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This writer is a man of the people. You, cherished reader, are my reason for being — or at least the reason I don’t have to get a real job. When you speak, I listen — unless you call me stupid, in which case I ignore it and continue regaling folks with my wit and wisdom. Last week, in the …

A new report reveals that streaming giant Netflix is considering placing a bid to buy Warner Bros. This news comes shortly after reports surfaced that Paramount was also looking to buy the studio behind Sinners, Weapons, and Superman this year alone. After Paramount CEO David Ellison’s “presumptive all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery,” Puck‘s Dylan Byers has followed up to …

David Zaslav wants a bidding war for his media conglomerate — and investors say “bring it on!”  Shares of Warner Bros. Discovery spiked 17% to $18.87 on Friday after The Post reported that CEO Zaslav isn’t waiting around for Paramount Skydance to officially confirm a reported monster bid for the owner of Warner Bros. studios, HBO, TNT and CNN.  Paramount …

Thousands of mourners paid homage Saturday to Italian fashion legend Giorgio Armani, who died this week aged 91, as his coffin was put on public display in Milan. Italian fashion icon Donatella Versace was among those who filed past Armani’s closed casket at the headquarters of his multi-billion-euro lifestyle company, which marked its 50th anniversary this year. Adorned with a …

The new Paramount Pictures is already making a flex. Coming out in a competitive situation, the now Skydance-owned studio has picked up High Side, the hot feature package from director James Mangold and star Timothée Chalamet. The project reunites the duo after their collaboration on the Academy Award-nominated Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. Mangold is attached to direct High Side, a …

Olivia Smith was always going to become women’s football’s first £1million player this summer — but nobody was meant to know. Confidentiality was the modus operandi before Smith’s record-breaking £1million ($1.34m) transfer from Liverpool to Arsenal became official on Thursday. The circle of trust was small: Liverpool’s new managing director of women’s football, Andy O’Boyle, drove negotiations from Merseyside, with …

After 17 years in Los Angeles, I was fluent in traffic shortcuts, niche coffee shops, and how to be optimistic when someone casually mentioned they were working on a screenplay. I could parallel park on a hill, one-handed. I’d survived preschool waitlists, earthquake drills, and overpriced poke bowls. Los Angeles felt like home, and I saw myself growing old there. …