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CinemaCon is doubling as a retirement party for its president and CEO, John Fithian, who in his final opening day speech urged movie theater owners to not use the word “content” to describe what they put on their screens.“The words ‘product’ and ‘content’ are still used far too often, and they diminish the value this industry provides,” Fithian said on Tuesday. “We are not in the widget business…Movies are fun, entertaining, and sometimes art.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Jordan Fisher savors those 7 p.m. showtimes. It’s not that there’s a huge difference on the nights that Broadway’s revival of “Sweeney Todd” starts at 8 p.m. But the extra hour of freedom after curtain call at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre means he gets more time to spend with his family. “I’ll get to bed an hour early and get up with my son so we can hang and have a little bit more time to chill in the morning,” Fisher says over espresso at a swanky bar in Manhattan’s theater district. He got married during the pandemic, and the couple welcomed their first child in last June. “A lot of my mornings are dictated by how late I go to bed. With a schedule like this, we go to work hours after people clocked out of their offices. My body has to get used to it.”

Brent Lang Executive Editor During the pandemic, studios experimented with shrinking the amount of time that their films screened exclusively in cinemas, while spending oceans of money to launch streaming services. But the debt they racked up has sent their share prices plummeting and, now, studios are making more movies for theaters and cutting back on their streaming budgets. CinemaCon, the annual exhibition industry showcase that is unfolding this week in Las Vegas, couldn’t be happier about the shift in strategy. John Fithian, the head of the National Association of Theatre Owners, the trade group behind the show, touted the new state of play during his speech to the convention, while praising Apple and Amazon for embracing the big screen with movies like “Air” and the upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon.” Both of these companies will reportedly spend more than $1 billion on theatrical films.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director J.K. Rowling is well aware many “Harry Potter” fans intend to boycott Max’s upcoming television series adaptation due to her involvement as an executive producer on the show. The Warner Bros. Discovery streamer officially announced the series on April 12, confirming each book in Rowling’s series will be adapted into a full season of television. A new cast of actors will be assembled to take on the roles of Harry, Ron, Hermione and more. Rowling has been embroiled in controversy for several years now due to her controversial statements on gender, many of which have been slammed for being anti-trans. “Dreadful news, which I feel duty bound to share,” Rowling wrote on Twitter in reaction to backlash against the new “Harry Potter” television series. “Activists in my mentions are trying to organize yet another boycott of my work, this time of the ‘Harry Potter’ TV show. As forewarned is forearmed, I’ve taken the precaution of laying in a large stock of champagne.”

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Endeavor has struck a deal to sell Florida-based sports education institution IMG Academy to private equity firm BPEA EQT for $1.25 billion. The all-cash transaction, done in partnership with Nord Anglia Education, is expected to close in Q3. Located in Bradenton, Florida, IMG Academy was founded in 1978 as the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. The academy was purchased by IMG in 1987 and eventually expanded its offerings to include golf, soccer, baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, track & field and volleyball. Endeavor acquired IMG in 2014, with ownership of IMG Academy included as part of that deal.

Trinidad Barleycorn International sales company Andana Films has boarded “Al Djanat – The Original Paradise” by Franco-Burkinabe director Chloé Aïcha Boro. The film had its international premiere at Visions du Réel, in Nyon, Switzerland, after a world premiere at Fespaco in February. Selected in the international competition in Nyon, the documentary was pre-sold to Canal+ International for a broadcast on the African continent. For her fourth documentary, produced by Les Films de l’œil Sauvage, Boro has, for the first time, turned the camera on her own family, capturing life in their big courtyard surrounded by several small houses in Dédougou, Burkina Faso, where she grew up before emigrating to France. Filmed up close, over a period of five years, the animated square makes the viewer feel as welcome as at home.

Ethan Shanfeld FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver is exiting ABC News as The Walt Disney Company ramps up layoffs, Variety has confirmed. ABC News will hold onto the FiveThirtyEight brand with plans to streamline the statistics-driven news and analysis site. The network plans to create a more efficient structure for FiveThirtyEight leading into the 2024 presidential election and beyond. Silver sent a message to his team in a company Slack channel warning that the Disney layoffs would impact FiveThirtyEight, and that Silver is not planning to return after his contract ends. Silver said in a tweet, “Disney layoffs have substantially impacted FiveThirtyEight. I am sad and disappointed to a degree that’s kind of hard to express right now. We’ve been at Disney almost 10 years. My contract is up soon and I expect that I’ll be leaving at the end of it.”

