Judi Dench has never been one to mince words. And in her new memoir “Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?”, out Nov. 3 from St. Martin’s Press, the Oscar-winning icon of stage and screen opens up about the highs and lows of her storied career via a wide-ranging conversation with actor […]
Judi Dench Tells All About Bond: It Was Daniel Craig’s Idea to ‘Have Me Killed’

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Behind Election Night Scenes, Fox News Launches New Multimedia Era
On Fox News, the stars of Election Night are usually Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum and Bill Hemmer. This year, some of the most important players will rarely be seen on camera. New control rooms are debuting Tuesday evening at the Fox Corp.-backed outlet that allow producers to move content more easily across its many platforms, […]

South Of Midnight Director Says He Would Not Have Funded The Game
Xbox funded and published 2025's South of Midnight, a highly acclaimed action-adventure game set in the American Deep South. The game's creative director, David Sears, said he believes South of Midnight is a "generational" game that he hopes people discover and play for a long time and one that he thought would help elevate the "prestige" of Xbox. At the same time, Sears said he wasn't sure Microsoft's spending spree under the previous leaders Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond--which is how Sears' studio Compulsion got the funding to make South of Midnight--was going to work out long term. "I literally told people, I was like, 'Yeah, wow, this could be terrible.' Because somebody is going to say, someday, 'The money tap ... we're closing those floodgates.' And that's going to have really traumatic results downstream," he told Ben Hanson on MinnMax . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=815z1trpMdQ

Mike Flanagan thinks 'Warhammer is a fascinating world' but can't tell us anything else about the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 project because 'Henry Cavill would be furious'
Give me blood, give me gore, give me Space Marines.

Celebrity loses injunction bid but will stay anonymous pending appeal
The unnamed man asked for an injunction to stop his identity being reported in connection with allegations against him.

Versant CEO: MS NOW Not Suffering From ‘News Fatigue’ Like Fox News
If Fox News’ viewers are growing weary of the headlines, MS NOW’s are not. Viewers of the Versant Media-backed cable outlet appear to be growing more interested, not less, in the current news cycle, according to remarks made by Mark Lazarus, the company’s CEO, to investors Tuesday. Lazarus was responding to a question about the […]

Midterm Elections: Americans Have Wagered $1.9 Billion on Prediction Markets on U.S. Races — With Democrats Favored to Win House and Senate
It’s Election Day for the pivotal 2026 midterms that will determine control of U.S. Congress — and a bunch of people are trying to make money by betting on the outcome. As of Monday (Nov. 2) at 8 p.m. ET, nearly $1.9 billion had been wagered on the midterm elections on the two biggest prediction […]