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Singapore Airlines upgrades in-flight entertainment with next-gen KrisWorld
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is enhancing its in-flight entertainment experience with next-generation KrisWorld and high-speed connectivity, giving customers more c...
Helen Mirren bags Legend of Entertainment Award at Savannah Film Festival
Helen Mirren has been honoured as a Legend of Entertainment.
50 Cent Trolls Rick Ross After His Son's Alleged Attack
The rapper and entertainment mogul joked that he plans to bail out the suspect who allegedly assaulted Ross' son, William Roberts III.
Dunwoody to discuss adding two entertainment districts
The Dunwoody City Council will discuss adding two new entertainment districts – Georgetown and Jett Ferry – at its meeting on Monday, Oct. 26.
Shia LaBeouf waged one-sided feud with Hilary Duff, says “Even Stevens” costar
Duff’s own Disney Channel series, “Lizzie McGuire,” was one of the Disney Channel’s defining hits of the 2000s.
Big Las Vegas show closures mark a transitional time for Strip entertainment
The culture of Las Vegas is inextricably linked to the artists and technicians behind the Strip’s vibrant live entertainment industry, so any time a show closes
Editorial: Company mergers are causing more harm to the entertainment industry than good
Two weeks ago, Paramount officially completed its $110 billion purchase of the historic Warner Bros.
Queen of Halloween Heidi Klum teases costume with mysterious image
“What’s my costume?,” the model asked fans alongside a strange close-up photo.
‘I love spending time with them’: Lewis Hamilton opens up about Kim Kardashian’s kids
Lewis Hamilton and Kim Kardashian have been one of the most talked-about couples in sports and entertainment this year, but the seven-time Formula 1 world champion has rarely said much about the relat...
China Star Entertainment (SEHK:326) Stock Looks Richly Priced As Its 8.6x Run Continues
China Star Entertainment has logged very strong multi year share gains, so the key issue now is whether the current price can be supported by the value of assets on its balance sheet. For anyone looking at the stock today, the immediate question is how that share price lines up against its book value. Over the past 3 years the stock has returned about 8.6x. This puts a lot of weight on whether the underlying equity in the business justifies this kind of move when you compare it with the...
"It never was entertainment to us, ever. It was always something with a lot more importance and meaning." U2 reveal the unbroken promise that they made to one another as schoolboys in Ireland 50 years ago
"Music is not a matter of life and death, it’s something much more serious than that"
University of Rochester Medicine Home Healthcare holds inaugural Hospice 5K
13WHAM ABC Rochester provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, health reports, notices of events and items of interest in the community, local sports and entertainment programming for Rochester and nearby towns and communities including Greece, Victor, Pittsford, Penfield, Henrietta, Webster, Irondequoit, Fairport, Chili, Gates, Rush, Wheatland, Canandaigua, Farmington, Spencerport and Hilton.
Argument over purchase turns physical; suspect pulls gun at South Side business
KABB Fox News 29 San Antonio provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, investigations, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for San Antonio and nearby towns and communities in South Central Texas, including Bandera, Boerne, Carrizo Springs, Castroville, Cibolo, Converse, Crystal City, Cuero, Del Rio, Devine, Eagle Pass, Floresville, Fredericksburg, Goliad, Helotes, Hondo, Kerrville, Live Oak, New Braunfels, Pearsall, Pleasanton, Poteet, Poth, Sabinal, San Marcos, Seguin, Schertz, Somerset, Universal City, Uvalde, Windcrest.
Argument over purchase turns physical; suspect pulls gun at South Side business
WOAI NBC News Channel 4 San Antonio provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, investigations, and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for San Antonio and nearby towns and communities in South Central Texas, including Windcrest, Uvalde, Universal City, Somerset, Seguin, Schertz, San Marcos, Sabinal, Poth, Poteet, Pleasanton, Pearsall, New Braunfels, Live Oak, Kerrville, Hondo, Helotes, Goliad, Fredericksburg, Floresville, Eagle Pass, Devine, Del Rio, Cuero, Crystal City, Converse, Cibolo, Castroville, Carrizo Springs, Boerne, Bandera.
Iain Armitage says “Young Sheldon” cast drove each other ‘crazy’ while shooting season 3 opening credits
The ensemble would ‘drive each other nuts.’
Iain Armitage says “Young Sheldon” cast drove each other ‘crazy’ while shooting season 3 opening credits
The ensemble would ‘drive each other nuts.’
Photos: Entertainment | Saints vs. Steelers
Check out the entertainment photos from the New Orleans Saints game against the Pittsburgh Steelers for Week 7 of the 2026 NFL season on Oct. 25, 2026 at the Stade de France featuring Burna Boy.
