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Sylvester Stallone came out swinging over the news TheWrap broke Friday that a “Rocky” spinoff based on the Drago character is in the works at MGM and that he is not a part of it.

“Heartbreaker… Just found this out…ONCE AGAIN , PATHETIC 94 year old PRODUCER and HIS SELFISH USELESS CHILDREN are once again picking what is left OFF THE BONES of another wonderful character !!!” Stallone fumed in an Instagram post Saturday night.

He went on: “Seriously , how do you weasels look in mirror ???. I am sorry to the FANS , I APOLOGIZE to the FANS I never wanted ROCKY to be exploited FOR THIS GREED .. # no shame #sad day #Parasite.”

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Stallone then went in for round two on Twitter, posting, “I’d like to congratulate Irwin Winkler and family beating another wonderful character into the ground! # no shame,” referring to the “Rocky” producer who took home an Oscar in 1976 when it won for Best Picture.

TheWrap learned exclusively Friday that screenwriter Robert Lawton is set to write the “Rocky” spinoff “Drago” for MGM. Details about the plot are, naturally, being kept secret at the moment, but what we can tell you is that Russian fighter Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) will be at the center of the story. Ivan was first seen as the supreme antagonist in 1985’s “Rocky IV,” with his son Viktor (Florian Munteanu) filling “the bad dude” shoes in 2018’s “Creed 2.”

TheWrap has reached out to Stallone for additional comment.

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YouTube is introducing a slew of new shopping features for creators, including the ability to link storefronts and sell products directly on the platform through a partnership with Shopify.

In a blog post published today, YouTube says its partnership with Shopify will allow creators to display products throughout their channels, like below videos, during livestreams, or at the end of videos. Inventory will sync with Shopify so viewers can see in real time if something is out of stock. YouTube will also give US-based creators the option to enable on-site checkout, meaning viewers can purchase products directly on the platform without leaving YouTube.

In addition to the Shopify integration, YouTube says it will dedicate a section of the Explore tab to a “shopping destination” that will display shoppable content for US, Brazilian, and Indian users beginning next week.

YouTube is also pushing forward with livestream shopping and is expanding tools to all eligible creators that allow YouTubers to tag products during livestreams. Live shopping is popular in countries like China, and platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, and eBay have introduced similar features in other regions, hoping live shopping will stick. Results, though, could be mixed. Even TikTok — where product recommendations go viral and sell out overnight — is reportedly scaling back its live shopping expansion in Europe and the US, where uptake is apparently lagging.

YouTube wants to be a place where users find things they want and where they purchase them, and these new features are an attempt to make that process more seamless. But other platforms want in as well. Instagram, for example, announced this week that shoppers will be able to place orders for products via direct messages with businesses as well as track their orders and ask questions in the same thread.

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By Nicole Gallucci

The Resort is the mysterious dark comedy you never knew you needed. The Peacock original series was created by Andy Siara, writer of the charming 2020 time loop rom-com, Palm Springs. Just like Palm Springs, the show stars Cristin Milioti, who once again shines in her signature “weird, morbid chick” role. Milioti plays Emma, a high-school teacher on an anniversary getaway with her husband Noah (William Jackson Harper). After accidentally finding crucial evidence in a 15-year-old murder/missing persons case, the couple spends their vacation investigating the curious mystery. If a combo of The White Lotus, Lost, Only Murders in the Building, The Goonies, and Jason Mantzoukas’ general energy sounds like a good time — and I don’t see why it wouldn’t — then The Resort is perfect for you. The fun, fresh eight episode series will fill you with nostalgia, awaken your inner detective, and keep you guessing until the very end.

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BTS member J-Hope is all set to headline one of the major American music festivals Lollapalooza and the ARMY is super excited. For those unaware, Lollapalooza is an annual four-day music festival that takes place in Grant Park in Chicago. The fest has already begun on July 28 and will end on July 31 with J-Hope’s performance alongside several other artists including J Cole Dua Lipa and more.

While American fans of J-Hope can watch him live at Grant Park if they buy tickets to the festival, international fans of the artist can enjoy his performance via live streaming. Here’s everything that you want to know about the live streaming of J-Hope’s performance.

How to watch the J-Hope Lollapalooza performance?

The OTT platform Hulu has officially partnered with Live Nation for the streaming of the musical festival. Those who aren’t subscribed to Hulu can join the platform with two plans, one with ads and one without. The offer comes with a 30-day free trial. A subscription for the one with an ad costs $6.99, whereas the ad-free one is rated at $12.99 per month.

Apart from Hulu, Weverse will also live stream the performance on their APP/PC and Weverse TV app. J-Hope will take over the stage of Lollapalooza on Sunday, July 31 at 9 pm CST i.e. at 1 pm KST on August 1. Take a look at the announcement below:

On Wednesday, J-Hope braced ARMY for his Lollapalooza performance in a special video shared by the official account of Weverse Twitter. “What’s up ARMY? I cannot wait to see you at Lollapalooza on July 31. It’s an honor to be the first South Korean artist to headline a major American music festival. I’m so excited to see the other artists like Dua Lipa, J. Cole, TOMORROX X TOGETHER, and so much more. I’m working hard to put on an incredible show for you all. See you in Chicago,” said J-Hope in the video.

In other news, BTS’ collaboration with rapper Snoop Dogg has recently caused a massive stir on social media. Titled ‘Bad Decisions’, the single is scheduled for release on August 5.

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Comedian Chris Rock had his first comedy show at the Fox theater in Atlanta since being on the receiving end of a slap from Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars. At the show he told a few jokes about the experience according to People.com.

“Everybody is trying to be a f—ing victim,” Rock said. “If everybody claims to be a victim, then nobody will hear the real victims. Even me getting smacked by Suge Smith … I went to work the next day, I got kids.” Just for reference, the “Suge Smith” quip is about Suge Knight, the founder and former CEO of west coast label Death Row Record. Knight has a long-standing reputation for aggressive behavior.

Even though Smith issued a video apology for slapping Rock, the comedian and former Oscar host did not address what was said by Smith. Deadline reported on July 29 that the actor finally broke his silence about his actions and how it affected not only Chris Rock, but his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. 

“I was fogged out by that point. It is all fuzzy. I’ve reached out to Chris and the message that came back is that, he’s not ready to talk. When he is, he will reach out. I will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable and I am here whenever you are ready to talk,” said Smith.

He continued, “I want to apologize to Chris’s mother. I saw an interview [she] did, and that was one of the things I just didn’t realize. I wasn’t thinking, but how many people got hurt in that moment. I want to apologize to Chris’ mother, I want to apologize to Chris’s family, specifically Tony Rock. We had a great relationship. Tony Rock was my man. This is probably irreparable. I spent the last three months replaying and understanding the nuance and complexity of what happened in that moment. I’m not going to try to unpack all of that right now, but I can say to all of you, there is no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave in that moment. No part of me that thinks that is the optimal way to handle a feeling of disrespect or insult.”

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The Austrian-born actor, producer, former bodybuilder and governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most successful box office stars in history. With over 50 credits grossing more than $4 billion worldwide, Schwarzenegger ranks among the top 40 highest-grossing stars of all time.

To celebrate his 75th birthday, Variety ranks his 10 best film performances.

With a career that began by playing a “special agent” infiltrating a gym in “Stay Hungry” (1976) and a spotlight in the documentary feature classic “Pumping Iron” (1977), Schwarzenegger went on to become one of the most influential and classic action stars of his generation.

His breakout role came with the epic adaptation “Conan the Barbarian” (1982), directed by John Milius and co-written by Oscar-winner Oliver Stone. An instant box office success, he moved on to the defining franchise of his career with “The Terminator” (1984), playing the villainous cyborg sent back in time to kill the mother of humanity’s savior John Connor. It spawned one of the best sequels ever made with “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” (1991). This time, Schwarzenegger became the protector of young Connor (played by Edward Furlong) alongside an Oscar-worthy performance by Linda Hamilton.

Schwarzenegger was a dominant force in the ’80s and ’90s, with roles in “Commando” (1985), “Predator” (1987), “Twins” (1988), “Kindergarten Cop” (1990), “Total Recall” (1990) and “True Lies” (1994).

He garnered a few accolades despite being considered “one-note” to film critics. Schwarzenegger was nominated for a Golden Globe for lead actor (comedy) for his performance as a man who becomes pregnant in “Junior” (1994) and won an Emmy as an executive producer alongside his longtime friend and collaborator James Cameron for the docuseries “Years of Living Dangerously” (2014).

Read Variety’s rankings below and watch his best scene from each listed performance.

Honorable mentions: “Conan the Barbarian” (1982); “Red Sonja” (1985); “Last Action Hero” (1993); “Jingle All the Way” (1996); “Batman & Robin” (1997)

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It’s often hard to quantify the excesses of the rich and powerful. Sure, we can clock the total cost of a red carpet outfit, do some napkin math to figure out how much a big gala must have cost, or watch the super-mansion price listings like very jealous hawks. But for most of the things that separate the Famouses from us Normals, it’s very hard to get any kind of itemized listing of all the ways they’re just plain better than us mere mortals.

The exception to that rule, typically, is private jet use, on account of flight records being public knowledge that has to be logged with various airports—hence a whole little cottage industry of blogs and accounts that keep an eye on the flight times of the hoi polloi. And, now, a new Rolling Stone piece laying out some of the biggest private jet users in the world (and their subsequent carbon emissions), with Taylor Swift topping the list with 170 flights taken by her private jet this year so far, and counting.

Presumably realizing that the optics on this aren’t great—private jet flights are harder on the environment than almost any other action an individual can take (while still being a tiny fraction of the emissions put out by the fossil fuel industry, natch)—Swift’s team quickly issued a statement to Rolling Stone, clarifying that Swift isn’t even on most of those flights. Being a generous soul, she loans her jet out liberally, apparently, so she’s not the one taking the flights. (It’s…still her plane, though? We’re not actually sure how this statement helps, if we’re being honest.)

None of which has stopped a healthy crop of mocking jokes about Swift’s plane usage from popping up all over the place online today, in a very “My statement about how I don’t actually take a lot of private jet flights has a lot of people making fun of my private jet use” sort of way. (Many GIFs of random people riding in helicopters are involved.)

In addition to Swift, other folks named in the list (assembled by sustainability marketing company Yard, working with data scraped from Celebrity Jets) include professional athletes Floyd Mayweather (177 flights) and Alex Rodriguez (106 flights), as well as Jay-Z, who gets credited with all the flights taken by Puma’s private jet, because the brand apparently bought the plane at his suggestion. Others on the Top 10 of flight takers include Steven Spielberg, Blake Shelton, Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Mark Wahlberg, and Travis Scott, all of whom reportedly thus have carbon emissions footprints several hundred times higher than the average American’s.

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July 29, 2022 · 1:31 PM

Coming to NYC’s Rooftop Films tomorrow, Saturday, July 30:
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE

Director:
Reid Davenport

World Premiere:
Sundance 2022

Select Festivals:
True/False, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Sydney

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Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of individual agency.

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  • Ukrainian officials have denounced a call by Russia’s embassy in Britain for fighters from the Azov regiment to face a “humiliating” execution, Agence France-Presse has reported. Twitter said the embassy had violated its rules on “hateful conduct” but put a warning on the tweet rather than ban the post about the Azov, a Ukrainian battalion that retains some far-right affiliations. Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of the Ukrainian presidency, responded on Telegram on Saturday: “Russia is a terrorist state. In the 21st century, only savages and terrorists can talk at the diplomatic level about the fact that people deserve to be executed by hanging. Russia is a state sponsor of terrorism. What more evidence is needed?”
  • Renewed Russian strikes on Ukraine’s frontline have left one person dead in the south of the country and also hit a school in Kharkiv, officials said. The mayor of the southern city of Mykolaiv said one person was killed when rockets pounded two residential districts overnight, AFP reported. In Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv, rockets from an S-300 surface-to-air system destroyed part of an educational facility, local authorities said.
  • Russia announced it was banning 32 New Zealand officials and journalists from entering its territory, in response to similar measures taken by Wellington against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, AFP reported. Among those subjected to sanctions are the mayor of Wellington, Andrew Foster; the mayor of Auckland, Philip Goff; the commander of New Zealand’s navy, Commodore Garin Golding; and the journalists Kate Green and Josie Pagani, Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
  • The Ukrainian military said it had killed scores of Russian soldiers and destroyed two ammunition dumps in fighting in the Kherson region, the focus of Kyiv’s counter-offensive in the south and a key link in Moscow’s supply lines. Reuters reported the military’s southern command as saying rail traffic to Kherson over the Dnipro River had been cut, potentially further isolating Russian forces west of the river from supplies in occupied Crimea and the east.
  • Gazprom has suspended gas supplies to Latvia following tensions between Moscow and the west over the conflict in Ukraine and sweeping sanctions against Russia, AFP reports. The company drastically cut gas deliveries to Europe via the Nord Stream pipeline on Wednesday to about 20% of its capacity. European Union states have accused Russia of squeezing supplies in retaliation for western sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
  • The United States ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday there should no longer be any doubt that Russia intended to dismantle Ukraine, Reuters reported. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN security council that the US was seeing growing signs of Russia laying the groundwork to attempt to annex all of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
  • Russia is “running out of steam” in its war on Ukraine, the chief of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency, Richard Moore, said in a brief comment on Twitter on Saturday. Moore made the remark above an earlier tweet by the Ministry of Defence that said the Kremlin was “growing desperate”.
  • Russia and Ukraine have both launched criminal investigations into strikes that have reportedly killed at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were held at a pre-trial detention centre in the village of Olenivka, after both countries blamed the other side for the attack. The UN is prepared to send a group of experts to Olenivka to investigate the incident, if it gets consent from both parties.
  • Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has accused Russia of a “petrifying war crime” over the killings and called on world leaders to “recognise Russia as a terrorist state”.
  • Ukraine has said it is ready for grain exports to leave its ports again but is waiting for the go-ahead from the UN.

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The team behind an unofficial “Bridgerton” musical is being sued for infringement by Netflix in a Washington, D.C. U.S. District Court.

Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, the songwriting team behind the project, initially developed the musical on social media. The duo went on to score the No. 1 slot on iTunes U.S. pop charts and even won a Grammy this year in the category of best musical theater album.

Netflix alleges that it made “repeated objections” against the team as they planned to mount a live stage show of the project. “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical Album Live in Concert” performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, selling out the venue with ticket prices that ranged up to $149.

The stage show reportedly featured more than a dozen songs that involved exactly copied dialogue, character traits, expression and other elements from “Bridgerton.”

The streamer alleges that “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical Album Live in Concert” misrepresented to audiences that it used the “Bridgerton” trademark “with permission.” Netflix also objects to an allegedly planned line of merchandise and the production’s upcoming tour dates.

Representatives for Barlow & Bear were not immediately available for comment on the lawsuit.

“Netflix supports fan-generated content, but Barlow & Bear have taken this many steps further, seeking to create multiple revenue streams for themselves without formal permission to utilize the ‘Bridgerton’ IP,” Netflix wrote in a statement. “We’ve tried hard to work with Barlow & Bear, and they have refused to cooperate. The creators, cast, writers and crew have poured their hearts and souls into ‘Bridgerton’ and we’re taking action to protect their rights.”

“There is so much joy in seeing audiences fall in love with ‘Bridgerton’ and watching the creative ways they express their fandom,” Shonda Rhimes, creator of the “Bridgerton” series, said. “What started as a fun celebration by Barlow & Bear on social media has turned into the blatant taking of intellectual property solely for Barlow & Bear’s financial benefit. This property was created by Julia Quinn and brought to life on screen through the hard work of countless individuals. Just as Barlow & Bear would not allow others to appropriate their IP for profit, Netflix cannot stand by and allow Barlow & Bear to do the same with ‘Bridgerton.’”

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If the final moments of the “Paper Girls” finale left you scrambling, well, welcome to the club. But we are here to work through it with you — and we got the cast’s input on things as well.

Now, before we get into what comes next, let’s lay out what all went down. In the season finale, now streaming on Prime Video, we see Erin (Riley Lai Nelet), Mac (Sofia Rosinsky), Tiff (Camryn Jones) and KJ (Fina Strazza) set to be returned to their original timeline, with their memories erased. But, thanks to some help from Prioress (Adina Porter), they manage to flee from the Grandfather (Jason Mantzoukas) in escape pods.

