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...She grew up in a village in north Wales, where the nearby slate quarries were going out of business....
...Their thinned-down slates left cinemas without enough movies, exhibitors said: at least the kind that pulled a crowd....
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...It’s more logical to come in next year when [investors] have a clean slate . . . and have more perspective on how companies are guiding into 2023 and 2024.”...
...In this still evolving ecology, Amazon cast itself as plucky scrapper with a slate of bought-in indies....
...The film joins the singular slate that Pastel has launched since 2017, including Jenkins’s own James Baldwin adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk, LA noir Under the Silver Lake and Anima, the musical collaboration...
...For now, Netflix — about to release another slate of awards contenders including Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman — remains in play, while Richards has confirmed that Vue will support the Baftas in 2020....
...Plus: FT film critic Danny Leigh recommends some new releases — and old favourites — to watch now....
...Political history pods have also proved popular, the most gripping being Slate’sSlow Burn, in which Leon Neyfakh examined the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the treatment of Monica Lewinsky, the White House...
...Aside from Michôd, Baumbach and Bong, the Netflix production slate has been expensively filled with projects from established directors such as Angelina Jolie and David Ayer (End of Watch), up-and-comers...
...“Seen from abroad, he had a clean slate — he seemed to be doing a good job of bringing the country back from the brink,” says Mr O’Malley....
...Abrahamson is due at a “slate presentation” held by Room’s distributor for cinema chains and the press. His speech quickens with a thought that he wants to make sure is said....
...Professional investors would also be wise to spread their risks by backing a slate of several films rather than betting everything on a single title that may flop....
...both is their lobbies, restaurants and coffee areas: every single chair, every ledge, every flat surface had been colonised by 28½-year-olds gazing into open laptops, buds in their ears and a phone or slate...
...Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, will on Thursday commit tens of billions of pounds to infrastructure projects as the government looks to move the political focus away from spending...
...Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land concluded that Facebook’s search uniqueness comes from the fact that no other search engine provides personalised results....
...Instead of a philosophy, he has a practical plan: a slate of major reforms he wants implemented....
...The Childhood of Jesus , by JM Coetzee, Harvill Secker, RRP£16.99/Viking, RRP$26.95 Coetzee’s bland world of Novilla, where refugees start over with blank slates and blank lives, is the backdrop to the...
...Among the many bloggers who disapproved of the changes to Google’s search results were MG Siegler of ParisLemon, Farhad Manjoo of Slate and Carl Franzen of Talking Points Memo....
...A masterpiece of Heaney’s middle years, “Alphabets”, traces an awestruck progress from watching his father making animal shadow-shapes on the wall, through writing with chalk on a slate in infant school...
...“We have to make sure that no single movie can sink our slate.” In spite of the self-imposed budget limitations, the company has managed to assemble an ambitious slate of films....
...Septième Ciel has been one of Verbier’s better known private chalet rentals: slick, with a modern wood and layered slate finish, sleeping 12....
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