Facebook and Instagram Meltdowns Become a Meme Moment With NBC as the Bully: ‘This Is Us’

After a long Covid delay, The French Dispatch opens this weekend with distributor Searchlight Pictures and the industry hoping the whimsical Wes Anderson’s film brings a touch of Grand Budapest Hotel-ish coin to the specialty box office.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticJacques-Yves Cousteau had one of those faces that seemed to come from an earlier time — before the world wars, maybe even before the 20th century. It was a face so thin and tapered yet open, so creased with character, so French.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly’s RAI Com, which is the sales arm of Italian state broadcaster RAI, is scoring sales to key territories on Gabriele Mainetti’s “Freaks Out,” following the genre-bending film’s launch in competition at Venice.Mainetti’s lavish historical fantasy set in 1943 Rome, where four “freaks” who work in a circus are left to their own devices when the Eternal City is bombed by Allied Forces, has been sold to Metropolitan Film for France and to The Klockwork

Johnny Depp‘s lookalike daughter Lily-Rose Depp, 22, was seen strolling the streets of Paris with her new boyfriend Yassine Stein. She stepped out with the French rapper on October 11 wearing a Burberry mini skirt in the fashion house’s iconic check design featuring tan, black, and red coloring. She also donned knee-high black boots, a jean jacket and sheer tights.

"Saturday Night Live" in this weekend’s cold open found one thing that could unite both Democratic and Republican senators  – they’re all too old to understand Facebook. In the show's opening sketch, Sen.

NEW YORK -- Melinda French Gates, already one of the world's most prominent philanthropists, will now take on the job of publisher.Gates has formed a nonfiction imprint with Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan.

Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista is paying tribute to her beloved pooch, Mini Moon, revealing her canine companion has passed away.

by whistleblower, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen, who testified this week before Congress and also appeared on “60 Minutes,” and of course the weirdly timed hours-long outage that occurred on Monday. So, like always the cold open gag began with news clips summing things up.

After what he called “quite a week,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out about what he termed “the false picture of the company that is being painted.”

football game started and during the story about Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.NBC won the second week of the television season handily, averaging 7.5 million viewers. CBS averaged 5.3 million, ABC had 3,7 million, Fox had 2.1 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and Ion Television had 890,000.ESPN led cable networks, averaging 2.78 million in prime time.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Tuesday the world’s largest social media company is facing a “big tobacco, jaw dropping moment of truth” as a massive cache of internal whistleblower documents show Facebook put profits ahead of the safety of children, when it knew it was causing harm.

later identified as a DNS — or domain name services — issue. However, as of this writing it’s still not known what caused that problem.All three sites went down the morning after former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen came forward as the whistleblower who filed at least eight complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission in September.

It’s the heart-stoppingmoment when a bashed-in Pontiac LeMans hurtles beneath NYC’s elevated subway at 90 miles an hour, dodging traffic and pedestrians in a wild race to keep up with a hijacked N train rumbling overhead.That five-minute sequence — a crash course in ‘70s guerrilla filmmaking — is now regarded by many to be the best movie car chase of all time.  However, with the 50th anniversary of "The French Connection" revving up this week, legendary actor Gene Hackman is blunt about the

statement saying, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”The outages come one day after former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen came forward as the whistleblower who filed at least eight complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission last month containing tens of thousands of pages of internal company research.

A former Facebook employee who has, with the release of a trove of internal documents, become a whisteblower over the company’s practices, revealed herself on Sunday on 60 Minutes.