Prioress — who sacrificed herself in the process — released them because as it turns out, Tiff is instrumental in the creation of time travel, and thus, the time war. Prioress was around the same age as the paper girls when she joined up with The Watch, but she never actually wanted to be part of the war. So she encourages Tiff and her friends to find a different future Tiff, and explain what her work leads to — to stop the time war before it can even happen.

After some commotion, all four girls do manage to escape the ship in their pods, but they get separated. Mac and KJ go into one pod, while Erin and Tiff end up in another. What exactly happens to the former pair is unclear, as we stay with Erin and Tiff. They land in a cornfield in the past — way in the past.


“Golden Years” by David Bowie plays over the action, but that’s not entirely a good indicator of the decade they’re in. The song came out in 1975, but Erin and Tiff are definitely in the 50s or 60s. They’ve arrived at a drive-in, and — much like the “Paper Girls” audience — are visibly confused. And then of course, the credits roll.

So, what does that mean for the future of “Paper Girls”? Well, as of this writing, the show has not officially been renewed for a second season. But that cast has an idea of what might be coming down the pike should they return.

“Well, there are some times and some moments that are in the comics that have not been explored yet,” Fina Strazza, who plays KJ, explained to TheWrap. “And hopefully, you know, the girls will get the chance to explore some things that fans are wanting to see if we’re given the chance to explore it more with the second season. We’ll find out more.”

Strazza’s co-stars were hesitant to tease any further, simply echoing her excitement, although it’s worth noting that the comic book series on which the show is based (by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang) frequently finds the characters traveling throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

Sofia Rosinsky, who plays Mac in the series, is particularly excited to see what happens with the girls’ relationships with each other.

“Any different time periods, I’m very excited to see. I am very much looking forward to seeing the way that these — how their dynamics change. And just where they go, what they do, if they ever make it back, who knows? I’m just looking forward to seeing how these girls change and I’m on this ride with them, and I’m so excited.”

“Paper Girls” is now streaming in its entirety on Prime Video.

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If you’re looking to watch something off the beaten streaming path this week, take a scroll through “New Directions: 20 Years of Young German Cinema,” a free online series hosted by The Goethe-Institut.

Among the gems in the lineup is “No Hard Feelings,” a sweet and sour queer romance from the Iranian-German filmmaker Faraz Shariat. Parvis (Benjamin Radjaipour), a young gay man and the son of Iranian exiles in Germany, lives a proud and carefree life. We first meet him when he’s vogueing at a nightclub, his bleached blonde hair and white mesh top sparkling in the strobe lights. Later, when a man he meets via a dating app makes a racist comment, an unruffled Parvis puts him in his place — “I’m not into man-child krauts” — and walks out.

But Parvis’s self-assured sense of belonging is unsettled when he’s assigned community service at a refugee detention center, and he befriends a pair of newly arrived asylum-seekers from Iran, Amon (Eidin Jalali) and his sister Bana (Banafshe Hourmazdi). As Parvis and Amon begin to fall in love, and Bana is faced with deportation, Parvis reckons with all the ways in which he’s similar yet different from his new companions, thanks to nothing but an accident of birth.

Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure, “No Hard Feelings” delivers profound insights with a buoyant pop sensibility. Shariat’s characters may suffer precarity and prejudice, but the director doesn’t deny them queer joy, capturing them in bright pastel colors, sun-kissed scenes of sensuality and music-video-style montages.

This Malayalam–language mafia epic opens with a bravura long take: The camera winds through the rooms and hallways of a crowded house, dropping us in and out of stray, intrigue-laden conversations, before entering the office of Sulaiman (Fahadh Faasil), a grizzled gangster who’s decided to right his ways and embark on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The shot sets the scene for Mahesh Narayanan’s dense, breathless thriller, which plunges us with little exposition into its gritty milieu. The repentant Sulaiman is arrested when he tries to board his plane, and the police enlist his 17-year-old nephew, Freddy (Sanal Aman), to covertly kill him in prison. As the young man contemplates this fearsome task, he is visited by various relatives who recount the bloody story of Sulaiman’s rise from the poor son of a teacher to the righteous protector of a coastal village of impoverished Muslims and Christians.

A mob movie crossed with a Greek tragedy, “Malik” sets a moral test for viewers. As each new puzzle piece of Sulaiman’s sprawling back story is revealed, the film forces us to consider if his noble ends — uplifting his downtrodden community — justify his vengeful means. But “Malik” also invites us to widen our lens beyond individual actions to indict a whole system. Set against broader historical events in India — including the 2002 religious riots and the 2004 tsunami — the film unfurls as an audacious critique of opportunistic politicians who stoke internecine enmities for selfish ends.

An unsettling gothic tale about a Black maid and her white employer, Jenna Cato Bass’s “Good Madam” exposes the ways in which South Africa’s apartheid past continues to haunt its present. The aging Mavis (Nosipho Mtebe) has spent the bulk of her life as a live-in housekeeper for a lady named Diane, while Mavis’s daughter, Tsidi (​​Chumisa Cosa), was raised by her grandmother in poverty. As the film opens, Tsidi has been driven out of her family home after the death of her grandmother, and she arrives at Diane’s abode with her young daughter in tow.

An air of uncanny pervades the house right from the outset. There’s a dead dog that seems to have come back to life, and the colonial artifacts on the walls exude malevolence. Then there’s Mavis’s excessively obsequious behavior toward the bedridden Diane, an unseen presence who is hidden away behind closed doors. Is Mavis’s servitude, which Tsidi finds ridiculous and outdated, the result of some evil spell or just of decades of racist indoctrination? Reimagining racism itself as a kind of dark magic, “Good Madam” milks plenty of chills out of this central mystery, turning the sounds of Mavis’s scrubbing and cleaning into terrifying refrains.

Stream it on HBO Max.

A coming-of-age drama about a tough kid from a rough neighborhood, “The City of Wild Beasts” is devoid of both the sensationalism and the sentimentalism that usually afflict the “slumdog” genre. Instead, a rare tenderness courses through Henry E. Rincón’s feature, which centers on Tato (Bryan Córdoba), a delinquent 17-year-old in Medellín, Colombia.

When Tato’s mother dies, he’s left to fend for himself in the city’s hard-knock streets. Struggling to scrounge up money while avoiding the wrath of local gangs, our hero leaves town to seek refuge with a grandfather he’s never met. Curmudgeonly at first, the old man, Octavio (Óscar Atehortúa), a flower farmer in the countryside, eventually takes Tato under his wing, and the two form a close, taciturn bond. They work the land together and gaze out at the horizon, and at the end of the day, Octavio gives Tato a wad of cash and a precious life lesson: “Work is sacred.”

This moving portrait of intergenerational male affection grounds the film even as Tato returns to Medellín, and the plot takes some tragic turns. Rincón never loses sight of his protagonist’s hunger for love and beauty, which persists despite — or perhaps because of — a milieu in which both are hard-won.

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A layered drama about a South Korean theater troupe rehearsing a play in Greece, Pak Ougie’s debut feature might be described as the evil cousin of “Drive My Car.” While Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning drama turned the theater-making process into a fertile site for personal and philosophical ruminations, “Clytaemnestra” offers a more salacious and cynical behind-the-scenes story, in which directing and acting emerge as tyrannical power plays.

An acclaimed (and unnamed) director gathers five actresses from Seoul in a house in Greece to workshop a production of Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon.” The women are friendly, but the director’s bullying methods — which involve unhinged yelling and probing questions about the actresses’ private traumas — incite conflicts, particularly between Hye Bin (Kim Haru) and a sycophantic new arrival, Kim Ian (Kim Taehee). Both women are vying for the role of Clytaemnestra, the queen who murders her husband, Agamemnon, and his new conquest, Cassandra.

The lines between performance and reality begin to blur, as one might expect, but “Clytaemnestra” achieves something much sharper than simple allegory. Pak choreographs stark and spare rehearsal sequences against a backdrop rich with dramatic history (one scene takes place at the Theater of Dionysus), ironically undercutting the director’s assumptions of grandeur. While the character berates his actors for failing to appreciate his source text, Pak shows that the impulses that underlie even classical tragedies are much cruder and more banal than we might assume.

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Sometimes a title just doesn’t help a movie.

Not that directors Anthony and Joe Russo had much choice in titling “The Gray Man,” their new Netflix spy thriller starring Ryan Gosling — they’re adapting the novel of the same name, about a shadowy CIA assassin on the run. Still, it’s hard not to think of the title when contemplating the overall effect of a film that spares no expense to entertain, yet ends up feeling a little aimless, perplexingly bland, and — what’s the word we’re looking for? Oh yes. Gray.

This is a bit of a shame when you’re spending a reported $200 million. And it’s not that we can’t see where the money went. First of all Gosling, even with his charisma deliberately hampered here — call it the “graying” process — is still worth watching. But also, rarely has global mayhem seemed quite so luxurious as in this venture, which takes us from Bangkok to Baku, from Vienna to Croatia to Prague to France’s stunning Chateau de Chantilly, from winding cobblestone streets to grand castles and up to the skies, too — all in chase of one man.

The action is certainly impressive. Let’s take just one scene the Russos have dubbed a “movie within a movie” — and maybe they weren’t referring to the budget, but this shootout reportedly cost $40 million. In a picturesque Prague square, Gosling’s character remains handcuffed to a bench — rather calmly, given the circumstances — as he confronts waves upon waves of assassins (and perhaps all available film extras and vehicles on the European continent.)

Then there’s the midair scene where Gosling battles attackers who suddenly get orders to kill him mid-flight, leading to a sequence involving fires and explosions and parachuting and anything else you can imagine. If you’re like me, you may start to wonder: Will this costly manhunt reach the moon? I mean, we know Gosling has experience landing on the lunar surface — also calmly. And what’s one more location shoot?

But this isn’t “First Man,” this is GRAY man. “You’d exist in the gray,” CIA handler Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton) tells Gosling’s character, then a young prison inmate looking at decades in a cell for murder, in a flashback. He’ll win a get-out-of-jail-free card if he’ll agree to the whole covert assassin thing.

Now it’s 18 years later and Sierra Six, or Six for short (because 007 was taken, he quips) is on the job. He’s in Bangkok, along with helper Dani (Ana de Armas, appealing but underused) to kill someone at a New Year’s bash, directed remotely by his current boss, Denny Carmichael (Regé-Jean Page of “Bridgerton,” sadly given a cardboard role here, as is Jessica Henwick as his colleague). He’s about to use his enormous weapon when he notices a small child nearby. “Cleared for collateral,” he’s told. But Six won’t take the risk, and ends up making the kill the old-fashioned way.

But before the man expires, he informs Six he’s actually on the same team, and hands him a drive with compromising information about their colleagues. “You’re probably next,” he says.

Now Six is on the run. He’s good at escaping (witness the park bench, and the airplane.) Enter LLoyd Hansen, the most sadistic of freelance killers, whom we meet while torturing someone. Lloyd is such a meanie even the CIA didn’t want him fulltime, but they need him now. Everything’s extreme about Lloyd, starting with his mustache. Evans has fun being fiendish, and gets a few good lines along with some real clunkers, one of the catchier being: “You wanna make an omelet? You gotta kill some people.” But honestly, the torture scenes … did we need that? Really?

Meanwhile, we learn through another flashback that Six has a close relationship with Fitzroy’s young niece, Claire (the lovely 13-year-old Julia Butters from “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood.”) Claire, who’s lost her parents, has a heart problem and needs a pacemaker — an important plot point.

Other notable supporting players include Alfre Woodard in a too-brief turn as a key Six ally and Dhanush as another expert killer called in for help. The expressive Butters gives, though, the most empathetic performance — to be fair, nobody else is fully redeemable, no matter what fancy diploma they have (“We all went to Harvard together” is a line the university’s PR team might want to immediately protest.)

And yes, Gosling’s Six is attached to Claire, but the man’s an assassin for hire, so it’s hard to root for him. And unlike the increasingly superhuman Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible,” a franchise this movie perhaps seeks to emulate, we don’t even get to root for Gosling in a heroic battle against the dark force of aging — he’s two decades younger than Cruise.

Speaking of looking good, which Gosling still can’t help but do, there’s a Ken Doll reference here — perhaps a nod to his upcoming turn in the new Barbie film. If you catch it, you may find yourself imagining what he’ll look like in blond hair and a goofy grin.

To paraphrase The Muppets, it’s not easy being gray.

“The Gray Man,” a Netflix release, has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America “for intense sequences of strong violence, and strong language. “ Running time: 126 minutes. Two stars out of four.

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Johnny Depp continues to win in the wake of his victory against ex-wife Amber Heard in their highly-publicized defamation trial. The actor announced on Thursday he was selling prints from his artwork collection through a UK gallery, and he managed to sell 780 pieces within hours, which netted him an amount of $3.6 million.

The rush for Johnny Depp’s artwork was so intense that the gallery’s website briefly crashed. The art was sold through Caste Fine Art’s 37 gallery which is located in Birmingham, England. The collection, titled “Friends and Heroes,” depicts pop-art portraits of four people who inspired him, which include Al Pacino, Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, and Elizabeth Taylor. You can check out the Instagram post below!

In a statement posted on the gallery’s website, Depp said, “I’ve always used art to express my feelings and to reflect on those who matter most to me, like my family, friends, and people I admire. My paintings surround my life, but I kept them to myself and limited myself. No one should ever limit.” 

Looks like Johnny Depp is finding different avenues to succeed in. He has acting, music, and now art. The Johnny Depp comeback is still in motion, and it looks pretty bright.

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A judge in the southern Italian city of Lecce has ruled that there are no grounds to further pursue an investigation into allegations that the Oscar-winning Canadian director Paul Haggis had sex with a young woman without her consent.

The court ruled in favor of Haggis late on Friday, Italian news Agency ANSA reported on Saturday.

“After viewing the evidence and hearing arguments from both sides, the District Court of Lecce, an appellate court with three judges, unanimously rejected a prosecutor’s appeal to have Haggis’ house arrest reinstated,” said Haggis’ Italian lawyer Michele Laforgia in a statement issued on Saturday. 

Haggis, who won two Oscars for “Crash” and is also known for writing “Million Dollar Baby,” was arrested on June 19 in Ostuni, a location in the southern region of Puglia on the heel of the Italian boot, on charges of sexual assault allegedly inflicted to a 28-year British woman over the course of two days in June.

The 69-year-old director spent 16 days under house arrest in a hotel, before being released from detention.

“Two weeks ago, Judge Vilma Gilli of the Court of Brindisi questioned the alleged victim and then immediately overturned Haggis’ house arrest,” Laforgia said in the statement.

The Prosecutor of Brindisi appealed her decision to the Court of Lecce, where Haggis’ lawyer, presented what he says is “irrefutable and objective evidence that the woman told multiple lies to investigators and the court, with facts and witnesses completely contradicting her story,” the lawyer added.  

There was no immediate comment from the alleged victim’s legal team.

Laforgia stated that Haggis’ arrest was the result of a judicial error ansd, based on the evidence, the prosecutors must now close the case. This is expected to happen in the coming weeks, unless new evidence surfaces.

On Friday evening, the Court of Lecce contacted attorneys for both parties to inform them of the court’s decision, rejecting the public prosecutor’s appeal and confirming the decision made by judge Gilli. Four judges have now ruled in favor of Haggis.

“In the coming weeks, the reasons for the decision will be known and, therefore, so will the fate of the judicial proceedings pending in Italy,” Laforgia noted in the statement.

Haggis is also facing court proceedings in the U.S. where he is being sued by film publicist Haleigh Breest, who alleges that Haggis raped her in January 2013. Breest originally filed suit in December 2017, although proceedings were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A trial date has now been set for Oct. 11 in Manhattan. Haggis says the encounter with Breest, which allegedly took place after a premiere, was consensual. 

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Shonda Rhimes said that what began as a “fun celebration” of her hit show has “turned into the blatant taking of intellectual property.”

