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Lizzo Accepts Humanitarian Award Hours After New Lawsuit Drops
The “Good as Hell” singer defiantly declares she will continue to “put on and represent safe spaces for Black fat women.”
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Amazon Prime Video to Include Ads Starting in 2024
The streamer will also offer a more expensive ad-free option
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The Toughest Act to Follow Is Rupert Murdoch | Analysis
Lachlan Murdoch has big shoes to fill at Fox and News Corp – and analysts aren’t sure if he’s up to the challenge
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‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Teaser Shows Contestants Will Play New and Series-Inspired Games (Video)
Including the glass tile game and “Red Light, Green Light”
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Jackson Wild Names Former Nat Geo Unscripted EVP Geoff Daniels Executive Director
The veteran of unscripted nature TV and film replaces Lisa Samford, who steps down from her post at the natural history and conservation media org in October
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Watch a Supercut of Fox News’ Decades of On-Air Racism, Misogyny, Bigotry and Lies (Video)
CNN’s Abby Phillip marks the exit of Rupert Murdoch with just under 6-minutes summarizing 25 years of Fox News
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Chris Hayes Says the Media ‘Has a Responsibility to Tell the Full Truth’ About Trump’s Record (Video)
The MSNBC host worries how the press will cover a speech before auto workers by the famously anti-union ex-president
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Pedro Almodóvar Says Hollywood Films Have Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen – for His Taste
“The director in that system has a lot of voices that they need to hear… I don’t feel that that would be a system in which I could work,” the two-time Oscar winner says
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WGA Talks Will Continue Friday After ‘Significant Progress’ on Thursday
WGA asks “as many of you as possible” to continue picketing in memo to members late Thursday night
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A Word of Caution to the Studios: Creatives Don’t Need You | PRO Insight
Kino CEO Daril Fannin sees a new era of independent production aided by technology
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WWE Releases Numerous Wrestlers Following Smackdown TV Deal Announcement, Stock Decline
Dolph Ziggler, among others, is released a week after the company merged with the UFC under Hollywood agency Endeavor
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Emma Thompson Says ‘Content’ Is a ‘Rude Word’: ‘It Makes Me Feel Like the Stuffing Inside a Sofa’
“At the end of it, you feel a bit ill,” the two-time Oscar-winner says
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A24’s ‘The Iron Claw’ Wrestling Movie Gets SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement
The film stars Jeremy Allen White, Zac Efron and Lily James
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WGA East Officially Elects Lisa Takeuchi Cullen as President
Former “Law & Order: SVU” writer-producer ran unopposed to succeed outgoing president Michael Winship
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‘Cassandro’ Director Says Bad Bunny Casting ‘Almost Made Me Fall Off My Chair’
“He has a huge career ahead of him as an actor,” Roger Ross Williams tells TheWrap