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		<title>Here&#8217;s How to Watch 2026 Indycar Series Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C. Live Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After the Grand Prix of Ontario in Canada in mid-August, Indycar Series travels to the United States&#8217; capital city for the 2026 Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C. It starts on Saturday, Aug. 22 with practice and qualifying rounds. Race day is the following day on Sunday, Aug. 23 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;Everything That’s Wrong With You&#8217; Review: A  Luminous Two-Hander from Slovenia About Online Pals Navigating the Waters of IRL Friendship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anyone with a scrolling habit will know that social media can be a soothing place for the downbeat and lonely. Yet the intimacy you can strike up with strangers rubs up against the uncomfortable fact that our online personae are always manipulated to an extent. Writer-director Urša Menart’s luminous Sarajevo competition title “Everything That’s Wrong [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Olivia Rodrigo Releases &#8216;Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8217;-Inspired Song, &#8216;Serena Joy,&#8217; in a Tiny Run of CDs, With Digital Drop to Follow</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Willman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was already clear Olivia Rodrigo is in full feminist mode these days, with her all-female music festival, Daisy Chain Fields, set to take place in California&#8217;s Orange County next Saturday. But it&#8217;s perhaps even clearer now that Rodrigo is releasing a non-album track, &#8220;Serena Joy,&#8221; named after a prominent character in &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Austrian Director Sandra Wollner’s ‘Everytime’ Wins Best Film at Sarajevo Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sandra Wollner’s “Everytime” continued its winning streak at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where the Cannes Un Certain Regard winner took home the Heart of Sarajevo for best narrative feature film. The Austrian director’s third feature was the unanimous choice of a jury headed by two-time Academy Award nominee Emily Watson, which said in its citation: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bill Maher Puts Hunter Biden in the Hot Seat: ‘I’ve Seen You With Your Dick Out’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlow Stern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After enduring years of character assassinations by the right, Hunter Biden is in the throes of a chaotic media blitz that’s included Twitter-trolling, posting on Substack and appearances on a number of far-right podcasts, from Hitler worshipper Nick Fuentes and Russia stooge Tucker Carlson to conspiracy theorist Candace Owens. Is Joe Biden’s wayward son trying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Spa Weekend&#8217; Review: Leslie Mann and Isla Fisher in a High-Concept Comedy Without the Comic Highs</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/spa-weekend-review-leslie-mann-anna-faris-1236840170/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Owen Gleiberman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I watched "Spa Weekend" and realized that the genre it’s in — the high-concept movie with the concept in the title, the comedy that puts out a vibe of "Look, I’m crass and dumb and obvious! And that’s why you like me!" — may be entering its twilight zone.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Paramount and State A.G. to Meet Monday to Discuss Settlement of Antitrust Case</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gmaddaus]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paramount Skydance representatives are expected to meet on Monday with the California Attorney General&#8217;s office to discuss a potential settlement of the states&#8217; antitrust case, according to two sources familiar with the situation. Paramount has been pushing hard for a deal to allow its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery to close. The deal [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Paramount Slams Mark Ruffalo Merger Attack as &#8216;Antisemitic,&#8217; Says Company Does Not &#8216;Tolerate Prejudice of Any Kind&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Varietymattdonnelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paramount has come out swinging against a Friday screed from Mark Ruffalo, in which the award-winning actor accused moguls David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.” A spokesperson for the David Ellison-run enterprise said the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Emmy Overachiever Jason Bateman on Whether He Considers Himself an Actor or Director First</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Varietyschneider]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jason Bateman is this year’s Emmy overachiever, nominated for lead limited series actor and limited series directing on Netflix’s “Black Rabbit,” and as both supporting actor and executive producer on another limited series, HBO Max’s “DTF St. Louis.” So where does the multi-hyphenate’s brain reside more in these days, as an actor or director? “They [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Secret Hollywood Group’s AI Plan Focuses on Defining How AI Is Used — While Keeping Humans in Control</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Corbin Bolies]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A group of Hollywood filmmakers, executives and actors has spent the last three years secretly meeting with Silicon Valley executives to try to address a simmering issue in the industry: how to define where AI is useful in the context of a human-controlled creative process. The meetings were first convened in November 2023 by LucasFilm [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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