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Matthew Modine voted against SAG-AFTRA’s tentative agreement with the studios once, and he’s damn sure going to vote against it again. “Consent, in the context of this agreement, is tyranny,” says the National Board member in a lengthy pre-Thanksgiving statement decrying the deal, especially its AI provisions. “It is submission.” Read Matthew Modine’s full statement

The energy price cap is to rise to an average annual £1,928 from January, the sector’s regulator has announced. Ofgem said a typical household paying by direct debit for gas and electricity faces forking out 5% more when compared to the annual cap figure covering September to December, which equates to £94 more over the

EXCLUSIVE: The Motion Picture Association posted a deficit of more than $1.8 million in 2022, while its revenue rose by more than 10%. According to the latest tax filings to the Internal Revenue Service, the MPA saw an increase in expenses due to salaries and other labor costs, as well as costs associated with investigations

Nissan is to commit to manufacturing electric versions of two of its bestselling models at its Sunderland plant after months of talks with the government. Sky News can reveal that the giant Japanese car manufacturer will announce on Friday that it will build the electric Qashqai and Juke at the site – a decision that

Daryl Hall, one half of the most successful pop duo in U.S. chart history, Hall & Oates, is suing John Oates and has been granted a restraining order against his longtime bandmate. Hall filed the lawsuit November 16 in Nashville Chauncery Court, a court spokesperson confirmed to Deadline, but the documents — which are classified

Here are some of the main announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement to MPs: This will be updated as more information comes in… The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts an average inflation rate of 2.8% by the end of next year and 2% by 2025. Benefits will increase by 6.7%, the September rate

EXCLUSIVE: The shape of Blue Ant Media‘s combined studios and rights business is coming together. Following the Canada’s Drag Race producer’s acquisition of Canadian compatriot MarbleMedia in August, the as-yet-unnamed production and distribution business has set out its leadership teams under Co-Presidents Mark Bishop and Matthew Hornburg, we can reveal. Bishop and Hornburg previously led

The national living wage will rise to £11.44 per hour from April. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced he is accepting the recommendation from the Low Pay Commission – an increase of £1.02 from the current rate of £10.42. The national living wage is the minimum people aged 21 and over must be paid for their

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Sung Jin (aka Sonny Lee), creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed series Beef, has signed a multi-year overall deal with Netflix that will extend across scripted series and feature film. The creative partnership will be overseen by Jinny Howe, Vice President, Drama Series, at Netflix, and her team, sources tell Deadline.

Markets are underestimating how persistent inflation will be in the next year and interest rates are likely to remain high as a result, the governor of the Bank of England has said. Andrew Bailey told MPs that Bank rate is likely to be kept at an elevated level for a “significant” period in order to

Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, appearing at a Los Angeles re-election fundraiser tonight, each addressed the Israel-Gaza war protests that have highlighted a split on the left. About two dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators were outside the event, held at the home of entertainment attorney Cliff Gilbert-Lurie and Leslie Lurie, and some of

Ed Richards, the former boss of media regulator Ofcom, is acting as a secret lobbyist for RedBird IMI, the Abu Dhabi-backed media vehicle which is in advanced talks to take control of The Daily Telegraph. Sky News has learnt that Flint Global, the public affairs firm founded by Mr Richards, is advising RedBird IMI on

EXCLUSIVE: Buchwald has signed Grammy-winning multi-hyphenate Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose Cyrus for worldwide representation in all areas.  A country star and actor nearly three decades into his career, Billy Ray Cyrus is perhaps best known for starring opposite his daughter, Miley Cyrus, on Disney Channel’s smash hit teen series Hannah Montana, which spurred the

A new interim chief executive has been appointed to the company behind major AI chatbot ChatGPT, with the ousted ex-CEO Sam Altman being tapped up to head a new Microsoft AI team. Mr Altman, the founder of OpenAI and former CEO, was fired in a shock announcement on Friday, as the not-for-profit company board said

UPDATED, 7:40 PM: After a day that saw a dozen major advertisers put any spending on X/Twitter on hold over antisemitic amplification by Elon Musk, the man himself tweeted a seemingly not-so-subtile dig at those companies. Promoting X/Twitter’s Premium service, the social media platform owner wrote, “Premium+ also has no ads in your timeline.” Musk

Taxes on personal income are set to go down in Wednesday’s autumn statement and reduce again in the spring budget, as the chancellor focuses on low and middle income working families. The Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, by Sky News and Politico, reveals the overwhelming focus of the autumn statement will be on helping

The mass shooting last month in Maine — perpetrated by an Army reservist allowed to keep his guns reportedly bought days before he underwent psychiatric evaluations due to his erratic behavior that included hearing voices that were not there — briefly reopened debate about whether a standardized red-flag law could have prevent the massacre of

The chief executive of the company responsible for ChatGPT, who is widely considered the face of generative AI, has been pushed out of the firm he had helped propel to the forefront of the tech world. But for those concerned with AI safety, the focus is not as much on what Sam Altman does next

UPDATED Nov. 18 with new details: Tech journalist Kara Swisher reported today that the former CEO and co-founder of ChatGPT parent OpenAI, Sam Altman, is in discussions to return to the company that fired him yesterday. Swisher writes that Altman “is ‘ambivalent’ about coming back and would want significant governance changes.” The Wall Street Journal

There will be a lot of positive talk from the chancellor when he delivers his autumn statement on Wednesday, but this will be a fiscal event full of illusory gains. The government is on track to borrow less than previously forecast, which will give rise to a fantasy that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has more space