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Nicole Kidman to endorse U.S. cannabis company
(Reuters) - Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman has signed up to promote cannabis-based products for U.S.-based Cure Pharmaceutical, the company said on Tuesday, the latest celebrity to endors...
Dec 08, 2020
SiriusXM signs new five-year deal with Howard Stern
(Reuters) - Satellite radio service provider Sirius XM Holdings Inc said it had signed a new five-year deal with celebrity Howard Stern to continue to produce and host his popular "Howard Stern Show"....
Dec 08, 2020
Pandemic forces La Scala to replace traditional season opener
By Sara Rossi MILAN (Reuters) - Milan's La Scala opera house staged a three-hour televised medley of arias and ballet late on Monday after the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of the tradi...
Dec 08, 2020
‘Tenet’ director Nolan slams Warner Bros same day streaming plan
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Movie director Christopher Nolan on Monday slammed plans by Warner Bros to release its 2021 films in theaters and on its streaming service HBO Max on the same day, saying the s...
Dec 07, 2020
Chadwick Boseman, Trump and pop group BTS dominate Twitter in 2020
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The announcement of the death of "Black Panther" star Chadwick Boseman was the most shared on Twitter worldwide in 2020, and got the most "likes" of any Tweet ever, the social ...
Dec 07, 2020
Prince Harry launches lawsuit against UK paper, joining wife Meghan
LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Harry is suing the publishers of a British newspaper for libel, joining his wife Meghan who is separately suing them over breach of copyright and data protection, British med...
Dec 07, 2020
Mario Lopez to play KFC’s Colonel Sanders in Lifetime romance movie
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mario Lopez will play KFC's longtime mascot Colonel Sanders in a steamy Lifetime channel holiday romance, the companies said on Monday, as marketing and entertainment converge ...
Dec 07, 2020
Million-dollar bash for Bob Dylan as Universal buys up his back pages
By Angus MacSwan LONDON (Reuters) - Universal Music Group's publishing arm has bought Bob Dylan's entire back catalogue of more than 600 songs, from towering classics such as 1965's "Like a Rolling St...
Dec 07, 2020
Cartoons and live performers combine in online Gorillaz gigs
By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Innovation has always been a hallmark of musician Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewitt's cartoon band Gorillaz, and now they are aiming to pull off something new...
Dec 07, 2020
Bob Dylan sells entire song catalog to Universal Music
(Reuters) -Bob Dylan has sold his entire catalog of more than 600 songs spanning six decades to Universal Music Group's music publishing arm, the company said on Monday. The deal includes Dylan's icon...
Dec 07, 2020
