Month: August 2020

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first good sign we’ve gotten on advance tickets sales for Warner Bros.’ Tenet, particularly here in the U.S. Movio cinema analytics corp tells Deadline that pre-sales for Christopher Nolan’s latest is outpacing his previous movies Interstellar and Dunkirk at the same point in their advance sales cycle for the U.S., United Kingdom and Australia. In the UK
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Honoring the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, the Booker International Prize has announced its 2020 winner, The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison. BBC’s Razia Iqbal hosted the virtual celebration which included remarks from the judges and Booker Prize staff and readings from
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Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, is to step down after a decade in the role.  The charity said today that Guy would leave in October to become the Independent Assessor for the Financial Ombudsman Service.  Citizens Advice said Guy, who joined the charity from Victim Support in July 2010, had led it through
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Workers board up a beach-front house ahead of Hurricane Laura in Galveston, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Scott Dalton | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hurricane Laura, a major Category 3 storm, is set to hit near the Texas-Louisiana border on Thursday morning as local officials scramble to evacuate thousands of residents.  Laura rapidly
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Magic Mike XXL (Rome) By the time Jada Pinkett Smith got around to making an appearance in Steven Sodenbergh’s Magic Mike XXL in 2015, she already a major star thanks to a number of high profile roles in the years, and even decades, leading up to the sequel to the 2012 surprise hit. In the
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Before COVID-19, Stephanie A.*, a corporate lawyer from Washington, DC, considered herself an impulse shopper. Her office was located close to the city’s premiere shopping district and she often found herself popping into H&M or Ann Taylor to browse for clothes, leaving with a new, office-appropriate skirt or dress. But after five months of stay-at-home
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It seems million dollar houses are selling out like hot pancakes on a Sunday morning, for everyone but the youngest and most stylish scion of the Salvatore Ferragamo dynasty, Massimo Ferragamo. Upon listing his multi-story Park Avenue apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the residence sat idle on the market for over two years with
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Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive officer of Salesforce.com speaks during the grand opening ceremonies for the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco on May 22, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce shares rose as much as 12% in extended trading on Tuesday after the enterprise-software company reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that surpassed analysts’
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After jockeying release dates imposed by the uncertainty of the coronavirus evolution, Tenet time is finally here. Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending Tenet will be released by Warner Bros overseas beginning Wednesday in such markets as the UK, Korea, France, Germany, Australia, Italy and Spain. In total through Friday, there will be 40 markets playing what has
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Before there were myriad Marvel, DC, and X-Men superhero franchises, there was the sugar, spice, and everything nice of the incomparable Powerpuff Girls. Now, multiple outlets are reporting that the hit Cartoon Network animated series is getting a live-action reboot at The CW. It will reportedly follow superhero sisters Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup as they
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‘Ink Master’ star Daniel Silva was given jail time and a suspended prison sentence for a brutal car crash that left his passenger dead, whom prosecutors claim was YouTuber Corey La Barrie. UPDATE (8/25/20, 7:45 PM ET): Daniel Silva, 27, has been sentenced to “364 days in jail, five years of formal probation, 250 hours
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CNN Travel’s series often carry sponsorship originating from the countries and regions we profile. However, CNN retains full editorial control over all of its reports. Read the policy. (CNN) — For more than a century, Bulgaria has had little trouble enticing people to its beach resorts scattered along the Black Sea coast. City-breakers head to
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Satellite antenna builder Kymeta announced Tuesday that it closed a significant new round of fundraising led by Bill Gates, as the start-up looks to increase manufacturing and sales of its mobile communications product. “At the end of the day, the problem that our customers want to solve is highly reliable broadband service,” Kymeta executive chairman
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