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On Oct. 13, 2021, ChefAitor Zabalastood at a breaking point. His acclaimed restaurant Somni had closed during the pandemic. The new space he planned to reopen in had fallen through. His sous chef had quit. After four years cooking alone in a test kitchen with no guests, the white jacket felt heavier than it ever…
The logline for HBO’s upcoming series Rooster, starring Steve Carell, doesn’t offer much in the way of detail: The show is “a comedy set on a college campus centering on an author’s (Carell) complicated relationship with his daughter (Charly Clive),” per the official description. A newly released trailer for the show, however, fills in some…
State Assemblymember Nick Schultz has committed to carrying a bill aimed at creating a standalone postproduction tax incentive in California, a field representative for his office announced at a town hall for Hollywood professionals on Wednesday night. Amanda Faissal said that the state representative will soon introduce legislation in a bid to return more editing,…
David Ellison, chairman and CEO of Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, took the war of words and his message across the pond on Thursday, publishing an open letter to the creative community and audiences in the U.K. with a set of commitments, should the company succeed in acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), which has struck a…
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s operating income for its fiscal third quarter (ending December 31, 2025) was down 11 percent to $197 million from $223 million in dollar terms for the comparable period a year before, with Q3 sales down 12 percent to $2.295 billion from $2.619 billion. SPE comprises the motion pictures division, television productions and…
The unfolding Jeffrey Epstein saga has galvanized the public for the breadth of its revelations into elite power, from the financial to the political, the cultural to the sociological. One email in the latest batch of case files the U.S. Department of Justice has released provides a rare look at the old-line social striving recently…
An epic battle is set for season two of Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The streamer debuted a trailer today for the new batch of episodes that drop Feb. 27, starting with the first episode followed by one every Friday through May 1. As previously announced, season two picks up as the fate of…
CBS has pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring longevity researcher (and recently named CBS News contributor)Peter Attia from a repeat of the newsmagazine. The decision comes a few days after the latest release of documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein included a host of correspondence between Attia and Epstein. The 60 Minutes piece first…
After an early Feb. 2 earnings disclosure, as if to orchestrate some breathing room for CEO Bob Iger to give the in-the-weeds financial updates on its studio division and experiences unit, Disney formally unveiled his successor, Josh D’Amaro, on Tuesday morning. The blockbuster move marks the conclusion of the yearslong bake-off between the parks chief…
French prosecutors on Tuesday raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, for questioning as part of a widening investigation into alleged cybercrime and the dissemination of illegal content. In a statement posted on X, the Paris prosecutor’s office…
