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Warner Bros. Discovery has been in cost-cutting mode — except when it comes to paying top execs. David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, had a 2023 pay package worth $49.7 million, up 26.5% from the year prior, according to the company’s 2024 proxy statement filed Friday. Zaslav’s compensation totaled $39.3 million in […]

The rhythms of Jane Austen’s novels are so persuasive, their challenges and resolutions so familiar, that playwright Kate Hamill can merrily tease our knowledge again and again in her winking adaptation of “Emma,” now at the Denver Center, through May 5. Those beats are after all, the stuff of many a movie rom-com.

The arrest of Denver jam-band fixture Jay Bianchi this week on suspicion of sexual assault follows three decades’ worth of other legal trouble and criminal allegations related to his businesses and personal practices. There have also been convictions for assault, drug possession and the flouting of COVID-era closure mandates. But critics say the Denver Police Department could have done more by publicly addressing the sexual assault allegations sooner, with or without charges, and by communicating more effectively with alleged victims who have been calling for action for years.

BAFTA CIRCLES CALENDAR The British Academy has confirmed the date of the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards, which will now be held on Sunday February. 16. As per recent scheduling arrangements, the awards — arguably the biggest film awards outside the U. S. — takes place two weeks before the Oscars on March 2, 2025.

Film Factory has picked up rights to Luis Gabriel Beristáin’s revenge action thriller “The Gentleman,” a Spain-Mexico co-production starring an international cast led by Golden Globe-winner Ron Pearlman. Produced by Spanish company Esto También Pasará (“Ferocious Wolf,” “The Boogeyman: The Origin of the Myth”) and Mexican outfit SDB Films (“The Deal”), shooting on “The Gentleman” is […]

Taylor Swift is promoting “The Tortured Poets Department” on TikTok in a huge way under a special deal with the app — while other artists on her label, Universal Music Group, remain locked out of TikTok in a licensing dispute. After Swift dropped her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department” at midnight — followed by […]