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Shell Game: CEO’s Past May Haunt the Future • Skydance mogul David Ellison will install Jeff Shell as the incoming chief of Paramount if the sale closes. But will the former NBCUniversal chief’s firing over claims of sexual harassment complicate the move?

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The Next Big Biopic Bet: Anthony Bourdain • A24 is in talks to board the feature as producers look to cut through the clutter of music projects

Once a Cash Cow, Cable TV Is Finally Roadkill • As Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery take huge hits to their businesses, execs will need to make tough choices with managing their decline. Is a fire sale next?

Animators Face an ‘Existential’ Moment • As the 5,000-strong Animation Guild starts negotiations with studios, outsourcing jobs and AI are the major points of contention

Hollywood’s Top Labor Chiefs: A Pay Scorecard • SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland takes home the top compensation

How MrBallen Built a True-Crime Empire • The Navy SEAL turned YouTuber leans on his family members (including two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists) to help source hitmaking stories

Could Post Malone Finally Win His First Grammy? • Collabs with Beyoncé and Taylor Swift on their albums, along with his own hit singles, certainly boost his chances and could yield nominations in the double digits

Meredith Hagner Will Cry for a Laugh • The actress, who stars on Apple TV+’s new Bad Monkey, talks dream jobs, having Goldie Hawn as a mother-inlaw and her own surprising litmus for good comedy

HOLLYWOOD AS CAPTURED BY LIFE • Taschen’s new coffee-table extravaganza features more than 600 indelible images of actors and directors across nearly four decades

An Art Show Nearly a Century in the Making • L.A.-based, Venezuela-born ceramicist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess — a lover of pop icons like Minnie Mouse — gets her first retrospective at LACMA at age 95

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Yes, I Did Say That! • A look at who’s saying what in entertainment

If These Walz Could Talk: The Hunt for SNL’s Next Vice President • Yeah, Steve Martin would have been perfect, but now that he’s out of the running — “I’m not an impressionist,” he told Lorne Michaels — who should SNL cast as vice presidential candidate Tim Walz? THR rates the field

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Hitched, Hatched, Hired • Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

Back to Cool • Ace the first day of school with these cute ’fits, whether you’re raising a future president or an all-star Olympian

The Doctor Will U Now :) • A controversial new breed of digital content creators — influencers with medical degrees — are racking up billions of views speculating about celebrity nips and tucks. ‘It’s misconstrued that I’m picking on them’

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DEMI DIGS DEEP • Never one to shy away from sharing her personal demons, DEMI LOVATO now steps behind the camera for the Hulu documentary Child Star — asking subjects from Drew Barrymore and Christina Ricci to Kenan Thompson and JoJo Siwa to get intimate about their own struggles with young fame

THE TOP 50 PLAYERS IN KIDS ENTERTAINMENT • As goes Hollywood writ large, so goes children’s content. To a point. Recent box office triumphs and streaming megahits (G’day, Bluey!) give good...