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KENNETH BRANAGH PAYS LOVING TRIBUTE TO FAMILY, RESILIENCE, AND THE MAGIC OF MOVIES IN BELFAST • The director and his creative team worked together seamlessly to realize the filmmaker’s most personal film to date
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Sets Under Strain: Is the COVID-19 Safety Status Quo Good Enough? • As the studios and guilds move toward extending an agreement amid the rise of omicron, some entertainment workers say more frequent testing is needed and booster shots should be incorporated
The Math Behind Netflix’s Price Hike • The streamer appears to be reorienting around maximizing average revenue per user, the gold standard of subscription revenue metrics, for its 74 million-plus U.S. and Canadian subs
Lucasfilm Rethinks Its Non-Star Wars Slate • Children of Blood and Bone was seen as a way to diversify beyond the sci-fi franchise, but the title languished in development before the studio let its rights lapse
The Witcher’s Big Bow
Tplus: a Bet on Spanish Language • NBCU plans a streaming entrant in the growing content space to target Hispanic and Latino viewers
Paramount’s Loud Scream • The slasher pic’s successful box office opening is a symbolic moment for the studio as it returns to the business of releasing movies in earnest (and exclusively) on the big screen
Take-Two Plans to Rev Up With Mobile Gaming • If the Red Dead Redemption publisher’s $12.7 billion deal for Zynga closes, it will gain one of the largest players in the fast-growing mobile space, complementing its console-based franchises
The Playlist • Podcast and audio news worth following
The Calm Before the Storm • THR’s awards columnist chronicles an assortment of news and notes ahead of the start of Oscar nom voting Jan. 27
WHY HOLLYWOOD IS PRIVATE EQUITY’S NEW MONEY MACHINE
Art House Streamer Mubi Bulks Up With Sales Firm
Rights Available! • Hot new books with Hollywood appeal
7 Days of DEALS • Who’s inking on the dotted line this week
Sue Ann Pien • The autistic actress plays a young adult on the spectrum in Amazon’s new series As We See It
Bob Baker’s Marionettes: The Book • The beloved children’s theater and its founder (who did his first professional puppet show at age 8) get the coffee table treatment
Yes, I Did Say That! • A look at who’s saying what in entertainment
Did I Really Say That?
Rambling Reporter
Red Carpet
Power Dining
Hitched, Hatched, Hired • Inside the industry’s celebrations and news
Birthdays
Pamela Fryman • One of TV’s most prolific directors, now a steward of the classic sitcom format, proffers a reboot of one of her own shows in Hulu’s How I Met Your Father
After 94 Years, It’s Time for the Academy to Recognize the Art Form of Stunt Work • ‘Actors may worry about a part killing their career, a stunt actor worries about getting killed’: Senior agent Noelle Kim tells THR why the specialized performers and coordinators deserve a category at the Oscars
Monster Mash: ‘We Put Movement Into Ghostbusting’ • Ghostbusters: Afterlife VFX supervisors Sheena Duggal and Alessandro Ongaro took on director Jason Reitman’s ‘love letter’ to the 1984 classic
Level Up Your Immunity • What to do to protect yourself as omicron rages, according to Hollywood’s top doctors: ‘Loading up on supplements isn’t going to cut it’
6 of L.A.’s Best Spots for Outside Workouts • Want to get back out to the gym but still leery amid the omicron wave? In-demand...