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Donnie Wahlberg gets emotional while thanking New Kids on the Block fans for more than four decades of support during the group’s Las Vegas residency. The singer fights back tears as he reflects on a fan who told him a hug felt like embracing ‘an old friend,’ and shares why performing with NKOTB and their longtime fans continues to keep them young. ET looks back at the group’s decades-long connection with fans and the moments leading up to their Las Vegas finale. NKOTB wraps its ‘The Right Stuff’ residency on Oct. 17. More from Entertainment Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtXPiqI2cLorKaPrfpKc4g?sub_confirmation=1 Exclusives from #EntertainmentTonight…

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On Sept. 29, a special screening of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Digger” was held at the David Geffen Theater on Wilshire. The screening was open to various guilds (including Academy voters), along with press and was meant as a celebratory dot on the promotional circuit. Director Iñárritu and most of the cast was there. It was supposed to be an opening salvo for the movie’s glittery awards campaign. But it ended up being a farewell stop. During the post-screening Q&A, “Digger” star and producer Tom Cruise, sitting beside Iñárritu and fellow performers John Goodman, Sandra Hüller and Michael Stuhlbarg, called out…

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Ynon Kreiz is credited with saving Mattel from a potential financial collapse and transforming the simple toymaker into an IP-driven entertainment company. But can he do it again at an even larger scale with Skydance? Under the new co-CEO structure, David Ellison will focus on the company’s long-term strategy, creative vision and direction, including its talent relationships, strategic partnerships, technology and capital allocation, while Kreiz will focus on day-to-day management and integration of the combined businesses.  The stakes couldn’t be higher. Kreiz joins as Skydance begins to integrate two massive entertainment machines, with all the layoffs that come with it,…

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After months of twists and turns that included a bidding war with Netflix and a legal fight with 12 state attorneys general and the Writers’ Guild of America, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed their $110 billion merger on Tuesday. The move creates an entertainment behemoth that will oversee multiple streaming services, including Paramount+, Pluto TV, HBO Max and Discovery+, and TV networks like CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, HBO and CNN. It will also oversee a vast library of IP, such as Harry Potter, the DC Universe, Game of Thrones, SpongeBob SquarePants and more. “Today is a historic day,…

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