Netflix is cracking down on “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical,” a popular fan-made musical based on the hit period romance. The streaming giant filed a suit against songwriters Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear in a U.S. district court in Washington D.C., where they recently mounted their for-profit stage musical based on the popular album.

“The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” began as a viral TikTok project, with Barlow and Bear writing songs for an imaginary Broadway musical based on the show. They soon compiled those songs into “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical Album,” which rose to the top of the iTunes charts and won a Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album. More recently, they mounted the musical as a full stage production which reportedly uses dialogue lifted directly from the show.

As the project continued to pick up publicity over the past year, many wondered why Netflix didn’t intervene to stop it sooner. The company claims that it made “repeated objections” to the project, and is now left with no choice but to take legal action.

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“Netflix supports fan-generated content, but Barlow & Bear have taken this many steps further, seeking to create multiple revenue streams for themselves without formal permission to utilize the ‘Bridgerton’ IP,” Netflix wrote in a statement. “We’ve tried hard to work with Barlow & Bear, and they have refused to cooperate. The creators, cast, writers and crew have poured their hearts and souls into ‘Bridgerton’ and we’re taking action to protect their rights.”

“Bridgerton” creator Shonda Rhimes also weighed in on the issue, saying that while she originally appreciated seeing the songs that fans wrote about the show, she draws the line at profiting from them.

“There is so much joy in seeing audiences fall in love with ‘Bridgerton’ and watching the creative ways they express their fandom,” Rhimes said. “What started as a fun celebration by Barlow & Bear on social media has turned into the blatant taking of intellectual property solely for Barlow & Bear’s financial benefit. This property was created by Julia Quinn and brought to life on screen through the hard work of countless individuals. Just as Barlow & Bear would not allow others to appropriate their IP for profit, Netflix cannot stand by and allow Barlow & Bear to do the same with ‘Bridgerton.’”

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Green Day unleashed a heavy helping of rarities — including some songs the band hasn’t played in over 20 years — during their semi-surprise, Lollapalooza aftershow gig Friday at Chicago’s Metro.

Free from the shackles of their just-ended leg of their Hella Mega Tour — where Green Day performed largely the same concert nearly 30 times — Billie Joe Armstrong and company dug deep into their catalog for Friday’s show, unearthing songs like Warning’s “Church on Sunday” and that album’s title track for the first time since 2001.

During the freewheeling set, Green Day also delivered a trio of Kerplunk! tracks — “Private Ale,” “Christie Road,” and “One of My Lies” — and fan favorites like “Geek Stink Breath,” “Letterbomb” and “J.A.R.” that hadn’t been played live in a half-decade; the band also performed American Idiot’s “Whatsername” together for the first time since 2005.

Friday’s show was both a trip down memory lane and a warm-up show in anticipation for Green Day’s Sunday night headlining set at Lollapalooza, followed by another headlining gig next weekend at San Francisco’s Outside Lands. After a brief two-gig visit to South America, Green Day will return to the festival circuit in September for Asbury Park’s Sea.Hear.Now and Dover, Delaware’s Firefly.

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Four documentary filmmakers were invited to participate in the Sundance Institute’s newly created Indigenous non-fiction intensive program that concludes July 29.

The three-day program was created to identify Indigenous artists creating formally bold and personal work and to uplift them with a small grant and mentorship on a current edit of their short-form documentary films.

The four filmmakers selected to partake in the new initiative are: Sarah Liese (“Coming In”), Sean Connelly (“A Justice Advancing Architecture Tour”), Olivia Camfield and Woodrow Hunt (“If You Look Under There You’ll Find It”). The advisors for the inaugural program include Emmy award-winning filmmaker Colleen Thurston (“Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People”), filmmaker-editor Maya Daisy Hawke (“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”), and filmmaker Darol Olu Kae (“I Ran From It and Was Still in It”).

Each participant will receive year-round creative support from Sundance’s Indigenous program staffers as they work to complete their films.

Indigenous program director Adam Piron says that the new initiative builds on the Sundance Institute’s commitment to documentary filmmaking through its documentary film program and labs.

“There’s a history of documentary film and Indigenous communities that’s been, to put it lightly, contentious,” says Piron. “This tension lies in the non-fiction field’s roots in salvage ethnography, a now widely critiqued practice of early American anthropology’s compulsions of capturing cultures before their assumed extinction.”

He notes that Robert J. Flaherty’s silent film “Nanook of the North” (1922), the first feature-length documentary, has since been criticized for its subhumanizing portrayals of the Inuit in comparing them to animals and staged sequences that inferred Indigenous people were technologically a century behind how they were currently living.

“The success of Flaherty’s work and others further cemented American cinema’s image of Indigenous people as living outside of modernity and opened the door for filmmakers utilizing similar extractive and deliberately misrepresentative practices that have continued a century later,” he says. “With all of its built-in questioning of objectivity, subjectivity, and the gaze, non-fiction provided a cinematic space that Indigenous artists have utilized to subvert the very form itself and its historical conventions by leaning into their own expressions of culturally specific storytelling traditions and logic.”

The three-day intensive joins the Sundance Institute’s long running Indigenous program, which was created in 1994. The program provides support to Indigenous and Native American-created stories on a global scale. From labs and fellowships to screenings and gatherings around the world, the program’s offerings are designed in response to the specific needs of Native and Indigenous storytellers. Thus far the program has supported more than 300 Native and Indigenous filmmakers including Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo, Sydney Freeland, Erica Tremblay, and Blackhorse Lowe. At the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, nine projects by Indigenous artists screened.

The Sundance Institute Indigenous non-fiction intensive is intended to be an annual event.

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The music of one of New Brunswick’s largest festivals is echoing again across the Saint John Harbour.

The full Area 506 Festival experience returned Friday evening following two unusual years. In 2020, online concerts were streamed through AREA 506 social media channels.

A year later, pandemic restrictions forced Area 506 into a pods system and limited the impact for local vendors usually involved.

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However, local musicians, national artists, and those same hometown vendors are back this year. The festival is also marking its first year beside the recently constructed Area 506 Waterfront Container Village.

“I think having a permanent home is really exciting. It was always the dream for Area 506 to have a home, and what you can see around us is really a passion project for a lot of people. It’s exciting to see it come to life, “said Sarah Tippett, a member of the Area 506 Planning Committee.

Tippett said an “electric” Friday night show, headlined by artists like Sloan and k-os, brought an uncharacteristically large crowd for the start of the weekend.

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Saturday evening is expected to sell the most tickets with performers that include The Glorious Sons, The Trews , and Saint John-based group Jamie Comeau & the Crooked Teeth.

Before gates open to the Area 506 Festival, artists, dancers and performers hit the new culture stage opened to the public free of charge.

Despite uncertainty in the past two years, and a new home, the event vision remains the same: promote local.


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“I think we really do our best to engage local. We celebrate music, culture and goods, everything that makes New Brunswickers and New Brunswick, what it is and who we are,” said Tippett.

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“We have featured New Brunswick bands on the stage along with some outside headliners. So I think really bringing everybody home is kind of the goal.”

The 2022 Area 506 Festival concludes Sunday following performances by the Arkells, Mother Mother and several other artists.

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“The Gilded Age” production designer Bob Shaw didn’t want to go overboard as he gave the grand home of Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) a “lived-in” feeling. He hung portraits on top of one another and used patterns on the wallpaper, the curtains and the chairs — all of this to show old money. “The layering is what gave that sense that they had lived there for 20 years,” says Shaw.

Airing last summer, Disney+’s “Loki” was still Emmy eligible, earning six nominations. Emmy nominee Kasra Farahani was tasked by series creator Michael Waldron to build a look inspired by “Mad Men” meets “Blade Runner.” Farahani says the architecture of the Time Variance Authority offices, where a lot of action takes place, was influenced by brutalism and Soviet-style modernism. The palette, materials and whimsical patterns also used are very much inspired by mid-century modernism. Says Farahani, “Creating this cognitive dissonance in the audience and characters going through the TVA, they can’t tell if this is a friendly space or a lethal one.”

Bill Groom, a four-time Emmy winner for “Boardwalk Empire,” seeks his first win for Amazon Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Among his set builds was the Wolford, a strip club.

With theaters shuttered, Groom built the vaudeville stage from scratch. Red and gold were commonly used for theaters in that era, and Groom decked out the set with a bar, dressing rooms and vintage seats including mirrors and lights. His piece de resistance? The chandelier, which was last used in 1964’s “My Fair Lady.”

Production designer Francesca Di Mottola had to tackle a nursery for “The Great.” Her brief — extravagance, reflecting Peter’s (Nicholas Hoult) psyche.

“Stranger Things” revealed more of the ominous Hawkins National Laboratory, which housed dark experiments. Production designer Chris Trujillo enlarged the lab’s playroom, revealing the full rainbow mural only hinted at in previous seasons. He expanded on other areas of the lab, building more hallways and adding closed doors within the facility. “It [showed] more of what the rest of the underground program looked like, before it gets to the dark events that we learn about Season 4,” he says.

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Apple’s services category, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, brought in $19.6 billion in revenue for the third fiscal quarter ending in June — a decline in growth compared to its previous quarter, which saw a record $19.8 billion in sales for the category.

Apple now has more than 860 million paid subscribers for its services category, compared to the 825 million reported last quarter, Apple CFO Luca Maestri said during the company’s earnings call.

The tech giant reported a total $83 billion in revenue for the quarter, representing a 2 percent increase year over year, and a net income of $19.4 billion.

Like previous quarters, iPhone sales represented the bulk of Apple’s revenue, bringing in $40.7 billion for the quarter, albeit representing a decline from the $50.6 billion in sales seen in the previous quarter ending in March.

This year, Apple has made major investments into live sports programming. In June, the company announced a 10-year deal to become the exclusive home for Major League Soccer matches, beginning in 2023, as part of the Apple TV+ subscription. The deal came a few months after Apple secured a Friday Night Baseball rights deal with Major League Baseball to stream weekly doubleheader games on Fridays.

The company has also continued to pick up feature films for its subscription service, with the latest being the A24 drama Causeway, which stars Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry.

The tech giant’s expansion into film and TV has continued to fare well in the awards circuit this year. Apple TV+ garnered 52 nominations for the 2022 Emmys, with shows like Severance and Ted Lasso receiving multiple nods.

When asked on the earnings call about Apple’s future M&A plans, CEO Tim Cook said he “wouldn’t rule anything out” and noted the company is keeping an eye on the market.

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Universal has debuted the first official teaser trailer for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s latest epic starring Cillian Murphy.

The brief trailer shows black and white footage of Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer interwoven with large blasts of fire. At the start of the teaser, Emily Blunt, who plays Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine, can be heard saying: “The world is changing, reforming. This is your moment.”

The trailer arrives online after debuting exclusively in theaters before screenings of Jordan Peele’s latest Nope.

Oppenheimer is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist whose work on the Manhattan Project led to the creation of the atomic bomb.

Nolan is directing from his own screenplay and producing alongside Emma Thomas and Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven. The pic hits theaters on July 21, 2023. Production has taken place in New Mexico, California, and New Jersey.

Other cast members include Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Michael Angarano and Kenneth Branagh.

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Exactly the kind of rom-com story audiences have seen again and again for middle-aged straight, white characters — and that Hollywood has recently shown more interest in with younger LGBTQ+ characters in projects like Love, Victor, Fire Island and Anything’s Possible — Uncoupled delivers the kind of narrative treatment middle-aged gay men are rarely on the receiving end of. And it’s arriving at a notable time for the LGBTQ+ community.

Netflix’s latest rom-com installment follows Neil Patrick Harris’ Michael, a successful, middle-aged New York real estate agent who suddenly finds himself separating from his partner of 17 years after Colin (played by Tuc Watkins) decides, without explanation, that their relationship is no longer working.

After having his life turned upside down, Michael attempts to redefine (and find) himself now as single gay man in New York navigating a dating scene that leaves him feeling, at times, out of his depth. (The cast also includes Brooks Ashmanskas, Tisha Campbell, Emerson Brooks, Marcia Gay Harden and André De Shields.)

Equal parts funny and serious, romantic and heartbreaking, the Netflix series seemingly nails the tricky balance of being many things — to many people — at once. That’s something Darren Star says was at the crux of how he and co-creator Jeffrey Richman approached the show.

“Jeff and I were talking at the beginning that we wanted the emotions to feel universal. We wanted the audience watching it to feel like anybody could relate to the story,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And of course, we wanted to tell the very specific story of a middle-aged gay man in New York becoming single again, after so many years.”

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That effort was for star Harris part of what appealed to him when considering the project. “I’m very appreciative and grateful that we live in a time when this kind of content can be created and shown without much need to recognize its uniqueness,” Harris says. “It really was a breakup show written by people who had been broken up with, and they were sharing their experiences. And that doesn’t need to be only seen by people who have shared that exact same experience.”

“They’ve been gay a long time,” Richman says about the show’s approach. “It’s not in the front of their mind anymore. It’s just part of their world.”

The fruits of the team’s effort to make a universal “breakup” narrative resulted in a show that features parallel stories, according to Star, about what it means to be single and middle-aged, through characters who are of different races, genders and orientations than its lead.

“These are characters who are not living in an exclusively gay world. They have a mixed group of friends. They’re not just defining their lives about being gay,” Star says. “And I don’t think any of these characters for a minute question — except for Marcia Gay Harden’s character, who sort of questions, ‘Well, is it really the same for you as it is for me?’ — the depths of emotions that go into the pain one might feel with a breakup.

“The emotions are the same,” he adds, “regardless of sexuality.”

“A breakup is very universal, and watching someone go through it is kind of cathartic in its own way because it’s either very relatable — you felt the same way and you have been through it — or it’s super informative about pitfalls to avoid,” Harris shares. “I think what’s great is that it has nothing to do with sexuality. It’s a very sexual show, but it’s not trying to make any sort of point on the sex scale.”

Upon watching, it’s easy to see how the story’s main couple is defined less by their sexuality and more by their efforts to navigate life after spending nearly half of their’s together. For actor Ashmanskas, who plays Michael’s best friend and art dealer Stanley, “it meant a lot” that the series “read that way.”

“It was apparent immediately from reading even the first script, there was something about it that — and I mean this is a compliment — was so normal,” he continues. “It was such a normal script and normal series that it only was after finishing it that I came away thinking, ‘Oh, right. It’s a bunch of gay guys of a certain age. That’s interesting. That’s fantastic.’”

The casualness and typicalness with which its gay characters exist also makes Uncoupled one among a growing group of projects that finally — and wholly — treat LGBTQ characters with the same level of humanity and nuance straight characters in the genre have received for decades. It’s reflective of a generation of LGBTQ+ people who have, now, lived for years under equal civil rights they didn’t have before. Rights that are currently being threatened across the country through various anti-gay and anti-trans legislation.

From left to right: Gilles Marini as Paolo, Neil Patrick Harris as Michael Lawson / Courtesy of Netflix

Uncoupled was written before many of the more aggressive challenges, including a potential overturning of LGBTQ+ marriage rights by the U.S. Supreme Court, being wrought against LGBTQ+ Americans in the last year. That leaves it set squarely in a more equitable reality that LGBTQ+ people may be craving to see right now.

Richman tells THR that “hopefully, we will never ever have to consider” addressing in the show itself the stripping of its characters’ rights “because the world won’t go crazy.” But he also says that would “change the whole tenor of the show,” with Star noting they’re writing from and for the experiences and perspectives of gay New Yorkers.

“I think we’re telling stories about characters who live in New York at this time, and it’s very specific to New York. I don’t know how the show would play out if it was set in Oklahoma or if it was in the Midwest,” Star adds. “So perhaps it will prove to be a bubble, but it’s the reality of life for these characters.”

For Harris, the show offers an apolitical story about love and growth, that may ultimately help underscore for those watching the universal experience of LGBTQ+ people.

“I think we are right now in an understandably complicated time. It’s an election cycle with lots of people who are saying lots of things to try and get people to be afraid of all kinds of things,” he tells THR. “I personally feel that the acceptance tipping point has turned. That through examples from written content, from filmed content, from stage content, from next door neighbor content, from poker friends content — we have too many examples of queer people being effective citizens. It would surprise me to see it actually take a massive step backward.”

