Author: Michael

Before we get to the “review” part of this review we have to address the elephant in the room: “Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie” is a film made for young children, and any adult who says it’s not “good” will inevitably be accused of missing the point. To some, the question isn’t whether an adult critic likes it. The question is, “Who cares what an adult thinks about a movie made for kids in the first place?” It sounds like a real gotcha, but it misses the point. “Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie” was made for children and yet, like…

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Welcome back to the “Media Front.” For much of the past decade, Hollywood’s biggest media companies were chasing versions of the same goal: Build a streaming service, add subscribers and reach enough scale to compete with Netflix. This week’s earnings season offered perhaps the clearest evidence yet that the industry has moved on. Streaming isn’t going away. In fact, after years of significant losses, it’s finally becoming a profitable business for some of Hollywood’s biggest players. But streaming increasingly looks less like the strategy itself and more like one piece of much broader — and very different — plans for…

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John Goodman shocks fans, while showing off his major weight-loss. The actor, spotted looking trim and healthy in a new Instagram post, shared by ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ star David DeLuise, who ran into ‘The Connors’ actor in a grocery store. John’s transformation comes just three years after he revealed he’s lost more than 200 pounds in the last two decades. More from Entertainment Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtXPiqI2cLorKaPrfpKc4g?sub_confirmation=1 Exclusives from #EntertainmentTonight : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv

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Chrissy Metz spoke exclusively to E! News about what changed her perspective on GLP-1 medications for weight loss while discussing her partnership with telehealth company Ro. “I was very skeptical of starting a GLP-1 for a very long time," the This Is Us alum explained. “I’ve been on diets for a very, very long time, since I was a kid, and I know I can lose weight, but I didn’t know that I could quiet food noise and I didn’t know there were other factors. There’s so much shame around being in a bigger body, so just knowing that I…

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The latest round of quarterly earnings disclosures marked the most significant progress for the streaming industry to date, as all five Hollywood studios’ direct-to-consumer businesses reported profits and gains in revenue.  Streaming’s shift from burgeoning growth initiative to key profitability engine is a meaningful inflection point as visibility into subscriber growth becomes increasingly limited, the linear TV business continues to be ravaged by cord-cutting and competition for consumers’ attention remains fierce as the major media companies contend with YouTube, social media, gaming, podcasts and more. Netflix continues to lead the pack by a wide margin, but its executives have had…

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