Knoebels’ Hallo-Fun brings Halloween rides, treats and entertainment
FOX56 WOLF TV carries news, sports, weather and coverage of local events in the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania area, including Mountain Top, Plymouth, Nanticoke, Kingston, Back Mountain, Scranton, Moosic, Pittston, Avoca, Edwardsville, Hilldale, Wyoming, Laflin, Yatesville, Pittston, Dupont, Sugar Notch, Korn Krest, Warrior Run and Larksville.
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DOOMSDAY IS COMING! 🎬 LOOK: Marvel Entertainment drops a new trailer for the upcoming "Avengers: Doomsday" movie, featuring Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, and a look at...
Helen Mirren receives Legend of Entertainment Award at SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Helen Mirren receives Legend of Entertainment Award at SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Singapore Airlines to Introduce Next-Generation KrisWorld In-Flight Entertainment from 2027
Singapore Airlines will introduce its next-generation in-flight entertainment system, KrisWorld, from 2027 onward. The system will be installed on a total of 41 refurbished Airbus A350-900 and A350-900ULR aircraft, as well as on Boeing 777-9 aircraft scheduled for future delivery. It will feature 4K high-resolution touchscreens, spatial audio, noise-canceling headphones, and Bluetooth connectivity for passengers’ personal headphones. More than 2,500 items of content, including movies, television programs, music, and podcasts, will be updated monthly. The system will also include a “Wellness Planner” featuring sleep and meditation tracks, breathing exercises, and stretches that can be done at passengers’ seats. In addition, Starlink high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi service will be progressively introduced from […]
How to watch every “Rambo” movie in order, from “First Blood ”to “Last Blood”
They drew first blood, not him.
Jon Gosselin’s ex shares emotional reaction to Collin’s book: ‘I will always be your mom’
Colleen Conrad dated the “Jon and Kate Plus 8” star from 2014 to 2021.
Leland Fall Festival brings trick-or-treating, live entertainment to Founders Park
The Town of Leland is inviting families to celebrate the fall season with a free festival featuring trick-or-treating, live entertainment and activities for all ages.
Netflix’s Leadership Shake Up…Explained
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Well, I had a simple article planned for this week. Called “Whoa, I Missed It!”, I’d take a gander at a few important-but-under-the-radar stories I didn’t cover while I wrote about all things “Skydance. (Formerly known as “the saga of Netflix trying to buy Warner Bros., but not Discovery, then Paramount-Skydance bought all of Warner Bros. Discovery”.) Alas, that article will have to wait. Netflix made news. Ironically, my “Whoa, I Missed It!” article would have mostly been about “content” strategy decisions, which is also what today’s article is about. But instead of the entire industry, this article will only cover Netflix’s decision to upend their film and TV content teams. Just that! So that’s the full topic of the day. I’m going to tackle the issue in the opposite direction of the way “stuff” flows: uphill. We’ll start at film, then move onto TV, and then onto the CEOs themselves, and the strategy questions that still remain. But we start with the numbers driving this. Let’s dive in. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - Netflix Upends Their Corporate Hierarchy I’ve got a lot of thoughts, but we’ll start with the most common response to yesterday’s article. Let’s Talk Stock Price More than one person, responding to what I published two days ago, pointed out that, well, actually, the thing driving Netflix’s actions is this: In short, stock price! Even if Netflix isn’t obsessed with their own share price—they probably are, but, for the record, my strategic advice to every CEO is to absolutely ignore stock prices, which will, ironically, probably help the stock price long-term—most everyone thinks they are. By the way, I prefer market capitalization to stock prices, because it’s a more apples-to-apples way to compare companies: But there’s an even better way to look at it, and it kinda casts some doubt on the entire push here: price-to-earnings. I have a long list of articles that I wish I had written, and chief among them is an article titled, “Am I Still a Netflix ‘Bear’?” meaning someone who thinks Netflix’s stock is overvalued. As of last summer, Netflix had solved their biggest problem—which for me (circa 2019) was the lack of free cash flow—but their stock was CRAZY overvalued. That’s this chart here: Why did Netflix’s stock price increase to a price-to-earnings ratio of 50 last summer? What financial metric changed so quickly? Nothing. Given that, historically, mature entertainment companies average 10 to 20, with 16 being the average, that increase made little sense. Netflix’s stock swoon these last eight or so months wasn’t irrational; the stock price rise last year was. So if you want a really hot Netflix take, here it is: Netflix’s stock price has been going down because the financial industry recovered its senses, not because of any strategic mistake. Yes, that would imply that cleaning house may have been a mistake. That’s why the charts yesterday are so important, because they show that Netflix did have a strategic problem (a lack of hits) and that’s what they moved to address. (One could also argue the industry drastically overrated Netflix’s growth prospects, but that’s a financial industry problem, not a Netflix strategy problem per se. Some growth estimates are just crazy. *cough* AI *cough*) Now, the last time Netflix’s stock price crashed—circa 2022—it gave them an opening. I’d argue Netflix insiders knew they needed to expand post-COVID-19 crisis, adding advertising, cracking down on password sharing, and dabbling in sports. But if they had done that when their stock price was high, it would give folks a reason to second guess their strategy. (Arguably, last year, when Netflix pursued the Warner Bros. merger, it gave the industry a chance to review their business.) Instead, after the 2022 fall, they had the opening to make strategic changes. We may see Netflix pivot