The merger, announced Friday, would bring two of the industry’s biggest players in film and TV under one roof. Beyond its television and motion picture division, Warner owns HBO Max and DC Studios.
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‘Left-Handed Girl’ takes on quiet shame across generations in Taipei
Shih-Ching Tsou has collaborated with filmmaker Sean Baker for years. Tsou’s solo directorial debut uses Taipei as its canvas to tell a story about women making ends meet in the city.
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‘Stranger Things’ is back. Does everything old still feel new?
The first episodes of the show’s fifth and final season are out on Wednesday night. Critic Eric Deggans says the Duffer Brothers keep the plot moving along — even though, so far, many of the storylines feel familiar.
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‘The Running Man,’ a new ‘Now You See Me,’ and George Clooney are in theaters
And on Apple TV, a touching and surprisingly funny new documentary about the poet Andrea Gibson and their struggle with cancer.
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Disney eyes a future where users help shape the story
Disney CEO Bob Iger said his company is talking with AI companies about allowing subscribers to create their own short-form videos on Disney+.
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‘Death by Lightning’ unfolds like an 1880s ‘West Wing’
Netflix’s new four-part miniseries dives into the plot to assassinate President James Garfield. Death by Lightning is full of recognizable arrogance, political intrigue and unexpected betrayal.
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Frankenstein is the monster (movie) Guillermo del Toro was born to bring to life
Guillermo del Toro has said it was his lifelong dream to make his own version of Frankenstein. That dream has now been realized — and then some.
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Comic Cristela Alonzo grew up in fear of border patrol. ICE has ‘brought it all back’
For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy.
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The soundtrack to ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ surges on the charts
Amid a cluster of top 10 album debuts this week, there’s a left-field hit with staying power: the soundtrack to the Netflix original movie KPop Demon Hunters, which surges into the top five.
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In Season 3, ‘Squid Game’ hasn’t changed much — and that’s the problem
The third and final season of Netflix’s most popular show is still a prescient commentary on wealth — but its heavy-handed narrative feels too predictable the third time around.