K.J. Yossman Think of a British TV series about the royal family that launched in 2016 and features some of Britain’s best writing and acting talent. No, not “The Crown” but “The Windsors,” the royal comedy show from Channel 4 that is poised to steal “The Crown’s” well, crown. A soap opera-style sitcom, it shows Charles, William, Harry and the rest of the royals as they’ve never been seen before. (Seriously. The first season finale saw Camilla, played by Haydn Gwynne, planting a bomb in the basement of Buckingham Palace to ensure her path to the throne.) Where “The Crown” offers a sober, historical take on the royals, winning both critical plaudits and awards in the process, “The Windsors” is a cheeky younger sibling that has spent its life in the shadows. A spare to the heir, if you will. Created by writers Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie (“The Kumars,” “Spitting Image”), “The Windsors” launched seven years ago with comedy king Harry Enfield in the lead as a vain and infantilized Charles while Gwynne (who has also appeared in “The Crown” as a lady in waiting to the Queen) plays Camilla as a cartoon villain. So far the comedy has spawned three seasons, three specials (including a feature-length coronation episode set for next month) and even a stage show. A fourth season is in the works.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Emperor of Ocean Park,” the best-selling novel by Stephen L. Carter, is being adapted into a TV series at MGM+. MGM+ (formerly Epix) has ordered 10 episodes of the show. The order brings the book’s long road to the screen to near completion. It was originally optioned back in 2001 ahead of the book publishing. Multiple attempts have since been made to adapt the book into a film and later a television series, though none of those projects have moved forward until now. “Emperor of Ocean Park is much more than a murder mystery,” said Michael Wright, head of MGM+. “While it is an engrossing whodunit in its own right, it also explores important themes of middle-and-upper-class Black identity, making it an outstanding addition to MGM+’s slate of engaging and thought-provoking original series.”

K.J. Yossman Tom Holland-fronted short film “Last Call” is set to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, Variety can exclusively confirm. The short is directed by his younger brother Harry Holland and also features Lindsay Duncan (“Birdman”). “Last Call” tells the story of Kate, a desperate mother who is trying to reconnect with her son. “Navigating an obvious void, Kate will finally have the chance to ask the questions that have haunted her past, and will decide her future,” reads the logline. The film is in part an exploration of mental health and Harry Holland did extensive research, consulting with charities and individuals, as part of the project. It was co-written by Will South and produced by Marie-Elena Dyche (“The Blind”).

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Cédric Klapisch’s (“The Spanish Apartment”) hit dance film “Rise” (“En corps”) from Studiocanal. One of 2022’s highest grossing French films, “Rise” sold nearly 1.3 million tickets in local theaters and was sold around the world. The movie tells the story of a young ballet dancer whose life is upended when she suffers a career-threatening injury and catches her  boyfriend cheating on her. As she begins her physical and emotional rehabilitation, she finds solace in friends, a new love, and a new contemporary dance troupe. Marion Barbeau, a dancer-turned-actor, delivers a breakthrough performance in the lead role, and stars opposite French stars, including François Civil (“Three Musketeers”), Pio Marmaï (“How I Became a Super Hero”), Denis Podalydès (“Anaïs in Love”), as well as Hofesh Shechter (“Send Me an Angel”).

Thanks to the marketing of “The Flash,” we know the film is actually set to bring back Michael Shannon as General Zod after the character was controversially killed at the end of “Man of Steel.” While it would seem obvious for an actor to want to return to a massive franchise to reprise a role, in Shannon’s case, he wasn’t so sure it was the right move.

By her side. Miranda Lambert and husband Brendan McLoughlin offered a glimpse at their romance during a rare public appearance.

A celeb cleanse like no other. Travis Barker has teamed up with Liquid Death to launch a luxury enema kit.

Is he driving the getaway car? Formula 1 star Fernando Alonso gave a cheeky nod to rumors that he’s dating Taylor Swift after her split from Joe Alwyn.

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Dancing through life. Len Goodman hinted at when he thought he would die shortly before passing away at age 78.

Beauty and the sea! Salma Hayek showed off her impressive figure during a sunset swim. 

For the best? Meghan Markle will not travel to the U.K. with Prince Harry for King Charles III’s coronation — and royal expert Nick Bullen believes the Duchess of Sussex made the right decision.

doing the wave at the table. On Tuesday, the women once again celebrated Carlson’s ouster, but worried about the fact that Don Lemon was also fired by CNN around the same time. In talking about the latter, the women admitted they were biased, as most of them consider Lemon a friend, but Hostin argued that, objectively, the two firings were very, very different.“I am stunned.

The 76th Tony Awards will again be hosted by “West Side Story” Oscar winner and “Diana: The Musical” Tony nominee Ariana DeBose. Shifting uptown from its longstanding location at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the ceremony will for the first time this year but hosted at the historic United Palace in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood.The Tonys are produced by Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and White Cherry Entertainment.

.”The series is produced by John Wells Productions (JWP) in association with Warner Bros. Television, where JWP is under an overall deal.“We’re tremendously excited to be producing Sherman Payne’s thrilling adaptation of Emperor of Ocean Park, and to be associated with his talented team,” Wells added.

