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Hollywood’s janitors swept out of jobs by dual strikes
By Jorge Garcia LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Yolanda Cendejas was let go from her job as a studio janitor on May 5, days after Hollywood writers went on strike, leaving the Los Angeles resident without inc...
Sep 14, 2023
Music investor Hipgnosis Songs Fund to sell catalogues to bolster shares
(Reuters) - Music catalogues investor Hipgnosis Songs Fund will sell some catalogues to a partnership between its investment adviser and funds advised by Blackstone for $465 million as it plans to buy...
Sep 14, 2023
SEC fines Stoner Cats creator for offering NFTs
(Reuters) - The creator of the Stoner Cats animated web series will pay a $1 million civil fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges it conducted an unregistered offering of crypt...
Sep 13, 2023
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard bring Hollywood to TIFF amid strikes
By Jenna Zucker TORONTO (Reuters) - Actors Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard brought Hollywood glamour to the Toronto International Film Festival for their family drama "Memory" amid strikes that h...
Sep 12, 2023
Taylor Swift kicks off MTV’s VMAs with win for best pop video
By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -Taylor Swift won best pop music video and song of the year on Tuesday at MTV's Video Music Awards, two of several trophies she was competing for as the most-nominated artis...
Sep 12, 2023
Polish filmmaker brings struggle of Ukrainian evacuations to TIFF
By Jenna Zucker (Reuters) - Days after Russia launched its war on Ukraine, Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela left his home in Warsaw, bought a van, and began transporting evacuees to safety. Hamela's doc...
Sep 12, 2023
Ethan Hawke taps Flannery O’Connor’s fiction to tell her story in ‘Wildcat’
By Jenna Zucker TORONTO (Reuters) - Director Ethan Hawke took a deep dive into the fiction of the late American author Flannery O'Connor for his new film "Wildcat," hoping to tell her story in a way t...
Sep 12, 2023
From ‘Hair Love’ to ‘Young Love’: A Black family’s animated TV tale
By Danielle Broadway and Eric Cox (Reuters) - When director and writer Matthew A. Cherry started a crowdsourced fund in 2017 for his animated short film "Hair Love," he could not have imagined it woul...
Sep 12, 2023
Disney, Charter near distribution deal – CNBC
(Reuters) -Walt Disney and Charter Communications are nearing a distribution deal that would see the entertainment giant's programming return to the Spectrum cable service, CNBC reported on Monday, ci...
Sep 11, 2023
Belgium premiers opera casting Cassandra as climate change scientist
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's national opera house has premiered "Cassandra", an original score recasting the mythical figure of a doomed prophetess as a climate change scientis...
Sep 11, 2023
