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Sean Parker’s Screening Room Rebrands to SR Labs, Gets New CEO and $27.5 Million Investment
SR Labs tapped former Sony Pictures Home Entertainment president Man Jit Singh as new CEO
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Cinemark Stock Rebounds, Analyst Upgrades Movie Theater Company to Buy
“We are increasingly optimistic that studios will be flexible to create an evened out release schedule in the coming years to boost the industry’s overall health during the recovery,” Eric Wold said
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Media, Entertainment Companies With Vulnerable Credit Outlooks, According to S&P
“Given the volatility this pandemic has generated … ratings on more vulnerable companies could be subject to multiple ratings actions,” S&P says
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Theater Owners Group Creates $2.4 Million Fund to Support Cinema Workers Laid Off Due to Coronavirus
Individuals who have worked in theatrical exhibition for a minimum of five years are eligible
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‘Endlings’ Theater Review: A Play About Writing a Play Gets Tangled Up in the Seaweed
Celine Song’s absurdist comedy mixes Edward Albee dramas with Esther Williams movies
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‘Unknown Soldier’ Theater Review: Michael Friedman’s Musical Explores the Fuzziness of Memory
Estelle Parsons stands out in a new musical by a composer who tragically died too young
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‘Girl From the North Country’ Broadway Review: Bob Dylan’s Songs Get Tangled Up in Melodrama
Conor McPherson stuffs so much lurid drama into a Duluth boarding house that this property needs to be condemned
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Billionaire Alki David Launches E-TV Studios With $100 Million Development Fund (Exclusive)
Independent producer Emilio Ferrari will serve as president of the new production company
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Illumination Names Former Fox Executive Keith Feldman COO
Feldman spent the last 25 years at 20th Century Fox
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‘Coal Country’ Theater Review: A Steve Earle Musical With a Huge Carbon Footprint
A new show digs coal because, hey, somebody’s got to do life’s dirty work and destroy the planet
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‘The Perplexed’ Theater Review: Why the Really Rich Don’t Really Deserve America
Richard Greenberg skewers the wealthy, as well as his put-upon audience
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‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ Theater Review: Meredith Willson’s Classic Musical Gets a Major Rewrite
Beth Malone’s heroine is now a paragon of early-20th-century progressivism
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Who’s Winning Between Streaming and Cinema and Pay TV?
About half of those surveyed by market research firm Piplsay haven’t changed their theater-going habits or have increased their attendance in the last three years
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‘We’re Gonna Die’ Theater Review: Quick, Pull the Plug Now!
Young Jean Lee tells us the obvious over and over again in a show that’s good only because it’s very short
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‘Dana H.’ Theater Review: She Lip Syncs Her Way to Hell and Back
Lucas Hnath adapts interviews conducted with his mother, once captive to the Aryan Brotherhood. The result is harrowing