-
-
Paramount Hires Former Trump Lawyer to Head Global Public Policy
Paramount has hired Rene Augustine as senior vice president of global public policy. Augustine comes to the role after serving as deputy assistant attorney general in the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2019 to 2021. She has also served on committees at the Kennedy Center, including as a Trump appointee to…
-
Peacock Strikes Gold With Outsized Olympics, Super Bowl Audiences
Peacock is having a moment. NBCUniversal’s streaming platform is having its biggest week to date, fueled by some of the biggest sporting events on the planet in the Super Bowl and The Winter Olympics. The latter has already racked up its best streaming performance ever, with the majority of the 17-day event still to come….
-
New-generation Ukraine woman warriors avenge losses of loved ones
Yuliia Didenko did not grow up planning a military career. But after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she says, the choice eventually became unavoidable. “I had no fear,” she said. “What could be more frightening than realizing that, while Russians are killing and torturing Ukrainians, I am resting at home?” Didenko, 21, who…
-
Trump hails US discombobulator weapon as he meets Maduro op troops
President Donald Trump boasted on Friday about a secret US “discombobulator” weapon that can block Russian and Chinese defence systems, as he met the elite troops who captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Trump’s comments at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina marked the first time he has talked about the mysterious device at…
-
Amazons Ring ends deal with surveillance firm Flock after backlash
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit that promotes people’s rights on the internet, said the ad used something “heartfelt” as a disguise for a feature that previewed “a world where biometric identification could be unleashed from consumer devices to identify, track, and locate anything — human, pet, and otherwise”.
-
Yellow Letters Review: The Teachers Lounge Director Delivers a Modern-Day Political Parable Thats Strongly Acted but Hampered by Vagueness
For his follow-up to the tense and claustrophobic German middle school drama, The Teachers’ Lounge, director Ilker Çatak has attempted something both more ambitious and more mystifying: a tale of authoritarian oppression, artistic strife and family conflict that’s set in contemporary Turkey but was shot entirely in Germany, with no attempts to hide the fact…
-
Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg Rewrote Hollywoods Rules in the Chaotic 70s. Whos Doing That Now?
The 1970s were a golden age of American cinema. Most movie buffs are familiar with an agreed narrative of how the decade happened: a new young generation of filmmakers, whose names became the stuff of legend — Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Coppola, William Friedkin, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, Brian De Palma, Terrence Malick —…
-
Chicago Med Production Assistants Vote to Unionize
Production assistants on NBC’s Chicago Med have decided to unionize. Crew members on the long-running medical drama voted 11-1 to join Production Assistants United in a National Labor Relations Board election on Wednesday. The eligibility of five ballots were challenged and will be determined at a later date. “We’re not saying ‘fuck the studios,’ we…
-
Don Lemon Pleads Not Guilty to Civil Rights Charges Over Coverage of Minnesota Church Protest
Don Lemon has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from his reporting of a protest at a Minnesota church, setting up a case that could see free press and religious protections collide. Lemon entered his plea during a brisk court appearance on Friday, multiple outlets reported, after he was arrested last month in Los Angeles….
