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Sony Group to cut 250 jobs from recordable media business' key hub - The Mainichi ( mainichi.jp )

Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll: The company hasn’t paid employees in over a week and owes money to almost everyone in Hollywood ($970M in debt) ( www.theverge.com )

Horizon is The Biggest Gamble of Kevin Costner’s Career ( www.theatlantic.com )

Martin Mull, Comic Actor of 'Clue,' 'Roseanne' and 'Arrested Development,' Dies at 80 ( www.thewrap.com )

Eddie Murphy Is Ready to Look Back ( www.nytimes.com )

The unofficial retirement of Jack Nicholson – where did Hollywood’s most charismatic star go? ( www.independent.co.uk )

Where’s Jack? This year marks the 50th anniversary of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974), the 1930s LA-set crime thriller that has one of Jack Nicholson’s most famous performances, as sardonic detective Jake Gittes. It’s also nearly half a century since Nicholson played rebellious everyman RP McMurphy, who is incarcerated...

Warner Bros. and Legendary Set Denis Villeneuve Event Film for 2026, Next MonsterVerse Movie for 2027 ( variety.com )

‘Aliens,’ ‘Avatar’ Star Sigourney Weaver to Receive Venice Golden Lion ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )

Ian McKellen Teams Up With ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.’ Star for Animated LGBTQ+ Musical ‘Dragfox’ ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )

20 years on, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón and producer David Heyman reflect on taking the series in a darker direction ( www.gamesradar.com )

Alamo Drafthouse Will Reopen 6 Recently-Closed Theaters Following Sony Acquisition ( www.indiewire.com )

What A Century (Plus a Pandemic) Does to Moviegoing and Why It Matters ( www.matthewball.co )

Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever? ( www.theguardian.com )

Red One, the upcoming Christmas movie from Amazon, is arguably among the most talked-about of the year. However, until now, the conversation has had little to do with the film itself. Instead, Red One looks set to go down in history as the film that tanked Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s reputation....

Street Fighter movie gets a 2026 release date ( filmstories.co.uk )

Sony and Legendary have announced that their upcoming movie adaptation of Street Fighter will be arriving in cinemas worldwide on the 20th March 2026. The announcement comes just days after it was revealed that the film’s directors, Danny and Michael Philippou – aka RackaRacka – have departed the project due to scheduling...

Bill Cobbs, Actor in ‘The Hudsucker Proxy,’ ‘Night at the Museum’ and ‘Air Bud,’ Dies at 90 ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )

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Movies Are Dead! Wait, They’re Back! The Delusional Phase of Hollywood’s Frantic Summer ( variety.com )

Inside the battle to release controversial Trump movie ‘The Apprentice’ ( www.washingtonpost.com )

A24 Raises Significant New Investment Round, Valuing Company at $3.5B ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )

Hollywood’s exodus: Why film and TV workers are leaving Los Angeles ( www.latimes.com )

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'Here': Robert Zemeckis’s New Movie Spans a Century, but the Camera Never Moves ( www.vanityfair.com )

Channing Tatum still wants to make '23 Jump Street' with Jonah Hill: ‘We’ve been trying to get it done’ ( ew.com )

A24 zine celebrates the extravagance of old multiplexes – especially their carpets ( www.itsnicethat.com )

Shira Inbar and Julia Dufossé have been learning a lot about carpets recently. Not just any carpets, Electra-Dye carpets; a type of wacky flooring, usually covered in swirls or planets, that populated movie theatres and multiplexes of the 1990s and early 2000s. “One of the things that really cracked me up is learning that...

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