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Christoper Nolan’s spy thriller, ‘Tenet” is hitting Los Angeles drive-ins, granting fans who have been unable to see the film in the theater a reprieve. Initially, the $200 million flick, starring Robert Pattinson and John David Washington, was off limits at drive ins in any market where indoor cinemas remain dark, such as Los Angeles. …

Netflix co-Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings told The Hollywood Reporter that his company isn’t looking to acquire cinema chains, despite buzz of the contrary. In the last two years, Netflix bought Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre and it inked a long-term deal to lease the New York City’s Paris Theatre, raising questions about the company’s designs …

Ben Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. “This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a good moment to slip out the door,” Brantley said in a statement. News of Brantley’s departure was announced on Twitter by the newspaper’s theater …

A diamond isn’t required to get caught up in the drama on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” Brandi Glanville claimed that Heather Locklear reached out to lend her support amid her alleged tryst with Denise Richards — but she couldn’t defend her publicly because Richards, 49, allegedly sent her a cease and desist letter. Richards …

The backlash around Disney’s “Mulan” is escalating, with a US senator accusing the Mouse House of “whitewashing genocide” as it cooperated with the Chinese government to get the movie made. As the film nears its theatrical debut in China on Friday, critics have pointed to a line in the movie’s credits that thanks the Xinjiang authorities, …

Katie Holmes’ new man was engaged when they hooked up — and dumped his fiancée by text just hours before photos went public of him canoodling with the actress in the Big Apple, according to reports. Chef and aspiring actor Emilio Vitolo Jr., 33, sent the break-up text to designer Rachel Emmons, 24, on the …

Ever dreamed of chatting with Jennifer Garner and her “Alias” dad Victor Garber or knocking back a cocktail with Alan Cumming? You’re in luck. The Roundabout Theater Company has organized an auction starting Tuesday with a host of celebs for “Bid for Roundabout,” a fund-raiser to support the company and its portfolio of venues that, …

LONDON — “The Phantom of the Opera” composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has told British lawmakers that the arts are “at the point of no return,” and urged the government to set a date for theaters to be allowed to reopen. Lloyd Webber spoke about the struggles of staging socially distanced shows and making them profitable, …

Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — the first blockbuster film to enter the theaters following widespread lockdown orders — brought in an estimated $20.2 million through the holiday weekend in US and Canadian theaters. The movie’s Labor Day weekend release displayed the new realities for US theaters as Americans went to the movies en masse for the …

AMC Entertainment, the largest movie theater chain in the US, is selling off nine cinemas in the Baltic region as the coronavirus crushes sales. The company on Monday announced that it has signed a deal to sell nine venues across Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, to Up Invest, owners of a Baltic cinema group, for $77 …