“But I think in an interesting way, Uncoupled’s rom-comedy and Darren and Jeffrey’s real-world writing styles are yet another example to prove how universal this experience is,” he continues. “How you regardless of what you believe, you are in a position to root for them.”

Uncoupled is currently streaming on Netflix.

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Four months after slapping the comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars, shocking audiences and prompting a decade-long ban from attending the ceremony, Will Smith posted a video on Friday expressing regret over the incident and promising that he was doing “personal work” to address his behavior.

“It hurts me psychologically and emotionally to know I didn’t live up to people’s image and impression of me,” Mr. Smith said in the video. “I am deeply remorseful, and I’m trying to be remorseful without being ashamed of myself, right? I’m human, and I made a mistake.”

Mr. Smith, who resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences days after the ceremony, apologized to numerous people during the nearly six-minute video — starting with Mr. Rock, who had made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head shortly before Mr. Smith walked up and slapped him on live television. (Ms. Pinkett Smith has been open about her struggles with alopecia, a condition that leads to hair loss, and in a statement shortly after the incident, Mr. Smith said a joke about his wife’s medical condition was “too much for me to bear.”)

“Chris, I apologize to you,” Mr. Smith said in the video. “My behavior was unacceptable, and I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk.”

Shortly after the attack, Mr. Smith won the Oscar for best actor. In the video, he explained that he had failed to apologize to Mr. Rock during his speech because he was “fogged out” following the incident.

Mr. Smith said he had tried to contact Mr. Rock later on but had received a message in response that the comedian was not ready to talk and would reach out when he was. Mr. Smith apologized to Mr. Rock’s family, including his mother, Rosalie Rock, who gave a television interview saying, “When you hurt my child, you hurt me.”

He also apologized to his own family “for the heat that I brought on all of us,” as well as the other nominees that night for having tarnished their moment.

Ms. Pinkett Smith has said little about her own experience of that night, but last month she centered an episode of her online talk show, Red Table Talk, on alopecia, interviewing a woman whose 12-year-old daughter died by suicide as a result of bullying over the condition.

Regarding the slap, Ms. Pinkett Smith said: “My deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out and reconcile.”

Mr. Rock has not publicly discussed his response to the attack in depth, but earlier this week, at a comedy show in Brooklyn, Mr. Rock mentioned it in a joke. During a portion of his set that was focused on victimhood, he told the crowd that after Mr. Smith slapped him, he shook it off and “went to work the next day,” prompting sustained applause from the audience. A representative for Mr. Rock did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In Friday’s video, Mr. Smith seemed to be working to repair his reputation and reassure fans that his behavior at the ceremony did not reflect who he truly is, saying, “There is no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave in that moment.”

“I know it was shocking, but I promise you, I am deeply devoted and committed to putting light and love and joy into the world,” he concluded. “If you hang on, I promise we’ll be able to be friends again.”

Melena Ryzik and Jason Zinoman contributed reporting.

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Five seasons into its run—and with a sixth, of god knows how many more, set to debut this September—Rick And Morty is still going strong, powered by a continued commitment to science-fiction chaos, a loose (but cunningly deployed) approach to its own continuity, and the voice talents of co-creator Justin Roiland as both of its title characters.

IGN has a new(ish) interview with Roiland today, recorded while he was at Comic-Con earlier this month, in which he reflected on the show’s most recent season, describing it as “a weird one.” That’s largely due to a behind-the-scenes loss: The death of line producer J. Michael Mendel, an animation veteran who was a key part of the Rick And Morty creative team. “It was tough,” Roiland said during the interview. “We were thrown for a loop. That was… yeah. If I talk anymore, I’ll start crying.”

Roiland clarified that he “didn’t particularly think season 5″ (which drew typically positive reviews and decent ratings for the series) “was bad,” but did note that he thinks Season 6 will be better (or, in his terms, “fucking amazing,” “a fucking quality season,” and that “I think we’re kind of finally back into the rhythm of Rick And Morty.”) He also described the new season as “more canonical,” which we presume means more serialized storytelling, an interesting choice for a show that’s always treated its own backstory as a tool to be picked up and put down at will, rather than a set of hard, fast rules.

Roiland also expressed, not for his first time, his preference for the show’s earlier outings; when asked to list his five favorite episodes of the series, every single pick (“Total Rickall,” “Rixty Minutes,” “Big Trouble In Little Sanchez,” “The Ricks Must Be Crazy,” and “M. Night Shaym-Aliens”) comes from its first or second season, when, in Roiland’s words, the episodes were “Rubiks Cubes,” elaborate little puzzles for the show’s writers to solve.

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June is Pride Month, and in honor of that, Moviefone is counting down the best LGBTQ+ themed movies of all-time!

So, sit down, relax, and find a good movie to watch during Pride Month.

Let’s begin!

Two women, Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids (Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska) go behind their mothers’ backs to meet with the donor (Mark Ruffalo). Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other.

The Kids Are All Right

The Kids Are All Right

“Nic and Jules had the perfect family, until they met the man who made it all possible.”

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R1 hr 46 minJul 9th, 2010

David (Jesse Plemons), a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. (Molly Shannon) Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he’s “doing okay.”

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Jessica (Jennifer Westfeldt), a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper’s personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by ‘lesbian-curious’ Helen Cooper (Heather Juergensen), a thirtysomething art gallerist.

Kissing Jessica Stein

Kissing Jessica Stein

“When it comes to love, sometimes she just can’t think straight.”

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R1 hr 37 minMar 13th, 2002

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and the older adult man (Armie Hammer) hired as his father’s research assistant.

Call Me by Your Name

A weekend getaway for four couples (Cobie Smulders and Vincent Piazza, Clea DuVall and Natasha Lyonne, Melanie Lynskey and Jason Ritter, and Alia Shawkat and Ben Schwartz) takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.

The Intervention

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell).

Battle of the Sexes

Two modern-day cowboys (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal ) meet on a shepherding job in the summer of ’63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflict

Brokeback Mountain

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk (Rooney Mara) who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman (Cate Blanchett).

Carol

Carol

“Some people change your life forever.”

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R1 hr 58 minJan 25th, 2016

A gay cabaret owner (Robin Williams) and his drag queen companion (Nathan Lane) agree to put up a false straight front so that their son (Dan Futterman) can introduce them to his fiancé’s conservative moralistic parents (Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest).

The Birdcage

The true story of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.

Milk

Milk

“Never blend in.”

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R2 hr 8 minJan 30th, 2009

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s (Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevante Rhodes) struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Moonlight

Moonlight

“This is the story of a lifetime”

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R1 hr 51 minNov 18th, 2016

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White House communications director Kate Bedingfield is reversing course, deciding not to leave her job this summer as she originally announced earlier this month.

“A massive thank you to everyone (every. one.) who endured listening to me wax on about how I regretted my decision to leave. There’s so much more to do and I’m so proud and grateful to be part of this team. Onward!,” Bedingfield wrote in a Friday tweet.

Her announcement came following an email she sent to her colleagues saying she came to the decision to stay after “much thought, discussion and reflection.”

“I’m not done here and there is so much more good work to do with all of you. I couldn’t be happier and more excited about this awesome — if admittedly last-minute! — development. The work is too important and too energizing and I have a lot of gas left in the tank,” the email obtained by The Wall Street Journal said.

According to WSJ, Bedingfield began having second thoughts about leaving after she was asked to extend her stay a week when President Biden was diagnosed with COVID.

Their working relationship goes back to his time as vice president under President Barack Obama. She quickly became a trusted advisor and many have cited her as a reason for Biden’s victory over Donald Trump (she served as deputy campaign manager and communications director during the campaign) in the 2020 election.

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The Television Academy’s music branch is leading the way in awarding diversity. Forty-six percent of all of this year’s nominees in the music categories are women, people of color, or both.

Nine of the 41 nominees, or 22 percent, are women; 13 of the 41, nearly a third, are people of color. While the female contingent is a slight decline from last year (27 percent were women), the POC percentage is way up (from one-fifth of the nominees last year).

Women composers are nominated in five of the seven music categories; people of color, in six of the seven. It is a near-complete repudiation of the decades-long, studio-promulgated white male power structure that kept both women and POC out of contention for prime gigs.

Academy officials are elated.

Music governors Jeff Russo and Sherri Chung issued this statement to Variety: “We’re very excited about the representation in this year’s list of nominees.  It’s not only a great testament to the importance of diversity and inclusion within our music community, but it’s also an example of how our industry has taken steps to seek out new, unheard voices to meet the demand of increased content creation.”

Siddhartha Khosla became the first South Asian composer – and, in fact, a rare instance of any composer – to be nominated in three categories: score for a series and main-title theme (both for Hulu’s “Only Murders In the Building”) and song (NBC’s “This Is Us”).

Terence Blanchard, among the most prominent of American Black composers, received his first Emmy nomination for the Apple+ documentary “They Call Me Magic.” Egyptian composer Hesham Nazih was acknowledged for music for the Marvel series “Moon Knight,” and British-Indian composer Nainita Desai earned a nod for the Netflix doc “14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible.”

Chilean-born Cristobal Tapia de Veer received two nominations (limited-series score and main-title theme) for “The White Lotus,” and South Korean composer Jung Jae-il was cited for his theme for “Squid Game” – to say nothing of the twin song nominations for Zendaya and Labrinth for “Euphoria,” Rickey Minor’s two nominations for music direction on “The Kennedy Center Honors,” and Adam Blackstone’s third nom for music directing a Super Bowl Halftime show.

Natalie Holt earned two nods for “Loki” (series score, main-title theme), Jessica Jones one for “The Tindler Swindler,” and no fewer then four women were among the seven nominated for music supervision (Jen Malone for “Euphoria,” Robin Urdang for “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Nora Felder for “Strange Things,” Janet Lopez for “The White Lotus”).

“The industry as a whole is making a concerted effort to shift the tide,” says Russo (“Star Trek: Discovery”). “There are simply more women, more people of color, doing these gigs, and they’re doing wonderful work. The Academy recognizes great work; that’s what we do.”

Surprisingly, Russo says he expected this. “Not as a governor, but as a composer and someone who voted, I saw what was happening. We are thrilled.”

Chung (“Kung Fu”), the Academy’s first woman music governor, adds: “For someone like me, who is female and a person of color, it’s astounding to see the representation change. The industry has opened itself up to lesser heard voices.

“Having different stories – and diversity in directors and writers and producers and showrunners – lends itself to allowing newer voices to be heard on the music side. To me, this is an example of the awareness of the need, and the creative necessity as well. It’s a fantastic example of what our industry at large is doing – our awareness, our willingness and desire to celebrate good work, no matter who’s creating it.”

Raashi Kulkarni, executive director of the Allliance for Women Film Composers, adds: “This is an exciting time during which formerly underrepresented artists from different backgrounds are starting to be recognized in our industry. Though there’s still work to be done, traction is being made to showcase and celebrate diverse talent and perspectives.”

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As global outrage grew over an explosion that killed at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners held at a Russian detention camp, Ukrainian authorities called for an international investigation on Saturday while marshaling evidence that they said would prove that Russia had orchestrated what they described as a “terrorist attack.”

Since the explosion late Thursday at Correctional Colony No. 120, a prison camp in the Russian-occupied eastern region of Donetsk, the warring parties have presented diametrically opposed accounts of what happened, further embittering a war now entering its sixth month.

Russian officials claimed that Ukrainians, using precision weapons supplied by the United States, had attacked the prison themselves, to deter defectors. The Ukrainian authorities rejected the narrative as absurd and said that the deaths were a premeditated atrocity committed by Russian forces from within the prison, where survivors described being given just enough food to survive and suffering ritual beatings, including with chains and metal pipes.

The explosion is particularly painful for the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine because many of the dead had fought to defend Mariupol, a port on the Black Sea, and then retreated to the city’s Azovstal steelworks. For weeks there, they withstood a Russian onslaught before finally surrendering in May.

For many Ukrainians, the Azovstal siege became a symbol of the country’s suffering and defiance, and the soldiers who fought there, an estimated 2,500 of whom were taken as prisoners of war, have been viewed as heroes.

“It was a deliberate Russian war crime, a deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war,” Mr. Zelensky said in an address late on Friday.

Mr. Zelensky said that the Red Cross, along with the United Nations, had acted “as guarantors of the life and health of our soldiers,” and that now they must take action. “They must protect the lives of hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war,” he said.

A series of Russian missile strikes on civilian targets, including shopping malls and apartment buildings, has led Ukraine’s government to call on Washington to designate Moscow as a state sponsor of terrorism, something Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has resisted.

Josep Borrell Fontelles, the European Union’s top foreign policy official, said in a statement that every day Russia’s continued “illegitimate and unjustified war of aggression” brought “further horrific atrocities,” adding that the “inhumane, barbaric acts” breached the Geneva Conventions and amounted to war crimes.

Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of Estonia, a Baltic country that has been among Moscow’s toughest antagonists over the war, said Russia was responsible for the “mass murder” of prisoners at the camp, an act that she said called to mind “the darkest chapters of history.”

“There must be no impunity for war crimes, just like there can be no return to relations with war criminals,” she said in a statement.

For Mr. Zelensky, the prison explosion fits a pattern in which an unwarranted invasion of his country, ordered by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, has been accompanied by atrocities committed by Russian forces, for example in suburbs north of the capital, Kyiv, and missile strikes on civilian targets, including one this month at a shopping mall in the center of the country far from the front lines.

Russia controls around 20 percent of Ukraine’s territory, but after it deployed its superior artillery power to seize much of Luhansk Province in the eastern Donbas region earlier this month, Kyiv is now pressing a counteroffensive in Kherson Province in an attempt to reclaim land.

Moscow denies that it has committed atrocities or targeted civilians, and on Saturday the defense ministry said that Ukrainians had killed their own soldiers using precision-guided, American-made missiles, known as HIMARS, to strike the prison camp in Russian-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine.

An adviser to Ukraine’s president, Mykhailo Podoliak, told The New York Times that an expert analysis of photos and videos released by Russia indicated that the center of the explosion was inside the building, with the building’s exterior practically undamaged.

In addition, he said that the speed of Russian propaganda after the attack suggested planning. Prisoners had been moved to the barracks where the explosion occurred only days before and it was suspicious that no Russian soldiers or workers at the prison were injured, he said. Beyond that, he said that, before the explosion, Russia had moved debris to the camp from previous strikes elsewhere that had involved HIMARS weapons.

Tetiana Kravchenko, a Ukrainian rights activist whose organization has been in contact with prisoners in the camp, said that a prisoner had called his wife on Thursday night and reported hearing an explosion, rather than shelling, around 11 p.m. She said she had a recording of the call, in which the prisoner said that two of his friends had been moved to a different building within the prison on the day of the explosion and that one was now dead and the other wounded.

Soldiers held in other parts of the camp have also relayed similar accounts to their own family members, she said.

The competing claims could not be immediately independently verified. Ms. Kravchenko said she could not disclose more information without risking the safety of prisoners still being held at the camp.

At its heart, the invasion has killed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians and brought misery to many more. It has also had far-reaching external consequences, reviving NATO, isolating Russia, raising energy prices and depressing global growth. Given Ukraine’s importance to global grain markets and Russia’s effective blockade of the country’s Black Sea ports, it has also threatened some countries in the Middle East and Africa with food shortages and hunger.

The first shipments of grain since the beginning of the conflict have been loaded onto freighters at Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea. The shipments would be the fruit of a deal brokered by Turkey and the United Nations around a week ago. Mr. Zelensky and representatives of the Group of 7 industrialized nations visited Chernomorsk, one of the three ports in Odesa Province, on Friday.

Odesa has been a frequent target of Russian missile strikes, the most recent being a week ago with an attack on the port that cast doubt on the grain deal. Indeed, Mr. Podoliak said the prison explosion was another sign that Russian assurances that it would allow safe passage for grain ships across the Black Sea could not be trusted.

Elsewhere on the ground, the battle has largely devolved into a series of incremental offensive and defensive maneuverers that have seen only limited territory changing hands each week.

The Donbas region, where Ukraine’s military said on Saturday that it repelled the latest Russian attempts to advance, is the clearest example of this slowdown. But in Kherson Province, Ukraine hopes that the HIMARS weapons and others supplied by the West will help it advance.

