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The Animation Guild has unveiled the full terms of its new contract with the major studios, along with a candid explanation as to why it could not do more to protect against artificial intelligence. The union, which represents about 5,000 animators, technicians and writers, reached a tentative agreement on Nov.

Victory was sweet — definitely not too sweet — when it came to Hozier staking out a place at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 this year. Not everyone would have seen it coming, to say the least. The Irish singer-songwriter had not even had a song crack the top 30 in the decade […]

In mid-2022, executives from what was then called HBO Max approached James Gunn about doing another series adapted from DC Comics, following his hit “Peacemaker.” His first idea: an animated show loosely based on the DC comics characters known as the Creature Commandos, i.e. group of monsters thrown together into a black ops team tasked […]

In Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,” many of the most formative moments are wordless. Although expat William Lee (Daniel Craig) is more free in Mexico City to drink around the clock, shoot heroin and indulge in his gay desires than in America, there still remains a secretive slyness required in expressing his queerness — even in the […]

Robert Pattinson is well known for messing around with the press and telling lies in his interviews, but even he was caught off guard recently while rewatching a television interview from 2011. That was the year “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” opened in theaters, meaning Pattinson was on a particularly grueling global […]

Donald Trump has set his first network interview since winning the 2024 election. “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker will sit down with the president-elect in an episode of of the NBC News series scheduled to air on Dec. 8. This will not be Welker’s first conversation with Trump. She most recently interviewed him for […]