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Steven Spielberg Opens Up About ‘Fighting The Tides’ To Ensure Movie Theaters Aren’t Overtaken By Blockbusters

Steven Spielberg hopes smaller movies will continue to have a home in theaters.

Cinemablend

Why Herefordshire was the perfect stand-in for Shakespeare’s Stratford in the new film of Hamnet

Crooked buildings, welcoming inns, ancient woodlands … it’s easy to see why the location scouts chose this idyllic corner of England

The Guardian - UK

Developers warned they may be breaking the law by making video games unplayable

Concerns were raised after developer Ubisoft discontinued online racing game The Crew in 2024

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Move over, gender studies: the conservative tide coming for US universities

Deeming universities too leftwing, outside donors and state governments are sponsoring curricula that center the classics, Christianity and the ‘great books’ of western civilization

The Guardian - US

15 of the Best Enemies-to-Lovers Books of All Time

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy may be the blueprint, but you're guaranteed to fall for all of these novels.

Marie Claire

What’s the difference between ghosts and demons? Books, folklore and history reflect society’s supernatural beliefs

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

The Conversation

Director of cult horror hit Prevenge is turning one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies into a scary movie: "I don’t see why it couldn’t be revisited with how terrifying and odd everything happens in it"

A Midsummer Night's Dream is getting the horror treatment from Prevenge director Alice Lowe

Total Film

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To eat or not to eat: The food that shaped Shakespeare’s plays – and how to cook it today

From banquets fit for kings to tavern feasts and lovers’ suppers, a new cookbook by Sam Bilton and Shakespeare’s Globe reveals how food shaped the Bard’s world – and shows how to bring those flavours to your own table

The Independent UK

‘Hamnet’ review: A breathtakingly real and perfect look at art, love, and grief

Art is for all, no matter its origin

The Mary Sue

Hamnet review: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley enthral in Shakespeare tearjerker

4/5 Chloé Zhao’s clever adaptation grounds the Bard’s backstory in love, loss and the natural world

Evening Standard

Lynne Ramsay’s passion, Jim Jarmusch’s star turn and knives come out again: Peter Bradshaw’s London film festival picks

Among this year’s must-sees Jennifer Lawrence brings gothic steam, Daniel Craig takes a new case and a constellation of luminaries get cosmic

The Guardian - UK

It’s Bouquet! Comedy star Patricia Routledge captured hearts as TV’s Hyacinth

Dame Patricia Routledge was best known for her role in Keeping Up Appearances but also had a long career on stage.

Evening Standard

Black swan nicknamed ‘Mr Terminator’ evicted from town after trying to drown local birds

The bird had become ‘more popular than William Shakespeare’ in Stratford-Upon-Avon until things took a ‘dark’ turn

The Independent UK

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet wins top award at Toronto Film Festival

People’s Choice award puts film on enviable track to Oscars contention

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In Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet,’ something emotional this way comes

On the festival circuit this fall, no film has spawned more of an outpouring of emotion than Chloé Zhao's “Hamnet,” a speculative drama about William Shakespeare, his wife, Agnes, and the death of their 11-year-old son

The Guardian - US

Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal excel in stately Shakespeare drama with overwhelming finale

The two stars are knockouts in Chloé Zhao’s poignant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel with a stirring tearjerker ending

International Business Times

Russell Crowe Shaken By Nazi Role In Festival Hit 'Nuremberg'

Russell Crowe's nerve-shredding portrayal of a notorious Nazi on trial and Angelina Jolie's deeply personal dive into the world of French fashion led a busy Sunday of world premieres at the Toronto film festival.

International Business Times

Chloe Zhao Tackles Shakespeare's True Tragedy In 'Hamnet'

When Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao first studied Shakespeare at her British boarding school, the young Chinese pupil did not even speak English.

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Newly discovered portrait may depict ‘fair youth’ of Shakespeare’s sonnets

Earl of Southampton may have given writer the miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, which has defaced heart on its reverse

The Guardian - UK

Born With Teeth review – Ncuti Gatwa simmers in Elizabethan battle of the playwrights

Gatwa’s Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel’s William Shakespeare flirt, fight and write in Liz Duffy Adams’ sizzling new chamber play

Total Film

Chloé Zhao's first movie since Eternals is already getting Oscars buzz as critics call it "the most devastating movie I've seen in years"

Chloé Zhao's new movie Hamnet has premiered to rave reviews

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him

Editorial: England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better

The Mary Sue

No the theatre kids are not okay after watching the ‘Hamnet’ trailer

I can't wait to spend the holidays crying about Shakespeare!

Benzinga

Anthony Scaramucci Quotes Romeo And Juliet In Praising Bitcoin, Reacts To Tim Draper's 'Gravitational Pull' Toward BTC Remark

Anthony Scaramucci, the founder and CEO of SkyBridge Capital, expressed his support for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), drawing on a famous line from William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet.”

Fortune

BofA sees the replacement of people with process solving the 'productivity paradox,' because 'A process is almost free and it's replicable for eternity'

"I think people love this AI technology because it feels like sorcery," BofA's Savita Subramanian said. "The truth is it hasn't really changed the world that much yet, but I don't think it's something to be dismissed."

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