Ukraine said it pounded critical Russian logistical hubs overnight into Saturday and was making small but steady gains as it moved toward the city of Kherson, a shipbuilding center and port, where Ukrainian missile strikes on a bridge across the Dnipro River have left Russian defenders largely isolated.

It will be weeks and perhaps longer before the outcome of the Kherson counteroffensive will be decided, not least because the war testifies to the military maxim that attack is more difficult than defense. But a senior U.S. Defense Department official told a news briefing on Friday that there was growing evidence that steep Russian losses had left some units ill-prepared to fight. The official described Russia’s recent efforts as a failure both on the battlefield and at home.

Michael Schwirtz contributed reporting.

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Jimy Sohns, the lead singer of The Shadows of Knight rock band and the voice of its monster hit “Gloria,” has died at the age of 75 of complications from a stroke.

His death was announced on the band’s Instagram page and by his daughter.

“Gloria” was originally recorded and performed by Van Morrison, but was popularized by Chicago’s The Shadows of Knight upon its December 1965 release. It was a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Sohns and a friend still ran the band’s social media pages in the last few years, although he no longer performed.  

The band’s Instagram page conveyed its sorrow at his passing.

‘Devastated. Rest in Peace my dear friend,’ it read in the caption.

The Shadows of Knight began in 1964 with a 16-year-old Sohns, Warren Rogers (lead guitar), Roger Spielmann (lead and rhythm guitar/vocals) Norm Gotsch (rhythm guitar), Wayne Pursell (bass) and Tom Schiffour (drums). The original lineup was in flux over the next two years, as Joe Kelley (bass), Jerry McGeorge (guitar, vocals) and David ‘Hawk’ Wolinski (bass) would replace Pursell, Gotsch and Rogers

The Shadows of Knight continued to have band members come and go, and by mid-1967, Sohns was the only remaining original member. The band would record three studios albums by 1969, but were never able to recapture major attention.

A remastered version of their first two albums was issued in 1998,and the group also recorded seveal live albums, including a 50th anniversary reunion. The latest vesion of The Shadows of Knight was still touring as recently as 2016.

Sohns was inducted into the Chicago Rock ’n Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. No details on survivors beyond the daughter that announced his passing or memorial plans was immediately available.

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For the auto industry, one of the most important provisions in the climate bill would eliminate a cap on how many cars from each manufacturer are eligible for a $7,500 tax credit that taxpayers get for buying electric vehicles. Currently, the credits are phased out after a manufacturer has sold 200,000 electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles.

Restoring the credits would be huge for Tesla and General Motors, which have used up their quotas, as well as companies like Ford Motor and Toyota that will soon lose access to the credits. The new tax credit, available through 2032, would make vehicles from those companies more affordable and address criticism that only rich people can afford electric cars.

“A big swath of middle-class Americans will be able to get this credit that otherwise would have been blocked out because of the credit limit,” said Joe Britton, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, whose members include Tesla as well as makers of charging equipment, suppliers of battery materials and other companies tied to the electric vehicle business. “That’s a big deal.”

For the first time, used cars that are battery powered would qualify for a tax break of up to $4,000. That is important because most people buy secondhand, not new, cars. The average price of a new electric car has risen above $60,000, out of reach for many buyers despite the fuel and maintenance savings that those vehicles provide.

Individuals making more than $150,000 a year or couples earning $300,000 or more would not qualify for incentives for new electric cars. The income limits for the used-car incentive are $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 for couples. The credits would not apply to sedans that sell for more than $55,000 and vans, pickups and sport utility vehicles listed at more than $80,000.

“They are trying to drive adoption among middle-class and lower-class buyers, and that’s a good thing,” said Akshay Singh, a partner at the accounting and consulting firm PwC who specializes in the auto industry. “That’s where the bulk of the market is.”

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Welcome to the one-year anniversary edition of Variety’s “The Take!”

The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, and we will give you our final picks. So what actors and shows should we expect to hear? Some of the top contenders include HBO’s “Succession,” Netflix’s “Squid Game,” Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” and more.

Illumination’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru” set a Fourth of July box office record, aided by a viral TikTok trend that took over the platform. How will studios utilize the social media platform moving forward?

Netflix’s “Stranger Things 4” Vol. 2 dropped and some fans are disappointed by who did and did not die during the supersized finale.

Chelsea Handler wants a spot in the late-night lineup now that men are dominating at the moment. Could she take the place of the outgoing James Corden?

Finally, romantic comedies with A-listers are making a comeback with George Clooney and Julia Roberts helming “Ticket to Paradise” for Netflix. Will this put butts in seats, or open wallets for more subscribers?

Hosted by Variety chief correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister and senior awards editor Clayton Davis, Variety‘s “The Take,” presented by Apple TV+, is a weekly series that navigates the week’s top stories from entertainment, pop culture and media, while providing expert analysis and exclusive insight on what’s buzzing in Hollywood. Filmed in Variety‘s state-of-the-art studio in Los Angeles, new episodes are released on Fridays on Variety.com, YouTube and social media.

Make sure to let us know … what’s your take?

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EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Blackburn, who plays the lead role of Alex Manes in Roswell, New Mexico, has signed with APA for representation.

Blackburn just wrapped filming Roswell, New Mexico, which is currently airing its fourth and final season on the CW. Blackburn, who garnered a massive following on social media, is maybe best known for his role as the dark and mysterious Caleb Rivers in Pretty Little Liars, a performance which earned him two consecutive Teen Choice Awards. His success on the show led to his own spinoff series, Ravenswood.

On the film side, Blackburn can be seen in Discovery’s first scripted film, Capsized opposite Josh Duhamel. He can also be seen in Hello Again, directed by Tom Gustafson with an ensemble cast including Martha Plimpton, Audra McDonald, Cheyenne Jackson, and T.R. Knight. Prior to that, Blackburn starred in the independent film Love Is All You Need, directed by Kim Rocco Shields, which stars Elisabeth Röhm, Briana Evigan, Emily Osment, and Jeremy Sisto.

Blackburn continues to be repped by Mason Eways at LBI and attorney Cindy Gesner at Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler, Feldman & Clark.

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The curious case of male actors getting older and their leading ladies getting younger.

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While it’s safe to say that the plot of Atrangi Re was a tad bit convoluted, Akshay Kumar and Sara Ali Khan did seem to be romantically involved for a major chunk of the film. And what is their age difference, you ask? 28 years!

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Akshay and Manushi Chhillar were romantic leads in Samrat Prithviraj, playing Prithviraj Chauhan and Sanyogita, respectively, despite having an age gap of 29 years!

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Kiara Advani, who was Akshay Kumar’s leading lady in the 2020 film, Laxmii, is 25 years his junior.

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Bhumi Pednekar, his Toilet: Ek Prem Katha co-star, is 21 years younger than Akshay.


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On the other hand, Kriti Sanon, Akshay Kumar’s Housefull 4 and Bachchhan Paandey co-star, is 22 years his junior.


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It really seems like I have a bone to pick with Akshay Kumar but you can’t blame me, given the ever-increasing age gap he shares with his female co-stars. Yet another instance is that of Amy Jackson, his Singh Is Bliing co-actor, being almost 25 years younger than him.

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Akshay and Katrina Kaif have been paired opposite each other in as many as eight films, with audiences absolutely loving their on-screen chemistry. However, it is interesting to note that they have a 15-year age gap!

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Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan have worked as co-stars in six films (with another one in the pipeline) and have also been a couple in real life. However, many of us tend to forget that Salman is 17 years older than Katrina.

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Salman Khan has also been paired opposite Disha Patani in films like Radhe and a small portion of Bharat, despite Disha being 26 years his junior.


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Interestingly, actress Sonali Kulkarni, who is eight years younger than Salman, played his mother in Bharat.

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Sonakshi Sinha, who has been Salman’s romantic interest in three Dabangg films, is 21 years younger than him.


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Sonakshi has also worked in a plethora of films opposite Akshay Kumar, who is 19 years her senior.

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Saiee Manjrekar, who played Khushi, a young Chulbul Pandey’s love interest in Dabangg 3, is a whopping 32 years younger than Salman Khan.

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Jacqueline Fernandez, who has been paired opposite Salman Khan in films like Kick and Race 3, is 20 years his junior.

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Salman was almost 20 years old when Sonam Kapoor, his Prem Ratan Dhan Payo co-star, was born.

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Moreover, Salman was 22 when Anushka Sharma, his leading lady in Sultan, made her debut in…this world.


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Anushka has also been paired opposite Akshay Kumar, who is 20 years her senior.

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Anushka Sharma and Shah Rukh Khan have been romantically entangled / married in almost four films, with Anushka making her Bollywood debut opposite him in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi at the mere age of 20. However, did you know that they have an age gap of 22 years?!

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Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, yet another “hit pairing”, have a 20-year age gap between them.

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Mahira Khan, SRK’s Raees co-star, is 19 years his junior.


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On the other hand, Katrina Kaif, his love interest in Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Zero, is 17 years younger than Shah Rukh.

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Rakul Preet Singh, Ajay Devgn’s De De Pyaar De and Runway 34 co-star, is 22 years younger than him.


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I’ll have to admit, however, that the story of De De Pyaar De is about Ajay Devgn’s character falling for a woman half his age, but his frequent pairing with Rakul does seem a bit awkward.

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Sonakshi Sinha, who has been paired opposite Ajay in several films, including Son of Sardaar and Action Jackson, is 18 years his junior.

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Did you know that Ajay Devgn was 28 years old when his Shivaay co-star, Sayyesha Saigal was born?

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Moreover, Tamannaah, Ajay’s Himmatwala co-star, is 21 years younger than him.

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Tamannaah and Saif Ali Khan, who were each other’s “Caller Tune” in Humshakals, have a 19-year age gap between them.

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I am pretty sure you already knew that Aamir Khan’s PK co-star, Anushka Sharma, is 23 years his junior.

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But, did you also know that Asin, his leading lady in Ghajini, is 21 years younger than him?

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Meanwhile, his Dhoom 3 and Thugs of Hindostan co-actor, Katrina Kaif, is 18 years his junior.

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Not many people realise this, but Hrithik Roshan is 19 years older than his Super 30 co-actor, Mrunal Thakur.

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Moreover, Pooja Hegde, his leading lady in Mohenjo Daro, is 17 years younger than Hrithik.

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Yes, he looks a lot younger than his actual age, but, as of today, Anil Kapoor is 65 years old. He played Kareena Kapoor Khan’s husband in the 2005 movie Bewafaa, despite their age difference of 24 years!

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Furthermore, his co-star, Rani Mukerji was only 23 years old when their film, Nayak: The Real Hero, released. Anil was 45 at the time.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who was cast opposite Anil in Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai, is 17 years his junior.


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They were also seen in the film Taal in 1999.

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Anil Kapoor was also paired opposite Ameesha Patel, who is 19 years younger than him, in Race 2.


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We have also seen him opposite Sameera Reddy, 22 years his junior, in Race, while Mallika Sherawat, his Welcome co-star, is 20 years younger than Anil.

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I can’t possibly forget the fact that Shefali Shah, who plays Amitabh Bachchan’s wife in Waqt: The Race Against Time, is 30 years younger than him!


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In the film, Shefali also played Akshay Kumar’s mother despite Akshay being five years older than her!

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We’ve all had innumerable repeat viewings of Sooryavansham on Set Max, but, did you notice that Soundarya, Amitabh Bachchan’s co-star, was only 27 when the film released, while he was 57 years old?!


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Jayasudha, his other co-actor, is 16 years younger than Amitabh.

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While the film Nishabd is a bit of an outlier because its story essentially revolved around the age difference between the leads, watching a 65-year-old Amitabh Bachchan romancing a 19-year-old Jiah Khan was certainly uncomfortable.


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I am also reminded of movies such as Cheeni Kum, Haraamkhor, and Akshaye Khanna and Dimple Kapadia’s arc in Dil Chahta Hai, where the signifiant age difference between the actors basically drove the plot. However, these stories were all told sensibly and were handled with sensitivity, and it wouldn’t entirely be appropriate to place them on this list.

Why is it that actresses have an expiration date based on their age but their male counterparts don’t? When will this deep-seated ageism in Bollywood start to unravel? While OTT platforms have certainly brought about a refreshing change with more age-appropriate casting, mainstream films are yet to follow suit. I suppose all we can do at this point, is wait (and perhaps fossilize in the process).

Which cringeworthy age gaps did I miss? Let me know in the comments!

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After weeks of mounting pressure from Democrats, Hulu will begin accepting political issue and candidate ads, according to a new report from Axios on Wednesday.

Disney, a majority owner of Hulu, made the decision amid a controversy over the streaming platform’s decision to ban ads discussing abortion, gun reform, climate change, and other issues central to the Democratic Party’s midterm agenda.

“After a thorough review of ad policies across its linear networks and streaming platforms over the last few months, Disney is now aligning Hulu’s political advertising policies to be consistent with the Company’s general entertainment and sports cable networks and ESPN+,” Disney said in a statement to Axios on Wednesday.

The fight went public this week after the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Democratic Governors Association revealed that Hulu rejected campaign ads centered on hot-button issues like gun rights. Cable, broadcast, and other social media platforms ran the ads, but Hulu refused due to “content related” problems. The controversy inspired the #boycottHulu hashtag across social media.

Still, Disney is withholding the right to request the campaigns make certain edits to ads “in alignment with industry standards.”

The Democrats’ back and forth with Hulu boiled over into national politics this week. But a progressive New York congressional candidate — Suraj Patel — was the first to make Hulu’s “unwritten” sensitivity policy public earlier this month.

In a letter to Hulu and Disney CEOs, Patel called on the companies to overturn the ad content policies, writing, “We are at an absolutely critical time in our nation’s history.” He continued, “How are voters supposed to make informed choices if their candidates cannot talk about the most important issues of the day?”

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The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced its nominees for the 2022 News and Documentary Emmy Awards, which will be presented in two different categories: news on Sept. 28 and documentary on Sept. 29.

Both ceremonies will take place at the Palladium Times Square in New York City.

”At a time when critical, monumental, and world-changing events are more immediately available and accessible than ever before, the work of the journalists and documentarians that bring us the truth of these stories is under tremendous assault. We honor these individuals’ courage and excellence of craft that allows each of us to be better informed and understanding of the issues of our day,” said Adam Sharp, NATAS president and CEO.

Sixty-four categories were announced on Thursday, and the National Academy will also give out two Lifetime Achievement Awards: to Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, for news; and Sir David Attenborough, biologist, humanist and filmmaker, for documentary.

ABC scored the most nominations with 39, followed by CNN with 37.

Read on for a full list of nominees.

