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Cineplex, the embattled Canadian movie theater chain, is playing defense. Closing its doors because of the pandemic months ago, Cineplex has adopted a ‘poison pill’ or a stockholder rights plan,’ which is a defensive action against hostile and low-priced takeover attempts that take advantage of weakened stock prices. The Toronto-based company said its three-year plan …
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He may have cabin fever, but he certainly doesn’t have writer’s block. Author George R. R. Martin says that the coronavirus quarantine has helped him make “steady progress” on “The Winds of Winter,” the long-awaited next installment in his “Game of Thrones” book series. “If nothing else, the enforced isolation has helped me write,” Martin, …
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Camila Mendes is defending her recently-accused-of-sexual-assault “Riverdale” co-stars. “Someone saying to me that somebody would do such a thing to prove a point? It seems so trivial,” Mendes said on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” Tuesday. “You really went to that extent? To damage not only the integrity of the #MeToo movement, but to potentially …
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It is easy to imagine a new afternoon sports radio ratings war pitting the current champ Michael Kay versus Craig Carton. It would be a worthy sequel to Kay-Mike Francesa. Entertaining verbal shots would surely be fired and, to borrow an old friend’s phrase, there would be no pea shooters. Upon Carton’s early release from …
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PARIS – French movie fans ventured back into cinemas on Monday for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdown, helped by a new safety feature: minions placed at intervals in the seats to ensure social distancing is observed. Stuffed toy versions of the yellow, pill-shaped characters were deployed at the MK2 cinema in the south …
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Former WFAN radio host Craig Carton was released from federal prison on Tuesday morning, The Post has learned. Carton, 51, will either enter home confinement or a halfway house to finish out his sentence, according to sources. Carton’s release is unrelated to COVID-19. Carton went to prison on June 17, 2019, so he served a …
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Four more Chinese media outlets with operations in the U.S. are being labeled as “foreign missions” to highlight their close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, the U.S. State Department announced Monday. China Central Television, China News Service, People’s Daily, and the Global Times are all joining the list of designated foreign actors, State Department …
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Lili Reinhart has denied sexual assault allegations brought against her and her “Riverdale” co-stars, including ex-boyfriend Cole Sprouse, by anonymous people on social media. On Twitter Monday, Reinhart, 23, retweeted one of Sprouse’s tweets stating the cast and their teams were investigating the source of the false claims and added, “I have always taken sexual …
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The Karate Kid is moving to a bigger dojo. “Cobra Kai” is relocating to Netflix after two seasons on YouTube, TVLine has learned. Under the terms of the deal, Seasons 1 and 2 of the “Karate Kid” sequel series will be available on Netflix later this year, with the all-new Season 3 to follow at …
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Singer Pink and husband Carey Hart are still going strong after 14 years of marriage — thanks to couple’s counseling. The “What About Us” singer, 40, sat down with therapist Vanessa Inn during an Instagram Live session Friday where she revealed that she and Hart would’ve likely split by now had it not been for …
Cineplex, the embattled Canadian movie theater chain, is playing defense. Closing its doors because of the pandemic months ago, Cineplex has adopted a ‘poison pill’ or a stockholder rights plan,’ which is a defensive action against hostile and low-priced takeover attempts that take advantage of weakened stock prices. The Toronto-based company said its three-year plan …
