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		<title>Argentina&#8217;s World Cup Victory Over England Scores 15.1 Million Viewers on Fox, Largest Semifinals Telecast in English-Language U.S. History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a day after Fox Sports&#8217; coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2026 semifinals broke records, they did it again. Wednesday&#8217;s nailbiter between Argentina and England averaged 15.063 million viewers on Fox, making it the most-watched FIFA Men&#8217;s World Cup semifinals match in English-language history. That beat Tuesday&#8217;s faceoff between Spain and France, which averaged [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>LISTEN: What’s Fueling the Box Office Rebound and How Can Hollywood Keep it Going?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On today’s episode of &#8220;Daily Variety&#8221; podcast, in our Cover Story segment, Variety’s Brent Lang details the comprehensive report that he delivered with Rebecca Rubin on the summer box office rebound, and what Hollywood and exhibitors must do to keep it going. Lang, who is Variety&#8216;s executive editor overseeing all film coverage, emphasizes that it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? ‘It’s Not Practical,&#8217; Company Says</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antonio Ferme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not everyone gets a front-row seat to history. This weekend, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” arrives in theaters nationwide. The sprawling adaptation of Homer’s epic is the first-ever movie shot entirely on Imax film cameras. And over the past month, everyone from Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway to Nolan himself have hammered home the same message: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Watching Shia LaBeouf Unravel:  &#8216;He Was Exploding on Set&#8217; and in &#8216;Deep Pain&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In November 2025, writer-director Josh Penn Soskin began production on his debut feature, &#8220;The Rooster Prince,”&#160;based on his relationship with his late brother, David, a renowned psychiatrist who suffered from bipolar disorder. He cast Shia LaBeouf to play Eli, the character based on his brother, along with Jackson White and Melissa Leo. These are his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>About 300 Netflix Programs Used Generative AI This Year, Company Reveals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Corbin Bolies]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Roughly 300 Netflix programs across the streamer&#8217;s library have used generative AI across their production process this year, the company revealed in its second-quarter earnings report on Thursday. Netflix told shareholders in a letter that the technology&#8217;s usage expands across every level of a program’s production process, from its concept and pre-visualization to post-production and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Netflix to Stop Releasing Viewership Data Every 6 Months, Will Shift to Annual Reports</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Maas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Netflix is discontinuing its biannual viewership data dump in favor of one annual report beginning in 2027. The latest version of Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;What We Watched&#8221; report, which covered subscribers&#8217; viewership habits from January-June 2026, was released Thursday along with the streamer&#8217;s latest quarterly earnings results. The new report revealed &#8220;War Machine&#8221; as the most-watched film [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Netflix Q2 Earnings Results In-Line With Expectations, Stock Drops on Lower Q3 Revenue Outlook</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Spangler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As investors fret that Netflix&#8217;s viewer-engagement metrics are flagging, the streaming giant reported earnings for the second quarter of 2026 that were in line with Wall Street forecasts. But it issued weaker-than-expected guidance for Q3, driving the stock price down. Netflix reported Q2 revenue of $12.56 billion, up 13.4% year over year, and net income [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Paramount Slams States&#8217; Lawsuit Over Warner Bros. Merger as &#8216;One of the Weakest&#8217; in Modern History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paramount Skydance began to lay out its legal argument Thursday against an antitrust lawsuit brought by a dozen states, calling it &#8220;one of the weakest merger challenges in modern antitrust history.&#8221; Paramount&#8217;s lawyers filed an opposition to the states&#8217; motion for a temporary restraining order, which would pause the $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kris Jenner&#8217;s Mom MJ Dies at 91: &#8216;I Will Forever See Pieces of You in All of Us&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ethan Shanfeld]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kris Jenner&#8217;s mother Mary Jo Shannon has died, Jenner shared on Instagram. She was 91. &#8220;Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ,&#8221; Jenner wrote on Instagram on Thursday. &#8220;There are no words that could ever capture what she has meant to me or the heartbreak of having to say goodbye.&#8221; Known as &#8220;MJ,&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>UFC&#8217;s McGregor-Holloway Fight Averages 6.5 Million Viewers Across U.S. and Latin America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ethan Shanfeld]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UFC&#8217;s July 11 main card telecast featuring the 69-second fight between Conor McGregor and Max Holloway averaged 6.5 million viewers across the U.S. and Latin America on Paramount+. That combined stat is according to Nielsen in the U.S. and Adobe Analytic + Channel Partner in Latin America. The two-and-a-half-hour broadcast peaked with 8 million concurrent [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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