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MS NOW’s New ‘Membership’ Service Lets Users Talk to Rachel Maddow, ‘Morning Joe’

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June Squibb, Linda Hamilton, Caroline Aaron and Jayne Eastwood Team for New Zealand Sports Comedy ‘Hot Curlers’

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Documentary About Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda to Be Directed by James Erskine, WestEnd Films Handling World Sales

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Penélope Cruz Says It Would Be ‘Very Contradictory’ to Star in ‘Bunker’ and Refuse to Talk About Politics: It ‘Involves So Many Aspects of Where the World Is Right Now’

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Watch Brad Pitt Talk to Dogs in New De’Longhi Espresso Maker Ad Campaign (EXCLUSIVE)

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John Turturro to Receive Zurich Film Festival’s Golden Eye Award

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Stevie Wonder Announces ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ 50th Anniversary Tour Dates

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Tom Jones Alleges ‘The Voice U.K.’ Fired Him at 86 Years Old Due to ‘Financial Difficulty With Insurance’

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MIAM! Distribution Expands Slate, Strengthens Partnerships With French Indie Producers, Unveiled at Unifrance Rendez-Vous (EXCLUSIVE)

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Longstanding Franchises, Distinctive New IPs Help French Animation Industry Weather Market Slowdown

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‘Musk’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Definitive Documentary Puts the Pieces of Elon Musk Together — It’s a Lacerating Portrait of Technocratic Brilliance, Power Lust and Crackpot Delusion

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Elon Musk’s Ex Ashley St. Clair on Rejecting a $40 Million NDA and Participating in ‘Musk’ Doc: ‘I Hope the Risk in Trying to Fight Back Helps a Little Bit’

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Levan Koguashvili Brings ’90s Georgia to Venice With Comedic Drama ‘Guria’

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‘Elite’ Star Ester Expósito Circles ‘Stink Eye,’ an Iberseries Co-Production & Financing Forum Title (EXCLUSIVE)

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Andy Serkis Unleashes Imagination with Venice Immersive Breakout ‘Nevatars’

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France’s TV Exports Plummet Amid Ad Decline, Broadcaster Budget Cuts, ‘Deteriorating Economic Environment’

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‘Boys of Tommen’ Unveils First Images of Shirtless Conor Sanchez as Johnny and Wistful Nancy Surridge as Shannon

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Balanga Secures First International Sales for History Doc ‘Beasts of the Colosseum,’ Ahead of Unifrance Rendez-Vous (EXCLUSIVE)

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Netflix Animated Comedy ‘Dang!’ Is an Enjoyably Chaotic Sibling Hangout: TV Review

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Venice Horizons Winner Anuparna Roy Returns to Lido With Mumbai Story of Migrants, Desire and Belonging ‘Lovers in the Blue Night’

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Amazon’s Newest Fire Tablet Is Only $150, With 10,000 Units Sold In the Last Month Alone

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About Premium Content Inks International Deals for Mystery and Romance Series, Counterfeit Art Doc (EXCLUSIVE)

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Lumiere Declaration Sets 15 Principles for Global Film Governance, Calling Audience Attention ‘a Trust to Be Honored, Not a Resource to Be Captured’

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Inside the Restoration of Indian Cult Classic ‘English, August,’ Heading to Venice as Relevant as Ever (EXCLUSIVE)

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Korea Box Office: ‘The Odyssey’ Overwhelms ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ as Admissions Top 10 Million

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Prada Foundation Film Fund Chief Paolo Moretti on First-Year Journey That Helped Spawn Rubaiyat Hossain’s Venice Horizons Entry ‘The Difficult Bride’

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China Box Office: ‘Once Upon a Time in the Middle East’ Crosses $300 Million

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Serielizados Unveils Lineup with ‘Celeste’ Season 2, Hagai Levi, Diane Morgan and the Sánchez-Cabezudo Brothers Series in Competition (EXCLUSIVE)

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French President Emmanuel Macron Calls on YouTube to Finance Content and Warns of Growing Threat to Cultural Model (EXCLUSIVE)

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Macklemore Says His Call to ‘Free Palestine’ Is Not a ‘Criticism’ of Jewish People: ‘None of Us Will Be Free Until We Are All Free’

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‘No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman’ Review: Iraq’s Oscar Submission Offers a Patriotic Anthem to the Kurdish Peshmerga’s Fight Against Islamic State

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Elon Musk Documentary Teaser Asks If Billionaire Is the ‘Greatest Living Inventor’ or a ‘Fascist’ Who ‘Has Lost His Mind’

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‘Elsinore’ Director Simon Stone, Basking in Telluride’s Glow, on Making a Movie About Love of the Theater, the Peak AIDS Era, and Being ‘100% in the Service of Andrew Scott’

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MPA Signs Two Lumiere Summit Declarations, Joins Roundtables With Presidents Macron and Lee

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‘Look Back’ Review: Once Past the Over- Preciousness of a Child’s World, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Manga Adaptation Becomes a Moving Tribute to Friendship

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Summer Box Office Breaks All-Time Record With $4.67 Billion

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‘Alpha Gang’ Review: Cate Blanchett, Chris Pine and an All-Star Cast Play Space Aliens in David and Nathan Zellner’s Endearingly Goofy Sci-Fi Spoof

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‘The Spiral’ Review: Paolo Strippoli’s Lurid Faustian Tragedy Shores Up His Reputation as Italy’s New Horror Virtuoso

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Luca Guadagnino on Casting Hollywood A-Listers in Subversive Roles: ‘I Have Worked With Some of the Finest’

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‘South Park’ Mocks Trump While Celebrating Emmy Win for Outstanding Animated Program

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Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc ‘You Can See Everything’ Detonates the Oscar Race — and Has A24 Chasing a 90-Year Record

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Betty Gilpin Jabs at Sam Altman During ‘Manic Poem’ Acceptance Speech at the Emmys

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Film Industry Leaders Demand Structural Fix for Gender Gap at Lumiere Summit

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BBC News Anchor Maryam Moshiri Reveals Blood Cancer Diagnosis

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Ellen Burstyn Cries as She Gets Venice Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: ‘It’s One Thing to Win an Oscar, Tony or Emmy — All of Which I’ve Won. But This Is a Lot’

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‘Imperium’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa Brings Together Nearly Three Hours of Italian Footage From the Early 1970s Covering the Vastness of the USSR

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Festival Leaders Confront Growing Political Pressure at Lumiere Summit: ‘We Don’t Judge Artists by Their Passport’

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‘Plaza Catedral’ Director Abner Benaim, Chile’s Daniela Vega and Alfredo Castro Board Fiction Series ‘School of the Americas’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Studio TF1 Smashes Doc Records With ‘Leon Marchand: Beyond Gold,’ Rolls Out ‘Surface’

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‘Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing’ Review: A Handsome Ode to an Oft-Disrespected Sport

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