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Film & Media·from Oct 6·upd. 4d ago
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Aaron Sorkin releases Facebook Files drama The Social Reckoning in theaters

The film depicts the leak of internal Meta documents by Frances Haugen to The Wall Street Journal, tracking the impact of platform algorithms on politics and mental health.

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Film & Media·from Oct 6·upd. 5d ago
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Eva Marie Saint, Oscar-winning star of On the Waterfront, dies at 102

The American actress, who won an Academy Award for her 1954 screen debut in On the Waterfront and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, died on Tuesday at her Los Angeles home.

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Film & Media·from Oct 6·upd. 4d ago
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Mike Flanagan adapts Stephen King's Carrie for Prime Video with social media themes and genetic twists

All eight episodes of the Stephen King adaptation debuted on Prime Video on 7 October 2026, shifting the 1974 horror novel to a modern high school setting with expanded paranormal world-building.

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Film & Media·from Oct 4·upd. 6d ago
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Tom Cruise satire Digger opens to $20M globally on final weekend before Skydance merger

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's dark comedy Digger opened to $20 million worldwide, creating projected losses of up to $200 million as Warner Bros. Discovery finalizes its $110 billion merger with Paramount-Skydance.

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Film & Media·3d ago
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NAZA documentary on Gaza killings opens in French cinemas on 12 October

The film accuses the Israeli army of knowingly killing many civilians in Gaza and gets a restricted run of 500 screenings in France. Free online streaming follows in November, according to Le Monde.

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Film & Media·from Oct 6·upd. 5d ago
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Emmy Awards move to Prime Video in six-year deal ending seven decades on broadcast TV

The Television Academy signed a six-year deal making Prime Video the exclusive global home of the Emmy Awards starting in September 2027, offering free live access worldwide.

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Film & Media·4d ago
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Netflix orders Bridgerton prequel series on young Lady Violet and Edmund

Shonda Rhimes and Nicholas Nardini will write and run the limited series, which follows the matriarch before marriage as the flagship show films its fifth season in London.

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Film & Media·3d ago
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Bollywood actor Nana Patekar dies at 75 after cardiac arrest at his Goa home

Veteran Indian actor Nana Patekar died on Thursday in Goa, aged 75, after a suspected cardiac arrest at his home. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and fellow actors led the tributes.

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Film & Media·from Oct 8·upd. 3d ago
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Shakira's late La Revuelta interview draws 1,744,000 viewers, edging El Hormiguero

Shakira arrived about an hour late to Macondo Park for an improvised chat with David Broncano, which ran between 10 and 15 minutes depending on the account. La Revuelta beat El Hormiguero by 100,000 viewers that Thursday.

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Film & Media·from Oct 7·upd. 3d ago
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Andrew Scott's Elsinore opens London Film Festival with AIDS-era Hamlet story

Scott stars as Ian Charleson, who played Hamlet at London's National Theatre in 1989 while diagnosed with AIDS. Early reviews put Scott among the frontrunners for the best actor Oscar.

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Film & Media·3d ago
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Ben Affleck's Netflix kidnapping thriller 'Animals' draws mostly mixed-to-negative reviews

Critics across six outlets reviewed Ben Affleck's sixth film as director, a Netflix kidnap thriller starring Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson and Steven Yeun, and most called it flat, derivative or simply tedious.

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Film & Media·3d ago
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Hugh Hefner's widow asks Jessica Biel to reconsider playing his fictional wife in "Playmates"

Crystal Hefner, married to the Playboy founder from 2012 until his death in 2017, sent Jessica Biel a direct message asking her to reconsider the role in Searchlight's upcoming film, which she says could romanticize Hugh Hefner and the Playboy world.

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