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Nexstar Extends CEO Perry Sook’s Contract Through 2029

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‘Black Money for White Nights’ Offers ‘Tragicomic Meditation’ on ‘Moral Erosion’ at Heart of Post-Communist Bulgarian Life

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Lily Allen Unveils ‘West End Girl’ U.K. Tour Dates

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Comcast Sees Q3 Profit Drop, Facing Comparisons With 2024 Olympics, Cord Cutting

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Matilda De Angelis on Playing a Vampire in Luc Besson’s ‘Dracula’ and How Her Cat Inspired Her Character: ‘They’re Cuddling, and Then the Next Moment They Bite You’

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Alicia Vikander, Jamie Dornan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bill Nighy and Gillian Anderson Set for Animated Fantasy ‘The Turning Door,’ Mister Smith and 2AM Selling at AFM (EXCLUSIVE)

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Jasmine Crockett Stops by ‘Kimmel’ to Accept Trump’s IQ Test Challenge

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Japan’s Anime Market Hits Record $25 Billion, Driven by Global Boom, AJA Report Finds

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5 Questions With Tokyo Film Festival “Navigator” Kumi Takiuchi

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‘The Witcher’ Season 4 Is an Upgrade as Liam Hemsworth Takes Over From Henry Cavill: TV Review

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‘One Piece’ Producer Tetsu Fujimura Says Japan’s IP Wave Is Going Global

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‘When Women Thrive, the Community Thrives’: Inside Variety’s Power of Women Event Featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, Sydney Sweeney, Kate Hudson, Nicole Scherzinger and Wanda Sykes

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Wanda Sykes Loves Hiring Women Over Men: ‘And if She’s a Black Woman, You Got the Job’

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Aly Raisman on the Power of People and Pets in Variety Courage Award Acceptance Speech: ‘Hope Grows When Communities Show Up’

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Sharon Stone Defends Sydney Sweeney After Jeans Ad Controversy: ‘It’s Okay to Use What Your Mama Gave You’

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Ramsey Naito Exiting as Paramount Animation’s President (EXCLUSIVE)

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Sydney Sweeney Says Wrapping ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Will Be ‘Bittersweet’ and ‘Emotional’: ‘It’s Been My Entire Twenties’

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‘Alien: Earth’ Exec Touts Thailand’s 30% Film Incentive, Asia Hub Status at Tokyo Fest

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Ethan Hawke Recalls Robin Williams Never Following ‘Dead Poets Society’ Script: “He Didn’t Ask Permission”

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‘Kokuho’ Team on Bringing Kabuki Theater to a Younger Generation: ‘It’s a Movie About Art, Two Actors and the Life of Actors’

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Julian Schnabel Talks Death and Immortality as an Artist: “I’m Not Going to Be Around for Very Long”

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Why Diane Lane Says She Was “Overwhelmed” Filming ‘The Outsiders’

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Disney and YouTube Settle Lawsuit Over Poaching of Exec Justin Connolly

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‘Hello Kitty’ Movie Sets 2028 Release From Warner Bros.

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‘Hello Kitty’ Movie Sets July 2028 Release Date From Warner Bros.

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From ‘Nobody’ to Global Contenders: China’s Animation Sector Comes of Age

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Australian Horror ‘Nightfall: A Paranormal Investigation’ Acquired by Black Mandala (EXCLUSIVE)

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YouTube, as Part of AI-Focused Reorganization, Is Offering Employees Voluntarily Exit Packages With Severance

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‘Crouching Tiger’ Oscar Winner Tim Yip Champions Human Touch in Artificial Intelligence Filmmaking at Kling AI Tokyo Awards

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Dodgers Organist Dieter Ruehle on His Witty, Spontaneous Song Picks, and Keeping Up With the Series’ Epic Game 3: ‘The Game Isn’t Scripted — What’s Better Than Live Accompaniment?’

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‘The Pitt’ Is ‘Intentionally Different’ From ‘ER,’ New Appeal from Noah Wyle Argues

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Barco, the Cinema Projection Company, Expands HDR Format in Germany (EXCLUSIVE)

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Italian-Filipino Coming-of-Age Comedy ‘I Have to F- – – Before the World Ends’ Lands at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

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‘Morte Cucina’ Team Says Asian Co-Productions Face Cash Flow Crisis – Tokyo Market

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Paramount TV Layoffs Hit CBS Entertainment, Paramount+, MTV and More

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‘Stitch Head’ Review: A Kiddie ‘Frankenstein’ with an Elegant Gothic Look, But Too Much of It Is ‘Monsters, Inc.’ Lite

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YouTube Star MrBallen Sets Podcast Pact With SiriusXM

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Paul Schrader on ‘Mishima’ Finally Screening at Tokyo Film Festival and Why He Thinks ‘People Will Pay’ to Watch AI Actors: ‘Use a Bit of Brando and Kevin Costner and Make an Exciting Movie’

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Robin Williams Never Followed ‘Dead Poets Society’ Script and ‘Didn’t Ask Permission’ to Throw It Aside, Says Ethan Hawke: ‘If He Had an Idea, He Just Did It’

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‘Long Island Compromise’ TV Series No Longer Moving Forward at Apple (EXCLUSIVE)

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Microsoft’s Xbox Console Sales Fall 29% as Gaming Content and Services Revenue Ticks Up

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Meta Q3 Earnings Stunted by Nearly $16 Billion U.S. Tax Charge Because of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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Josh Hutcherson on Filming an Orgy Scene in Front of His Great-Grandmother: ‘My Family Can Hang’

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YouTube Ad Sales Pop 15% in Q3 to Top $10.2 Billion, as Parent Alphabet Turns in First Quarter With More Than $100 Billion in Revenue

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LISTEN: Meet the Women Behind Variety Power of Women’s Stunning Visuals; ‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Gets ‘Disgusting’

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Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie Reuniting for Action-Thriller ‘Viva La Madness,’ Black Bear Launching at AFM (EXCLUSIVE)

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‘Hedda’ Artisans Break Down Mid-Century English Looks, Creating Aristocratic Sets and More: ‘She Manipulates Everything’

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AOL to Be Acquired by Italy’s Bending Spoons

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‘The Brutalist’s’ Emma Laird, ‘Dunkirk’ Star Fionn Whitehead Unearth Buried Trauma on Greek Island Holiday in Psychological Drama ‘Satisfaction’

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‘The White Lotus’ to Shoot Season 4 in Paris and the French Riviera at Five-Star Hotels (EXCLUSIVE)

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