again following this latest slide. For example, the “binge versus weekly” conversation is alive and well again. Same for expanding into theaters even more. And adding both linear channels and streaming bundles. And maybe more either social, user-generated, vertical, or creator content. But the first shift came with who is making the content calls. A Message from Our Sponsor Last winter Pulp Fiction was on Netflix. For those same 90 days, it was also free, with ads, on Pluto TV and the Roku Channel. That is not a glitch, and it is not rare. The title has run on 20 different US streaming services since 2019, across 80 separate windows, and for more than 600 of those days it sat on a paid subscription service and a free ad-supported one at the same time. Almost nobody can see this, because when a title leaves a service, the record that it was ever there tends to leave with it. Reelgood keeps that record, dated to the day rather than the month: 4MM+ movie, show and episode titles across 300+ services globally, with timestamped arrivals, departures and moves across SVOD, AVOD, TVOD and vMVPD. Licensing teams price against every prior window. Rights teams check what a licensee actually delivered, and when. Pick a title you think you know: data.reelgood.com/title-availability Film - Dan Lin Want to know why I don’t opine on individual film or TV executives, especially new hires? Dan Lin. As I always caution, it’s really, really, really tough to predict which executives will succeed in new roles and which won’t. The successful head of co-production/finance partner, Rideback, Lin was considered for the head of DC Studios job before taking the job as the head of Netflix. By all accounts at the time, this was a smart hire. (That’s my read of the news coverage anyways.) But now that Netflix has fired Dan Lin, we got a slew of news stories about how he was doing a terrible job. In sports media, Bryan Curtis, new Substack writer/podcaster from The Ringer, calls this the “now you tell us” story, when you only hear the bad news after a star athlete leaves a sports team. In this case, now they tell us that Dan Lin was bad with talent after he got kicked out the door. So was Dan Lin a flop? It’s actually tough to say. While film moves faster than TV, even two years isn’t really enough time to evaluate a person’s output. The new head hasn’t really taken control. As Emily Horgan noted, it takes much longer than two years to produce animated films, so yeah, it’s definitely too early to judge in that domain. As for live-action films, I just published an article by Brandon Katz called “Netflix’s Summer of Bummer”, but I’d point out Netflix had a bad summer two years ago too. Arguably, their best summer came from KPop Demon Hunters last year and Happy Gilmore 2, the latter of which I saw credited to Lin. Then, the stories came out that Dan Lin clashed with talent, both Ben Affleck and Greta Gerwig, classic “now they tell us” factoids to explain his firing. This may have been true, but also should have been expected given that he was given the mandate to bring budgets back in check, especially after Rebel Moon. So if he made folks upset, well, that’s what he was hired to do! But also, he was described as “well-liked” at his hiring! In that case, I’m a bit sympathetic to Lin, since he may have been undercut by senior leadership, as often happens. Basically, a CEO hires a subordinate to be their “bad cop” and keep budgets in check, but then when talent complains, the CEO ends up undercutting them. That’s how I think you end up with a Narnia movie as expensive as any of the other flops, along with a film executive the town no longer likes. As a result, I think that Netflix is now executing a classic “hire the opposite” move by hiring Peter Rice. This phrase comes from my experience following football and basketball coaching decisions, where teams generally hire the opposite of who they just had. If you have an offense-minded head coach, hire the defensive guy. Or in college football, if you have a strong recruiter, then you pivot to an “X’s and Os” type of guy. Or in pro basketball, if you have a very analytically minded coach, you hire the player-friendly guy. I see that here. After dropping Scott Stuber—arguably a talent-friendly executive with lax budget control—Netflix hired the business guy to keep costs in check. Now Netflix is pivoting back to Peter Rice and presumably a more talent-friendly regime. (Disney, by the way, has done this twice: hiring business guys to succeed talent-friendly Bob Iger. It didn’t work out last time.) When it comes to Peter Rice…we’ll see! Maybe he works out, but maybe he doesn’t. I’d actually say the biggest problem is that Netflix still hasn’t solved its “IP Problem”, in that they don’t own much IP, so they just have a lower hit rate. The new executive won’t solve that. (Though buying Lionsgate would help.) Share “Content” - Bela Bajaria I almost published yesterday’s article after this column, but ended up flipping the order, because it told the story so well. So if you want the data for why Netflix is looking at TV to fix their problems, it’s in that article, this graph in particular: I know I just wrote that it’s often hard to judge executives, but Bajaria ran TV for six years and film for three and a half more. That’s more than enough to judge hit rates, and Netflix needs more hits. That’s the story. Since 2023, Netflix hasn’t had as many hit shows as it used to, and many of its previous power house TV shows have ended their runs (Stranger Things most of all). Also, many shows from 2020 to 2022 probably pre-dated Bajaria’s tenure. (That said, one thing may have been outside of Bajaria’s control, which I explain below.) Let’s lump some content strategy thoughts about Netflix and TV into one place: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… Why I partially blame Squid Game for Netflix’s latest troubles… What is “the football trap”... Why it might not be the TV shows or films’ fault at all… What change I don’t think Netflix will make... How Bela Bajaria evolved Netflix’s TV strategy in smart ways… Whose departure likely submarined Bajaria’s final few years… One sneaky explanation for Netflix’s content struggles... And a whole lot more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support.
