Nearly 61 years ago, Dale Carpenter Sr. showed up on Lemmon Avenue in Dallas, hoping to film John F. Kennedy as his motorcade passed. But the president’s car had already gone by, and he recorded only some of the procession, including the back of a car carrying Lyndon Johnson and the side of the White […]
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Tubi’s Free Streaming Explodes in Popularity, Outranking Max and Apple TV+
When Nicole Parlapiano joined Tubi as its marketing chief two years ago, one of the most searched questions about the decade-old streaming service was, “Is it a scam?” It was free, after all, and consumers were skeptical. “Would it put a virus on your computer?” Ms. Parlapiano said. “People wouldn’t even touch it.” That’s not […]
Read MoreMeet David Ellison, the CEO of Skydance and Paramount’s New Owner
David Ellison’s Hollywood career has been defined by high-octane blockbusters filled with suspense, stunts and improbable plot twists. But on Sunday he landed his biggest cliffhanger yet, striking a deal to merge with Paramount after months of negotiations with the company and its controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone. If the deal closes, he will be in […]
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Is Xenophobia on Chinese Social Media Teaching Real-World Hate?
The video posted last year on Chinese social media showed more than 100 Japanese children, supposedly at an elementary school in Shanghai, gathered in their schoolyard. Chinese subtitles quoted two students leading the group as screaming: “Shanghai is ours. Soon the whole China will be ours, too.” The messages were alarming and infuriating in China, […]
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Netflix and Amazon Drive Bump in TV Show Market
It has been nearly seven months since Hollywood resolved its strikes, but momentum still hasn’t taken hold in the entertainment industry. “Survive till ’25” has become an informal slogan among entertainment workers. But the global market for ordering new TV shows is beginning to show some signs of life, and it has been overwhelmingly driven […]
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How Julian Assange Lit the Fuse on the Digital World
On the morning of April 5, 2010, a tall, thin man with a shock of silver hair walked up to a lectern at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He’d been operating an obscure news website out of Iceland for four years, trying and failing to find a scoop that would set the world […]
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Trump Biopic ‘The Apprentice’ Nears Distribution Deal
Hollywood executives love to characterize themselves as fearless. The truth is that they spend most of their time trying to minimize risk. It’s why theaters are clogged with vacuous sequels. It’s why so many Hollywood power players hide behind P.R. people. And it’s why all of the big movie studios and streaming services — and, […]
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NFL Sunday Ticket Lawsuit: Why TV Deals Are So Valuable
A pillar of the N.F.L.’s meteoric rise over the past six decades has been its strategy of making nearly all games available mostly free to fans on national networks. The league has stuck to this approach even as Major League Baseball, the N.B.A. and other leagues moved more of their games onto cable and satellite […]
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How Netflix’s Corporate Culture Has Changed
Netflix has long been a company known for its secrets: no Nielsen ratings, little feedback on why shows are canceled, no box office numbers for the rare movies that are actually released in theaters. Yet for a place defined by its opaque approach to the outside world, the streaming giant has long been aggressively transparent […]
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Clippers Cut a Wide Swath Making Political Campaign Videos Go Viral
When Andrew Lawrence begins his night shift, he powers on his monitor to sift through Fox News’ evening programming. He and his small team at Media Matters for America, the liberal nonprofit media watchdog group, spend hours each day glued to their screens, scanning cable shows, livestreams and congressional hearings for political moments they can […]
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The Future of Netflix, Amazon and Other Streaming Services
When the media titans Brian Roberts, John Malone and Barry Diller cast off in early February on Mr. Diller’s 156-foot, two-masted yacht, named Arriva, the waters off the coast of Jupiter, Fla., were placid. The same could not be said for their sprawling entertainment businesses. The three men meet occasionally to discuss the state of […]
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How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts
President Biden has many adversaries in this year’s election. There are his Republican opponent, former President Donald J. Trump, and the independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And then there is the distorted, online version of himself, a product of often misleading videos that play into and reinforce voters’ longstanding concerns about his age and […]
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Sarah Mandel, Therapist Who Told Her ‘Trauma Narrative,’ Dies at 42
On June 1, a short, emotional video popped up on TikTok with news about Sarah Mandel, a 42-year-old psychologist, wife and mother of two young daughters. “If you’re reading these words right now,” the message on the screen said, “then I have died.” She had asked for help creating the video while in a weakened […]
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‘Inside Out 2’ Returns Pixar to Box Office Heights
Pixar is finally back in fighting form. The Disney-owned animation studio’s 28th movie, “Inside Out 2,” arrived to roughly $145 million in estimated North American ticket sales from Thursday night to Sunday, ending a cold streak that began in March 2020, when theaters closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. It was the second-biggest opening weekend […]
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A Senseless Fire and the Stranger Who Put It Out
The firefighters were gone, the police were on their way, and all around was the aftermath of whatever had happened a couple hours ago. Sabrina Rudin and her father peered at a video on her phone’s screen for some clue. She’d opened the Spring Cafe Aspen on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village three years […]
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HBO Could Use a Hit and ‘House of the Dragon’ Could be the Answer
The dragons are back. And not a moment too soon. On Sunday, “House of the Dragon,” the “Game of Thrones” prequel series, will return to HBO for its second season. The show became a bona fide hit in its first season, in 2022, and helped kick off a torrid winning streak for the network that […]
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Roaring Kitty Came Back to Talk GameStop. Shares Plunged.
