Activist investor Ancora Capital, led by CEO Fred DiSanto, has revealed a major stake in Warner Bros. Discovery and is pressuring the studio to abandon its deal to merge with Netflix. Holding a WBD stake at around $200 million, Ancora said it will vote against the proposed merger between Netflix and the rival studio as…
Paging Dr. Kay Scarpetta — we’re gonna need you to scrub back in for this one. Nicole Kidman is up to the task in the trailer (below) for Amazon’s Scarpetta series, which debuts on Prime Video March 11. The adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling novels unfolds across two timelines. The first tracks a young Kay…
WASHINGTON — A handful of House Republicans tanked a procedural vote Tuesday night that would have kept intact a ban on congressional action against President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs. Republican Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Kevin Kiley of California joined all Democrats in a214-217 vote blocking language to continue a…
Harmony Korine doesn’t do anything by the book. In fact, he doesn’t even read books. “Oh, I haven’t read a book in two or three decades,” Korine says, not proudly but matter-of-factly, but maybe also a little proudly. The iconoclasticGummoandSpring Breakersdirector may be associated with earlier eras of outre cinema. But provocateurs never go away…
ATG Entertainment, a leading theater producer and theater owner in the U.S. and the U.K, has appointed Melanie Smith as its new CEO. Smith takes on the role, effective Wednesday, after serving as CEO of the NEC Group, the U.K.’s largest live events venue operator and serving as deputy chair at the dance organization Sadler’s…
Pokémon Pokopia can be described as a pocket monster-themed take on Animal Crossing with a hint of Stardew Valley thrown in for good measure. And if you’re like me, that alone is probably enough to sell you on the game. However, after getting a chance to play a preview of it for around half an…
MicroSD Express cards are still a little hard to find, considering they’re pretty new and only really started becoming popular last year once the Switch 2 came out. These upgraded versions of microSD cards are the only ones compatible with the Switch 2 for expanding its storage, os if you’re already starting to feel the…
A gunman who fired shots at a school in Hat Yai district in southern Thailand on Wednesday has been detained and all the people who were held hostage have been freed, a police official told Reuters. An 18-year-old man entered the Patongprathankiriwat School in Songkhla Province earlier on Wednesday with a gun, the provincial administration…
