life for boybands in their ‘golden era’

  11-11-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mobbed, groped, overworked, paid a pittance and given little time off … ahead of a major TV series about boybands, former members of 5ive and 911 reveal what success was really like for many‘People often don’t get it,” says Ritchie Neville. “They think being in a famous band is a dream. But I’ve had situations where I’m out with friends and, when I start talking, jaws drop to the floor. They’re like, ‘Oh my god, is that really what it was li
  
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• Final reckoning? Trailer for Mission: Impossible 8 suggests end to franchise

  11-11-2024 16:07
  
  After underwhelming box office for seventh movie in Tom Cruise series, $400m-budgeted next chapter might be last Continue reading...
  
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• How weight loss drugs took over Instagram

  11-11-2024 14:13
  
  Studies show strong links between photo-centric social media and eating disorder pathology
  
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• The Avett Brothers Braved Choppy Waters to Bring ‘Swept Away’ to Broadway

  11-11-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The Avett Brothers were all ears a decade ago when a determined crew of theater upstarts and veterans came aboard to adapt their maritime album for “Swept Away.”
  
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• Everyone Else Is Giving a Standing Ovation. Do I Have To?

  11-11-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Theatergoers and other performing-arts lovers are noticing the practice seems to have become the rule, not the exception.
  
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• Australian actor alleges Rebel Wilson made up a false sexual assault accusation about her

  11-11-2024 10:05
  
  In documents filed to an LA court, Charlotte MacInnes alleges that she told Wilson no misconduct happened, calling it ‘absurd’ Continue reading...
  
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• Mattel Mistakenly Lists Porn Site on Packaging for ‘Wicked’ Dolls

  11-11-2024 08:13 via nytimes.com
  
  The site has a similar address to one that promotes a film adaptation of the hit musical. The toymaker apologized for the “unfortunate error.”
  
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• TV tonight: it’s the season finale of Colin Farrell’s hit Batman spin-off

  11-11-2024 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  The Penguin ends on a particularly grisly note. Plus: how did immigration take over UK politics? Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Sky Atlantic Continue reading...
  
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