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Fan Bingbing Says Young Chinese Audiences ‘Aren’t Being Fed Very Well’ as AI Microdramas Boom
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Zac Brown Shares Dolly Parton’s Posthumous Video Message to Teachers: ‘Thank You for Your Passion’
The singer shared Parton's video during a CMA Foundation event
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Cole Sprouse Starrer ‘Vintage Violence’ to Close Singapore Film Festival as Closing Night Returns
The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) will wrap its 37th edition on Nov. 1 with “Vintage Violence,” Eugene Kotlyarenko’s livestream-era crime caper starring Cole Sprouse and Mizuhara Kiko. The screening brings back a stand-alone festival closing, which SGIFF last staged in 2014. The film bowed in the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto Film Festival […]
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Cupertino Season 1 Premiere Review
Cupertino Season 1 premiere review: The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King are back with a sly, smart deconstruction of Silicon Valley.
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Indian Premier League Stands Alone at the Top as Asia Pacific Sports Rights Growth Slows, Media Partners Asia Finds
The Indian Premier League remains the only Asia Pacific sports property priced at the top of the global market, according to new research from Media Partners Asia, which expects growth in the region’s sports rights fees to slow to 1%–2% a year through 2030, down from about 10% a year since 2021. The cricket league […]
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HBO's War: Season 1, Episode 2 Review
This week’s episode is another well-acted, well-written affair. HBO’s War tightens the screws just enough in its second episode to brace viewers for either side of this divorce to mess things up beyond repair for their respective clients.
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‘Law Order: SVU’ Season 28 Premiere Recap: A Gang Rape Echoing the Cornell 7 Case
“Law Order: Special Victims Unit” is renowned for its ripped-from-the-headlines episodes. Who can forget the Trayvon Martin-Paula Deen crossover featuring Cybill Shepherd as a racist celebrity chef or the Gamergate-riffing “Intimidation Game,” where Ice-T shoots Logan Paul’s misogynistic geek on a Manhattan rooftop? The Season 28 premiere of “SVU,” on Oct. 8 on NBC, […]