Reality TV star Anika Rashaun dead at 34: ‘Lived her years fully’
Rashaun starred on both “The Real World” and “The Challenge.”
Global Leading Robot Dog Dinosaur Manufacturer Hidinosaurs: Redefining Smart Entertainment at CAAPA
The location-based entertainment industry is entering a new era driven by Smart Entertainment, where interactive technology and immersive storytelling define
Professional Dinosaur Costumes Supplier Hidinosaurs: Which Features Matter Most for Entertainment Venues
Which features create immediate crowd engagement in modern theme parks? Which specifications ensure reliable daily performances in bustling family entertainment
ENTERTAINMENT: UALR offers Liszt lecture and piano performance
Experience the magic of art and culture with free events in Little Rock, from stunning piano recitals to immersive dance shows and folklore tales.
Jenna Ortega says Disney Channel media training ruined her sense of boundaries: ‘No pressure!’
Ortega starred on “Stuck in the Middle” from 2016 to 2018.
Kristen Bell’s daughter takes ‘sneaky photos’ of Dax Shepard when actress is out of town: ‘I have a mole on the ground’
The couple share daughters Lincoln, 13, and Delta, 11.
“Wicker” stars have a theory on why women are ‘slightly feral’ over Alexander Skarsgård’s character
Skarsgård’s sexy basket is “the whole package,” costar Olivia Colman says.
Tom Arnold defends Roseanne Barr from Chuck Lorre’s claim she ‘hated’ her show’s writers: ‘She only liked the funny ones’
Lorre’s memoir, “Sitcom,” has ignited a firestorm of controversy that shows no signs of slowing down.
Iain Armitage cried while shooting the “Young Sheldon” pilot
“They were quiet tears, which made it all the more heartbreaking.”
11 celebrities who got candid about being cheated on — and how they handled the heartbreak
We love hearing about celebrities who cheated, but what about the celebs who got cheated on?
Samuel L. Jackson worked as a security guard at Larry David’s NYC apartment before fame
The “Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David” reveals how the two first crossed paths.
Oct. 24 Arts & Entertainment Calendar
Events coming up in the Greenville area offer music, arts, theater and family fun. Here is a sampling. “Today” refers to events scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 24.
VIVA Cruises confirms autumn and Christmas entertainment programme
VIVA Cruises has confirmed its autumn and Christmas 2026 onboard entertainment programme. Headline acts include performances from ‘Inspire Extraordinary’ - a live contemporary circus-style show - combining visual performance and acrobatics designed to work within the intimate setting of VIVA’s river ships. The show - which was successfully trialled earlier this year - will perform on 42 selected departures aboard VIVA TWO, VIVA ENJOY, VIVA MOMENTS and VIVA ONE during October and November.
Yountville launches entertainment zone
Yountville in Napa County launched its first open container district.
Regional Entertainment Calendar
Upcoming entertainment events scheduled within a 250-mile radius of Mountain Home include: Sunday, Oct. 25 Dirty Dancing: The Musical, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson […]
From Wildwood to John Legend: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Anination studio Laika takes flight with a grownup stop-motion tale, while the Grammy-, Oscar- and everything-winner returns with a Pharell-produced 11th album
Arts and entertainment throughout the region
A listing of arts and entertainment events throughout the region.
Arts and entertainment throughout the region
A listing of arts and entertainment events throughout the region.
Bexar County opens facility combining public health, community resources
WOAI NBC News Channel 4 San Antonio provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, investigations, and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for San Antonio and nearby towns and communities in South Central Texas, including Windcrest, Uvalde, Universal City, Somerset, Seguin, Schertz, San Marcos, Sabinal, Poth, Poteet, Pleasanton, Pearsall, New Braunfels, Live Oak, Kerrville, Hondo, Helotes, Goliad, Fredericksburg, Floresville, Eagle Pass, Devine, Del Rio, Cuero, Crystal City, Converse, Cibolo, Castroville, Carrizo Springs, Boerne, Bandera.
