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15m ago
Summer movie season is off to a slow start, as Memorial Day weekend hit a three-decade low at the box office. But at least there are some good movies coming to streaming services this month, including Netflix’s “Hit Man,” starring Glen Powell as an undercover cop who pretends to be a professional assassin. The Richard ..read more
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2h ago
Next week, on June 7, the entertaining and highly acclaimed geek-goes-undercover-as-contract-killer screwball romantic thriller “Hit Man,” starring It Dude of the moment Glen Powell, drops on Netflix. But this weekend, in case you hadn’t noticed, the movie opened “in theaters.” How many theaters? If you use your hands and feet to count, you’ll have most ..read more
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2h ago
Donald Trump gained millions of followers on TikTok in the hours after launching an account on the short-form video app — which, when he occupied the White House, he had threatened with a nationwide ban unless Chinese internet giant ByteDance sold control of TikTok to U.S.-based entities. Trump’s first TikTok on @realdonaldtrump, posted late Saturday ..read more
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2h ago
Don’t call it a rewatch. The upcoming “Suits” podcast will be titled “Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast,” Variety can exclusively announce — not a “rewatch” podcast. The SiriusXM podcast will be hosted by actors Patrick J. Adams and Sarah Rafferty, who portrayed Mike Ross and Donna Paulsen, respectively, on the USA drama. Together, they will ..read more
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3h ago
Diarra Kilpatrick knows two things intimately: Black women and the city of Detroit. Unsurprisingly, the writer-actor’s stellar freshman dramedy, BET+’s “Diarra From Detroit,” which follows a recently separated school teacher entangled in a decades-long mystery, pays homage to this group of women and her hometown. Kilpatrick leads the series as Diarra, who moves into her ..read more
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3h ago
Music for drama can take on various styles and colors, as demonstrated by three of this year’s most talked-about miniseries. Jeff Russo spent two and a half years thinking about, and composing, the score for “Ripley,” Steven Zaillian’s eight-part thriller about a sociopath (Andrew Scott) who finds the high life in 1960s Italy worth killing ..read more
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4h ago
“The Garfield Movie” clawed its way to first place, overtaking last weekend’s champion “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” at the domestic box office. This weekend (unlike last) wasn’t a nail-biter as “Garfield” effortlessly pulled ahead with $14 million from 4,108 theaters in its second weekend of release while “Furiosa” trailed in third place with $10.7 ..read more
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7h ago
Adele did not hold back when an audience member yelled “Pride sucks!” during her Las Vegas residency on Saturday night. According to video obtained by Sky News, the Grammy-winning singer clapped back: “Did you come to my fucking show and just say that Pride sucks? Are you fucking stupid? Don’t be so fucking ridiculous. If ..read more
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17h ago
Hulu, NBC, Netflix, Black and Missing, Hachette Books and CBC Podcasts were among the winners on Saturday night at the CrimeCon convention’s annual Clue Awards. Among top prizes, Dateline NBC’s “The Murdaugh Murders: Inside the Investigation” was named outstanding docuseries, while Huly’s “Me Hereafter” was top episodic series and Netflix’s “Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld” was ..read more
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19h ago
It’s that time of year when the LGBTQ community and its allies celebrate Pride. Across the globe, June is chock full of rainbow flags, parades and celebrations of queer joy. In West Hollywood, Paris Hilton kicked things off with an appearance at Heart nightclub. The city’s official Pride festivities kicked off the following evening on ..read more