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In 2006, Martin Scorsese finally got his Oscar. After decades of being passed over for films that defined American cinema — “Taxi Driver” (1976), “Raging Bull” (1980), “Goodfellas” (1990) — the industry threw its full weight behind “The Departed.” The Boston mob drama wasn’t considered his best work by cinephiles or critics, but it was his time. Hollywood loves a …

I’ll play almost any game, but there’s one genre I keep coming back to: battle royale. I started with PUBG and Fortnite, before graduating to Apex Legends’ hero shooter spin on the action as soon as it was released. As the world’s biggest Titanfall 2 stan, it was perfect. Despite many changes, I still jump in for a few ranked …

A few hours ago, the Battlefield 6 development team unveiled the long-rumored (and recently leaked) Battle Royale mode, which will begin testing this week via the Battlefield Labs platform. The goal is to infuse this highly popular game mode with Battlefield DNA, including destructible environments, classes, and more. Unsurprisingly, the map has been designed specifically for the Battle Royale experience. …

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Joins ‘Sinners’ and ‘Hamnet’ as Early Oscar Frontrunner  IndieWire The Battle to Make ‘One Battle After Another’  The New York Times ‘One Battle After Another’ First Reactions: Steven Spielberg Praises PTA and DiCaprio’s ‘Incredible’ New Movie as Press Call It One of the Year’s Best  Variety Leonardo DiCaprio Details How He Pursues Hollywood’s Top Directors: “I …

Pnina Halfon Lang has spent more than two decades promoting, marketing, and building collaborations for Israeli cinema abroad. From her office in a worn-down Tel Aviv building, the executive director of the nonprofit CoPro Foundation now senses a sharp shift in the industry. “Business is not as usual,” she says. Since Hamas’s bloody massacre of some 1,200 in Israel on …

Bill Belichick has another reason to cry about the Patriots. Via Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has declined four trademark applications filed by the North Carolina coach and his muse/handler/personal P.R. rep/girlfriend Jordon Hudson. Earlier this year, they sought trademark protection for: “Do Your Job (Bill’s Version),” “Ignore the Noise (Bill’s Version),” “The Belestrator (Bill’s …

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will decide whether President Trump can impose his most sweeping tariffs, setting up a major test of one of the pillars of the president’s economic agenda. The high court agreed to review lower court decisions that found Mr. Trump did not have the authority to issue many of his global tariffs under …

Steven Spielberg is a big fan of One Battle After Another. The legendary filmmaker heaped praise on director Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel after an advance screening in Los Angeles this week. During a post-screening panel discussion, Spielberg revealed he had already seen the film three times. One Battle After Another stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a paranoid, …

Murdoch family resolves messy succession battle with new family trust  Axios Rupert Murdoch buys out 3 of his children to seal fate of his media empire  NPR Who Is Lachlan Murdoch, the Media Prince Who Would Be King  The New York Times Murdochs reach deal in succession battle over media empire  BBC Murdoch family resolves dispute over ownership in multibillion-dollar deal  The Washington Post Source …

Leonardo DiCaprio has been waiting to work with Paul Thomas Anderson since he famously turned down the leading role in “Boogie Nights.” So even with a lifetime of filmmaking between 1997 and their collaboration on “One Battle After Another,” DiCaprio was a little nervous stepping on set for the first time. “I always get nervous first day, really,” DiCaprio told …