Inside JYP's trainee system: NMIXX studied everything from table manners to IT
Learning to sing and dance was apparently only part of the job for trainees at JYP Entertainment. NMIXX members Jiwoo and Kyujin have offered a gli...
Nathan Lane details Robin Williams being star-struck by Clint Eastwood on the set of “The Birdcage”
“Robin says, ‘Clint Eastwood is here. Let’s go look at him!’” he recalled.
Fever owner Pacers Sports & Entertainment release statement after firing Amber Cox
The Indiana Fever have parted ways with general manager Amber Cox after their season ended early in the postseason at the hands of the Las Vegas Aces. Pacers Sports & Entertainment confirmed in a statement on Friday that Cox will follow team president Kelly Krauskopf , who announced earlier that she was stepping down from her role. Mel Raines, […] The post Fever owner Pacers Sports & Entertainment release statement after firing Amber Cox appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Witney Carson and Mark Ballas refused ‘to be in the same room’ during “DWTS” season 21 feud, PenaVegas claim
The professional dancers were once so close that Ballas cast Carson in one of his music videos and even planned her 21st birthday party.
Chelsea Handler says Reese Witherspoon and son Deacon Phillippe ‘look like a couple’ in birthday photo
“I love you so much, so lucky to be your mom,” Witherspoon wrote in her caption.
5 things to know about The Promenade at Sunset Walk's Trunk-or-Treat
For the 7th year, an Osceola County entertainment destination rocks out its trunk-or-treat festivities, free of charge.
The Violent Cost of Being a Woman in Politics Spans Continents
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world ... with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment. This week: —There is not (yet) the political will in the U.S. to talk about gender quotas ... but 35 nations in Europe have either been mandated or volunteered to implement them. —Weeks after the brutal rape of Arizona congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia, Australian independent member of Parliament Helen Haines is in hospital in a critical condition after she was struck by a car outside her office in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said appears to have been "a deliberate act." —"Politicians are no longer treated like we’re human,” says Arizona state legislator Alma Hernandez, who is facing rising harassment and threats. —Federal agents searched the Washington-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a frequent critic of Republican President Donald Trump. —If elected governor of Georgia, Keisha Lance Bottoms would become the first Black woman governor in U.S. history. ... and more.
Former housekeeper for Kate Gosselin corroborates her son Collin’s abuse allegations, claims she reported to child services
Collin previously alleged Kate was reported to child services, although he said the agency did not find the abuse claims credible.
Watch “The Simpsons”’ spooky stop-motion “Nightmare Before Christmas” parody from ‘Treehouse of Horror’ (exclusive)
The new opening comes from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the stop-motion team behind “Robot Chicken.”
Sylvester Stallone addresses his daughter joining him on“ Tulsa King”: ‘Of course it’s nepotism, you idiot’
“Oh please, you’re not a good parent if you haven’t performed a little nepotism,” Stallone said.
Kym Whitley talks stand-up comedy, entertainment career
Entertainer Kym Whitley discussed her comedy performance at the Bowie Performing Arts Center as part of the “Bangin’ in Bowie” comedy series on Oct. 24. She also talked about her …
“Nobody Wants This ”cast has some thoughts about the season 3 love triangle: ‘It’s complicated’
Are they Team Morgan or Team Esther?
Stephanie March to return as Alexandra Cabot on “SVU ”8 years after last appearance on the show
The former NBC star appeared in 97 episodes as one of the most iconic ADAs in “SVU” history.
Entertainment 360 and Griffin Gaming Partners Launch HITpoint Entertainment
Entertainment 360 and Griffin Gaming Partners are launching a joint production company called HITpoint Entertainment.
Entertainment 360 and Griffin Gaming Partners Launch HITpoint Entertainment
Entertainment 360 and Griffin Gaming Partners are launching a joint production company called HITpoint Entertainment, focused solely on adapting video games. The post Entertainment 360 and Griffin Gam...
Hailee Steinfeld releases new song 'Magic' from 'Hexed'
Hailee Steinfeld at the Disney Entertainment Showcase at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event on Aug. 14, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Disney, FILE)
Jeremy Renner makes rare red carpet appearance with 13-year-old daughter Ava
The daddy-daughter duo attended the 24th annual Alice nella Città film festival in Rome.
Rodeo Cruelty Is Not Entertainment — Expedia Must Stop Selling Tickets!
Rodeos torture animals, inflicting terror, pain, injury, and sometimes death. Expedia must follow TripAdvisor: stop selling rodeo tickets.
