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Tom Cruise Said He Doesn’t Make Movies for ‘Opening Weekend’ Right Before ‘Digger’ Bombed: ‘You Hope to Make a Film That Can Last’

“I feel very much like we’re going to make something that is a lasting piece of cinema” That’s Tom Cruise on “Digger” … and yet neither he nor Iñárritu have been talking about the movie’s themes, which are pretty pointed. Odd! Anyway maybe he’ll be proven right; anecdotally people seem to like it

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Tom Cruise's "Digger" flopped at the box office, but the actor says he doesn't make movies just to perform huge on opening weekend.

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Will the Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman movies make a dent on tech giant evangelism?

“We are long overdue a meaningful, mainstream critical rebuke of the volatile and egocentric ‘great men’ rewarded by our tech-obsessed culture … But how strongly can a major motion picture attack big tech?” I’m also curious what, pop culturally speaking, can move the dial right now. Is it TV/film?

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The triple release of The Social Reckoning, Musk and Artificial is less a clear political stance, more like movie studio opportunism

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 10h

Just a reminder, if you're seeing crochet on clothes at fast-fashion stores and you're not paying a lot for it, the person who did that crochet is not getting paid a lot either. There is no machine-made crochet, unlike knits. A human is doing that with their hands.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 7h

Reviews of “The Social Reckoning” are pans for the most part and contrasting it with Sorkin’s script for 2010’s “The Social Network” (for obvious reasons!) where nearly everyone deems the former film some form of brilliant and it’s funny in hindsight that was never my read of it lol. It was … fine?

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TV and film *should* feature women middle aged and older. “But we need the faces that match” Exactly Love Leslie Manville

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Michael Iantorno☔️✊ @michaeliantorno.com · 12h

"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company, and what we make in our free time should belong to us.“

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The workers at Wizards of the Coast are teaming up

Workers at Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering demand ownership of personal work made off the clock.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You're an intellectual dynamo ... always and forever

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Sal Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interviewed for travel content writer, piece of cake, done it all my life. Hours and fee agreeable to everyone involved. Afterwards I was sent the detailed job spec, which included this. Um sorry what

the bit that says my byline would be added to AI-written articles and that the use of my name would continue after I left

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Details (former On Leong Merchants Association Building edition) Architects: Michaelsen & Rognstad, 1928

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyway in June of 2025 Disney laid off several hundred employees … and it was not the first round of layoffs that year The reporting sums up the recent history of layoffs at the company and it really makes her chaffing at Shaw’s question all the sillier variety.com/2025/tv/news...

The cuts come just a few months after Disney laid off nearly 200 staffers across its TV and ABC News operations in March, after the company let go 75 across ABC News and local stations in October
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Last September, the company let go about 300 employees across multiple corporate departments, including HR, legal and finance in the U.S.

And in July 2024, Disney pink-slipped about 140 employees in the television division, primarily affecting National Geographic, Freeform and locally owned
TV stations.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fascinating that when she’s asked about frequent layoffs, she’s taken aback and makes the “snarky” comment, which as a C-suite executive giving public remarks, she should have had more discipline to refrain from 🤷🏻‍♀️ Bloomberg is obviously very business friend so perhaps she expected chummy deference?

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reported last week on Sept 29, 2026: “Disney is cutting around 300 employees … its third round of job reductions since Chief Executive Officer Josh D'Amaro took over earlier this year” She’s right, every 6 months isn’t accurate, it’s actually MORE often than that finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An overlooked dance-drama starring GREGORY HINES & SAMMY DAVIS JR. TAP (1989)

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the bedrock principles about journalistic ethics at most major papers is that people be aware of what they are commenting on. No surprises. Debatably, using your answer from an interview in one context for a story in a completely different context doesn't meet that standard.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide?

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Totally! “I don’t think that’s the project of journalism” is a statement without substance. Good journalism interrogates power (which to be fair, VR has done on occasion) but just “reflecting” the powerful back to us is in fact advertising, O’Harris is absolutely right!

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Like, Guidicci just isn’t capable (or willing) to engage with the idea O’Harris has put forth. I think he’s allowed to disagree btw! But he seems like a deer in the headlights and unprepared to bring any kind of intellectual rigor to O’Harris’s premise. He’s really outclassed in this moment

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I tend not like Jeremy O’Harris’s work, or even a lot of his commentary, but he is provocative if nothing else … and I appreciate that he is criticizing the guy who runs Vanity Fair to his face (and he’s not wrong imo) It’s interesting that Guidicci is unable to mount a forceful counter-argument

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Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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How I stopped worrying and learned to love the — no, wait

How I stopped worrying and learned to love the — no, wait AI nearly sparked WWIII, but Hollywood has shown no appetite to contend with this alarming possibility This week’s newsletter buttondown.com/NinaWatchesE...

