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...Nonetheless, it was “a great and eclectic year for the movies,” director Steven Spielberg said at the awards ceremony....
...Steven Mollenkopf, a former chief executive of chipmaker Qualcomm whose electrical engineering qualifications Boeing emphasised, is taking over as chair, giving him a critical role in leading the search...
...By some measures, Sundance’s documentary slate tends to be its most successful: nearly half of this year’s Academy Award non-fiction shortlist premiered here....
...Otherwise, they would have to choose a full slate from one or the other....
...Pence, demonised bugbear of the January 6 Capitol attack for resisting Trump’s demand that he exploit his ceremonial role as formal counter of electoral college votes to stall the process, countenance slates...
...The Fabelmans is Steven Spielberg’s first film to have its world premiere in Toronto....
...Compared to those hauls, the $28.8mn that Steven Spielberg’s best picture nominee, The Fabelmans, drew at the box office looks like pocket change....
...Other significant deals included a $500mn investment by Perfect World in Universal movie slates, and a partnership between Tencent rival Alibaba’s movie business and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, with...
...Before the pandemic struck, Prime Minister Boris Johnson had set health as his number one domestic priority and making good on a slate of pledges to improve the NHS is seen as vital to retaining the loyalty...
...She has also overseen the return of Steven Spielberg to the studio where he began his career. But Covid-19 made even model businesses take emergency measures....
...“Larders are certainly becoming more popular,” says Steven Stokes, head of Savills Reigate....
...Its catalogue of almost 400 films ranges from Hindi blockbusters to Bengali art-house, and also includes, through its involvement with Amblin — a partnership founded by Steven Spielberg — an impressive slate...
...The project draws on the work of Steven Hassan, an anti-cult counsellor and former member of the Unification Church, considered by many experts to be a cult itself....
...The reason is that we are not blank slates....
...Steven Pinker (“The world after tomorrow”, Life & Arts, December 28) refers to the “approaching asteroid” of climate change....
...Bron Creative signed a $100m deal with Warner Bros in 2018 to finance a slate of films, which was how it got involved in Joker....
...The Morning Show ranks alongside science fiction drama See, which features Aquaman star Jason Momoa and is written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, as one of the most expensive shows on Apple’s slate...
...Contagion, a nearly 10-year-old Steven Soderbergh film in which Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law fight off a deadly virus, was a massive hit on Netflix....
...“There are protests around the world from Lebanon to Chile and Iraq, and a lot of these governments, whether it’s liberal democracies or more autocratic, are in tenuous positions,” says Steven Feldstein,...
...Initially puzzled by this use of imported timber, co-director Mark Stevens explains how research revealed that, at the time, native trees were diverted to shipbuilding for the Napoleonic wars....
...Reese Witherspoon and Steven Spielberg....
...Whether Mr Macri succeeds in October’s presidential election depends partly on the strength of another similarly unexpected slate....
...But as Apple previewed its new slate of original programming from the likes of JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg, it did not reveal pricing or other key details for its new TV+ subscription service....
...US jobs A report on the US labour market will highlight a slate of key economic data....
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