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Amazon will no longer sell donkey-skin gelatin to California residents. A report published Wednesday by Wired states the online retailer settled with a nonprofit that filed a complaint, alleging the products violated state animal welfare laws protecting horses. Amazon denied any wrongdoing and disputed the allegations. Still, it agreed to block sales of ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine made from donkey hide, in the Golden State.The Center for Contemporary Equine Studies, an organization devoted to protecting horses,…

More than 250 items from Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 classic film The Big Lebowski starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore and Steve Buscemi will be hitting the block in December as part of a Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies joint event. The auction comes on the heels of the film celebrating its 25th anniversary earlier this year. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will support Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign. Bridges serves as a national spokesperson for No…

It’s been a little less than a week since Turner Classic Movies was saved from being ground up in Warner Bros. Discovery’s relentless content sausage grinder. Film preservation takes a lot of work, both from official, mainstream providers and some—well—less authorized sources. Over the past week, eagle-eyed classic film buffs spotted that TCM aired content originally created for the famed pirate movie archival community Karagarga.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayAs originally reported by TorrentFreak, users on the…

Cinephile’s cherished Turner Classic Movies was slated to be Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest amputation of beloved content. Out of the blue, famed directors Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson stepped up to bat for the classic cinema channel. Now it seems the three have managed to hold Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav back, so long as they stay on to curate and promote TCM content.Who Wants DC’s Canceled Batgirl Movie? | New York Comic Con 2022According to Variety, the three famed directors will now…

Steven Spielberg attends the 55th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards at InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on February 16, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.Matt Winkelmeyer | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesWarner Bros. Discovery is calling in a filmmaker brain trust to help steer the curation and programming of its cable-TV channel Turner Classic Movies, after a shakeup among management left fans concerned about the network's future."Jaws" director Steven Spielberg, "Goodfellas" helmer Martin Scorsese and…

David ZaslavOlivia Michael | CNBCWarner Bros. Discovery employees faced another round of layoffs this week, particularly those in the cable-TV network side of the business.The layoffs affected the company's vast portfolio of cable-TV networks including the Discovery Channel, Investigation Discovery and the Food Network. The Turner Classic Movie channel also was affected and saw a major leadership shakeup as a result, which prompted concern among cinema fans and people dedicated to film preservation.Known as TCM, the…

Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images It’s not a secret that Warner Bros. has been in a financial predicament for a while now, with CEO David Zaslav attempting to shave billions off the budget wherever possible, and he’s pissed off his fair share of people in the process. Whether it’s Batgirl being abandoned despite being almost finished, countless streaming originals being cancelled, or the recent call to consider licensing content off to Netflix in an effort to bring in some additional revenue, matters…

Farmers sort and package lemons at a workshop on November 24, 2020 in Neijiang, Sichuan Province of China.Huang Zhenghua | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesCovid cases in China saw a spike following the country's relaxation of strict Covid rules. Also rising: the prices of traditional Chinese medicine and lemons, as Chinese citizens scramble for protection from the virus.Prices of fruits rich in vitamin C and antioxidants are seeing surges due to higher demand.This month, one grocery store in Beijing charged 13 yuan…

South Korea's unmanned space vehicle Danuri was scheduled to undergo a critical trajectory manoeuvre to travel toward the moon for the country's first lunar mission, officials said.Danuri, also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, was launched last month aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the US state of Florida for South Korea's first space mission beyond Earth's orbit.The orbiter is currently on its way to the moon on a ballistic lunar transfer trajectory -- which takes…