California hammered as national job cuts jump to a five-year high

California hammered as national job cuts jump to a five-year high

Job cuts across the country are the highest they have been in five years, led by layoffs in California and cutbacks in Washington. California employers announced 173,022 job cuts from January to November, up nearly 14% from the same period last year, according to the latest monthly report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.…

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Equity To Ballot Members Over Digital Scanning In Move That Could Lead Thousands Of British Actors To Refuse To Be Scanned On Set

Equity To Ballot Members Over Digital Scanning In Move That Could Lead Thousands Of British Actors To Refuse To Be Scanned On Set

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of UK actors could refuse to be digitally scanned on set as the Equity union makes history by holding a ballot of its members from the film and TV industry. As Equity and producer trade body Pact remain deadlocked over guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI), the union is taking things a step further…

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Donald Trump issues order to start producing smaller cars

Donald Trump issues order to start producing smaller cars

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he would loosen regulations to permit the production of smaller, more compact cars in the U.S. The president said in the Oval Office that he had directed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to remove barriers to the manufacturing and marketing of these cars in the United States. Trump also…

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Kirsten Dunst Intriguingly Teases Role In Ruben Östlund’s ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’: “I Bared A Part Of Myself” – Red Sea

Kirsten Dunst Intriguingly Teases Role In Ruben Östlund’s ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’: “I Bared A Part Of Myself” – Red Sea

Kirsten Dunst has given an intriguing tease of her role Ruben Östlund’s upcoming film The Entertainment System Is Down in which she is part of a large ensemble cast also featuring Daniel Brühl and Keanu Reeves among others. “I felt like I bared a part of myself… it’s weird that it’s going to come out…

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Could ‘Gangs Of London’ Be About To Move To Miami Or Johannesburg? Vice Studios Boss Amy Powell Says She Is Mulling Franchise Expansion

Could ‘Gangs Of London’ Be About To Move To Miami Or Johannesburg? Vice Studios Boss Amy Powell Says She Is Mulling Franchise Expansion

Could Gangs of London be about to expand to Miami, or Johannesburg? New Vice Studios boss Amy Powell raised the possibility at Content London today, during which she said Vice may bring the Sky-AMC franchise to other cities. And Powell is shooting for the stars. “Can we take Gangs and expand it to a different…

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Virginia Democrats propose redrawing maps to get four new seats

Virginia Democrats propose redrawing maps to get four new seats

Virginia Democrats are attempting to create a new congressional map in 2026 that could help them win four new seats. Amid efforts in other states to make maps more favorable to Democrats or Republicans, Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Don Scott outlined the state’s plans to do the same at a meeting of the Virginia…

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Paul Dano Defended By ‘The Batman’ Sequel Writer & ‘There Will Be Blood’ Star After Quentin Tarantino’s Savage “Weak Sauce” Attack

Paul Dano Defended By ‘The Batman’ Sequel Writer & ‘There Will Be Blood’ Star After Quentin Tarantino’s Savage “Weak Sauce” Attack

Quentin Tarantino‘s drive-by attack on Paul Dano has sparked a spirited defense of the There Will Be Blood actor. Tarantino appeared on The Bret Easton Ellis podcast earlier this week and selected his top 20 movies of the 21st century. Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood was in the ranking, but Tarantino had one…

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CapitaLand Ascott Trust, Sheng Siong Group to replace Olam Group, Yangzijiang Financial on STI reserve list

CapitaLand Ascott Trust, Sheng Siong Group to replace Olam Group, Yangzijiang Financial on STI reserve list

[SINGAPORE] Hospitality player CapitaLand Ascott Trust and supermarket chain operator Sheng Siong Group will be joining the Straits Times Index’s (STI) reserve list, following the December quarterly review. They will take the place of two companies that will be exiting: food and agricultural giant Olam Group and investment management company Yangzijiang Financial, which were added…

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Vincent Lindon & Tahar Rahim Revealed In Fred Cavayé’s ‘Les Miserables’ As Studiocanal Unveils First Look

Vincent Lindon & Tahar Rahim Revealed In Fred Cavayé’s ‘Les Miserables’ As Studiocanal Unveils First Look

EXCLUSIVE: Vincent Lindon and Tahar Rahim will hit the big screen later this year in Fred Cavayé’s action-skewed adaptation of Les Misérables and Deadline can reveal the first look. Lindon stars as Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo’s 1862 classic novel who transforms from hardened ex-convict and parole breaker to benevolent industrialist. Rahim (Madame Web, Monsieur Aznavour)…

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Australian Drama Production Spend Leaps 43% To Record $1.8B But Fears Over Domestic Business Remain

Australian Drama Production Spend Leaps 43% To Record .8B But Fears Over Domestic Business Remain

Crikey, mate! Australian drama production spend reached a A$2.7B ($1.8B) in 2024/25 as high-budget features, streaming shows and international titles sent records crashing. However, underlying fears about the shape of market continue to fester. The annual Screen Australia Drama Report showed a 43% increase in spend on the previous year, which acts as an answer…

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