“Yaga”, “Clayface”, and stop-motion fantasy film “Wildwood ”top this week’s Must List
A “Baby-Sitters Club” podcast and a new stage production of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” round out our picks for the weekend of Oct. 23.
Live & Local: Where to find upcoming local music, open mics and live entertainment
Rafters
Selma Blair’s former “DWTS” partner Sasha Farber says she’s ‘doing great’ after arrest
“We are family. She is literally my family,” he said.
New report reveals staggering amount of money the Real Housewives set aside for their beauty budget
“I budgeted about $30,000 for glam.”
Constance Wu shares new details on “Crazy Rich Asians ”show, confirms she’s read script: ‘It’s really funny’
It’s finally happening!
Fusion Entertainment Signs Ryan DeForeest
Fusion Entertainment has signed writer-director Ryan DeForeest and started development on a feature adaptation of his short film 'My Brother & Me.'
‘Jennings Alive’ festival brings free family fun and live entertainment downtown
This free event features 64 vendors, live entertainment, and activities for attendees of all ages!
Carmel India Fall Festival set for Saturday in Gwinnett
The Carmel India Fall Festival will bring a day of food, culture and family-friendly entertainment to the community Saturday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Ellen Burstyn slams “Exorcist” franchise continuing: ‘It’s enough already’
“Isn’t there enough already of the ‘Exorcist’ thing?”
Ethan Klein says “H3 Podcast” is on ‘indefinite hiatus’ amid allegations he cheated on wife Hila Klein
The “H3 Podcast” crew denounced Ethan and shared they would no longer be working with him.
Megan Lawless & Lili Taylor Among Eight New Additions To STX/Aggregate’s ‘PRƎPPY’
EXCLUSIVE: Obsession‘s Megan Lawless and three-time Emmy nominee Lili Taylor (Outer Range) are among new additions to PRƎPPY, the true-crime flick from STX Entertainment and Aggregate Films that we an...
“The View” cancels fan-favorite cohost Halloween costumes for 3rd consecutive year
The show’s panelists previously wore elaborate costumes on the air, ranging from full-body “Avatar” makeup to Carl from “Up!”
“MobLand” star Mandeep Dhillon teases the ‘mess’ still to come in season 2: ‘God, it’s chaotic’
The actress breaks down Seraphina’s big pitch in the latest episode.
Brandi Glanville is ‘taking my face off’ to undergo ‘power wash’ under her skin, as health battle continues
The former Bravo star has been chronicling her facial disfigurement since 2023.
Craig Hogan’s Emmy Moment Featured on E! Entertainment Following Bold Red Carpet Fashion Statement
Irish entertainer Craig Hogan turned his first Emmy Awards appearance into a defining personal style moment, using a
Check out a batch of sexy new “Rocky Horror Show” cast photos giving absolute pleasure
Don’t get strung out by the way they look.
'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Remains Atop Weekly U.K. Home Entertainment Sales Chart Through Oct. 23
Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day remained No. 1 for a second week on the Official Film Chart, the weekly U.K. home entertainment sales chart, through Oct. 23. The movie currently tops the 2026 global box office with $2.51 billion in ticket sales. At No. 2 was Warner’s Practical Magic 2, which made its retail debut. … Continue reading "‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Remains Atop Weekly U.K. Home Entertainment Sales Chart Through Oct. 23"
'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Remains Atop Weekly U.K. Home Entertainment Sales Chart Through Oct. 23
Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day remained No. 1 for a second week on the Official Film Chart, the weekly U.K. home entertainment sales chart, through Oct. 23. The movie currently tops the 2026 global box office with $2.51 billion in ticket sales. At No. 2 was the retail debut of Warner’s Practical Magic 2, the … Continue reading "‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Remains Atop Weekly U.K. Home Entertainment Sales Chart Through Oct. 23"
Provident Entertainment Signs Hip-Hop Artist Skema Boy
Provident Entertainment Signs Hip-Hop Artist Skema Boy
Why Chloe Troast was relieved to be fired from “SNL”
The comedian and actress said she was thankful for the support that she received from her fellow cast members and the show’s writers after being cut.
Bravo casts controversial “Big Brother ”star Aaryn Williams on Texas-based reality show
The former “Big Brother” star, otherwise known as Aaryn Gries, appeared on season 15 of the CBS series.
“Jerry Maguire ”child“ ”star Jonathan Lipnicki says career comments were ‘taken out of context’: ‘It bugged me a bit’
“I’ve never felt sorry for myself,” says the “Primetime” actor.
Meghan Markle reacts to ‘sickening’ child pornography allegations against father: ‘I am deeply distressed’
She called the claims “troubling and disturbing.”
Bill Murray pokes his head into stranger’s empty car while teasing his new golf show: ‘Get a load of this’
The eccentric actor lives up to his reputation during a delightful chat.
