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Meta to Pay up to $18 Billion in Settlement With 29 States Over Social-Media Addiction Claims
Meta will pay up to $18 billion over 10 years — and implement broad child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook — under a nationwide sett
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Meta to Pay $17.1 Billion in Settlement With 29 States Over Social-Media Addiction Claims
Meta will pay a record $17.1 billion — and implement broad child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook — under a nationwide settlement wi
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Gary Oldman on the ‘Pleasure’ of Playing ‘Slow Horses’ Spy Jackson Lamb: ‘A Man Who Has Single-Handedly Lowered the Public’s Expectation of Personal Hygiene’
Gary Oldman received the Edinburgh TV Festival’s Global Icon Award on Wednesday and, unsurprisingly, spent much of the time in an on-stage c
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‘Finding Emily’ Review: The Working Title Romantic Comedy Gets a Fresh, Funny GenZ Makeover
The big-screen romantic comedy is unfashionable enough these days that it tends to come dressed up in at least one of two ways: with a quasi
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Women’s Basketball League Unrivaled Raises More Than $100 Million From Carmelo Anthony, Ashton Kutcher, Alex Morgan, University of California Fund and More
Unrivaled, the women’s three-on-three basketball league, announced that its Series C fundraise has surpassed an initial $100 million target
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DAZN Will Acquire EverPass in Bid to Expand NFL Sunday Ticket
Streaming-sports purveyor DAZN has struck an agreement to buy EverPass Media, the distributor of licensed sports properties to commercial es
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Independent Talent Group Launches Creator Studio With Hire of Deborah Turness
U.K. agency Independent Talent Group is launching a creator studio to be headed by Deborah Turness, who has joined as president of Independe
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Venice-Selected ‘Agata the Writer,’ Starring Mia Wasikowska, Boarded by MMM Film Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
French sales company MMM Film Sales has acquired the international rights to “Agata the Writer,” starring Mia Wasikowska, which will have it
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GameSquare Pivots Livestreaming Measurement Service Stream Hatchet Into Creator Marketing Analytics Platform (EXCLUSIVE)
GameSquare is rebranding its gaming and esports-focused livestreaming measurement platform Stream Hatchet into Hatchet, which it describes a
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COL Group, CP Group Strike 360-Degree Partnership to Grow Thailand’s Short-Form Drama Industry
COL Group and CP Group are teaming on a partnership aimed at building up Thailand’s short-form drama business, linking creative training, lo
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‘Alice and Steve’ Renewed for Season 2 at Disney+ and Hulu
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Mandy Patinkin Named First Honorary Team Captain of USA Fencing
Inigo Montoya isn’t putting down his sword just yet. Almost 40 years after Mandy Patinkin expertly parried and jousted his way to defeating
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‘Under Salt Marsh’ Renewed for Season 2 With Rafe Spall Returning
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Italy’s RAI Cinema International Boards Edoardo De Angelis’ ‘The Fire Within You’ Ahead of Venice Launch, Reveals First Clip (EXCLUSIVE)
RAI Cinema International Distribution has acquired world rights to Italian director Edoardo De Angelis’ dark tragicomedy “The Fire Within Yo
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Stephen Colbert Urges Emmy Voters to Back Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Look How Cute He Is!’
With Emmy voting drawing to a close, Stephen Colbert has thrown his support behind Jimmy Kimmel in the newly revamped outstanding cariety se
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‘Tall Tales & Murder’ First Look: Ella Lily Hyland and Aidan Gillen Star in Wild Comedic Crime Drama From ‘Veep’ Director and ‘Love/Hate’ Creator (EXCLUSIVE)
The BBC has lifted the chaotic lid on “Tall Tales and Murder,” its upcoming dark comedic drama from “Love/Hate” creator Stuart Carolan and c
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Korea’s DRX Signs Strategic Partnership With Indonesia’s Nuon to Expand Gaming and Entertainment Ties (EXCLUSIVE)
Korea’s DRX Corp. and PT Nuon Digital Indonesia signed a strategic partnership in Jakarta to expand gaming and entertainment ties between In
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Netflix’ Latest Marketing Mash-Up Pairs Stella Artois With ‘The Gentlemen’
Netflix has what looks to be a great show set to launch, but you can’t see the program on its flagship streaming service. The company plans
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Oscars: Japan Selects ‘All of a Sudden’ for International Feature Race
Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s “All of a Sudden” has been selected as Japan’s entry in the international feature category at the 99th Academy Awards, t
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Google DeepMind, Amazon Web Services, Kling AI Join Busan Market Tech Program InnoAsia
The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the market of the Busan International Film Festival, will present InnoAsia 2026, its program built
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Motherhood Horror Film ‘Vagina Dentata,’ ‘From The Eclipse’ Director Nataša Urban, Boarded by Romanian Partner Manifest Film (EXCLUSIVE)
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Vidio Teams With ReelShort for First Indonesian Short-Drama Partnership
Indonesian streaming platform Vidio has partnered with ReelShort, the microdrama platform owned by Crazy Maple Studio, marking ReelShort’s f
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LevelK Boards Haugesund-Bound Norwegian Psycho Thriller ‘Anathema,’ About Repression, Denial and Collective Madness (EXCLUSIVE)
Copenhagen-based sales and aggregation outlet LevelK has boarded the Norwegian psycho-thriller “Anathema” by promising directing duo Ea Joha
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Amanda Kernell Is More Interested in ‘Liberation Than a Curse’ as Her Third Feature ‘Brace Your Heart’ Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
In her upcoming third feature “Brace Your Heart,” Amanda Kernell follows a survivor, not a victim. “We’re all different, and some people who
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