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Why Netflix Keeps Canceling Hit Shows: The Streaming Economics Behind Surprise Cancellations
Roughly two-thirds of Netflix scripted originals never make it past their third season. Industry trackers have catalogued the pattern for years, and it holds across genres, budgets and critical reputations. … Read more»
Disclosure Day: Inside Steven Spielberg's New Alien Thriller With Emily Blunt and Colin Firth
A filmmaker who has spent fifty years asking what waits in the sky does not usually return to that question without a reason. When the lights came up at Le … Read more»
Kola Oyewo: The Voice of Jogbo Falls Silent at 80
The crown sat heavy on Oba Lapite's head, and he wore it like a man who knew exactly how to make a kingdom kneel. In Tunde Kelani's 1999 classic Saworoide, … Read more»
Gene Shalit (1926 - 2026): Remembering the Today Show Critic Who Made Reviewing Fun
A television critic does something stranger than telling an audience whether a movie is good. The critic teaches that audience how to talk about the movie at all - which … Read more»
Sydney Sweeney's Rise: From Small-Town Beginnings to Hollywood's Most In-Demand Actress
The cameras at the San Antonio arena were supposed to be trained on the basketball, on the players chasing an NBA Finals trophy in front of a roaring crowd. Then … Read more»
Michael Jackson Biopic 'Michael' Becomes Highest-Grossing Music Biopic Ever, Dethroning 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
Antoine Fuqua's 'Michael' has earned $911.9 million worldwide, surpassing Queen's biopic to claim the crown.
Alexx Ekubo's Love Life and Marriage: Inside the Nollywood Star's World
Few engagement announcements in recent Nigerian entertainment history travelled as far or as fast as the one that lit up Instagram in May 2021. Photographs showed Alexx Ekubo on one … Read more»
How Reality TV Voting Systems Shape Modern Celebrity Culture
Roughly 240 million votes poured in during a single three-month run of Big Brother Naija in 2019, a figure organisers later confirmed when a viral claim tried to attach a … Read more»
Ethan Slater: Broadway Star to Hollywood Headlines
Eight times a week, an actor in a yellow approximation of a kitchen sponge climbed a junkyard mountain of repurposed trash, scaled rope ladders, balanced on a pool noodle, played … Read more»