AT&T Enters Merger Talks for Entertainment Assets With Discovery

After Covid put paid to the 2020 edition of Cannes, festival chief Thierry Frémaux yesterday was finally able to announce a lineup of movies that will play to audiences on the Riviera. We spoke to the veteran curator about the ongoing Covid challenge, this year’s strong lineup, the ones that got away and surprises still to come.

The Tragically Hip are back with their first single in years, along with a star-studded music video featuring some homegrown talent.

Jonathan Cohen Top rock photographer Danny Clinch’s two-day Sea.Hear.Now festival will return to the beach at Asbury Park, N.J., this fall, with that includes Pearl Jam, Patti Smith, Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Idol and more. (See the full lineup and ticket information at SeaHearNowFestival.com.)Clinch, who grew up in Toms River not far from Asbury Park, first saw Pearl Jam on Aug.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJoel Kinnaman admits he hasn’t seen Uzo Aduba’s award-winning work on “Orange Is the New Black.” Even so, it didn’t take long for the actor to become well acquainted with Aduba after he signed on to play her on-again-off-again boyfriend in the new season of HBO’s “In Treatment.”“The first day we had a big kissing scene,” Kinnaman tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticPerhaps it’s time for another meeting between officials from Israel and Palestine, like the series of off-the-books negotiations that took place in Oslo, Norway, back in 1993.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMark Pedowitz, chairman and CEO of The CW, spoke about the upcoming Discovery-WarnerMedia merger during a programming conference call on Tuesday.Asked how the deal would affect The CW, which is owned in part by Warner Bros., Pedowitz said “At the moment, it does not.

AT&T and Discovery rocked Hollywood with the combination that will see WarnerMedia and Discovery rolled together into a new standalone public entertainment company led by Zaslav — as AT&T exits the sector and Discovery doubles down.

Bloomberg reported on Sunday.According to Bloomberg, the companies are in talks to bring their vast entertainment portfolios together. AT&T’s WarnerMedia includes networks like HBO, CNN, TNT, TBS and the HBO Max streaming service, while Discovery brings its own streaming service, Discovery+, along with networks like HGTV, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Food Network and TLC.

AT&T and Discovery are pursuing a merger of their entertainment assets that would reshape the media business, particularly the fast-growing realm of streaming.

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Line of Duty's creator Jed Mercurio has confessed he gave fans a huge hint as to who H was in the very first season of the show. Fans of the programme were left furious after it was revealed "the fourth man" was dim-witted copper DS Ian Buckells, who is played by Nigel Boyle, in Sunday night's finale episode.

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