Joe Amabile plans to run the NYC marathon 3 months after brain surgery
The Bachelor Nation star says he “wanted to focus on something positive.”
Pope hope, that’s entertainment, and getting ahead in the CIA
Happy Friday friends, I want to start by just breathing for all of us a big long collective sigh of relief at the news this week that the pope’s doctors have basically blown the all clear for Leo’s health. Going from knowing nothing to him declaring to the world he needed surgery, to a cancer diagnosis, to bouncing out of the hospital in barely even days, to ringing the bell in less than two weeks is whiplash inducing. But in the best possible way. We are living in a world in which the Roman pontiff, by dint of history, biography and circumstance, is once more at the epicenter of global affairs. Not just conversations about religion, or Christian and post-Christian values, but the bleeding edge of the most pressing issues of human affairs. Think I am exaggerating a touch? Consider the images of the crowds who greeted Leo in Paris just weeks ago, and juxtapose them with the absolute photo negative scenes unfolding there recently. Ask yourself how many world leaders are talking about AI right now and directly citing the pope as they do so. Try to name a country who has had as many top-ranked diplomats in and out of both Russia and Ukraine in the last three years as the Vatican has in the last three months. It has been fascinating to watch Leo XIV emerge as not just a kind of pop culture reference point or totem to be cited (Francis was often name-checked this way) but as a kinetic force in global conversation. Given the state of things, we need global figures of gravitas and values, even better if they have real wisdom behind what they are saying. So news of Leo’s illness was, it seemed to me, a tremor with potentially Richter Scale implications. That not only has the worst not come to pass but instead we’ve had the best of outcomes announced is something to really be grateful for. Humanity, it seems to me, is entering one of its irregular but cyclical phases where the pace of change — technological, social, and geopolitical — outstrips the ability of previously settled norms and received wisdom to cope. Such periods – and I think the first decades of the last century were a similar such time – throw into question the viability of all kinds of institutions. And many of ours have been straining to breaking point for a few years now. The papacy has the power and the potential to be a steadying pole in all of this. That’s my hope, anyway. It’s a lot to freight the office with, though it is arguably its ultimate purpose from its founding, to be a steadying rock on which all that matters can be anchored. It’s also, of course, an intolerable weight of responsibility to place on a single man. But I am encouraged to have hope in – and for – Leo. The apostle whom he succeeds, after all, was famously unequal to some moments, failed some tests of faith, and resiled from taking the road which led ultimately to the circus on Vatican hill. Human frailty and limitations, of health, of character, of temper, can open us to Christ, whose strength is greatest in our weakness, so St. Paul learned. That gives me hope, and I am sure it consoles Leo, too. And so I will continue to pray for him. Because we need apostles of rock right now. Here’s the news. Subscribe The News The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued yesterday a new document “Venite ad me: Considerations on the Transmission of the Faith in an Epochal Change.” It’s not a short document, and it is at pains to stress this isn’t a doctrinal note from the dicastery, either. Rather, it brings together reflections on an important issue from the Church around the world. Some of it I actually found really rather powerful. It is, however, 25,000, which is a lot for a busy reader to get through on a weekday. So, you can read our busy reader’s summary right here. — News broke yesterday of an Oct. 22 meeting of U.S. bishops with President Donald Trump. The meeting was organized by an official at the Heritage Foundation, according to several sources close to the meeting. Video of several U.S. bishops praying in the Oval Office over President Trump was posted on social media Thursday afternoon, first by White House Communications Advisor Margo Martin, and then by the official twitter.com account of the Archdiocese of Denver. The meeting has drawn sharp criticism because of its proximity to the upcoming midterm Congressional elections, in which Democrats are widely expected to win control of the House of Representatives, while control of the Senate remains closely contested. Sources close to the bishops’ conference told The Pillar that some USCCB senior officials were surprised by the existence of the meeting when video of it first emerged online. And a source close to conference president Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City told The Pillar that the archbishop was “deeply frustrated” by the occasion of the meeting. An official conference spokesperson told The Pillar that the meeting was “not organized with or by the USCCB” and was “not affiliated with the conference.” You can read the whole story here. — The next National Eucharistic Congress will be held in Indianapolis in 2029, a return to the city that hosted the last gathering in 2024. You read it here first. By here, I don’t mean this newsletter, I mean at The Pillar. We broke the story this week. It’s a big deal, in as much as the last congress was a roaring success and the next installment has the potential to be a real focal point for evangelizing efforts in the coming years. Read all about it here. — As Pope Leo prepares for the longest trip of his pontificate, Church leaders in Uruguay say the pontiff will encounter a highly secularized culture, in a country with a very different Catholic history than many of its South American neighbors. The nation has not had a papal visit since 1988, and leaders who spoke with The Pillar say it has a dire need for evangelization, even amid the prospect of a small revival in faith. This is real reporting