Outstanding Live News Program

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir ABC

Anderson Cooper 360 CNN

CBS Mornings / CBS This Morning CBS

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt NBC

The Lead with Jake Tapper CNN

Today NBC

Outstanding Recorded News Program

20/20 ABC

60 Minutes CBS

ABC News Soul of a Nation ABC

CBS Sunday Morning CBS

Nightline ABC

Outstanding Emerging Journalist

Anna Kook AJ+

Omar Jimenez CNN

Antonia Hylton NBC

Paola Ramos Vice

Rachel Scott ABC

Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage

ABC News Special Events ABC
The January 6th Insurrection

Belarus: Inside a Manufactured Migrant Crisis CNN

CBS News CBS
Assault on the Capitol

Haitians Converge on the U.S. Mexico Border CNN

NBC News Specials NBC
January 6 Attack on the Capitol

PBS NewsHour PBS
PBS NewsHour’s Special Coverage of the Electoral College Count

Outstanding Edited Breaking News Coverage

60 Minutes CBS
January 6th

60 Minutes CBS
The Beast

A Reporter’s Video from Inside the Capitol Siege The New Yorker

ABC News Originals for Hulu Hulu
24 Hours: Assault on the Capitol

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir ABC
The Insurrection

Vice News Vice
Inside the Battle for Jerusalem

Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Short Form

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir ABC
Afghanistan Unraveling

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir ABC
The Climate Crisis

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt NBC
Richard Engel – Afghanistan Continuing Coverage

The Coup in Myanmar CNN

VICE News Tonight Vice
India’s Deadly Delta Wave

VICE News Tonight Vice
Battle For Care

VICE News Tonight Vice
Haiti: Descent into Chaos

Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form

20/20 ABC
George Floyd

The Fall of Afghanistan CNN

VICE News Tonight Vice
Taliban’s Takeover of Afghanistan

VICE News Tonight Vice
Yemen: The Forgotten War

VICE News Tonight Vice
Six Weeks: Inside the Texas Abortion Ban

Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Short Form

ABC News Soul of a Nation ABC
Miss Lucille

CNN Digital CNN
Running as Equals

CNN Heroes CNN
Shirley Raines

The Undefeated Presents ESPN
Why We Kneel

Vice News Vice
Deaf in a Pandemic

Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Long Form

20/20 ABC
The Babies of 9/11: Twenty Years Later

48 Hours CBS
What Happened to the Perfect Child?

60 Minutes CBS
The Comeback

The New York Times Opinion Video The New York Times
How Life Looks Through My ‘Whale Eyes’

VICE News Tonight Vice
This Family of Black Cowboys Dates Back 5 Generations

Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form

Axum: Journey to a Sacred City CNN

Chinese Detective Turned Whistleblower Reveals Torture Against Uyghurs CNN

Searching for the Lost Graves of Louisiana’s Enslaved People The New York Times

The Lead with Jake Tapper CNN
9-Year-Old Afghan Sold into Marriage

VICE News Tonight Vice
The Central African Republic Is Enlisting Russians in its War Against Rebels

VICE News Tonight Vice
Death Threats: Election Officials Call It Quits

Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form

‘So They Know We Existed’: Palestinians Film War in Gaza The New York Times

Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol The New York Times

Fault Lines Al Jazeera International USA
Buried Truths: America’s Indigenous Boarding Schools

NBC News Digital NBC
Southlake: Racial Reckoning in a Texas Suburb

VICE News Tonight Vice
A Christian Summer Camp’s History of Abuse

Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Short Form

Anderson Cooper 360 CNN
The Lost Children of Xinjiang

CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell CBS
Norah O’Donnell Investigates: A Silent Epidemic in the U.S. Military

CBS Mornings and CBS Evening News CBS
Seatback Collapse

Ethiopia: Exposing the Hallmarks of a Genocide CNN

How a U.S. Drone Strike Killed the Wrong Person The New York Times

Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form

60 Minutes CBS
Handcuffed to the Truth

Fault Lines Al Jazeera International USA
Unrelinquished: When Abusers Keep Their Guns

FRONTLINE PBS
Yemen’s COVID Cover-Up

FRONTLINE In Partnership with the International Consortium PBS
of Investigative Journalists
The Pandora Papers

Nightline ABC
Blindsided

The Source Vice
The Shockwave

Outstanding Live News Special

ABC News Live ABC
Mission to Mars, Live!

ABC News Special Events ABC
The Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr.

ABC News Special Events ABC
9/11 – Twenty Years Later – America Remembers

Deadline | White House MSNBC
Lives Well Lived

The 15th Annual CNN Heroes All-Star Tribute CNN

Outstanding Recorded News Special

60 Minutes CBS
9/11: The FDNY

ABC News Soul of a Nation ABC
Reckonings

ABC News Soul of a Nation ABC
Juneteenth: Together We Triumph

CBS Sunday Morning CBS
Behind the Badge

The Moms of Magnolia Street NBC

Return of the Taliban: A VICE News Special Report Showtime

Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis

A Fareed Zakaria Special CNN
A Radical Rebellion: The Transformation of the GOP

CBS News Face the Nation CBS
Afghanistan’s Collapse

CBS News Face the Nation CBS
Dr. Deborah Birx: A COVID Autopsy

Meet the Press NBC
Schools, America & Race

The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth Showtime
Reigning Chaos

This Week with George Stephanopoulos ABC
Capitol Insurrection

Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion

Amanpour CNN
60 Years Ago, We Saw the Face of Evil

The New York Times Opinion Video The New York Times
Dying in the Name of Vaccine Freedom

The New York Times Opinion Video The New York Times
Blue States, You’re the Problem

The New York Times Opinion Video The New York Times
I’m a Trans Runner Struggling to Compete Fairly

The New York Times Opinion Video The New York Times
Greta Thunberg Has Given Up on Politicians

Outstanding Live Interview

ABC News Live Prime ABC
Unvaccinated Patient in Hospital Pleads for Others to Get Vaccine

Don Lemon Tonight CNN
Exclusive Interview with Officer Michael Fanone

Katy Tur Reports MSNBC
Haiti: Biden Administration Expels Migrants to Danger

State of the Union CNN
Dealing with Tragedy: Jake Tapper Interviews Rep. Jamie Raskin After Son’s Death and January 6″

State of the Union CNN
A Congressman’s Final Words: Jake Tapper Speaks to Rep. Paul Mitchell on his Deathbed

The New York Times DealBook Summit: One-on-One with Adam Neumann The New York Times

Outstanding Edited Interview
20/20 ABC
Escape from a House of Horror

60 Minutes CBS
The Facebook Whistleblower

ABC News Soul of a Nation ABC
Officer Dunn: Capital Cop

ABC News Special ABC
Alec Baldwin Unscripted

CNN Special Report CNN
COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out

Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage

CBS News: CBS Mornings, CBS This Morning, and CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell
CBS News: Eye on Earth CBS

CNN Special Report CNN
Eating Planet Earth: The Future of Your Food

Deforestation in the Deep: Forgotten Forests CNN

Unlivable Oasis ProPublica, TIME, Truly CA, Univision Noticias

World News Tonight with David Muir/Nightline ABC
Madagascar: The Children of Climate Change

Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage

CNN Special Report CNN
WEED 6: Marijuana and Autism

Nightline ABC
The Appointment

The New York Times Opinion Video The New York Times
Death, Through a Nurse’s Eyes

The New York Times Presents FX
Move Fast & Vape Things

VICE News Tonight Vice
Aging, Inc.

Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage

20/20 ABC
Something’s Coming: West Side Story

60 Minutes CBS
The Final Act

ABC News Live Prime ABC
Soul of a Nation: Tulsa’s Buried Truth

The New York Times Presents FX
Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson

The Story Of Vice
A Thousand Miles

Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage

60 Minutes CBS
A New Model

ABC News Originals for Hulu Hulu
GameStopped

Bloomberg Quicktake Bloomberg News
The Paycheck: The Systemic Overtaxing of Black Homes in America

FRONTLINE and NPR in conjunction with the Investigative Reporting Workshop PBS
The Healthcare Divide

FRONTLINE and The New York Times PBS
Boeing’s Fatal Flaw

Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage

“Get Away from the Target”—Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard The Outlaw Ocean Project / The Guardian

20/20 ABC
George Floyd: A Man, A Moment, America Changed

48 Hours CBS
The Station Nightclub Fire: Who’s Responsible?

Dateline NBC NBC
The Investigation

Fault Lines Al Jazeera International USA
The Jim Crow Convictions

Best News Coverage—Short Form

Ethiopia: Exposing the Hallmarks of a Genocide CNN

How a U.S. Drone Strike Killed the Wrong Person The New York Times

Proud Boys Were Key Instigators in Capitol Riot The Wall Street Journal

The Coup in Myanmar CNN

VICE News Tonight Vice
BANNED: A Woman’s 200-Mile Journey to Get an Abortion

Best News Coverage—Long Form

“Get Away from the Target”—Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard The Outlaw Ocean Project / The Guardian
60 Minutes CBS
9/11: The FDNY

Return of the Taliban: A VICE News Special Report Showtime

VICE News Tonight Vice
Taliban’s Takeover of Afghanistan

VICE News Tonight Vice
Yemen: The Forgotten War

Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary

137 Shots Netflix

Convergence: Courage in a Crisis Netflix

FRONTLINE PBS
China’s COVID Secrets

FRONTLINE In Partnership with ProPublica and Berkeley Journalism’s PBS
Investigative Reporting Program
American Insurrection

HBO Documentary Films HBO
In the Same Breath

The Rescue National Geographic

Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary

3212 Un-Redacted ABC

HBO Documentary Films HBO
Obama: In Search of as More Perfect Union

HBO Max HBO
A La Calle

POV PBS
Mayor

Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror Netflix

Outstanding Social Issue Documentary

CNN Films CNN
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street

End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock Fuse

FRONTLINE PBS
A Thousand Cuts

MSNBC Films MSNBC
In the Dark of the Valley

Pray Away Netflix

The New York Times Presents FX
To Live and Die in Alabama

Outstanding Investigative Documentary
Assassins Starz

FRONTLINE PBS
Escaping Eritrea

FRONTLINE PBS
In the Shadow of 9/11

HBO Documentary Films HBO
The Forever Prisoner

The Line Apple TV+

Outstanding Historical Documentary

9/11: One Day in America National Geographic

Desert One History Channel

Downing of a Flag PBS

POV: The Neutral Ground PBS

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song PBS

Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary

HBO Documentary Films HBO
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

HBO Documentary Films HBO
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

MSNBC Films MSNBC
Paper and Glue

The One and Only Dick Gregory Showtime

The Real Charlie Chaplin Showtime

Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary

The Hunt for Planet B CNN Films CNN

Down to Earth: The Astronaut’s Perspective NASA TV

Fathom Apple TV+

Coded Bias Independent Lens PBS

Picture a Scientist NOVA PBS

Outstanding Nature Documentary

Lucy The Human Chimp HBO/HBO Max

Nature PBS
The Elephant and the Termite

Nature PBS
My Garden of a Thousand Bees

Playing with Sharks Disney+

Puff: Wonders of the Reef Netflix

Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary

FRONTLINE and Chasing the Dream PBS
The Power of the Fed

Independent Lens PBS
Storm Lake

Local, USA WORLD Channel
Entangled

Vice News Vice
The Big Squeeze

WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn Hulu

Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary

Buried Showtime

HBO Documentary Films HBO
Life of Crime 1984-2020

HBO Documentary Films HBO
The Murders at Starved Rock

HBO Documentary Films HBO
The Slow Hustle

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller National Geographic

Outstanding Short Documentary

A Broken House The New Yorker

HBO Documentary Films HBO
The Last Cruise

Op-Docs The New York Times
Takeover

Through Our Eyes: Apart HBO/HBO Max

Through Our Eyes: Shelter HBO/HBO Max

Best Documentary

FRONTLINE PBS
A Thousand Cuts

FRONTLINE in Partnership with ProPublica and Berkeley Journalism’s PBS
Investigative Reporting Program
American Insurrection

HBO Documentary Films HBO
Four Hours at the Capitol

HBO Documentary Films HBO
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

HBO Documentary Films HBO
Obama: In Search of a More Perfect Union

HBO Documentary Films HBO
In the Same Breath

MSNBC Films MSNBC
Paper and Glue

The First Wave Hulu

The Line Apple TV+

The Rescue National Geographic

Outstanding News Program in Spanish
Al Punto Univision

Aquí y Ahora Univision

Noticias Telemundo en la Noche Telemundo

Noticiero Telemundo Telemundo

Noticiero Univision Univision

Outstanding Journalist in Spanish Language Media
Ilia Calderón Univision

Vanessa Huac Telemundo

Cristina Londoño Telemundo

Jorge Ramos Univision

Teresa Rodriguez Univision

Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in Spanish
Aquí y Ahora Univision
Crisis en Texas

España: volcán en erupción CNN en Español

Insurrección en el Capitolio CNN en Español

Noticiero Telemundo Telemundo
Enero 6- Asalto a la Democracia

Noticiero Univision Univision
Desafío a la democracia

Outstanding Investigative Journalism in Spanish
Aqui Y Ahora Univision
La oscura luz del mundo

Aquí y Ahora Univision
Guerra del Agua

Noticiero Telemundo Telemundo
Secuestrados

Noticiero Telemundo Telemundo
Coyotes

Noticiero Telemundo Telemundo
Asi son las cocinas de los narcos
Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish

Aqui Y Ahora Univision
Carne de cañón

Noticiero Telemundo Telemundo
Galápagos una ventana hacia el futuro

Op-Docs The New York Times
The Death Cleaner

Op-Docs The New York Times
57 Days

Univision News Digital Univision
La lucha de mujeres negras e hispanas contra la amenaza del desalojo

VICE News Tonight Vice
Después de la tormenta

Outstanding Interactive Media

Alchemy Immersive Oculus TV
Kingdom of Plants with David Attenborough

Alchemy Immersive Oculus TV
David Attenborough’s First Life

CNN Visuals CNN
Assault on Democracy: Paths to the Insurrection

Re-Educated The New Yorker

The New York Times Opinion Video The New York Times
Postcards from a World on Fire

Outstanding Interactive Media: Innovation
FRONTLINE PBS
Un(re)solved

Goliath: Playing with Reality Oculus

Inaccessible Cities AJ Contrast / Al Jazeera Digital

POV POV
The Changing Same: American Pilgrimage

What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed The New York Times

Outstanding Writing: News
20/20 ABC
Escape from a House of Horror

60 Minutes CBS
9/11: The FDNY

60 Minutes CBS
Handcuffed to the Truth

ABC News Live Prime ABC
Soul of a Nation: Tulsa’s Buried Truth

Return of the Taliban: A VICE News Special Report Showtime

Outstanding Research: News
20/20 ABC
Nowhere to Run: The Ahmaud Arbery Story

Ethiopia: Exposing the Hallmarks of a Genocide CNN

The New York Times Presents FX
Move Fast & Vape Things

Vice News Vice
The Shockwave

VICE News Tonight Vice
Handle With Care: Investigating the For-Profit Foster Care System

Outstanding Direction: News

20/20 ABC
911 Babies: Twenty Years Later
Director: Michaela Dowd

ABC News Soul of a Nation ABC
Juneteenth: Together We Triumph
Director: Tine

ABC News Soul of a Nation ABC
Director: James Adolphus

January 6th CNN
Director: Reza Baktar

The 15th Annual CNN Heroes All-Star Tribute CNN
Director: Brett Kelly

Outstanding Video Journalism: News
60 Minutes CBS
The Green River Drift

Return of the Taliban: A VICE News Special Report Showtime

Unlivable Oasis ProPublica, TIME, Truly CA, Univision Noticias

VICE News Tonight Vice
Inside the Battle for Jerusalem

VICE News Tonight Vice
After the Flood

Outstanding Editing: News
20/20 ABC
George Floyd: A Man, A Moment, America Changed

Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol The New York Times

Return of the Taliban: A VICE News Special Report Showtime

Unlivable Oasis ProPublica, TIME, Truly CA, Univision Noticias

Vice News Vice
The Shockwave

Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction: News
ABC News Soul of a Nation ABC
Graphic Open

CNN Digital CNN
QAnon Letter

CNN Digital CNN
The Hippie Trail

The New York Times Opinion Video The New York Times
Joe Did It. But How?

The Secret IRS Files ProPublica

VICE News Tonight Vice
Pandemic Time

Outstanding Writing: Documentary

9/11: One Day in America National Geographic

HBO Documentary Films HBO
The Forever Prisoner

Nature PBS
The Elephant and the Termite

The Rescue National Geographic

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller National Geographic
Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller National Geographic
Romance Scams

Outstanding Research: Documentary

9/11: I Was There History Channel

9/11: One Day in America National Geographic

HBO Documentary Films HBO
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Independent Lens PBS
Cured

The Rescue National Geographic

Outstanding Direction: Documentary

HBO Documentary Films HBO
In the Same Breath
Director: Nanfu Wang

HBO Documentary Films HBO
Simple As Water
Director: Megan Mylan

Misha and the Wolves Netflix
Director: Sam Hobkinson

The First Wave Hulu
Director: Matthew Heineman

The Rescue National Geographic
Directors: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary

Buried Showtime

Nature PBS
Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains

Nature PBS
The Elephant and the Termite

Puff: Wonders of the Reef Netflix

The First Wave Hulu

The Reason I Jump Netflix

Outstanding Editing: Documentary

9/11: Inside the President’s War Room Apple TV+

HBO Documentary Films HBO
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

HBO Documentary Films HBO
Four Hours at the Capitol

The First Wave Hulu

Vice News Vice
Toxic Pigs of Fukushima

Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction: Documentary
Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis Netflix

CNN Films CNN
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker MTV Documentary Films

Gossip Showtime

Vox Vox
Missing Chapter

Outstanding Music Composition

9/11: One Day in America National Geographic

Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis Netflix

The First Wave Hulu

The Real Charlie Chaplin Showtime

The Reason I Jump Netflix

Woman In Motion Paramount+

Outstanding Sound

9/11: I Was There History Channel

Fathom Apple TV+

Independent Lens PBS
Mr. Soul!

