Author: Michael

A consensus is emerging that in the settlement of the lawsuit by 12 attorneys general against Paramount Skydance, California Attorney General Rob Bonta caved. That Paramount got what it wanted – a green light to proceed with its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, without many restrictions.  The consensus isn’t wrong in the sense that Paramount didn’t have to provide any structural changes to the deal to get to a settlement. The consent decree requiring the production of 30 films a year — including both blockbusters and independents — $1.5 billion over five years invested in U.S. production and…

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Jimmy Kimmel quipped that he and Matthew McConaughey got closer than ever before. While chatting with Woody Harrelson during an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, September 21, the talk show host, 48, detailed his wild encounter with McConaughey, 56, at the 2026 Emmys earlier this week. “I wanna share this story because I’m not sure if you even know the whole story because of what happened,” he began. “So, the in memoriam montage, my friend Cleto [Escobedo III] who passed away, was in the montage and I started getting choked up,” he explained, noting that he excused himself…

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A mom in Michigan tragically died when she was stabbed in an “unprovoked attack” while taking a break outside of the Chipotle where she worked. Authorities confirmed that Jaquoya Wix was killed on the afternoon of Sunday, September 20, after a man in his 40s approached her in an alley near the Chipotle in downtown Detroit and repeatedly stabbed her. A man has been arrested for the attack, but investigators have not yet publicly named him. Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield said in a statement that Wix, 34, was “taking a break” from her job when “an individual suffering from severe…

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