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AI nearly sparked WWIII, but Hollywood has shown no appetite to contend with this alarming possibility

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 02/10/2026

Took a (very) rainy walk through the Loop tonight. I was absolutely soaked, but my camera stayed dry enough.

The pavement in Chicago is wet from a day-long rain. Street and traffic lights reflect on the stored in vivid colors. In the foreground, a person with an umbrella is an out-of-focus silhouette

Calder's Flaming - an orange, abstract metal sculpture in Chicago stands in a wet, reflective plaza. The sculpture is reflected in the rain coating the plaza's stone pavers in the evening with buildings in the background

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OK but what if he wrote that book too

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I also find it … something … when actors say they feel a protectiveness over their characters AFTER the work of playing them is done, when they can afford to be more objective! You don’t have to inhabit this fictional person’s POV anymore, you can stand back and make a judgement about their choices!

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Because the discourse is making us all crazy, look upon the face of a dog more blessed than any human, for she has never heard the word superintelligence

A white fluffy fox-faced dog with a black nose, goofy smile and pink tongue, staring intently at you and now you forgot what SI means

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'A Different World' spends too much time mining nostalgia

“A DIFFERENT WORLD' SPENDS TOO MUCH TIME MINING NOSTALGIA: Don't blame critics for identifying flaws. It's part of the job. By @soraya.press

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Don't blame critics for identifying flaws. It's part of the job.

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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

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Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it

In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Digger,” or: “Pay all attention to the man behind the curtain” Out now

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"And what happens is, as a society, we become ill-equipped for the realities of that experience.” She teaches intro to criminology and each semester “I’ll ask my students: What do you expect to get from this class? And ‘SVU’ comes up every time."

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For the piece I talked to TaLisa J. Carter, a professor in the department of justice, law & criminology at American U, who said: “Media is how we learn about things and it can’t be decoupled from that ... And the show is sanitizing how victims interact with law enforcement"

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The show has created a persuasive alternate reality for nearly 30 yrs It’s fair to wonder if those making the show and profiting from it — from executive producer Dick Wolf on down — wonder if the show’s idealized depictions have undermined our ability to think and talk about how this plays out IRL

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Column: ‘Law & Order: SVU’ is a sanitized fantasy while the real division in New York is being investigated

I wrote this four years ago, when federal prosecutors were looking into the NYPD's handling of sex abuse cases, including a history of “failing to conduct basic investigative steps and instead shaming and abusing survivors and re-traumatizing them during investigations.” Gift 🔗

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Last summer, federal prosecutors announced an investigation into the New York Police Department’s special victims division and its handling of sex abuse cases. The allegations include a decadelong his...

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‘SVU’ Star Mariska Hargitay Speaks Out on Cornell Rape Case, Says University “Failed to Protect Its Students”

I think a lot about how TV portrayals shape our expectations of how things work in real life For ex, a show like "Law & Order: SVU" Olivia Benson (and the actress who plays her) may take allegations of SA seriously. But that's not the reality in many cases, even the NY special victims division!

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A former Cornell University student has accused seven Chi Phi fraternity members of drugging and raping her in October 2024.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

well I'll just go ahead and delete that lol

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LANTERNS ends this weekend, and, while it's got wonderful performances and some fun set-pieces, it remains hard not to see it as one of those fake parody prestige series that the Florricks watched on THE GOOD WIFE. 1/x

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Agreed! Disclaimer: Not a comic book reader so I went in cold and have watched this strictly as a TV series with no other context. The first episode was intriguing! But it feels like the show doesn't know what it wants to be, or what story it wants to tell For me, there's no there there

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Now see, I woulda stopped with "why on earth would I want a reality show" ... because I'm the wet blanket that thinks the genre is just really uninspired and not even entertaining lol! but to your point, if this is an indicator of where pop culture is right now, we're down bad!

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With alt txt Just generally is great to include alt txt so everyone can read your screenshots/get a sense of what a photo is depicting!

Digital menstrual tracking is widely promoted to women and girls on social media and by technology companies focused on health and wellness

Menstrual tracking apps claim to inform health and wellness beyong fertility as well as physical fitness and performance goals despite a lack of convincing evidence.

Using digital cycle tracking technologies brings substantial risks to users, including wasted time and labor, unwanted surveillance, risks to health data privacy, potential criminalization and distraction from structural influences on health.

Digital menstrual tracking tools have the potential to reshape understandings of women's health and biology and compound existing inequities that continue to shape menstrual health and wellbeing.

Health practitioners, regulators and the general public must be aware of and work to address the risks of these consumer technologies.

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