Sports anchor Elle Duncan was working for ESPN a few years ago when she heard then-college basketball star Aliyah Boston say that ESPN’s investment in women’s sports over 30-plus years has been transformative for female athletes, but not transformative enough. Boston wasn’t faulting ESPN; her point was that women’s teams and leagues need to be […]
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During one of David Beckham’s first trips to America in the 1990s, he took a stroll down Hollywood Boulevard and marveled at all the stars lining the sidewalks. For a working-class bloke from the East End of London, being immortalized in such a fashion seemed like a pipe dream. But Beckham has never been one […]
Continue ReadingEighty-four percent of eligible workers supported joining the Writers Guild of America East in a National Labor Relations Board election that took place Wednesday.
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The anonymous New York City-based band Adore have teamed up with director Wesley Wang to release the official music video for their single “Feel It All Again,” out now on Big Beat Records / Warner Records. A unique collaboration, the three-minute animation is also known as “Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank (soundtracked by Adore),” […]
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Amazon Prime Video has formally greenlit a series adaptation of “Things We Never Got Over.” The show is based on the book of the same name by Lucy Score and is the first of three books in Score’s so-called Knockemout series. The TV adaptation was first reported to be in the works at Amazon in […]
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Oscar winner Michael Giacchino has been officially unveiled as the composer for Brad Bird’s upcoming Netflix animation “Ray Gunn.” “Ray Gunn,” an original futuristic detective caper, is set to be the duo’s sixth collaboration since they first teamed up on 2004 Pixar animation “The Incredibles.” (They have since worked together on “Ratatouille,” “Mission: Impossible – […]
Continue ReadingThe Taylor Sheridan espionage series returns Aug. 2 on Paramount+.
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Politico wants to power its way into your weekend news diet. The political-news behemoth, part of Axel Springer, is relaunching its longform journalism efforts this weekend with a new crack at a weekly “magazine,” or in this case a package of five to six longform stories that will examine the people and polices that shape […]
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Broadway publicity firm Polk & Co. has promoted two longtime press agents, Colgan McNeil and Kelly Stotmeister, to partners. They will work on the leadership team alongside founder Matt Polk. The announcement comes a few days after the Tony Awards, where Polk repped winners including the punk-rock vampire musical “The Lost Boys” and the biting […]
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Paramount has dropped the first trailer for Heart of the Beast, its new survival thriller film directed by David Ayer, starring Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons and Anna Lambe. Heart of the Beast centers on a former Army Special Forces soldier (Pitt) and his retired combat dog who battle for survival after a plane crash deep […]
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