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Third Suspected Bomb Found On Way To CNN As Donald Trump Blames Press

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A third suspected pipe bomb has been intercepted en route to CNN as the man alleged to have sent 14 other pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump was due in court today. Those 14 bombs include two sent to CNN’s HQ in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center. The third, suspected, explosive device was addressed to CNN’s Atlanta offices.  While the previous two bombs were addressed to critics of Trump – former CIA Director John Brennan and former National… Read

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Vince Marcello To Direct ‘The Royal Runaway’ For Gotham Group

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EXCLUSIVE: Vince Marcello, who adapted, produced and directed Netflix’s teen romantic comedy The Kissing Booth starring Joey King, has signed on to direct and produce The Royal Runaway, a movie adaptation of Lindsay Emory’s recently published romantic novel. The Gotham Group is producing in the pair’s second deal this month. The plot centers on a modern-day princess who is forced to team with a roguish spy to find out what happened to the fiancé who left her at the altar… Read

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Broadway’s ‘King Kong’ Cancels A Pre-Opening Matinee For “Final Adjustments”

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Broadway’s mighty King Kong is taking this Wednesday afternoon off. Producers announced today that the Oct. 31 matinee has been cancelled to allow for “final adjustments” prior to the Nov. 8 opening. The opening night and the press dates beginning this weekend are unchanged and will not be impacted by the cancelled matinee. "Because of the scale of the production we couldn't have an out of town try-out before coming to Broadway,” said lead producers Carmen Pavlovic and… Read

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World Series Ratings Steady In Game 5 Finale; ‘Sunday Night Football’ Bops Up

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The second to last episode of The Walking Dead with Andrew Lincoln was on, but America went out to the ball game last night as the Boston Red Sox won the 2018 World Series and the New Orleans Saints pummeled the Minnesota Vikings on the NFL and NBC's Sunday Night Football. Defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in the City of Angeles in Game 5 of the MLB face-off on Sunday, the Red Sox snared their ninth World Series championship. Flexing some serious franchise muscle and… Read

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ProSiebenSat.1 Buys Dating Service eHarmony; Sky Italia Hires New Content Chief; UK Union Bectu Hires New Boss – Global Briefs

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German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired U.S. online dating service eHarmony. The company, which owns 11 production companies in the States including Married At First Sight producer Kinetic Content and The Circus producer Left/Right, has acquired the dating service via its NuCom Group, which owns German online matchmaking platform Parship Elite Group. eHarmony CEO Grant Langston will continue to manage the business with the PEG management joining the… Read

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Movie Rating Appeals Getting More Rare, According To MPAA Report Marking System’s 50th Anniversary

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Fewer appeals have been filed in recent years over ratings decisions rendered by the MPAA, according to a new report by the trade organization marking the 50th anniversary of the ratings system. Introduced on November 1, 1968 by Jack Valenti in the wake of films such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? causing a stir with their provocative content, the ratings system has assigned letters to 29,791 films as of September 30. Of those nearly 30,000 films, 17,202 were rated R… Read

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Donald Trump Directs Followers To “End” The “Fake News,” Returning “Peace”

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President Donald Trump put a target on the backs of the press, via Twitter. “The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country,” Trump tweeted one day after an alt-right subscriber gunned down 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue, to kill Jews he believed were financing a white-killing caravan heading to the border. “Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest… Read

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NowThis Premieres Its First Feature-Length Documentary ‘Virginia 12th’

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NowThis will premiere its first feature-length documentary film, Virginia 12th, at 5 PM Eastern Tuesday on its Facebook and YouTube channels. The 64-minute documentary follows Chris Hurst, a millennial journalist rocked by gun violence, who left his career to launch a political challenge that unseated an NRA-backed incumbent State House representative in surprising upset victory in rural Virginia. Hurst was working at as a television news anchor in Virginia when his… Read

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Ballantine Books Nabs ‘Into The Dark’ Account Of Thai Cave Rescue Told In Words Of The Rescued & Rescuers

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EXCLUSIVE Ballantine Books has acquired world English rights to Into The Dark, a book that the publisher says will, for the first time, chronicle last summer’s rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team from a flooded Thai cave in the actual words of everyone directly involved. Susanna Porter is Ballantine’s acquiring editor, and journalist, author and frequent TV pundit Ellis Henican will serve as author along with the principals telling their stories. Subtitled The Dramatic St… Read

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‘Today’ Gang Steps In For Megyn Kelly As Scrutiny Turns To NBC News Chief Andy Lack

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Today hosts Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin, Al Roker, and Savannah Guthrie moved seamlessly into the third hour of the show this morning, after NBC announced Friday it had cancelled Megyn Kelly Today in the wake of Kelly’s defense of blackface Halloween costumes. “Today, as you know, we are starting a new chapter in the third hour of our show,” Kotb said at 9 AM. “As it evolves, we want you to know the entire Today family will continue to bring you informative and important… Read

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AT&T, Warner Bros. And RED Unveil Hydrogen One Phone, Taking Aim At Mobile “Sea Of Sameness”

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AT&T, Warner Bros. and the maker of the RED camera, a favorite of filmmakers from David Fincher to Peter Jackson, are teaming up for the rollout of a super-high end mobile phone called the Hydrogen One. In a recent press preview event in New York, they unveiled the device, which will launch Friday in AT&T stores. The stakeholders see the Hydrogen One as a creative leap beyond the best phones Apple and Samsung have on the market. It will be priced accordingly, at $1,295… Read

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Rockettes To Incorporate Intel’s Drones In Traditional Christmas Spectacular Show

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In one of the most surprising of casting announcements of the holiday season, Madison Square Garden Co. said Intel’s Shooting Star drones will join the Radio City Rockettes for the finale of its annual Christmas Spectacular at Radio City. One hundred palm-sized drones will create a light show over the stage, using choreographed movements to create holiday-themed silhouettes in the new finale scene, Christmas Lights. This marks the first time Intel’s mini drones have… Read

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