on the Church in the country, and frankly a story you simply are not going to be able to read anywhere else. Read the whole thing. — The Archdiocese of Detroit announced this week a plan that would see the vast majority of its parish priests reassigned next summer, amid a restructuring process expected to dramatically shrink the number of parishes in the archdiocese. Archbishop Edward Weisenburger said this week that the plan “asks much of our priests,” but is a “sacrifice they are making as brothers of one, unified presbyterate.” The thing is, as JD pointed out in an analysis yesterday, pastors of parishes have a legal right to stability in office, so the only way this kind of wholesale reassignment goes ahead is if all of the archdiocesan clergy agree to resign. That creates its own kind of legal issues, though, and re-raises longstanding questions about the effectiveness of canonical due process protections for priests when dealing with coercive exercises in authority. Read the whole thing here. — More than three months after the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its decree declaring the excommunication of the leadership of the Society of St. Pius X, questions remain about the full effects of the society’s schism. Specifically, the DDF’s July claim that marriages witnessed and confessions heard by SSPX priests are now invalid remains contested — and it emerged this week it appears that the Vatican’s own legal experts don’t agree. You can read my whole analysis of the situation and what it means here. All I would add is that the DDF’s undeveloped, some would say unsubstantiated, claim about the invalidity of some SSPX sacraments came in their July Explanatory Note on the schismatic consecrations by the society that month. It touches directly on both papal acts of governance — indeed it purports to nullify them — and the most intimate pastoral encounters possible in a parish setting. If there is one aspect of the Francis-era style of governance I would like the curia to finally cut out, root and branch, it would be these attempts to try to effect extraordinarily sensitive legislative acts via a note. — At least a dozen French bishops have spoken out following an eruption of violence on the country’s streets Oct. 17. Not surprisingly, they unanimously condemned the violence, but the length and content of their interventions varied significantly. Several sought to distinguish between the actions of rioters and what they suggested were the legitimate concerns of peaceful young protesters. Many also evoked Pope Leo XIV’s Sept. 25-28 visit to France, suggesting it offered a powerful counter-image to the scenes of looting and destruction. A number of bishops also stressed their solidarity with law enforcement officials who struggled to contain the disorder, as well as the owners of the roughly 3,000 damaged or looted businesses. What’s the background to the nationwide unrest that the French media calls “les violences du 17 octobre”? And what exactly are the bishops saying? Read all about it here. — A Polish bishop called for the firm defense of unborn children as well as compassion for their mothers this week, as the lower house of Poland’s parliament passed two bills seeking to liberalize the country’s abortion laws. The bill on decriminalizing assistance in an abortion passed by 217 votes to 213, while the abortion in cases of fetal abnormality bill passed by 233 to 203, thanks to the government’s majority in the lower house. Both bills will now move to the Polish Senate, the upper house of parliament, where the ruling coalition has a larger majority. The fetal abnormality bill is symbolically significant because if it became law, it would effectively overturn a 2020 ruling by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal that a 1993 law permitting abortion for a severe and irreversible disability or a life-threatening incurable disease was unconstitutional. Read the whole story here. Subscribe **[The St. Paul Center App | Bible Study On-The-Go Read and understand the Bible with St. Paul Center’s new app! With today’s leading Catholic Scripture scholars as your guides, the St. Paul Center app empowers you to read the Bible](https://stpaulcenter.com/app?utm_source=pillar&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=applaunch)** from the heart of the Church. Download the app for free at either the Apple or the Google app stores. https://stpaulcenter.com/app That’s entertainment I have written before about my deep and sincere reservations about the celebrity exorcist subculture which has taken root in American Catholicism. And, because I am very ill at ease with the entire thing, I try to keep a weather eye on the phenomenon without being drawn into the kind of online back-and-forth which these figures sometimes generate. Earlier this week, JD noted that one such celebrity exorcist type, Fr. Chad Ripperger, has undertaken, on the request of his bishop, a year’s fast from interviews and public speaking. I’m sure that will be salutary for him, if for no other reason than that receiving with docility requests from one’s rightful ecclesiastical superiors always comes with graces. Then a second thing happened this week which caught my eye. Apparently, another fixture in the celebrity exorcist world, Fr. Carlos Martins, has initiated a lawsuit against two lay men — apparently associates of Rippenger, though I am unclear in what way, exactly — for allegedly defaming him and his ministry on a podcast. It seems the suit was initiated nearly a year ago and is now pending. At issue, I read, is that the two men described Martins on a podcast as “not who he says he is” with regard to his exorcism ministry and that he “doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” These statements Martins considers to be false and defamatory and, his suit claims, “directly affected the sale and reception of [his] The Exorcist Files book that was newly released at the time these episodes aired.” I don’t want to get too into the weeds of the details here, but a couple of things struck me about all this.
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