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		<title>Tragicomedy &#8216;Black Money for White Nights&#8217; Boarded by Cercamon Ahead of Premiere at Karlovy Vary (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cercamon has picked up sales agency duties on tragicomedy &#8220;Black Money for White Nights,&#8221; which has its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Crystal Globe Competition. The Bulgaria-Greece co-production is directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, and written by Grozeva, Valchanov and Decho Taralezhkov. Marina, 65, a maternity nurse, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Switzerland’s Sister Distribution Boards ‘The Indies’ From ‘They Will Be Dust’ Producers: ’It’s Not Character-Driven but Image-Driven’ (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After serving as a minority partner to Spain’s Lastor Media on the Toronto-winning Spanish pic “They Will Be Dust,” established Swiss banner Alina Film is majority-producing with Lastor the period road movie “The Indies,” (“Les Indes”) which will be sneak-peeked as a work in progress at ECAM Forum co-production market in Madrid, running June 9-11. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Phoebe Bridgers Turns Madison Square Garden Into Her Living Room With Intimate, Phone-Free Show Featuring Eight New Songs: Concert Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jem Aswad]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“It’s weird not having a phone, isn&#8217;t it?” said Phoebe Bridgers to the 18,000-or so strong audience who’d willingly had their devices locked up for Thursday night’s special acoustic concert at Madison Square Garden. “I love it. I appreciate you allowing this to be an internet-free zone.” She added with a smile, “And if any [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Toy Story 5&#8217; Song &#8216;I Knew It, I Knew You&#8217; Debuts on Digital Services</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Willman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jessie and her owner are reunited, in the apparent scenario laid out in Taylor Swift&#8217;s new &#8220;Toy Story 5&#8221; song, &#8220;I Knew It, I Knew You,&#8221; which debuted on digital services Thursday night. Also reunited (and it feels so good): Taylor Swift and country music — as promised by Disney when they first helped Swift [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>SAG-AFTRA Members Approve Four-Year Deal With AI Terms and Pension Merger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gmaddaus]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SAG-AFTRA members have ratified a four-year contract with the major studios, which includes new provisions on synthetic actors and a merger of the union&#8217;s two pension funds. Of those who cast ballots, 91.4% voted in favor of the contract and 8.6% were opposed. Turnout was 19.3% of eligible members. The contract allows producers to use [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Top Gun: Maverick&#8217; Actor James Handy Killed by Girlfriend&#8217;s Son</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Saperstein]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[James Handy, a longtime actor who appeared as the bartender in &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; and &#8220;Jumanji&#8221; and had guest roles on dozens of TV shows, was killed Wednesday in a stabbing in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 81. The LAPD said he was killed by his girlfriend&#8217;s son. &#8220;On Wednesday, June 3, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Office Romance&#8217; Review: Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein Are Oddly but Endearingly Matched in a Frisky Workplace Romcom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guy Lodge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s no meet-cute in “Office Romance,” but the way its lovers meet is pretty cute just the same. Formidable airline CEO Jackie Cruz (Jennifer Lopez) summons her new company lawyer Daniel Blanchflower (Brett Goldstein) to her office, and he walks in to see what, in cinematic terms, we shall term the full J-Lo: She’s facing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump Makes It Official: The &#8216;Freedom 250&#8217; Concerts Are Canceled — to Be Replaced With &#8216;the Greatest Rally EVER!,&#8217; Starring Him and (Surprise) Lee Greenwood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Willman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sorry, Vanilla Ice. The &#8220;Freedom 250&#8221; concerts scheduled for the National Mall in Washington, D.C. have been officially canceled by President Donald J. Trump, after almost all of the artists bailed. The shows will be replaced, as he previously suggested, with a rally featuring one of his own speeches as the principal attraction. The event [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Stranger Things,&#8217; &#8216;Monster&#8217; Directors and More Unpack Storytelling Techniques and Embracing &#8216;Weird Ideas&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arushi Jacob]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The directors behind some of Netflix’s biggest hits of the year came together to speak to their creative processes and storytelling techniques in conversations moderated by Variety in partnership with Netflix. Antonio Campos, who directed “The Beast In Me”; Max Winkler from “Monster: The Ed Gein Story”; and Alexandria Stapleton, director of “Sean Combs: The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Amazon, Vice Studios Hit With Defamation Suit Over &#8216;Hollywood Hustler&#8217; Documentary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gmaddaus]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A producer sued Amazon Studios, Vice Studios and director Rebecca Chaiklin on Thursday, alleging that he was falsely portrayed as an accomplice of convicted fraudster Zach Horwitz in the recent documentary series &#8220;Hollywood Hustler: Glitz, Glam, Scam.&#8221; The producer, Julio Hallivis, contends that his reputation has been ruined by the false implication that he acted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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