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Zaslav's Farewell Is An Empty Room

via The farewell and the money: Deadline · The post-deal org chart: Deadline · Zaslav's pay package: Deadline · The debt raise: Deadline

According to Deadline, David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery for a few more hours, posted a three-minute farewell video to the company's internal portal on Monday. The Paramount deal is expected to close today. In it, Zaslav sits in a stiff-backed chair …

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Digger Needed $350M, It Got $20M

via Cruise's defense: Variety · The box office report: Variety · The loss estimate: The Guardian · The merger tie-in: The New York Times

Tom Cruise's "Digger," Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satirical black comedy about an oil tycoon whose malfunctioning Antarctica drilling rig sends an ice cap hurtling toward Europe, opened to $8 million in North America and $20 million worldwide, and Cruise said in …

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Miley's No. 1 Lasted One Weekend

via The chart report: Variety · The No. 1 debut: Billboard · The chart itself: Billboard 200 · The video: Rolling Stone

Miley Cyrus's "Bass Persuades" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 on September 28 and then plummeted to No. 157 in its second week, the biggest drop ever recorded for an album after a No. 1 debut, according to Variety. The mechanism is the chart itself. For…

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The Queen Obituary Was A Gin Launch

via The denial itself: Daily Express · The misquoted headline: Rolling Stone · The gin launch: Yahoo Music · The interview that was misquoted: The Times

Brian May took to Instagram to deny that he said Queen will never tour again, calling Rolling Stone's "Brian May Says Queen Won't Tour Again" headline a "misinterpretation" of his interview, per the Daily Express, and adding "I made a personal decision last ye…

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The Phantom Gets A Cinema Release He Never Wanted

via The deal: Deadline · The 40th anniversary gala details: What's On Stage · The 2004 film, the precedent: Wikipedia

Universal Pictures Content Group, LW Entertainment, and Cameron Mackintosh are producing a live recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera for a 2027 cinema release, via Deadline. The film will capture the production's 40th anniversary gala at His…

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Lorre's Roseanne Malice Is Now Podcast Content

via The quotes: Variety · The podcast: Dinner's on Me · The show and its revival: Wikipedia

On a recent episode of the "Dinner's on Me" podcast, Chuck Lorre described working as a writer on two seasons of Roseanne as "malice. It was absolute," per Variety. Roseanne Barr "hated that there were writers. Fundamentally hated that other people wrote words…

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Kidman's Daughter Is The Front Row Inheritance

via The photos: Just Jared · The March pre-Oscars party, same deal: Just Jared · Front row scene report: Vogue · The full guest list: WWD

According to Just Jared, Nicole Kidman brought her 15-year-old daughter Faith to the Chanel Spring 2027 show at the Grand Palais in Paris on Monday, October 5, where the pair sat the front row alongside Dua Lipa, Olivia Wilde, Marion Cotillard and Pedro Pascal…

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Braun's Peace Treaty Is A Follow Button

via The actual report: Page Six · The 2019 "evil person" quote: Page Six · The feud timeline: Billboard · The show, per the reviews: Broadway.com

According to Page Six, Scooter Braun shared a rehearsal clip from his former client Todrick Hall's Off-Broadway musical "Midnight" on his Instagram story over the weekend, and the two, who fell out in 2019, are now following each other on Instagram again. Repr…

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