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Jackie Szymanski
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Recruiter for VFX, Animation, Games, Film, TV, VR, AR, Entertainment & Advertising. Dog Mom to CoCo, Gracie, Buddy & Hugo. Secret Crush Harry Styles
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Box Office: ‘Avatar 3’ Adds $88 Million Over Christmas Weekend, ‘Marty Supreme’ Scores A24’s Second-Biggest Debut With $27 Million
James Cameron's sci-fi threequel "Avatar: Fire and Ash" remained comfortably atop the domestic box office over Christmas.
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December 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Walt Disney Studios Officially First & Only Studio To Cross $6B WW In 2025; ‘Avatar: Fire & Ash’ At $450M WW
Disney Studios continues to show the power of the theatrical window as the Burbank, CA lot is officially crossing the $6 billion worldwide threshold today. Broken out that’s $2.3B domestic, the best f...
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December 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Hollywood’s Big New Labor Deal: Studios To Offer Guilds’ Health Plans $100M Lifeline In Exchange For Longer Multi-Year Contracts In 2026
Big changes could be coming to the way labor contracts are done in Hollywood & the unions' health plans for members.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Vince Zampella, ‘Call of Duty’ Creator, Dies at 55 in Car Accident
Vince Zampella, creator of "Call of Duty," died in a car accident. He was 55.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Kicks Off With $88 Million Domestic Debut
"Avatar: Fire and Ash" landed atop the box office in its opening weekend.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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TikTok U.S. Joint Venture Deal Set to Close in January With Investors Including Oracle, Silver Lake
ByteDance and TikTok have signed "binding agreements" with three managing investors: Oracle Corporation, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi-based MGX, to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture named TikTok USDS ...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Sony Buys Majority Stake In ‘Peanuts’ IP for $460 Million
Charlie Brown and Snoopy will live under the Sony umbrella as Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan buy the slice of Peanuts Holding LLC held by Canadian company WildBrain.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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SAG-AFTRA to Kick Off the 2026 Union Negotiations Cycle
The performers’ group will begin bargaining on Feb. 9, making it the first major labor group to tackle bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers next year.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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British Actors and Other Performers Back Industrial Action Over AI After Landslide Vote
Actors and other performers working in the U.K. have voted by 99.6% to refuse to be digitally scanned in order to secure AI protections.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount $30/Share Acquisition Offer, Calling It ‘Inferior’ to Netflix Deal and Alleging Ellisons Aren’t Providing ‘Full Backstop’ for Financing
Warner Bros. Discovery rejected the $30/share takeover bid from David Ellison's Paramount Skydance, with WBD unanimously backing the deal with Netflix.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Oscars Shortlists Announced in 12 Categories: ‘Sinners’ and ‘Wicked: For Good’ Lead, ‘Sirât’ Gets Strong Showing
Oscars announce shortlists in 12 categories including casting, cinematography, score, song, international feature, documentary feature and more.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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PlayStation’s Sucker Punch Boss Brian Fleming to Exit, Jason Connell and Adrian Bentley Set as Successors at ‘Ghost of Yotei’ Studio
Brian Fleming, the longtime head of PlayStation's Sucker Punch Productions, the makers of Game Award nominee "Ghost of Yotei," is stepping down
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December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Anthony Geary, Luke Spencer on ‘General Hospital,’ Dies at 78
One-half of the ultimate soap supercouple with Genie Francis, he won a record eight Daytime Emmys and starred on the ABC daytime drama over a 40-year span.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Rob Reiner, Wife Michele Found Dead in Their L.A. Home with Knife Wounds
Rob Reiner -- the legendary director -- and his wife Michele Singer Reiner have died ... TMZ has confirmed.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Box Office: ‘Zootopia 2’ Returns to No. 1 as ‘Ella McCay’ Suffers One of Worst Debuts Ever for Disney With $2 Million
"Zootopia 2" is again the No. 1 film in North America as newcomer "Ella McCay" bombs in its box office debut.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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A Hollywood Startup That Raised $1 Billion Earlier This Year Just Mysteriously Filed for Bankruptcy
Gold Tree Studios had ties to a film set to star Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Game Awards Declares ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ Game Of The Year – Complete Winners List
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong, No Man's Sky take home wins from 2026 Game Awards. Amazon Games announces new Tomb Raider games
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December 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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New York Governor Signs AI Protection Bills As SAG-AFTRA Executives Tout Gains for Performers
“If we want the public to trust what they see, we must have guardrails on digital replicas and synthetic creations,” said SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM