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Rescuers in Laos have found five villagers alive inside a flooded cave after they were trapped for a week.

EXCLUSIVE: Punchup Live, the creator-owned live entertainment platform from Danny Frenkel and Alex Dajani, has launched a native podcast product, with popular comedy pods Bein’ Ian with Jordan (hosted by Jordan Jensen and Ian Fidance) and Tuesdays with Stories (hosted by Mark Normand and Joe List) joining the service. The intention behind the launch is to allow comics to more […]

Massachusetts became the first state to certify that rideshare drivers with Uber and Lyft, deemed as independent contract workers under federal law, can organize and form a union. Rideshare drivers on Tuesday gathered outside the statehouse in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood to celebrate after the Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations certified the unionization efforts on…

EXCLUSIVE: Ravi V. Patel (Animal Control) has joined the cast of action-thriller Best Pancakes In The County, starring alongside Nicholas Cage (Longlegs), Justin Long, (Barbarian) and Shelley Hennig (Unfriended, Ouija). As Deadline previously revealed the film, written and directed by Ken Sanzel (Kill Chain), is set over the course of a single night in a small-town […]

EXCLUSIVE: Switchboard Magazine, a platform that combines documentary and live-action shorts with longform journalism, is teaming up with Hulu. The company, which was founded by Call Me Cleo and Beanie Mania producer Celia Aniskovich, has struck a first-look deal for its non-fiction work with the Disney streamer. The deal will give Hulu the first right to develop documentary […]

The Heritage Foundation on Wednesday added four new members to its board of trustees, including conservative commentator Mollie Hemingway and nationalist political theorist Yoram Hazony, marking a step in the think tank’s recalibration to “Heritage 2.0.” Also joining the think tank are Lawrence Blanford, the retired CEO of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and business leader…

Politicians in Illinois and Colorado are threatening the credit-card rewards system that increasingly powers airlines, which could have a devastating effect on the airline industry and consumers.

Alan Ritchson is expanding his relationship with Amazon MGM Studios. The star and executive producer of Prime Video’s hit series Reacher has signed a three-year first-look television deal with the studio via his production banner, Dancing Skeleton. Under the deal, Ritchson will develop and produce new television shows for Prime Video. Ritchson already has several […]

Three animated series have received orders by Prime Video via the GenAI Creators’ Fund, a new joint initiative of Amazon Web Services and Amazon MGM Studios. The projects are Cupcake & Friends from BuzzFeed Studios; Love, Diana Music Hunters from creator Albie Hecht, a former Nickelodeon exec who is now Chief Content Officer at pocket.watch; and Punky Duck from creator […]

It’s the summer of surprises, and one in which studios are finally getting their arms around the lost YouTube generation, as they call it, when it comes to younger moviegoers. Chernin Entertainment, Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and A24’s thrifty financed feature take of Kane Parsons’ IP Backrooms is looking to Force-choke Lucasfilm/Disney’s Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu […]

🥊 Plus: GOP picks up the pieces of bruising Cornyn-Paxton fight {beacon}   It’s Wednesday. Have you seen the photos of the White House South Lawn being turned into a UFC fight night venue, with a cage and everything? 📸 Photos Oh, and have you seen the video of the pope sitting in Ferrari’s new fully electric $640,000 car in Rome? 🎥 If you haven’t,…

The Treasury inquiry is looking at student loan plans in England and whether repayment terms are “reasonable”.