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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘The Odyssey’ Continue U.K., Ireland Box Office Battle
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” topped the U.K. and Ireland box office for a sixth straight weekend, taking £1.6 million ($2.2 million) and pushing its cumulative gross to $130.1 million. This puts the Sony superhero film sixth on the territory’s all-time chart, within reach of “Avatar” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” for a top-five finish, while…
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Football’s most damaging red cards: a brief history of collapses and turnarounds | The Knowledge
The Guardian’s football trivia column The Knowledge examines famously damaging red cards, prompted by a reader’s question about a Scottish lower-league match in which Clyde blew a 3-0 lead against The Spartans after Logan Dunachie was sent off, drawing 3-3 within 28 minutes. It surveys notable examples where a red card either accelerated an already-losing…
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I co-founded an orchestra 18 years ago. Since then, I’ve seen doors close for working-class musicians | Robert Ames
Robert Ames, co-founder and conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra, has written about stepping down from the organisation after 18 years, using the moment to criticise the classical music industry for making it increasingly difficult for working-class musicians to sustain a career. He argues that routes into the profession that once existed through state schools,…
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Tokyo Market Partners With Frontieres, Adding Genre Slate to Gap-Financing Lineup
Tokyo’s TIFFCOM market has launched its first partnership with Frontières, the genre-focused co-production market run by Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival, bringing a wave of horror and thriller titles into this year’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (TGFM). The tie-up marks Frontières’ first showcase in Asia and expands TGFM’s seventh edition, which connects 24 feature projects from…
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Tokyo Gap Financing Market Unveils 24 Projects & Partnership With Canada’s Frontières
Tokyo Gap Financing Market (TGFM), running alongside the TIFFCOM contents market in Tokyo from 28-30 October, has revealed a line-up of 24 feature film projects from Asia, Europe and the Americas for its latest edition. The market has also struck a new partnership with Canada’s Frontières Market, the genre film co-production platform run by the…
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‘Treasure Island’: Hayley Atwell, David Oyelowo & Tom Sweet Hit The High Seas In First Look At MGM+ & Paramount+ Pirate Series
Paramount+ and MGM+ have released the first look images for their upcoming pirate drama Treasure Island, a six-part series reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel. The show stars Hayley Atwell as Bess Hawkins and David Oyelowo as Long John Silver, and follows young Jim Hawkins and his determined mother as they acquire Captain Flint’s…
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Nats boss to meet UK transport secretary as second day of flight chaos takes cancellations past 1,300 – business live
The Guardian’s live business coverage tracked two separate stories converging on UK household costs: aviation disruption caused by air traffic control provider Nats, and a sharp rise in petrol and diesel prices. The Nats disruption ran into a second day, with cancellations passing 1,300 flights and chief executive Martin Rolfe due to meet transport secretary…
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‘A Common Story’ Review: A Stunningly Played Study of a Couple Whose Inability to Articulate Their Emotions Drives Them Apart
Anna Foglietta’s directorial debut, “A Common Story,” screened in the Orizzonti sidebar at the Venice Film Festival and impresses through what its central couple leave unsaid, offering a rare alternative to the shouting-match relationship dramas that dominate the genre. Starring Alba Rohrwacher and Guido Caprino, the film examines a marriage strained by an inability to…
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Delisted AFL footballer bashed his model ex-partner in a drunken rage over his former team’s Grand Final appearance – then claimed he and his ‘church’ would put her children into foster care
A former Western Bulldogs AFL player, Brodie Moles, has been found guilty of assaulting his ex-partner, former model Lilly Munro, and her mother in a series of violent incidents dating back to 2016. Moles, 40, appeared at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court, where the case highlighted how his anger over missing out on his former club’s Grand…
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Operator of Amazon cargo plane in deadly Miami crash accused of violating safety regulations by former employees
21 Air, the North Carolina-based company that operated the Amazon-chartered Boeing 767 cargo plane that crashed near Miami International Airport killing five people, has faced repeated allegations from former employees that it violated aviation safety regulations. The firm, controlled through an LLC by Houston Astros owner Jim Crane, is alleged by ex-pilots to have dismissed…