, is back with season 2 as Ray J, Amber Rose and more stars enroll at the HBCU, Alabama State University.Ahead of the show's return to BET+ on Thursday, May 11, ET has the exclusive first trailer — and first look at all ups and downs of pursuing a higher education and the joys and challenges that are unique to campus life.As seen in the extended clip, the full cast for season 2 includes Ray J, who returns after first appearing in season 1, as well as Rose, Joseline Hernandez, Tiffany “New York” Pollard, Parker McKenna Posey, Iman Shumpert, Kwaylon “BlameItOnKway” Rogers, and O’Ryan.And it's safe to say they all are going to walk away with plenty of life lessons — just as long as they can make it to the many classes they're registered for. «Going to an HBCU, I'm going to be able to learn things I've never learned before or that I've never heard about. But, like, today, I'm just tired and I need to rest,» Hernandez is heard saying before she's seen snoring in bed. But as seriously as they are taking the experiences — from going to class to engaging in extracurricular activities — the pressures are high, and some of them may not make it through the entire semester.«I know we're in college, but damn, this is a lot,» Posey says at one point after Ray J is being warned that this is his last chance. So, who among the freshman class will make it as they step out of the spotlight and into the classroom to complete a tailor-made academic certificate program and get to cross the graduation stage? Viewers will have to tune in to find out. season 2 premieres Thursday, May 11 on BET+.

Meghan Trainor is all about that boy mom life! On Tuesday's episode of  , the singer and her husband, Daryl Sabara, kept up tradition by revealing the sex of their second child on the show. At first, Clarkson summoned the «voice of God,» but the couple and the host decided they should leave it up to big brother Riley.In the clip, Riley, 2, proudly shouts, «It's a boy,» following a countdown.Ahead of the show, the «Mother» singer teased the reveal with her followers. "#DearFutureMama is finally out AND we’re finding out the gender of baby #2 on @kellyclarksonshow today!!!

John Stamos opened up about how he briefly got Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen fired from the sitcom during a recent appearance on the podcast.When Stamos' friend and former co-star, Josh Peck, asked him about a report that he once tried to get the Olsens fired from, he replied, «I did it. I didn't 'try.'»He explained that the moment came when he and co-star Dave Coulier were filming a scene with the twins for the show's pilot in which they had to take care of the Olsen twins' character, Michelle, without her dad, Danny (Bob Saget).«I think I was holding her under the armpits and Dave was holding her little feet and we take her in the kitchen and we hose her down,» Stamos recalled. «Put a fan on her, wrapped her up in paper towels, and she was screaming, both of them.

Jennifer Aniston reunited with her ex-husband Justin Theroux in New York City on Saturday night (April 22) with some friends for dinner.

Singer, actor and staunch civil rights activist Harry Belafonte as died aged 96, it's been announced.

Matt Doyle and Max Clayton are engaged!

Black Mirror season six is happening, and 10 stars have been added to the cast.

With the advancement of artificial intelligence and just how quickly technology progresses, it feels like we’re getting dangerously close to seeing the first real sci-fi robot. Not like some mindless machine that does preprogrammed tasks, but the type of robot that we saw in sci-fi films with thoughts of its own.

We’re getting a first look at FX’s The Full Monty, the eight-part follow-up to the BAFTA-winning movie. FX has released some of the first images from the series that will premiere in June (date TBA) and stream exclusively in the U.S. on Hulu.

Married At First Sight favourite Marilyse Corrigan has opened her heart for the first time since her shock split from fellow MAFS star Matt Murray. The 38-year-old mother-of-two, who featured in 2021’s explosive series, tells OK! how she grew apart from Matt, 33, after she felt he became too intense and "questioning". "Matt likes to have all of your attention when you’re in a relationship with him.

Molly-Mae Hague has been praised by fans online as she showed off her “real” post-baby body as she enjoyed her first holiday in Dubai with baby Bambi. Molly, 23, looked stunning as she wore a white bikini, some loose-fitting white beach trousers, and a red cap.The natural beauty went makeup-free and opted for gold accessories, including earrings and a watch.

Emmerdale is set for upcoming chilling scenes as Mary Goskirk is left for dead as her partner Faye's true nature is revealed in a sinister twist. In upcoming scenes, although Mary's daughter Rhona is initially reluctant, Mary’s delighted when she offers her blessing for her big trip to Ecuador. Later at the auction, Suzy Merton's mistrustful when Faye is cagey on a bank transfer for the auction fund and she tells Mary her suspicions.

Jill Scott and Owen Warner reunited, as they were snapped at Zizzi's in Chester, where they have been filming a video for mental health awareness week.The former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! campmates were all smiles as they visited the popular Italian chain restaurant.

Dalbeattie Star are gearing up for a packed end to the season.