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Hollywood strikes tone down the glamour at Venice Film Festival

Film critic Emma Jones brings us highlights from the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival. The strong lineup of potential Oscars contenders included Sofia Coppola's Priscilla Presley biopic and Yorgos Lanthimos's genre-defying "Poor Things", starring Emma Stone. Still, Emma reports that "La Mostra" felt somewhat less glamorous this year,…

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Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, and Steven Spielberg have a new rep as French billionaire buys CAA, one of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies

Francois-Henri Pinault's holding company, Artémis, will hold about a 53% stake in the talent agency that works with numerous A-listers.

Fortune

The Morning Show to Welcome to Wrexham: the seven best shows to stream this week

Jon Hamm joins Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston in the slick media drama, and we’re back on the bench in Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s Hollywood football faux-fairytale

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From spaceships to 'Batman' props, a Hollywood model maker's creations and collection up for auction

Bidding will open on thousands of pieces Hollywood model maker Greg Jein collected over his lifetime, including many he created during his nearly half-century career

The Independent UK

Can Walt Disney Recover from Headwinds?

Walt Disney (DIS ), the world’s largest entertainment company, fell to a 3-1/2 year low today as the company struggles to overcome numerous headwinds. Disney is facing (1) losses in its online video businesses, (2) the negative impact of the Hollywood actors and writers strikes, and (3) a fee dispute...

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Sydney Sweeney — how the all-American girl became the hottest name in Hollywood

She bewitched audiences with her portrayal of frenzied teenager Cassie in Euphoria, and now she’s caught the attention of The Rolling Stones

Evening Standard

'You could be the hero': Fran Drescher tells NPR how the Hollywood strikes can end

Fran Drescher, president of the actors' union SAG-AFTRA, says the Hollywood strikes are at an inflection point.

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Honorary Oscars event celebrating Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks pushed back amid Hollywood strikes

Angela Bassett is going to have to wait a little bit longer to get her Oscar

The Independent UK

Hollywood's strikes are bulldozing the economy to the tune of 17,000 jobs and forcing a major studio to cut earnings guidance by $500 million.

The dual Hollywood strikes have eliminated legions of jobs and forced Warner Bros. Discovery to cut its projected profits.

Fortune

'Game of Thrones' star Emilia Clarke supports strikes at Deauville Film Festival

In this edition from the Deauville American Film Festival on the Normandy coast, we meet an actress who shot to world fame as the Queen of Dragons in the hit TV series "Game of Thrones". We've also seen her in the films "Me Before You", "Last Christmas" and "Solo: A…

France 24

Fall Movie Preview: Hollywood readies for a season with stars on the sidelines

Hollywood is at a standstill

The Independent UK

Auteurs and workers’ rights spotlit at a less starry Venice film festival

Hollywood strikes have deprived festival of glamour but not debate, while focus switched to varyingly controversial directors

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s insane to me that I don’t get a piece from Netflix’: Breaking Bad stars reunite on actors’ strike picket line

The cast got together to call upon Hollywood studios to resume negotiations with striking screen actors

The Independent UK

Hollywood’s Picket Line Confronts Its Color Line

People of color hired in the streaming-era diversity push say they now bear the brunt of inequities.

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It’s not the first time that technology has upended Hollywood’s business model–but the WGA-SAG strikes could be the last chance for artists to get justice

Every Hollywood strike that concluded was a win-win for the parties in a way, but the basic inequity never changes.

Evening Standard

Video game strike in the making as actors’ union slams industry’s ‘greed’

Actors’ dispute with video game companies echoes demands from film studios, including calls for fairer pay and regulated use of AI

Evening Standard

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Prince Harry and Superman are more alike than you think

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I think Prince Harry might be Superman. Back in the Seventies, before the current vogue for turning superheroes into movie franchises, the Hollywood producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind decided to reboot the famous DC Comics alter-ego and turn Superman into a proper…

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Up First briefing: A Labor Day look at union fights, wins and close calls

It's Labor Day in the U.S. Striking writers and actors have brought Hollywood to a standstill. There's widespread support for unions, especially among Gen Z, yet membership is at an all-time low.

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4 things to know on Labor Day — from the Hot Labor Summer to the Hollywood strikes

Organized labor has scored some big victories this year, including new contracts at UPS. Can the winning streak continue?

Evening Standard

Prince Harry joins Hollywood royalty watching Lionel Messi in action in Los Angeles

Leonardo DiCaprio, Selena Gomez, Owen Wilson and Ted Lasso actor Jason Sudeikis were also in the crowd to see Messi turn out for Inter Miami against Los Angeles Football Club

The Independent UK

Beyoncé shines bright among Hollywood stars during Renaissance concert tour stop in Los Angeles

Beyoncé shined the brightest in a city full of Hollywood stars during the second night of her epic Renaissance Tour show on Saturday night

Salon

It takes more than one superhero

Despite the success of "Blue Beetle," Latinos remain the most underrepresented group in films

The Independent UK

‘It was a disaster’: 23 actors who hated their own movies

Many Hollywood stars dislike the films they’re in. Jacob Stolworthy runs through the ones who admitted it

Salon

TV writer spills "Breaking Bad" toxicity

Patty Lin praises writing on "Freaks and Geeks" and reveals why she loves that a show like "Beef" finally exists

The Guardian - UK

Hollywood is planning to remake Highlander – just pray they don’t mess it up

If Hollywood insists on revisiting this classic, don’t let it be a sleek, polished piece that takes itself seriously. Fans will want it to retain the hammy, cheesy silliness of the 1986 original

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