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Paramount Sends ByteDance Cease-and-Desist Letter Over Seedance AI Videos, Alleging...
by Todd Spangler on February 15, 2026 at 4:57 am
Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in “blatant infringement” of its intellectual property with its Seedance video and Seedream image generative AI platforms, alleging the Chinese internet giant is illegally ripping off IP […]
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‘Filipinana’ Director Rafael Manuel on ‘White Lotus’ Comparisons, Jia Zhangke’s...
by Naman Ramachandran on February 15, 2026 at 4:45 am
Rafael Manuel spent seven or eight years developing “Filipinana,” his debut feature about a teenage girl working at an elite Manila country club — years before HBO’s “The White Lotus” turned the luxury resort […]
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French Romantic Comedy ‘The Doll’ About a Life-Sized Doll Coming to Life Sells to...
by elskes on February 15, 2026 at 4:40 am
Urban Sales has closed a raft of deals on “The Doll” (“La Poupée Vertigo”), a French romantic comedy starring Vincent Macaigne (“Maria”), Cécile de France (“The New Pope”) and Zoé […]
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Poll Surprise: Bad Bunny Comes Out Ahead of Trump When U.S. Adults Are Asked, ‘Who...
by Chris Willman on February 15, 2026 at 4:29 am
A new Yahoo!/YouGov poll shows more Americans approving of Bad Bunny than of his recent nemesis-in-chief, Donald J. Trump, in the wake of controversy over last weekend’s Super Bowl halftime show, by a margin of 42% for the Puerto Rican […]
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Providence Equity ‘Fully Committed’ to Supporting Wasserman Agency Amid Sale...
by Cynthia Littleton on February 15, 2026 at 1:55 am
Providence Equity is aiming to calm the waters within the Wasserman agency after Friday night’s surprise news that the firm will be put up for sale and founder Casey Wasserman will leave amid the furor over his appearances in the Epstein […]
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Mexico’s Cinemex Nabs ‘Abracadaver’ (EXCLUSIVE)
by John Hopewell on February 15, 2026 at 1:55 am
Cinemex, the Mexican film distribution-exhibition giant, has set a second-quarter release date for “Abracadaver,” the final movie from writer-actor-director Pancho Rodríguez (“Looking for an Angel”), who died Nov. 13. […]
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Charli xcx Brings ‘Brat’ to Berlin With ‘The Moment’ Premiere and Says She’s...
by Ellise Shafer on February 14, 2026 at 11:09 pm
Charli xcx said she’s ready for a new era at the Berlin Film Festival premiere of “The Moment” – but she’s still figuring out just what that is. Following the screening at Zoo Palast, which was filled to the brim with […]
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Barack Obama Reacts to Donald Trump’s AI Video Depicting Him as an Ape: ‘There...
by Jack Dunn on February 14, 2026 at 9:55 pm
During a recent appearance on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, Barack Obama gave his reaction after an AI video was posted to Donald Trump’s Truth Social account that depicted the former president and his first lady, Michelle, as apes. Obama […]
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‘Nightborn’ Review: Rupert Grint and Seidi Haarla Headline an Effective Blend of...
by Guy Lodge on February 14, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Motherhood can be… a lot, as both Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” reminded us last year. Now, here comes a riposte in the horror genre: Hanna […]