Around lunchtime Friday, on a YouTube livestream watched by half a million people, a bandanna-clad man in white sunglasses grinned into his webcam and teased: “I’m about to show it.” Oh, stop it. He meant his brokerage account. Keith Gill, the man better known as Roaring Kitty, who became one of Wall Street’s unlikeliest celebrities […]
Read MoreRussian Disinformation Campaign Targets Summer Olympics in Paris
With its athletes barred from competing in the Summer Olympics under the country’s flag, Russia has turned its fury on the Games and this year’s host, Paris. Russian propagandists have created an hourlong documentary, spoofed news reports and even mimicked French and American intelligence agencies to issue fake warnings urging people to avoid the Games, […]
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Deepfake of U.S. Official Appears After Shift on Ukraine Attacks in Russia
A day after U.S. officials said Ukraine could use American weapons in limited strikes inside Russia, a deepfake video of a U.S. spokesman discussing the policy appeared online. The fabricated video, which is drawn from actual footage, shows the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, seeming to suggest that the Russian city of Belgorod, just 25 […]
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Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets
As much of Seattle tries to sleep, the Hellcat supercar goes on the prowl, the howls of its engine and the explosive backfires from its tailpipes echoing off the high-rise towers downtown. Windows rattle. Pets jump in a frenzy. Even people used to the ruckus of urban living jolt awake, fearful and then furious. Complaints […]
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The Hard Problem of Bringing Trump Into Focus
The video shows Donald Trump standing at a gilded lectern in Mar-a-Lago. It’s December, a week or so before Christmas, and the former president is addressing a group of donors. “You are all people that have a lot of money!” Trump tells them. “I know 20 of you, and you’re rich as hell!” As the […]
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In China, Deepfakes of ‘Russian’ Women Point to ‘Nationalistic Sexism’
The woman declares, in Mandarin inflected with a slight accent, that Chinese men should marry “us Russian women.” In other videos on the Chinese short video platform Douyin, she describes how much she loves Chinese food, and hawks salt and soap from her country. “Russian people don’t trick Chinese people,” she promises. But her lip […]
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Critics Fault ‘Aggressive’ N.Y.P.D. Response to Pro-Palestinian Rally
Violent confrontations at a pro-Palestinian rally in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on Saturday reflected what some local officials and protest organizers called an unexpectedly aggressive Police Department response, with officers flooding the neighborhood and using force against protesters. At the rally, which drew hundreds of demonstrators, at least two officers wearing the white shirts of commanders […]
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Sean Combs Apologizes After Video Shows Him Assaulting Cassie
Two days after CNN published video footage showing him striking, kicking and dragging his former girlfriend, Sean Combs posted a video on social media on Sunday calling his behavior “inexcusable.” The footage that surfaced on Friday showed Mr. Combs, the hip-hop mogul known as Puff Daddy and Diddy, kicking and dragging his former girlfriend, Casandra […]
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Sean Combs Is Shown Assaulting Cassie in 2016 Surveillance Video
Hotel surveillance footage published by CNN on Friday showed Sean Combs physically assaulting and kicking Casandra Ventura, his former girlfriend, in a manner consistent with allegations she made against him in a lawsuit that she filed and settled last year. The video shows Mr. Combs, a hip-hop mogul known as Puff Daddy and Diddy, wearing […]
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Taiwan, on China’s Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way
As it is in the United States, TikTok is popular in Taiwan, used by a quarter of the island’s 23 million residents. People post videos of themselves shopping for trendy clothes, dressing up as video game characters and playing pranks on their roommates. Influencers share their choreographed dances and debate whether the sticky rice dumplings […]
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Voice Actors Sue Company Whose AI Sounds Like Them
Last summer, as they drove to a doctor’s appointment near their home in Manhattan, Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage listened to a podcast about the rise of artificial intelligence and the threat it posed to the livelihoods of writers, actors and other entertainment professionals. The topic was particularly important to the young married couple. […]
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‘Young Sheldon’ Is Set to End as It Finds a New Audience on Netflix
On Thursday, “Young Sheldon,” the successful CBS spinoff of “The Big Bang Theory,” will air its final episode, concluding a seven-year run. “Young Sheldon” never quite captured the same spot in the zeitgeist as its predecessor. But the series does have an unusual distinction: The overall run of the show mirrors the story of the […]
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When Travel Plans Go Awry
The weekend trip is, in theory, the perfect break. Two nights someplace else, just a small duffel bag and limited logistics standing between you and a reset. Leave on Friday, come back Sunday, fill the hours in between with enough that’s novel and return refreshed, or at least with a slightly altered perspective. You might […]
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Disney, Hulu and Max Streaming Bundle Will Soon Become Available
In a rare moment of solidarity, two entertainment giants are teaming up to try to get consumers to stop canceling their streaming services so frequently. Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced on Wednesday that they would start offering a bundle of their Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming services this summer, a sign of how rivals […]
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Netflix Takes Comedy Live With Tom Brady Roast and Katt Williams Special
On Friday night, in the premiere of his appealingly chaotic livestreaming variety show “Everybody’s in L.A.,” which runs every night this week, John Mulaney delivered a monologue about his adopted city next to a map that broke it down into a crooked jigsaw puzzle of neighborhoods. In his distinctive staccato cadence that could sell steak […]
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