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Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Has State AGs Seeing More Than Just Antitrust Issues

Roku Wall Street Unsure As Both Sides Claim Win-Win In Fox’s $22B Deal For Streamer

Disclosure Day Spielberg Sci-Fi Pic Now Eyeing $44M U.S. Open; WW Cume At $93M

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Politics Gavin Newsom Says He & Wife Are Targets Of DOJ Probe At Trump’s Direction

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TV How Fox’s $22 Billion Deal For Roku Raises The Floor For Its Content, Advertising Revenue & Creator Division

On its surface, Fox’s acquisition will not cause an immediate shift in Fox’s programming strategy for either its broadcast network or its free streaming service Tubi, but inside the Rupert Murdoch-owned company, executives are excited that it will be a major boon for its overall business. Deadline’s Peter White and Dade Hayes dig into the deal.

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‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’ Live Action Series In Works At BBC Studios, Wheel In Motion & Kadokawa

Hayao Miyazaki’s iconic Studio Ghibli movie Kiki’s Delivery Service is being remade into a live action series by BBC Studios. BBC Studios Kids & Family has tied with Wheel In Motion and Japan's Kadokawa Corporation on the 10 x 30-minute series, the first time Kiki’s Delivery Service, which is based…

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World Cup Referee Says Controversial Hand Gesture Was A “Subconscious Twitch” After Being Cleared By FIFA

UPDATE — June 16, 01:24 am PT: FIFA's disciplinary committee has cleared Australian video referee Shaun Evans of any wrongdoing after he was accused of making a hand gesture associated with white supremacists during a broadcast. An investigation published yesterday by football's governing body said…

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Iran Team Forced To Leave U.S. Immediately After World Cup Draw Amid Protests Against Tehran

The Iranian football team were forced to leave the U.S. immediately after their 2-2 World Cup group stage draw with New Zealand. Iranian coach Amir Ghalenoei said U.S. officials ordered the team to leave the country after the match yesterday, and was quoted calling his team the “most oppressed team…

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Insanity Hires Brand Partnerships Chief From Channel 4

EXCLUSIVE: Maya Jama and Roman Kemp's agency Insanity Talent Management has hired a partnerships chief from Channel 4. Lucy Gulliver joins in the newly-created role of Group Partnerships Director and will look to “build the next generation of brand to talent partnerships,” the London agency…

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Prime Video India Sets Launch Date For John De Mol Reality Format ‘Alliance’

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video India’s upcoming reality series Alliance will launch worldwide on June 26. The Hindi-language show will debut as the Amazon streamer’s first-ever original global daily series and will also mark Kunal Kemmu’s debut as a reality show host. Alliance is the first…

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Jon Stewart Derides White House’s UFC Event As “God-Awful Mockery” That Managed To “Devalue Both Combat Sports & Our National Dignity”

Jon Stewart, a born and bred New Yorker, kicked off his Monday night installment of The Daily Show celebrating the momentous victory of the Knicks, shouting out sanitation workers and the community of NYC for coming together to celebrate the team’s triumph for the first time since 1973. Describing an…

Struggling ‘Celebrity Autobiography’ Announces Early Broadway Closing

Celebrity Autobiography, the Broadway specialty production in which bold-face names read the read the published memoirs of other bold-facers to more or less comic effect, will play its final performance at the Shubert Theatre on Sunday, June 21, about two months earlier than previously…

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The Beast in Me

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Charlie Hunnam Monster: The Ed Gein Story

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‘Holding Liat,’ ‘Everything You Have Is Yours’ To Stream For Limited Time On Kinema Platform, In Unique Collaboration With Progressive Jewish Groups

EXCLUSIVE: The Kinema streaming platform is bringing two acclaimed documentaries to viewers at home for a limited time: Berlinale winner Holding Liat and DOC NYC premiere Everything You Have Is Yours. Tickets to view each film are $5. Half of the proceeds of each ticket will be donated to the Gaza…

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Brazilian Football Icon Neymar Jr. Launching AI-Powered, 16-Title Microdrama Slate On FlareFlow

Even the microdrama world is catching World Cup fever. In a eye-catching move, Brazilian football star Neymar Jr. has scored a strategic partnership with COL Group's vertical entertainment platform, FlareFlow, a deal announced as the 2026 World Cup continues in the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The…

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Kogonada’s Sundance Pic ‘Zi’ Starring Haley Lu Richardson Lands At Grasshopper Film

EXCLUSIVE: Grasshopper Film has taken the North American distribution rights to Kogonada’s new movie zi, which world premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. A fall theatrical release is in the works. The sci-fi/supernatural pic stars Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson and Jin Ha…

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EXCLUSIVE: We’ve learned that Oliver Stone’s new movie White Lies has cast actress and social entrepreneur Stephanie Suganami. She joins a cast that includes Josh Hartnett, Leila George, Michael Douglas, Willem Dafoe, Ellen Barkin, Homer Gere and Yvonne Chapman. As we previously reported…

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‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Franchise Glams Up Past $1 Billion At Worldwide Box Office

Just before Disney breaks all kinds of records this weekend with Pixar’s Toy Story 5, it can celebrate taking 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada franchise past the $1 billion mark. The sequel, now in its seventh week, counts $676 million at the global box office, with $217.9M from domestic…