LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - In the opening scene of "Eyes Wide Shut," Stanley Kubrick introduces the married couple played by then-married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman via a 60-second Steadicam shot. The pair are getting ready for a formal event. Cruise wears a tuxedo, Kidman a gown. The camera follows him around their New York apartment, entering the master bathroom, where she sits on the toilet, door ajar. Kidman stands, she wipes and they go on with their preparations, this unglamorous everyday gesture speaking volumes about the comfort this husband and wife feel around one another.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China premiered a patriotic documentary film on Friday to mark the one-year anniversary of Wuhan's coronavirus lockdown, part of a broader effort by authorities to cast the government's early response to COVID-19 in a positive light.

BEIJING, Jan 22 (Reuters) - China premiered a patriotic documentary film on Friday to mark the one-year anniversary of Wuhan's coronavirus lockdown, part of a broader effort by authorities to cast the government's early response to COVID-19 in a positive light.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The global release of the James Bond movie "No Time to Die" was postponed to October from April, its producers said, another setback for movie theaters trying to rebuild a business crushed by the coronavirus pandemic.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "Saturday Night Live" is set to return with its first episode of the new year on Jan. 30, with John Krasinski as host and Machine Gun Kelly as the musical guest.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roughly 40 million people watched live coverage of Democrat Joe Biden's inauguration as U.S. president on six TV networks, according to Nielsen data released on Thursday, a 4% increase over the number that tuned in for Donald Trump's swearing-in four years ago.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden tapped Democratic Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) Jessica Rosenworcel to be the acting chair of the U.S. telecommunications regulator on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - A series adaptation of "Tales of Dunk and Egg," a prequel to the events of "Game of Thrones," is in early development at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively from sources.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Late on the day that Lil Wayne officially received his long-rumored pardon from former President Trump, he dropped a new song called "Ain't Got Time."

LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Britain's Glastonbury Festival, the largest greenfield music festival in the world, has been canceled for a second year running because of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said on Thursday.

(Reuters) - Record producer Bob Rock has sold his share of rights from a catalogue of 43 songs, including heavy metal band Metallica's self-titled album and singer Michael Bublé's "Call Me Irresponsible" to Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the latest music insider to sell lucrative record catalogues as the explosion of online streaming attracts investors.

Jan 21 (Reuters) - Record producer Bob Rock has sold his share of rights from a catalog of 43 songs, including heavy metal band Metallica's self-titled album and singer Michael Bublé's "Call Me Irresponsible" to Hipgnosis Songs Fund , the latest music insider to sell lucrative record catalogs as the explosion of online streaming attracts investors.

(Reuters) - Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, the quiet, unassuming slugger who broke Babe Ruth's supposedly unbreakable record for most home runs in a career and battled racism in the process, died on Friday, the Atlanta Braves announced. He was 86.

Jan 22 (Reuters) - Following are some of the reactions to the death of baseball's Hank Aaron, who died on Friday at the age of 86.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The world’s most famous sled-dog race, celebrated by Alaskans for half a century but long condemned by animal-rights activists as inhumane, is losing one of its biggest corporate sponsors.

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