Month: August 2024

Chris Aronson, Paramount Pictures’ president of domestic distribution, will be presented with the Career Achievement Award by Variety the Children’s Charity of Southern California for “his exemplary work in supporting and championing children, youth, adults, and families in need.”  “Chris is an admired and highly esteemed member in the motion picture industry whose steadfast leadership,
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In a world where every microtrend comes complete with scores of TikTok how-tos and Pinterest boards—the supply and demand changing as fast as your For You Page’s algorithm—it’s comforting to know that some things will never go out of style. Enter: beachcore, the perfect summer aesthetic. For the uninitiated, beachcore is exactly what it sounds
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Paramount Global has taken massive hit to earnings, booking a nearly $6 billion write-down as part of its second-quarter earnings, a day after Warner Bros. Discovery reported an even bigger charge. Both impairment charges to bring each to bring their carrying value for linear television assets into line with what they’re likely worth now –
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What was supposed to be an incredibly romantic first date with her longtime crush, Akilah, instead nearly becomes Marlowe Wexler’s undoing, when the custom candle she ordered in Akilah’s favorite scent explodes, burning down a house belonging to Marlowe’s family friends. Is it any wonder that Akilah breaks things off rather than dating an accidental
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EXCLUSIVE: Public television’s KQED has announced it will present The Class, a documentary series executive produced by Daveed Diggs that explores high schoolers coming of age at the height of Covid. The six-parter directed and produced by Adam Fenderson and Jaye Fenderson of Three Frame Media is set to air nationwide in the spring of
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Cate Blanchett set the record straight on her pay for filming The Lord of the Rings. The star of the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy cleared up the misconception that it was a high-paying job. While appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Blanchett played “Plead the Fifth,” in which host Andy Cohen asks his guest three hard
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Dawgz Life from director Brett William Mauser and starring Michael Ochotorena, Stormy Lopez, Christopher Henry, Wilford Liu, and Ernest Martinez is now available on Tubi. A small-time gangster works his way up the ladder in a drug cartel to keep the people he loves safe but only winds up putting them in danger. Will Sloan
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Ashlie (she/her) is an educator, librarian, and writer. She is committed to diversifying the reading lives of her students and supporting fat acceptance as it intersects with other women’s issues. She’s also perpetually striving to learn more about how she can use her many privileges to support marginalized groups. Interests include learning how to roller
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After a week of unrest and rioting in Britain, far-right protesters were overwhelmed on Wednesday evening by peaceful demonstrations against racism. Veep creator Armando Iannucci was among those who saw the images of counter-protesters thronging British streets and thrust the images under the nose of Elon Musk. “You seeing this,” he asked Musk, reposting an
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An investigation into a sex trafficking ring at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con Convention has led to 14 arrests and 10 victims “recovered,”  California’s Attorney General said Wednesday. “Unfortunately, sex traffickers capitalize on large scale events such as Comic-Con to exploit their victims for profit,” Rob Bonta said toady, announcing the sting at the just-concluded convention. Along
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Land Rover came into existence as an automaker in the immediate post–World War II era, with the novel notion of utilizing military-derived all-wheel-drive technology in small personal trucks. These vehicles, proto-SUVs, were nimble, rugged, and well-appointed enough to be used as transport, or for hunting, gardening, or other forms of genteel mucking about on sloughy
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