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Reed Hastings, co-founder, chairman, and co-chief executive officer of Netflix, arrives for the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S. July 6, 2021.Brian Losness | ReutersNetflix could roll out its lower-price, ad-supported tier as early as this year, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC.Netflix executives told employees in a note they were working to introduce the tier by the last three months of 2022. That would put it on a much faster track than Netflix originally indicated.…

Elon Musk said his plans for Twitter Inc. TWTR -3.69% are aligned with new European Union rules aimed at compelling social-media companies to do more to police illegal content, after his initial vision for the platform raised concerns among regulators in Europe. Mr. Musk made the comments in a video posted Monday to the Twitter account of Europe’s commissioner for the internal market,…

The AMC 25 Theatres in Times Square in New York is seen on Tuesday, July 8, 2014.Richard Levine | Corbis News | Getty ImagesNot even the tag-team of Spider-Man and Batman could make AMC Entertainment profitable during the first quarter. Still, shares of the movie theater chain rose more than 3% after hours Monday after it posted a narrower-than-expected loss during the period.AMC has made big strides towards recovery since the pandemic shuttered all of its locations globally in 2020, but a limited slate of new films…

WASHINGTON—Twenty internet providers, including AT&T Inc., Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., agreed to improve subsidized high-speed internet plans they offer to millions of unconnected households, part of a Biden administration push to advertise a program created in last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law.The moves would boost the roughly year-old Affordable Connectivity Program, which hasn’t reached all its eligible subscribers in part because many of the neediest users aren’t online in the first…

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn.—Tom and Barb Hansen’s search for a retirement spot reads like the script to a road movie. California’s Lake Tahoe. Sedona and Scottsdale in Arizona. The Ozark Mountains of Missouri. Myrtle Beach, S.C.Over a decade or so, the couple traveled the country to imagine life after Mr. Hansen retired as president of a community bank in the suburbs west of Chicago. In 2018, the Hansens, ages 61 and 60, picked rural Sevier County, Tenn. A lot of other people had the…

The summer blockbuster is back.After two years of delays, cancellations and false starts because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2022 summer movie season started strongly as fans packed cinemas to see “Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” a superhero thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Xochitl Gomez and Elizabeth Olsen. The film, produced by Walt Disney Co. DIS -2.06% ’s Marvel Studios and distributed by Disney, raked in $450 million at the global box office on…

Still from "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness."DisneyThe summer blockbuster season has started with a bang. Disney's latest Marvel Cinematic Universe flick "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" snared $185 million domestically over its debut weekend, the highest haul of any movie released in 2022."Nothing says movie theaters are back more than a Marvel movie posting a monumental debut," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore. "This is great news for the industry, moviegoers and the…

Handout | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesLOS ANGELES – In April last year I took a stroll down an empty Main Street in Disneyland with the head of Walt Disney theme parks, Josh D'Amaro.The California park was a week from opening after more than a year of being shuttered due to Covid-19 restrictions, and cast members were hard at work putting the last touches in place before guests arrived. It was a strange walk down the iconic cobblestone lane. It was quiet, a word that has probably never been used to describe a…

A lobby card from the film 'The Wizard Of Oz,' shows a film still of a scene in which American actress Judy Garland (1922 - 1969) (as Dorothy) wipes tears from the eyes of actor Bert Lahr (1895 - 1967) (as the Cowardly Lion), while watched by Jack Haley (1898 - 1979) (as the Tin Man) (left), and Ray Bolger (1904 - 1987) (as the Scarecrow), 1939. The film was directed by Victor Fleming.Hulton Archive | Moviepix | Getty ImagesThe Catholic University of America won't surrender Dorothy's dress — without a court fight.The…

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit filed last year by former President Donald Trump against Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.11% and its then-chief executive Jack Dorsey over alleged censorship, an issue that the company’s potential new owner, Elon Musk, has said he would clamp down on. U.S. District Judge James Donato of…