The First Wave Hulu

The Reason I Jump Netflix

Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson Apple TV+

Outstanding Lighting Direction and Scenic Design

3A Studio Build MSNBC

9/11: One Day in America National Geographic

ABC News Soul of a Nation ABC
Andra Day Performance

CNN Films CNN
The Lost Sons

Procession Netflix

Outstanding Technical Achievement

48 Hours & CBS News CBS
The Queen Carries On: A Gayle King Special

ABC News Live ABC
Mission to Mars, Live!

CBS Mornings CBS
NEW Challenge

TODAY NBC
Jenna Skydives Live with U.S. Army

Outstanding Promotional Announcement

9/11: One Day in America National Geographic

Becoming Cousteau Disney+

History of the Sitcom Campaign CNN

The First Wave Hulu

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller National Geographic

Outstanding Regional News Story: Spot or Breaking News

7 News at Six WSVN-TV (Miami, FL)
Surfside Condo Collapse

Battleground Salt Lake KSL 5-TV (Salt Lake City, UT)

Local 10 News WPLG-TV (Miami-Ft.
Condo Collapse – The 10:00 Hour Lauderdale, FL)

NBC 7 News At 11 KNSD-TV (San Diego,
Wildfire Triggers Evacuations CA)

WAVE 3 News WAVE 3 (Louisville, Louisville’s First Weekend of Protests KY)

WFAA at 10pm WFAA-TV (Dallas – Not Cancun… Fort Worth, TX)

Outstanding Regional News Story: Investigative Report

ABC15 News KNXV-TV (Phoenix, Full Disclosure AZ)

CBS 2 Chicago 10pm WBBM-TV (Chicago, My Name Is Anjanette Young IL)

KARE 11 News KARE-TV
KARE 11 Investigates: Cruel & Unusual (Minneapolis, MN)

FOX31 KDVR-TV (Denver, Police, Paramedics, and Ketamine: What Happened to Elijah McClain CO)

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The Hong Kong authorities will investigate why a large, heavy video screen fell from the ceiling during a concert by a popular boy band at a government-run venue, injuring two dancers, officials said on Friday.

The accident happened during a performance on Thursday night by Mirror, a 12-member band in the Chinese territory whose popularity has grown during the coronavirus pandemic.

In footage from the concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum, audience members scream after the video screen lands directly on one dancer, edge-down, apparently striking his neck. The South China Morning Post newspaper later reported that one of the two male dancers had suffered neck injuries and was in intensive care. It said the other was in stable condition.

Kevin Yeung Yun-hung, Hong Kong’s secretary for culture, sports and tourism, told reporters on Friday that one of the screen’s suspension cables had broken. Each of the screens for the venue’s four-sided projection system measures 5 meters by 3.9 meters, or 210 square feet, according to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, which manages the coliseum.

John Lee, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said in a statement early Friday that he had asked the leisure department and other agencies to investigate the accident and “review the safety requirements of similar performance activities.”

“I am shocked by the incident,” Mr. Lee said. “I express sympathy to those who were injured and hope that they would recover soon.”

The Hong Kong authorities said in a separate statement that the government had contacted the concert organizers on Wednesday — the day before the accident — about “stage incidents in the past few days.” It did not elaborate, and the leisure department could not immediately be reached for comment.

On Tuesday, a member of Mirror, Frankie Chan Sui-fai, fell off the stage at the Hong Kong Coliseum during the second day of the band’s scheduled 12-day series of concerts, The South China Morning Post reported. He fell about a meter and was not seriously hurt, according to the report.

Makerville, the concert organizer, apologized for the Thursday night accident in an Instagram post early Friday, adding that Mirror’s remaining concerts at the venue would be canceled. The band’s management did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mirror, which draws on K-pop as an influence, formed in 2018 through a reality show designed to manufacture a hit boy band. Its members sing in Cantonese, a Chinese language spoken widely in the former British colony.

The band’s escapist lyrics have been a balm of sorts for an anxious population during a tumultuous period of Hong Kong history.

In 2019, the city was consumed by months of mass protests triggered by a proposed law to allow extraditions to mainland China. Then came a thicket of pandemic-related restrictions that have battered Hong Kong’s economy, as well as a sweeping national security law that has curtailed freedoms with breathtaking speed.

Mirror’s popularity soared as Hong Kong struggled. The band sold out concert halls, accounting for some of the city’s only large-scale events during the pandemic. Its members’ faces have been plastered on billboards, buses and subway ads.

The coliseum where Mirror was performing on Thursday opened in 1983, according to the leisure department’s website. It seats about 12,500 people, the site says, and meets local demand for a “world class indoor stadium.”

Zixu Wang contributed reporting.

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Businesses use various cost-effective and efficient marketing tools to enrich their marketing activities in this digital age. Social media platforms have huge marketing potential, and marketers use them to create a brand image.  

Social media marketing helps businesses in influencing the audiences’ buying behavior. It increases website traffic and improves conversion rate.

Animation is one of the most effective tools that help explain the complex concept in an easy-to-digest message. Incorporate animation in your social media marketing strategy to achieve your business objectives.

Here in this blog, we will discuss how animation can boost your social media marketing activities.

Use Animated Posts to Capture Viewers’ Attention

Undoubtedly, animation grabs the audience’s attention on social media platforms. It helps create a unique brand image that gives your brand a competitive edge.

The beauty of animated social media posts is that they convey your message effectively with a fun element and engage the audience. It captures the viewers’ attention and delivers your brand’s message.

GIFs and videos are ideal for use on social networks as they grab audiences’ attention, and they spend more time interacting with a post.

Social media algorithms consider increasing the reach of the posts where people spend more time than on average. It helps build your brand’s profile and increase audience engagement and shareability of your content.

Incorporate Animation to Explain Complex Ideas Easily

Companies want to show their technical and creative sides to the audience. Especially tech companies, they want to explain complicated ideas to inexpert, and it requires easy explanations.

If you want to inform the audience about a new product, service, or concept, animation is an ideal way of presenting your ideas effectively.

Explainer videos and GIFs help deliver a message in an easy-to-understand form and enhance your interaction with the audience.

People prefer to watch videos to understand anything because a few-second animated video can easily explain complex concepts. 

You can use animated videos on social networks and post how-to videos to explain to your audience how to use a service, product, or software and how to solve a specific problem.

It is Easy to Memorize Animated Posts

Animation in social media won the viewers’ hearts. The beauty of animation is that viewers can easily memorize the message if it is explained with animation or a fun video.

It influences them to like and share the content, which increases the traffic on the website and social media profile of the company. Moreover, it improves the conversion rate. 

Animated posts are ideal for boosting social media marketing because it enables the viewers to enjoy because of the fun element.

Prepare a social media content calendar and think of innovative ideas. Use visually appealing animation, and it will help in creating your brand image.

You can incorporate motion graphics and animation in your social media posts for a unique style and engage your audience. It will help in creating your brand personality on social media platforms.

Social media users always admire the original content. If your animation is creative, it will influence viewers to stop and watch your animation style.

Add a Fun Element to your Posts with Animation

If you want to explain complex concepts or ideas to your audience, think of innovative ideas to communicate the information in easy-to-understand messages. Social media users admire your efforts if you explain things with visuals and entertain them.

It is human psychology; we understand information more easily if it presents fun at the same time.

Animation is an ideal way to share your brand’s story in fun and creatively. We all love fun, everyone is busy with their routine work, and we want to watch something that makes our minds fresh.

You can use a fun animated post to increase audience engagement and make them happy, smile, and loyal to a company.

Incorporate Animated Video into Social Media Strategy

Use animated videos in your social media marketing. Make sure the video should be entertaining so that it influences the audience. Social media users expect the entertainment factor on these networks.

If you want to build a professional image of your brand, incorporate animated content in your social media strategy to engage your audience. Add a humor element to your video and enhance your communication with your audience.

It enables businesses to create their brand image, and you can also use it to explain the features and benefits of your products or services.

You might be wondering about the animated video cost. Most the animation agencies charge $10,000 to $15,000 for a 90-second video.

 

Animation Increase your Website Traffic

Internet users use Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and other social networks daily to get the latest updates. 

Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are very popular, and businesses and marketers use them to enhance their communication with the audience.

Animation on social media creates a significant impact and increases website traffic, and improves conversion rate. Social media users prefer animated videos over textual content. You can use videos to influence viewers buying behavior.

Closing Remarks

In this digital age, digital marketing has helped businesses enhance their promotional activities using various digital tools. Social media users are expected to grow to 3.96 billion by 2022, which makes it the most effective marketing platform for marketers.

Most social media strategists use animation in their posts to grab the audience’s attention. Viewers memorize the animation, which is the main objective of every business.

You can explain even the most complicated concepts with fun through animation.

Moreover, you can also use corporate video to show the corporate values of your brand and build your relationship with the audience.

If you want to outsource your video projects to a video production company, you can hire BuzzFlick, as it is one of the best corporate video production companies.

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At least forty Ukrainian prisoners of war have been killed in a Russian detention camp, with the warring countries accusing the other of carrying out the deadly attack.

Russian forces accused Kyiv of targeting the Olenivka prison in Donetsk overnight using US-supplied HIMARS rocket systems in a strike which also injured 75.

But Ukraine said Putin‘s men carried out ‘targeted artillery shelling’ in a bid to both accuse Ukraine of war crimes and hide any evidence of their torture and mass executions in the prison.

The Kremlin’s defence ministry said this morning that eight employees at the detention centre were also injured.

Denis Pushilin, leader of the Donetsk separatists, put the death toll at 47 people. Territorial defence forces of the separatist statelet said that 53 people died.

At least forty Ukrainian prisoners of war have been killed in a Russian detention camp (pictured today after the strike)

Russian forces accused Kyiv of targeting the Olenivka prison in Donetsk overnight using US-supplied HIMARS rocket systems

Russian forces accused Kyiv of targeting the Olenivka prison in Donetsk overnight using US-supplied HIMARS rocket systems

Ukraine said Putin 's men carried out 'targeted artillery shelling' in a bid to both accuse Ukraine of war crimes and hide any evidence of their torture and mass executions

Ukraine said Putin ‘s men carried out ‘targeted artillery shelling’ in a bid to both accuse Ukraine of war crimes and hide any evidence of their torture and mass executions

The Kremlin's defence ministry said this morning that eight employees at the detention centre were also injured

The Kremlin’s defence ministry said this morning that eight employees at the detention centre were also injured

Denis Pushilin, leader of the Donetsk separatists, put the death toll at 47 people

Denis Pushilin, leader of the Donetsk separatists, put the death toll at 47 people

Ukrainian servicemen fire an M777 howitzer in Kharkiv Region in northeastern Ukraine today

Ukrainian servicemen fire an M777 howitzer in Kharkiv Region in northeastern Ukraine today

Russian tank commander has life sentence for killing civilian REDUCED 

A Russian tank commander who became the first of Putin‘s soldiers to be jailed for war crimes in Ukraine has seen his life sentence reduced to 15 years on appeal. 

Vadim Shishimarin, 21, shot dead 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov in cold blood in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region in the opening days of the war.

He was later captured and brought to Kyiv for trial, where he pleaded guilty to war crimes charges back in May

But the baby-faced killer’s lawyers appealed, saying the sentence was unduly harsh given he had admitted wrongdoing and was acting on the orders of a superior.

Today, an appeals court in the Ukrainian capital agreed and cut the penalty to 15 years. Viktor Ovsyannikov, Shishimarin’s lawyer, had been asking for 10 years.

Ovsyannikov said it is highly likely that Shishimarin will at some point be traded back to Russia in a prisoner swap. 

Mr Shelipov had been pushing his bike along a road in the Ukrainian village of Chupakhivka when he encountered Shishimarin and men from his unit, who were riding in a stolen civilian car.

Fearing that Mr Shelipov – a veteran of the Soviet military – was going to report their location to Ukrainian forces, Shishimarin’s superiors ordered him to kill the man.

He fired several shots at Mr Shelipov’s head from an automatic rifle, killing him.

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A total of 193 people were held in the jail at the time of the strike, Pushilin said in comments broadcast on Russian state television.

The Russian defence ministry said the Ukrainian prisoners of war included members of the Azov battalion, who defended the Azovstal plant in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol.

Moscow claimed that the ‘bloody provocation of the Kyiv regime’ was designed to discourage Ukrainian troops from laying down their arms and surrendering.

‘This egregious provocation was carried out to intimidate Ukrainian servicemen,’ the defence ministry said.

Pushilin, the Donetsk leader, claimed Kyiv forces struck the jail because Ukrainian prisoners of war had begun to testify.

After a weeks-long siege and resistance at the Azovstal steel plant, the last stronghold of Mariupol, around 2,500 Ukrainian fighters surrendered in May.

Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement: ‘The armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out targeted artillery shelling of a correctional institution in the settlement of Olenivka, Donetsk oblast, where Ukrainian prisoners were also held.

‘In this way, the Russian occupiers pursued their criminal goals – to accuse Ukraine of committing ‘war crimes’, as well as to hide the torture of prisoners and executions…’

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky, said the Russian allegations were ‘a classic, cynical and elaborate false flag operation’ intended to discredit Ukrainian authorities. 

Ukrainian authorities in the Donetsk region also said today that Russia has pressed on with the shelling of civilian targets in Ukrainian-held areas.

‘The fighting in the region has been intensifying by the day, and civilians must evacuate while it’s still possible,’ said Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.

‘The Russian army doesn’t worry about civilian casualties. They are pummelling cities and villages in the region.’ 

The Ukrainian prisoners of war included members of the Azov battalion, who defended the Azovstal plant (pictured in May)

The Ukrainian prisoners of war included members of the Azov battalion, who defended the Azovstal plant (pictured in May)

A residential house burns after a Russian military strike, as the attacks on Ukraine continue in the town of Bakhmut

A residential house burns after a Russian military strike, as the attacks on Ukraine continue in the town of Bakhmut

Firefighters extinguish a fire in a shelled house in Bakhmut as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade blows

Firefighters extinguish a fire in a shelled house in Bakhmut as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade blows

A fisherman watches smoke rise after Russian forces launched a missile attack on a military unit in the Vyshhorod district on the outskirts of Kyiv

A fisherman watches smoke rise after Russian forces launched a missile attack on a military unit in the Vyshhorod district on the outskirts of Kyiv

Ukrainian authorities in the Donetsk region also said today that Russia has pressed on with the shelling of civilian targets in Ukrainian-held areas

Ukrainian authorities in the Donetsk region also said today that Russia has pressed on with the shelling of civilian targets in Ukrainian-held areas

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visits a sea port in Odesa before restarting grain export

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky visits a sea port in Odesa before restarting grain export

Ukraine said at least five people had been killed and seven wounded in a Russian missile strike on the southeastern city of Mykolaiv

Ukraine said at least five people had been killed and seven wounded in a Russian missile strike on the southeastern city of Mykolaiv

A residential building damaged in an attack by Russian forces on the city of Toretsk in the Donetsk Oblast

A residential building damaged in an attack by Russian forces on the city of Toretsk in the Donetsk Oblast

A view of the damage at a football stadium after a shelling in Bakhmut

A view of the damage at a football stadium after a shelling in Bakhmut

Scores of Ukrainian soldiers were taken to prisons in Russian-controlled areas such as the Donetsk region, a breakaway area in eastern Ukraine which is run by Russian-backed separatist authorities.

Some have returned to Ukraine as part of prisoner exchanges with Russia, but families of others have no idea whether their loved ones are alive or if they will ever come home.

Separately Ukraine said at least five people had been killed and seven wounded in a Russian missile strike on the southeastern city of Mykolaiv, a river port just off the Black Sea, as Russia fired across frontlines in eastern and southern Ukraine.

