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1 hour agoArnold Schwarzenegger Riding a Dinosaur Is Somehow Normal in Wild Leaked Footage From Kung Fury 2Schwarzenegger joins Michael Fassbender, Alexandra Shipp, David Hasselhoff, and others in this delayed sci-fi action comedy.

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The members of the Writers Guild of America have voted to uphold the expulsion of two writers accused of writing during the 2023 strike, but to rescind a public rebuke of a writer who made a joke on Facebook. The WGA board voted earlier this year to kick out Roma Roth and Edward Drake for performing forbidden “writing services” — what the union calls “scab writing” — during the 148-day strike.

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Steven Paul has been to Mar-a-Lago many times over the years. The producer and longtime manager to Jon Voight was there again last weekend, along with producer Scott Karol, to pitch President Trump on their plan to save Hollywood. “I always enjoy being there and seeing the president,” Paul told Variety on Friday.

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7 hours agoNo One Is More Excited About Pope Leo XIV Than VillanovaThe university has celebrated nonstop, including ‘pope punch’ and ringing bells, since an alumnus was selected to lead the Catholic Church It’s a good week to be a Villanova Wildcat.

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The leaders of the major Hollywood studios and streaming companies gathered on Zoom on Friday for a special meeting with Motion Picture Association chief Charlies Rivkin to strategize about how to address President Trump’s threatened film tariffs. The goal was to find a delicate way to educate the White House on the complexities of the film business, as well as the difficulty of applying a tariff on a product that is not a traditional good in the sense of a car or a hammer.