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The second installment of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things began with “The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler,” but those episodes were really the arrival of Nell Fisher. In a large, familiar ensemble, the 14-year-old British actress has burst on the scene as a driving force of the Netflix phenomenon’s swan song. The little…
Cinemark is giving AMC CEO Adam Aron’s love for popcorn a real run for its money. This year’s National Popcorn Day event at Cinemark is being expanded to two days (from one), and the mountains of popcorn are being piled even higher — for certain Lowe’s customers, that is. It’s important to note high up…
2025 was the year that advertising dealt with shocks to the system: AI disruption reverberated across every part of the ecosystem, Omnicom completed its $13 billion megadeal for IPG, creating a marketing Goliath, and tariff uncertainty threw certain sectors into chaos. But when it was all said and done, the ad business grew in 2025,…
The seven men who gathered for THR‘s Oscar season Actors Roundtable — Frankenstein’s Jacob Elordi, The Life of Chuck’s Mark Hamill, The Smashing Machine’s Dwayne Johnson, Sinners’ Michael B. Jordan, The Secret Agent’s Wagner Moura, Jay Kelly’s Adam Sandler and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’s Jeremy Allen White — don’t share very much in common….
Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer and recording artist nominated eight times for Grammy Awards, has died. He was 77. Smallwood died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at a rehabilitation and nursing center in Sandy Spring, Maryland, his representative Bill Carpenter announced. Smallwood had health issues for many years, and music gave him the strength…
Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney were granted French citizenship because “they contribute, through their distinguished actions, to France’s international influence and cultural outreach,” the French government said Wednesday, defending their naturalization that was questioned by a junior French minister. The naturalizations of the Kentucky-born star of the Ocean’s series of heist movies,…
John Mulrooney, the stand-up comedian from Brooklyn who hosted Comic Strip Live on Fox and performed at venues including the Improv, the Laugh Factory and Dangerfield’s, has died. He was 67. Mulrooney died suddenly on Monday at his home in Coxsackie, New York, the Albany Times-Union newspaper reported. No cause of death was immediately available….
Yet another Harlan Coben adaptation; a slick-looking mystery drama series starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal; an easy-on-the-eye globe-trotting rom-com; an action drama powered by Hollywood’s most enduring couple, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; the Free Solo guy trying to free solo live up the 11th tallest building; and the hotly anticipated fourth season of…
Before Ryan Seacrest hosted Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for the 21st time, he celebrated the New Year by ringing in Nasdaq’s closing bell. The longtime TV host visited Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square on Wednesday ahead of the night’s broadcast, where he teased a literally record-breaking show. With the show’s length being extended…
Did Netflix not learn from last time? When the series finale of Stranger Things premiered on Netflix at 5 p.m. PT on New Year’s Eve, it appears the streaming platform crashed briefly. This was likely caused by the influx of fans logging on to watch the highly anticipated final episode of the Duffer Brothers-created show,…
