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With 456 players involved at the titular deadly competition in “Squid Game,” viewers are sure to have a hard time keeping every character straight when they start binge-watching Season 2 at launch on Dec. 26. The good news is, not every one of those players is essential to the story of Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) return […]

The only game Player 456 wants to partake in is vengeance. Sweet, sweet vengeance.

Created by writer/director Hwang Dong-hyuk, the Emmy-winning “Squid Game,” Netflix’s most-watched series of all time, has returned for a second season. Season 1 of the South Korean survival thriller followed Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a divorced father and gambling addict who joins the Squid Game in hopes of earning enough prize money to pay off his […]

Private equity companies have joined the race to own assets of 7-Eleven's parent company assets. Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKKR and Bain Capital bid over $5 billion for Seven & i's non-core assets. Seven & i's non-core assets include superstores, baby stores, and Denny's Japan operations. Seven & i also received a $47 billion offer from Alimentation Couche-Tard.

M. T. Vasudevan Nair, celebrated Indian screenwriter, director and novelist, died on Dec. 25 at a hospital in Kozhikode after being admitted for breathing difficulties. He was 91. His contributions to Malayalam-language cinema and literature redefined storytelling in the southern Indian state of Kerala where he was born. Nair’s early exposure to traditional folktales and the […]