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		<title>Tom Cruise Says Taylor Swift Was &#8216;Schooling Me on Football&#8217; at Chiefs Game, Calls Her a &#8216;Brilliant Musician and Director&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tom Cruise and Taylor Swift made headlines on Monday when they sat next to each other at the Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; first game of the season. But what were the two megastars talking about? &#8220;She was schooling me on football. For real,&#8221; Cruise revealed to Jimmy Fallon during an appearance on &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Best of the Best&#8217; Director Lena Khan on Making a Bollywood Fusion Dance Movie for Netflix, Working With Hasan Minhaj and Telling Maitreyi Ramakrishnan to Bring &#8216;Channing Tatum Energy&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Competitive Bollywood fusion dance has thrived on American college campuses for decades, but it has rarely been the subject of a scripted feature film. Lena Khan&#8217;s &#8220;Best of the Best,&#8221; premiering Friday on Netflix, follows childhood best friends Maya and Anjali as they join UCLA&#8217;s competitive dance team, only to discover that the road to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alfonso Cuaron to Make First Korea Visit at Busan as Festival Also Spotlights European Women+ Filmmakers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has announced the first-ever Korea visit by Alfonso Cuarón, alongside a dedicated spotlight on nine films from European women and genderqueer filmmakers. Cuarón, who has won the Academy Award for best director twice, for &#8220;Gravity&#8221; (2013) and &#8220;Roma&#8221; (2018), also holds the Venice Film Festival&#8217;s best screenplay prize [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Tenzing&#8217; Actor Tenzin Dalha Unveiled as Male Lead in Bengali Thriller &#8216;Chheledhora&#8217; (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tenzin Dalha, at the Toronto Film Festival with Jennifer Peedom&#8217;s Apple original Film &#8220;Tenzing,&#8221; has been revealed as the male lead in Bengali-language thriller &#8220;Chheledhora,&#8221; opposite Swastika Mukherjee. His casting had been withheld when the Indo-American production was first announced earlier this year, with producers naming only Mukherjee at that point. &#8220;Tenzing,&#8221; a gala presentation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>San Sebastián 2026: &#8216;Les Mis,&#8217; Los Javis, Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz and Much More </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Hopewell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ten takes on this year’s San Sebastián Film Festival, which runs Sept. 18-26 at the picturesque Basque Country resort: Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz, Naomi Watts and More Last in San Sebastián way back then with “Inglourious Basterds,” Brad Pitt returns for “Heart of the Beast.” Busiest star of the festival? Penelope Cruz, fresh off a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘The Traitors: New Blood’ EPs Break Down NBC Premiere, Sweetening the Pot for the Faithful and Why the Civilian Cast ‘Played Hard Straight Away’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Aurthur]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the two-hour series premiere of NBC’s “The Traitors: New Blood,” now streaming on Peacock. “The Traitors” castle isn’t just for the rich and famous anymore. Peacock’s Emmy-winning franchise has arrived on NBC, with “The Traitors: New Blood,” a new season composed entirely of civilian players in the game [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Universal Still Plans Overseas Release for Alex Gibney&#8217;s &#8216;Musk&#8217; Documentary Despite Mogul&#8217;s Legal Threats</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/news/universal-release-alex-gibney-musk-documentary-1236866395/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Saperstein]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Contrary to a recent report, Universal is moving forward as planned with the international release of Alex Gibney&#8217;s Elon Musk documentary &#8220;Musk,&#8221; sources familiar with the project told Variety. Though a release date has not yet been set for the overseas rollout, that&#8217;s not unusual for a film like &#8220;Musk,&#8221; a nearly 4-hour long documentary [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nick Kroll Delivers Heartfelt Appeal for Productions to Shoot in L.A.: &#8216;It Will Bring Life Back&#8217; to the City</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Spangler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nick Kroll said upcoming Netflix comedy series &#8220;A Hundred Percent,&#8221; which he co-created and stars in, is a &#8220;love letter&#8221; to Los Angeles &#8212; and he expressed hope that a &#8220;thriving&#8221; entertainment production community will bring &#8220;vitality&#8221; to the city. The comedian, writer, producer, director and actor was a featured keynote speaker at the Variety [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Battling Misconceptions and Figuring Out Use Cases: Entertainment Leaders Navigate AI’s Place in the Industry</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/battling-misconceptions-and-figuring-out-ai-entertainment-1236866336/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Corbin Bolies]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a world where AI is capturing every conversation, a series of experts is trying to figure out what it actually means for the world of entertainment. “I think the word ‘AI’ is doing too much right now,” says Mira Line, Google’s vice president of technology and society. ”One of the things that we&#8217;re doing, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Resident Evil&#8217; Video Game References: All the Zombies, Weapons and Easter Eggs in Zach Cregger&#8217;s Reboot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Moreau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for &#8220;Resident Evil,&#8221; now playing in theaters. &#8220;Resident Evil&#8221; is one of the longest-running horror video game series, and for a time it was the highest-grossing film series based on a game (until Universal&#8217;s &#8220;Super Mario&#8221; movies dethroned them). The games started out as scary, third-person shooters that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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