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Oscars 2024 live updates: 'Poor Things' is off to a hot start with three wins
Hollywood needs to take more risk on small films, Jefferson says Cord Jefferson wins the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for “American Fiction” during the Oscars show at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024. Mike Blake | Reuters Director Cord Jefferson called on Hollywood to spend more money […]
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United Airways launches Morocco, Colombia flights, beefs up China company
A United Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane is found having off from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Nicolas Economou | Nurphoto | Getty Pictures United Airways is scheduling to launch flights to Marrakesh, Morocco, and Medellin, Colombia, and ramp up its services to Asia, in the carrier’s most up-to-date wager that individuals will carry on to shell […]
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Airlines Avelo and Breeze, three years after their pandemic debut, prepare for a profitable year
The inaugural flight of an Avelo Airlines Boeing 737-800 takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport to Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa on April 28, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images In the nearly four years since the Covid-19 pandemic upended air travel, the largest U.S. airlines have returned to […]
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'Dune: Part Two' looks to end box office drought with $80 million opening
Timothee Chalamet stars as Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two.” Warner Bros. | Legendary Entertainment LOS ANGELES — Movie theater operators are hoping that Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment’s “Dune: Part Two,” due out in theaters Friday, will be the much-needed oasis amid a drought of blockbuster content. Since the start of the […]
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True Religion explores a sale as maximalist, Y2K-era styles make a comeback
The hedge fund that owns True Religion is exploring a sale of the Y2K-era jeans brand as it returns to growth and profitability after emerging from its second bankruptcy, CNBC has learned. True Religion sales jumped about 20% to around $280 million last year, and it brought in $80 million in earnings before interest, taxes, […]
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K2 Space, a startup with SpaceX veterans building monster satellites, raises $50 million
K2 Space co-founders Karan Kunjur and Neel Kunjur at the company’s facility in Torrance, California. Credit: K2 Space Los Angeles-based startup K2 Space raised $50 million in new funding as the company works to build monster satellites to match the massive rockets that are coming to market. Nearly two years since founding, K2 co-founders and […]
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U.S. engineer contacted China just before thieving missile tracking tech, DOJ suggests
A deactivated Titan II nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, is witnessed in a silo at the Titan Missile Museum in Eco-friendly Valley, Arizona, May well 12, 2015. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Photographs Federal prosecutors billed an engineer who worked at a Los Angeles-location corporation with stealing trade secret systems designed for use […]
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The buy now, pay later holiday debt hangover has arrived, as consumers wonder how they'll pay bills
Pedestrians walk by an advertisement for Klarna. Daniel Harvey Gonzalez | In Pictures via Getty Images When she started shopping for the holidays late last year, Kiki Andersen was struggling to buy her loved ones gifts. So she turned to a novel solution to get through the season: Buy now, pay later. The 31-year-old comedian […]
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Radio shows surprising resilience even in a rapidly changing media world
Airline passengers between flights patronize the iHeartRadio facility at Denver International Airport in Denver on Jan. 19, 2014. Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images It’s a familiar refrain: “Legacy media is dead” — unless you’re talking about radio. Despite being one of the oldest media formats, dating back to the 1890s, radio has […]
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4 males indicted in $80 million ‘pig butchering’ scheme
Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune Information Services | Getty Pictures Federal prosecutors have disrupted a so-referred to as pig-butchering scheme that value victims much more than $80 million, the U.S. Department of Justice declared Thursday. 4 guys have been indicted and two arrests have been produced in a single of the most sweeping enforcement steps […]
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