A missile struck near a public transport stop, regional governor Vitaly Kim said on Telegram.

Russia, which denies targeting civilians, did not immediately comment on the situation and Reuters could not verify the battlefield reports.

An intelligence update from Britain said Russia has ordered mercenaries to hold sections of the frontline in Ukraine

An intelligence update from Britain said Russia has ordered mercenaries to hold sections of the frontline in Ukraine

Officials in Kyiv said on Wednesday they had observed a 'massive redeployment' of Russian forces to the south

Officials in Kyiv said on Wednesday they had observed a ‘massive redeployment’ of Russian forces to the south

An intelligence update from Britain said Russia has ordered mercenaries to hold sections of the frontline in Ukraine – a sign it is running short of combat infantry as Kyiv steps up a counter-offensive in the south.

Greater reliance on fighters from the Russian private military company Wagner Group for frontline duties rather than their usual work in special operations would be another sign that Russia’s military is under stress six months into its war in Ukraine.

But the British defence ministry said in the update that Wagner mercenaries were unlikely to make up for the loss of regular infantry units or alter the trajectory of Russia’s invasion.

‘This is a significant change from the previous employment of the group since 2015, when it typically undertook missions distinct from overt, large-scale regular Russian military activity,’ the ministry said.

Wagner and the Kremlin were not immediately available for comment.

Officials in Kyiv said on Wednesday they had observed a ‘massive redeployment’ of Russian forces to the south where British defence officials believe Russia’s 49th Army, stationed on the west bank of the Dnipro River, is vulnerable.

Ukraine’s counter-attacks in the south come as Russia battles for control of the entirety of the industrialised Donbas region in the east, comprising the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Russia ‘has prepared EVACUATION plans for Putin in case his army is defeated in Ukraine’ claims Telegram channel which also alleged Vladimir is suffering numerous health problems

Vladimir Putin and his friends are making preparations to flee Russia should his army be defeated in Ukraine, according to a Telegram channel that claims to come from inside the Kremlin.

With his Donbas offensive stalling, Ukraine preparing to re-capture Kherson and his economy crumbling, the Russian dictator is ‘aware of the possibility of a sharp change of mood in the country.’

Last week, the General SVR channel reported that the 69-year-old had suffered from ‘severe nausea’ overnight, with doctors at his bedside for around three hours.

Following on from that report, they claim that ‘Putin himself and his entourage are preparing plans for evacuation from Russia.’

It is thought that any plane carrying Putin and his family out of Russia would head to fellow dictatorship Syria, the nearest friendly state and whose leader, Bashar al-Assad, Putin bailed out by intervening in the Syrian civil war in 2015.

Any flight from Russia to Syria, however, would have to fly through the airspace of Turkey, a NATO member. 

Vladimir Putin and his friends are reported to be making preparations to flee Russia should his army be defeated in Ukraine 

It is thought that any plane carrying Putin and his family out of Russia might head to fellow dictatorship Syria, whose dictator Bashar al-Assad (pictured left) Putin bailed out by intervening in the Syrian civil war in 2015

Were Turkey’s strongman leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to refuse permission to the plane carrying Putin and his family to enter his airspace, it would effectively scupper the Russian tyrant’s quickest and perhaps only getaway route.

Erdogan and Putin have a complex relationship, having been friends and enemies at various times over the past decade as each leader tries to navigate their country through a challenging geopolitical neighbourhood. 

Iran is another regional power – and Western foe – that would be interested in Putin’s fate. 

‘In principle, it is beneficial for Iran and Turkey to keep the Russian president in exile in reserve, using him, depending on the situation, as a lever or as a bargaining chip,’ the channel states.

Although Turkey is a member of the Western military alliance, under Erdogan’s leadership the country has cut its own diplomatic path in international relations. 

Earlier this month Putin met with his Turkish and Iranian counterparts in Tehran, ostensibly to discuss Syria. 

It is not too much of a stretch to imagine that Erdogan and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi discussed in private the possibility of Putin requiring asylum from a coup or revolution at home.

Putin, met with Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, and Turkish president Erdogan in Tehran - to leaders who would have a strong interest if Putin needed asylum

Putin, met with Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, and Turkish president Erdogan in Tehran – to leaders who would have a strong interest if Putin needed asylum

Erdogan (left) and Putin (right) have a complex relationship, having been friends and enemies at various times over the past decade as each leader tries to navigate their country through challenging geopolitical times

Erdogan (left) and Putin (right) have a complex relationship, having been friends and enemies at various times over the past decade as each leader tries to navigate their country through challenging geopolitical times

Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces were said yesterday to be gaining momentum near the occupied city of Kherson.

Air strikes have destroyed several bridges leaving the remaining Russian troops cut off, and a counteroffensive to re-take the only major city that Russia managed to capture is expected in the coming weeks. 

Back home for Putin, Yale experts state that Russia is losing the economic war with the West and its economy is in catastrophic and irrevocable decline. 

Russia is on the ropes, with business in retreat and sanctions catastrophically crippling their economy, they claim. 

Every single sector of the Russian economy is in trouble – both its imports and its exports are down and its allies are not helping, and in some cases actively taking advantage. 

With the cataclysmic state of the Russian economy in mind, it is no wonder that Putin might be considering retirement in Syria.

But even then it is questionable whether he will receive the medical care that he reportedly needs. 

The Russian army has used the Antonivskiy bridge over the Dnipro River as a key resupply route into Kherson, now blown up by Ukrainian missiles as they prepare a counteroffensive

The Russian army has used the Antonivskiy bridge over the Dnipro River as a key resupply route into Kherson, now blown up by Ukrainian missiles as they prepare a counteroffensive 

The General SVR channel, which claims to be run by a former officer from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, said earlier this week: ‘Putin on the night of Friday July 22 to Saturday July 23 needed urgent medical care.

‘At about 1am, the medical workers on duty at [his] residence were summoned to the president. Putin complained of severe nausea.

‘Twenty minutes later, an additional team of doctors with the president’s attending physicians was called.

‘It is known that doctors provided assistance and were near Putin for three hours, and after the president’s condition improved, they left his chambers.’

It claimed a decision was made that in some events this week ‘he will be replaced by a double’.

The body double theory was backed up by head of Ukrainian military intelligence, who speculated that a Vladimir Putin body ‘double’ may have been used for his arrival at the Tehran summit.  

While the Russian leader looked awkward as he came down the steps of his presidential plane in Tehran, Ukrainian sources noted he moved unusually quickly and was more alert than in prior public appearances. 

The Russian premier looked animated when greeting the waiting party, before removing his jacket and clambering into a heavily armoured limousine.

It was only the second time Putin had been abroad since launching his brutal invasion of Ukraine five months ago. 

The General SVR channel has previously claimed that Putin is suffering from a series of serious illnesses including cancer, Parkinson’s disease and a schizoaffective disorder.   

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Dustin Johnson, Paulina Gretzky. United States team member Dustin Johnson and his wife Paulina Gretzky walk toward the 18th hole to watch play during the four-ball golf matches on the third day of the Presidents Cup at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J Presidents Cup Golf - 30 Sep 2017


Dustin Johnson kisses Paulina Gretzky when holds the Championship Trophy on the 18th green after winning his first major championship in the final round at the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 19, 2016. Johnson won with a score of 5 under par. U.s. Open Golf 2016, Oakmont, Pennsylvania, United States - 19 Jun 2016


United States' Dustin Johnson holds hands with his partner Paulina Gretzky as they leave the course following his foursome win with teammate Jordan Spieth over International team player's Danny Lee of New Zealand Marc Leishman of Australia at the Presidents Cup golf tournament at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, in Incheon, South Korea South Korea Presidents Cup Golf, Incheon, South Korea

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For years, whenever Dustin Johnson hit the green, his biggest fan and number one supporter, Paulina Gretzky, has supported him. After a chance meeting in 2009, Dustin and Paulina began a romance that has lasted through PGA Tours, pandemics, pregnancies, and more. While Wayne Gretzky’s future son-in-law is more attuned to hitting a hole-in-one than a hat trick, this sports romance has flourished. Here’s a look back at how it all began.

Paulina Gretzky and Dustin Johnson Get Engaged (2013)

Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky at the 2013 American Music Awards (Shuttershock)

 

For many, it feels like Dustin and Paulina have always been engaged. That’s because Dustin popped the question shortly after the two began dating.

Paulina and Dustin first met in 2009, but they didn’t go on their first date until three years later, according to Golf magazine. “I don’t know if you can call it a date since my dad tagged along,” she told Golf magazine. “That’s how it goes in our family,” said the man known as “The Great One.” “Janet [Gretzky] and I go out to eat, and we somehow always wind up with seven or eight people at the table. Everyone is invited.”

Clearly, there was chemistry despite this chaperone. In August 2013, Dustin proposed to Paulina. “Never been happier,” she captioned a now-deleted Instagram post while Dustin shared a picture of her new ring. “She said yes!!!”

Paulina Gretzky and Dustin Johnson Give Birth To First Baby (2015)

Tatum Gretzky hugs his daddy on the 18th hole during the final round of the 2016  U.S. Open golf championship at Oakmont Country Club (Shutterstock)

In the near-decade that followed that engagement, Dustin and Paulina began to build a life for themselves. This also included starting a family. In September 2014, Paulina announced she was pregnant with their first child. The now-deleted Instagram post showed Paulina cradling her baby bump, per PEOPLE. “@djohnsonpga & I are so excited to finally share with you all our amazing news,” she captioned the photo. “We’re having a baby!!”

Dusting and Paulina welcomed their son, Tatum Gretzky Johnson, on Jan. 19, 2015. “Paulina and I are happy to announce the arrival of our baby boy, who was born in Los Angeles on Monday morning,” Dustin said in a statement. “Both Paulina and the baby are healthy, resting comfortably and in great spirits. We sincerely appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received and plan to release further details in the coming days!”

Tatum would soon join his daddy on the PGA Tour, supporting him alongside Paulina.

Paulina Gretzky and Dustin Johnson Welcome Second Son (2015)

Dustin Johnson gets a kiss from Paulina Gretzky after he won his match on the 16th hole of the 2018 Ryder Cup (Shutterstock)

Two years after Tatum came into the world, Paulina and Dustin announced their family was growing. In mid-February 2017, Paulina posted a photo (now-deleted) to her Instagram. In the pic, she’s cradling her baby bump while holding up an ultrasound. “Coming soon…” she captioned the shot. The second baby – son River Jones Johnson – arrived on June 14, 2017. “Welcome to the world, baby boy … we all love you so much,” she captioned an Instagram shot of Tatum kissing his baby brother’s head.

Dustin Addresses Split Speculation (2015)

As one might have noticed, many photos from Paulina’s Instagram have been deleted. This purging took place in 2018. She scrubbed her account of every picture of Dustin, leading many to speculate that they had broken up. Two days after the reports of a possible split, Dustin tweeted out a statement.

“Every relationship goes through its ups and downs, but most importantly, we love each other very much and are committed to being a family. Thank you for your love and support.” The two worked through their issues, however, and their relationship continued forward, stronger than ever.

The Two Prepare For Their Wedding (2022)

Paulina Gretzky hugs Dustin Johnson as he poses with his jacket after winning the 2020 Masters Tournament at the Augusta Natioweren’tf Club in Augusta, Georgia (Shutterstock)

The COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on everyone’s wedding plans when it hit the U.S. in 2020, but Paulina and Dustin weren’t in a rush to get married in the first place.

“I fell in love with someone so fast, and we had the best thing that ever happened to us, happen so quickly,” Paulina said in 2021 when appearing on the Pillows and Beer podcast. “The most important thing was my kids, Dustin, and my career. Those things took precedent. Those things had to be established. So, after he won the Masters [in 2020], I said let’s do it, this makes sense.”

The longtime couple finally tie the knot (2022)

2022 was the year they finally pulled the trigger and walked down the aisle. A year after going wedding dress shopping with Vera Wang, Paulina took her besties on a bachelorette party that turned into a weekend of fun and adventure. In a photo taken before the February 2022 bash, Paulina posed in a white mini dress on the steps of a private plane. Her bridesmaids, dressed in pink, posed alongside her.

On Saturday, April 23rd, the lovey-dovey couple finally walked down the aisle in a gorgeous Tennesse ceremony at The Wellhouse at Blackberry Farm; and of course, the bride wore a Vera Wang design. The lavish outdoor event was replete with white flowers and smiles.

“Even though Paulina and Dustin have been together for years, there is definitely a feeling of a sense of renewal in their relationship since getting married,” a source EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife in May. “They’ve always had such a close, loving bond but since making things really official, they are like giddy schoolkids again.”

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Fujitsu’s soon to launch high performance computing (HPC) cloud is already being put to use researching the next generation of space travel. 

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) utilized Fujitsu’s wave analysis solution to conduct large scale electromagnetic wave simulations, used to evaluate the radio wave intensity within the X-ray spectrometer of the space agency’s X-ray imaging satellite XRISM.

Utilizing Fujitsu’s solution, JAXA was reportedly able to generate an experiment environment that simulates observation conditions as in outer space and conducted evaluations that could not be performed with traditional computing methods.

Why does this matter?

Electromagnetic interference between electronic components and communications equipment can be a big issue for users in all types of different fields, from space to standard urban transportation.

Fujitsu claims precise simulations of complex and large-scale electromagnetic wave problems could not be solved with conventional approximation algorithms.

However, using the HPC solution JAXA successfully confirmed that the radio wave intensity in XRISM’s X-ray spectrometer is at a level that does not impact the observation performance of the satellite even in orbit.

“This represents a major technical advance in satellite design,” said Masahiro Tsujimoto, associate professor, JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. “n the XRISM satellite project, the results of this simulation played an important role in quantitatively evaluating unverified risks and confirming the validity of the design.”

Interested?

Even if a satellite is out of your budget range, you might still be available to afford some of the technology under the project’s hood.

Japanese readers will be able to get access to the computing cloud for between $400 to $8,000 a month, depending on their requirements, when it launches later this year. 

Dubbed Fujitsu Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS), the cloud will give users access to some of the same Arm-based architecture that powers the world’s most powerful supercomputer, “Fugaku” in Kobe, Japan.

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Pitt bonded with “Bullet Train” co-star Brian Tyree Henry over their shared love for the British reality competition series.

Get ready for Brad Pitt to recreate that famous “Ghost” scene.

The “Bullet Train” star professed his love for British reality competition series “The Great Pottery Throw Down” during an interview with JOE.ie. The video interview soon became a lovefest for British television with co-stars Brian Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor-Johnson weighing in.

When the trio was asked what their favorite explosive escapist films are to watch, Taylor-Johnson gushed over Pitt’s “Fight Club.” Meanwhile, Pitt cited Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” as a recent “musical explosion,” to which co-star Henry added “The Great British Baking Show” is one of his favorite binges.

“Let me tell you something, when those soufflés explode, man, you watch some stuff go down,” the “Atlanta” star joked.

Pitt responded, “Well, if we’re going that route, I’m going ‘The Great Pottery Throw Down,’” with a surprised Henry saying, “Brad! How come we’ve never talked about this?!”

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“I’ve seen every season,” Pitt confirmed, agreeing with Henry that it’s “so beautiful” that “Throw Down” judge Keith Brymer Jones cries almost every episode.

Per an official synopsis (for those who aren’t in the know about the kiln-centric series), “The Great Pottery Throw Down” centers on 10 home potters from around the country who venture to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become the Top Potter.

The official show page retweeted the “Bullet Train” interview with the caption, “The first rule of pottery club is: you *must* talk about pottery,” nodding to “Fight Club.”

The caption continued, “We’re so happy to hear that legends Brad Pitt and Brian Tyree Henry love crying over bowls as much as we do!”

“Bullet Train,” in theaters August 5, is an action-comedy directed by David Leitch. Pitt is said to have performed his own stunts for the assassin shoot-em-up feature that was originally a “dark, R-rated, vicious action piece,” per Taylor-Johnson. Yet the cast chemistry and joking nature on set led to “Bullet Train” being a dark comedy.

“In the conversations I had with Brad, the No. 1 goal was to make a movie that’s entertaining and escapist and fresh and original, that will make people want to come back to the theater,” Leitch told GQ.

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